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A letter on the origin, nature, and dignity of the degrees of doctor, more particularly in physick, conferred in universities / [Anon].

  • De Coetlogon, Dennis, -1749
Date:
1736
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Credit: A letter on the origin, nature, and dignity of the degrees of doctor, more particularly in physick, conferred in universities / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    edever fince, to wit, this two thoufand Years, What great Matters then have we to brag of? or, Where are our great Advancements, as to the Realities of Cures ? It may, perhaps, be advanced, that we have made forne Im¬ provements in the Anatomical Way : Now, even admitting this, Can we prove that it has advanced us one Jot further towards a Cure in Phyjick, or even that of Surgery ? Nay, I may, perhaps, without great Hazard, ven¬ ture to add, or even to perform any one Ope¬ ration better than in his Time, it being a Thing well known to Anatomifts* that the VefTels, &c. from the Wantonefs of Nature, keep not always the fame Situation: Thus in fome Bodies, there are only found one pyra¬ midal Mufcle (in Place of two) and in others The Advancements then that we have none. made, may poffibly be as much Matter of Curiofity and Speculation, as that of being greatly Ufeful as to Practice. But as this feems to lead me into another Field, to wit, that of the Nature of Practice in this Art 5 I fhall, at prefent, choofe to refer that to ano¬ ther Opportunity, and keep here to the Subjedt propofed. There was not any fuch Cuftom as that of Degrees of Doctor in thofe Days; nor for, at lead, twelve hundred Years thereafter; or, perhaps, even fo long after Galen ; though fo great an Improver of Words and Formalities. Hippocrates made himfelf well known in this Art