An answer to what Dr. Freind has written in his History of physick, concerning several mistakes, which he pretends to have found in a short work of Dr. Le Clerc ... / Translated from the eighth article of Bibliotheque ancienne et moderne, vol. 27 ... To which is added, a preface, by W. Cockburn.

  • Daniel Le Clerc
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1728
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Credit: An answer to what Dr. Freind has written in his History of physick, concerning several mistakes, which he pretends to have found in a short work of Dr. Le Clerc ... / Translated from the eighth article of Bibliotheque ancienne et moderne, vol. 27 ... To which is added, a preface, by W. Cockburn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C si* ] The Dottor falls into another Miftake, in his Claim for the Greek Phyficians; by put¬ ting it too low, and in taking it from Com¬ pilers. * Galen recommends Rhubarb a- gainft all Bleedings, the Bloody-Flux, and the Caliac-Affeffiom and the Phyficians, in many fucceeding Ages, fay no more of it. And therefore if the T),offor has not been more accurate in other parts of his Hif- tory, than in this, he muft fall fhort of all the Applaufe he tells us he deferves. It is not eafy to guefs, why Dr. Freind is commonly unhappy when he deals with Galen $ and why he would not rather take this Obfervation from that excellent Au~ thor, than from FauluSy who probably takes it from the former 5 if it is not my quoting this very Obfervation in my Book of Fluxes long before theHiftory of Phyfick appeared. I cannot go fo low for an Anfwer to thefe Doubts, as the Words in the Letter con¬ cerning Monfieur le Clerc. As I would fain imagine him, a Gentleman and a Scholar, 1 would as fain attribute his Unfairnefs to the not reflettingy how much below both Charac- * De Medic, frnip. fac. Lib. 8.
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