Copy 1, Volume 1
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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![[ 3°4 ] learching and examining into the opi¬ nions and methods of thoie, who lived before him, elpecially confidcring that no one is tied up from judging for him- felfi or obliged to give into the notions of any author, any further than he finds them agreeable to reafon, and reducible to pradice. No one therefore need fear, that his natural lagacity, whatever it is, ihould be perplexed or milled by reading. For there is as large and fruitful a field for lagacity and good judgment to dif- play themlelves in, by didinguiihing between one author and another, and fometimes between the leveral parts and paffages in the lime author, as is to be found in the greatefl extent and variety of Pradice. It leems to me very pre- fumptuous in thole, even of the longed experience, to think, that they can meet with nothing new or worth taking no¬ tice of in the Writers of former ages. And for my own part, I don’t lee how any honed man can latisfy his own mind](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529360_0001_0312.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
