An Address to the Graduates of the Medical Department of the University of Michigan, on the Romance and Reality of Ancient Medicine (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Address to the Graduates of the Medical Department of the University of Michigan, on the Romance and Reality of Ancient MedicineIf we can credit his statements, he studied medicine in the Universities of Germany, Italy, France and Spain, and traveled extensively in search of medical information, applying to Physicians, barbers, old wo men, conjurers and alchemists, both good and bad, from whom he gladly received any thing that was useful. Designing to travel into Russia, he was taken prisoner by the Tartars, and carried before the Khan, and was soon after sent with a son of that prince on an em bassy to Constantinople, where he states that he was let into the secret of the philosopher's stone.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.