Excerpt from Synopsis Medicin or a Compendium of Galenical and Chymical Physick: Showing the Art of Healing According to the Precepts of Galen Paracelsus, Fitted Universally to the Whole Art of Healing Bartholomew Gedney in 1662, while a young man of only twenty-two, was practicing medicine in his native town. Colonel Gedney was a man of many parts and became prominent in public affairs. He was colonel of the Essex County regiment, commissioner...