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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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    by that fel@love, which dazzles all mankind, from dif- covering that he might intend a fatire very different from a general cenfure of all the ancient and modern writers on © medicine, fince he might perhaps mean either ferioutly or in jeft, to infinuate, that Blackmore was not adapted by nature to the ftudy of phyfic, and that, whether he fhould read Cervantes or Hippocrates, he would be equally unqualified for practice, and equally unfucceff- fulin it. Whatfoever was his meaning, nothing is more evident than that it was atranfient fally of an inclination warmed with gaiety, or the negligent effufion of a mind intent on fome other employment, and in hafte to difmifs a troublefome intruder; for it is certain that SYDENHAM did not think it impoffible to write ufefully on medicine, becaufe he has himfelf written upon it; and it is not. probable that he carried his vanity fo far, as to imagine that no man had ever acquired the fame qualifications befides himfelf. He could not but know that he rather reftored than invented moft of his principles, and there- fore could not but acknowledge the value of thofe writers whofe doctrine he adopted and enforced. 7 That he engaged in the practice of phyfic’ without any acquaintance with the theory, or knowledge of the opinions or precepts of former writers, is undoubtedly falfe; for he declares, that after he had, in purfuance of his converfation with Dr. Coa, determined upon the profeffion of phyfic, he applied b bimfelf i in earneft to it, and Spent feveral years in the univer fi ity, aliquot annos in aca- demica paleftra, before he began to practife in Lon- don. Nor was he fatisfied with the opportunities of know- ledge which Cae afforded, but travelled to Monipelier, as Default relates,* in queft of farther- information ; Montpelier being at that time the moft celebrated fchool * Differtation on Confumption. Mout-