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A29785	Physick lies a bleeding, or, The apothecary turned doctor a comedy, acted every day in most apothecaries shops in London : and more especially to be seen by those who are willing to be cheated, the first of April, every year : absolutely necessary for all persons that are sick, or may be sick / by Tho. Brown.	Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.	1697 (1697)	Wing B5068; ESTC R36385	19,706	33

Trouble I answer to any one of them Tr. Sir I am glad you do for fear of giving Offence Then pray Mr. Corn Cutter of Quality that was the last Title I heard tell me since you have so many Trades which of all these were you bound to first Or were you bound to 'um all at once Compreh Corn-Cutter of Quality What could you pick out none but that I told you I was usually call'd Doctor and nothing else I won't tell you what Trade I was bound to One would think you had Sense enough to guess I was an Apothecary Tr. Good Sir pray don't be so angry How should I guess so many Trades to center in one Man Compreh Then I see you don 't know the Town I thought you had told me you had been in Town above 30 Years Tr. Truly so I have and have known Apothecaries call'd Doctors which is but two Names but you are Apothecary Doctor Chymist Distiller Hold Call my Man to give me my pocket-Pocket-Book out of O! I have it by me in my Pocket Faith you must excuse me I can't remember all your Titles Compreh 'T is no matter Sir remember but Doctor that 's enough I 'll answer to that if you please Tr. Mr. Comprehensive the Apothecary's a better Name in my mind it do's not please me to call you Doctor Compreh Then call me what you please I am sure some of the Greatest Men of the Nation honour us with that Title and value our Skill above a Physician 's often Tr. I am sorry they do and do think it a great Fault in our Government that Men of Liberal and Ingenious Education Enter Dr. Galen Dr. Galen Hold let me go on I heard what you were upon I think you were saying the Government wou'd do well to suppress such Cheats Quacks and Empyricks Tr. No Doctor they were not my Words But I was saying that I thought it a Fault in a Government that Men of Liberal and Ingenious Education should not have the Countenance of that Government under which they live so far as to have a Power granted them to punish Men who act out of their Sphere and Invade the Rights and Privileges of their Neighbours This is what I was about to say but you interrupted me Dr. I beg your Pardon When I hear these Apothecaries talk of their Practice their Skill in Diseases and Medicines their taking of Fees and Pretension to even the most difficult Diseases it puts me into a Passion then I am apt to call 'um Cheats and Quacks Pestle and Gallypot peep in Tr. Hold a little Doctor yonder are the other two a coming if you talk at this Rate they 'l bait you to Death I advise you to retire Compreh Now Doctor you highly value your self for your Title Brethren come hither come in Beckoning to Pestle and Gallypot The Doctor hastily runs off P. and G. What 's the matter ye look so angry Comp. and Retort Angry why the Doctor has most abominably abused all Apothecaries he calls us Quacks and Cheats as if an Apothecary could be a Cheat or Knave P. and G. Did he so wou'd we had come time enough we wou'd a rounded his Doctorship Tr. Now Gentlemen I see ye are all four together I 'll leave ye a little and go see if I can reduce this Doctor to a better Temper Your Servant Retires only behind the Hangings T. Gallyp. Come Gentlemen now we are got by our Selves let 's talk a little about Trade How stand Affairs Is there any Business stirring We ought to have a meeting every now and then to settle what ought to be the Prizes of our Medicines Pray how do ye at your end of the Town prize a Dose of Common Purging Pills Retort Why Brother about Eighteen Pence sometime Two Shillings with an Haustus after them of Three and Six Pence Pestle And can you live so I believe all the Things cost you at least a Shilling out of Pocket Retort No God forbid How could I live then indeed they cost me about Six Pence and I take but Five Shillings and Six Pence sometime less and I think that 's honest Gains Hey Brother I. Compreh O very honest very fair There 's nothing can be fairer in the World Shall I tell ye Gentlemen I not long ago had a Patient who accidentally had a Robust heavy Fellow tread on a Corn that grew on his left Toe which put him into some pain I perswaded him he was a little Feverish so blooded him and apply'd a Caustick to his Toe as I told him to eat out the Corn But unluckily eat to the very Bone and made a pretty handsome Ulcer Then I Blister'd him and distilled some Antifebrifuge Drops Specificks for him only and good for no body else besides In short he lay Ill of this but Eleven Weeks and what do'st think he wou'd have paid me for the Cure T. Gallyp. Faith I can't tell perhaps 40 l. But why did'st not call in a Surgeon at last for a dead Lift I. Compreh O Pox Man I saw I cou'd do it my self tho' but slowly But Faith I thank my Stars I have learn'd now to use them like the Doctors never call in either but when I can't tell what to do my self T. Gallyp. Right so have I but what had'st at last I. Compreh What do'st talk of Forty Pound Indeed as an Apothecary not above Thirty Pound a Month or so was enough but as Doctor and saving thereby many Fees and Surgeon also I ask'd him but 132 l. 12 s. 8 d. And he scrupl'd to give it me Tr. Peeps in from behind the Hangings And Faith if he had paid you the odd 12 s. and 8 d. I think he had paid you too much A Parcel of Canary-Birds now your Rogueries and Cheats come out Retort Prethee who was that peep'd in and talk'd so was it not Mr. Trueman Well I like that Man's Company very well were he not too Censorious upon a Man for getting an honest Livelyhood T. Gallyp. Ay He is well enough but he has that disobliging Humour in him Tr. What a Pox if I tell ye that ye are Knaves and Cheats when ye are so this ye call a disobliging Humour Leave of Cheating then and practise fair in your own Sphere Pestle Cheats and Rogues and Knaves That will bear an Action I am sure Let 's at him at Law and maull him Have none of ye a Lawyer Clapt or to speak more modestly has the High Scurvy let us employ him As we take his Money let him take ours I warrant ye we 'll out-do him in making a Bill of Costs I. Compreh That Brother I don't question Besides you know if a Man be a Knave 't is an hard Matter to prove him so Let 's put him upon the proof of any one Apothecary in Town If he should at last prove it why 't is but one Maungy-Hound in a whole Pack Retort Soft and fair Brother For suppose he should prove you or

learn'd that the first thing I did by reading Doctors Bills in my Shop Tr. So I am glad I have brought you to a good Temper And I do believe you had better been an Apothecary still For to speak properly as you call it you are a Mr. Doctor or Dr Master which you please But enough hold who is that coming hither so gravely what 's his Name Enter Retorto Spatula d' Ulceroso Gallyp. I can't call him readily to my mind but I know him very well by Sight I use to meet him at Apothecaries-Hall Tr. Sir your Humble Servant Pray don't you belong to the Spanish Ambassador Retorto Stroaking his Whiskers No Sir but I am an Italian born my Name is Retorto Spatula d' Vlceroso I was bred in Italy what you call an Apothecary by which I attained to the Knowledg of Physick both the Theoretick and Practick part I also exercise the Art of Chyrurgery as Scarrifying Cupping Stupes Rollers and Bandage c. Besides I can by Chymistry extract the Quintessence of the Four Elements and tame the Red Dragon and in fine I can make up a Cordial Bolus or Pills according to the best mode in Foreign Countries as you may see in my Shop in lane Tr. Hold Sir not too fast after all with your hard Names I believe you are bred an Outlandish Apothecary and they forsooth make up things far better than our English Apothecaries do theirs Retort O Sir infinitely better in my Shop I should be ashamed if my Pills look'd not like true Gold tho' but gilt my Bolus's are put up all in gilt Paper cut in fine Shapes and Figures a Quire costs me 5 s. the cutting besides the Paper is pure Venice-Paper My Cordials are all put into Venice-Vials c. and all this Alamodo d' Italiano to make the Physick taste the better work the better and look the better O fine Italians Tr. Now you say something look the better but to taste the better or work the better I don't well understand Will a Vomit work the better for being in a fine Venice-Glass I think a little Nastiness for a Vomit makes it work the better I knew a Doctor that used to stir it with his Finger before he gave it to make it nauseate the more Retort O Sir that be very unhandsome No English-man can do so finely as I can Tr. Then I must beg your Pardon I believe they can all do as well as you pretend but I should look on it as a needless piece of Foppery if they all should do as you do And I am sure the Patient must pay more Sawce for his Medicines Retort O Sir that 's very true a good Cook will be well pay'd for his Sawce you know Sir Tr. A Pox but this is paying Sawce for the use of Dishes like a young Oxford-Scholar's Treat if he spends Five Pound in Meat 't is odds but he pays 3 or 4 l. for the use of Dishes and Linen Retort Sir notwithstanding all this I never reckon for a little Bolus above 11 or 12 s. made of very good Diascordium very good Gascoin-Powder and a little Pearl Tr. No on my Word that 's mighty kind to take not above 12 s. for all your fine Dressing and a Groats-worth of Medicines And do you take any Apprentices Retorto Yes Sir I do for about 100 l. a Lad. Tr. Faith and very well worth it too and a great deal of Money saved if you teach him all your Trades for the Devils in 't if one don't hit For the Education of a Son to be a regular Doctor is reputed 1000 l. Charge at long run Any Surgeon of Note will have 120 l. or more an Apothecary 50 l. or more a Chymist perhaps as mnch Now if you will teach my Son all these Arts and Sciences I think I have a very good Bargain Retort I 'll certainly do it Sir never doubt it Tr. Well agreed I 'll send my Eldest Son to you and when he is out of his Time I 'll bind all his Younger Brothers to him so each will have 4 Trades or Callings won't they Mr. Retorto Retort D' ye doubt it I thought you had known an Apothecary better than to disbelieve him in his own Calling Nay Sir to be free with you I 'll teach you how to multiply Medicines so fast upon a Patient that in a Weeks time he shall get ten Pound in some Cases when the Doctor shan't get above 20 s. Tr. That 's a rare Art indeed then I suppose you must attack your Patient with a Quadripartite Army of Medicines drawn from all Quarters of your four Sciences Retort I can do it and will and if you don't think this enough here 's my Brother Comprehensive a coming Enter Comprehensive He can besides this teach him to make all sorts of Sweet-Meats buy and sell Drugs distil all sorts of Strong-Waters nay cut Corns for a need to Persons of Quality Tr. O Sir then he is a Corn-cutter only to Persons of Quality Retort No not unless he pleases Tr. Nor any thing else unless he pleases However I am content my Son shall only learn your four Arts or Sciences as you call them I think that 's enough for One especially if he learn throughly the last that is to multiply Medicines so as to get Ten Pounds to the Doctor 's Twenty Shillings Retort That assure your Self I 'll teach him perfectly For all the Apothecaries in Town now understand it pretty well and I think I understand it exceeding well Tr. Well Sir I thank you for your Kindness but I 'll see ye all at the Devil first to learn how to swallow Assafoetida before ye shall have the Education of my Son I think if it be possible ye have less Honesty than a Lawyer that has but one Cause in a Year to keep him and his Family out of Compreh Sir by your leave this is not fit Language for a Gentleman Apothecary to bear He 's a Brother of the Quill and an honest Man I 'll justify it He was Master of the Company not long ago Tr. That may be and never the honester Man if he teaches his Apprentices that Cheat. But by your leave I suppose you are an Apothecary too by your Talk Pray what may I call your Name Compreh My Name Sir is Iack Comprehensive originally a North Country-man and Brother Apothecary to this Worthy Gentleman Mr. Retorto Spatula d' Vlceroso Apothecary Surgeon Chymist and Doctor Tr. Ay Sir his Titles I knew before and pray Sir how many have you Compreh Sir I am in short generally call'd Doctor only but I also profess my self a Surgeon An Apothecary I should have said first then Surgeon Chymist Druggist Confectioner Distiller c. And to Persons of Quality Corn-Cutter And Tr. Hold Sir pray a little 'till I 'll take out my table-Table-Book lest I should miscal you and not give you your right Title Compreh O Sir no matter Sir to give your Self that