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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

it having hitherto been the great Impediment of the Progress of Medicine But if things be thus what then shall be next Is it fit all should be at liberty I answer yes for the present but not without Government Let such as do amiss answer for it at the Laws A Government ought to be But seeing men as Physicians for the foregoing Reasons cannot make certain Laws or Rules whereby to judge one another the Government of this Profession till the King and Parliament be at leisure to reform the matter may be left in general to the Laws of the Land It seems to be one of the most unreasonable things in the world and nothing I think can be more destructive to the Liberty of the Subject or make a man more miserable than that if he be sick he should not with freedom use what Physician he believes can best cure him but he must be limited to an accepting of such or such a one of such a Company or else can have none that he phansies but the man shall be molested perhaps undone for doing the sick service and all under a supposal of avoiding thereby the use of bad Physick among the people The vanity of which Supposal and the security of mankind thereby hath already here in part been discover'd and will be much more before the end of this Discourse in shewing of how pernicious a consequence it hath been to Physick to inthrone a few Physicians to Lord it over all the rest Wherefore if the whole Body of Physicians here in this City be really the Physicians of London Why may they not being part of the City be taken hereafter under the City Government Be obliged to take Apprentices such young men as have taken degrees in other Arts at some University who when they have served their time at work under a City-Physician may then be made a free Practiser of London Such a populous City is the only place being a Theatre of all Diseases wherein to breed up men Physicians indeed such as may practise with real knowledge not fill the world with Cobwebs of idle speculations and notions as men of the old way of Education are wont to do and which may furnish his Majesties Armies and Fleets Royal with Physicians as the Society of Chirurgerie do with Chirurgians and be content to submit to a Law that if they run away from the City in the time of Plague or depart without special License of Authority to forfeit their freedom of Practise therein any more This alteration may seem uncouth at the first mention but should it be established by publick Authority the consequence would be that the City would not be so basely deserted in the time of its necessity and few could incurr having been thus bred any suspicion of ignorance in the Art which is now made the pretence of a great Clamor by the Collegiates against many ingenious men whose first Education in the world was not in this Art but afterwards betook themselves to learn it in the most proper way of learning which is by labor and have soon out-strip't the Scholasticks in right knowledge of the Materia Medica to the comfort of many thousands of his Majesties poor Subjects many of which have been left by the collegiates who might else have perisht for want of a purse to run through the tedious methods and means of that Adverse party But to avoid Calumnie because they seek every occasion to sow it know that in this I plead not on the behalf of any Impostors or real ignorants I only point out a way of better Education for Practice which may prevent all Ignorants in the future as far as by the wit of man they may possibly be prevented in this Profession In the mean time till this which I here humbly mention or some better establishment be thought of by others more able it would be happy for the Art if Certificates of a Physician 's having lived in good reputation for his manners and Practice may be accepted as a sufficient evidence of his ability and fitness to be licensed either by the reverend Clergie according as is directed in the first Statute of the 3d year of Henry 8th which never was yet repealed or else by some other persons not Physicians as by Authority shall be thought meet Ratione Legis cessante cessat ipsa Lex If in former time a King and his Parliament had reason to enact such a Statute the very being of which as a Statute hath yet been a question among some eminent Lawyers nevertheless the condition of the very Art and all the affairs of Physick being so altered as is before declared and so many Reasons lying now against the continuation it is not in the least doubted by the ingenious and laborious improvers of Medicine that when the same Authority shall be rightly inform'd of these things in a full and clear Remonstrance which may be presented to them they will see reason abundant for the repealing of that Statute of the 14th of Henry the 8th if it be one and enact such a form of Government as may conduce to the improvement of the Art and the general comfort of the people 4. Their Fourth pretence of Suit against me is that I have refused to leave off Practising as a Doctor There is such adoe about this Feather in the Cap call'd Doctor of Physick that I often wish it might be despised by the People If they knew so well as I do of how slight esteem it is beyond Sea and how easie to be gained so many would not dote as they have done upon many that run loose from being Schoolmasters or Preachers in England to be made Doctors at Leyden and the like places beyond-Sea and by reading a few Books and prating intrude into a Calling which is not to be acquired but by years of labour and studie of Experimental not School-philosophy Such talking Book-Doctors the world is too full of and too many of them have crept in from time to time to be Principal Fellows of the Colledge here of whose names you may ere long have a Catalogue to which they have been and are admitted upon producing a Diploma which is a Parchment and publick Seal of some forein University and the answering of a few questions about Doctrine and Method and because Leyden in Holland hath been a fruitful Mother of such English Brats too many of which are now dominering among us they are by our own University-men in scorn called Leaden Doctors But the fittest name for all Physicians that thus slightly by the Book enter upon the Stage of the World from our own or forein Universities to Practice is the due word of distinction Book-Doctors For it is Galen's own Expression Duobus Cruribus innitimur quotidiana inspectione experientia c. we Physitians saith he do stand upon two Legs viz. daily Inspection and Experience But of the Book-practitioners he saith they are like those that take upon them