Doctrines and practice of Hippocrates in surgery and physic; with occasional remarks / By Francis Riollay.

  • Hippocrates
Date:
1783
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Credit: Doctrines and practice of Hippocrates in surgery and physic; with occasional remarks / By Francis Riollay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mind is eager to enlighten itfelf, but du~ bious about the means. The numberand , fize of books compofing a medical library, make the ftudent penfive and irrefolute : furveying them with an anxious look, he fays to himfelf; Life zs fhort, the art 1s Jong, and remains undetermined. Should the /brarian recolle& that once he felt himfelf that painful irrefolution, and turned about in that fame room till he be- came giddy, he might perhaps ftep towards our young man, and kindly fay to him: ‘¢ That air of concern, Sir, with which you look at thefe lofty ptles, is an evident proof of the goodnefs of your fenfe ; no- body could without difguit think of dedi- cating his life to the perufal of {uch a col- lection ; that Herculean labour would in time deftroy the meaneft underftanding, — much fooner fpoil the beft; a thread is neceflary to penetrate this labyrinth with advantage, that thread is nothing elfe but the knowledge of the manner in which it 2 has
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