Talk:Semiotics/Archives/2020

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False quotation of John Locke

I deleted the following quotation, erroneously attributed to John Locke:

Nor is there any thing to be relied upon in Physick, but an exact knowledge of medicinal physiology (founded on observation, not principles), semiotics, method of curing, and tried (not excogitated, not commanding) medicines.

This is a quotation from A specimen of some animadversions upon a book entituled, Plus ultra, or, Modern improvements of useful knowledge writtten by Mr. Joseph Glanvill, a member of the Royal Society, by Henry Stubbe, 1670, p. 75. See [1]. It is quite incredible to discover on Google the number of publications that reproduced this text with the erroneous attribution to Locke. — Hucbald.SaintAmand (talk) 10:37, 10 February 2020 (UTC)