Excerpt from The Commentaries Upon the Aphorisms of Dr. Herman Boërhaave, the Late Learned Professor of Physick in the University of Leyden, Vol. 2: Concerning the Knowledge and Cure of Several Diseases Incident to Human Bodies
One for curing by diet, the Other by medicine, and the third by the ufe of the hands. But yet furgery was not neglected by Phyiicians. For the very parent of phyfic, tji~iippocrates, has wrote beautifully on wounds of the head, on ulcers, fifiulm, fractures, luxations, 69°c. Nor has he (lightly confidered thofe accidents and injuries, but he has alfo defcribed at large the methods and machinesto lbe ufed for the cure of fractures and luxationsq {eozthis We may add, that It is of the high ei'tgufetowatdsnthe cure of internal difeafes, to exa mine and compare the maladies which are feared ex ternally. Thele lafl: are all of them more Obvious to the fen es, and more eafily underflood. Thus we can much more evidently underl'tand exrernal inflam mations, and their various ways of terminating, than thole feared internally. What light do we not receive into the nature of obfcure difeafes In the head, from a previous knowledge of the wounds In that part. Since therefore theigeneral and belt method of to pafs from the cafier to the more difficult propofi tions, therefore thofe external di orders which belong to forgery, are heredefervedly tranfpofed before the hii'tory of internal and more obfcure difeafes.
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