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Excerpt from The Works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D. On Acute and Chronic Diseases; With Their Histories and Modes of Cure: With Notes, Intended to Accommodate Them to the Present State of Medicine, and to the Climate and Diseases of the United States
But posterity has made it up to him since his death; for no one, the great Hippocrates himself not excepted, ever stood possesse'd of a fairer reputation, than he has since enjoyed, and still bears: his judgment, integrity, and candeur are universally acknowledged and applauded. The physicians of our own country have recourse tofhis writings as an oracle, and foreigners never mention him without the most honourable titles: to sum all in'one, many of them call him the British Hippocrates.
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