An essay on external remedies. Wherein it is considered, whether all the curable distempers incident to human bodies, may not be cured by outward means / [Peter Kennedy].

  • Kennedy, Peter, 1685-
Date:
1715
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Credit: An essay on external remedies. Wherein it is considered, whether all the curable distempers incident to human bodies, may not be cured by outward means / [Peter Kennedy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    For it is not unknown, that there are, and always have been, many malicious People in the World, and that even the wifeft and beft of f Men, and Authors, have ftill had their * Enemies. And this too fee ms very neceflary; fince if there were none of thele, there would probably be no fuch thing as Friends; thefe being Oppolites, as * It is not unworthy our Obfervation, that Galen himfelf (as well as many of the reft of the Antients) was perfecuted, -or very muchi hated, and envied, by his Cotemporaries, the Roman Phyficians, who finding that his Know¬ ledge furpafled their own, they in derifion cal¬ led him xoyicLr^®-.) a talkative Man, or one full of Words, by way of Reproach, as that he imderftood the Theory better than PrafHce - fo that he was forced to leave Rome for dome Tears, and returned to his own Country ofi Pergarno, until the Emperors 70arcus Aurelius and Lucius Ferns, who having heard of him. lent for him to come back to Rome. Lib. d% PAcognitione. Thus .alfo Sydenham, UGfeman, &c. were treated. t