Criticon febrium: or, a critical essay on fevers ... To which is prefix'd a large introduction concerning the use and abuse of mathematicks in physick ... where also the Euodia medicorum is annex'd / [Edward Strother].

  • Strother, Edward, 1675-1737
Date:
1716
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Credit: Criticon febrium: or, a critical essay on fevers ... To which is prefix'd a large introduction concerning the use and abuse of mathematicks in physick ... where also the Euodia medicorum is annex'd / [Edward Strother]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Gentleman into a Belief that he enjoys double the Number of Acres he really does, and to engrois a few Pence into his own Pocket > How ufeful are the Arts of making and framing the feveral Sorts of Lens’s, to difcover the Figures of Bodies, for the Short-lighted, for the Old, for the Sailor, and for many other Dies? Should I expatiate more upon this Affair, a Seflion would fwell into Volumes 5 which is far from my prefent Purpofe, having no farther Defign in this SeQion than to hint at the life of the Mathematicks in General * which I be¬ lieve I have lufficiently done, when 1 have let you lee how many Affairs of great Moment 5tis ablb- lutely neceflary to. SECT, II. Of the Ufe of the Mathematicks, and Expert- mental Philofophy, in the Knowledge of our Human Bodies ^ and of fome Data from the feveral Branches of it, drawn into Ufe. 1A M not of lo harfh a Dilpofition, as not to-j accept of feveral Data from the Mathematicians, which, it is to be own'd, are prettily enough adapt¬ ed to the Purpofes they demonftrate them for; But I ' am of Opinion, that it is an affeQed Shew of Learning to demonftrate thefe Truths in luch a Man¬ ner, as that a Book of Phyfick, fave its Title, would now appear rather a Point of Mathematicks difculfed, than any ufeful Difeovery in the Art of Healing * I believe I need not be at the Pains to convince the Perufer of our daily Treatifes in ufe of late, where they will find Inftances in abundance 5 where, atfer Sir IJaac Newton, Dr. Halley, and the* VbilofopMcal rTranfaft ions are rifled, they gravely B 2 recite