Volume 2

Institutes of health / [Anon].

Date:
1761
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Institutes of health / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    deftitute of practice muft be expeded to furnifli; and againft being over¬ awed or prejudiced by the authority of names however celebrated, however great. If then I mention fuch autho¬ ritative ones as thofe of Sydenham, Friend, Boerhaave, Vanfwieten, Stahl, Hoffman, Haller, to fay nothing of numberlefs others, it is fo far from an oftentation of reading, or an air of pe¬ dantry in me, that I mention them folely to confefs, perhaps, againft^my- felf, that I never met in them a fatif- fadion equal to my expedations, though very moderate ones, making, as I did, due allowance for their art being ne- celfarily in the moft material points, a conjedural one j and, indeed, it ap¬ pears fo much fo that in the whole ocean 3