Cursus medicinae; or a complete theory of physic: in five parts. I. The whole doctrine of the animal oeconomy. II. The nature, difference, causes and symptoms of diseases. III. The diagnostics and prognostics of distempers. IV. The method of preventing diseases. V. The art of healing ... With a preliminary discourse of the rise, progress, success, nature and principles of medicine / ... Done, principally, from [the] admirable Institutions of the learned H. Boerhaave ... By John Crawford, M. D.

  • Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738
Date:
1724
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Credit: Cursus medicinae; or a complete theory of physic: in five parts. I. The whole doctrine of the animal oeconomy. II. The nature, difference, causes and symptoms of diseases. III. The diagnostics and prognostics of distempers. IV. The method of preventing diseases. V. The art of healing ... With a preliminary discourse of the rise, progress, success, nature and principles of medicine / ... Done, principally, from [the] admirable Institutions of the learned H. Boerhaave ... By John Crawford, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Now the grand defeB herein, is, by the proper judges, ejleemd the want of a right initiation into the art. And that our own academies 1 ah or under this difficulty, is the frequent complaint of thofe who have had their education there. But when un¬ experienced youths are, in any profeffton, left to form their own method of jludy- ing, they mujl le very fortunate indeed, to jump at once into the bejl ■, and if a jujl procedure he necejfary in learning the inferior arts, much more is the fame re¬ quired to gain a tolerable.knowledge in a fubjeB fo exceeding nice and intricate as phyfic : yet, lefs care feems no where taken, to direB the wandring Jleps of the younger jludents, than in this rugged path, clogged with difficulties, and hejet with dangers. And hence it happens, that fo excellent an art is often, hy phyficians themfelves, thouglot to1 he built on a tot¬ tering foundation, and the praBice thereof confidedd merely as a trade ; hence perfeB quackery, with a thoufand defruBive ef- eccs o •ance,