Useful discoveries, and practical observations, in some late remarkable cures of the scurvy / [Everard Maynwaringe].

  • Everard Maynwaring
Date:
1668
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Credit: Useful discoveries, and practical observations, in some late remarkable cures of the scurvy / [Everard Maynwaringe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Precious Antidote, does apologize for himfelf in doing the like: Etiam magm nominis medicis. folenne ol.m fuit, medica- ments alicujus particulares virtutes, quas guifg, Accurata obfervatione annotaverat pecutiari ‘quodum tratkaty literis config~ wait. Oper: Med: Chym. pag.420. fayes he, it hasbeen the ancient cuftom of Phyficians,& thofe men of great fame,to write a Treatife of the vertues of fome particular medicine, which they had no- red by ftrict obfervation, then he extols the efficacy and worth of his medicine, and excufes the concealment of the pre- paration, 7 Helmont alfo, that great Philofopher emit you do bere fora P hng me ‘As d and Fhyfician, had his private medicines | which he highly valued; fo alfo in the Writings of the moft Eminent Phyfict- dns, we find they had their 4rcana’s, fecret medicines which they would not manner of ufe: therefore Imay fay as) Angelus Sala, Quod fi illis hoc vitio non fu) it datum, neque mibi, qui coum ad (xeme 1 lum. | But fince the late fathion of Prefcri-| “bing came up in ufe, fome ignorant) buzzards which I could: name, that have objected this againit me, ( pet aps Inple g ave Rt in P Atchafe ‘ pain He oy aly as. stot Hen bye Mae | My Can] li lt