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A19403	A short discouerie of the vnobserued dangers of seuerall sorts of ignorant and vnconsiderate practisers of physicke in England profitable not onely for the deceiued multitude, and easie for their meane capacities, but raising reformed and more aduised thoughts in the best vnderstandings: with direction for the safest election of a physition in necessitie: by Iohn Cotta of Northampton Doctor in Physicke.	Cotta, John, 1575?-1650?	1612 (1612)	STC 5833; ESTC S113907	131,733	158

neutralitie in both doth proue their nullitie in either Perfection in any facultie requireth more then a man and competence a whole man nor euer was any in an excellent whom one calling could not 〈◊〉 deserue and employ Within this compasse also stand such as hauing spent a good part or most part of their time in one art or science towards the end 〈◊〉 in them iddel course exchange These from the 〈◊〉 flowing and wanting of their minds in a former streame 〈◊〉 arriuing in a new 〈◊〉 cannot sodainly lauch vnto any depth or profoundnesse of iudgement which onely time by stealing steps by little and litle doth mature and ripeth as a timely fruite and therefore they may in hast and greatily swallow vpon hole sentences yea volumes vnche wed yet can they neuer truly digest them but with many dayes and much leisure Euery Art is an habit an habit is by small degrees and length of time and custome acquired and thence riseth by little and little to perfection and full growth There is to euery facultie belonging first an habit of right iudging therein and distinct knowing secondly an habite according to iudgement and knowledge of right action and disposing A double habite in euery facultie requireth a double time in euery facultie which therefore cannot but with long patience and carefull assiduitie therein be inuited The too common want hereof in these dayes is the cause that many reputed great clearks scholers haue in their mouthes and discourse the phrase the language and sentences of wisedom but want the soule the substance and the sense Hence it cometh to passe that tongues ouerflow with aphorismes maximes and rules of ancient truth but for the most part confusedly not rightly distinguished mistaken or supposed Neither cau excellence in one facultie giue prerogatiue in another Therefore those that are perfect and absolued artists in their owne facultie and will impaire their dignitie by engaging it in another where neither their time nor proofe can equall it let wise men cuatelously and with suspition admit their counsell or trust their practise I sometime knew a learned Diuine batchelar in that facultie a great clearke of much reading and studie therein whose busie and ambitious braine not contenting it selfe within so infinite an ocean of sufficient sacred and sweete imploiment would needs breake out into other bounds and from some borowed houres and time for studie in physicke grew to affect therein more then a common name and vnderstanding In the end his pride and conceit of his knowledge transported him so farre that among other ridiculous paradoxes he both in schooles and common profession defended an indifferencie in the natures qualities and vse of Stibium and Ratsbane to conclude his confidence herein so farre bewitched him that he made triall thereof in himselfe and as a iust execution vpon himselfe was the same day poisoned Another of my knowledge and acquaintance a man in the Greeke Latine Hebrew Chaldey and other languages much studied and in the iudgement and theory of Diuinitie of approued worthinesse and vnderstanding hauing therein bestowed the best part of his time sodainly interchanged with an vnaduised course of practise in Physicke he spent some time in trauell beyond the sea and returned againe thence dignified but his former studies were so well and soundly foresetled that they admitted not so true and right after-setling of the second Hence as his braine ouerflowed with vnconstant propositions and his tongue with paradoxes his actions also thereto suited In the end he made vpon himselfe an experiment of the force of Opium in a more then ordinary dose and so composing himselfe vnto a desired sleepe neuer returned to view the issue of his experiment but descending into the graue left this memory behind him If any man wonder at these grand lapses in men learned let him stay and satisfie his doubt with admiration of the multitude of sects in all ages swarming with grosse errors and opinions euen amongst the learned of all faculties and professions This vndoubtedly groweth from no other ground but want of entire vnderstanding of those things men studie and reade through imperfect and distracted imploiment of their mindes seriously and wholy required vnto any measure of perfection Therefore Galen in his learned treatise of the method of right cure as also in other places doth oft times witnes that where sects and sectaries abound there is infallibly mistaking and vnsound apprehension of truth and therefore lamely defectiuely and in part attained because so onely sought If any man require a more speciall proofe or triall hereof let him with me here cull and examine any few Aphorismes of Hippocrates and in them though commonly and orderly read and auouched by euery mouth ye shall he find how easie and ordinarie it is for any man in any one to be inconsiderately deceiued and mistaken if he do not with all possible diligence indistracted vigilance and circumspection continually wholy and indefatigably exercise all his powers in seeking out their hidden truth which doth neuer freely reueale it selfe to those that carelesly or in part or for sinister trifling ends labour after it For example in his sixt booke of aphorismes and 52. aphorisme Hippocrates doth nominate a mortall signe in the diseased the appearance of the white of the eye in sleepe and sleeping with vnclosed eyes In many diseased this oft is found vntrue but with Hippocrates vnderstanding it is neuer false He that simply and verbally onely vnderstandeth and without meditated differences and exceptions or maketh not more narrow search shall hardly truly find the certaine and true limitation of this truth For if this maner of sleeping fall out from any outward cause or besides reason or cause thereof in the inward disposition it is not simply or altogether bad much lesse mortall For where the sicke are thus accustomed to sleepe in health or so sleep by reason of fumes and vapors ascending vnto the head and thence distilling into the eye-lids and so hindering their right closure as it is oft seene in great drinkers or where it proceedeth onely from wormes in children and the like the incautelous and superficiall vnderstanding is readily deceiued In like maner the 51. aphorisme of the same booke doth promise by the coming of a feauer thereto the profligation of the apoplexie But this is not true confusedly interpreted and therefore beyond the first view requireth further studious inquisition to find out the quantitie of the feauer with the degree of the apoplexie Great wounds and cuts of the head saith the 50. aphorisme of the same booke procure and incurre feauers but he that doth no further search to know the times that feauers may differently in swiftnesse or slownesse of their coming take nor vnderstandeth the causes slackning or quickning the feauers speed may easily too hastily before iust time accuse the truth hereof The 3. aphorisme of

the fift booke threatneth danger in conuulsions vpon great issues and losses of bloud but in what quantitie thou shalt esteeme them great or with what conditions thou must vse diligence and elsewhere enquire Many haue lost great measures of bloud at once and yet haue escaped both with and without conuulsions if 8. 9. 10. or 12. pounds at once from the nose may be called much or great The first aphorisme of the fift booke doth pronounce the conuulsion procured in assumption of Hellebore mortall It is notwithstanding seene that conuulsions so raised ceasse againe without death or other danger To vnderstand therfore aright we must know to distinguish the diuers wayes and maners whereby Hellebore doth produce conuulsions The 31. aphorisme of the fift booke menaceth vnto a woman with child being let bloud abortion But whether we shall vnderstand it simply necessarie or onely as an hazard or periclitation or with what conditions more certaine information doth aske further search The 40. aphorisme of the second booke threatneth vnto old men surprised with mur●hes and distillations the end of their disease with the end of their dayes But vnto perfect conceiuing is further requisite the consideration of the degrees of old men in whom is apparent either age alone which is onely the number of yeares or oldnesse with age which is a decay and wearing of nature together with yeares Infinite might we be in these and the like euery triuiall and vulgarly receiued rule requiring a more circumspect and considerate vnderstanding then the first view or light reading doth offer or present It is a common well known and commendable caution to suspect phlebotomy in children vnto the foureteenth yeare and in old men after fiftie or sixtie yeares But with what restraints and limitations these rules are to be bounded fully and truly to conceiue besides their hearing or reading is required a view and reuiew of differing reason and expositiō diligent and carefull scrutiny oft comparing and conferring oddes and differences of circumstances None truly learned will or can be so inconsiderate or rash to take bloud from age whose veines are exhaust or spent blood dried vp or from infancie crop the first hopefull sprouting or spring therof yet with deserued fame and honour to themselues and incomparable benefite vnto the sicke haue right learned worthy and excellent Physitians vsed and prescribed phlebotomy both vnder fiue and after sixtie yeares Diligence will not rest vntill it haue found out reconciliation to these doubts and confirmation to more perfect knowledge which serious labour must buy studie continually attend and thence time gaine free from other impertinent implication The common want hereof suffereth so many vnprofitable questions amongst the the learned maintaineth contentions and pride of words multitude of sects and schismes from truth and while men at other leisure for other shifts ends and supplies and not for the owne worthinesse or for it selfe seeke knowledge they cōmonly lose the true end and therfore true perfection The innumerable dissentions amongst the learned concerning the Arabicke and Chymicke remedies at this day infinitely with opposite and contradictorie writings and inuectiues burthen the whole world Some learned Phisitians and writers extoll and magnifie them as of incomparable vse and diuine efficacie Some with execration accuse and curse them as damned and hellish poysons Some because they find not these remedies in the common vulgar readings of the Ancients the famous and learned Grecians with feare and horror endure their very mention farre therein vnlike and differing from that ingenuous spirit of the thrise worthy and renowmed Pergamene Claudius Galen who in brightnesse of vnderstanding sharpnesse of apprehension and inuention ouershining al the precedent wits that were before him yet did he with humble and daigning desire search entertaine from any sort of people yea from the most vnlearned Empericke himselfe any their particular remedies or medicines which after by his purer and more eminent iudgement and clearer light of vnderstanding refining he reduced to more proper worth and thereby gaue admired presidents of their wondered ods in his learned prescription and accommodation Some contrarily contemning the learning and knowledge of the Grecian and with horrid superstition deifying an absolute sufficiencie in Chymicke remedies reiect the care or respect of discreet and prudent dispensation A third and more commendable sort differeth from both these and leauing in the one his learned morositie and disdainfull impatience of different hearing and in the other his ignorant and peruerse Hermeticall monopoly with impartiall and ingenuous desire free from sectarie affectation doth from both draw whatsoeuer may in either seeme good or profitable vnto health or physicke vse from the Grecian deriuing the sound ancient truth from both Greek Chymicke or Arabian borrowing with thankfull diligence any helpfull good to needfull vse Antiquitie hath giuen vs our first lights in all knowledges succeeding times haue added their seuerall lustres and our latest posterity hath yeelded also many things not vnworthy their worthy praise Chiefly to honour the ancient worthies yet to contemne none and to view all is the rarest growth but truest perfection And thus by the examples before for many innumerable more it is manifest that men learned knowing and reading much may notwithstanding either through distraction or negligence be esteemed and found in complete perfect and distinct knowing ignorant and vnwotting And as their vnderstandings are hence corrupted and depraued so necessarily by consequent must their actions be answerable thereto since thence deriued bad principles euer producing bad practise This is not obscure nor dainty in many common practisers of imperfect knowledge to be daily instanced almost euery where whereby that man whose owne iudgement cannot giue him dispensation to swarue and differ sometimes from the common vnderstanding vse and custome of vulgar practise shall oft times dangerously erre In aboue 40. yeares being I haue now twenty yeares bene an vnderstanding obseruer and partaker of diuers and different medicinall practise and therein haue oft noted how that which somtime hath opposed common receiued rule in the peculiar proofe of some other learned hath giuen good occasion of new disquisition of before vnconsidered reason or distinction in the rule For a briefe taste of many I will particularize some few I haue obserued in some kind of Palsies bloud taken frō the paralytike side when all other meanes haue proued vaine to haue bene the sole present succesful remedie yea beyond all hope hath oft rescued the latest hope out of the iawes of death This much experience doth testifie yet is it contrary vnto receiued ancient edict In like manner in some diseased plethoricall bodies I haue obserued and seene that their generall numnesse torpor and stupidity raised in them from the distention compression and obstruction of their full vessels hath immediatly on the same side that was let bloud found present and