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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    [ 5* ] dangerous a cafe, furely one would; at leaft compound for fo little an inconve¬ nience as this Lift. AjLtm not only in o.ther places, but particularly in the cure of a Sciatica p, delcribes the leveral ways of making potential Cauteries, in the Legs, and elfcwhere; and tells us how the Ulcer may be kept running, who in this is every where followed by Paulus v. From this account of ALtius I think it is plain, that the ancients very well underftood the effect of IJfues, and the belt way generally {peaking how to make them, which was by Cauflich: and they are Hill found to be a luccefs- ful application, in the very diftempers he particularly recommends them for, 1 will only obferve, that the three chap¬ ters concerning the PaJJie, Empyema, and Sciatica are taken from Archigenes j and therefore prove, that the antiquity of this operation goes as high at leaft as the _ I , |- -■ ' r- ^ .. . ' - 9 2,24- 4j 2, 2v 13> 4> 3* '■ % 3> 73> 53*