Praxis medicinæ reformata: = or, The practice of physick reformed Being an epitome of the whole art: wherein is briefly shewed, the true causes, signs, prognosticks, and cure, of most diseases. Published for the benefit of all persons. By Robert Johnson, Med. Professor.
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- Praxis medicinæ reformata: = or, The practice of physick reformed Being an epitome of the whole art: wherein is briefly shewed, the true causes, signs, prognosticks, and cure, of most diseases. Published for the benefit of all persons. By Robert Johnson, Med. Professor.
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- Johnson, Robert, b. 1640?
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- London :: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, at the Three Pigeons, in Cornhil,
- 1700.
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- Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"Praxis medicinæ reformata: = or, The practice of physick reformed Being an epitome of the whole art: wherein is briefly shewed, the true causes, signs, prognosticks, and cure, of most diseases. Published for the benefit of all persons. By Robert Johnson, Med. Professor." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A46940.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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TO THE READER.
IN this little Tract, I have bestowed some Pains, in searching out, and proposing the true Causes and Cure of Diseases: Which, I hope, will in∣duce other Ingenious-spirited Artists to a farther Enquiry, that so the Art of Physick may be the better illustrated, and many things in it that are yet ob∣scure, may be made known.
The Chief End of Physick, is to maintain and recover Health; where∣fore I think it would be more for the Honour of all Learned Physicians, to employ themselves in the Improvement of the Materia Medica, (which have been hitherto too much neglected) than to content themselves with a formal Way of Practice: For Diseases can∣not be cured by Scholastick Twattle, or Fine Words, but by good Remedies.
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The great Platerus, Helmont, and the famous Franciscus de la Boe Sylvius, &c. did endeavour to re∣form the Practice of Physick, and ex∣celled many others (their Contempora∣ries) in the most difficult Cures; yet because they had recourse to Chymical Remedies, in the Cure of many Disea∣ses, the more lazy Tribe of Physicians made it their Business to traduce them.
Truly there are too many such car∣ping Zolius's at this Day (who envy Glory to all, except themselves) from whom I must expect the same Fate: I can do no more but pray for them; Lord, forgive them; for they know not what they do.
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