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
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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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    [ *7 ] from his own Practice •, and he who has a clear notion of the Animal Oeconomy, will be further fatisfied of the realbn of it: he will eafily comprehend the necef- fity there often is of emptying or ma¬ king a Revulfion, in order to remove obftruclions, which may arifc from a redundancy or vilcidity of humours: and at the lame time will difcern, of what fervice it will be to apply fiich Re¬ medies in their turn, as may raife the blood, or to fpeak more Phyfically, make the Fluids circulate in their natu¬ ral courlc, and reftore the folid Parts to their Tone. These few Inftances will be fuffi- cient to lhew, that even this Author, tho’ he be chiefly a Collector, may fur- niili us with fome new and ufeful re¬ flexions in Phyfick; and he who reads him with this view, may find fome other paflages of the fame kind, not to be met with in the more ancient writers. On.