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A50698	Self-conviction, or, An enumeration of the absurdities, railings against the college, and physicians in general (but more especially, the writers against the apothecaries), non-sence, irrational conclusions, falsities in matters of fact, and in quotations, concessions, &c. of a nameless person and also, an answer to the rest of Lex talionis / collected and made by Christopher Merrett ...	Merret, Christopher, 1614-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing M1841; ESTC R1984	16,813	34

man may be a Divine Lawyer Chirurgeon Apothecary c. I doubt his Company will not thank him for it nay any man may set up any Trade in London he saith somewhere I may do so by this Logic if he can but get Customers He goes on and replies to what I allege that the Apothecaries practise against Law A. Answers Any one may apply outward applications and inward Medicines by the Statute I 'le tell him 't is that of 34 H. 8. and withal several Pleas made by Mountebanks who were all overthrown upon it Besides some of the Judges were of opinion that this was repealed by 1 Mar. vid. Butlers Case in Crokes Report part 1. you conclude this with your good Latin somewhat better then your Magna in parvâ and call it a Maxim in Law Quod quisque norit in eodem exerceat This Maxime is against all reason and therefore Law in your sence I never heard of it surely you mistake stake it for that common Maxime of theirs Quisque in sua Arte credendus or in sua Arte peritus The former is a practical consequence from the later and that is a supposition needful in our Law To the rest of the Book and Postscript he saith nothing but only of the relation I had from a Clergy Man who names no person but A. hath made his name out of the letter thus the silly Apothecary knows no more then to write to a whole-sale Apothecary in your City out of which he hath Christned Wright the Apothecary I say of my Friend he is well known in Physic whence he infers he is a practiser too and then quotes against his practice the decrees of the Church and Dr. Primrose and then tells you this story might have been better concealed for the honour of the Divines profession just as much as it was against Physiology before for me to do the like it being contrary to the rule of Charity and his great Master to divulge his Brethrens faults how then shall a Divine preach you would like him well enough if he had spoke though untruths against the Physicians and though you in many places revile me for detecting your Cheats and proving them yet you must be prais'd for your Lex Talionis a meer Libel A. And in truth there is as much reason for Apothecaries to change professions and preach as they to practise Physic though I am for neither M. but by his Logic if they will practise Physic he will preach A. This observe You shall seldom read or hear of any mischiefs or abuses such as these are put in print by the Doctors but the Parson must have a finger in the Pye witness in late times In Nomine Domini c. And thus Reader you have seen how he hath abused the Physicians and Divines and this makes it probable that if a Lawyer should tell him how grosly he mistakes in page 21. the application of the Maxim how he would deal with him And now to confirm what I have said throughout I desire the Reader to peruse the 2d part of the usefulness of Natural Philosophy Written by the Honourable Mr. Boyl a Person who spends both time and purse for the advancement of all publick good without interest or passion and you will find him there not only affirm but prove a good part of what I have said with some quick and sharp glances against Physicians that do not improve Medicines I shall mention but two page 142. he saith of the inventors of Mithridate and Treacle A wise Man might use a remedy which scarce any but a Fool would have invented Add hereto what the Learned Zwelfer the first Physician that ever went about to reform Dispensatories too hard a task for Apothecaries All others being either transcribers only or a little alterers of the Shop Medicines saith of Treacle and Mithridate p. 428. What was said before and premised of Theriaca Andromachi may be deservedly said of Mithridate both as well to the Composition its self as to the rule of preparing it and a little after I may rather laugh at then examine some of the ingredients and no less worthy of laughter then examination are there many other ingredients in this pompous Composition Which passage is much more severe then what I said of them in my View p. 38. where I say briefly that they consist of confused and contrary ingredients and that they are unintelligible and unreasonable Compositions By this passage out of a person whose Book all Physicians highly honour besides what I allege in the same place how falsly this ignorant A. speaks for you are to believe saith he this infallible Doctors ipse dixit and that 't is but one Doctors opinion and is as true as he twice affirms these Compositions were commended by me to the Nation because my name was to the Dispensatory I confess my name is fixed to it but as Candidate only not as Fellow and therefore I had no hand in that Book and had I been then Fellow of the College I should have given my suffrage and approbation to it notwithstanding any thing I say in my View 20 years after the publication of that Pharmacopaea And again Mr. Boyl in p. 138. ' T is certain saith he that the Bills of Apothecaries especially in Chronical Cases do often prove so chargable that even when the remedies succeed by that time a poor Patient is recovered he is undone and pays for the prolongation of his life that which should have been his livelyhood Now Sir if you please to add this or any other of his Books to your Library you may find more reason in a few pages of his then in the whole Library you have commended and Certe in your own word you will not judg this Noble Person to have written as you say of us out of malice or design nor railingly though more sharply then our selves Add hereunto the opinion and practice of that Pious and Learned Divine Mr. Baxter well known for his life and works who not long since told me in the presence of one of my Collegues and an Apothecary and several other persons of quality that when he practised Physic in Kiderminster wherein he is rationally skilled he durst never trust an Apothecary but practised all his own Medicines and when he gave over he introduced another into his practice on this condition only that he should dispense his own remedies And so having spent a few idle hours in reading and animadverting on your frivolous papers I hope you and such as you will leave your railing and follow your practice which I did neither in my former Book nor in this Pamphlet restrain you from or set any Conditions Articles or Limitations upon you according to all your desires as your other Antagonists do and therefore have reason to expect you will without murmuring and tricks let the Closet Doctors peaceably enjoy their practice and then let 's try whether you or such as you are

the abler and honester Physicians and Apothecaries and leave the World to judg whether our Medicines are not more safe more pleasant more durable and of greater efficacy and less charge by far and less fulsom then yours of the Shops and by this means we shall all be Friends Postscript COnsidering Reader This Pamphlet should have come abroad 12 days sooner but for some impediments and delays it met with being all that time out of my hands Now in this interval perusing again the Lex Talionis I thought fit to add somewhat in relation to what it allegeth against Physicians in general and also against the blew Apron or Closet Doctor Apothecaries as A. calls them pretermitting wholy some passages omitted in each head and clear inferences easily deducible from each of them enough having been quoted to satisfie any indifferent person But before I proceed I shall only take notice of the disingenuity of the Apothecaries who before all intelligent men disclaim that Book saying the same I have said of it but telling unconsidering and ignorant persons that our Books are fully answered so ready are they by double dealing to support their cause since no other way can do it The first thing A. allegeth against Physicians in general is in his Preface in these words They abuse the Apothecaries perswading away and taking from them their friends and acquaintance imploying and sending their Bills contrary to civility and Equity to whom they please to the great prejudice of most of them and therefore you will never blame some of them for practising being necessitated thereunto for a livelyhood p. 14. the Doctors began first with the Apothecaries by invading his interest and causing some of them to practise out of necessity pag. 29. for it can be nothing less then incivility to make a Gentleman or other to forsake his friend by imploying whom he pleaseth as his Apothecary and this is their common practice M. An Example thereof he there gives of a Saint Doctor ib. p. 29. A. Another humour of the Doctor which will necessitate the Apothecary to practise is this by having a prejudice against him and this is common so that they will not suffer his acquaintance to make use of him nor send their Bills to him though this be very dis-ingenuous and absurd but to another Apothecary M. And then another story of a practising Apothecary and after that thus concludes A. Here are two such plain Cases and so common that unless the Doctors on their parts will engage not to deal so dis-ingenuously against all Equity and Reason the Apothecary can have no assurance of a subsistence by his profession but in practising of Physic and p. 31. A. proposeth That if a Patient sendeth for a Physician he may make use of what Apothecary he pleaseth for to make up and administer those things prescribed nothing more reasonable though nothing less practised p. 32. A. asketh Whether the common practice of Physicians most of them having a particular Apothecary to whom usually they send their Bills though contrary to the Patients desire and I know what they usually say as to the justifying of it if this hath not been the very cause of the necessitating the Apothecary to practise Physic for his necessary support M. And for this reason in several places he maketh the Physicians the Aggressors in this quarrel To answer and prevent which Objections I have said somewhat in my View p. 46. and I doubt not but the Reader would have been satisfied if A. had been pleased to have published the reasons he saith he knoweth Physicians allege for justifying their so doing some whereof I shall here recite One is a just Lex Talionis which A. by his Title approves of which sure he likes as equal and just viz. that I say in my View that they commonly shuffle out those Physicians that write only for the Patients good to bring in their good Apothecaries Physician to the manifold greater charge of the Patient and nothing more ordinary then for them to brag of this Secondly All those discoveries made in their substituting detracting falsifying using of unsound Druggs their tricks of raising Bills and most of the advantages I have mentioned both to Physician and Patient being well reflected on where I shew the advantages both Patient and Physician have in making their own Medicines not needful here to be recited will most clearly prove so many solid reasons if not a necessity of Physicians carrying away their Patients as they call them to an Apothecary whose honesty they know both for the true making and prizing the Medicines and over whom they have some power in those particulars Thirdly Physicians do it for their own reputation For the errors and deceits of the Apothecary always reflect on them as well as the life and health of the Patients are concerned thereby Fourthly 'T is granted by all that the Patient is wholy ignorant of the Apothecaries Medicines and practices which the Physician doth or cannot but better know either upon his own experience or by information of some others that know them whether this or that Apothecaries Medicines be good or honestly made and therefore hath more reason to trust his reputation and his Patients life with one he knoweth then with one he knows not nor hath ever heard of and for securing both no Patient will but thank him for it Fifthly When an Apothecary hath practised of his own head and the Physician is not called in till extremity of danger what reason is there that he should take upon him the discredit of the Patients Death if past Cure or why should he teach that Apothecary to practise further by curing of him And thus much and no more of the Equity and reason of carrying away Patients from Apothecaries though most of the pages in my View may supply intelligent Readers with reasons why Physicians should commonly deal thus with them and this I will here say I never did so without sound reason and to the good content of the Patient accounting in this Case the success wholy to depend upon my self being bound in all reason to make good the honesty and skill of the commended Apothecary The next railing expression is A. That 't is incivility so to do To this I answer that Civility comes from Civis a Citizen as no man that understandeth Latin doubts it doth and consequently if Civility signifieth the practice of Citizens as it doth as cleerly as the other for Civility comes from Civilis which signifieth no more then the City usage then 't is most plain that this practice of Physicians is most Civil for I appeal to each single Citizen whether or no he thinks it not fair and equal to recommend his acquaintance in way of trading to other men of the same Trade his known Friends then which I think there is nothing more commonly practised in the City And therefore for so doing he doth tax all the Citizens of incivility absurdity and dis-ingenuity