Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. "Use three Physicians, Still-first Dr. Quiet, Next Dr. Merry-man And Dr. Dyet." Regimen Sanitatis SaUrnitanum. "Nothing is more estimable than a Physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor." Voltaire. PHYSICIANS, ANCIENT AND MODERN. Prebendary Scarth, in his Aquae Solis, writes in reference to Roman Physicians: -- "It is most probable that a school of medicine existed in Bath at an early period. The mineral springs being visited by many patients for their healing benefits, would naturally cause the residence of eminent physicians in the neighbourhood. No record, however, has been found of any patients, nor have we any Votive Altar put up by a physician, as at Chester, or any memorial to a physician as on the line of the Roman wall in Northumberland. "A solitary medicine stamp is all that has been discovered to indicate the practice of medicine in Bath in Roman times, and it seems probable that this was the stamp of an empiric. This medicine stamp was dug up in the Abbey Churchyard in 1731, in making a cellar. It passed into the possession of Mr. Mitchell, of Bristol, about the middle of the last century, but it cannot now be traced. "It was a stone of greenish hue, perforated, and of oblong form. At the time of the discovery it was shown to the Society of Antiquaries, and casts of the impressions upon it were presented to that body by Mr. Lethiecullier; three of them are still preserved in their museum.1 "In 1788, Mr. Gough published in Archaeologia, * 'Observations on certain Stamps and Seals used anciently by oculists.' Dr....
