Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A System of Medicine, Vol. 1: By Many Writers
The great profession of the Law may feel a just pride in the growth of its reasonable and gradual dominion; Medicine, after the decay of the school of Hippocrates, 'and in countries which knew not that master, became the tool of priests, slaves, Charlatans, or literary men. To trace the living waters of the healing art and the auxiliary sciences in their secret channels under the foundations of the Temple, of the Gymnasium, of the Museum, or of the Marketplace, until they burst forth once more in the time of Vesalius, of Harvey, of Morgagni, of Haller, of Hunter, of Bichat, of Bernard, of Laennec, is not a pursuit for these pages.
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