The whole works ... / Done from the Latin original by George Sewell ... and J.T. Desaguliers ... With some account of the author [by Sewell].

  • Archibald Pitcairne
Date:
1740
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Credit: The whole works ... / Done from the Latin original by George Sewell ... and J.T. Desaguliers ... With some account of the author [by Sewell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it to fuch a defirable Height, that the Life of Man may be placed in fuch a Degree of Safety, as his Nature will admit of, and the Powers of Man can fecure to his Fellow- Creature. This Freedom the Courfe of my Duty re¬ quires of me ; this my Frofeflion has made moft grateful, and almoft neceffary for me j and this famous Republic, ever moft tena¬ cious of Liberty, fecures my Exercile of fuch a Freedom from any Danger. 2. To deliver then my Thoughts without referve: In my Opinion the Skill of Healing feems to be of greater Antiquity than the Study of Phiiofophy; becaufe when Men fir ft began both the Study of Phyfic and Phiiofo¬ phy, every one being determined to them either on the Account of his Body, or his Mind, the Reafons for Phiiofophy were on¬ ly cafual and accidental, but thole for Phy¬ fic were perpetual. For the elder Race of Mankind maintained Life in a poor Condi¬ tion, expofed in the open Fields to the In¬ juries of the Weather, their fir ft Suftenanee being the Products and Fruits of the Earthy their next Advancement to its Creatures the Cattle : They firft felt the Inconveniencies of Heat and Cold, that is, they grew fick, before they thought of providing Cloaths and Houfes for themfelves Thefe then were the fi.ft Difeafes, thofe the firft Remedies. Befide, the Cattle being naturally of a fhort Exiftence
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