Tabular observations recommended as the plainest and surest way of improving physick. In a letter to a friend / by Francis Clifton.

  • Francis Clifton
Date:
1731
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Credit: Tabular observations recommended as the plainest and surest way of improving physick. In a letter to a friend / by Francis Clifton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C >+ ] follows it afterwards or not. We read a great many trifling things in Phyfick, and value our felves upon knowing what every mo¬ dern Author has faid, be it ever fo ftupid or ridiculous. Strange ! that we cannot find time for the beft Author, an Author that no Man ever repented the reading of. This I lay, becaufe I never yet found, that among all thofe who are allow’d to have underftood him, any one of’em cou’d be named, who has not treated him with the higheft refpeft ima¬ ginable. And this I think a great argument in his favour; and an aniwer in full to all little cavillers. For my own part, I declare I never once repented the Labour he has coft me; and yet I believe no man in England of my Handing, nor perhaps in Europe, has taken more pains with him, than I have: and I wou’d not but know lo much of him as I do, for the greateft Eftate that was ever got by Phylick. I am fo thoroughly fatif fied of his ufefulnels to Phyficians, that I wifli for nothing more earneftly, than to fee the time, when it fhall be as falhionable a- mong us to underftand him well, as it has been of late to know little or nothing of him. And it is with this view that I have been at fuch incredible pains to prepare a new Edition of his Works, upon the Plan I lome time ago publifh'd. Whatever fome Gentlemen may think of that defign, I ain very well alfur’d, that, fo far from being
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