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.

  • Le Clerc, Daniel, 1652-1728
Date:
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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    ficians, whom he alone imitates, and whofd Virtues he only poffcfies $ no body can doubt of his Excellencies from fo impartial a hand as his own. On the other hand, the *DoElor gives lis a melancholy View of the Phyficians of his own times: that they are either fo ignorant, that they are not able to diftinguifh one Dif- eafe from another 5 or they are fo great A- bridgers of the Materia Medicay that they have not Receipts to cure any: an excel-' lent Complement on the two famous Uni- *verJitieSy and the College of Phyficians. Some Phyficians, we muft confefs, are found with another Character in the Hif- tory of Phyfick 5 who are more unhappy than the former, they being to be hunted with Calumny, and worried by the People* upon the account of their Learning and fuc- cefsful FraEtices: the good Offices of thefe are their Ruin, while the former may not only pafs under general Scandal, but hum¬ bly contort with their Conqueror. * 4 Dr. Freind being thus to expofe Phyfi¬ cians, under the pretext of a Hiftory, he fets