A SHORT HISTORY OF MEDICINE
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INTRODUCING MEDICAL PRINCIPLES TO STUDENTS AND NON-MEDICAL READERS BY CHARLES SINGER M.A., M.D., D.LITT., OXFORD FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF LONDON LECTURER ON THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Scire potestates herbarum usumque medendi Maluit et mutas agitare inglorius artes It was his part to learn of the power of Medicine and of the manner of healing and, heedless of glory, to exercise that quiet art. Virgil, Aeneid xii, 396-7
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