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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33709	A physico medical essay concerning alkaly and acid so far as they have relation to the cause or cure of distempers : wherein is endeavoured to be proved that acids are not (as is generally and erroneously supposed) the cause of all or most distempers, but that alkalies are : together with an account of some distempers and the medicines with their preparations proper to be used in the cure of them : as also a short digression concerning specifick remedies / by John Colbatch.	Colbatch, John, Sir, 1670-1729.	1696 (1696)	Wing C5003; ESTC R26032	33,359	174

And for a Character I desire no other or better then the generality of those People will give me of whom I know not one that can or will speak amiss of me for any thing but my coming away from them and leaving such flourishing thriving business that scarce any man of my Age ever had before me For which many of them have blamed me But the reasons of my leaving that place are best known to my self And since I have been speaking concerning my own being bred an Apothecary I shall enlarge a little upon that subject giving a short account of the necessary qualifications of one of that Profession and then shall leave every body to judge whether a man so qualified has not made a large step towards being a good Physician First An Apothecary must be very well acquainted with the Vegitable Kingdom not only to know the faces of Plants but their Natures and manner of Operation upon Humane Bodies otherwise how can he tell how to handle them so as to make his Compositions as they ought to be And indeed every Physician supposes the Apothecary so qualified when he Prescribes to his Shop for in his Bill he seldom directs the method of making his Medicines but only orders such and such Medicines knowing or at last supposing them for every Physician ought to be well satisfied in the Abilities of an Apothecary before he prescribes to him to be before hand skilfully prepared For let a Physician Prescribe like an Angel if the Apothecary through his ignorance in his business be destitute of good and well prepared Medicines both Physician and Patient are frustrated in their expectations the which I am affraid to frequently happens Secondly He must well understand the Nature and Operation of Minerals and Mettals which is not to be learnt in the Dispensitary nor any other way to be attained but by much reading and hard labour in the fire Thirdly He must understand the Nature of Animal Bodies also amongst which is comprehended that of Man there being scarce a part of whole Body but what is sometime or other to be used as Medicine But before it is used the Apothecaries skill is for the most part required for its preparation in order to which he ought first of all very well to understand its Nature All the forementioned qualifications and a great many more are multitudes of Apothecaries in England endowed with And to the Honour of the Apothecaries of London be it spoken I have generally found the meanest Shops in that Eminent City better fraited with good Medicines then any of the most Eminent in all Holland or the rest of the Low-Countries I might add a great deal more on the behalf of that noble Profession which although I my self have left it off yet still have a high value and esteem for it and think an honest and skilfull Apothecary is as serviceable in the Common-wealth and deserves as much incouragement and is as highly to be valued as any man whatsoever The Famous Ettmuler was not ashamed to own that he served eight years to an Apothecary Yet for all that he afterwards became one of the eminentest Physicians of Europe And for ought I know the loss of him at the Age he died from whom so much might rationally have been expected deserves as much to be lamented especially by Physicians as the loss of any one private man I have not given a full account of those Distempers I have treated on but given some short hints concerning them so far as was necessary to clear my way as I went I have in the following Essay made reflections upon the Practice of some particular men only my design not being in the least to reflect upon that Noble Society or Body of Men or any Member of them I mean the Colledge of Physicians whom I own to be the Glory of our Nation and of the whole World and for whom I have the greatest reverence and respect imaginable I don't pretend to be the sole Auther or first broacher of this Doctrine of Acids in the cure of Distempers it having long since been the opinion of some of the most happy Practitioners in the World and is at this time embraced by several of the greatest men that perhaps our age affords I wrote this Essay at a place during the first three Weeks of the Siege of the Castle of Namur in which time we had not many wounded men brought to our Field-Hospital where I had not the oppertunity of consulting Books nor had I the benefit of coming at my one Papers wherein I had from time to time set down my Observations upon this Subject For want of which I have only made use of those that occurred to my memory which is a very treacherous one and so they are not so numerous nor exact as I designed them But however for some reasons I am willing to venture them abroad as they are they not being in the least designed to entertain the Learned but to undeceive the Multitude I don't pretend to be so great a man nor to deserve so well of Mankind as Helmont Paracelsus c. have done yet they treading out of the common Paths and acting upon different Principles from the rest of Mankind They did not want those who maligned and hated them and used all the opprobrious Language in the World against them Therefore why should I who don't in the least pretend to have arrived to those great Perfections that they had attained to take it amiss to be abused and evil spoken of Authority has in great measure blinded some mens understandings and sealed up their eyes There being still a sort of men that pay too submissive a deference to ancient Opinions tho' never so contrary to reason that they will not open their eyes to see or understand the truth There are still men who write against most known Truths as against the gravity and Elastick force of the Air and other things of the same Nature This Doctrine of Acids and that I formerly wrote concerning the Cure of Wounds are likewise of the number of those that are unfortunate meerly for want of being born old and with a venerable Beard When a Book says the Famous Malbranch is first to appear in the World one knows not whom to consult to know its destiny The Stars preside not over its Nativity Their influences have no operation on it and the most confident Astrologers dare not foretel the divers risques of fortune it must run Truth not being of this World Caelestial Bodies have no power over her and whereas she is of a most spiritual Nature the several positions or combinations of Matter can contribute nothing either to her establishment or ruin Besides the judgments of men are so different in respect of the same things that we can never more hazardously and imprudently play the Prophet then in presaging the happy or unfortunate success of a Book So that every man who ventures to be an