A sketch of the life of Dr. Duncan Liddel, of Aberdeen / [Anon].

  • Stewart, John.
Date:
1790
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Credit: A sketch of the life of Dr. Duncan Liddel, of Aberdeen / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 3 Manveti Biblioth. Script. Med. Genevce 1731. •voce Liddelius. the author’s death, and is quoted bylMangetus under the following title. a Unfaerfa Medicines Compendium, quod nervofis aliquot Difputationibus in illu- Jlri Julia quondam inclufit D. Liddelius Scotus, &c. Helmajladii 1720.” 4to. 3J. 2. Ars Medica, fuccindle et perfpicue explicata, auciore Duncano Liddelio Scoto. Hamburgi 1607. 8vo. This work is dedicated to King James the Vlth, and was perhaps pub-, lilhed under the author’s own infpedion, upon leaving Helmftadt in this very year. It coniifts of five books. Lib. 1. Intro duel 10 in tot am Medicinam, Cap. 4. 2. De Phyfiologia, Cap. 15. 3. De Pathologia, Cap. 14. 4. De Signorum Dodlrina, Cap. 10. 5. De Pherapeutica, Cap. 24. Another edition of this work was published at Lyons 1624 in 4to.byLu- dovicus Serranus phyfician there, who in a fhort preface, finds much fault with the incorrednefs, inelegance, and what he calls of that of Hamburgh, and boafts of having greatly improved it. Upon comparing it however with the former, and even a later Hamburgh edition, there appears no other improvement, than his having reduced the work from five books into four, by throwing the two firft into one, under the general title of Phyfiologia if. A third edition of the Ars Medica was publilhed at Hamburgh 1628, nmo. by Frobenius a bookfeller there, with a dedication to Dr Patrick Dun, principal of the Marifchal College of Aberdeen, to whom he acknowledges great obligations, for having fur- nilhed him with a copy enlarged and correded in the author’s own hand writing. To this edition is alfo prefixed the letter from Cafelius to Dr. John Craig fo often quoted, and which is dated at Helmftadt in May 3607. Frobenius makes no mention of the edition of Serranus. 3- i Serranus (hews a great veneration for his author, and miftaking his chriftian for his frname, calls him “ Z)««canus in arte medica verc can us, et Medicomm ncjlri Seeculi De CAN us”. He alfo pays him his tribute of poetical praife. “ Gente Caledonius Dune anus, et arte Pelafgus / “ Divini Hippocratic my fieri a claufa redudit,