Medical precepts and cautions / By Richard Mead. Translated from the Latin, under the author's inspection, by Thomas Stack.

  • Richard Mead
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1763
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Credit: Medical precepts and cautions / By Richard Mead. Translated from the Latin, under the author's inspection, by Thomas Stack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 thought might prove ufeful hereafter ; at the fame time calling in my memory to my: affiftance for what- foever I had“obferved to be ferviceable, or prejudicial, in each particular diftemper. For fuch was the rife of medicine, by the recovery of fome patients, and .the lof ef others, gradually diftinguifhing pernicious from falutary things *. Wherefore I fhall not in- quire into the very conftitution (if the expreffion may be allowed) of the medical art; nor eriter into the difpute, how far it is either rational or empirical: on which topics I refer my readers to Celfus, who has ftated: the arguments of phyficians for their refpective fects witli great candovr, and‘fums ap the whole by | delivering his own opinion with equal judgment and per{picuity T. Nor is this little work, which has been often interrupted by, afid partly compofed amidft the hurry of bufinef$, thrown out as a bait to catch fame, - For it has long fince been-obferved by the great pa- rent of medicine, that our art has acquired more blame tham honour f. : And indeed ít is the gene- ral.temper.of mankind, to be. exceffively . profufe ef their, reproofs, of their commendations extremely parfimenious. Bat this complaint made in behalf of medicine, will probably appear flight, if compared with the following, which he makes in another place.: That the phyfician has dreadful objects before. his eyes, .ve- ry.difagreeable fubjects im his hands, and takes great * Sic medicinam ortam, fubinde aliorum falute, ale “orum interitu, perniciofa difcernentem.a falutaribus. Celfus m praefat. ^ t Ibidem. —' [ Egavys Qoxto wade - ost wesurnlsjroigley, | timmy xi NI prO thy séxvqy. Hippo- .Cratesin epilt. ad Democritum, calis s ] , uneafinefs