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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

Ex Libro navigare to Saile by the Book and so both Passengers and Patients are in a ●●…ke condition of Safety I have declared the ●●king this degree for very good Reasons I might have had it in Holland when I would but because the way of distributing degrees is grown so corrupt and as it is managed in Universities serves but to impose upon mankind rather than secure them of a benefit by it I did decline it reckoning it more honest to rest upon a knowledge and Conscience of my own Sufficiency in Physick to advance me rather than to cloth my self with an empty Title and so by my example approve a corrupt Course of Formality which ought to be despised seeing 't is made a mere matter of course equally open to any per Courtesie or per-Penny be they sufficient for it or no. What sad Souls have I seen too often passed among the best Universities unto this degree of Physick Wine Venison and Pence have been a customary Passport to the old words of Institution Abunde satisfecisti egregie Domine Doctor I have been in an University abroad where I will for ten pounds procure any Novice that can but frame or get a Friend to frame for him a Thesis to read and act some other slight Forms of exercise in the publick place to be made a Doctor and this is the place that too many of our people run to Yea more if any one will but send the Money no matter who he be nor where for though the Professor who gives the degree never see his face he shall with grant of a private Diploma be dubb'd a Doctor Of so little esteem is it among Foreigners and ought to be in all the world till mankind can have better Security of Physick thereby Which can never be had but by breeding up youth as I before said in the liberal Arts first in some University which is but the Ornamental part and afterwards to be bound Apprentices for our Art it self and the Philosophie proper to it ariseth and is improved only by Mechanick Operation under a Free-man practicant of this City in order to the becoming free for Practice here The passing of such a Formality as this or the like men can seldom be deceived by and it is the most probable means to make able Doctors and to prevent the miserable scandalous inconveniencies of the other corrupt Formality whereby the world like the Dog in the Fable is too frequently mistaken with the shadow instead of the Substance Thus having done with their pretences I now pass on to the Third Point of this Apology which is the manner of their vexatious proceeding at Law to oppress me wherein I shall be very brief I am and would have been a man of peace but by no means could obtain it For after they had arrested me by Writ and carried on the Suit against me in the King's Bench I made application to them by my Self and Friends Serjeant Wiseman his Majesties chief Chirurgian having well known me many years very courteously went with me to the President of the Colledge who at first promised very fair but when I went alone to him the second time to know what I might expect he told me They had many Weeds in their Garden and they must take a course to root them out which was all the answer I could get so I troubled him no more And as for the Countesse's Doctor my great Prosecutor he sent me word by a person of quality that if I would lay down my practice they would lay aside their quarrel in Law but upon no other terms Whereupon I provided to defend my self the Suit going on And they having given my Atturney a Declaration against me I prepared to put in my Exceptions and then on a sudden upon I know not what by-design they let fall their Action in that Court and arrested me this last vacation upon another Action in the Court of Marshalsey where a new charge of expences was brought upon me with great loss besides of my time and Practice through perpetual attendance upon the Suit till I had brought the Cause on to be ready for a Trial there And truly it had been then tried had I not been advised by able Counsel not to suffer so important a Cause to be tried in a petty Court but to remove it back by Habeas Corpus into the King's Bench again as the more noble place which I have done and there I expect a Trial this Michaelmas-Term which brings another great expence upon me and loss of time it being the great Artifice of the Colledgemen by tumbling me from Court to Court to tire out and ruine me and terrifie all others if they can Now being come to the fourth and last Point of my discourse I humbly crave leave to wind up all with a short account of my own Education and Practice They say I am an Apothecary 't is well 't is no worse and it had been well for their Worships if they had at first been bred so too for so the Apothecaries had not been put to it to acquaint them with the Materia Medica and the way of Practice as they are wont to doe at their coming to Town I did indeed begin as they ought to have done that is learn to operate Medicine I was called from Trinity Colledge nigh Dublin in Ireland where I had sometime been bred to live with the ablest Apothecary there his name Jacob Rickmans I serv●d him seven years and became a free-man of Dublin The ablest Physicians that ever I met with abroad were first bred Apothecaries or Chymists or both after they had qualified themselves with University-learning in other Arts and Sciences For other Nations do think it as necessary for a Practicioner of Physick to be first bred in both those working employments as it is for him that intends to read first to learn his Letters After I had been thus initiated in the University and afterward in learning the skill to prepare and compound Medicine my inclination next led me to travel to see what I could learn abroad From Ireland I took England in my way and after some time spent here I passed into Holland and from thence into Germanie France and many parts of Spain to try in those Countries what improvement might be made in Physick And at length I returning into Holland there took up my Rest It is about 26 years since I cured in Roterdam some that now belong to the London Colledg who at this time do live in London About the same time I lodged others of them in my house lent them my money left my whole employment for eight days together to shew them the Countrey at my own charge lodged some in my own Bed For which I have been invited with fair words and by Letters to receive a Recompence but in the present dealing of that Society behold my Reward I have been told since by the Chiefest of them

upon them to judge and condemn men and this without remedy by appeal to any Superiour Court in case of Injustice but to suffer penalties both in their purses by Fines and Amercements and persons by imprisonments according to such sentence as they shall please to pass against them so that they may be ruined in matter of livelihood and their bodies rot in Jayle till these their Judges and Adversaries shall please to set them free It cannot enter into any English heart to imagine that our Ancestors would entail upon us by Law so great a Slavery so manifestly contrary to Magna Charta and to all the fundamental Laws and Liberties of the Subject If it be objected that the said supposed Statute ought to be believed a real one because it appears to have been in print about a hundred years ago and hath been since collected into the great Book of Statutes Let such Objector consider how easie a matter it might be to impose upon a Printer a Copie of a Bill instead of a Statute to be printed among Statutes especially about matter of Physick whose concerns in those daies were but in few hands and those but very slender insomuch that the Art it self was poor in improvement the professors very inconsiderable persons And after it had been once printed as a Law how easie a matter it was in process of time for the Lawyers themselves unawares to accept it and Mr. Pulton to reprint it as such without further inquiry and to hand it as authentick down to Posterity So that t is no marvel at all that the mistake should run on to such a height at length as to take it pro confesso and admit of it for a Law in Courts of Judicature and give judgment accordingly as in the case of Dr. Bonham recorded by my Lord Cook and others But it is withal to be considered that in this latter Age the City of London it self encreasing to a vast amplitude the number of Physitians also being exceedingly augmented and the extravagant Insolencies of the Collegiates with their enmity and opposition to the Professors of a more excellent way of Physick monstrously encreasing with their pride and covetousness irritated men to resist their pretended power and by assistance of the most learned Gentlemen of the long Robe to enquire into the bottom of it which upon divers Trials afterward in Courts of Law was found to be but Sandy as in the several Cases of Dr. William Trigge Doctor Barker Doctor Stephen Trigge Doctor Read Fettiplace and others in whose trials they successively were either overthrown or else non-suited when great multitudes of people were present who came thither to testifie what Benefits they had received by Cure from those men after they had tried the Collegiates and could find none which being done they had the satisfaction to hoot them out of the great Hall of Justice Before I leave this point it cannot be amiss to add one passage very remarkable much to the purpose and that was in the daies of the Usurper Oliver from whom the Colledge-men had gotten such Countenance that they after the having received several defeats at Law in suing of others took courage notwithstanding to Arrest one Dr. Read that lived then in Moor-fields and they brought the Cause to a Hearing in the Court of Common-Pleas supposing they must needs carry it before the then Chief Justice St. John because he having been a Creature of Olivers seemed most likely to favour a Cause that was favoured by his Master And the Colledge-party labouring to prove the Legality of their Patent the Record pretended to justifie it was there produced in Court and upon view of it the said Chief Justice declared openly he could not admit it as a good Record for which he gave divers Reasons too copious here to be inserted I have presumed the rather to give this instance because whatever St. John was as to his siding with the Rump Parliament yet no Lawyer I presume will deny him to have been an able Judge to understand whether that pretended Record were an Authentick Statute or no However the vast body of the people there present were so apprehensive it was a Cause of general concern that upon the Judges declaring his opinion they filled Guild-Hall with acclamations and the Colledge-pretenders sneak't away not daring a long time after to venture upon any further disturbance The consideration of these things is that which gives me courage to stand up in my own defence at Law a single man against the injurious assault of a ●●●●rous Combination And for two things I bless Almighty God with all my heart the one is that the Rise of their malice hath been because I did good where they could not And the other is that it is my lot to live in a time wherein the Benches of Westminster Hall are replenished with Judges such as for reputation of Learning Justice and high affection to the Subjects Liberty exceed all times that have gone before A third Circumstance giving cause to believe it no Statute and that what evidence they insist on to prove a Statute is really but a meer Copy of some Bill that might in those daies be tendered to the Parliament but not passed is this That in the third year of the same Kings Reign there was an Establishment setled of a certain power by a particular Statute to license such persons as were fit for the Practice of Physick in London and Parts about it which power was by that Statute lodged in the hands of the Bishop of London or the Dean of St. Pauls and so a much better provision made for the Government of Physick than what is now pretended forasmuch as they were learned hands in whom the Trust was then reposed to judge of fit persons and certainly those Trustees were more fit than the present Collegiate pretenders can be in regard they were not as these are parties in the profits of the Profession And if any one should object that Bishops and Deans being busied about matters of a more Sacred importance are not like to be fit Judges of Physical Concerns as men bred up to the faculty may be I answer on the behalf of those Reverend Persons that they are raised to that dignity for their excellency of learning and if men who are to be Licensed do bring them good Certificates of their integrity of life and good success in their Practice which is the surest evidence of a mans Learning and knowledge proper for his faculty nay it only is necessary and other kinds of Learning in a Physician but ornamental then I suppose the trust is better reposed in Consciencious hands of those Learned and Reverend Fathers who are more like to deal impartially in approbation than men of our own profession who have given the world too great a proof of their appetite of domineering and devouring one another as well as their Brethren who like not their way nor their Society