Volume 2

A treatise of consumptions and other distempers belonging to the breast and lungs / By Sir Richard Blackmore.

  • Richard Blackmore
Date:
1724
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise of consumptions and other distempers belonging to the breast and lungs / By Sir Richard Blackmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    their Countrymen in their own Tongue ? If the Knowledge of the healing Art is a good and ufeful ‘Thing, can the Communication of it be too general and diffufive ? Befides, fhould a Phylician impart in Latin his Sentiments, concerning the Nature and Cure of Difeates ; it is almoft certain, that his Works, if efteem’d and valu’d, will be foon done into Englifh by fome low and obf{cure Hand, as thofe of Dr. Willis, - Dr. Sydenham, and others, have been, even their Recipes as well as Theories : and fhould not an Author look up- on it as more elegible to fend Abroad his Thoughts originally in the Lan- guage of his Country, than leave them to be ill exprefs’d and deform’d - by a vulgar Tranflator, or a half Scholar, who ‘are ufually employ’d on thefe Occafions. | It fhould likewife be confider’d, that the Difpenfary of the College of Phyficians in London, containing Forms and Recipes for the Cure of — ‘ ss arg Medea 2
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