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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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$[ 5°6' ] they are condemned: and I am apt to believe, upon an impartial inquiry it will appear, that it was upon very good grounds that Hippocrates, and Galen, and their fiicceflbrs, have been all along reckon’d the great lights and fathers of the faculty, and that fucli an univerfal deference has been paid to their Writings thro’ an uninterrupted fucceifion of ma¬ ny centuries. In forne of which times it is poflible, there may have lived men of as great talents, and of as large expe¬ rience, as even the prefent age, renown¬ ed as it is, can produce. It has not ufually been look’d upon as an extraor¬ dinary mark of wildom, for a man to think himfelf too wife to be taught: and yet this feems to be the cafe of thole, who rely wholly upon their own expe¬ rience, and defpife all teachers but them- f elves. . - \ ' c . ■ ' TO v;. % ■’*> ■; - . • , • .'bi .. .• 1; W h y fliould it not be worth every Phyfirian s while to compare cafes and fymp-$