A treatise of wounds.

  • Wiseman, Richard, 1622?-1676
Date:
1672
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise of wounds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t ' . SR SS eS NO zo the Reader. fplit into three parts, the Phyfician, Chi- | rurgeon, avd Apothecary 5 each finding ii | work enough for the whole wan. Tet with ie. i | all this encreafe of Knowledge we do but en- a creafe forrow, and after whole Ages fpent in ‘| Chirurgical and eMedical Difquifitions, we find little advance towards the certainty of Cure, or the commanding of help inthe necelfities of nature: A great Reafon of which I take tobe the exce6 of Imployment, or ( mbich is worfe) difingennity in great uf Prattitiouers, who have not often been free 4 communicating their Obfervations to the \.. world, but have rather left that task to Se- | dentary men, who having Chairs inVni- il Vertiesabave more indule’d thewflpesin bw). tb&Gfpeculation of the Art, than in a diligent hi |» attendance to matter of fads who having re- | ducedthe Art into method, have fpokenra- ther purfuantly to their own Rules, than yi) @greeably to our Experience: Hence it is i) thought, that from Galen's days, who firft | drew Phyfick into a ftritt Body, we have || found little Augmentation of Knowledge, till wl fome, bold adventurers in thefe latter Ages | © bave wade fome fortunate Effays at farther difcoueries. | | For my own part, I fhall aot pretend ta # new Inventions, ouly what I have, I do here