Disquisitions in the history of medicine : Part first, Exhibiting a view of physic, as observed to flourish, during remote periods, in Europe, and the East.

  • Millar, Richard.
Date:
1811
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Credit: Disquisitions in the history of medicine : Part first, Exhibiting a view of physic, as observed to flourish, during remote periods, in Europe, and the East. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    war and glory; various dynasties of illustrious chiefs arose eminent for their prowess in the field; the most arduous and brilliant enterprizes were undertaken, and achieved. A martial peo- ple ever regards with fond enthusiasm the mem- cry of its first exploits. The romantic valour of their ancestors was long therefore to form a favourite theme with the after Greeks, and na- tional vanity might find ample scope for gratifica- tion, as it called to mind the proud trophies, and accumulated triumphs, of the Heroic Age. Nor was the same jera destitute of other and more substantial claims to the estimation of posterity. The patriot, the statesman, and the warrior, might discern with satisfaction, the birth of pub- lic feeling, and the dawn of the sciences of war and policy, among their countrymen, as they contemplated the institution of the Amphyctions, together with that organization of national strength, and confederacy of rival chiefs, which produced, in succession, the expedition of the Argonauts, the double siege of Thebes, and the capture of Troy. But the circumstance which tended, above all others, to perpetuate the memory of Grecian tradition, and which must ever secure to it a lively interest in the eyes of lettered Europe, is perhaps to be looked for in the unequalled genius of those writers who have transmitted its records to posterity. Like other nations not yet instructed in the art of alphabetic writing, the aboriginal