Tabular observations recommended as the plainest and surest way of improving physick. In a letter to a friend / by Francis Clifton.

  • Clifton, Francis, -1736.
Date:
1731
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Credit: Tabular observations recommended as the plainest and surest way of improving physick. In a letter to a friend / by Francis Clifton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C 20 firft read the Epidemicks; the firft and third books in particular. For, tho' the plan I have here propos'd, requires nothing more than a careful attendance to the Symptoms from day to day, with the Remedies, &c. made ufe of; yet by being acquainted with Hippo¬ crates’s way of writing, a deal of trouble will be lav'd; many things will be thought of, that might otherwife be overlook'd; and the’Cafe, when finilh'd, be much more ele¬ gant. I cou'd be glad too, that he wou'd read his Trognofticks, his Traditions, his Coaca Tranotiones, his curious book de Aerey Locis & Aquisy and that famous one de'Diata in morbis acutis: the plealure and advantage will, I'll anfwer for it, infinitely exceed the trouble; and he wou'd then lee what an extraordinary Man Hippocrates was, and how juftly he has deferv’d all the En¬ comiums that ever were or can be given him. I wou'd not be underftood, as if I thought, a man of learning cou'd do nothing this way without Hippocrates. But this I will ven¬ ture to fay, that 'tis almoft as difficult to un- derftand Phyfick well without him, as it is Mathematicks without Euclid. Befides, as every one allows that Hippocrates was fur- prifingly curious in his remarks, and by far the beft Author among all the Ancients (the reft having borrow'd in a great meafure what they have faid from him) one would hear firft, what fuch an one fays; whether he follows