Two letters to Dr. Jones on the composition of the Eau médicinale d'Husson / By James Moore.

  • James Moore
Date:
1811
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Credit: Two letters to Dr. Jones on the composition of the Eau médicinale d'Husson / By James Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Such encomiums from those who were once regarded as oracles in medicine, sure- ]y merit some attention. Aretaeus ranks in the highest class of the ancient Greek phy¬ sicians ; many of whom are allowed to have possessed great intellectual endow¬ ments, and to have been close observers of nature. Their notion of the White Hellebore was not one of those fugitive ideas accidentally entertained by an en¬ thusiast: but a fixed opinion which ra¬ ther appears to have encreased for seven or eioht centuries. It continued till medi- ID cine along with the other sciences, was extinguished by the Goths. But it is surprising, that since the re¬ vival of literature, although the Helle¬ bores were brought into notice, they ne\er have regained that reputation which they formerly possessed. For a considerable pe-