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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60776	A rebuke to the authors of a blew-book call'd, The state of physick in London which is indeed the black and blew state of physick, dated from the college, and signed by Th. G. and R.M. / written in behalf of the apothecaries and chirurgians of the city of London by William Salmon ...	Salmon, William, 1644-1713.	1698 (1698)	Wing S449; ESTC R22575	28,636	34

A REBUKE To the AUTHORS of A Blew-Book CALL'D The State of Physick In LONDON Which is indeed The Black and Blew State of Physick Dated from the College And Signed by Th. G. and R. M. Written in Behalf of the Apothecaries and Chirurgians of the City of London By WILLIAM SALMON Living near Black-Fryers Stairs Dicere verum quis vetat Hor. LONDON Printed and Sold by E. Whitlock near Stationers-Hall 1698. A REBUKE To the AUTHORS of A blew-Blew-Book CALLED The State of Physick In LONDON c. I. THIS little penny quack-Quack-Book which they sell for Two Pence is only a Fardle or Bundle of Lies containing scarcely one Grain of Honesty or a Word of Truth in it except what is in its three first Lines which either by the Power of Truth was extorted from them or by an over-sight was let slip from their Pen as by taking it to pieces and scrutinizing it we shall make manifest in the following Lines to the eternal Shame and Disgrace of the Authors thereof II. After this Book had been out for some time and dispersed all over the Town to answer the Design it was intended for which was to decry abuse scandalize and undoe if possible the honest and Skilful Apothecaries and Ruine the whole Trade they found it look'd with a very ill Face and that a World of People cry'd shame of it to the great Disparagement of the Knavish Authors and withal that probably its pernicious effects might call for an Answer for which reasons some of the Gang prudently put into the Post-Boy an Advertisement that the Persons Represented by those first Letters of their Names and whom every Body was ready to suggest or suppose did not write it nor publish it to the World whereby they thought by thus decrying their Right in its intrinsick Value they might thereby prevent an Answer thereto or any Reflections thereupon and so gain their Point of doing all the Mischief they design'd by it and yet prevent a Detection of the Villany contained in it III. But the Blind took not the effect and their little Tricks were discerned through it for without doubt if those Men whom those Letters Represent were not the Amanuensis of it yet they know who were and had a great hand in it and were the chiefest contrivers of it and it is reported that the Son of the latter was the very Person which handed or conveyed it to the Press However it owns it self to come from the College and therefore without doubt some of the sneaking malicious and troublesome Members of it who have more Envy than Skill or Honesty might put their Fists to the Quill and draw out in length those false and malicious Lines which are only a Rhapsody of Ignorance and Folly IV. Blew-Book The Practice of Physick before Hippocrates was in Chirurgians hands Page 3. Salmon This is the only Sentence of Truth I find in all their Quack-Book for so indeed it was not only before Hippocrates his time but in his time also even down to Galen and Celsus which as they were both great Physicians were also the most eminent Chirurgians of their Day and so it continued down almost to our times For many of our Modern Physicians were even great Chirurgians also witness the famous Aquapendens Fallopius Hildanus Sennertus Barbet and many others too tedious here to be named and indeed there is so much of Truth in it that it is impossible to be a good Physician without being a good Chirurgian first A good Chirurgian may make a good Physician but a Man can never be the latter without being first excellent in the former And if a Chirurgian is also skilful in Pharmacologia or the Materia Medica first he makes so much the better a Chirurgian so that for my part I think that they all three viz. the Apothecary Chirurgian and Physician did in former times consist in one Person and so truly they ought to do now and for which reason the Apothecaries are the most proper and fit Persons to practice Physick of any Men in the Kingdom nor do I think that they ought to loose their Prerogative of Primogeniture The Quack-Doctor is but an Intruder into the Business of Physick and Chirurgery nor do our Doctors come into their Profession by the Door but as Thieves and Robbers clamber up the Walls and so break in another way V. Blew-Book It consisted then only in outward Applications Pag. 3. Salmon That this is a notorious Lye a Man that has but turned over the Leaves of Hippocrates can easily tell For that great Man who was Apothecary Chirurgian and Physician all in his own Person gives us in many places Prescriptions of inward Remedies But it is true that the first Beginnings of the Art of Physick was in Application of Externals and from thence as their Experience encreased they even the same Persons came to the use of Internals so that the Use of External and Internal Medicaments grew up as it were together in the very same Persons and one and the same Person exercised all those parts of the Art of Physick and this was done for many Ages yea even down to our days By this it appears how ignorant these Men are in the Art they pretend to and how little they have Read and Understood the Leaves of Antiquity VI. Blew-Book The Number of Observations and Medicines encreasing as well as the Number of Diseases the whole Practice of Physick became too large a task for one Person and so it was thought necessary that one Person should Cure only Inward Diseases another Outward and a third Prepare fit Medicines for both whence came Physicians Chirurgians and Apothecaries Page 4. Salmon No it was not because it was too large a Task that the Practice of Physick devolved or rather divided into those three Branches but it was because of the Pride Covetousness and Idleness of the Physicians who being so wonderfully sought after relinquished the most necessary parts of Physick which are the Preparing of Medicines and the troublesome part which is that of Manual Operation and put it off to others whom they thought more inferiour Men and from hence it was that a proud idle Physician made an Ambitious Covetous Lazy Doctor who assumed into his Province the Art of prescribing Internals leaving the rest to be managed by the other fort of Men And thus in process of time to an Ambitious Covetous Lazy Doctor a fourth part was added viz. Ignorance for he that designed for the Practice of Physick over-looking and neglecting the two prime Parts it follows naturally that such a Doctor or Practiser of Physick must be a very ignorant Fellow for understanding nothing Practically of the Materia Medica nor of Manual Operation he with all his Pride and Presumption became it is true a sorry but ignorant Doctor as being ignorant of any practical Knowledge in the two main Fundamental Parts of the Art of Physick And from these Causes proceeded truly the treble