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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    • [ ]4° ] time of Domitian. C- Aurelianus men* tions both thefe ways of cauterizing in a Head-acb and Sciatica, but in the for¬ mer cafe does not at aii approve of it. However according to him, Themifon, who was more ancient than Celfus, ad- vifes it in a Pbtbifs, It is very certain indeed, that this ufe of the Cautery was well known to Hippocrates, and is in very plain terms deferibed by Celfus, who re¬ commends it, and that always affual, in a Dropfyf, Epilepfy J, Sciatica', and Pbtbi- jis»: and to fhew the true idea he had of the advantage there was in the did charge made by this operation, he lays it down as a perpetual rule in all thefe cafes, “ That the ulcers fhould not be ct healed, but differed to continue run- “ ning, ’till the humour was {pent, and “ the difeafe reliev’d.” So ALtms in the cafe oi a bite by a mad dog, advifes the keeping them open forty, or fixty days, ' ’ . ..- M'... r3>?t- fz-) 23- #3,32* ~ t t i and