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The history of physick; from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Chiefly with regard to practice. In a discourse written to Doctor Mead / [John Freind].

John Freind

Date:: 1725-1726

Credit: The history of physick; from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Chiefly with regard to practice. In a discourse written to Doctor Mead / [John Freind]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ 13 ] denote this Difcafe, exprefles the nature of it very juftly ; and yet Fonder Linden is fo carelefs a writer, that he makes it a fynonymous Term for the madnefs of the Wolves themfelves. You fee there occurs in Oribajiits, however a compiler, fomething new in relation to Diftempers, at leaft not to be found in any author now extant be¬ fore him. He was, by all accounts, a Man not only of a great genius, but of great bufinefs and experience: and accordingly, if we perufe him with at¬ tention, which I believe has fcarce ever been done by thofe who have pretended to give a character of him, we fhall find very juft rules of Pradice laid down in feveral cafes. To give you only an in- ftance in one, that of an Epilepfy*: he deferibes the cure both in the acute and the chronical Sort, that is, in the Fit as well as out of it. When the Fit is * $yn» 8. 3.

The history of physick; from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Chiefly with regard to practice. In a discourse written to Doctor Mead / [John Freind].

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