An Account Of The Life And Writings Of Herman Boerhaave In Two Parts With An Appendix By Wm Burton Md The Second Edition

Author : William Burton
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Download or read book An Account of the Life and Writings of Herman Boerhaave; In Two Parts, with an Appendix written by William Burton and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1746. Excerpt: ... SECT. II. Of all Dr Boerhaave'j Writings beside his Orations and Thesis. AN Y account of the larger works of so justly celebrated a physician may be thought needless on the presumption, that scarce one of the faculty is unacquainted with them. But, as it has been found, that some among us have been pleased to censure our author, who either have not perused his genuine writings, or not with sufficient attention*, it may in justice be expected, that we endeavour to point out the peculiar excellencies of his several works, and so distinguish the supposititious -j- which disgrace his name, that they may no longer be obtruded for genuine. From * The stile of his Institutes and Aphorisms is so laconic, that nearly a like attention is necessary for the thorough understanding of those books, as is usually given to treatises of mixt mathematics, and a panegyric, instead of a vindication, will be deemed most meet after due consideration. f Of which he highly complains in the preface sto his Chemistry. From the preceeding section, and account of his life, it partly appears how well he was qualified for teaching no less than practising physic *; possest of the endowments and advantages above mentioned, he soon converted them to the service of the public. Whilst patients experienced the benefit of his surprizing sagacity, his incomparable collection of the most certain doctrines in medicine was communicated not only to his pupils, but to the world. For the first edition of his Injlitutiones Medic appeared in i707, two years before he was created a professor, about six years after he began to officiate as lecturer, p. This * A Science notwithstanding the representation lately made (p. 93,&c.) of its facility, to be ranked deservedly among the most difficult, since from the frequent variatio...