Volume 1
The works of Sir Thomas Browne / edited by Simon Wilkin.
- Thomas Browne
- Date:
- 1890-1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The works of Sir Thomas Browne / edited by Simon Wilkin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![t MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE. Ih'. Browne to 2>/*. Senry Tower. [1647 P]' E(c BtgXioi; (cwSfpv^ra [i. e. statesman from the book] is grown into a proverb; and no less ridiculous are they who think out of book to become physicians. I shall therefore mention such as tend less to ostentation than use, for the directing a novice to observation and experience without which you cannot expect to be other than ffc l3ij5\iov KvtepvnrrfQ. Galen and Hippocrates must be had as fathers and fountains of the faculty. And, indeed, Hippocrates's Aphorisms should be conned for the frequent use which may be made of them. Lay your foundation in anatomy, wherein uuro^'t'a must be your Jidus Achates. The help that books can afford you may expect, besides what is delivered sparsivi from Galen and Hippocrates, Vesalius, Spigehus, and Bartholinus. And be sure you make yourself master of Dr. Harvey's piece De Circul. Sang.; which discovery I prefer to that of Columbus. The knowledge of plants, animals, and minerals, (whence are fetched the Materia Medicamentorum) may be your napepyov; and, so far as concerns physic, is attain- able in gardens, fields, apothecaries' and druggists' shops. Bead Theophrastus, Dioscorides, Matthiolus, Dodonseus, and our Enghsh herbalists: Spigelius's Isagoge in rem herbarium be of use. Wecker's Antidotarium speciale, Renodfeus for com- ■position and preparation of medicaments. See what apothecaries do. Read Morelli Formulas medicos, Bauderoni Pharmacopcea, PharmacopcBa Auguslana. See chymical operations in hospitals, private houses. Kead Pallopius, Aquapendente, Parseus, Vigo, &c. Be not a stranger to the useful part of chymistry. See what chymistators do in their officines. Begin with Tirocinium Chymicum, CroUius, Hartmannus, and so by degrees march on. ' From a reference in Mr. Smith's letter, p. 360, there seems little doubt that the present (which appears to have been communicated to the world by Dr. Richard Middleton Massey, F.R.S.) was addressed to Dr. Henry Power, of New-Hall, near Ealand, Yorkshire ; author of Experimental Philosophy, in Three Books, containing new Expennients, Microscopical Mercurial, and Magnetical, 4to. 1664.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22650337_0001_0497.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
