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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    : * ] dent and modern Bibliotheque; without his becoming a Critick on a Book, he (hews fo fmall a Value for. This is very unbecom¬ ing a Perfon of a liberal Education, or one who has ftudied with enlarged Views: and Dr. Freind’s Readers, who can thus be im~ pofed upon, are of very low Minds, and low Underftandings 5 for they muft even believe, that the year 1727, when le Clerc defends himfelf, precedes the year 1725, when Dr. jFreind attacks him in his Hiftory of Phyfick. But I proceed to confider the (late of the Controverfy between Dr. Freind and Dr. le Clerc 5 nor will I infill on the in¬ judicious Criticifm of the former, about the Propriety of the Title, An Effay of a Flan i nor on the ill placed Animadver- fion on le Clerc’s bellowing fo much of his Flan on Faraceljus. The Criticifm alto¬ gether proceeds from Dr. Freind, and his jDefender, not underltanding the Senfe of the word Effay, and their miftaking the modeft way Dr. le Clerc is always defended. For if a Flan is a Model, according to the Letter-writer $ and that every Model is not fo perfeft, as not to want to be mended- in this Senfe, an imperfed Model may be minded 5 and an Effay of a Model, is