History of the origin of medicine: an oration, delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Medical Society of London, January 19, 1778, and printed at their request. To which are since added, various historical illustrations / By John Coakley Lettsom.

  • Lettsom, John Coakley, 1744-1815.
Date:
1778
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Credit: History of the origin of medicine: an oration, delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Medical Society of London, January 19, 1778, and printed at their request. To which are since added, various historical illustrations / By John Coakley Lettsom. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •£ I. The firft period to commence with the creation, and end at the Trojan war, 1184 years before Chn ; and to be comprehended under the title of Naiu ral and Fabulous Medicine. II The fecond to begin with the Trojan,__ and end with'the Peloponneiian war, at the time ot Hippo¬ crates, about 400 years before, the Chnftian sra, and ro before the birth of Alexander the Great : this to be diftinguifhed by Empiricism from Necessity. III. From Hippocrates to tire deftruftion of Car¬ thage, at the time of Serapion, 1.46 years before Chill including Dogmatism. IV. From Serapion to the birth of Chn ft, about the time of Themifon, in the reign of Auguftus ; in which period would be included Professed Empiricism. V. From Themifon to the time of Galen the phy¬ sician and peripatetic philofopher, who .flounlhed under the emperor Marcus Aurelius, about 160 years after the birth of Chrift, and founded Methodism. VI From Galen to the time of Paracelfus, who was contemporary with the emperor Charles V. and flourilhed in the beginning of the 16th century; which period might be diftinguilhed by Peripatetic Doc- MAT IS M. - VTI. From r