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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    ’■ :■ [ 41 ] fiderable. This was the way, and the only one, of making IJfues among the an¬ cients ; for cutting them with the Knife was a much later invention. Many pre¬ fer the actual Cautery to the potential, be- caule the Efchar leparates much fooncr . but as the former has the air of greater fe- O verity, the latter is generally fubif ituted to gratify the timorous humour of the pa¬ tient : and for the fame reafon it may be practicable to make the Iffue fo much the deeper. Tho’ Glandorp, who has writ ve¬ ry well upon this fubjcfl, has fuch an opi¬ nion of the former manner, that he had rather have fix Iffucs made that way, than one by the other 5 and in fourteen years practice he fays, he never made ule of the potential Cautery but twice. It may not be improper in this place to lay fomething of a particular (pedes of Jffues, called a Seton, very plainly delcri- bed, as Mr Bernard oblerves, by Lanfranc}