John Quincy
Published: 2018-02-11
Total Pages: 844
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Excerpt from Lexicon Physico-Medicum, or a New Medicinal Dictionary: Explaining the Difficult Terms Used in the Several Branches of the Profession, and in Such Parts of Natural Philosophy, as Are Introductory Thereto; With an Account of the Things Signified by Such Terms; Collected From the Most Eminent Authors The fiudy of medicine has in all ages been influenced' by the philofophy invogue, becaule the theory thereof is infeparable from a good competency of. Knowledge in? Natural caufes; infomuch: that the terms of philofophi cal writers have been tranfplanted into the difcourfes of phyficians, and rendered'it frequently necefi'ary to ex plain foch new terms, for the ufe of tbofe who: have not' leifure or Opportunity to' go the fame compafs, and meet with fuch, Praecognita as lie. In the courfe of more remote-pfiudies. Hence works of this nature have fre quently, followed any confiderable alterations in the theory of. Medicine, _as necefi'ary to interpret the terms introduced thereby and the latei'ccf foch performances have generally been preferred, for no other reafon, but that they have been the newefi, and molt fit for modern ufe. 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.
