John Brown
Published: 2018-10-02
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Excerpt from The Elements of Medicine, of John Brown, M.D, Vol. 1: Translated From the Latin, With Comments and Illustrations, by the Author The Author of this work has fpent above twenty years in learning, teaching, and diligently fcrutinizing every part of medicine. The firfl five pal'cd away in hearing others, in fiudying what he had heard, implicitly believing 1t, and entering upon the pofi'efiion as a rich and valuable inheritance. His employment, the next five years, was to explain more clearly the feveral par ticulars, to refine and give them a nicer polilh. During the five following years nothing having fucceeded tq his fatisfaétion, he grew indifferent to the fubjeét; an'fif'with many eminent men, with the very vulgar, began to deplore the healing art as alto gether uncertain and incomprehenfible All this time pafi'ed away without the acquifition of any advantage without that Which of all things 15 the mof'r agreeable to the mind, the light of truth and [0 great and precious a portion of the Ihort and per ifhable life of man, was totally loft. He was, at this period, in the fituation of a traveller in an unknown country, who, after lofing every trace of his way, wanders in the [hades of night nor was it till between the 15th and zoth year of his {indies that a faint gleam of light, like the firfi break of day, dawned upon him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.