Volume 1

The history of physick; from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Chiefly with regard to practice. In a discourse written to Dr. Mead / By J. Freind.

  • Freind, John, 1675-1728.
Date:
1727
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Credit: The history of physick; from the time of Galen, to the beginning of the sixteenth century. Chiefly with regard to practice. In a discourse written to Dr. Mead / By J. Freind. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 5 ] Hippocrates: and therefore it is more pro- bable, that this Antigonus was elder, per¬ haps the facceffor of Alexander, about the year 310 before Chrijl, or 13 o after the birth of Hippocrates ■, and this Antigonus anfwers the delcription here given of being an old man, as well as Gonatas - for he was above eighty, when he was killed. So that by this account the age of Hiocles will fill out, as Pliny has defcribed it, in the next generation af¬ ter Hippocrates, much near the time of Arifiotle. Thefe perhaps at firft fight may feem to fome mere Chronological nice- ties: but I believe upon reflexion they will acknowledge, that unlefs this point {i. e.) the age of every author be firfl cleared up, any Hiftorical detail of the Hate of Phyficl muff be extremely de¬ fective ; and we mull: be at a great lofs to know either what advances it made, or what changes it received in each dif¬ ferent period of time, Mr.