Cyclus metasyncriticus: or, an essay on chronical diseases, the methods of cure; and herein, more fully, of the medicinal waters of Bath and Bristol, their several virtues and differences / [John Wynter].

  • Wynter, John, 1699-
Date:
1725
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Credit: Cyclus metasyncriticus: or, an essay on chronical diseases, the methods of cure; and herein, more fully, of the medicinal waters of Bath and Bristol, their several virtues and differences / [John Wynter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Moderns, formed upon no Model, fuited to no Style, fujfed 'with Receipts, horn, dead, andforgot, in the Space of One Tear. fDr. Friend, I obferve, has taken the true Method 3 his Commentaries on the Firjl and \Third Books of the Epidemicks, are a fine Injlance of his Sagacity in thefe Matters. In dif ant, and humble Imitation of whom, Ihave chofen to revive the Cyclus Metafyn- criticus Methodifts 3 which Terms, as far as I can learn, need fome Explanation. This Metafyncritjcal Circle, ’its true, none of the Moderns have taken Eotice of, except Profper Alpinus, D. le Clerc, and T>r. Friend, who, in p. 124. Hiftory of Phyfick, has mentioned it with fo much ExaBnefs, as makes it evident, he under- food the full Force and Extent of the Words 3 and his Bujinefs being there, to prove Alexander not to have been of the Sell of the Methodifts, he fays, t Befdes, 4 Alexander never fo much as mentions the * great DifinBion, which the Methodifts 1 made of Tdifeafes 3 never once alludes to * the Refumptive or Metafyncritical Circle, c the Diatriton, See. which they are fo full * of 3 an infallible Froof of his not being [az] ‘of