Rules for preserving health, particularly with regard to studious persons ... / Translated from the Spanish [of 'Teatro critico'].

  • Feijoo, Benito Jerónimo, 1676-1764
Date:
[1800?]
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Credit: Rules for preserving health, particularly with regard to studious persons ... / Translated from the Spanish [of 'Teatro critico']. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by the nobleft fincerity, a prerogative which gives no lefs beauty to his writings than the pure latinity which fhines in them, he fre¬ quently lays before us his doubts, and confeffes his ignorance. He places but little confidence r » in what he has experienced himfelf, and hardly any in what is laid down by other authors. In his preface he fays, cc they with great readinefs “ write down the cures of various diforders. cc but the difficulty of giving reality to their <c words, and making the events correfpond to cc their promifes will be known by thofe who cc confider that there are many difeafes men- <c tioned by thefe practical writers, which nei- <c ther they nor any other Phyfician yet knew ft how to cure.” How unpardonable is it in filch authors to give, as remedies to the public, what they themfelves know to be ineffectual, and expofe their readers to be deluded in a cure which may coft the patient large fums, and even his health. Sydenham, in another part of his works (in Epift. Ded.) confeffes, that when, after much fludy and continual obfervation, he imagined he had obtained a fure method of curing all kinds of fevers, “ he found his eyes were only u opened to be filled with dull, tho* glorious “ as >