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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    ■4 t ■» ] Mr. le Clerc bellows no more than three pages upon all thele four authors: and thinks this a fufficient reafon to give for it, that they were Compilers. True it is, the two firjl and the lajl were chiefly fuch. But did they compile fo, as to have nothing at all new, and what we may call their own in thele very voluminous works ? far otherwile. For tho’ I mull confels, that there are not a great many things in them, in proportion to the bulk of their books, but fuch as may be found in Galen and others, and yet forae there are too, in regard to the real improve¬ ment of the Art it lelf; however as to what concerns the Hiftorical part of it, which is the lubjecft of our prelent enqui¬ ry, lurely a great deal of matter may be pick’d out of: thefe writers, fit to enter¬ tain our curiofity at leaft, if not to inform our judgement. One thing equally holds in the flare of Learning, no lefs than in the ftate of Empires: It may be as much plealure and in ft ruction to the reader to oblerve ; ■ t -