An essay on chronical diseases, the methods of cure: and ... the medicinal waters of Bath and Bristol / [John Wynter].
- Wynter, John, 1699-
- Date:
- 1728
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay on chronical diseases, the methods of cure: and ... the medicinal waters of Bath and Bristol / [John Wynter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Moderns, formed upon no Model, fuited to no Style, ftuffed with Receipts, born, dead, and forgot, in the Space of One Year. Dr. Friend, J obferve, has taken the true Method ; bis Commentaries on the Fivft and T hurd Books of the Epidemicks, are a fine Lnftance of his Sagacity in thefe Matters. Indiftant, and bumble Imitation of whom, Ihave chofento revive the Cyclus Metalyn- criticus of the Methodilts ; which Terms, as far as I can learn, need {ome Explanation. This Metafyncritical Circle, “ts true, none of the Moderns have taken Notice of, except Profper Alpinus, D. le Clerc, and Dy. Friend, who, im p. 124. Hiltory of Phyfick, bas mentioned it with (o much Exattnefs, as makes it evident, be under- fiood the full Force and Extent of the Words ; and his Bufinefs being there, to prove Alexander not to have been of the Seét of the Methodifts, he fays, ‘ Befides, © Alexander never fo much as mentions the * great Diftinétion, which the Methoditts * made of Difeafes; never once alludes to * the Refumptive or Metafyncritical Circle, * the Diatriton, &c. which they are fo full * of ; an infallible Proof of his not being ig [a2]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30504326_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
