Conspectus medicinae theoreticae : a view of the theory of medicine ; in two parts: Part I. Containing physiology and pathology. Part II. Containing therapeutics / a new ed., carefully rev. throughout. Translated from the original Latin.

  • Gregory, James, 1753-1821.
Date:
1833
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Credit: Conspectus medicinae theoreticae : a view of the theory of medicine ; in two parts: Part I. Containing physiology and pathology. Part II. Containing therapeutics / a new ed., carefully rev. throughout. Translated from the original Latin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    man of general knowledge, as well as of medical skill, that it was thought an injury, both to the interests of medical science, and to the Author’s fame, to allow such a work to remain inaccessible to all but the learn- ed. The difficulty was to give such a translation as might do justice to the beauty and splendour of the original language. This it was thought better not to attempt, but to keep closely to the sense, so that what the version wants in elegance may not be attributed to the Author, leaving the translator answerable for fidelity alone. The history of medicine, from the time when diseases were ascribed to the stars, to the anger of the Deity, and to magic, down to the present time, forms the re- mainder of the Dissertation. This being more a mat- ter of curiosity than of general interest, and, at the same time, now to be found in many other works in our own language, it was not thought necessary to translate.