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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

from the Clergie by which and my other Advantages in Law I question not to be abundantly able to justifie my self self and my practice against my malicious persecutors A Fourth Circumstance that may lead a man to believe it no Statute ariseth by the success of the late grand attempt which the Colledge-men made in the year 1663. when they presented an Address unto this Parliament now in being to pass a Bill they had prepared not only for confirmation of the Powers contained in their former supposed Statute but for enlargement of them also to such a monstrous magnitude as is almost incredible insomuch that the honourable Committee to whom the house of Commons had referred the Bill and thereupon to report to the house their Opinion after a full hearing of the Counsel that appeared for all parties both Physicians and others were so well satisfied of the monstrosity of their demands that they dismissed the Colledge-men re infecta who retuned home with a flea in their ears and have ever since been wondrous quiet till of late upon pretence of I know not what new Chimaeraes they begin again to be troublesome yea I have been informed that after the Committee had had many daies patience to admit a full Scrutiny into the nature of their Cause there appeared on the last day none on the Colledge side but two of their own fellows who had on this occasion acted as Sollicitors so that one of the Lawyers employed by the defendants had the pleasure to observe how ill a Cause it was seeing their own Lawyers declined to appear any more in the Business So there was an end of it all being dismissed by the honourable Committee Yet the men do boast and would give the Parliament as I hear new trouble But 't is possible others may be beforehand with them there with Reasons to desire a Reformation and to remonstrate the miserable estate into which Physicians and the Art it self have in all times been reduced and would be in the future for want of improvement if those men might have their way of domination I can here challenge them and do in the view of the world to nominate any one particular of improvement that their Society hath made in the Art of curing since their first Incorporation and I will prove the contrary As for their pretensions of discoveries in Anatomie if they insist upon them I am readie to prove they have done nothing in all their Anatomick Theatres which may conduce to better Cure and no more than what may serve the Salta-di-Banco's upon a Stage it being the last part they have to play or trick to shew to entertain Spectators and amuse the world to uphold some Repute among such as are ignorant and draw on Customers so that it is wonderfull to see how many even of the Nobility and Gentry as well as the Citizens are taken by this sort of trick the Mock-shews of pretended discovery by Anatomy But how little is to be expected from such Actors that honourable Gentleman Mr. Boyle tells you in his Book of Experimental Philosophy where he saith he doth not see wherein by any of those new discoveries any thing hath been done to better the Cure of Diseases You may take his word And if the Masters of the stage please to justifie themselves I will in publick evidence they have done nothing by it worth a straw beyond what was done by the Antients Yet know withal I reverence so much of Anatomie as is necessary and half a years time spent in it is enough to fit any Physician or Chirurgian for practice The new Nicities serve for nought but ostentation and discourse But as for noble Medicaments the Rulers and Leaders among them have I will make it evident by almost forty years observation made it their business to stifle or else discredit them and discourage the Practisers or downright abuse and vex them under pretence of law though these are the sort of men to whom the world have in this Age been obliged as I can by instances make appear for the delicacie easiness and improvement of Medicine But I would not be too large to tire the Reader therefore I proceed 2. Their Second pretence of Suit against me is that I am a Chymist This some persons have told me that had it from some of their own mouths Upon this Point I answer that it is my glory to be a Chymist though among some ignorant of all Science and others not skilled in this it is hardly thought of and the only reason is this because the other sort of Physicians and their Agents being either wholly ignorant or at best but dablers in it do count it their interest to cry out and clamor against it to fright the weaker persons lest the experience of its excellency should detect their own ignorance and insufficiency and thereby annihilate their reputation and profit among the People But they may do well to remember that in the beginning of the year 1665 when some worthy Physicians endeavoured and had countenance from many of the chiefest of the Nobility who gave their approbation to an instrument in writing under their hands for the erecting of a new Society of Physicians for the advancement of Physick by Chymical Medicaments and Practice as easiest safest and most effectual for Cure of his Majesties Subjects one of the Arts then used by the Collegiates to prevent the setting up of this Society was immediately to put on a pretence that they also are Chymists and make and use those Remedies as much as any and this pretence they sometimes take up when they happen to be conversant among any ingenious persons that are knowing in this Art But on the other hand if they chance to light into Practice among people ignorant of the Art and who also are either religiously or naturally melancholy and consequently timerous suspitious and apt to entertain their Suggestions then they work on the dark side secretly whisper and blaspheme this noble way of Medicine as dangerous and as such that though it cure one disease at present yet it leaves a root of ill behind which after long time if not shortly springs up into the same or some worse disease so that by such little Arts as these they and their Agents do play on both sides to uphold a tottering Reputation which is now almost down and will be quite ere long the eyes of the world being opened every day more and more to discover them and the Mystery of their Craft In this matter know I do not include all of that Society but 't is the usual practice of a prevailing party among those few fellows thereof who rule all And now seeing I so often mention that Society know that the Government of it is not managed by the ablest and the most learned But by such as grow up in Seniority of entrance as Fellows be they wise or unwise And to shew the world how much a few do