Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Study of Medicine, Vol. 1 of 5
Aphorisms of Hippocrates, the medical histories of Aretazus and Galen, Of Rhazes and Avicenna, and the natural histories of Aristotle and Pliny, are transcripts Of animal life in our own day, as well as in the times in which they were severally com posed; and form important subjects of modern as it is well known they did of ancient study. The extensive family iof fevers and spasmodic affections are, in the main, the same now as they are represented in the most ancient writings that have descended to us; the plague of Athens, as described by Thucydides, we shall find in the ensuing pages to be the pro totype of what still occasionally takes place in Egypt and.
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