A. Corn. Celsus of Medicine in Eight Books
To Mr Sharp, Surgeon to Guy’s Hospital, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Member of the Royal Academy of Surgery at Paris
SIR,
The favourable opinion you have been pleased to express of the following translation, and the trouble you have taken to revise the chirurgical part, are obligations, which I embrace this opportunity of acknowledging with the highest pleasure.
And though I had not received such marks of your friendship, yet there is no person, to whom a translation of Celsus can be more properly addressed; since no writer in this age appears to have a more just esteem for this excellent author, or to have imitated his conciseness and elegance, with so much success.
I am,
with great esteem,
Sir,
your most obedient,
humble servant,
James Greive.
London,
January 26th, 1756.