A circular invitatory letter to all orders of learned men, [electronic resource] : but more especially to the professors of physick and surgery, in Great Britain. Concerning an attempt or essay towards an history of the lives, Deaths, Writings, Characters and Opinions of the most celebrated British physical and chirurgical authors; containing the various Improvements and Discoveries that have been made from time to time, in the Theory and Practice of Physick, Anatomy, Surgery, Botany, Pharmacy, Chemistry, &c. according to their Chronological Order. The whole being design'd for a Biographical, Philological, Critical and Controversial Narrative of the most remarkable Things that have been done in the several Branches of these Professions in Britain, from the earliest Records of Time we can get any certain Knowledge of, to the present. By Edward Milward, M.D.