The works of Thomas Sydenham, M. D., on acute and chronic diseases
Subtitle: wherein their histories and modes of cure, as recited by him, are delivered with accuracy and perspicuity. To which are subjoined notes, corrective and explanatory, from the most eminent medical writers; adapting the whole to the present improved state of physic, and shewing under what classes, orders, and genera, most of the complaints treated of are arranged by nosologists: with a variety of annotations by George Wallis ...
Contributors: Wallis, George, 1740-1802, ed.; Swan, John, tr.
Publisher: G. G. J. and J. Robinson [etc.]
Published: 1788
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: "With respect to the translation, the present editor has done little more than compared that of Dr. Swan with the original ... But with regard to his notes ... the multifarious improvements which have occurred since that period ... have rendered it necessary to rescind the greatest part of them; only lettins such, or a part, stand, as seemed to be consistent with the rational practice of this day."--Pref.
"The life of Dr. Sydenham": vol. I, p. [xiii]-xx.