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The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D., on acute and chronic diseases; wherein their histories and modes of cure, as recited by him, are delivered with accuracy and perspicuity to which are subjoined notes, corrective and explanatory, from the most eminent medical writers; adapting the whole to the present improved state of physic, and shewing under what classes, orders, and genera, most of the complaints treated of are arranged by nosologists. With a variety of annotations / by George Wallis.

  • Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689.
Date:
1788
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Credit: The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D., on acute and chronic diseases; wherein their histories and modes of cure, as recited by him, are delivered with accuracy and perspicuity to which are subjoined notes, corrective and explanatory, from the most eminent medical writers; adapting the whole to the present improved state of physic, and shewing under what classes, orders, and genera, most of the complaints treated of are arranged by nosologists. With a variety of annotations / by George Wallis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    : x POR Et ee and proceeds, adhering rigidly ftill to the methods of which experiment has proved the propriety... . . Indeed, fo convinced have later times been of the validity and accuracy of his defcriptions, that they are confidered as the unrivalled delineations of Nature ;—fo univerfally have they been efteemed for their exactitude and truth, that poets never made freer ufe of, or ftole more from Homer, Prinpar, or Vircit; fatyrifts from JUVENAL, Persius, or Horace; orators from DEMosTHE- NES, QUINTILIAN, or Cicero; nor dramatifts from a SHAKESPEARE, than phyficians have from a SYDENHAM. But as men of the higheft abil ties, extenfive knowledge, and indefatigable affh- duity have not thought it unworthy of them to devote their time folely to the inveftigation of me- dical fubjects; as a HorrMAN, a BoERHAAVE, a Gausius, SAUVAGES, and a CULLEN, have writ- ten elaborately and perfpicuoufly on medicine, have fuccefsfully endeavoured to render things which were formerly moft complex, now the moft fim- ple; and in a great meafure to diveft the art of all that load of lumber under which it lay ftruggling ; and as many others of an inferior order have added, though lefs copioufly, not lefs elegantly, many improvements, it has been thought neceflary to add fuch as properly belong to this work in this edi- tion, in order to render it as valuable as the pre- fent improved {tate of phyfic will permit.—Nor has the Editor been {paring of his labour in fearch- ing into the various periodic publications, which enrich the medical repofitories, and do honour to the age, and making ufe of fuch materials as ap- peared