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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45272	A corner-stone laid towards the building of a new colledge (that is to say, a new body of physicians) in London upon occasion of the vexations and oppressive proceedings acted in the name of the society called the Colledge of Physicians : for the better information of all men, as well as of physicians, chirurgians, and apothecaries, touching the unhappy estate of the art of physick, here in England, it being an apology for the better education of physicians / by Adrian Huyberts.	Huyberts, Adrian.	1675 (1675)	Wing H3858; ESTC R15506	22,542	39

of all the most usefull Laborers in this Faculty but should I revolve and repeat the History of time past from the time of Paracelsus how he was abused by Erastus and by almost all the Academian Professors throughout Germany and how tyrannically that sort of men behaved themselves towards him and afterwards how they in most of the Universities and great Cities of Europe persecuted his very memory and all such as being enlightned by his Labors did follow his way for discovery of better Medicine down to the year 1603 at which time the laborious famous Quercetan and Sr. Tbeodore de Mayerne were both of them in two several publick Sentences of the Academian Professors and whole Colledge of Physicians in Paris printed by their Order condemned and in positive terms the whole Art it self of Chymistry as men not only unworthy to be consulted with by the Physicians of that Colledge especially Mayerne declaring him an unlearned impudent drunken mad fellow exhorting all Nations to abominate them both and banish them and the like practisers out of their Territories as Monsters of mankind And threatning all the fellows of that Colledge that if they consult with either of them about any Patient they shall be deprived of all priviledge belonging to their Colledge Which is also at this day one great mystery made use of by our London-Collegiates whereby they resolve to correspond only with each other in hope to ingross the Trade among themselves supposing the name of a Colledge must needs carry away the reputation from all other Physicians if they deny upon occasion to consult with them because they are none of the Colledge O fine Confederacy now good people look to your Purses But what I pray you became of Quercetan and Mayerne after this You may read their Sentences published at large in that unanswerable Book called Medela Medicinae which was written by Dr. Marchamont Nedham eleven years ago where he tells you that for all this the one of those Condemned persons became famous in France the Kings Chief Physician and lived to see that Colledge repent of their folly and their Successors become admirers of those Chymical Books and Remedies which they had so rashly damned The other viz. Mayerne became Physician to two Kings of England and two of France and left a name of great wealth and honour behind him Now by these things you may understand what a wondrous precious thing an All-wise Colledge may be in any Noble City and what Advancers of the Art of Curing if either damning and suppressing laborious Improvers or the inthroning of Arrogance and such a course of Study and sort of Learning as is impertinent to Physick can effect it 3. The third Pretence is because I am not one of or with their Colledge I confess I am not nor will I ever be There are good store of the best Physians about Town that are of the same mind and they have their Reasons for it which upon occasion they will produce I also have my Reasons part of which may be pickt out of what I have already said And to accept a License from them is to acknowledge a power which I am not satisfied they have or ought to have seeing that if as I said before we revolve the transactions of time past t is to be found upon Record that such Collegiate Establishments or Corporations of Physick have been the great hinderers of the progress of this Art throughout all Europe and still are which hath made the most ingenious Scholars which are Laborers and Inquirers in the Universities and Capital Cities of all the Countries where I have travelled sigh and swell with indignation to see how their most laudable endeavours are discountenanced and calumniated by that sort of Medicasters because they out-do and shame them by diligence and 't is to be lamented there hath been so little hope to see a through Reformation in this Faculty both as to the manner of men's education for it the full freedom of its Professors and the dismantling of those Societies the natural tendency of whose power hath ever been as I can prove in facto to tyrannie over their Brethren and monopoly of the Art It may be soberly inquired in Cicero's Language Cui Bono To what end are they continued now having been erected in the old time of ignorance when Physick and other Sciences were at a stand and all the world brutishly and tamely acquiesced in Notions received from the Greeks and Arabians and did set up their Hercules Pillars with a Nil ultra But hear what that most learned Lord Bacon said in the Book of Advancement of Learning I dare saith he confidently avouch that the wisdom we have extracted chiefly from the Grecians is but a Childhood of knowledge And he further saith thus Medicine therefore hath been such hitherto as hath been more professed than labored and yet more labored than advanced seeing the pains bestowed therein hath been more in Circle than in Progression for I find much Iteration but small addition in the writers of that Faculty And to the same purpose writes Dr. Mar. Nedham in Medela Medicinae in these words I may safely say that there hath been more of importance done for the advancement of Physick since my Lord Bacon wrote his Book than ever was done in the world before For in former time men contented themselves with the little skill that was left them by others making no progress but ran a round in commenting upon the Greeks and Arabs as the Oracles of Physick and usually one Commentator hath stolen out of another so that you have but the same dish of Crambe new cook't And if you have but one of the most voluminous you have all Therefore in the former Age it might be easie enough the Art it self being fixt and staked down to certain Points Maxims or Rules to set down Rules also how to judge the Professors and with some colour of Reason condemn that for Male practise which answered not to the Doctrine of their Rulers But in this Age when the faculty of Physick is so vastly diffused and fresh discoveries of Physical preparation and of Doctrine touching the nature of Diseases are daily made that any sort of Practisers should be Authorised as Judges to determine who is a good or a bad Practiser when they can have no certain Rules to judge them by or perhaps they understand not the nature of the Medicines used though they be told of the Preparation or perhaps they will out of envy or hatred to such Physicians decrie what is more excellent as they have done heretofore this seems to be against the very Reason Interest and end of Government And therefore without all question the abolishment of a nipping domination over the growth of the Art of Physick in the hands of a few Ingrossers in Collegiate Societies will in a short time be judged by the Princes and Estates of Europe to be most necessary the exercise of