Volume 1

The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected himself in forty-nine years practice: or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Together with ... remedies. Designed for the use of all private families / [Thomas Dover].

  • Dover, Thomas, 1660-1742.
Date:
1733
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country. Being what he has collected himself in forty-nine years practice: or, an account of the several diseases incident to mankind ... Together with ... remedies. Designed for the use of all private families / [Thomas Dover]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    | (2) plained, nor accounted for in a proper Mane ner, notwithftanding the voluminous Works in which they have been treated of. AvutHors, for the moft Part, follow one another, and deviate but little ae the com- mon Track. This Method T fhall in no ~ wife purfue ; my Defign being to fet down only fuch Things as have occurred to me from the Practice and Experience of Lorty- nine Y ears. I am very fenfible that my Stile is not correct, and | fhall take no extraordinary Care to polith it.. T fhall be fufficiently fa- tisfied, if what I write be intelligible, and if my Matter be thought worth attending to. In-a Word, I fhall be contented if this Trea- tife does but in fome Meafure deferve. the Character which Mr. Budgell gives of the Writings of the Honourable Robert Boyle Efq; in his moft excellent Memozrs of the Fas mily of the Boyles. Mr. Budgell, who feems to inherit the Genius of his near Relation, the great Mr. Addi/on, {peaks of Mr. Boyle’s Sttle in the following Words: { 3 agar fe