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°^ ] proper obfervations, which that expe¬ rience might fuggeft to him : and it is not very likely, he fliould be over-nice in hi.s obfervations, who conftantly goes on in his fir ft track, and has no other fcheme, but his own narrow notions in his view; whereas the fearcher of Au- A thors has the benefit of other mens ex¬ perience together with his own j and it is from the joint-concurrence of theft, that we can hope for any confiderable advancement in knowledge. Were it not for this, the oldeft Pra&itioner would always be the beft Phyfician: and there would be little or no diffe¬ rence, even as to the ftientifical Part, between an old nurft, and the moft re¬ gular Profeffor. After all, I am far from thinking, that reading all the books in the Facul¬ ty, without proper obfervations, and good judgment, can furnifh a man with fuch knowledge, as is required in a Phy¬ fician : /](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30529360_0001_0317.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
