A corner-stone laid towards the building of a new colledge (that is to say, a new body of physicians) in London upon occasion of the vexations and oppressive proceedings acted in the name of the society called the Colledge of Physicians : for the better information of all men, as well as of physicians, chirurgians, and apothecaries, touching the unhappy estate of the art of physick, here in England, it being an apology for the better education of physicians / by Adrian Huyberts.
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             A corner-stone laid towards the building of a new colledge (that is to say, a new body of physicians) in London upon occasion of the vexations and oppressive proceedings acted in the name of the society called the Colledge of Physicians : for the better information of all men, as well as of physicians, chirurgians, and apothecaries, touching the unhappy estate of the art of physick, here in England, it being an apology for the better education of physicians / by Adrian Huyberts.
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           A
           Corner-Stone
           Laid
           towards
           the
           Building
           of
           a
           NEW
           COLLEDGE
           (
           that
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           a
           new
           Body
           of
           Physicians
           )
           IN
           LONDON
           .
           Upon
           Occasion
           of
           the
           vexatious
           and
           oppressive
           proceedings
           acted
           in
           the
           name
           of
           the
           Society
           called
           the
           
             COLLEDGE
             of
             PHYSICIANS
          
           :
           For
           the
           better
           information
           of
           all
           men
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           of
           
             Physicians
             ,
             Chirurgians
          
           ,
           and
           Apothecaries
           ,
           touching
           the
           unhappy
           estate
           of
           the
           
             Art
             of
             Physick
          
           ,
           here
           in
           ENGLAND
           .
        
         
           It
           being
           an
           APOLOGY
           for
           the
           better
           Education
           of
           PHYSICIANS
           .
        
         
           By
           
             Adrian
             Huyberts
          
           ,
           Physician
           .
        
         
           
             Rode
             ,
             Caper
             ,
             Vitem
             ;
             —
             tamen
             hinc
          
           
             In
             tua
             quod
             fundi
             cornua
             possit
             ,
             erit
             .
          
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           for
           the
           Author
           .
           1675.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           THis
           Apology
           of
           mine
           shall
           be
           divided
           into
           four
           Parts
           :
        
         
           1.
           
           The
           Occasion
           of
           my
           present
           Persecution
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           The
           Pretences
           upon
           which
           it
           is
           grounded
           :
           in
           the
           disquisition
           whereof
           ,
           I
           have
           discovered
           under
           how
           great
           a
           Mystery
           of
           Iniquity
           this
           Art
           hath
           hitherto
           been
           managed
           ,
           to
           the
           abuse
           and
           detriment
           of
           the
           Nobility
           ,
           Gentry
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           People
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           The
           manner
           of
           the
           Colledges
           vexatious
           proceeding
           to
           ruine
           me
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           An
           Account
           of
           my self
           ,
           as
           to
           my
           education
           in
           Physick
           ,
           my
           Practice
           both
           here
           and
           beyond-Sea
           ,
           and
           my
           behaviour
           towards
           all
           English
           abroad
           ;
           especially
           the
           friends
           of
           his
           Majesty
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           not
           for
           the
           sake
           of
           my
           own
           particular
           ,
           that
           I
           appear
           hear
           in
           Print
           :
           For
           ,
           were
           not
           my
           Case
           the
           Concern
           of
           all
           other
           Practitioners
           ;
           and
           were
           not
           the
           people
           of
           England
           concerned
           in
           having
           the
           Gowns
           of
           my
           Adversaries
           thus
           strip't
           over
           their
           ears
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           read
           and
           know
           them
           naked
           as
           they
           are
           ,
           and
           not
           be
           abused
           any
           longer
           about
           matter
           of
           Medicine
           :
           And
           had
           not
           I
           well
           understood
           ,
           that
           by
           their
           present
           persecution
           ,
           a
           most
           just
           occasion
           hath
           been
           given
           me
           to
           serve
           the
           Publick
           ,
           by
           being
           smart
           and
           plain
           in
           discourse
           to
           inform
           the
           world
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           to
           serve
           my self
           ,
           
           I
           would
           have
           been
           content
           to
           have
           born
           all
           in
           silence
           :
           But
           Conscience
           of
           duty
           hath
           called
           me
           forth
           .
        
         
           In
           order
           therefore
           to
           the
           better
           understanding
           of
           the
           Collegiates
           Quarrel
           at
           me
           ,
           know
           ,
           that
           at
           my
           first
           coming
           into
           England
           from
           my
           Travels
           ,
           a
           Merchant
           of
           quality
           ,
           being
           in
           a
           deplorable
           condition
           ,
           having
           called
           divers
           of
           the
           Doctors
           that
           are
           best
           reputed
           ,
           to
           his
           assistance
           ,
           it
           was
           all
           in
           vain
           ;
           For
           ,
           after
           many
           Trials
           of
           skill
           ,
           and
           useless
           applications
           ,
           they
           gave
           him
           over
           :
           upon
           which
           ,
           I
           being
           called
           to
           the
           same
           Patient
           ,
           did
           (
           by
           Gods
           blessing
           )
           recover
           him
           .
           At
           which
           ,
           some
           of
           his
           former
           Physicians
           ,
           being
           angry
           when
           they
           were
           told
           it
           ,
           could
           not
           hold
           (
           it
           seems
           )
           but
           said
           ,
           they
           would
           rather
           have
           had
           him
           died
           ,
           than
           that
           I
           ,
           being
           none
           of
           their
           Society
           ,
           should
           have
           cured
           him
           .
           And
           for
           this
           ,
           with
           some
           other
           of
           my
           Performances
           of
           the
           same
           nature
           ,
           they
           have
           waited
           for
           an
           Opportunity
           to
           fall
           upon
           me
           .
        
         
           I
           could
           give
           many
           more
           like
           instances
           of
           time
           past
           ;
           For
           ,
           I
           have
           been
           very
           willing
           to
           entertain
           such
           Patients
           as
           they
           had
           given
           over
           to
           the
           Grave
           :
           But
           I
           forbear
           ,
           and
           may
           do
           it
           upon
           occasion
           ,
           if
           they
           put
           me
           to
           it
           .
           That
           which
           moves
           them
           to
           molest
           me
           now
           is
           ,
           partly
           to
           pay
           old
           Scores
           of
           envy
           ,
           and
           partly
           to
           satisfie
           the
           humour
           of
           one
           of
           their
           fellow
           Doctors
           .
           One
           would
           have
           thought
           ,
           my
           house
           being
           in
           the
           fields
           betwixt
           Chelsey
           and
           Kensington
           ,
           I
           should
           have
           been
           far
           enough
           out
           of
           the
           reach
           of
           malice
           ;
           but
           that
           Doctor
           living
           not
           far
           from
           Charing-Cross
           ,
           having
           now
           and
           then
           a
           Patient
           about
           Westminster
           ,
           and
           my
           Neighbour-Villages
           ,
           it
           was
           my
           hap
           to
           be
           called
           among
           
           some
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           (
           by
           Gods
           Blessing
           )
           to
           cure
           those
           whom
           he
           ,
           and
           several
           other
           of
           his
           fellow
           Doctors
           of
           the
           Colledge
           could
           not
           .
           This
           (
           it
           seems
           )
           was
           Crime
           enough
           ;
           and
           upon
           this
           it
           was
           ,
           that
           he
           framed
           a
           complaint
           against
           me
           at
           the
           Colledge
           .
           When
           St.
           Peter
           had
           cured
           the
           
             lame
             man
          
           ,
           the
           Jews
           could
           not
           deny
           he
           had
           done
           a
           good
           work
           ;
           however
           ,
           it
           was
           against
           their
           interest
           to
           tollerate
           him
           ,
           therefore
           they
           concluded
           he
           should
           not
           practise
           any
           more
           ,
           though
           in
           the
           name
           of
           Jesus
           ,
           but
           contrived
           how
           to
           lay
           hold
           on
           him
           upon
           some
           pretences
           .
           So
           those
           Gentlemen
           ,
           though
           a
           great
           part
           of
           my
           practice
           be
           to
           cure
           the
           poor
           members
           of
           Jesus
           freely
           for
           his
           sake
           ,
           do
           use
           me
           like
           Jews
           ,
           have
           been
           busie
           with
           pretences
           to
           disturb
           my
           Practice
           .
           To
           this
           purpose
           a
           Council
           was
           called
           ;
           and
           a
           Junior
           Doctor
           of
           the
           gang
           they
           employed
           to
           be
           their
           Pedee-Solicitor
           ,
           as
           having
           a
           busie
           humour
           ,
           and
           but
           little
           else
           to
           do
           ;
           and
           so
           he
           is
           condemned
           to
           carry
           the
           Green-bag
           after
           the
           other
           Doctor
           .
           The
           more
           grave
           and
           cunning
           of
           the
           number
           seem
           to
           wash
           their
           hands
           of
           the
           business
           ;
           But
           these
           are
           the
           
             two
             wights
          
           that
           now
           wear
           the
           name
           of
           the
           Colledge
           in
           the
           prosecution
           at
           law
           against
           me
           :
           and
           yet
           there
           is
           also
           a
           
             Tipling
             Committee
             of
             Juniors
          
           of
           the
           same
           Society
           ,
           that
           have
           little
           else
           to
           do
           ;
           to
           whom
           they
           give
           account
           what
           passes
           ,
           and
           from
           whom
           they
           receive
           also
           Counsel
           and
           Instructions
           what
           next
           to
           do
           ,
           to
           give
           trouble
           to
           other
           Physicians
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           as
           to
           their
           pretences
           for
           the
           commencing
           of
           this
           malicious
           Suit
           ,
           they
           are
           divers
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           The
           First
           is
           their
           
             Foundational
             pretence
             ,
             viz.
          
           a
           
           Statute
           supposed
           to
           be
           made
           in
           the
           14th
           and
           15
           year
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           8th
           .
           Whereby
           a
           confirmation
           is
           pretended
           to
           have
           been
           made
           of
           a
           Patent
           before
           granted
           by
           the
           same
           King
           Henry
           ,
           wherein
           certain
           persons
           (
           to
           the
           number
           of
           6
           ,
           or
           7
           ,
           )
           and
           their
           Successors
           ,
           were
           constituted
           a
           Colledge
           of
           Physitians
           ,
           and
           none
           but
           themselves
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           are
           approved
           by
           them
           ,
           to
           be
           permitted
           to
           practice
           Physick
           in
           London
           City
           ,
           and
           7
           ,
           miles
           about
           .
           Now
           ,
           for
           the
           slighting
           of
           this
           pretence
           ,
           give
           me
           leave
           ,
           with
           all
           reverence
           to
           the
           Law
           of
           the
           Land
           ,
           and
           its
           learned
           Professors
           ,
           to
           produce
           certain
           Circumstances
           ,
           whereby
           it
           may
           appear
           questionable
           ,
           whether
           ever
           any
           such
           Law
           ,
           as
           is
           pretended
           ,
           were
           passed
           in
           due
           form
           ,
           as
           a
           Law
           or
           Statute
           in
           England
           ought
           to
           be
           .
           One
           Circumstance
           very
           material
           is
           ;
           that
           it
           doth
           not
           appear
           by
           any
           Record
           ,
           that
           the
           
             Royal
             Assent
          
           was
           given
           to
           it
           .
           'T
           is
           granted
           ,
           such
           a
           Bill
           was
           tendred
           in
           the
           Parliament
           in
           the
           14th
           and
           15th
           year
           of
           King
           Henry
           the
           8th
           and
           a
           copy
           of
           such
           a
           Bill
           is
           to
           be
           seen
           in
           the
           Rolls
           ;
           which
           seems
           to
           be
           but
           a
           meer
           Copie
           of
           somewhat
           that
           was
           set
           on
           foot
           then
           ,
           but
           perished
           in
           the
           birth
           ,
           because
           neither
           at
           Top
           nor
           Bottom
           of
           it
           is
           to
           be
           seen
           ,
           
             Le
             Roy
             le
             veult
          
           ,
           the
           only
           Signature
           whereby
           any
           thing
           is
           known
           to
           be
           a
           Law.
           
        
         
           Another
           Circumstance
           that
           may
           induce
           a
           man
           to
           believe
           it
           no
           Statute
           ,
           is
           ,
           because
           the
           contents
           or
           powers
           contained
           in
           it
           ,
           are
           such
           as
           militate
           against
           the
           very
           Spirit
           of
           an
           
             English
             Parliament
          
           ,
           the
           great
           Sanctuary
           of
           the
           publick
           freedom
           :
           For
           ,
           nothing
           can
           be
           more
           difficult
           than
           to
           believe
           ,
           that
           a
           Parliament
           would
           
           concurr
           to
           invest
           any
           sort
           of
           men
           ,
           with
           so
           extravagant
           Powers
           over
           their
           fellow
           Subjects
           ,
           as
           are
           contained
           in
           that
           supposed
           Statute
           ,
           viz.
           so
           sit
           themselves
           as
           a
           Court
           of
           Judicature
           ,
           and
           there
           to
           convent
           any
           practisers
           not
           licensed
           by
           themselves
           ,
           &
           upon
           informations
           without
           Oath
           ,
           and
           without
           a
           tryal
           
             per
             Pares
          
           ,
           themselves
           being
           the
           only
           parties
           ,
           to
           take
           upon
           them
           to
           judge
           and
           condemn
           men
           ;
           and
           this
           without
           remedy
           by
           appeal
           to
           any
           Superiour
           Court
           in
           case
           of
           Injustice
           ,
           but
           to
           suffer
           penalties
           both
           in
           their
           purses
           by
           Fines
           and
           Amercements
           ,
           and
           persons
           by
           imprisonments
           ,
           according
           to
           such
           sentence
           as
           they
           shall
           please
           to
           pass
           against
           them
           ;
           so
           that
           they
           may
           be
           ruined
           in
           matter
           of
           livelihood
           ,
           and
           their
           bodies
           rot
           in
           Jayle
           ,
           till
           these
           their
           Judges
           and
           Adversaries
           shall
           please
           to
           set
           them
           free
           .
           It
           cannot
           enter
           into
           any
           English
           heart
           to
           imagine
           ,
           that
           our
           Ancestors
           would
           entail
           upon
           us
           by
           Law
           so
           great
           a
           Slavery
           ,
           so
           manifestly
           contrary
           to
           
             Magna
             Charta
          
           and
           to
           all
           the
           fundamental
           Laws
           and
           Liberties
           of
           the
           Subject
           .
           —
           If
           it
           be
           objected
           ,
           that
           the
           said
           supposed
           Statute
           ought
           to
           be
           believed
           a
           real
           one
           ,
           because
           it
           appears
           to
           have
           been
           in
           print
           about
           a
           hundred
           years
           ago
           ,
           and
           hath
           been
           since
           collected
           into
           the
           great
           Book
           of
           Statutes
           .
           Let
           such
           Objector
           consider
           ,
           how
           easie
           a
           matter
           it
           might
           be
           to
           impose
           upon
           a
           Printer
           a
           Copie
           of
           a
           Bill
           instead
           of
           a
           Statute
           ,
           to
           be
           printed
           among
           Statutes
           ;
           especially
           about
           matter
           of
           Physick
           ,
           whose
           concerns
           in
           those
           daies
           were
           but
           in
           few
           hands
           ,
           and
           those
           but
           very
           slender
           ,
           insomuch
           that
           the
           Art
           it self
           was
           poor
           in
           improvement
           ,
           &
           the
           professors
           very
           inconsiderable
           
           persons
           .
           And
           after
           it
           had
           been
           once
           printed
           as
           a
           Law
           how
           easie
           a
           matter
           it
           was
           in
           process
           of
           time
           for
           the
           Lawyers
           themselves
           unawares
           to
           accept
           it
           ,
           and
           Mr.
           Pulton
           to
           reprint
           it
           as
           such
           without
           further
           inquiry
           ,
           and
           to
           hand
           it
           as
           authentick
           down
           to
           Posterity
           :
           So
           that
           t
           is
           no
           marvel
           at
           all
           ,
           that
           the
           mistake
           should
           run
           on
           to
           such
           a
           height
           at
           length
           ,
           as
           to
           take
           it
           
             pro
             confesso
          
           ,
           and
           admit
           of
           it
           for
           a
           Law
           in
           Courts
           of
           Judicature
           ,
           and
           give
           judgment
           accordingly
           ;
           as
           in
           the
           case
           of
           Dr.
           Bonham
           recorded
           by
           my
           Lord
           Cook
           ,
           and
           others
           .
           But
           it
           is
           withal
           to
           be
           considered
           ,
           that
           in
           this
           latter
           Age
           ,
           the
           City
           of
           London
           it self
           encreasing
           to
           a
           vast
           amplitude
           ,
           the
           number
           of
           Physitians
           also
           being
           exceedingly
           augmented
           ,
           and
           the
           extravagant
           Insolencies
           of
           the
           Collegiates
           ,
           with
           their
           enmity
           and
           opposition
           to
           the
           Professors
           of
           a
           more
           excellent
           way
           of
           Physick
           ,
           monstrously
           encreasing
           with
           their
           pride
           and
           covetousness
           ,
           irritated
           men
           to
           resist
           their
           pretended
           power
           ,
           and
           by
           assistance
           of
           the
           most
           learned
           Gentlemen
           of
           the
           
             long
             Robe
          
           to
           enquire
           into
           the
           bottom
           of
           it
           ;
           which
           upon
           divers
           Trials
           afterward
           in
           Courts
           of
           Law
           was
           found
           to
           be
           but
           Sandy
           ;
           as
           in
           the
           several
           Cases
           of
           Dr.
           
             William
             Trigge
          
           ,
           Doctor
           Barker
           ,
           Doctor
           
             Stephen
             Trigge
          
           ,
           Doctor
           
             Read
             ,
             Fettiplace
          
           ,
           and
           others
           ;
           in
           whose
           trials
           they
           successively
           were
           either
           overthrown
           or
           else
           non-suited
           ,
           when
           great
           multitudes
           of
           people
           were
           present
           ,
           who
           came
           thither
           to
           testifie
           what
           Benefits
           they
           had
           received
           by
           Cure
           from
           those
           men
           ,
           after
           they
           had
           tried
           the
           Collegiates
           and
           could
           find
           none
           :
           which
           being
           done
           ,
           they
           had
           the
           satisfaction
           to
           hoot
           them
           out
           of
           the
           great
           Hall
           of
           Justice
           .
           
           —
           Before
           I
           leave
           this
           point
           ,
           it
           cannot
           be
           amiss
           to
           add
           one
           passage
           very
           remarkable
           ,
           much
           to
           the
           purpose
           ;
           and
           that
           was
           in
           the
           daies
           of
           the
           Usurper
           Oliver
           ,
           from
           whom
           the
           Colledge-men
           had
           gotten
           such
           Countenance
           ,
           that
           they
           ,
           after
           the
           having
           received
           several
           defeats
           at
           Law
           in
           suing
           of
           others
           ,
           took
           courage
           notwithstanding
           to
           Arrest
           one
           Dr.
           Read
           ,
           that
           lived
           then
           in
           Moor-fields
           ,
           and
           they
           brought
           the
           Cause
           to
           a
           Hearing
           in
           the
           Court
           of
           Common-Pleas
           ,
           supposing
           they
           must
           needs
           carry
           it
           before
           the
           then
           Chief
           Justice
           St.
           John
           ,
           because
           he
           having
           been
           a
           Creature
           of
           Olivers
           seemed
           most
           likely
           to
           favour
           a
           Cause
           that
           was
           favoured
           by
           his
           Master
           .
           And
           the
           Colledge-party
           labouring
           to
           prove
           the
           Legality
           of
           their
           Patent
           ,
           the
           Record
           pretended
           to
           justifie
           it
           was
           there
           produced
           in
           Court
           ;
           and
           upon
           view
           of
           it
           ,
           the
           said
           
             Chief
             Justice
          
           declared
           openly
           ,
           he
           could
           not
           admit
           it
           as
           a
           good
           Record
           ;
           for
           which
           he
           gave
           divers
           Reasons
           ,
           too
           copious
           here
           to
           be
           inserted
           .
           I
           have
           presumed
           the
           rather
           to
           give
           this
           instance
           ,
           because
           whatever
           St.
           John
           was
           ,
           as
           to
           his
           siding
           with
           the
           
             Rump
             Parliament
          
           ,
           yet
           no
           Lawyer
           (
           I
           presume
           )
           will
           deny
           him
           to
           have
           been
           an
           able
           Judge
           ,
           to
           understand
           whether
           that
           pretended
           Record
           were
           an
           Authentick
           Statute
           ,
           or
           no
           :
           However
           ,
           the
           vast
           body
           of
           the
           people
           there
           present
           ,
           were
           so
           apprehensive
           it
           was
           a
           Cause
           of
           general
           concern
           ,
           that
           upon
           the
           Judges
           declaring
           his
           opinion
           ,
           they
           filled
           Guild-Hall
           with
           acclamations
           ;
           and
           the
           Colledge-pretenders
           sneak't
           away
           ,
           not
           daring
           a
           long
           time
           after
           to
           venture
           upon
           any
           further
           disturbance
           .
           The
           consideration
           of
           these
           things
           is
           that
           which
           gives
           
           me
           courage
           ,
           to
           stand
           up
           in
           my
           own
           defence
           at
           Law
           a
           single
           man
           against
           the
           injurious
           assault
           of
           a
           ●●●●rous
           Combination
           :
           And
           for
           two
           things
           I
           bless
           Almighty
           God
           with
           all
           my
           heart
           ;
           the
           one
           is
           ,
           that
           the
           Rise
           of
           their
           malice
           hath
           been
           ,
           because
           I
           did
           good
           where
           they
           could
           not
           ;
           And
           the
           other
           is
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           my
           lot
           to
           live
           in
           a
           time
           ,
           wherein
           the
           Benches
           of
           
             Westminster
             Hall
          
           are
           replenished
           with
           Judges
           ,
           such
           as
           for
           reputation
           of
           Learning
           ,
           Justice
           ,
           and
           high
           affection
           to
           the
           Subjects
           Liberty
           ,
           exceed
           all
           times
           that
           have
           gone
           before
           .
        
         
           A
           
             third
             Circumstance
          
           ,
           giving
           cause
           to
           believe
           it
           no
           Statute
           ,
           and
           that
           what
           evidence
           they
           insist
           on
           to
           prove
           a
           Statute
           ,
           is
           really
           but
           a
           
             meer
             Copy
          
           of
           some
           Bill
           that
           might
           in
           those
           daies
           be
           tendered
           to
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           but
           not
           passed
           ,
           is
           this
           :
           That
           in
           the
           third
           year
           of
           the
           same
           Kings
           Reign
           ,
           there
           was
           an
           Establishment
           setled
           of
           a
           certain
           power
           by
           a
           particular
           Statute
           to
           license
           such
           persons
           as
           were
           fit
           for
           the
           Practice
           of
           Physick
           in
           London
           and
           Parts
           about
           it
           ;
           which
           power
           was
           by
           that
           Statute
           lodged
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           Bishop
           of
           London
           ,
           or
           the
           Dean
           of
           St.
           Pauls
           ,
           and
           so
           ,
           a
           much
           better
           provision
           made
           for
           the
           Government
           of
           Physick
           than
           what
           is
           now
           pretended
           ,
           forasmuch
           as
           they
           were
           learned
           hands
           in
           whom
           the
           Trust
           was
           then
           reposed
           to
           judge
           of
           fit
           persons
           :
           and
           certainly
           those
           Trustees
           were
           more
           fit
           than
           the
           present
           Collegiate
           pretenders
           can
           be
           ,
           in
           regard
           they
           were
           not
           as
           these
           are
           ,
           parties
           in
           the
           profits
           of
           the
           Profession
           .
           And
           if
           any
           one
           should
           object
           ,
           that
           Bishops
           and
           Deans
           ,
           being
           busied
           about
           matters
           of
           a
           more
           Sacred
           importance
           ,
           
           are
           not
           like
           to
           be
           fit
           Judges
           of
           Physical
           Concerns
           ,
           as
           men
           bred
           up
           to
           the
           faculty
           may
           be
           ;
           I
           answer
           on
           the
           behalf
           of
           those
           
             Reverend
             Persons
          
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           raised
           to
           that
           dignity
           for
           their
           excellency
           of
           learning
           ;
           and
           if
           men
           who
           are
           to
           be
           Licensed
           ,
           do
           bring
           them
           good
           Certificates
           of
           their
           integrity
           of
           life
           ,
           and
           good
           success
           in
           their
           Practice
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           surest
           evidence
           of
           a
           mans
           Learning
           and
           knowledge
           proper
           for
           his
           faculty
           ,
           (
           nay
           it
           only
           is
           necessary
           ,
           and
           other
           kinds
           of
           Learning
           in
           a
           Physician
           ,
           but
           ornamental
           )
           then
           I
           suppose
           the
           trust
           is
           better
           reposed
           in
           Consciencious
           hands
           of
           those
           Learned
           and
           Reverend
           Fathers
           ;
           who
           are
           more
           like
           to
           deal
           impartially
           in
           approbation
           ,
           than
           men
           of
           our
           own
           profession
           ,
           who
           have
           given
           the
           world
           too
           great
           a
           proof
           of
           their
           appetite
           of
           domineering
           and
           devouring
           one
           another
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           their
           Brethren
           ,
           who
           like
           not
           their
           way
           nor
           their
           Society
           ;
           having
           abundant
           cause
           to
           decline
           them
           .
           —
           And
           here
           now
           (
           gentle
           Reader
           )
           if
           it
           were
           proper
           for
           me
           in
           this
           place
           ,
           it
           were
           a
           work
           worthy
           of
           your
           patience
           ,
           to
           let
           me
           clear
           up
           three
           particulars
           :
           1.
           
           That
           it
           is
           altogether
           impracticable
           among
           Physicians
           ,
           to
           set
           up
           any
           number
           of
           them
           to
           be
           Judges
           of
           their
           Brethren
           ,
           because
           there
           can
           be
           no
           certain
           Rules
           ;
           and
           if
           there
           be
           no
           Rules
           fixt
           to
           Judge
           by
           ,
           then
           those
           Judges
           are
           left
           to
           be
           Arbitrary
           ,
           and
           may
           reject
           or
           oppress
           whom
           they
           please
           ;
           but
           that
           there
           can
           be
           no
           Rules
           for
           this
           way
           of
           Judgement
           which
           may
           be
           grounded
           upon
           the
           faculty
           it self
           ,
           is
           evident
           by
           what
           wise
           Celsus
           saith
           in
           his
           Preface
           ,
           
             Est
             enim
             haec
             Ars
             Coniecturalis
             ;
             neque
             respondet
             ei
             plerumque
             non
             solum
             conjectura
             ,
             sed
             etiam
             
             experientia
             ;
             For
             ,
             this
             Art
             of
             ours
             is
             but
             Conjectural
             ,
             &
             for
             the
             most
             part
             not
             only
             our
             Conjecture
             ,
             but
             our
             former
             experience
             also
             doth
             fail
             us
             in
             the
             making
             of
             our
             Judgement
             ▪
          
           And
           to
           this
           concur
           also
           all
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           
             old
             Masters
          
           of
           the
           Art
           ,
           as
           I
           might
           demonstrate
           in
           their
           own
           expressions
           .
           And
           the
           Reason
           of
           it
           is
           sufficiently
           set
           forth
           by
           that
           great
           Philosopher
           of
           this
           latter
           Age
           ,
           my
           Lord
           Chancellor
           Bacon
           ,
           in
           his
           Book
           called
           
             The
             Advancement
             of
             Learning
          
           ;
           wherein
           he
           sets
           forth
           the
           wonderfull
           variety
           ,
           or
           different
           propriety
           of
           Temper
           that
           is
           in
           mens
           Bodies
           ,
           which
           occasioneth
           a
           great
           facility
           to
           error
           ;
           wherefore
           the
           Art
           is
           to
           be
           reckoned
           among
           
             Arts
             Conjectural
          
           ;
           and
           that
           it
           must
           therefore
           needs
           be
           
             but
             Conjectural
             ,
             because
             of
             the
             inconstancy
             and
             variety
             of
             the
             Subject
             .
          
           viz.
           
             man's
             Body
          
           .
           And
           he
           saith
           ,
           
             whereas
             all
             other
             Arts
             and
             Sciences
             are
             Judged
             by
             their
             power
             and
             operation
             ,
             not
             by
             their
             success
             or
             work
             ,
             only
             Physicians
             bear
             away
             honour
             or
             disgrace
             principally
             from
             the
             event
             ,
             which
             is
             ever
             an
             unequal
             Judicature
             :
             For
             ,
             Who
             can
             tell
             ,
             if
             a
             Patient
             die
             or
             recover
             ,
             whether
             it
             be
             by
             Accident
             or
             by
             Art
             ?
          
           So
           then
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           necessity
           from
           the
           Art
           it self
           ,
           why
           only
           Physicians
           ,
           and
           not
           other
           men
           ,
           should
           be
           Judges
           .
           2.
           
           It
           is
           utterly
           impossible
           ,
           unless
           men
           can
           be
           found
           out
           perfect
           in
           the
           knowledge
           of
           all
           that
           is
           knowable
           in
           Physick
           ,
           to
           make
           any
           number
           of
           them
           Judges
           over
           the
           rest
           .
           For
           ,
           whereas
           other
           professions
           of
           men
           are
           to
           be
           bounded
           ,
           having
           certain
           Rules
           to
           Judge
           by
           ;
           as
           the
           Divine
           hath
           the
           Sacred
           Scriptures
           ;
           the
           Lawyer
           certain
           Maxims
           ,
           Statutes
           and
           Customs
           ,
           whereby
           to
           steer
           his
           Course
           ;
           and
           so
           these
           Professions
           are
           with
           Reason
           made
           Incorporations
           ,
           exclusive
           of
           all
           other
           men
           from
           them
           :
           
           Only
           Physick
           is
           not
           alike
           capable
           ,
           because
           the
           received
           Rules
           of
           it
           are
           not
           
             aeternae
             veritatis
          
           ,
           i.
           e.
           
             not
             perpetual
          
           :
           so
           saith
           the
           same
           Celsus
           :
           so
           also
           saith
           dayly
           experience
           ,
           the
           Business
           of
           Physick
           being
           upon
           perpetual
           improvement
           ;
           and
           so
           will
           be
           (
           the
           Treasures
           of
           natural
           Subjects
           ,
           and
           the
           Reasons
           ,
           flowing
           from
           every
           fresh
           inquiry
           and
           discovery
           ,
           being
           inexhaustible
           ,
           and
           alterable
           ,
           )
           to
           the
           end
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           though
           all
           the
           hands
           and
           heads
           in
           the
           world
           were
           employed
           about
           it
           .
           —
           I
           my self
           have
           lived
           long
           enough
           (
           almost
           forty
           years
           acquainted
           with
           this
           Art
           )
           to
           see
           it
           by
           improvement
           in
           all
           points
           turned
           topsie-turvie
           ,
           the
           old
           Learning
           belonging
           to
           it
           exploded
           by
           Scholars
           themselves
           ,
           the
           old
           Education
           in
           Academies
           judged
           incompetent
           ,
           the
           places
           themselves
           being
           too
           narrow
           to
           afford
           much
           observation
           or
           experience
           ,
           and
           the
           manner
           of
           life
           more
           speculative
           and
           notional
           than
           Mechanick
           or
           laborious
           ,
           which
           a
           Physitian
           's
           ought
           to
           be
           ;
           for
           ,
           all
           notions
           of
           curing
           not
           derived
           from
           labour
           and
           practice
           ,
           are
           meer
           
             talkative
             vanities
          
           ;
           and
           be
           they
           dressed
           never
           so
           learnedly
           and
           quaint
           ,
           can
           only
           make
           a
           
             formal
             Doctor
          
           ,
           not
           a
           Physician
           ,
           at
           best
           but
           only
           the
           better
           fit
           him
           to
           be
           bound
           Prentice
           to
           some
           able
           Practiser
           in
           a
           populous
           City
           ,
           that
           under
           him
           he
           may
           work
           out
           his
           way
           ,
           to
           become
           
             indeed
             a
             Doctor
          
           .
           I
           have
           also
           lived
           to
           see
           divers
           medicines
           ,
           which
           ,
           at
           the
           first
           usage
           of
           them
           in
           the
           world
           ,
           were
           exclaimed
           against
           and
           condemned
           by
           their
           Colledg-men
           ,
           as
           noyous
           and
           hurtful
           to
           the
           Kings
           Subjects
           ,
           to
           be
           now
           found
           of
           so
           much
           good
           use
           ,
           beyond
           the
           remedies
           of
           former
           time
           ,
           that
           in
           a
           little
           while
           they
           have
           convinced
           
           the
           obstinate
           coudemners
           ,
           and
           the
           very
           same
           are
           now
           printed
           by
           themselves
           in
           their
           Pharmacopeia
           for
           publick
           use
           ;
           and
           in
           many
           difficult
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           common
           Cases
           ,
           because
           but
           few
           of
           the
           Collegiate
           Rulers
           are
           acquainted
           with
           any
           other
           improvements
           ,
           they
           rely
           on
           them
           as
           their
           great
           Arcanaes
           And
           no
           question
           but
           ere
           20
           ,
           or
           40
           ,
           years
           more
           be
           past
           ,
           so
           great
           a
           Spirit
           being
           now
           up
           and
           at
           work
           ,
           for
           furthrr
           and
           further
           improvement
           among
           the
           
             working
             Physicians
          
           ,
           even
           those
           very
           Remedies
           which
           are
           now
           to
           be
           magnified
           as
           the
           greatest
           ,
           will
           ere
           long
           also
           be
           judged
           far
           inferior
           ,
           and
           give
           place
           to
           others
           that
           will
           be
           of
           a
           more
           noble
           attainment
           .
           What
           a
           mischief
           then
           must
           it
           needs
           be
           ,
           if
           any
           number
           of
           
             Academian
             Thinkers
          
           should
           successively
           be
           translated
           still
           to
           London
           ,
           and
           there
           be
           setled
           with
           power
           by
           Law
           ,
           to
           be
           Arbitrators
           over
           other
           Physicians
           of
           a
           more
           laborious
           and
           practical
           Course
           of
           Studie
           ;
           whose
           Coals
           they
           are
           scarce
           worthy
           to
           carry
           ,
           unless
           it
           be
           to
           learn
           under
           them
           how
           to
           make
           effectual
           ,
           safe
           ,
           and
           pleasant
           Physick
           !
           On
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           what
           a
           happiness
           would
           it
           be
           ,
           if
           the
           
             reverend
             Church-men
          
           would
           consider
           these
           things
           ,
           and
           what
           Authorty
           hath
           been
           intrusted
           in
           them
           only
           by
           Law
           ,
           for
           the
           approvement
           of
           Physicians
           ,
           and
           the
           prevention
           of
           that
           Tyranny
           which
           the
           more
           idle
           and
           formal
           speculators
           of
           Physick
           ,
           have
           hitherto
           exercised
           over
           the
           industrious
           practical
           Physicians
           ,
           under
           pretence
           of
           Law
           ;
           and
           thereby
           strangled
           (
           as
           much
           as
           in
           them
           lay
           )
           time
           after
           time
           ,
           their
           worthy
           endeavours
           for
           the
           advancement
           of
           Science
           !
           For
           ,
           it
           is
           still
           to
           be
           presumed
           ,
           the
           
           reverend
           Bishops
           are
           the
           only
           Trustees
           in
           the
           Law
           concerning
           this
           matter
           ,
           seeing
           their
           Statute
           of
           the
           third
           of
           Henry
           8th
           was
           never
           yet
           so
           much
           as
           doubted
           of
           ,
           as
           this
           pretended
           one
           of
           the
           Collegiates
           of
           the
           14th
           hath
           been
           ,
           and
           in
           Court
           divers
           times
           rejected
           .
           Besides
           ,
           it
           is
           apparent
           enough
           ,
           to
           any
           one
           that
           considers
           the
           whole
           course
           of
           proceeding
           in
           Parliament
           ;
           which
           is
           ,
           when
           they
           make
           a
           Law
           for
           a
           new
           establishing
           of
           any
           thing
           ,
           alwaies
           to
           repeal
           the
           former
           Law
           that
           had
           appointed
           another
           of
           a
           contrary
           nature
           .
           How
           then
           can
           we
           believe
           ,
           a
           Parliament
           could
           forget
           it self
           so
           far
           ,
           as
           to
           form
           a
           Law
           to
           remove
           the
           first
           power
           of
           licensing
           Practisers
           of
           Physick
           out
           of
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           Clergie
           ,
           into
           other
           hands
           ,
           and
           yet
           the
           latter
           supposed
           Law
           not
           contain
           so
           much
           as
           one
           word
           of
           repealing
           the
           former
           ;
           Certainly
           ,
           't
           is
           more
           rationall
           to
           suppose
           ,
           that
           (
           whatever
           hath
           been
           pretended
           )
           the
           Parliament
           did
           indeed
           never
           pass
           the
           Bill
           proposed
           ,
           seeing
           it
           would
           have
           been
           a
           strange
           thing
           so
           to
           have
           left
           Physicians
           at
           an
           uncertainty
           for
           licensing
           ,
           as
           they
           must
           needs
           be
           if
           both
           were
           Statutes
           in
           force
           ,
           and
           the
           power
           divided
           betwixt
           the
           Clergie
           and
           Colledg
           .
           If
           Physicians
           then
           have
           a
           mind
           to
           be
           Licensed
           ,
           their
           surest
           way
           and
           most
           unquestionably
           Legall
           ,
           is
           to
           do
           as
           I
           have
           done
           long
           since
           take
           a
           License
           from
           the
           Clergie
           ;
           by
           which
           and
           my
           other
           Advantages
           in
           Law
           I
           question
           not
           to
           be
           abundantly
           able
           ,
           to
           justifie
           my self
           self
           and
           my
           practice
           ,
           against
           my
           malicious
           persecutors
           .
        
         
           A
           
             Fourth
             Circumstance
          
           that
           may
           lead
           a
           man
           to
           believe
           it
           no
           Statute
           ,
           ariseth
           by
           the
           success
           of
           the
           late
           
           grand
           attempt
           ,
           which
           the
           Colledge-men
           made
           in
           the
           year
           1663.
           when
           they
           presented
           an
           Address
           unto
           this
           Parliament
           now
           in
           being
           ,
           to
           pass
           a
           Bill
           they
           had
           prepared
           ,
           not
           only
           for
           confirmation
           of
           the
           Powers
           contained
           in
           their
           former
           supposed
           Statute
           ,
           but
           for
           enlargement
           of
           them
           also
           to
           such
           a
           monstrous
           magnitude
           as
           is
           almost
           incredible
           ;
           insomuch
           that
           the
           honourable
           Committee
           ,
           to
           whom
           the
           house
           of
           Commons
           had
           referred
           the
           Bill
           ,
           and
           thereupon
           to
           report
           to
           the
           house
           their
           Opinion
           ,
           after
           a
           full
           hearing
           of
           the
           Counsel
           that
           appeared
           for
           all
           parties
           ,
           both
           Physicians
           and
           others
           ,
           were
           so
           well
           satisfied
           of
           the
           monstrosity
           of
           their
           demands
           ,
           that
           they
           dismissed
           the
           Colledge-men
           ,
           
             re
             infecta
          
           ,
           who
           retuned
           home
           with
           a
           flea
           in
           their
           ears
           and
           have
           ever
           since
           been
           wondrous
           quiet
           ,
           till
           of
           late
           ,
           upon
           pretence
           of
           I
           know
           not
           what
           new
           Chimaeraes
           ,
           they
           begin
           again
           to
           be
           troublesome
           ;
           yea
           ,
           I
           have
           been
           informed
           ,
           that
           after
           the
           Committee
           had
           had
           many
           daies
           patience
           ,
           to
           admit
           a
           full
           Scrutiny
           into
           the
           nature
           of
           their
           Cause
           ,
           there
           appeared
           on
           the
           last
           day
           none
           on
           the
           Colledge
           side
           but
           two
           of
           their
           own
           fellows
           ,
           who
           had
           on
           this
           occasion
           acted
           as
           Sollicitors
           ;
           so
           that
           one
           of
           the
           Lawyers
           employed
           by
           the
           defendants
           ,
           had
           the
           pleasure
           to
           observe
           ,
           how
           ill
           a
           Cause
           it
           was
           ,
           seeing
           their
           own
           Lawyers
           declined
           to
           appear
           any
           more
           in
           the
           Business
           .
           So
           there
           was
           an
           end
           of
           it
           ,
           all
           being
           dismissed
           by
           the
           honourable
           Committee
           .
           Yet
           the
           men
           do
           boast
           ,
           and
           would
           give
           the
           Parliament
           (
           as
           I
           hear
           )
           new
           trouble
           :
           But
           't
           is
           possible
           ,
           others
           may
           be
           beforehand
           with
           them
           there
           ,
           with
           Reasons
           to
           desire
           a
           Reformation
           ,
           and
           to
           remonstrate
           the
           miserable
           
           estate
           ,
           into
           which
           Physicians
           ,
           and
           the
           Art
           it self
           ,
           have
           in
           all
           times
           been
           reduced
           ,
           and
           would
           be
           in
           the
           future
           for
           want
           of
           improvement
           ,
           if
           those
           men
           might
           have
           their
           way
           of
           domination
           .
           I
           can
           here
           challenge
           them
           ,
           and
           do
           ,
           in
           the
           view
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           to
           nominate
           any
           one
           particular
           of
           improvement
           ,
           that
           their
           Society
           hath
           made
           in
           the
           Art
           of
           curing
           ,
           since
           their
           first
           Incorporation
           ,
           and
           I
           will
           prove
           the
           contrary
           .
           As
           for
           their
           pretensions
           of
           discoveries
           in
           Anatomie
           ,
           if
           they
           insist
           upon
           them
           ,
           I
           am
           readie
           to
           prove
           ,
           they
           have
           done
           nothing
           in
           all
           their
           
             Anatomick
             Theatres
          
           ,
           which
           may
           conduce
           to
           better
           Cure
           ;
           and
           no
           more
           than
           what
           may
           serve
           the
           
           Salta-di-Banco's
           upon
           a
           Stage
           ,
           it
           being
           the
           last
           part
           they
           have
           to
           play
           ,
           or
           trick
           to
           shew
           ,
           to
           entertain
           Spectators
           ,
           and
           amuse
           the
           world
           ,
           to
           uphold
           some
           Repute
           among
           such
           as
           are
           ignorant
           ;
           and
           draw
           on
           Customers
           ;
           so
           that
           it
           is
           wonderfull
           to
           see
           how
           many
           ,
           even
           of
           the
           Nobility
           ,
           and
           Gentry
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Citizens
           ,
           are
           taken
           by
           this
           sort
           of
           trick
           ,
           the
           Mock-shews
           of
           pretended
           discovery
           by
           Anatomy
           .
           But
           how
           little
           is
           to
           be
           expected
           from
           such
           Actors
           ,
           that
           honourable
           Gentleman
           Mr.
           Boyle
           tells
           you
           ,
           in
           his
           Book
           of
           
             Experimental
             Philosophy
          
           ,
           where
           he
           saith
           he
           doth
           not
           see
           wherein
           
             by
             any
             of
             those
             new
             discoveries
             ,
             any
             thing
             hath
             been
             done
             ,
             to
             better
             the
             Cure
             of
             Diseases
             .
          
           You
           may
           take
           his
           word
           :
           And
           if
           the
           Masters
           of
           the
           stage
           please
           to
           justifie
           themselves
           ,
           I
           will
           in
           publick
           ,
           evidence
           they
           have
           done
           nothing
           by
           it
           worth
           a
           straw
           ,
           beyond
           what
           was
           done
           by
           the
           Antients
           .
           Yet
           know
           withal
           ,
           I
           reverence
           so
           much
           of
           Anatomie
           as
           is
           necessary
           :
           and
           half
           a
           years
           time
           spent
           in
           it
           is
           enough
           to
           fit
           any
           Physician
           
           or
           Chirurgian
           for
           practice
           .
           The
           
             new
             Nicities
          
           serve
           for
           nought
           but
           ostentation
           and
           discourse
           .
           But
           as
           for
           noble
           Medicaments
           ,
           the
           Rulers
           and
           Leaders
           among
           them
           ,
           have
           (
           I
           will
           make
           it
           evident
           ,
           by
           almost
           forty
           years
           observation
           )
           made
           it
           their
           business
           to
           stifle
           ,
           or
           else
           discredit
           them
           ,
           and
           discourage
           the
           Practisers
           or
           downright
           abuse
           and
           vex
           them
           under
           pretence
           of
           law
           ;
           though
           these
           are
           the
           sort
           of
           men
           ,
           to
           whom
           the
           world
           have
           in
           this
           Age
           been
           obliged
           (
           as
           I
           can
           by
           instances
           make
           appear
           )
           for
           the
           delicacie
           ,
           easiness
           ,
           and
           improvement
           of
           Medicine
           .
           But
           I
           would
           not
           be
           too
           large
           ,
           to
           tire
           the
           Reader
           ;
           therefore
           I
           proceed
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           Their
           
             Second
             pretence
          
           of
           Suit
           against
           me
           is
           ,
           that
           I
           am
           a
           Chymist
           .
           This
           some
           persons
           have
           told
           me
           that
           had
           it
           from
           some
           of
           their
           own
           mouths
           .
           Upon
           this
           Point
           I
           answer
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           my
           glory
           to
           be
           a
           Chymist
           ;
           though
           among
           some
           ignorant
           of
           all
           Science
           ;
           and
           others
           not
           skilled
           in
           this
           ,
           it
           is
           hardly
           thought
           of
           ;
           and
           the
           only
           reason
           is
           this
           ,
           because
           the
           other
           sort
           of
           Physicians
           ,
           and
           their
           Agents
           ,
           being
           either
           wholly
           ignorant
           ,
           or
           at
           best
           but
           dablers
           in
           it
           ,
           do
           count
           it
           their
           interest
           to
           cry
           out
           and
           clamor
           against
           it
           to
           fright
           the
           weaker
           persons
           ,
           lest
           the
           experience
           of
           its
           excellency
           ,
           should
           detect
           their
           own
           ignorance
           and
           insufficiency
           ,
           and
           thereby
           annihilate
           their
           reputation
           and
           profit
           among
           the
           People
           .
           But
           they
           may
           do
           well
           to
           remember
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           beginning
           of
           the
           year
           1665
           when
           some
           worthy
           Physicians
           endeavoured
           ,
           and
           had
           countenance
           from
           many
           of
           the
           chiefest
           of
           the
           Nobility
           ,
           who
           gave
           their
           approbation
           to
           an
           
             instrument
             in
             writing
             under
             their
             hands
             ,
          
           for
           the
           erecting
           of
           
             a
             new
             Society
             
             of
             Physicians
          
           for
           the
           advancement
           of
           Physick
           by
           Chymical
           Medicaments
           and
           Practice
           ,
           as
           
             easiest
             ,
             safest
             ,
             and
             most
             effectual
          
           for
           Cure
           of
           his
           Majesties
           Subjects
           ,
           one
           of
           the
           Arts
           then
           used
           by
           the
           Collegiates
           ,
           to
           prevent
           the
           setting
           up
           of
           this
           Society
           ,
           was
           ,
           immediately
           to
           put
           on
           a
           pretence
           ,
           that
           they
           also
           are
           Chymists
           ,
           and
           make
           and
           use
           those
           Remedies
           as
           much
           as
           any
           ;
           and
           this
           pretence
           they
           sometimes
           take
           up
           when
           they
           happen
           to
           be
           conversant
           among
           any
           ingenious
           persons
           that
           are
           knowing
           in
           this
           Art
           :
           But
           on
           the
           other
           hand
           ,
           if
           they
           chance
           to
           light
           into
           Practice
           among
           people
           ignorant
           of
           the
           Art
           ,
           and
           who
           also
           are
           either
           religiously
           ,
           or
           naturally
           melancholy
           ,
           and
           consequently
           timerous
           ,
           suspitious
           ,
           and
           apt
           to
           entertain
           their
           Suggestions
           ,
           then
           they
           work
           on
           the
           
             dark
             side
          
           ,
           secretly
           whisper
           and
           blaspheme
           this
           noble
           way
           of
           Medicine
           ,
           as
           dangerous
           ,
           and
           as
           such
           that
           though
           it
           cure
           one
           disease
           at
           present
           ,
           yet
           it
           leaves
           a
           root
           of
           ill
           behind
           ,
           which
           after
           long
           time
           ,
           if
           not
           shortly
           ,
           springs
           up
           into
           the
           same
           or
           some
           worse
           disease
           ,
           so
           that
           by
           such
           little
           Arts
           as
           these
           ,
           they
           and
           their
           Agents
           do
           play
           on
           both
           sides
           ,
           to
           uphold
           a
           tottering
           Reputation
           ;
           which
           is
           now
           almost
           down
           ,
           and
           will
           be
           quite
           ere
           long
           ;
           the
           eyes
           of
           the
           world
           being
           opened
           every
           day
           more
           and
           more
           to
           discover
           them
           ,
           and
           the
           Mystery
           of
           their
           Craft
           .
           In
           this
           matter
           know
           ,
           I
           do
           not
           include
           all
           of
           that
           Society
           ;
           but
           't
           is
           the
           usual
           practice
           of
           a
           prevailing
           party
           among
           those
           few
           fellows
           thereof
           who
           rule
           all
           .
           And
           now
           ,
           seeing
           I
           so
           often
           mention
           
             that
             Society
          
           ,
           know
           that
           the
           Government
           of
           it
           is
           not
           managed
           by
           the
           ablest
           and
           the
           most
           learned
           :
           
           But
           by
           such
           as
           grow
           up
           in
           Seniority
           of
           entrance
           as
           Fellows
           ,
           be
           they
           wise
           or
           unwise
           .
           And
           to
           shew
           the
           world
           how
           much
           a
           few
           do
           affect
           Domination
           over
           the
           vast
           multitude
           of
           their
           Brethren
           ,
           generally
           more
           learned
           than
           themselves
           ,
           be
           pleased
           to
           consider
           that
           only
           the
           set
           number
           of
           men
           called
           Fellows
           ,
           do
           look
           upon
           themselves
           alone
           to
           be
           the
           Colledge
           ,
           and
           all
           others
           must
           truckle
           under
           ,
           by
           the
           names
           of
           Candidate
           ,
           or
           Licentiate
           .
           Only
           (
           forsooth
           )
           a
           new
           Project
           was
           lately
           laid
           for
           a
           
             Feather
             in
             the
             Cap
          
           ,
           by
           the
           name
           of
           honorary
           ,
           to
           be
           conferred
           upon
           some
           out-liers
           in
           Town
           ,
           and
           new-comers
           from
           the
           Universities
           ,
           that
           had
           repute
           for
           Learning
           :
           And
           this
           contrivance
           was
           made
           ,
           not
           out
           of
           love
           to
           the
           mens
           merits
           ,
           but
           merely
           for
           fear
           lest
           these
           should
           make
           a
           Secess
           to
           Mount
           Aventine
           ,
           and
           set
           up
           for
           a
           
             popular
             Rebellion
          
           ,
           in
           some
           free
           Society
           ,
           against
           the
           
             Senate
             of
             the
             Colledge
          
           .
           For
           ,
           the
           number
           of
           Physicians
           flocking
           to
           London
           being
           very
           great
           ,
           it
           was
           by
           them
           thought
           meet
           to
           train
           as
           many
           of
           them
           as
           they
           could
           ,
           into
           a
           dependence
           (
           forsooth
           )
           upon
           the
           Colledge
           :
           But
           how
           ?
           Not
           to
           be
           Fellows
           or
           Sharers
           in
           the
           Reglement
           of
           the
           Society
           ;
           but
           as
           
             things
             tack't
             to
          
           ,
           or
           meer
           
             hangers
             on
          
           ,
           pleased
           with
           a
           Rattle
           ,
           and
           called
           
             honorary
             fellows
          
           ,
           which
           is
           a
           Title
           only
           a
           little
           more
           plausible
           than
           the
           poor
           word
           Licentiates
           ;
           for
           ,
           their
           piteous
           Priviledge
           thereby
           is
           no
           more
           ,
           than
           what
           is
           enjoyed
           by
           meer
           Licenciates
           ;
           which
           is
           ,
           to
           have
           the
           favor
           (
           in
           sooth
           )
           of
           free
           Practice
           among
           their
           Worships
           ,
           but
           not
           a
           bit
           of
           interest
           in
           the
           Lordship
           and
           Authority
           ;
           that
           is
           meat
           for
           their
           Masters
           .
           When
           I
           look
           over
           the
           new
           List
           of
           Honoraries
           ,
           
           what
           a
           shame
           is
           it
           ,
           think
           I
           ,
           that
           men
           of
           better
           learning
           and
           repute
           ,
           should
           be
           content
           to
           be
           made
           
             mere
             properties
          
           ,
           and
           no
           part
           of
           the
           Party
           !
           And
           now
           what
           (
           I
           pray
           you
           )
           shall
           become
           of
           all
           the
           rest
           ?
           Here
           are
           still
           in
           London
           ,
           abundance
           of
           Physicians
           more
           ;
           some
           broke
           loose
           from
           the
           
             Non-conforming
             Ministry
          
           ,
           others
           from
           the
           Universities
           here
           ,
           or
           from
           beyond-Sea
           ,
           in
           the
           habit
           of
           Doctors
           :
           and
           these
           (
           I
           hear
           )
           have
           many
           of
           them
           offered
           themselves
           to
           be
           herded
           also
           in
           the
           Colledge
           :
           But
           it
           seems
           ,
           all
           their
           Truckling
           will
           not
           do
           ;
           the
           Sanctorum
           must
           not
           be
           made
           too
           common
           ,
           nor
           the
           Commons
           be
           over-stock't
           ,
           and
           therefore
           they
           ,
           for
           their
           pittifull
           petitions
           of
           Address
           ,
           are
           left
           to
           champ
           upon
           a
           denial
           ,
           and
           graze
           among
           the
           Vulgar
           .
        
         
           This
           Mystery
           being
           opened
           ,
           't
           is
           time
           to
           return
           where
           I
           left
           ;
           that
           is
           ,
           to
           tell
           you
           what
           became
           of
           the
           new
           Society
           of
           Physicians
           ,
           which
           ,
           so
           many
           of
           the
           Nobility
           and
           
             prime
             Gentry
          
           subscribed
           unto
           ,
           as
           most
           necessary
           to
           be
           erected
           in
           the
           year
           1665.
           know
           ,
           that
           the
           great
           Plague
           then
           befalling
           this
           Noble
           City
           ,
           the
           design
           for
           that
           time
           was
           of
           necessity
           laid
           aside
           ,
           though
           most
           of
           its
           Members
           did
           stay
           in
           Town
           ,
           while
           most
           of
           the
           Collegiates
           ran
           away
           ,
           except
           Dr.
           Wharton
           and
           three
           or
           four
           of
           the
           Novices
           ;
           to
           shew
           how
           well
           they
           deserve
           henceforth
           to
           be
           called
           
             The
             Colledge
             of
             Physicians
             of
             London
             .
          
        
         
           Before
           I
           leave
           the
           Subject
           of
           Chymistry
           ,
           I
           have
           only
           a
           short
           word
           to
           add
           in
           defence
           of
           this
           
             Queen
             of
             Arts
          
           ;
           which
           is
           the
           Mother
           not
           only
           of
           the
           noblest
           Physick
           ,
           but
           of
           abundance
           of
           other
           Inventions
           the
           
           most
           useful
           for
           Mankind
           ;
           of
           which
           a
           large
           Catalogue
           might
           be
           given
           ,
           if
           it
           were
           fit
           to
           be
           more
           copious
           .
           But
           what
           I
           have
           to
           say
           is
           ,
           if
           any
           ill
           ever
           happened
           thereby
           ,
           it
           is
           no
           otherwise
           than
           what
           is
           usual
           by
           use
           of
           the
           common
           Medicines
           ,
           when
           they
           are
           prepared
           by
           ignorant
           ,
           careless
           ,
           or
           knavish
           hands
           ;
           whereas
           ,
           Remedies
           well
           prepared
           by
           Art
           Chymical
           ,
           do
           seem
           to
           be
           as
           the
           
             hands
             of
             God
          
           reached
           down
           from
           Heaven
           in
           this
           latter
           Age
           ,
           in
           exceeding
           mercy
           to
           poor
           man
           ,
           when
           his
           iniquities
           have
           so
           altered
           the
           whole
           Scene
           of
           diseases
           ,
           that
           in
           every
           one
           almost
           there
           is
           a
           touch
           of
           that
           which
           Hippocrates
           called
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           ,
           Somewhat
           that
           is
           admirable
           or
           extraordinary
           ,
           which
           makes
           them
           exceedingly
           different
           from
           what
           they
           were
           in
           the
           daies
           of
           him
           ,
           or
           Galen
           ;
           and
           indeed
           ,
           from
           what
           they
           were
           a
           hundred
           years
           ago
           ,
           and
           less
           ;
           so
           that
           the
           old
           Art
           and
           Remedies
           are
           insufficient
           to
           deal
           with
           them
           .
           And
           therefore
           from
           hence
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           the
           Society
           of
           Apothecaries
           of
           London
           have
           wisely
           undertaken
           and
           executed
           a
           design
           most
           laudable
           ,
           to
           supply
           the
           defect
           ,
           and
           answer
           publick
           necessity
           ,
           by
           erecting
           a
           
             grand
             Laboratory
          
           and
           Repository
           in
           their
           
             Publick
             Hall
          
           ,
           for
           
             Chymick
             Medicaments
          
           ;
           to
           have
           them
           there
           ready
           made
           ,
           of
           all
           sorts
           ,
           to
           prevent
           fraud
           in
           the
           Shops
           of
           
             private
             Operators
          
           (
           who
           have
           been
           wont
           heretofore
           to
           be
           (
           for
           the
           most
           part
           )
           the
           only
           Preparers
           for
           common
           Sale
           )
           and
           to
           answer
           the
           Prescripts
           of
           such
           Physicians
           as
           understand
           the
           use
           of
           them
           ;
           who
           may
           now
           be
           confident
           of
           having
           them
           good
           there
           (
           and
           at
           one
           rate
           or
           price
           common
           to
           all
           men
           )
           upon
           the
           Publick
           faith
           and
           honour
           of
           the
           
             whole
             Company
          
           ,
           rather
           than
           from
           the
           hand
           of
           any
           
             private
             Sales-men
          
           .
        
         
         
           And
           whereas
           the
           common
           mistake
           of
           people
           is
           ,
           when
           
             Chymical
             Medicines
          
           are
           named
           ,
           that
           thereby
           are
           meant
           only
           
             Mineral
             Medicines
          
           ,
           with
           the
           fear
           of
           which
           the
           malicious
           idle
           ignorant
           Physicians
           have
           bug-bear'd
           them
           often
           ;
           know
           ,
           that
           though
           most
           admirable
           Remedies
           are
           made
           out
           of
           
             Minerals
             ▪
          
           and
           Metalls
           well
           prepared
           ,
           to
           cure
           many
           strange
           diseases
           ,
           which
           other
           Remedies
           will
           not
           ,
           and
           are
           as
           safe
           for
           use
           as
           milk
           it self
           ,
           (
           and
           indeed
           only
           safe
           ,
           because
           all
           other
           ,
           being
           in
           such
           Cases
           insufficient
           ,
           are
           for
           that
           Cause
           most
           dangerous
           )
           yet
           no
           men
           do
           use
           the
           parts
           of
           Animals
           and
           Plants
           ,
           and
           Salts
           ,
           more
           than
           the
           
             Chymists
             do
          
           ;
           but
           exceedingly
           more
           to
           the
           purpose
           ,
           being
           Chymically
           prepared
           ;
           because
           by
           this
           Art
           they
           are
           made
           to
           cure
           abundance
           of
           obstinate
           diseases
           ,
           which
           they
           can
           never
           effect
           ,
           if
           prepared
           the
           Galenical
           way
           :
           &
           for
           proof
           of
           this
           ,
           I
           could
           run
           over
           a
           whole
           field
           of
           Instances
           ,
           if
           it
           were
           not
           too
           tedious
           .
           But
           to
           end
           this
           particular
           ,
           let
           it
           suffice
           to
           tell
           you
           ,
           that
           't
           is
           the
           glory
           of
           Chymistry
           ,
           to
           have
           contributed
           in
           a
           few
           years
           ,
           more
           to
           manifestation
           of
           the
           vertues
           of
           Plants
           ,
           Animals
           ,
           and
           Salts
           ,
           than
           all
           the
           Sectators
           of
           Aristotle
           and
           Galen
           ,
           have
           done
           from
           their
           times
           to
           this
           day
           :
           which
           is
           the
           reason
           why
           many
           
             Chymical
             Practisers
          
           do
           seldom
           use
           other
           ,
           unless
           there
           be
           a
           necessity
           .
           On
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           't
           is
           observed
           in
           the
           practice
           of
           our
           Adversaries
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           most
           frequent
           even
           when
           there
           is
           no
           necessity
           in
           the
           use
           of
           the
           common
           Chymical
           Mineral
           Medicaments
           set
           down
           in
           their
           Pharmacopeia
           ;
           which
           are
           things
           of
           but
           the
           
             lowest
             form
             in
             Chymistry
          
           ,
           and
           neglected
           by
           knowing
           men
           in
           this
           Age
           of
           Improvement
           ;
           
           yet
           used
           by
           those
           our
           Masters
           ,
           as
           their
           
             ultimum
             Refugium
          
           ,
           upon
           every
           little
           puzzle
           in
           their
           Practice
           ,
           and
           as
           their
           grand
           Arcanaes
           .
           Whereas
           I
           remember
           their
           Predecessors
           were
           wont
           to
           cry
           out
           upon
           them
           ,
           and
           damn
           all
           the
           growing
           Practisers
           who
           in
           those
           daies
           durst
           use
           them
           ,
           as
           dangerous
           ,
           and
           enemies
           to
           the
           health
           of
           mankind
           ;
           though
           every
           dayes
           experience
           did
           manifest
           that
           they
           then
           condemned
           what
           they
           understood
           not
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           produced
           such
           notable
           effects
           in
           curing
           ,
           as
           could
           not
           be
           attained
           by
           the
           old
           Remedies
           ,
           in
           the
           most
           deplorable
           Diseases
           .
           Nor
           have
           matters
           gone
           thus
           only
           in
           London
           ,
           to
           the
           discouragement
           of
           all
           the
           most
           usefull
           Laborers
           in
           this
           Faculty
           ;
           but
           should
           I
           revolve
           and
           repeat
           the
           History
           of
           time
           past
           ,
           from
           the
           time
           of
           Paracelsus
           ;
           how
           he
           was
           abused
           by
           Erastus
           ,
           and
           by
           almost
           all
           the
           Academian
           Professors
           throughout
           Germany
           ;
           and
           how
           tyrannically
           that
           sort
           of
           men
           behaved
           themselves
           towards
           him
           ;
           and
           afterwards
           how
           they
           ,
           in
           most
           of
           the
           Universities
           and
           great
           Cities
           of
           Europe
           ,
           persecuted
           his
           very
           memory
           ,
           and
           all
           such
           as
           being
           enlightned
           by
           his
           Labors
           did
           follow
           his
           way
           ,
           for
           discovery
           of
           better
           Medicine
           ,
           down
           to
           the
           year
           1603
           ;
           at
           which
           time
           the
           laborious
           famous
           Quercetan
           ,
           and
           Sr.
           
             Tbeodore
             de
             Mayerne
          
           ,
           were
           both
           of
           them
           in
           two
           several
           publick
           Sentences
           of
           the
           Academian
           Professors
           ,
           and
           whole
           Colledge
           of
           Physicians
           in
           Paris
           ,
           printed
           by
           their
           Order
           ,
           condemned
           ,
           and
           in
           positive
           terms
           the
           
             whole
             Art
             it self
             of
             Chymistry
          
           ,
           as
           men
           not
           only
           unworthy
           to
           be
           consulted
           with
           by
           the
           Physicians
           of
           that
           Colledge
           :
           especially
           Mayerne
           ,
           declaring
           him
           
             an
             unlearned
             ,
             
             impudent
             ,
             drunken
             mad
             fellow
             ;
             exhorting
             all
             Nations
             to
             abominate
             them
             both
             ,
             and
             banish
             them
             and
             the
             like
             practisers
             ,
             out
             of
             their
             Territories
             as
             Monsters
             of
             mankind
             :
          
           And
           threatning
           all
           the
           fellows
           of
           that
           Colledge
           ,
           that
           
             if
             they
             consult
             with
             either
             of
             them
             about
             any
             Patient
             ,
             they
             shall
             be
             deprived
             of
             all
             priviledge
             belonging
             to
             their
             Colledge
             .
          
           Which
           is
           also
           at
           this
           day
           one
           great
           mystery
           made
           use
           of
           by
           our
           London-Collegiates
           ;
           whereby
           they
           resolve
           to
           correspond
           only
           with
           each
           other
           ,
           in
           hope
           to
           ingross
           the
           Trade
           among
           themselves
           ;
           supposing
           the
           
             name
             of
             a
             Colledge
          
           must
           needs
           carry
           away
           the
           reputation
           from
           all
           other
           Physicians
           ,
           if
           they
           deny
           (
           upon
           occasion
           )
           to
           consult
           with
           them
           ,
           
             because
             they
             are
             none
             of
             the
             Colledge
             .
          
           O
           fine
           Confederacy
           !
           now
           good
           people
           look
           to
           your
           Purses
           .
           But
           what
           I
           pray
           you
           became
           of
           Quercetan
           and
           Mayerne
           after
           this
           ?
           You
           may
           read
           their
           Sentences
           published
           at
           large
           ,
           in
           that
           unanswerable
           Book
           called
           
             Medela
             Medicinae
          
           ;
           which
           was
           written
           by
           Dr.
           
             Marchamont
             Nedham
          
           ,
           eleven
           years
           ago
           ;
           where
           he
           tells
           you
           ,
           
             that
             for
             all
             this
             ,
             the
             one
             of
             those
             Condemned
             persons
             became
             famous
             in
          
           France
           ,
           
             the
             Kings
             Chief
             Physician
             ,
             and
             lived
             to
             see
             that
             Colledge
             repent
             of
             their
             folly
             ,
             and
             their
             Successors
             become
             admirers
             of
             those
             Chymical
             Books
             and
             Remedies
             which
             they
             had
             so
             rashly
             damned
             .
             The
             other
             ,
          
           (
           viz.
           Mayerne
           )
           
             became
             Physician
             to
             two
             Kings
             of
          
           England
           ,
           
             and
             two
             of
          
           France
           ,
           
             and
             left
             a
             name
             of
             great
             wealth
             and
             honour
             behind
             him
             .
          
           Now
           by
           these
           things
           you
           may
           understand
           ,
           what
           a
           wondrous
           precious
           thing
           an
           
             All-wise
             Colledge
          
           may
           be
           in
           any
           Noble
           City
           ;
           and
           what
           Advancers
           of
           the
           Art
           of
           Curing
           ,
           if
           either
           damning
           and
           suppressing
           laborious
           Improvers
           ,
           
           or
           the
           inthroning
           of
           Arrogance
           ,
           and
           such
           a
           course
           of
           Study
           and
           sort
           of
           Learning
           as
           is
           impertinent
           to
           Physick
           ,
           can
           effect
           it
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           The
           
             third
             Pretence
             is
          
           ,
           because
           I
           am
           not
           one
           of
           or
           with
           their
           Colledge
           .
           I
           confess
           I
           am
           not
           ,
           nor
           will
           I
           ever
           be
           ,
           There
           are
           good
           store
           of
           the
           best
           Physians
           about
           Town
           that
           are
           of
           the
           same
           mind
           ;
           and
           they
           have
           their
           Reasons
           for
           it
           ,
           which
           (
           upon
           occasion
           )
           they
           will
           produce
           :
           I
           also
           have
           my
           Reasons
           ,
           part
           of
           which
           may
           be
           pickt
           out
           of
           what
           I
           have
           already
           said
           .
           And
           to
           accept
           a
           License
           from
           them
           ,
           is
           to
           acknowledge
           a
           power
           which
           I
           am
           not
           satisfied
           they
           have
           ,
           or
           ought
           to
           have
           ;
           seeing
           that
           if
           (
           as
           I
           said
           before
           )
           we
           revolve
           the
           transactions
           of
           time
           past
           ,
           t
           is
           to
           be
           found
           upon
           Record
           ,
           that
           such
           
             Collegiate
             Establishments
          
           or
           Corporations
           of
           Physick
           ,
           have
           been
           the
           great
           hinderers
           of
           the
           progress
           of
           this
           Art
           throughout
           all
           Europe
           ,
           and
           still
           are
           ;
           which
           hath
           made
           the
           most
           ingenious
           Scholars
           which
           are
           Laborers
           and
           Inquirers
           ,
           in
           the
           Universities
           and
           Capital
           Cities
           of
           all
           the
           Countries
           where
           I
           have
           travelled
           ,
           sigh
           and
           swell
           with
           indignation
           ,
           to
           see
           how
           their
           most
           laudable
           endeavours
           are
           discountenanced
           ,
           and
           calumniated
           by
           that
           sort
           of
           Medicasters
           ,
           because
           they
           out-do
           ,
           and
           shame
           them
           by
           diligence
           ;
           and
           ,
           't
           is
           to
           be
           lamented
           there
           hath
           been
           so
           little
           hope
           to
           see
           a
           through
           Reformation
           in
           this
           Faculty
           ,
           both
           as
           to
           the
           manner
           of
           men's
           education
           for
           it
           ,
           the
           full
           freedom
           of
           its
           Professors
           ,
           and
           the
           dismantling
           of
           
             those
             Societies
          
           ;
           the
           natural
           tendency
           of
           whose
           power
           hath
           ever
           been
           (
           as
           I
           can
           prove
           in
           facto
           )
           to
           tyrannie
           over
           their
           Brethren
           ,
           and
           monopoly
           of
           the
           Art.
           
        
         
         
           It
           may
           be
           soberly
           inquired
           ,
           in
           
           Cicero's
           Language
           ,
           
             Cui
             Bono
          
           ?
           To
           what
           end
           are
           they
           continued
           now
           ,
           having
           been
           erected
           in
           the
           old
           time
           of
           ignorance
           ,
           when
           Physick
           and
           other
           Sciences
           were
           at
           a
           stand
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           world
           brutishly
           and
           tamely
           acquiesced
           in
           Notions
           received
           from
           the
           Greeks
           and
           Arabians
           ,
           and
           did
           set
           up
           their
           
             Hercules
             Pillars
          
           with
           a
           
             Nil
             ultra
          
           ?
           But
           hear
           what
           that
           most
           learned
           Lord
           Bacon
           said
           ,
           in
           the
           Book
           of
           
             Advancement
             of
             Learning
             .
             I
             dare
          
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           
             confidently
             avouch
             ,
             that
             the
             wisdom
             we
             have
             extracted
             chiefly
             from
             the
          
           Grecians
           ,
           
             is
             but
             a
             Childhood
             of
             knowledge
             .
          
           And
           he
           further
           saith
           thus
           ,
           
             Medicine
             therefore
             hath
             been
             such
             hitherto
             ,
             as
             hath
             been
             more
             professed
             than
             labored
             ,
             and
             yet
             more
             labored
             than
             advanced
             ,
             seeing
             the
             pains
             bestowed
             therein
             hath
             been
             ,
             more
             in
             Circle
             than
             in
             Progression
             ;
             for
             ,
             I
             find
             much
             Iteration
             ,
             but
             small
             addition
             in
             the
             writers
             of
             that
             Faculty
             .
          
           And
           to
           the
           same
           purpose
           writes
           Dr.
           
             Mar.
             Nedham
          
           in
           
             Medela
             Medicinae
          
           ,
           in
           these
           words
           ,
           
             I
             may
             safely
             say
             ,
             that
             there
             hath
             been
             more
             of
             importance
             done
             for
             the
             advancement
             of
             Physick
             ,
             since
             my
             Lord
          
           Bacon
           
             wrote
             his
             Book
             ,
             than
             ever
             was
             done
             in
             the
             world
             before
             :
             For
             ,
             in
             former
             time
             ,
             men
             contented
             themselves
             with
             the
             little
             skill
             that
             was
             left
             them
             by
             others
             ,
             making
             no
             progress
             ;
             but
             ran
             a
             round
             in
             commenting
             upon
             the
          
           Greeks
           and
           Arabs
           ,
           
             as
             the
             Oracles
             of
             Physick
             ;
             and
             usually
             one
             Commentator
             hath
             stolen
             out
             of
             another
             ,
             so
             that
             you
             have
             but
             the
             same
             dish
             of
          
           Crambe
           
             new
             cook't
             :
             And
             if
             you
             have
             but
             one
             of
             the
             most
             voluminous
             you
             have
             all
             .
          
           Therefore
           ,
           in
           the
           former
           Age
           ,
           it
           might
           be
           easie
           enough
           ,
           the
           Art
           it self
           being
           fixt
           and
           staked
           down
           to
           certain
           Points
           ,
           Maxims
           ,
           or
           Rules
           ,
           to
           
           set
           down
           Rules
           also
           how
           to
           judge
           the
           Professors
           ,
           and
           with
           some
           colour
           of
           Reason
           condemn
           that
           for
           
             Male
             practise
          
           ,
           which
           answered
           not
           to
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           their
           Rulers
           .
           But
           in
           this
           Age
           ,
           when
           the
           faculty
           of
           Physick
           is
           so
           vastly
           diffused
           ,
           and
           fresh
           discoveries
           of
           Physical
           preparation
           ,
           and
           of
           Doctrine
           touching
           the
           nature
           of
           Diseases
           ,
           are
           daily
           made
           ,
           that
           any
           sort
           of
           Practisers
           should
           be
           Authorised
           as
           Judges
           ,
           to
           determine
           who
           is
           a
           good
           or
           a
           bad
           Practiser
           ,
           when
           they
           can
           have
           no
           certain
           Rules
           to
           judge
           them
           by
           ;
           or
           perhaps
           they
           understand
           not
           the
           nature
           of
           the
           Medicines
           used
           ,
           though
           they
           be
           told
           of
           the
           Preparation
           ;
           or
           perhaps
           they
           will
           out
           of
           envy
           or
           hatred
           to
           such
           Physicians
           ,
           decrie
           what
           is
           more
           excellent
           (
           as
           they
           have
           done
           heretofore
           )
           this
           seems
           to
           be
           against
           the
           very
           Reason
           ,
           Interest
           ,
           and
           end
           of
           Government
           :
           And
           therefore
           without
           all
           question
           ,
           the
           abolishment
           of
           a
           nipping
           domination
           over
           the
           growth
           of
           the
           Art
           of
           Physick
           ,
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           a
           few
           Ingrossers
           in
           Collegiate
           Societies
           ,
           will
           in
           a
           short
           time
           be
           judged
           by
           the
           Princes
           and
           Estates
           of
           Europe
           ,
           to
           be
           most
           necessary
           ;
           the
           exercise
           of
           it
           having
           hitherto
           been
           the
           great
           Impediment
           of
           the
           
             Progress
             of
             Medicine
          
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           things
           be
           thus
           ,
           what
           then
           shall
           be
           next
           ?
           Is
           it
           fit
           all
           should
           be
           at
           liberty
           ;
           I
           answer
           yes
           for
           the
           present
           ;
           but
           not
           without
           Government
           :
           Let
           such
           as
           do
           amiss
           answer
           for
           it
           at
           the
           Laws
           .
           A
           Government
           ought
           to
           be
           :
           But
           seeing
           men
           ,
           as
           Physicians
           ,
           for
           the
           foregoing
           Reasons
           ,
           cannot
           make
           certain
           Laws
           or
           Rules
           whereby
           to
           judge
           one
           another
           ,
           the
           Government
           of
           this
           Profession
           (
           till
           the
           King
           and
           Parliament
           
           be
           at
           leisure
           to
           reform
           the
           matter
           )
           may
           be
           left
           in
           general
           to
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land.
           It
           seems
           to
           be
           one
           of
           the
           most
           unreasonable
           things
           in
           the
           world
           ;
           and
           nothing
           (
           I
           think
           )
           can
           be
           more
           destructive
           to
           the
           Liberty
           of
           the
           Subject
           ,
           or
           make
           a
           man
           more
           miserable
           ,
           than
           that
           if
           he
           be
           sick
           ,
           he
           should
           not
           with
           freedom
           use
           what
           Physician
           he
           believes
           can
           best
           cure
           him
           ,
           but
           he
           must
           be
           limited
           to
           an
           accepting
           of
           such
           or
           such
           a
           one
           ,
           of
           such
           a
           Company
           ,
           or
           else
           can
           have
           none
           that
           he
           phansies
           ,
           but
           the
           man
           shall
           be
           molested
           ,
           perhaps
           undone
           ,
           for
           doing
           the
           sick
           service
           :
           and
           all
           under
           a
           supposal
           of
           avoiding
           thereby
           the
           use
           of
           bad
           Physick
           among
           the
           people
           .
           The
           vanity
           of
           which
           Supposal
           ,
           and
           the
           security
           of
           mankind
           thereby
           ,
           hath
           already
           here
           in
           part
           been
           discover'd
           ,
           and
           will
           be
           much
           more
           before
           the
           end
           of
           this
           Discourse
           ;
           in
           shewing
           of
           how
           pernicious
           a
           consequence
           it
           hath
           been
           to
           Physick
           ,
           to
           inthrone
           a
           few
           Physicians
           to
           Lord
           it
           over
           all
           the
           rest
           .
           Wherefore
           ,
           if
           the
           whole
           Body
           of
           Physicians
           here
           in
           this
           City
           be
           really
           the
           Physicians
           of
           London
           ,
           Why
           may
           they
           not
           ,
           being
           part
           of
           the
           City
           ,
           be
           taken
           hereafter
           under
           the
           City
           Government
           ?
           Be
           obliged
           to
           take
           Apprentices
           ,
           such
           young
           men
           as
           have
           taken
           degrees
           in
           other
           Arts
           at
           some
           University
           ;
           who
           when
           they
           have
           served
           their
           time
           at
           work
           under
           a
           City-Physician
           ,
           may
           then
           be
           made
           a
           free
           Practiser
           of
           London
           ?
           Such
           a
           populous
           City
           is
           the
           only
           place
           (
           being
           a
           Theatre
           of
           all
           Diseases
           )
           wherein
           to
           breed
           up
           men
           Physicians
           indeed
           ;
           such
           as
           may
           practise
           with
           real
           knowledge
           ;
           not
           fill
           the
           world
           with
           Cobwebs
           of
           idle
           speculations
           and
           notions
           ,
           as
           men
           of
           the
           old
           way
           of
           
           Education
           are
           wont
           to
           do
           ;
           and
           which
           may
           furnish
           his
           Majesties
           Armies
           and
           Fleets
           Royal
           ,
           with
           Physicians
           ,
           as
           the
           Society
           of
           Chirurgerie
           do
           with
           Chirurgians
           ;
           and
           be
           content
           to
           submit
           to
           a
           Law
           ,
           that
           if
           they
           
             run
             away
             from
             the
             City
             in
             the
             time
             of
             Plague
             ,
          
           or
           depart
           without
           special
           License
           of
           Authority
           ,
           to
           forfeit
           their
           freedom
           of
           Practise
           therein
           any
           more
           .
           This
           alteration
           may
           seem
           uncouth
           at
           the
           first
           mention
           ;
           but
           should
           it
           be
           established
           by
           publick
           Authority
           ,
           the
           consequence
           would
           be
           ,
           that
           the
           City
           would
           not
           be
           so
           basely
           deserted
           in
           the
           time
           of
           its
           necessity
           and
           few
           could
           incurr
           (
           having
           been
           thus
           bred
           )
           any
           suspicion
           of
           ignorance
           in
           the
           Art
           ;
           which
           is
           now
           made
           the
           pretence
           of
           a
           great
           Clamor
           by
           the
           Collegiates
           ,
           against
           many
           ingenious
           men
           ,
           whose
           first
           Education
           in
           the
           world
           was
           not
           in
           this
           Art
           ,
           but
           afterwards
           betook
           themselves
           to
           learn
           it
           in
           the
           most
           proper
           way
           of
           learning
           ;
           which
           is
           by
           labor
           ,
           and
           have
           soon
           out-strip't
           the
           Scholasticks
           in
           right
           knowledge
           of
           the
           
             Materia
             Medica
          
           ,
           to
           the
           comfort
           of
           many
           thousands
           of
           his
           Majesties
           poor
           Subjects
           ;
           many
           of
           which
           have
           been
           left
           by
           the
           collegiates
           ,
           who
           might
           else
           have
           perisht
           for
           want
           of
           a
           purse
           ,
           to
           run
           through
           the
           tedious
           methods
           and
           means
           of
           that
           Adverse
           party
           .
           But
           to
           avoid
           Calumnie
           because
           they
           seek
           every
           occasion
           to
           sow
           it
           ,
           know
           that
           in
           this
           I
           plead
           not
           on
           the
           behalf
           of
           any
           Impostors
           ,
           or
           real
           ignorants
           ;
           I
           only
           point
           out
           a
           way
           of
           better
           Education
           for
           Practice
           ,
           which
           may
           prevent
           all
           Ignorants
           ,
           in
           the
           future
           ,
           as
           far
           as
           by
           the
           wit
           of
           man
           they
           may
           possibly
           be
           prevented
           in
           this
           Profession
           .
        
         
         
           In
           the
           mean
           time
           ,
           till
           this
           which
           I
           here
           humbly
           mention
           ,
           or
           some
           better
           establishment
           be
           thought
           of
           by
           others
           more
           able
           ,
           it
           would
           be
           happy
           for
           the
           Art
           ,
           if
           Certificates
           of
           a
           Physician
           's
           having
           lived
           in
           good
           reputation
           for
           his
           manners
           and
           Practice
           ,
           may
           be
           accepted
           as
           a
           sufficient
           evidence
           of
           his
           ability
           ,
           and
           fitness
           to
           be
           licensed
           ;
           either
           by
           the
           
             reverend
             Clergie
          
           ,
           according
           as
           is
           directed
           in
           the
           first
           Statute
           of
           the
           3d
           year
           of
           Henry
           8th
           (
           which
           never
           was
           yet
           repealed
           )
           or
           else
           by
           some
           other
           persons
           not
           Physicians
           ,
           as
           by
           Authority
           shall
           be
           thought
           meet
           .
           
             Ratione
             Legis
             cessante
             cessat
             ipsa
             Lex
             .
          
           If
           in
           former
           time
           ,
           a
           King
           and
           his
           Parliament
           had
           reason
           to
           enact
           such
           a
           Statute
           (
           the
           very
           being
           of
           which
           ,
           as
           a
           Statute
           ,
           hath
           yet
           been
           a
           question
           among
           some
           eminent
           Lawyers
           )
           nevertheless
           the
           condition
           of
           the
           very
           Art
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           affairs
           of
           Physick
           ,
           being
           so
           altered
           (
           as
           is
           before
           declared
           )
           and
           so
           many
           Reasons
           lying
           now
           against
           the
           continuation
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           in
           the
           least
           doubted
           by
           the
           ingenious
           and
           laborious
           improvers
           of
           Medicine
           ;
           that
           when
           the
           same
           Authority
           shall
           be
           rightly
           inform'd
           of
           these
           things
           ,
           in
           a
           full
           and
           clear
           Remonstrance
           ,
           which
           may
           be
           presented
           to
           them
           ,
           they
           will
           see
           reason
           abundant
           for
           the
           repealing
           of
           that
           Statute
           of
           the
           14th
           of
           Henry
           the
           8th
           (
           if
           it
           be
           one
           )
           and
           enact
           such
           a
           form
           of
           Government
           ,
           as
           may
           conduce
           to
           the
           improvement
           of
           the
           Art
           ,
           and
           the
           general
           comfort
           of
           the
           people
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           Their
           Fourth
           pretence
           of
           Suit
           against
           me
           is
           ,
           that
           I
           have
           refused
           to
           leave
           off
           Practising
           as
           a
           Doctor
           .
           There
           is
           such
           adoe
           about
           this
           
             Feather
             in
             the
             Cap
          
           call'd
           Doctor
           of
           Physick
           ,
           that
           I
           often
           wish
           it
           might
           be
           despised
           
           by
           the
           People
           .
           If
           they
           knew
           so
           well
           as
           I
           do
           ,
           of
           how
           slight
           esteem
           it
           is
           beyond
           Sea
           ,
           and
           how
           easie
           to
           be
           gained
           ,
           so
           many
           would
           not
           dote
           as
           they
           have
           done
           ,
           upon
           many
           that
           run
           loose
           from
           being
           Schoolmasters
           ,
           or
           Preachers
           ,
           in
           England
           ,
           to
           be
           made
           Doctors
           at
           Leyden
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           places
           beyond-Sea
           ;
           and
           by
           reading
           a
           few
           Books
           and
           prating
           ,
           intrude
           into
           a
           Calling
           ,
           which
           is
           not
           to
           be
           acquired
           but
           by
           years
           of
           labour
           ,
           and
           studie
           of
           Experimental
           ,
           not
           School-philosophy
           .
           Such
           
             talking
             Book-Doctors
          
           the
           world
           is
           too
           full
           of
           ,
           and
           too
           many
           of
           them
           have
           crept
           in
           from
           time
           to
           time
           ,
           to
           be
           Principal
           Fellows
           of
           the
           Colledge
           here
           (
           of
           whose
           names
           you
           may
           ere
           long
           have
           a
           Catalogue
           ;
           )
           to
           which
           they
           have
           been
           ,
           and
           are
           admitted
           upon
           producing
           a
           Diploma
           ;
           which
           is
           a
           
             Parchment
             and
             publick
             Seal
          
           of
           some
           forein
           University
           ,
           and
           the
           answering
           of
           a
           few
           questions
           about
           Doctrine
           and
           Method
           ;
           and
           because
           Leyden
           in
           Holland
           hath
           been
           a
           fruitful
           Mother
           of
           such
           English
           Brats
           ,
           (
           too
           many
           of
           which
           are
           now
           dominering
           among
           us
           )
           they
           are
           by
           our
           own
           University-men
           in
           scorn
           called
           
             Leaden
             Doctors
          
           :
           But
           the
           fittest
           name
           for
           all
           Physicians
           ,
           that
           thus
           slightly
           by
           the
           Book
           enter
           upon
           the
           Stage
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           from
           our
           own
           or
           forein
           Universities
           ,
           to
           Practice
           ,
           is
           the
           due
           word
           of
           distinction
           ,
           Book-Doctors
           .
           For
           ,
           it
           is
           
           Galen's
           own
           Expression
           [
           
             Duobus
             Cruribus
             innitimur
             ;
             quotidiana
             inspectione
             ,
             &
             experientia
             ,
          
           &c.
           ]
           
             we
             Physitians
          
           (
           saith
           he
           )
           
             do
             stand
             upon
             two
             Legs
          
           ,
           viz.
           
             daily
             Inspection
             and
             Experience
          
           :
           But
           of
           the
           Book-practitioners
           he
           saith
           ,
           they
           are
           like
           those
           that
           take
           upon
           them
           [
           
             Ex
             Libro
             navigare
          
           ]
           to
           
             Saile
             by
             the
             Book
          
           :
           and
           
           so
           both
           Passengers
           and
           Patients
           are
           in
           a
           ●●…ke
           condition
           of
           Safety
           .
           I
           have
           declared
           the
           ●●king
           this
           degree
           for
           very
           good
           Reasons
           ;
           I
           might
           have
           had
           it
           in
           Holland
           when
           I
           would
           ;
           but
           because
           the
           way
           of
           distributing
           degrees
           is
           grown
           so
           corrupt
           ,
           (
           and
           as
           it
           is
           managed
           in
           Universities
           )
           serves
           but
           to
           impose
           upon
           mankind
           rather
           than
           secure
           them
           of
           a
           benefit
           by
           it
           ,
           I
           did
           decline
           it
           ;
           reckoning
           it
           more
           honest
           ,
           to
           rest
           upon
           a
           knowledge
           and
           Conscience
           of
           my
           own
           Sufficiency
           in
           Physick
           to
           advance
           me
           ,
           rather
           than
           to
           cloth
           my self
           with
           an
           
             empty
             Title
          
           ;
           and
           so
           by
           my
           example
           ,
           approve
           a
           corrupt
           Course
           of
           Formality
           which
           ought
           to
           be
           despised
           ,
           seeing
           't
           is
           made
           a
           mere
           matter
           of
           course
           ,
           equally
           open
           to
           any
           
             per
             Courtesie
          
           ,
           or
           per-Penny
           be
           they
           sufficient
           for
           it
           or
           no.
           What
           sad
           Souls
           have
           I
           seen
           too
           often
           passed
           among
           the
           best
           Universities
           ,
           unto
           this
           degree
           of
           Physick
           !
           
             Wine
             ,
             Venison
          
           ,
           and
           Pence
           ,
           have
           been
           a
           customary
           Passport
           to
           the
           old
           words
           of
           Institution
           ,
           
             Abunde
             satisfecisti
             ,
             egregie
             Domine
             Doctor
             .
          
           I
           have
           been
           in
           an
           University
           abroad
           ,
           where
           I
           will
           for
           
             ten
             pounds
          
           ,
           procure
           any
           Novice
           that
           can
           but
           frame
           ,
           or
           get
           a
           Friend
           to
           frame
           for
           him
           ,
           a
           Thesis
           to
           read
           ,
           and
           act
           some
           other
           slight
           Forms
           of
           exercise
           in
           the
           
             publick
             place
          
           ,
           to
           be
           made
           a
           Doctor
           ;
           and
           this
           is
           the
           place
           that
           too
           many
           of
           our
           people
           run
           to
           ,
           Yea
           more
           ,
           if
           any
           one
           will
           but
           send
           the
           Money
           ,
           no
           matter
           who
           he
           be
           ,
           nor
           where
           ;
           for
           ,
           though
           the
           Professor
           ▪
           who
           gives
           the
           degree
           never
           see
           his
           face
           ,
           he
           shall
           with
           grant
           of
           a
           
             private
             Diploma
          
           ,
           be
           dubb'd
           a
           Doctor
           .
           Of
           so
           little
           esteem
           is
           it
           among
           Foreigners
           ;
           and
           ought
           to
           be
           in
           all
           the
           world
           ,
           till
           mankind
           can
           have
           better
           Security
           of
           Physick
           thereby
           :
           Which
           can
           never
           be
           had
           but
           by
           breeding
           up
           youth
           ,
           (
           as
           I
           before
           said
           )
           in
           the
           liberal
           Arts
           
           first
           in
           some
           University
           (
           which
           is
           but
           the
           Ornamental
           part
           ;
           )
           and
           afterwards
           to
           be
           bound
           Apprentices
           (
           for
           ▪
           our
           Art
           it self
           ,
           and
           the
           Philosophie
           proper
           to
           it
           ,
           ariseth
           ,
           and
           is
           improved
           ,
           only
           by
           Mechanick
           Operation
           )
           under
           a
           Free-man
           practicant
           of
           this
           City
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           the
           becoming
           free
           for
           Practice
           here
           .
           The
           passing
           of
           such
           a
           Formality
           as
           this
           ,
           or
           the
           like
           ,
           men
           can
           seldom
           be
           deceived
           by
           ;
           and
           it
           is
           the
           most
           probable
           means
           to
           make
           able
           Doctors
           ,
           and
           to
           prevent
           the
           miserable
           scandalous
           inconveniencies
           of
           the
           other
           
             corrupt
             Formality
          
           ,
           whereby
           the
           world
           (
           like
           the
           Dog
           in
           the
           Fable
           )
           is
           too
           frequently
           mistaken
           with
           the
           shadow
           ,
           instead
           of
           the
           Substance
           .
        
         
           Thus
           having
           done
           with
           their
           pretences
           ,
           I
           now
           pass
           on
           to
           the
           
             Third
             Point
          
           of
           this
           Apology
           ;
           which
           is
           ,
           the
           manner
           of
           their
           vexatious
           proceeding
           at
           Law
           to
           oppress
           me
           ;
           wherein
           I
           shall
           be
           very
           brief
           .
        
         
           I
           am
           ,
           and
           would
           have
           been
           a
           man
           of
           peace
           ,
           but
           by
           no
           means
           could
           obtain
           it
           :
           For
           ,
           after
           they
           had
           arrested
           me
           by
           Writ
           ,
           and
           carried
           on
           the
           Suit
           against
           me
           in
           the
           
           King's
           Bench
           ,
           I
           made
           application
           to
           them
           by
           my Self
           and
           Friends
           :
           Serjeant
           Wiseman
           (
           his
           Majesties
           chief
           Chirurgian
           )
           having
           well
           known
           me
           many
           years
           ,
           very
           courteously
           went
           with
           me
           to
           the
           President
           of
           the
           Colledge
           ;
           who
           at
           first
           promised
           very
           fair
           ,
           but
           when
           I
           went
           alone
           to
           him
           the
           second
           time
           ,
           to
           know
           what
           I
           might
           expect
           ,
           he
           told
           me
           ,
           
             They
             had
             many
             Weeds
             in
             their
             Garden
             ▪
             and
             they
             must
             take
             a
             course
             to
             root
             them
             out
             :
          
           which
           was
           all
           the
           answer
           I
           could
           get
           ;
           so
           I
           troubled
           him
           no
           more
           .
           And
           as
           for
           the
           
           Countesse's
           Doctor
           (
           my
           great
           Prosecutor
           )
           he
           sent
           me
           word
           by
           a
           person
           of
           quality
           ,
           that
           if
           I
           would
           lay
           down
           my
           practice
           ,
           they
           would
           lay
           aside
           their
           quarrel
           in
           Law
           ;
           but
           upon
           
           no
           other
           terms
           :
           Whereupon
           ,
           I
           provided
           to
           defend
           my self
           ,
           the
           Suit
           going
           on
           .
           And
           they
           having
           given
           my
           Atturney
           a
           Declaration
           against
           me
           ,
           I
           prepared
           to
           put
           in
           my
           Exceptions
           :
           and
           then
           on
           a
           sudden
           (
           upon
           I
           know
           not
           what
           by-design
           )
           they
           let
           fall
           their
           Action
           in
           that
           Court
           ,
           and
           arrested
           me
           ,
           this
           last
           vacation
           ,
           upon
           another
           Action
           in
           the
           Court
           of
           Marshalsey
           ,
           where
           a
           new
           charge
           of
           expences
           was
           brought
           upon
           me
           ,
           with
           great
           loss
           besides
           of
           my
           time
           and
           Practice
           ,
           through
           perpetual
           attendance
           upon
           the
           Suit
           ,
           till
           I
           had
           brought
           the
           Cause
           on
           to
           be
           ready
           for
           a
           Trial
           there
           :
           And
           truly
           ,
           it
           had
           been
           then
           tried
           ,
           had
           I
           not
           been
           advised
           by
           able
           Counsel
           ,
           not
           to
           suffer
           so
           important
           a
           Cause
           to
           be
           tried
           in
           a
           petty
           Court
           ,
           but
           to
           remove
           it
           back
           by
           
             Habeas
             Corpus
          
           into
           the
           
           King's
           Bench
           again
           as
           the
           more
           noble
           place
           ;
           which
           I
           have
           done
           ,
           and
           there
           I
           expect
           a
           Trial
           this
           Michaelmas-Term
           :
           which
           brings
           another
           great
           expence
           upon
           me
           ,
           and
           loss
           of
           time
           ;
           it
           being
           the
           great
           Artifice
           of
           the
           Colledgemen
           ,
           by
           tumbling
           me
           from
           Court
           to
           Court
           ,
           to
           tire
           out
           and
           ruine
           me
           ,
           and
           terrifie
           all
           others
           ,
           if
           they
           can
           .
        
         
           Now
           being
           come
           to
           the
           fourth
           and
           last
           Point
           of
           my
           discourse
           ,
           I
           humbly
           crave
           leave
           to
           wind
           up
           all
           ,
           with
           a
           short
           account
           of
           my
           own
           Education
           and
           Practice
           .
           They
           say
           I
           am
           an
           Apothecary
           ;
           't
           is
           well
           't
           is
           no
           worse
           ;
           and
           it
           had
           been
           well
           for
           their
           Worships
           ,
           if
           they
           had
           at
           first
           been
           bred
           so
           too
           ;
           for
           so
           ,
           the
           Apothecaries
           had
           not
           been
           put
           to
           it
           ,
           to
           acquaint
           them
           with
           the
           
             Materia
             Medica
          
           and
           the
           way
           of
           Practice
           (
           as
           they
           are
           wont
           to
           doe
           )
           at
           their
           coming
           to
           Town
           .
           I
           did
           indeed
           begin
           ,
           as
           they
           ought
           to
           have
           done
           ;
           that
           is
           ,
           learn
           to
           operate
           Medicine
           :
           I
           was
           called
           from
           
             Trinity
             Colledge
          
           nigh
           Dublin
           in
           Ireland
           (
           where
           I
           had
           sometime
           been
           bred
           )
           to
           
           live
           with
           the
           ablest
           Apothecary
           there
           ,
           his
           name
           
             Jacob
             Rickmans
          
           ;
           I
           serv●d
           him
           seven
           years
           ,
           and
           became
           a
           free-man
           of
           Dublin
           .
           The
           ablest
           Physicians
           that
           ever
           I
           met
           with
           abroad
           ,
           were
           first
           bred
           Apothecaries
           ,
           or
           Chymists
           ,
           or
           both
           ,
           after
           they
           had
           qualified
           themselves
           with
           University-learning
           in
           other
           Arts
           and
           Sciences
           :
           For
           ,
           other
           Nations
           do
           think
           it
           as
           necessary
           for
           a
           Practicioner
           of
           Physick
           to
           be
           first
           bred
           in
           both
           those
           working
           employments
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           for
           him
           that
           intends
           to
           read
           ,
           first
           to
           learn
           his
           Letters
           .
        
         
           After
           I
           had
           been
           thus
           initiated
           in
           the
           University
           and
           afterward
           in
           learning
           the
           skill
           to
           prepare
           and
           compound
           Medicine
           ,
           my
           inclination
           next
           led
           me
           to
           travel
           ,
           to
           see
           what
           I
           could
           learn
           abroad
           .
           From
           Ireland
           I
           took
           England
           in
           my
           way
           ;
           and
           after
           some
           time
           spent
           here
           ,
           I
           passed
           into
           Holland
           ;
           and
           from
           thence
           into
           
             Germanie
             ,
             France
          
           ,
           and
           many
           parts
           of
           Spain
           ,
           to
           try
           in
           those
           Countries
           what
           improvement
           might
           be
           made
           in
           Physick
           :
           And
           at
           length
           I
           returning
           into
           Holland
           ,
           there
           took
           up
           my
           Rest
           .
           It
           is
           about
           26
           years
           since
           I
           cured
           in
           Roterdam
           some
           that
           now
           belong
           to
           the
           London
           Colledg
           ,
           who
           at
           this
           time
           do
           live
           in
           London
           .
           About
           the
           same
           time
           I
           lodged
           others
           of
           them
           in
           my
           house
           ,
           lent
           them
           my
           money
           ,
           left
           my
           whole
           employment
           for
           eight
           days
           together
           to
           shew
           them
           the
           Countrey
           at
           my
           own
           charge
           ,
           lodged
           some
           in
           my
           own
           Bed.
           For
           which
           I
           have
           been
           invited
           with
           fair
           words
           ,
           and
           by
           Letters
           to
           receive
           a
           Recompence
           ;
           but
           in
           the
           present
           dealing
           of
           that
           Society
           behold
           my
           Reward
           .
           I
           have
           been
           told
           since
           by
           the
           Chiefest
           of
           them
           ,
           that
           no
           Place
           would
           permit
           me
           to
           Practise
           as
           I
           do
           :
           And
           the
           malignity
           of
           Spirit
           is
           risen
           so
           high
           among
           them
           ,
           that
           I
           am
           sued
           ,
           terrified
           ,
           threatned
           banishment
           from
           
           my
           place
           of
           Practice
           ;
           my
           very
           house
           and
           Laboratory
           designed
           to
           Strangers
           (
           if
           a
           man
           may
           believe
           some
           of
           their
           own
           Talkers
           ;
           )
           and
           all
           to
           fright
           me
           away
           for
           Ireland
           ,
           whither
           they
           say
           I
           am
           going
           .
           T
           is
           true
           ,
           that
           I
           have
           been
           invited
           to
           go
           thither
           ,
           to
           reside
           at
           Dublin
           ,
           by
           two
           of
           the
           Aldermen
           of
           that
           City
           ,
           with
           large
           Promises
           ;
           and
           the
           like
           invitations
           I
           have
           had
           from
           Holland
           ,
           to
           return
           thither
           :
           But
           my
           Resolution
           is
           to
           abide
           where
           I
           now
           dwell
           ,
           unless
           the
           Collegiates
           drive
           me
           into
           London
           for
           shelter
           :
           For
           ,
           one
           where
           or
           other
           I
           will
           be
           within
           the
           scent
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           invite
           such
           sick
           as
           they
           leave
           off
           for
           incurable
           ,
           if
           they
           can
           find
           in
           their
           hearts
           to
           send
           them
           to
           me
           ;
           and
           I
           hope
           they
           will
           believe
           't
           is
           as
           possible
           for
           me
           ,
           as
           for
           an
           
             Old
             woman
          
           ,
           to
           cure
           such
           as
           they
           too
           often
           have
           sentenced
           to
           death
           ,
           for
           want
           of
           sufficient
           Medicins
           .
           Wheresoever
           I
           shall
           be
           ,
           in
           City
           ,
           or
           out
           ,
           my
           house
           shall
           be
           open
           (
           as
           it
           now
           is
           )
           to
           receive
           all
           poor
           diseased
           Ones
           ,
           and
           to
           furnish
           them
           freely
           with
           easie
           effectual
           Medicines
           ,
           when
           they
           must
           not
           come
           nigh
           the
           Gates
           of
           my
           
             All-wise
             Adversaries
          
           .
           They
           have
           (
           I
           hear
           )
           lately
           proposed
           to
           the
           Company
           of
           Apothecaries
           this
           delicate
           Tender
           ,
           for
           the
           Cure
           forsooth
           of
           the
           poor
           ;
           that
           some
           few
           of
           their
           Fellows
           shall
           attend
           at
           set-hours
           monthly
           at
           their
           Colledge
           ,
           to
           give
           Bills
           of
           Direction
           to
           the
           poor
           sick
           :
           But
           upon
           what
           Terms
           I
           pray
           you
           ?
           Truly
           ,
           't
           is
           with
           a
           most
           gracious
           bountiful
           Proviso
           ;
           provided
           that
           the
           Apothecaries
           will
           give
           gratis
           such
           Medicines
           as
           they
           shall
           prescribe
           .
           Wonderful
           Charity
           at
           other
           mens
           Cost
           !
           They
           will
           be
           so
           noble
           ,
           as
           to
           find
           
             Brains
             ,
             Pen
             ,
             Ink
             ,
             and
             Paper
             :
          
           Somewhat
           they
           think
           they
           must
           seem
           to
           do
           ,
           for
           mere
           shame
           ;
           because
           the
           poor
           ,
           and
           the
           middle
           sort
           of
           Citizens
           have
           (
           for
           the
           most
           part
           )
           renounced
           ▪
           
           them
           as
           too
           tedious
           to
           their
           purses
           ,
           and
           in
           their
           Prescripts
           ,
           therefore
           are
           glad
           to
           flock
           for
           help
           to
           others
           :
           but
           t
           is
           pleasant
           to
           think
           of
           the
           worthy
           project
           ,
           that
           
             the
             poor
             '
             Pothecary
             is
             to
             pay
             for
             all
             .
          
           But
           ,
           by
           your
           leave
           (
           says
           he
           )
           
             Two
             words
             to
             a
             Bargain
          
           ;
           and
           so
           there
           is
           like
           to
           be
           no
           more
           news
           of
           this
           fair
           proposal
           ,
           when
           men
           have
           done
           laughing
           at
           it
           .
        
         
           By
           this
           I
           perceive
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           danger
           that
           they
           will
           draw
           away
           my
           poorer
           Customers
           from
           me
           ;
           for
           whose
           Relief
           I
           have
           prepared
           effectual
           Remedies
           ,
           such
           as
           will
           according
           to
           the
           mind
           of
           Hippocrates
           ,
           cure
           
             Citò
             ,
             Tutò
             ,
             &
             Jucunde
          
           ;
           and
           fitted
           a
           Method
           of
           my
           own
           ,
           answerable
           to
           their
           Vertues
           ,
           having
           spent
           38.
           years
           in
           laborious
           pains
           and
           Travels
           ,
           to
           gain
           experience
           and
           knowledge
           in
           Physick
           above
           the
           common
           sort
           ;
           I
           have
           look't
           into
           the
           Practice
           of
           the
           best
           Physicians
           ,
           and
           Artists
           of
           divers
           Nations
           ,
           and
           compared
           them
           with
           one
           another
           ,
           and
           their
           opinions
           touching
           the
           Nature
           of
           their
           Medicines
           ,
           their
           manner
           of
           using
           them
           ,
           the
           operation
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           their
           Doctrines
           about
           Diseases
           .
           I
           hope
           then
           ,
           it
           will
           not
           be
           thought
           I
           Practise
           without
           a
           Method
           ;
           which
           though
           it
           be
           not
           the
           same
           that
           the
           more
           Common
           Collegiates
           ,
           and
           the
           
             mere
             Academians
          
           do
           dote
           upon
           ,
           yet
           't
           is
           much
           more
           direct
           and
           plain
           to
           the
           purpose
           ;
           and
           with
           it
           my
           Remedies
           are
           such
           as
           my self
           and
           my
           Patients
           may
           depend
           upon
           .
           And
           besides
           the
           general
           extent
           of
           many
           of
           them
           ,
           I
           have
           other
           Medicines
           which
           are
           appropriated
           to
           particular
           distempers
           .
           As
           for
           example
           ,
           I
           have
           cured
           desperate
           Quartans
           ,
           some
           of
           a
           Twelve
           months
           continuance
           :
           But
           generally
           ,
           in
           all
           Agues
           ,
           I
           cure
           the
           fits
           in
           a
           few
           daies
           :
           Quotidian
           fits
           I
           commonly
           take
           away
           with
           
             one
             Dose
             ;
             Tertian
             two
             Doses
             ,
          
           and
           Quartan
           with
           
           three
           :
           which
           is
           not
           done
           by
           chance
           ,
           the
           Medicine
           being
           such
           as
           is
           particularly
           appropriate
           to
           an
           Ague
           quatenus
           Ague
           :
           It
           is
           a
           Coelestial
           Liquor
           (
           if
           I
           may
           so
           call
           it
           )
           suited
           to
           all
           Palates
           and
           Constitutions
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           used
           at
           any
           time
           of
           the
           year
           ;
           and
           will
           for
           performance
           challenge
           a
           whole
           Regiment
           of
           Pots
           and
           Glasses
           .
        
         
           I
           would
           not
           be
           counted
           a
           fool
           in
           boasting
           ;
           for
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           my
           natural
           temper
           :
           but
           oppression
           compells
           me
           thus
           to
           play
           the
           fool
           ,
           if
           in
           my
           Case
           it
           be
           a
           folly
           ;
           For
           ,
           I
           have
           reason
           to
           speak
           out
           ▪
           that
           those
           of
           his
           Majesties
           friends
           who
           once
           were
           with
           him
           in
           exile
           ,
           may
           testifie
           who
           I
           am
           ,
           and
           what
           services
           I
           did
           them
           beyond-Sea
           in
           their
           Sicknesses
           ;
           and
           I
           know
           they
           will
           ,
           touching
           their
           own
           Cases
           ,
           make
           a
           just
           Report
           .
           I
           could
           wish
           that
           most
           noble
           Lady
           the
           Countess
           of
           Chesterfield
           were
           alive
           ,
           to
           make
           up
           the
           number
           in
           testifying
           on
           my
           behalf
           ,
           how
           many
           of
           her
           friend
           ▪
           I
           cured
           while
           she
           was
           called
           my
           Lady
           Stanhope
           ,
           at
           the
           Hague
           ,
           in
           the
           Prince
           of
           
           Orange's
           Court.
           Colonel
           Bampfield
           is
           yet
           living
           ,
           who
           after
           he
           had
           conveyed
           away
           his
           Highness
           the
           Duke
           of
           York
           from
           St.
           
           Jame's
           ,
           out
           of
           his
           Enemies
           hands
           into
           Holland
           ,
           the
           next
           year
           fell
           into
           a
           violent
           Fever
           ;
           and
           when
           his
           Physicians
           despaired
           of
           his
           Recovery
           ,
           that
           Lady
           sent
           to
           me
           then
           at
           Roterdam
           to
           hasten
           to
           her
           :
           when
           I
           came
           into
           the
           Colonels
           Chamber
           ,
           Doctor
           Romp●
           was
           there
           ;
           and
           after
           we
           had
           discoursed
           together
           about
           the
           Patient
           ,
           he
           appeared
           a
           man
           of
           another
           Spirit
           than
           our
           
             Collegiates
             ▪
          
           and
           said
           ,
           
             I
             commit
             the
             Colonel
             to
             your
             care
             ;
             and
             do
             you
             know
             ,
             that
             incurring
             him
             ,
             you
             will
             not
             only
             oblige
             me
             ,
             but
             the
             whole
             Court.
          
           —
           About
           that
           time
           ,
           I
           cured
           Sr.
           
             Francis
             Mack-worth
          
           of
           miserable
           pains
           ;
           about
           the
           Cure
           of
           which
           he
           said
           ,
           he
           had
           before
           spent
           much
           money
           in
           trying
           what
           he
           could
           in
           
             England
             ,
             France
          
           ,
           and
           Holland
           ,
           and
           had
           met
           with
           no
           ease
           ;
           but
           it
           pleased
           God
           to
           inable
           me
           to
           cure
           him
           in
           three
           weeks
           .
           A
           Gentleman
           who
           was
           then
           Sr.
           Francis
           his
           Lieutenant
           ,
           is
           now
           Captain
           to
           one
           of
           his
           Majesties
           foot-Companies
           ;
           his
           name
           is
           Captain
           Read
           ,
           and
           he
           liveth
           at
           this
           time
           in
           Pel-Mel
           .
           I
           could
           instance
           in
           a
           hundred
           more
           :
           but
           I
           ought
           to
           be
           no
           more
           copious
           than
           needs
           must
           in
           my
           own
           particular
           ;
           therefore
           I
           draw
           now
           towards
           an
           end
           .
           Only
           let
           me
           give
           this
           short
           word
           more
           ;
           That
           in
           the
           year
           1669.
           
           before
           my
           return
           to
           England
           ,
           though
           I
           depised
           degrees
           in
           Physick
           ;
           for
           the
           Reasons
           that
           I
           have
           told
           you
           ,
           I
           was
           however
           willing
           to
           be
           declared
           Medicus
           in
           Vtrecht
           ,
           by
           Dr.
           Dimermeere
           ,
           the
           States
           Professor
           in
           that
           University
           I
           was
           so
           admitted
           ;
           and
           being
           shortly
           after
           returned
           into
           England
           ,
           I
           was
           advised
           to
           desire
           a
           License
           and
           Practicandum
           from
           his
           Grace
           L.
           Arch-Bishop
           of
           Canterbury
           ;
           under
           whose
           protection
           it
           hath
           been
           my
           happiness
           to
           practise
           ,
           and
           do
           the
           like
           services
           for
           several
           of
           his
           Majesties
           and
           the
           Duke
           of
           
           York's
           Servants
           here
           at
           White-Hall
           and
           St.
           
           Jame's
           ,
           as
           I
           did
           heretofore
           beyond
           Sea.
           
        
         
           And
           now
           must
           my
           hands
           ,
           after
           all
           this
           ,
           be
           bound
           up
           from
           doing
           good
           ?
           It
           were
           a
           strange
           reward
           for
           all
           my
           labours
           .
           Nevertheless
           ,
           my
           enemies
           go
           on
           ;
           and
           to
           dress
           me
           up
           fit
           to
           be
           made
           their
           Martyr
           ,
           they
           have
           been
           busie
           in
           representing
           me
           in
           the
           form
           of
           some
           strange
           Creature
           ,
           by
           Slanders
           touching
           me
           and
           my
           qualifications
           :
           and
           among
           other
           particulars
           ,
           it
           hath
           been
           reported
           up
           and
           down
           that
           I
           am
           a
           Papist
           :
           but
           if
           to
           profess
           and
           practise
           the
           contrary
           in
           Forein
           parts
           and
           in
           my
           Parish
           ,
           of
           Kensington
           ,
           in
           which
           I
           received
           the
           holy
           Sacrament
           ,
           be
           a
           sign
           of
           such
           a
           one
           ,
           and
           cannot
           acquit
           me
           from
           the
           imputation
           ,
           then
           they
           may
           go
           on
           with
           the
           Report
           .
           But
           methinks
           ,
           they
           of
           all
           men
           ,
           should
           be
           afraid
           to
           seek
           to
           weaken
           my
           Cause
           at
           Law
           ,
           by
           branding
           me
           as
           a
           Papist
           :
           For
           as
           't
           is
           true
           ,
           that
           the
           Statute
           of
           the
           3d.
           of
           K.
           James
           do's
           lay
           a
           severe
           penalty
           upon
           any
           Papist
           ,
           who
           shall
           presume
           to
           practise
           Physick
           in
           England
           :
           so
           't
           is
           a
           shamefull
           thing
           and
           most
           incongruous
           ,
           for
           these
           Collegiates
           to
           make
           use
           of
           that
           Statute
           ,
           in
           disparagement
           of
           me
           (
           and
           I
           hope
           Authority
           will
           take
           notice
           of
           it
           )
           when
           't
           is
           known
           themselves
           have
           contrary
           to
           that
           Law
           ,
           entitled
           divers
           members
           and
           Licentiates
           of
           their
           Colledg
           that
           are
           noted
           Papists
           ;
           and
           others
           also
           that
           are
           talked
           on
           as
           dangerously
           suspected
           ,
           and
           may
           perhaps
           in
           time
           be
           convicted
           :
           that
           the
           world
           may
           be
           convinced
           how
           well
           in
           this
           particular
           also
           they
           deserve
           ;
           and
           how
           convenient
           a
           thing
           it
           is
           ,
           to
           suffer
           such
           men
           to
           enjoy
           an
           Authority
           by
           a
           Law
           ,
           who
           in
           the
           use
           of
           it
           are
           so
           bold
           ,
           as
           to
           violate
           the
           Laws
           and
           act
           against
           them
           .
        
         
           Turpe
           est
           Doctori
           cum
           culpa
           redarguit
           ipsum
           .
        
         
           So
           I
           humbly
           commend
           them
           and
           their
           Monopolie
           ,
           and
           this
           my
           Apologie
           ,
           to
           be
           laid
           to
           heart
           by
           all
           the
           Nation
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .