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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    former 5 fo it is very certain, that le Clerc is to be mifreprefented, in order to Freind’s affirming his Claim. It is ftrange, that our ‘Phyficians have tamely fubmitted to this Imputation of Ig¬ norance ; and that the Author of Obferva- tionSy on Dr. Freind’j Hiftorj/y is the only Perfon who has defended himfelf againft the Do&or’s Calumnies 5 while le ClerCy a * Foreigner, refufes to bear with the fcanda- lous Charge laid againft him. Englifh Phy- ficians have their Trofejjion and their Bacon to preferve, as well as their Honour, while le Clerc has fcarcely the laft to defend, in the opinion of learned Men. We lhall therefore proceed, and confider this Contro- verfy, which is now enflam'd by Baillie's pretended Defence 5 the rather, that a true Hiftory of Phyfick may at length arife out of the expoling of a falfe one. * *-*• *\ ^ *v But here we are called upon in the Let¬ ter, wherein le Clerc, as the Author, of forne ObfervationSy &c. are' unfairly repre- fented, as the Aggreflbrs in this Difpute : for the Juftnefs and Truth, as we are told, of all Dr. FreindV Writings are fufficient to 1 bear
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