Sketch of the revolutions of medical science, and views relating to its reform / by P.J.G. Cabanis ; translated from the French, with notes, by A. Henderson.

Date:: 1806

Credit: Sketch of the revolutions of medical science, and views relating to its reform / by P.J.G. Cabanis ; translated from the French, with notes, by A. Henderson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$had acquired great repute in their life-time, and had com- pofed conjointly a treatife on Surgeiy, n hich is frequently cited by Ciiauliac ; yet lew parliculais are known refpeft- ing them^ and their names are buried in ohlivi(^i. The fol- lowing relation is extracted from the Index Fane re us Chi- rurgorum Pcuifienfium by M. de Vaux. Eodehi tempore (circa annum J 310) florebant Pari- Ins quatuor mlignes Chirurgi, fub eodem tefto folitarie dcgentes, et a coutemporaneis fcriptoribus fub nomine Quatuor Magilb-omm defignati; fed eorum nomina ad ‘‘ nos ufque non pervcnerunt.” Scitur tantummodo, veteri traditione, viros fuifife doc- tiina et pietate fpectabiles, qui fefe invicem, merie fub chan’tatis vinculo, pauperum vulneratorum et inlirmorum clniurgicze tra6tationi alligaverant, et de univerfa chi- rurgia traaatuin fecundum Empiricam methodum con- junaim Icripferant, a Chauliaco laudatum, cujus manu- fciiptum exemplar, fed valde lacerum, et tineis pene exefum, paucis abhinc annis in Bibliollieca Regice Na- varrae vifebatur.” i\s the work of Guy de Chauliac is fcarce, and, I believe, little known in this country, I Iball fubjoin the accouut which he gives of the principal feds of fui'geons in his time, as quoted by Quefnay. La premiere Seae fut de quatre Maitres, de Roger et de Roland, qui indiff6remcnt a toutes playes et apoiihemes procuroient fanie, fuppuration avec leurs bouillies ct paparots, fe fondant fur cela du cinquieme des aphorifmes, Les taxes font bans, et les crus mauvois.’* La feconde fut de Brunus et de Theodoric, qui indif- faement delfechoient toutes playes avec du vin feul, fe fondant fur cela tlu quatriane de la Tha-apeutique; Le , f^c approche plus du Jain, Thunude du non fain J E e$