. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. ellini (1643-1704),of Florence, who became professor in Fisa at the earlyage of nineteen, and Baglivi (1668-1707), a pupil ofMalpighi, and a man of universal education—carried outand elaborated the first expressions of this author. Borelliwas the author of the oft-quoted maxim: He whodiagnoses well cures well. The iatromathematical system held ground for sometime in Italy, and also found followers elsewhere. Forinstance, Dodart (1664-1707), of Paris, explained thevoice on the mechanic
. Epitome of the history of medicine : based upon a course of lectures delivered in the University of Buffalo. ellini (1643-1704),of Florence, who became professor in Fisa at the earlyage of nineteen, and Baglivi (1668-1707), a pupil ofMalpighi, and a man of universal education—carried outand elaborated the first expressions of this author. Borelliwas the author of the oft-quoted maxim: He whodiagnoses well cures well. The iatromathematical system held ground for sometime in Italy, and also found followers elsewhere. Forinstance, Dodart (1664-1707), of Paris, explained thevoice on the mechanical principles enunciated by Borelli THOMAS SYDENHAM. 173 and by Quesnay (1694-1774), the first permanent secretaryof the Academy oi* Surgery in Paris. In England thisexplanation was adopted by a number of followers, noneof whom, however, was eminent enough to justify specialmention here. In Germany it obtained a certain amountof favor, but seems not to have attracted any very eminentdisciples. The iatromechanical school ran a course not unprofit-able to science, yet was unfruitful of real advance in the. Fig. 23.—Thomas Sydenham. (From a steel engraving of a nainting liy II. F. Rose.) domain of practical medicine. The man of this particularage, who, more than any other, exerted an influencedestined to be prolonged even to the present time, andprobably much longer, who had a cool, clear, and un-prejudiced spirit, and who sought the true value ofmedicine, and recompense for the same in the benefitswhich it brings to the sick, without scorning or neglectingits scientific side, wsis Thomas Sydenham, born at Win-ford Eagle in 1624, a student at Oxford in 1642, andrecipient of a bachelors degree of medicine in 1648. 174 THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. The next fifteen years of his life we know practicallynothing of, save that he spent some time in Montpellierpursuing his medical studies. In 1663 he became amember of the Royal College of Physicians, but did nottake his degree of Doctor u
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