An essay on the agreement betwixt ancient and modern physicians: or a comparison between the practice of Hippocrates, Sydenham, Galen, and Boerhaave, in acute diseases. Intended to shew, what the practice of physick, in such distempers, ought to be / By John Barker.

  • Barker, John, 1708-1748.
Date:
1748
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Credit: An essay on the agreement betwixt ancient and modern physicians: or a comparison between the practice of Hippocrates, Sydenham, Galen, and Boerhaave, in acute diseases. Intended to shew, what the practice of physick, in such distempers, ought to be / By John Barker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ed Ptijfan, or Barley Gruel, after the thicker Part had been {trained off. Ga¬ len, indeed, in a Treatife in which he profefles to explain the Dodlrine of Hip¬ pocrates on this Subject, makes men¬ tion of a third kind of Diet, which con¬ fined of half the one, and half the other This was carrying the Matter to a great degree of Nicety, and fuch a one as will feem trifling to many. I fhould not there¬ fore have mentioned it, had I not thought it neceflary towards explaining the Doc¬ trine of Hippocrates, concerning Diet in acute Difeajes. The Delign of Hippocrates, as we have feen, in giving Ptijfan^ was to mode¬ rate the Fever, and fupply the Sick with proper Nourifhment. And agreeably to this Defign, he was directed in giving it by the Nature of the Fever, and the Time of its Duration, by the Patient’s ufual Way of Life, the Seafon of the Year, &c. The princi- * De Ptijfana, Liber* i