An answer to what Dr. Freind has written in his History of physick, concerning several mistakes, which he pretends to have found in a short work of Dr. Le Clerc ... / Translated from the eighth article of Bibliotheque ancienne et moderne, vol. 27 ... To which is added, a preface, by W. Cockburn.

  • Daniel Le Clerc
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1728
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Credit: An answer to what Dr. Freind has written in his History of physick, concerning several mistakes, which he pretends to have found in a short work of Dr. Le Clerc ... / Translated from the eighth article of Bibliotheque ancienne et moderne, vol. 27 ... To which is added, a preface, by W. Cockburn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [xi] perfonai Faults, the Hiftory of thofe Times had been very defe&ive. What a Work Dr. Freind makes about Rhafesy for giving us one chymical Medicine, which was none of his own 5 and now capricioufly contends, for negle&ing an Author, who made one of the greateft Revolutions in Phyfick; by introducing the method of curing Difeafes by chymical Medicines, to the total Over¬ throw of Hippocrates and Galen; and that for a confiderable Period of time. What account can be given of the Vanity of an Author, who fets to build, and pull down, as the humour takes him ? It is not enough, I hope, to objeft to Faracelfus 5 that he was often drunk after Dinner, or that he was not a Favourite of the Churchmen, No; we confider only the Influence of his Art on the Schools of Phyfick : by no means his commonly getting drunk with, or without the Fathers 5 who, at that time, were commonly very near as barbarous as himfelf. But the Doctor y and his ‘Defen¬ der, know that the more Faults they find, the more they hope to pleafe, and impofe ppon their Reader: or, the more they hope to eftablifli the Do&or’s Pretence of fupc- rior Learning and Knowledge in his Pro- feffiom 32 To