Volume 1

First lines on the practice of physic.

  • Cullen, William, 1710-1790.
Date:
1786
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Credit: First lines on the practice of physic. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This, further, has efpecialiy dlftiirbed the doctrine of critical days, that Hippo- crates himfelf attempted, perhaps too ha- IHly, to eftablifli general rules, and to bring the doctrine to a general theory, drawn from Pythagorean opinions concerning the power of number^. It is this which feeins to have produced the idea of odd days, and of a quaternary and feptenary period, dodlrines which appear fo often in the writings of Hippocrates. Thefe, however, are inconliftent with the fadls above laid down; and indeed, as Afclepiades and Celfus have obferved, are inconfilteiit witfi V one another. CXVIII. Upon the whole, therefore, it is appre- hended, that the critical days above adign- M a ed