Miscellaneous works of the late Robert Willan : Comprising An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition: and detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications. / Edited by Ashby Smith.

  • Robert Willan
Date:
1821
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Credit: Miscellaneous works of the late Robert Willan : Comprising An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition: and detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications. / Edited by Ashby Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    yet none of these have ventured to commence a structure, where the great master of the art had no t laid a s ufficient fo undati on.' “W here- fore,” he says, t£ not being well supplied with domestic materials, I have translated the beautiful and complete Treatise on the Loimic Disease, written by the sage Rhazes, in the Saracenic diction *. He has divided the sub- ject into fifteen chapters, and has constituted two species of the disorder, which may be entitled Loimike and Eulogia. The antients gave the name 6 Eulogia’ to the more trouble- some species of the two, for so it is generally accounted. At present there is not, in the Greek language, any appellation for it. Rhazes, in his native dialect, terms it Hasbe, which word is, I believe, of precisely the same import as Loimikb. If the two diseases differ in some circumstances f, yet have they a common nature ; we need not, therefore, regard accidental differences, in things sub- stantially the same.” This translator’s comparative view ol the symptoms afler a general detail, is more dis- * The translator, in his title-page, calls it the Syrian language; Elexx/n/erSeif avro ttig 'Luquv Ji«ae*75. f ’El/ Talf dH&E<re<riv. “ Diathesis, apud logicos, est qualitas facile mobilis a subjecto.” [Vide Gornei Defin. Med.]