[76] The iatrophysicists and the iatromathematicians constituted apparently two kindred branches of the same school.
[77] An edition of the completed set of these plates was published by Lancisi at Rome in 1714.
[78] Translated from the French version printed by Daremberg in his Histoire de la Médecine, Vol. II, p. 706. The originals of Sydenham’s writings are all in Latin.
[79] Pronounced by Haeser to be a compilation, and not one of Sydenham’s genuine writings.
[80] Physicians who maintain that all physiological and pathological phenomena may be explained by the laws of physics.
[81] “Gründliches Bedenken und physicalische Anmerkungen von dem tödtlichen Damff der Holzkohlen,” Halle, 1716.
[82] Probably this refers simply to a brazier containing burning charcoal, the light emitted by which would doubtless be sufficient to answer the purpose of a night lamp.
[83] A small seaport town located on the Zuider Zee, about thirty miles northeast of Amsterdam. The university, which was founded there in 1648, was abandoned in 1818.
[84] Quoted from the English translation mentioned above.
[85] Bread boiled in water to the consistence of pulp.