The practice of physick, reduced to the ancient way of observations, containing a just parallel between the wisdom and experience of the ancients, and the hypothesis's of modern physicians ... Together with several new ... dissertations; particulary of the tarantula, and ... its poison: of the use and abuse of blistering-plaisters: of epidemical apoplexies, &c / Written in Lattin by Geo. Baglivi.

  • Baglivi, Giorgio, 1668-1707.
Date:
1723
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Credit: The practice of physick, reduced to the ancient way of observations, containing a just parallel between the wisdom and experience of the ancients, and the hypothesis's of modern physicians ... Together with several new ... dissertations; particulary of the tarantula, and ... its poison: of the use and abuse of blistering-plaisters: of epidemical apoplexies, &c / Written in Lattin by Geo. Baglivi. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it V 9 As for the Medicina Secunda, or the Curative part, I muft needs own, that it may be illuftra- ted in feveral points by the knowledge of other Sciences; efpecially thofe which bear any affinity to Phyfick, or are look'd upon as retainers to it. Exercife, and the fix not Natural Things, Experi- mental Philofophy, Anatomy, and other things of that Nature, which contribute very much to- wards the 'perfe&ion of Method, and a ready view of the Indications of Cure, even upon the minuteft Circumftances. For Method being, as twere, the Archite@ure of the Phyfical Stru&ure, means pointed to in thefe Sciences; and fo joyntly confpire in an Unity of Truth and Na- ture. ,As for the other Sciences, which are not at all related to Phyfick, 1 fhall not deny but that the ways of Thinking may be improved, and the Office of a Profeflor adorn'd by the Study of the Mathematicks, which our Countryman Mar- tinus ^ Ghetaldus has accurately purfued in his learned Performances, De compofitione € refolutione Mathematica, and his Appolonius Redivivus. To thefe we may add the Knowldge of Meteors, Moral Phylofophy, efpecially that part of it which treats of the forming of a Man’s Man- ners, and the acquifition of Prudence, which is fo neceflary to a Phyfician, Oc. But in regard they have no tendency to the Curing of humane Bodies, they are only to be purfued at leifure Hours in ordér to divert and unbend the Mind.