THE Late CENSORS Deservedly Censured; And their Spurious Litter of Libels AGAINST Dr. GREENFIELD, and Others, justly exposed to Contempt: By the following Answer to all, but especially the Last, Entitled, A Reply to the Reasons against the Censors of the College of Physicians, etc.  
Humbly offered to the Perusal Of Dr. THOMAS BURWELL, Dr. RICHARD TORLES, Dr. WILLIAM DAWS, Dr. THOMAS GILL, The late Censors.  
And to the expiring Censure of Dr CHARLES GOODAL.  
By Lysiponius Celer M. D. L.  Si mihi pergit, quae volt, dicere; ea, quae non volt, audiet. Ter. Andr. 
LONDON: Printed for the Author, and are to be Sold by B. Billingsley at the Printing Press under the Royal Exchange in Cornhill, 1698.   

THE PREFACE TO THE READER, To whom it may Concern.  
MY Intention, is not to expose Physic, but those who have done it: They are indeed of the Faculty, and I am sorry for it. The Twelve tho Select, yet had One Traitor among them; and is it strange that a greater Number should contain a less Proportion of Unworthy? Whoever reproacheth an Art for the Crime of an Artist, condemns his own; for none is Exempt: He that chargeth me with another's Fault, is as guilty as myself of the Fact, and justly of the Slander. But if I must suffer in my Art, whilst publicly opposing the Censors Violence; 'tis by Ends, not true Judgement must be the Occasion. They have acted ill; what is that to the Faculty or College? Suppose Four of it had jointly been Felons, must all the rest be Thiefs? They have indeed exposed the College, but originally by Passion; they persist in their Injustice, supported by Pride: But some do the same with an Intent to destroy it. They have evidenced their Spite against one, show their Teeth at some few: But others strike at All, whether in or against their Interest. What mean else those Libels publicly dispersed to the disgrace of the Faculty? The Author's ridicule Physicians; a pretty Way to secure themselves from Contempt: They are extremely just to themselves, whilst injust to the Art they pretend to, and as qualified for Wit and Raillery, as the late Censors were for their Office. 'Tis mere Baregarding Stuff, like that of the pretended great defender of an Art he near learned, though ever teaching it. I am sorry to see so great a Body buckle to one whose only endeavour is, by indirect means to make himself Great, when justly he cannot. This knight Errand in Physic, defends he knows not what; attacks he can't tell whom; and hates all but his Dulcigna, his sweet imaginary Greatness; hath nothing of his own, but what no One would claim: But this Plagiary Jackdaw may e'er long be Plumed by a Leaden Dr. its wings clipped, and its self exposed to the Contempt of Boys; because it pretends to soar with the Eagles: There are notwithstanding, and will be still honest Physicians of the College, in spite of all foreign Oppositions, or intestine Broils. All Bodies, by the Instigation of some few Boutefeus', may be guilty of Mismanagement; none are exempt from Fault: Pray allow us but to be equally Obnoxious with the rest of Mankind. All then I desire is, That there may be a difference put between the Innocent and Guilty, as I have endeavoured it in my Tract; which whether it will please you with the Preface I know not: All will neither be pleasing to, nor understood by All: But take it as you please to understand it: I shall soon be out of Pain; either by slighting both Criticisms and Resentment, or by a speedy Answer.  
September 26, 1698. Lysiponius Celer.   

THE Late CENSORS Deservedly Censured, etc.  
THE worthy Late Censors, after so many fruitless Attempts, to Exempt themselves from the Justice of the Law; being baffled in all their Applications, either to His Majesty, the Right Honourable the Lords, or other inferior Courts and Persons; and finding that the more they stir, the more they are bemired and stink: Have now at last, as their utmost Effort, bethought themselves of the late Expedient of Popularity.  
In Order hereunto, to support their tottering Credit and Cause, they oblige the World with a single Sheet for three Pence; Entitled it as if addressed to the highest Court of Justice: And being frustrated in all their Appeals, make it now to the Mob, make them their Judges and Peers.  
They take no Notice of their own Remarks upon the Prosecutors Reasons, nor of his Reply; being ashamed of the One, and justly afraid of the other.  
For that Reply, as it fully answers all their idle Pretences, hath been satisfactory to the Lords and Commons; so cannot be answered, containing only Matters of Fact, backed with irrefragable Reasons, and shrewd Circumstances; confirmed by Oaths of Credible Persons: Which last, is the highest Argument of Truth in any, but such, who to palliate their evident Injustice, have still, this their only Recourse, to that Crambe biscocta, their Oaths and Consciences, in Opposition to the Laws and Justice of the Nation.  
Furthermore, being fully convinced, that no One of the Late Censors could indite even so silly a Paper as I am about to Answer, for reasons best known to them that know them; I was at last forced to conclude, that it must be the Product of a Noddle ever tipsy with Good-Ale, and Brains still crowing by the seminal Influence of some hundreds of Eggs devoured Anno Vertente, which unless checked by Cortex and Opium, had e'er now grown fledged: Especially if you consider the Style, so like that of the public betrayer of the State, Maxims and Secrets of the College, and to use his own Words so inimical to Truth and Sincerity, more than (in his own great Sense) unprepared Cantharideses can be to the Body.  
Yet retaining some Respect to their seeming Gravity and qualifying Sadness, though now out of the Santo Officio, not cooped up in the Inquisition Chamber, but breathing the free Air as yet; I waited and sought in the public Papers a required Recantation: This three Penny Sheet, as well as the two Penny State of Physic, Meriting at least an equivocating Denial. But seeing now they own it, and their sour Temper cannot be altered, and continues nettled at good usage; they must be crushed to make them inoffensive, seeing they Sting when tenderly handled.  
And tho' that Paper deleterious to itself doth, like other Poisons, carry it's own Antidote with it, answering itself by its own Nonsense, Contradictions and Falsehood, to any unbiased Reader that hath been informed of this Affair; yet for the sake of those that are distant from Town, and out of the reach of their Heptamiliary Quondam Power, I thought to foul my Fingers, anatomize it exactly, and expose it (as it justly deserves) in the Public Theatre of England, to the View and Scorn of all.  
But finding, tho' without any accurate Search, That the principal consistent Parts are, 1. Contradiction. 2. Falshood. 3. Ignorance. 4. Ill Manners. 5. Like Conduct. Yet all so complicated, as to make but One entire Gordian Knot of Nonsense; it needs not be dissected now I think on't, it merits not so great a Hand: But seeing it is roundly covered with a limber Conscience, blown up with Bombast, and got amongst the Mob, let it e'en be kicked about, till it be deservedly lost.  
The 1st. of the Reasons they pretend to Answer is the following Reason;  
First, Because the said Censors did not only take upon them an Office of Trust and Judicial Authority, wherein the Liberty and Property of the Subject is highly concerned without qualifying themselves, but also executed the same with utmost Violence against an innocent Person, as may more plainly appear in their Proceedings against Dr. John Greenfield, a Member of the said College, who having been accused by a vexatious Woman of ill Practice several Years before was twice acquitted by preceding Censors: But these Gentlemen proud of their Authority, and having no regard to the Justice and Judgement of their Predecessors, and in Contempt of two consecutive Acts of Grace from the King and Parliament, did, notwithstanding, fine the abovesaid Dr. Greenfield for that imaginary Crime, without suffering the said Doctor to clear himself by Witnesses; and having signed a Warrant and appointed an Officer of their own Creation, did commit him to Newgate without Bail or Mainprise, and there detained him till the first Day of the ensuing Term, when and where the Honourable the Judges of the King's-Bench convinced them of their illegal Proceedings and discharged the said Dr. Greenfield in open Court.  
To this they reply, that it is a Malicious Charge, drawn up and published against the Censors of the College of Physicians [who] took no Authority upon themselves, but what is vested in them by two Acts of Parliament, etc. The present Censors having qualifyed themselves, and the rest, since the including Act of Grace acting inoffensively; the present cannot, the former need not fear a Prosecution. The Prosecutors Charge is solely against the late, named in the Reasons and Title of this Tract; which Charge as it is true, cannot be Malicious, and not against any Censors, but those that were so, now only Censorious, with that indelible Character I hope: But if their biennial Power, be perpetuated in their Conceit, and once a Censor must e'er be so; let them e'en be still the Kings of Branford, let them imagine the Power of the two Acts to be vested in them, appropriated to their Persons, and inseparable from their Quality; whilst they are deservedly out of that Place, Power and Trust they have so notoriously abused: But Morta la Bestia, morto lo Veleno; let them rattle with their Tails, their Fang-teeths are out. Yet though their Authority be gone, their Sense continues the same. They boast of a great Power vested by Law; but no Trust at all; deny the taking of an Office upon them, but own they are chosen into, and accept of the Place; think themselves warranted by two Acts of Parliament in the executing of a Power, in Contempt of Four others: I mean the Two of Grace, and both the qualifying Acts. But they must be taught, that the Law requires a Series of uninterrupted Justice. You err not knowing the Law, for whosoever shall keep the whole Law, and yet offend in one Point, he is guilty of all, etc. Is it Law that gives you leave to Imprison? The same commands you to qualify. The same Justice that relieves the Oppressed, aught to punish the Guilty; and though you boast the Law cannot reach you, the Legislators may. Ponite inflatos tumidosque vultus; quicquid à vob is Minor extimescit, Major hoc idem Dominus minatur.  
Next they allege, that the Censors are solemnly Sworn, not to consent to admit any Person into the College, but such, whom without favour, or affection, they shall judge to be duly qualified, both for Learning and Morals, That they will approve no Person nor Medicine for Reward, Favour or Entreaty, but will in all things discharge the Duty faithfully, as God shall help them.  
A solemn Oath is a sacred Tie and Motive to Justice; but where this is wanting, that always aggravates the Crime, can never justify the Action. Finding then, that a gentle Rebuke in general Terms will not avail, viz. that of the former Reply, That their Oath was not binding to act illegally, and where it doth so, the Constitution is faulty; a severer Lash must stop this full mouthed Cry upon a wrong Scent. Dr. Greenfields' Learning and Morals were approved when he entered the College, he was balletted for as well as any of you, admitted upon as good Terms as any, hath the same Diploma, Privileges, and Authority to Practice: This was done to your Hands by more impartial Judges; and so far the recital of your Oath is insignificant. But seeing 'tis not this, pray tell us what Oath it was that bound you, to reassume the Cognizance of an Affair twice determined before, by the same Authority; to commit the Innocent, when you were disabled by two Acts of Parliament to act so by a Criminal; to declare that a Poison when given by Dr. Greenfield with its due Corrector, which must be a harmless Medicine, because given by two of you Censors without an Antidote; to refuse the admitting of Witnesses, which were afterwards satisfactory to a superior Court; to deny the Trial of his Corrector upon other Animals; to exact the utmost Farthing the Law allowed you; to fine and imprison too, a Collegiate, in an unpresidented Manner; to send him to Newgate for the first Offence (as in your great Wisdoms you thought) when choice of Prisons of less Scandal might serve, to be deaf when entreated not to do it. 'T was of you Dr. Burwel he begged it, upon your immediate return from the House of God, the House of Prayer. Woe be to you Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites, etc. This last it was, first caused my Blood to boil, now sowers my Temper, Irarumque omnes effundit Habenas; and made me almost forget to ask you, whether you did Swear too not to qualify yourselves? I believe if you can give yourselves leave to re-examine this Affair sedately, you will find it the Result of Passion, Envy, Ambition and By-ends. Passion in Dr. T— e upon a former Peak: Ambition in the Bencher-fellows to curb and oppress the more Serviceable and Active by Arbitrary Laws; Envy for want of Practice and Success: By-ends shall be Secret as yet. 'Tis so Dr. G—ll, though you should exert to the utmost your now single Capacity, register the Contrary, and silence me with your Ratio prima & ultima: I do not mean the thundering Mawl against a Protest at the College Board; but your customary Nonononono, with a Jove-like disgust, and a Conclusive-shake of the Noddle in a Demiquaver. Expect then the just Reward of your Pains, but no Favour at all; unless your Adversaries be prevailed upon by Entreaty; for they must discharge their Duty faithfully, and help yourselves as you can.  
Next you multiply your Power by a Piece-meal Recital. I'll please you for once, and allow it as great in itself, as it hath been enormous in the Execution, Cuidam illic seritun & metitur, 'tis a noli me tangere at present: But be pleased to remind, that almost the whole of it is in the quoted Charter, 'tis only confirmed by the annexed and subsequent Acts; and why are the due Qualifications omitted, to which that Power is annexed. Let us examine you a little, tho' not now at the Censors board. Were you Profound, Sad, Discreet, well versed in Learning and deeply skilled in Physic: You'll say perhaps, these Epithets, are requisite in Persons to be admitted into that Society, not in the Censors that govern the same, according to the express Words of the Law. The Fact I shall not dispute; but certainly they are to be chosen out of such, and continue the same. The 1st. indeed may be allowed; for your Sense is out of the reach of, disproportionate to, and incommensurate with that of the rest of Mankind. Sad you are in the present acceptation of the Word, your Actions show you such, and the present fear of a due Reward, doth and will make you no other. But now in sober Sadness, what is become of the Third? Were you Discreet in not qualifying yourselves, if it were but only to prevent the Charges of an assuredly wrong Prosecution, since your piece meal Loyalty was such, that the Omission of it you count but a Peccadillo. The present Censors got here the Start of you, and triumph over your Ignorance. It was no doubt the greatest Discretion imaginable, to Commit a Brother for Mala Praxis, yea very great Mala Praxis as the Judicious Go— le expressed it at the Board, the giving of Poison I mean, when some of yourselves were guilty of the same; Guilty I say, in your own Consciences, because you condemned it in another; though he be Innocent, having proved himself so in the Superior Court: But this is not all, had this Affair remained within the College and Newgate Walls, and not been exposed by you so often in the Public Courts, enforced by repeated Libels, spread amongst the Mob, persisted in to the utmost in Opposition to the Sense of Mankind, and Contempt of definitive Justice; it might have been pardoned. Humanum est errare, in Errore persistere Diabolicum. But again to push it more home, tho' in milder Terms, you will say he was Fined and Imprisoned, for not duly executing the Practice of Physic; but who was it Gentlemen? A Graduate Doctor, your fellow Collegiate, unquestionable when admitted, and continued so for many Years, till it pleased you to have it otherwise. Reflect upon it, I pray, as the rest of Mankind to my knowledge doth now: What Physician shall we trust, when neither his being of the College doth warrant his Skill, nor his continued Practice approve his Judgement in Administering? Whom shall we except, when all are liable to the same Mistakes? This doth not only affect you, but the whole Faculty of Physic, however diffused, divided or distinguished in this Famous City, and through the Universe. Would the least Mechanic Society have acted so publicly against a single Member, if his exposing tended to the Disrepute of all the Rest: For though the Character of an honest Physician be in itself real, where is there a Fence against Suspicion; tho' groundless when started, it's Flight and Pitch is incertain; and you only can be Exempt when at the Board, and that only in your own Conceit, not decisive Judgement. Dat Veniam Corvis, vexat Censura Columbas.  
Your great Discretion hath ruined one Part of your Imaginary Power, by your Parties countenancing, and you mainly promoting that turbulent Woman's Suit against the Doctor. Pray startle not at what you know as well as myself, I shall prove it to others anon. You have opened the Eyes of the Mob, and the Floodgates of the Law against you. Can the Precedent be secure in his Place, or the Censors by their boasted Power, from being either arraigned at the Bar as Malefactors, or Sued at the Kings-Bench as Unskilful; and that at the Choice of the Multitude? A pretended Mistake, or an unforeseen Accident upon a single Dose of Physic, exposeth a Physician's Person, Reputation and Estate, to the Discretion of others avowedly Ignorant, of what you have made them Judges. We know what you told your Council, when dissuaded from this Pernicious Course by the Example of all other Societies. It must be done, else the College would be undone. Peribo si non faxo, si faxo vapulavero.  
Your Power is too Great, not to be managed but by Persons throughly versed in the Law: Yet you will stretch it beyond its due Bounds, and expose it by your Actions to be canvassed by those, who are justly Jealous of it. You will not submit to the Decision of the Four Chiefs; but what think you of Royal Visitation? Are you Exempt from that too? May not a Quo Warranto be just and necessary in this Reign, whatever it hath been in the Former? Your Party promoted it under the Late, and will you not submit to it under the Present. Tute hoc tibi intrivisti, tibimet hoc exedendum est.  
But lastly, seeing this Enormous Power, doth so widely encompass all the Jurisdictions of the greatest City in Europe; it was hoped your Ambition would have soared no higher. No, your Discretion drives some of you to Hartford, to worry the Ingenious Coatsworth; your Designs round the Circuits (as you were told) to hang Physic out of the Way: Had not the clacking Capit-alian Go—, that Crepitante Ciconia Rostro, prevented by its Noise the intended Mischief, discovered the Towering G—ls; and the Jury disbelieved the Depositions, that Gentlemen might have rotten in Prison, without Bail or Mainprise till the next Assizes, to serve your Turn; that you might Alleviate one Crime, by committing another.  
I have done as well as yourselves with your Discretion, your Learning and deep Skill in Physic, will not seem much greater when throughly canvassed, as it shall be in some Measure in its proper Place.  
You excuse your omitting of being Qualified, because this Neglect did not proceed from any Error of [your] Will. This being occasioned partly by the Practice of the former Censors, who never qualified themselves for that Employment; and partly by Advice of your Council (three of the Great Practisers of this Age) who were of Opinion that the Censors were not comprehended in the said Act, it being no Place of Profit, or Crust, nor by Commission immediately from the King, nor such as concerned the Public Government, but did only relate to a due Regulation of the Practice of Physic in London and seven Miles, which by the Laws of the Kingdom is Entrusted in [your] Hands, [you] being the most proper Judges of the same.  
If it was not an Error of the Will, it was a filthy one of the Judgement; But why not of the Will, when you would not hearken to the grave Advice of the Learned Bernard: Who told you the danger of the contrary, and spurred you on to your Duty, by his own Example. No, you thought to shelter yourselves amidst the Multitude, by a Power paramount, as you deemed to the rest of the Law. There is but two Sets of you that are Obnoxious, the rest safe by the including Act of Grace; but doth a multitude of Offenders lessen the Crime, it may prompt Mercy to spare the less Guilty. The most Turbulent in a Sedition, the Ringleaders of a Faction, are always justly punished; tho' the seduced Mob may be spared, because they were so; and in a Rebellious Regiment, where One and All seem equally Guilty, Decimation is not only Just, but Merciful. Will you make the World believe, that either that True Oracle of the Law Sr. Cr. Levinz, or the Judicious and Popular Sr. Barth, or the Equitable Sr. Thomas, would ever induce you to run the hazard of so severe a Lash of the Law, when as you say, you were already qualified by piece-meal; so not Conscience, but an unaccountable Capriccio could hinder the Total. Why was not their Advice produced when demanded before the Attorney General? No, you did here, as in Gr— ds Commitment, and would fain mend yourselves, as you endeavoured to do the Warrant ex post Facto. Post est occasio Calva.  
Your Profit indeed as worthily managed, together with the College Stock, but small; but upon Examination of Persons to be admitted Certain. The Perquisits sometimes very great. Surely your boastingly Great Power requires the like Trust in the Persons Entrusted therewith. Your Great Sense owns the Verb, not the Noun, the full meaning of the Word, but not the Word itself. Should a Common-council-man argue, that he was chosen for, and represents only a private Precinct; would that Exempt him from a due Qualification? But your Power is more extensive than Health and Sickness. The Collegiate Physicians, and all other Practitioners, Apothecaries, Naval and Resident Surgeons, and Druggist's are under your immediate Inspection, pray cast them up and tell us how many Thousand they are.  
This Law would be a very pretty Barrier here, against the universally encroaching Popery; when Persons so vastly Entrusted, if they will not, need not qualify themselves; or pick and choose when, how far, and what Part of that Law they are pleased to satisfy. Pray read but the Preamble to your Original Charter, and you will find, that your Power being so extensive, your Capacity, Care and Skill ought to have been proportionate. His Majesty indeed hath not been pleased to take any Notice of you as to Favour, but hath already in Displeasure, and 'tis hoped he will curtail your Ambition, and clip the Wings of your towering Pride: but how much and whatever you have, is originally derived from, and confirmed by his Royal Predecessors. Judges you were, but how Proper, your Actions have already, the Law hath and will determine it.  
Next you deny, that you executed your Office with the utmost Violence, against an Innocent Person, and Member of the College; call this and the former Charges against [you] notorious Untruths; are surprised how the Author durst Print and Publish them, and impudently deliver them to the most high and celebrated Court of Judicature in this Kingdom; the Doctor having been proved Guilty of Ill Practice in a very high Degree, before the Precedent and Censors.  
I answer that you are doubly Guilty of what you deny here; because the Doctor was doubly Innocent 1st, in the Eye of the Law, Rectus in any Curia by the Act of Grace, though he had been never so Guilty before: 2ly, as to Matter of Fact, having proved himself so in the open Court. Therefore the Author durst Print and Publish this and the former Charges against you, durst deliver it to the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons, dares Publish it again and prove it at any time; as he would have then, if you durst have Challenged him, or dare to do it still. As for Impudence e'en let that be shared amongst those, who openly dare in the Face of the World to Challenge the Judgement of my Lord Chief Justice, and the Honestly of the Jury, who sound upon Oath the Doctor not to be Guilty of Ill Practice to any Degree. They acquitted him of what you condemned him, yet both were equally Sworn to do Right; 'tis not now a mere Error in you, you persist in your Judgement and condemn him still. Who, I pray, is now Guilty of what I dare not name. You may go on in your Defiance, but never prosper long in Opposition to Justice: She hath indeed Leaden Heels, especially when clogged by you, and hindered in her Course, but you may at last (as you deserve) feel her Iron Hands.  
Next you own the Doctor a Member of the College of Physicians (having a Licence granted him to Practice Physic) but then his admission was granted on these Conditions, Quam diu se bene gesserit, & statuta Collegii observaverit; & Solutiones debitas praestiterit. All which Conditions he hath notoriously Violated, having proved a very factious, turbulent and disobedient Member to that Honourable Society, etc.  
The Doctor is indeed a Member of the College; his Diploma is his Licence, and yours is no more, because all one with his: His Admission the same as, his Behaviour better than yours in the Eye of the World, because adjudged so by Law. But seeing you persist in abusing both Words and Persons, I must inform you, That a Licenciat in any Faculty, is as great in other Countries, as a simple Fellow looks little in this. If he hath violated any Conditions, you were notoriously Imprudent, in not charging him with the True, but condemn him for an Imaginary Crime. Out with it Gentlemen, General Words will not do in Law, Deceit is generally couched under them. Well then, is't Ill Practice? He is cleared of that; 'tis not in him, but in you towards him. Is't want of Respect, in not submitting to you at the Censors board, and acknowledging his Crime? He begs your Pardon for that, and thinks your Demand insolent, especially in the present Conjuncture. Is't because he will not furnish you with Money, to defend your Injustice towards him? He thinks he is not bound in Justice to do it; especially you having been so remiss of Late, in levying that Imposition upon him and his Fellow Licenciates. Pray take Example by the Prosecutor, and be as Industrious in settling the special Verdict in Dr. Peaches Case, as the Prosecutor hath been in that against one of you. You are at a Stand; and so is Dr. Greenfield with the rest, not knowing whether they have not paid too much in their Wrong already; and whether a Repetundarum doth not lie against you? I mean a small Bill in Equity, for illegal Exactions and undue Expenses. Recrimination is no Purgation in you. Have you yourselves performed the Conditions requisite in Just Censors? The Doctor and Prosecutor believes not, and make bold to tell you still, notwithstanding your late Rhodomontadoes, and that almost in your own Latin, Quod vos non bene gesseritis, nec statuta Regni observaveritis, solutiones utrique debit as praestabitis. I hope you may understand this Latin in time, though the Licenciats cannot yours.  
A Ternary of Epithets brings up the Rear of this Clause. Dr. Greenfield is Turbulent, Factious and Disobedient. Not the first, even when repeatedly troubled to no Purpose: Factious he can't be, because he joins with the greater and better Part of the College, against the Ambition and Impositions of the Contrary. Nor Disobedient, because submissive even to an unjust Sentence. You on the contrary, are Honest, Just and Impartial. Honest, for committing him in Opposition to Law. Just, but not to him certainly, nor yourselves neither. Impartial, in exposing yourselves, the College and the whole Faculty, to Derision, needless Suits and Contempt: this I suppose, is not your Judgement at present, but will be so, and is to those of a better.  
You say farther, that the Doctor unjustly complains of his Treatment, the same being (as he saith) executed with the utmost Violence; that it is so far from Truth, that on the contrary he was treated with all the Fairness and Kindness which any Member of that, or any other Corporation, could expect or reasonably desire, as will appear by the following Account of true Matter of Fact.  
Dr. Greenfield doth and may justly Complain of your Violence; but here you mistake the Person, 'tis the Prosecutors Charge against you, and if you come off on'nt no better else where, then by your Excuses here, you may be as kindly treated as the Doctor, and kinder too, because a Prison of less Scandal may serve. You were not used in the Public Court, as the Doctor in yours; you were fairly heard, and the Prosecutor chose your own Friends to be Evidence against you. There remains now but a fair Retaliation of Kindness, and that with an advantageous Compliment if you please to accept it, in Token of Gratitude. May you be doubly repaid. But if your great Kindness cannot be refused, and those lately incorporated amongst your kind selves, are doubly bound to accept it, whenever you please to offer it; I'd e'en advise them rather to give you a good piece of Plate for a Congee, then be over loaded by your Graces.  
If the Matter of Fact be drawn out of the lasting Records of Dr. G—ll; I must crave leave to tell him, that he is out in both his Capacities: viz. In relating the Matter as Register; and condemning the Doctor for the Fact as Censor; his naturally precipitate Haste hurried him on to Puni●nd ', without Examinand '; and now to relate the Affair without Recognoscend '.  
You say, the first Year upon Accusation of the Husband, etc. the Doctor was out of Town, and so not heard in his own Defence. The second Year the Complaint being renewed, was condemned unanimously by the Four Censors, but not Fined or Committed, because one of the Censors, contrary to his Duty, refused to sign the Warrant. The third Year, he was unanimously found Guilty again, but was not committed, because one of the Censors was called out of Town, and another obliged to keep his Chamber with a tedious Fit of the Gout. The fourth Year, upon a fresh Complaint, he was found Guilty of Ill Practice, and Fined and Committed without Bail, or Mainprise to Newgate, etc.  
The Account as here stated, is both Improbable and highly Mysterious. 1st, That the Fact being Committed in 1692, the Affair should not be determined till the 6th Year after in 1697. 2ly, That the Woman notwithstanding her continual Torments should not seek for a Re dress in almost two Years. 3ly, That her Friends should complain but once a Year. 4ly, That this weighty Affair, should have but one Day in a Year allowed towards it Decision. 5ly, That when the Doctor was dismissed (as was Sworn in Court by Doctor Collins) the Reason should be, because one of the Censors, though he Condemned him according to his Oath, yet refused to Punish him contrary to his Duty. 6ly, That upon another Arraignment and Condemnation, the Doctor should scape unpunished, because One of the Censors was called out of Town (that very Minute ● suppose, and must be Absent the whole remainder of the Year) so hastily, that he could not set his Hand to the Warrant; and another at the same time luckily taken with the Gout in his Toe, so that he was not able to stir his Fingers, so much as to set his Mark. The Doctor was indeed, after so many Jeopardies, condemned to purpose at last, by Men regardless of Magna Charta, and outstripping the Inquisition itself; but I hope they will be convinced, that either a Gout, or an Absence for a whole Year, had been less prejudicial to the Affairs and Persons then, etc. I shall forbear to unriddle these Mysteries, till Mr. Bolton's Book against Dr. Greenfield comes out, under the auspicious Conduct and Influence of Dr. Goodale; and at present give you only some Hints. It was about this time Mr. Clunn was a trotting about with his pretended Patients, in order to turn the Tedious and Expensive Illicita, into a speedily Gainful Mala Praxis; the Committee was then settling; the Censors modelling; new Laws forging, Oaths and Bonds imposing: In short, Parturiebant Montes; and Dr. Greenfield was thought as yet not so Great an Offender, till he refused to be shopt in the Repository, and protested against the Laws imposed: Then, a'd Terrorem, he was made an Example, others very Eminent were to follow his Fate.  
But suppose the six Sets of Censors had unanimously Condemned him for that Fact, he was afterwards honourably Acquitted of, upon a full Hearing by a superior Court: let the World Judge; whether the Dishonour of so Foul an Act, should not solely and wholly have belonged to those his Partial, Ignorant and Prejudiced Judges, who, by that Means and in such Numbers, had exposed themselves, and the whole Faculty, to the Contempt of the Universe.  
You own further your Ignorance of the Doctors being comprehended in the King's General Pardon, [your] Lawyer's having never hinted any such thing to [you], neither did the Doctor plead any Acts of Grace when summoned before [you], etc.  
Bless me what kind of Judges are these, that plead their Ignorance of the Law, as an Excuse of their acting against it! This was not a single, private, absolete Act, but an Universal one repeatedly passed in Parliament, since the pretended Fact was committed. 'Tis very strange you should be Ignorant of obvious Laws, when so curiously Nice in the Terms, as to be able to distinguish, between four Men who are the Censors, and four Censors who are the Men, in the Specicial Verdict. But if all of the four Censors, and those of the more numerous Committee, continued invincibly Ignorant of what was known to the very Mob: I wonder it should scape the Studious Observations of the Industrious Go— le, who, Propria Voluntate & mero Motu suis, without any Pension from the State, hath been Epitomizing all the News Papers. You do both injustly, and in vain Charge the Learned in the Law, with such a gross Ignorance. Advice not asked cannot be given, and if given, is to no purpose when never taken: Had you not so much as a Hint of this, when you opposed violently the Doctors Discharge. Pray ask Pardon of your Council for so signal an Affront; and be pleased to remember that you are a Court, before which Pardons are required to be pleaded.  
Reason Second, These Censors not being satisfied with the designed Ruin of this Doctor and Family, proceeded to effect it (according to the opinion of most People) by stirring up and assisting the aforesaid turbulent Woman to bring an Action of 2000 Pounds against the said Doctor, which was carried on to an Expense far above the Ability of the Woman, and backed it by Libels published in their Name. But upon Trial before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief Justice Holt, the said Doctor was honourably acquitted, and his Practice vindicated, allowed of an commended by a great Number of the most eminent Physicians of the said College, it plainly appearing that Ignorance, not Judgement, was the cause of that Censure, and Envy for want of Success by the same Medicine they condemned the said Doctor for, it being proved in Court that some of them had made use of it before.  
This Second Charge (you say) is highly unjust [you] having been no further concerned, then as Witnesses Subpoena'd. And as to the publishing Libels in [your] Names, it is so notoriously false, that you only vindicated your Honour and Justice against an Impudent and Scandalous Advertisement, published to defame [you].  
I must now rake up this shameful Affair, being forced to it by your no better Denial. This Woman (one of the loser Gang of Pedlars, that offer good Pennyworths of Muslin, under pretence of a Seaman's Covert Baron and Long Reach) lay Perdu for about six Years, to regain her forty Shillings; and seeing her yearly Applications to consecutive Censors, were not prevalent to cause the Doctor to refund, what he but too dearly earned; tho' she found her Partisans baffled, and the Doctor discharged by the Judges; yet thought (forsooth) to jump into an Estate, by such a favourable Opportunity, and commenced a Suit of 2000 l. against the Doctor, but unluckily it was some time after he had brought his, in the like Sum against the Censors, for false Imprisonment. This was a plain design to quash both the Actions, there being no Overplus to be contended about in either: But the Doctor thought it Unreasonable; she goes on and puts him to the Expense of 50 l. by dilatory Courses; Summons the Censors to give Evidence in what they had Condemned before on her behalf, influenceth their numerous Party, (more than ever were seen in any Court) to defend her Cause tooth and nail, and at last upon the Verdict against her, pays the Costs as soon as demanded. Do you think all the World is at Blindmansbuff; and every one you see at Echo lo Cieco, and yourselves under Covert cause winking? No, Dr. Burwells menial Servant, that poor addicated Officer of yours John Cole, hath related the Fact to an Eminent Physician, a little before his own Death: That by an express Command of your Attorney, he waited on Mr. Ambrose, and conducted him to that Woman's House, in order to commence that Suit. All the World hath reason to believe you were the Principals, she only Accessary. The Doctor still reserves a Cardinal Evidence in Petto, till his numerous Scruples, about a Maintenance of a Suit, Champeatie, and Common Barratry, are fully satisfied. Now I shall readily grant you, that the Advertisement you speak of, was Impudent and Scandalous, and lying as to Matter of Fact; but I must acquaint the World, that neither the Doctor, nor any of his Friends I am sure, had any Hand in it. The Author was a Professor but no Doctor; a noisy Pamphletier; that spark of flashy Nonsense; your worthy Antagonist, and fit Match for Controversy: You may easily know him, whether he Speaks or Writes, Prays or Rails 'tis all one. Piscis à Capite foetet.  
But you were in Torment, pray any Tooth good Barber; drowning in Spite, caught at Grass, any Ansa, any thing to pull in poor Greenfield. You published a Scandalous Answer, to a Scandalous Advertisement; whereby you doubly abuse the Innocent: For you might as easily have traced the Author of this, as he the Messenger to the Press of yours. I must tell you for once; the Doctor is so confident of the Justice of his Cause, that notwithstanding your numerous Libels, he hath writ nothing as yet but his Book in Latin. The Reasons and Remarks, you dare not attack, are the Prosecutors; who hath hitherto exposed you but moderately, notwithstanding your Injustice be the very Basis of his Informations; he could do it no otherwise, then by vindicating the Doctor: As by Justice he was, and in Justice he ought to be. Rumpantur ut Ilia Codris.  
You had indeed some show of a Pretence to answer, but no Cause to revile a declared Innocent. But pray did you not Libel him previously to all this, while he lay at your Mercy, your Prisoner in Newgate, both for the pretended Crime and the imposed Fine. Was not that enough? But you must immediately give the World an Account, that he was committed to Newgate for Ill Practices, in the Plural, without specifying for What. None but those that were acquainted with your Constitution and Injustice, could imagine it less than Felony: Debt it could not be because of that Expression: Nor for the Fine; that was never demanded. You remember no doubt Dr. Burwell, when you were not named, and scarcely affronted by the Learned Loss; what horrid Labour you were in for a Year, before you could be delivered of a Female Child at one Throw, by the Midwifery of a Letter; your Voluminous Book you mean, in Answer to six Lines that touched you: Be pleased to look in your Epistle Dedicatory, and amidst the broody Metaphors and teeming Allegories, you'll find these Words. Yea and although in the Case of a particular Person, Physicians may differ in their Opinion, and perhaps each think he hath all the Reason on his side, yet it is very Base for either of these to begin to print the Case, and Condemn the other, were he never so Guilty. And why so? Certainly because it exposeth the Faculty, as well as the Person. But tho' you were in the wrong, you both condemned and printed first with a Witness: Every time you have published, may be deemed the First; because the Doctor hath not answered you as yet. Your being a Judge or Censor won't do: Neither Oath, nor Discretion, bound you to Print any thing. I hope you were a Physician then; and if so, I leave you to think of the Adjective you use. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you are.  
Now we will go on to the Matter of Fact, as by you related. The Doctor brought the said Woman thirty six Grains of Cantharideses, to be taken to Cure an Ulcer of the Bladder, whereof she took thirty Grains in 12 Hours, upon which ensued, First, great Pains and Torments with bloody Urine; and then voiding of several Quarts of perfect Blood, with Skins and Flesh That shecontinued twenty two Weeks in great Torment, etc.  
The Truth of this, as it was declared and proved in Court, when the Doctor cast this Woman, or the Censors rather; is the following, viz. Upon the Doctor's extraordinary Success in curing Ulcers in the Bladder, by the Cantharideses (which is a Distemper hitherto accounted incurable), he was recommended by some of his former Patients to this Person, and found her troubled with it, and a Scyrrhus in the Vagina Uteri and Cancerous Piles withal; he sends her eighteen of the Pills, with their Corrector Camphire separately; but with positive Orders not to take them but in his Presence, in order to give more or less, as the Case upon particular Signs should require: She impatient of Delays, takes some of them in his Absence, and without the Corrector, upon which some Pains and bloody Water ensued; but no more than what is but too usual, upon the bare applying of a Blister. The Doctor being sent for in haste, chides her, but takes off the Pains and bloody Water immediately; sends her into the Country, and attends almost daily upon her, for his forty Shillings. Not one ill Word against the Doctor all this while, all the Clamour was against Mrs. Salloway the Midwife; who cleared herself from injuring the Person, by Doctor's Coatsworth and Gibson called in, they finding then Cancerous Piles were the Cause of her Pains, for the Ulcer was gone. This Clamour being obviated, the Doctor was thought on about two Years after, at the Instigation of one of the Censors, whom the Doctor had exasperated, as he easily will be. The Doctor being cleared; the Woman musters up her tattered Crew to Swear that horrid Nonsense, produceth the Affidavits; the Censors Condemn him upon them; the Court of King's Bench upon impartial hearing Acquits him of the Fact.  
This being so, you are egregiously out both as to Fact, and the Nature of the Thing, 1st, That above thirty Grains of corrected Cantharideses, have been given by the Doctor with Success, both before and since his Commitment, was fully proved in Court. 2ly, Notwithstanding what the Woman's Evidence Swore, it appeared as plain, by their contradiction, and the time of taking, that she took less than fifteen Pills. 3ly, It was evident by the Doctor's constant Practice in attending, that it was against his Order she took any, it was at her Peril she did it, and aught to have fared worse. 4ly, Those that know the Symptoms upon the giving of Cantharideses, will tell you, that 1st. there ensues a plentiful discharge of Urine, than a desire to make Water with a less quantity of it; next, Strangury; lastly, bloody Water with Pains; but Perfect Blood never: Experience and Famous Authors declare this expressly: I will not now Name them, but may e'er long. By the Flesh they mean (I suppose) the Sphincter Vesicae, Nymphae, Clitoris, and the Labia Pudendi perhaps: by the Skins the bits either of the Vagina or the Bladder itself, torn off in pieces by these Venomous Animals, destructive to Life, inimical to Nature, Muliebris they must mean. Egregious Anatomists, worthy ever to remain in the Theatre, for the perpetual improvement of that Art: Especially if you consider their Nice Observations, as to the Number of the Quarts of Blood: Several they say. An indefinite Quantity will bleed an Elephant to Death; and though this Woman had nine Lives like a Cat, and each of them sustained by a proportionate and distinct Quantity of Blood, that Number must have destroyed her at last: But she is still alive, and the better for the Doctor, as was proved in Court. 'Tis a Cancerous Humour that attends her, and the Doctor begs you his Seniors, to take some pity upon her, and Cure her of this, as he did of the Ulcer, and he'll refund the forty Shillings: 'Tis worth your Pains Gentlemen, half an Examination Fee, a whole Angel a piece. But this Several is set down to impose upon All, being as wide as one's Fancy, and as incertain, as your Judgement of Things: It must then be restrained, and it moderately reaching from Four to the Teens, we'll take the middle Number, and reduce it to Eight: Nay I'll bate you two, and conclude it six by the Affidavit, as reported from you; which is about fifteen Pounds of Blood, if you consider the difference of Troy and Avoirdupoize, with that of the specific Gravity of the Blood, as distinct from Water; the first being bulk for bulk heavier than the last. Perfect Blood you say, that is the Red Mass, without the Mixture of the Serum, which is the transparent and fluid Substance, wherein the other, or wherewith if you please, is naturally carried, and diluted in the Vessels: This distinct from the bloody Water, and the preceding plentiful Urine, was measured like Size, I suppose, to find the Account. Now it having been agreed amongst the Anatomists, that the Quantity of Blood in Men, is from sixteen to twenty four Pounds Troy, by which Blood they mean, the red Substance and the Serum together, as they both circulate in the Vessels; and the Proportion of the One to the other being almost Equal; this Woman must have lost, and that in twelve Hours time, at least thirty Pounds of Blood; if you consider the bloody Water too: Which must be six Pounds more than any one could have; and yet she was better the next day then before, and alive to this.  
That Perfect Blood, as they call it, must be here distinct from the Serum, I will prove by the following Arguments.  
First, This Perfect Blood, came after the bloody Urine, consequently distinct; it must be taken from the bottom of the former, and is the coagulated Red Mass: For the rest was Urine, though bloody besure.  
Secondly, This monstrous Excretion of Blood, being originally caused by a Diuretic, must first cause a plentiful evacuation of Urine; which is nothing but the Serum having past the Kidneys; next bloody Urine, that is the Red Mass broke by, and diluted in the Serum: Now if you mind the Gradation, the Third, that is the Perfect Blood, must be the Red Mass subsiding, fluid when excreted, but coagulating after and settling to the bottom, and so measured; or else where is there a distinction between the Second and Third.  
Thirdly, If it were not so, the just Proportion between the Red Mass and the Serum, could not be known; and so not Sworn to: Especially if you consider the Tagg-ragg and Bobtail, that made the Observation for you, and the Deposition too.  
Fourthly, This Poison, as you call it, working by separating the Parts of the Blood, and not by coagulating the whole Fluid; the Serum separated, upon Erosion of the Blood Vessels, imbibed as much Blood as it could retain; which is the bloody Urine; the Residue that subsided, must be wholly devoyed of it, which is the Perfect Blood; fifteen Pounds in all of the Red Mass; which, with thirteen Pounds of Serum, requisite to dilute it in the Vessels, makes twenty eight: And ten to one, four more of both, our of the bloody Urine; makes thirty two, Quod probandum erat. Yet this Heroic Virago fainted not at all, after so enormous a loss of Blood.  
Lastly, The same Witness that Swore to the Affidavit, deposed likewise in Court, that that Blood was as sweet as a Rose; now if it had been mixed with the Serum, after this had once passed the Kidneys, or the Bladder, it would certainly have got a far different Scent, of kin to the Boutan Royal Snush, and overflowing with the neighbouring Perfumes.  
But whatsoever Anatomists have said on this Subject, was merely conjectural: comparative Anatomy, first (that I know of as to this Affair) instituted by Mr. Boil, detects a great deal less Quantity of Blood in Men. He tried the Experiment upon Sheep and other Animals, took the exact weight of the Blood issuing, and of the Animal, which compared with that of Man, by a Synonymous Rule, he found the Proportion to be but sixteen Pounds at most in any. You may try it upon Goats, as my Friend hath done, for the sake of the Experiment and the Blood itself; and upon all imaginable Allowances, you will find this Assertion true. Consequently then, this Woman by your veracious Account, voided as much more of Blood, as she could have in her, besides what must of necessity have circulated in the Vessels, and the habit of her Body, to sustain her Life.  
Had you but considered the Menstrua; how careful Nature is in the Evacuation of that, tho' superfluous Blood; how gradually she doth it, in small quantities and several days; though then of no use to the Body, because it was intended for another: What a small Excess is called Flooding, and accompanied with Fainting; and a little greater endangers Life: Or but minded, what loss of Blood is Fatal in Hemorrhages, even discontinued for some Days: Or seen Executions by Beheading: You would never have imposed upon the World such Nonsense. You considered as much, the horrid Torments you talk of: Nature was then upon the Rack, as you make us believe; which of itself, when her Flesh and Skins came away by Bits, was more then enough to have destroyed this miserable Creature. What will not an Exorbitant Spite do? When fired by Passion, in an inconsiderate Subject. Any Body, any Thing, must be believed against Greenfield; any Reproach true, if cast upon him. Quicquid in eum jecer is, Pomum erit.  
Be pleased to accept of these few Hints, for I design not to enlarge further as yet. The Author I dare not Name, lest he should prove to be one only Licenced: An insignificant Wretch, proper quo ad hoc (what he is now about) fit only to be despised, his offers disdained, and himself (poor Soul) expelled. As to the Flesh and Skins, pretended to be voided withal; I cannot persuade myself to expose you for it, as you justly deserve: I ll let it alone, till further provoked by the Masterpiece of Dr. Goodal 's Creation.  
To prove your Assertions, you boast of five Affidavits: You may have as many Scores, if you please, and keep them for your private Use. The same Witnesses that attested these, were examined upon Oath in Court; and either retracted what they had Sworn before, by not alleging what you here assert; or were not believed in what they there deposed: They were not then before you, but before a just Judge and an honest Jury; who minded as well the Credibility of the Witness, as the Possibility of the Thing itself: Or else, how could there have been a point blank contrary Determination of this Affair? They cleared the Doctor of the self same Fact you condemned him for, yet heard the same Witnesses against him: But they had no Party to quell; no wild Designs to carry on; no Person to hate; no Passion to satisfy, but that for Truth and Justice: And they were upon their Oaths too, as well as your Worships; they talked not indeed so much of, but acted according to them: But why was there so great a Difference in the Sentence pronounced? I'll tell you. An Oath may be, and is too often, only a loose Covert for By-ends, as the Party is biased by Interest or Passion; as well as a fixed Tie to Truth, in Persons immovably Just.  
Next you seem to deny, that the Doctor was honourably acquitted, etc. by replying. That it is true, that four Junior Physicians of the College, who never arrived to the Honour or Dignity of Precedents, Elects or Censors, and professed Malcontents to the said College, did endeavour to justify the Ill Practice, by extenuating and excusing it; though none of them durst own, that they had ever prescribed the Dose given by Dr. Groenvelt; neither could they deny the Fatal Effects, which had frequently attended the Use of that bold and unhappy Remedy, which by the most Eminent Authors hath been ranked amongst Poisons.  
These four Junior Physicians, whom you worthy Seniors despise, need no other Praise, but only to be named, viz. Sr. R. Blackmore. The Learned Dr. Bernard, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 (deceased when 70), Dr. Gibbons, and Dr. Coatsworth. The first solemnly knighted for his Merit, and made Physician in ordinary to His Majesty; two to Public Hospitals; the other universally known and applauded for his Learning and Practice, together with the Rest. They indeed want Leisure and Ill Nature, to execute the Office of such Censors; have not Ambition enough to become the Heads of a Party, of the College they deserve; and their daily Practice requires not a second Examination, to make them Elects. Professed Malcontents they are, yet not to the College, but at your Parties Proceedings; and for that Reason still continue honest. Pray, which of you would not quit all his Pretences, to those vast Honours and Dignities, to become but as one of them. All the good I can wish you, is but to arrive to seemingly the same Repute, to support your daily declining State: But to them (the three surviving Juniors) a gradual progress in their real Worth, that the College may boast of more than a single Hypocrates.  
They were really smart Youths in quoting of Authors; their Depositions tied as to Matter of Fact; their Instances pithy; their Observations becoming grey Hairs: The Court was astonished at their Learning and Experience, and became regardless, of the merely Negative and Opinionative Depositions, of their Seniors and Superiors, either as to present Imaginary, or Antiquated Honours. There was a sly Youth besides that prompted the Council, and laughed at your Management; and many Juniors that did, and were ready, to attest the Truth, in Vindicating the Doctor; each of them as Eminent really, as you in Opinion. But you forgot the Eminent Apothecaries, Able Surgeons, Skilful Midwives, and a Cloud of Credible Witnesses, attesting the extraordinary Success of the Doctor in Ulcers of the Bladder, by that decried Medicine and Dose; which the Doctor more conversant, and generally applied to, in Cases of that Nature, kept as a beneficial Secret, till ravished by you, in order to abuse him and it; yet he expects still a Reward for the Discovery, even from yourselves. The fatal Effects, were no other than those but too usual upon Perl Cordials. A bold Remedy may be good and requisite in desperate Cases; and this was not Unhappy to any but you, for condemning, what you knew not the Nature and Use of.  
Some remedies indeed have been ranked amongst Poisons; but it is either the Excess of Quantity, or some incorrected Quality, makes them reputed so: Mind the one, and mend the other, and what was Noxious before, becomes beneficial. Thus Sublimate is One; but being corrected by One of the Ingredients, that made it first a Poison, becomes Innoxious; and is safely and daily administered even to Infants. Ratsbane corrected, hath been used internally with Success, in desperate Cases, by Muller, Bonetus and Willis. Cortex was formerly thought such, and given at first but to Grains, with great Caution, and only by some: Till the Nature and Benefit of it, being duly observed by All, increased the Dose of it almost to Ounces. Who doubts but Opium is a Poison? Yet daily used, in vast Doses for pleasure, in the East; and here in most Cases, even to Excess. Hellebore, Elaterium, Coloquintida, Lapis Lazuli and other violent Purgatives, are no better without the former Precaution; yet safely given by a skilful Hand. An expert Physician, that really knows the Medicine and Distemper, is the sole Judge of the Dose; not to be abridged by mere Strangers to the Remedy and Intention. My Instances, moftly either of natural Products, or slightly Artificial, have been adapted to your Capacities; not daring to have a recourse to Chemistry, and tell you, how various and instantaneous Alterations and Corrections of Things, are thereby produced; lest I should be reviled, for knowing something of so Beneficial an Art; though only with intent to prevent its being hurtful. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  
Besides, we must not immediately Pronounce that a Poison, what either some single, or a consecutive Series of Authors, declared to be so: We shall find both Ancients and Moderns much mistaken herein. To the former Quicksilver is such: Yet found now otherwise in itself; and its preparations, useful in Common, and a Refuge in desperate Cases. Within this Century, and our Memory almost, the Famous Doctors of that Faculty in Paris, banished Antimony as Venom from Physic, and those that used it, from the City Practice; threatened to Prosecute Dr. Monginot (though chief Physician to the King) the Learned Quercetan and Mayerne: But had the Honesty, when better informed, to retract that Judgement by a solemn Decree, and reinthrone that Triumphant Mineral.  
You say further, Cantharideses have been declared to be Venomous Animals, destructive to Life, inimical to Nature, for the most part deadly, etc. most lethiferous Poisons and acute Venom's. Pray what is become of your Mother Tongue and Wit? What do you mean by Venomous Animals? Is there any other, but what show themselves to be such whilst alive? Deleterious either by Tooth, Sting, or Touch: By the first, as the Vipers, etc. Sting as the Scorpion, Centopies, the poisonous Raja and Catfish: Tooth and mediate Touch, as a Mad Dog: Mediate and immediate as the Torpedo: But a Spanish-Fly is as Venomous as its kind, or a Flea; scarce so much as a Gnat; far short of a Breeze: It's acute Venom lies not in a sharp Tooth or Sting; but in a slight Touch, with a blunt Probascis. I have heard of Poisonous Plants, and Virulent Simples I am acquainted with: But can you not distinguish between Animalia Venenata and Talia Venena; though Use hath allowed a greater Latitude to the Latin expression, then to the Venomous English. I appeal to all Mankind, what is meant by a Venomous Creature; that Expression denoting such a Quality, in a living Agent: When the Life is gone, they cease to be Venomous, and often to be Poisons; being used either for Physic or Food; as the Vipers, Raja and Catfish: If you henceforward pretend to so much as an English Summons; pray next Time, you make Use of this Word Venomous, learn to understand it and to spell it better: Else you will but expose yourselves whilst endeavouring to impose upon the Vulgar; and in describing of a Fly, use the Bombast, Rattleheaded Epithets of a Snake.  
These Flies, whatever you say, have neither a burning, nor a corroding Quality, when in a skilful Hand, with a due Corrector: Deadly no more than they were to this Person. However you being touched a little by the Authority of Hypocrates, who recommends them twice, are pleased to allow, these Lethiferous Poisons and Acute Venom's, &c. to be used in very Desperate and Chronic Cases: But to what Purpose I cannot Imagine; unless it be to ease the Patient of his Pains, by sending him packing; as you insinuate Hippocrates' Potions served both the Patients, towhom they were most unhappily prescribed, not exceeding five or six Grains at most. I do not now wonder that Greenfield was, when Hypocrates must be lashed by such like Animals, for favouring this Remedy. You talk indeed of powerful Antidotes, but mention not any: There are none in the Author, unless it be Wine to allay the Burning; but that of Pliny-lest out, viz. the Heads and Tails to correct the Acrimony of the rest of the Body of these Flies: I will however unriddle this Affair, for the sake of others. The Ancients used them in smaller Doses, for want of a due Corrector; but now one is found, they are given in a Greater, with greater Success; and used at present but in Chronic and desperate Cases: Pray is not an Ulcer in the Bladder such? How often hath its Cure been attempted in vain, for several Years, by all imaginable Ways? but now, by this Method to be cured, in less than a Week: Either you must allow this Distemper to be such, and so talk to no purpose: Or if you deny it to be Chronic, etc. you know not the Case, and think it Acute, because causing sharp Pains.  
You need not fright the Doctor, with Tragical Stories, of their mortiferous and deadly Effects; they shall be examined, whenever produced: only be pleased to take Notice, That if all those Remedies, that have been Mortiferous, either by Accident, designed Malice, or unskillful Advice and Mistakes, must be set aside, because then Noxious; you must never prescribe either Opium, Mercury, the Cortex or Steel; nay clear the Shop of most of the Rest; and whoop for your Tools and Practice withal: Unless Hevelius hath discovered some Medicinal Simples in the Moon; which when fetched for you by Go—les Ganza's, will serve but sometime; being as liable to be misused, as any we have. I believe these few Notes, on your longest and most virulent Paragraph, will prove a Preliminary, short but full Answer to Mr. B— on; let his intended Book be never so Voluminous, and his Quotations Numerous: The young Gentleman knowing not as yet, that Authority in Physic, is always subject to Reason and Experience; I am afraid his Tract will come out in Un●time.  
As to your boasted of Partisan Cyprianus, we know the Man, his Trade and Education; can produce authentic Letters, as to his Behaviour: Lithotomist he is, and a Competitor to his much Senior, the Expert and Successful, Greenfield (who since his barbarous Treatment, hath cut of and extracted the Stone, from seventeen Persons of both Sexes, from five to fifty six Years of Age, and but one of them did miscarry; who by the Opinion of the Physicians present at his Dissection, could not have lived though he had not been cut). Cyprianus indeed was the most violent, in his Depositions against him; though both were of the same Country, and Strangers in this: The reason you may judge of. How Eminent an Anatomist he is, will appear in the Sequel: But his Professorship, you speak of, like Meleager's Life, not being inherent, dwindled away with the Life of a kind co-habiting Refugie: His Lectures expired as soon as the Man; and his Honour laid in the Dust, before the Corpse of his Friend. However by his last Lecture in the open Court, I have learned, that Spanish Flises work contrary Effects in different Countries: Here, as appears by the five Affidavits, they render the Blood (like the bite of a Haemorrhous) flowing out by Gallons: In Holland (upon his Credit) like that of an Asp, they coagulate it by Pailfulls: Here, internally given, affect no inward Parts, but only the Urinary-Ducts and Receptacles; though conveyed into the Blood, and carried by it to all others: There, they miserably excoriate and ulcerate the Throat, Stomach and Guts. Had these venomous Creatures, been the Censors Flies, and not stifled luckily in a Pailful of Blood (which he Swore he took out of the Bladder), They had doubtless torn' in Pieces, and perhaps devoured her Skins and Flesh; as the Cacciatori are served by the Vipers in Campagna di Roma. But now we talk of such Animals, I must tell Mr. Professor, by way of return, one of my Observations, viz. That the Venom of an Asp, lying close by the Tongue; is naturally, as to the Creatures Jaunt, bounded by a River: Lucan, id Nili metitur Arenis: But we have made it boundless, by wafting it over the Ocean. Aspida fecimus Merces, Pelagoque petimus.  
Wherefore it most plainly appears, that it was not a wise and considerate Judgement, but Envy and Malicious Suggestions, which occasioned that unjust and illegal Censure against Dr. Groenvelt; nor will Learned Censors, either Censure, what they do not know; or Condemn, what they themselves make use of; nor are they solemnly Sworn, to decry that as Poisonous, which hath been evidently proved before the World, to be highly Beneficial to the King's Subjects. It had looked far better in my poor Opinion, for you to have done, what you Charge the Doctor's Evidence untruly withal; viz. to have extenuated your Crime, and not vindicated your Practice, in opposition to the Law, and the determination of the Court of Kings-Bench.  
As to your old women's Stories you talk of, the most Fabulous we have heard and laughed at in Court, for no other Fatality attending; then the usual One, upon the best of Remedies, in a dying Person: But if you please to trump them up again, the Doctor will either F— t at your Thunder, by despising your Tales: Or if you expose the Faculty too much by the Rehearsal; you must expect the same as to your Persons and Skill: Lex Talionis will bear him out if attacked; though not you the Aggressors. Instances he may have without any Trouble; for you know how great a Body you have disobliged. You may then spare your Brains and Shoe-leather, skipp no more over the Ditches in Southwark; lest you fall into what you designed for another. Be therefore advised, either to submit patiently to the Doctor and Prosecutor; or fairly to the Law.  
The Charge against Dr. Burwell and Torlesse, for administering unprepared Cantharideses, though you deny it, is notoriously True; being fully Sworn to, by Mr. Daire, Speers and Boucher, known honest Apothecaries: The Bills were then, and are ready still to be, produced in any Court. You were absent, you say, when this was alleged; yet Subpoena'd as Witnesses, by the Plaintiff, and concerned as such; yea, and otherwise too, as hath been fully proved. You were really unkind to the Woman, in not appearing; to yourselves, in not vindicating your Honour. Doubtless your Presence would have overawed the Court; undone the Fact and asserted the Common Cause. You may still be present, and Swear in your own Cause, as Evidence for the King: Do but indict Mr. Speers of Perjury (with the rest to make the shorter Work) as you have threatened; and the Matter of Fact will appear in its proper Colours: The Number of the Bills is increased, and there is but such an Opportunity wanting to produce them, and show the World, how just you were in condemning the Doctor for the same Fact, you yourselves were so notoriously Guilty of; but with this remarkable Difference, that though the Doctor knew the Cantharideses not to be a Poison, yet was careful to correct their Acrimony: You have declared them an Acute Venom; but administered them without any Caution (so much as to yourselves), particular Diet, or Antidote; unless it be that of Pliny, and Diuretics, as in one of the Bills, to increase their Force, Malignity and Venom, as you call it; which appearing fully, by the Bills themselves and the Latin directions, and solemnly attested, in a Public Court: Pray be not so lavish of your Tenders of Oaths, for fear of the worst: At least give us some satisfaction first, how far your Negative Depositions, as to Fact, and that in your own Cause, can be valid, against a Positive Oath of sober and credible Witnesses, who have and will assert directly the Contrary of what you pretend to.  
Reason Third, The said Censors having thus notoriously acted like Ill Men, Informations, by order of the Kings-Bench, were brought severally against them (in Obedience to and Encouragement by the Law) for not having qualified themselves, for a Place of such high Trust and judicial Authority; but by the great Endeavours of the said Censors to evade them, the Suit hath proved very Expensive, the said Censors applying themselves to His Majesty, by way of Petition, for a Noli Prosequi; but His Majesty being informed of the Case, out of a tender Regard to Justice and the Laws, was pleased to deny them.  
Reason Fourth, Dr. Burwell, one of the said Censors, being Tried the si●ting after the last Term, upon the Information aforesaid, a special Verdict was obtained against him; and the rest of the said Censors having joined Issue, are to be Tried the next Term.  
Here you are displeased with the Prosecutors asserting, That you have acted notoriously like Ill Men. But if a notorious Injustice, backed by a Barbarous Treatment of a Brother; persisted in to the last, with the utmost Aggravations, of privately Aspersing, and publicly Calumniating, of an innocent Person, highly injured by yourselves before; and that in Contempt, of the Law, the Decision of the Jury, the Advice of Friends, and the Sense of Mankind, merits such a Denomination; be pleased now to accept, not the Similitude only, but the Thing itself. It was then your Injustice, not the Prosecutors Malice, that occasioned the Informations. You have indeed endeavoured to evade them, upon as vain Pretences, as you make Use of here, and Sued, You say, for a Noli Prosequi, being informed by your Council; that you were not within the Act: But you know, That His Majesty, upon true Information of the Matter of Fact, was pleased to deny it: From which it doth plainly appear, that the Prosecution was neither Malicious, nor Unreasonable: For you were left to the Law, by his Majesty's Consent to, and express Approbation of, so just a Prosecution: And you have experienced, by your repeated fruitless Attempts, that the Right Honourable the Lords are of the same Mind.  
The Verdict against Dr. Burwell, was brought in Special: But it was the Prosecutors designed Favour, to you not deferving any, that the least Obnoxious Person was pitched upon amongst you, to give you all time and scope of Repentance: To that End, he ordered his Council, not to oppose the Special Verdict, when desired: Furthermore, I am fully satisfied, if it had been any of the other Three, the Jury would have brought him in Guilty, for Reasons you may learn in time. Notwithstanding all this, you have reviled the Prosecutor for being so tender, slighted his Favours, and continue to do so.  
You express yourselves wisely, That the Matter is to be argued by (not before) the Judges; but in your Wisdom, know not how this Case will be then determined: Yet, by an unaccountable Stubbornness, hazard your Ruin, in a Case supposed by yourselves to be doubtful: You stop your Ears to the Advice of Friends, and the Counsel of those, who not only guests at, but know your Danger; slight all Proposals; laugh at those, who in Pity would gladly have been your Mediators. Three of you indeed may think yourselves Secure, and hope for an Accommodation timely enough, tho' Burwell be ruined; but you are not safe, tho' he should escape; your Plead must be different, your Case worse, your Defence as to any Point Insignificant: But if the Old Gentleman should persist in, and fall a Martyr to his Obstinacy, you must not, you cannot, in Reason and Justice expect any other Fate; as you were his Accomplices, more Active, Designing and Spiteful; you must expect at least the same, deserve a worse Usage. Go on in your Defiance; the Prosecutor hath hitherto, and I believe, will not Fail to meet you One by One, wherever you are pleased to carry the Suit: But my Advice to the Former (if he thinks fit to take it) is to desert you, that would expose him singly, to the lash of the Law, and agree with his kinder Adversary, whilst in the Way with him, lest, etc. Mat. 5. 25.  
I shall now take another Book in Hand, to prove that Dr. Greenfield also ought to be considered: I mean that of Alius Medicus, alias Dr. Bu●well, against Mr. Lesle. I should not have advised Dr. Burwell at all, but that I really pity him, being made by Nature more Innocent than the Rest, as his Book doth fully declare it. He saith, in the 93 Page, That Good Name is better than Life, especially if Livelihood goes away with it. But what Regard had he to that of Dr. Greenfield, or what Compassion for his Family? The Doctor was trepanned by a feigned Message and Name, into a Coffee-house he constantly used, to be hurried to NEWGATE, from amidst his Friends, Patients and numerous Acquaintance; was followed from thence to his House, there taken from the Embraces of his Wife and Children, from under the Nose of his Father in Law, the Reverend Dr. Meriton: He was committed the same Day he had cut a Child of the Stone, by Persons regardless, of the Life of One Innocent, as well as the Prayers of another, Dr. Greenfield I mean; that a Prison of less Scandal, or the Lodge of the College, might serve, till he could make his Application to the other Censors; that to Dr. Burwell proving in vain. His Commitment was instantly published in the Post-Boy, NEWGATE named, his Crime not specified, but declared in General▪ for Ill Practices, with a Notorious Falsehood, for refusing to pay his Fine, which was never demanded, nor intended to be the only Satisfaction, for that Imaginary Crime; as appears by the Censors Warrant and Defence. The Authors adds in the same Page, Good Name is like a Venice Glass, etc. if once cracked though soadred or plastered, yet is despised, undervalved, and in a Manner good for Nothing. Yet he will not suffer the Doctor so much as to endeavour it; but, by repeated public Aspersions. Essays (though I hope in Vain) to shiver it in Pieces. He adds further, It is like Virginity in Women, it enhanceth their Price, etc. In Days of yore, Women were bought for Wives, now only for Whores: But seeing he hath ravished this Metaphoric Girl, and endeavours to violate her still; he will be kindly used, if he only pays really, and suffers not otherwise for the Fact: And if the first Assault merits a round Sum; the repeated Violations, as they enhance the Crime, must likewise the Price. He goes on and tells us, That private Slander is a Sort of Civil Gunpowder, that blows up whole Families at once. Surely Public is uncivil, it doth it much more: And seeing it might have famished the Doctor, his Wife and Children, deserves their Curses against him (the Cause of it) as well as their Cries, These are that Author's Words, not mine, and I firmly believe, a● not the Doctors, nor his Families wishes; whatever the Author deserves.  
I shall now conclude with some few Questions to, and Remarks upon, about half a Score of that Restless Party, Active to no Purpose. You pretend to advance the Grandeur of Physic, by exposing that Faculty; show yourselves Impartial, by punishing your own Members; without any Regard to your own, or the Colleges Honour: For who can rely upon a Physician, if his Admission amongst you, doth not warrant his Skill and Honesty to boot. You pretend to attack your Enemies abroad, by creating more within your own Bowels, out of those who are best able to preserve and defend you. You are over Head and Ears in Debt, yet lavishly waste the small Residue of your Stock in fruitless Attempts, and as needful Suits. In order to retrieve this, you talk of uniting your Body; yet perfist in affronting the most Eminent of the FELLOWS, and the whole BODY of those you call LICENTIATS. Pray where is your Conduct in all these Particulars? You asperse the Latter publicly and privately, as insufficient for Practice; yet they really are, and esteemed by all, equal to the best of you. Pray who will ensure your Skill, when you yourselves decry that of your Equals? You defame them, as fit only, quoad hoc, to practise only in some particular Cases: Yet the College hath given them as Ample à Diploma, as any you have, to practise in All. Pray what means this Abuse? I had almost challenged your Honesty. You will scarcely alallow them any Privileges; yet the College hath granted them the Use and Benefit (Vsum Fructum) of all, either granted, or to be granted hereafter to itself. Pray where is your Justice? You suffer them not to have the Privilege even of transgressing Slaves, to speak for themselves (I mean) though standing before your Worships, and in all humility, desiring to be heard. Pray what do you make of them? You Affront your own Universities by re-examining, and sometimes rejecting those, whom they have approved of, and honoured with the Decree of a Doctor: Besides, you Vilify the foreign Academiae. Pray where is and was your Breeding? You fly from Post to Pillar, from Charter to the Act; now fix here, now there; as you think, this or that will best bear you out, in your jarring Intentions. Pray where is your Foundation? You reject the four Chiefs from being so much as Arbiters of your Differences, or Judges of the By-laws you make. Pray where is your Discretion? You challenge the Justice of the Jury, slight the Advice of my Lord Chief Justice. Pray where is your Manners and Wisdom? You impose Laws, Oaths, Bonds, Fines, Obligations, upon freeborn (not your) Subjects, without being their Representatives, their Consent, or Authority. Pray keep, levy and pay them yourselves; if you please, and what you will or can. It is your boundless Ambition, and conceited Greatness, that is the Cause of all the Mischiefs that attend the College and Faculty. It was indeed otherwise, when such low, wand'ring and retrograde Orbs, were cheked and kept under, by the Presence of those Immortal Lights, whose Glory is eternally fixed. I mean, Wharton, Glisson, Willis, Ent Scarburgh, Lower, etc. Fuistis Troes, fuit Ilium & ingens Gloria Dardan●ae. I had almost forgot the ONLY LICENCED Sydenham. Audisne haec Amphiarae sub Terris abdite? Nay, Dr. Go ---- le, can you bear to hear yourself talk, and your great Patron and Benefactor reviled with the same Breath? But now what calls itself a College, must seek for its Renown amidst the adverse Party, and shelter itself amongst the Malcontents: It had only Goddards drops for the Influence, the Spirit of eliot's Bones for the Support of that Government; till of late it got a YOUNG Man for its Defence. Yet when at the Board, every one of you is a Menecrates, each of you thinks himself a Jove; to be adored, by those called Licenciates, with Capp and Knee, in a Profound Silence. But you found of late, that those your Equals, will no longer bear such like Indignities. You must show yourselves first to be Men, by reflex Thoughts on your past Actions: Till then, I shall take Leave of your Excellencies (as Philip accosted your haughty Predecessor aforesaid) and that you may hence 〈…〉 d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, I wish you sincerely, Mente 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Ingenuas didicisse fideliter Are 〈…〉 ollit Moors, rec sinit esse Feros.  
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