Volume 1

Institutes of health / [Anon].

Date:
1761
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Institutes of health / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    deftitute of pradice muft be expcdted to furnifh; and againft being over¬ awed or prejudiced by the authority of names however celebrated, however great. If then I mention fuch autho¬ ritative ones as thofe of Sydenham, Friend, Bocrhaave, Vanfwieten, Stahl, Hoffman, Haller, to fay nothing of numberlefs others, it is fo far from an oftentation of reading, or an air of pe¬ dantry in me, that I mention them folely to confefs, perhaps, againft my- felf, that I never met in them a fatif- faftion equal to my expedlations, though very moderate ones, making, as I did, due allowance for their art being ne- ceffarily in the moft material points, a conjectural one; and, indeed, it ap¬ pears fo much fo that in the whole ocean I.
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