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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39814	A character of a true physician, or, A true chymist compared with a goose-quill pedant with a short view of the frauds and abuses in physick, committed by the confederate prescribing doctoral methodists, with their combinators the apothecaries ... : being a vindication of such physicians as follow not their method but make and administer their own medicines, being the honestest, safest, cheapest, and speediest way of practice, both for physician and patient / by R. Fletcher ...	Fletcher, R. (Richard), fl. 1676-1677.	1676 (1676)	Wing F1357; ESTC R376	13,554	32

decline an engaging themselves and to set on their Underlings to Write against a Book which they well knew was not to be answered yet they had the impudence to cry in all places that they had confuted the Doctor in four several Answers This was the Art used then to save their Credits with the Injudicious weaker sort of people And now seeing I hear they are upon practising that same trick again by employing against Huyberts one Goodale from whom is not to be expected any tolerable Answer and he being none of the Colledge Dr. Huyberts is not concerned to make any Reply to ought that shall be Written on that account unless it shall appear in Print owned under the name of the Colledge or of some one of their number on their behalf For the Doctor is resolved not to take notice of that Drop-seller but will commit the care of a Reply unto a Man of his own whose name is Jack Straw A fit man to Foile such a Champion being able to deal with Mr. Goodale and his good Masters too in case they deal with him now as formerly they did with Dr. Nedhams Book that is if they shall cry up this their new Treatise which is now forming by that incompetent Adversary to be a sufficient Answer Before I conclude I cannot but take notice by way of Admiration of the condition of that worthy and Ancient Company of Chirurgeons of London what a base thing it is that such persons as they should suffer so long a time as they have done under the Insolence and Pride of the Pedants who have for a hundred and fifty Years past made attempts from time to time to inslave and debar them from the practise of Physick in following their Profession which to do is absolutely a great Burthen to the Subject and disgrace to the Kingdom There being no reason why a Chirurgical Patient should be put to the charge of a Fop Doctor Ignorant of Chirurgery as most of them are when as if occasion require a Doctor the Chyrurgeon may be Chyrurgeon and Doctor too for so they are and ought to be at Sea or else his Majesty and the Merchants may lose their Men that dayly go forth in their services And how shall they be fit for Sea if they and their Masters that Breed them have not a freedom to practise both ways by Land as well as by Sea Besides Physick and Surgery were everheretofore in one hand till the idle Pride of Pedants made a Distinction From which arose the destruction of Physick in all its concerns And it will never be well till they run both again in on Channel Farewell Courteous Reader and favour the Attempts of him whose Aime is thy Good whilst he is R. Fletcher From the Sun in Gutter-Lane London 1676. Advertisement THere will be speedily Printed a Commentary upon the Learned Preface which was Written by the worthy Dr. Mar. Nedham last Summer and set forth in Print before Dr. Richard Gowers Translation of Sylvius the Dutchman's new Idea of Physick Being a Piece worthy to be perused by all men in the Nation that they may see how they have been Gulled with the Title of University Doctor instead of real Physician it will be Printed in Octavo in 4. Sheets the very Marrow of things to avoid the pedantick way of Tiring the World with long Discourses * See the Book Lex Talionis written by an Apothecary against the Pedant Doctors * M. Bayes may do well to crown their funeral and Marvel not if you find on their Tombe-stone for a memorial because most of them are pretended Scholars these words This is GOLGOTHAMGEMULAM which if Mr. Franckland P. D. Solliciter happen to survive he may interpret if he be able