Reflections upon ancient and modern learning / by William Wotton.

  • Wotton, William, 1666-1727.
Date:
1697
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Credit: Reflections upon ancient and modern learning / by William Wotton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    almoft in nothing. I muft own, I was glad itcould be proved that the World -has not adually loft its Vigour, but that a-gradual Im- this Inftance that Mr. Bernard has {fo inconteftably made out, does b no means contradict. For Surgery, though ic is the certaineft,: yer it is the fimpleft pare of Medicine ; There the Operator is more let into his Work, which does not depend {o much upon Conjecture as Phyfic. The reproach therefore of its: com- paratively {mall Proficiency; is to be laid upon the Men, not the Art 3 it has been for thefe laft Ages efteemed too Mechanical for Men of Li- beral Education, and fine Parts, to bufie themfelves about: So that I queflion not but if as many learned Men had cultivated | Surgery for thefe laft GEG Years, as have em- ployed themfelves in fome other Parts eS a i oe manasnesion ——— > ; scanndoe SN P ae » tet Ciactan ne cnarrcahereni it nn ti