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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70574	The character of a compleat physician, or naturalist.	Merret, Christopher, 1614-1695.; Mee, Dr.	1680 (1680)	Wing M1835B; ESTC R15737	5,519	8

THE CHARACTER OF A Compleat Physician Or NATVRALIST DR Hackwel in his Apology very aptly calls Anatomy and the Knowledge of Simples the two Legs of Physic And that the Compleat Physician may have both his Legs I shall follow his footsteps Anatomy is of greatest fame and repute tho not of much real use to the curing Mankind The use of Simple doth the most part to the only end of this Art Man's Health which is the Difference in its Definition The former respects Contemplation the latter the Practice and therefore call'd by us Physic The former is performed at home in a House with little expence of time labor or pains taking the latter requires all these in a high measure The Compleat Physician supposing in him University Learning must begin with Anatomy the Subject of his Art He must know all Parts and their Sub-divisions whether similar or organical chiefly the Vessels and all Passages of the Body the use of Parts their Situation Connexion Figure Structure Proportions Complements Defects Communities Differences compounding Elements Faculties Actions and Uses which are performed by Artificial Dissections Measurings Ligatures Inflations Injections and other useful Operations He is to be well versed also in Comparative Anatomy in all sorts of Animals whatsoever By which means he will discover the seat of Diseases and Symptoms their Causes and Effects Sympathies and Antipathies which way the matter of Diseases passeth from part to part and also of all the fluids in our Bodies 'T is helpful also very much in the Prognosticks as well as in the Diagnosticks In the Practical it teacheth what Veins or Arteries are fittest to be opened where Fontanels to be made where Cupping-glasses Plaisters Oyntments c. are to be applyed where and how Incisions to be made This part of Nature hath bin very well cultivated by many learned Hands both abroad and at home by the Two Glories of our Nation the Immortal Harvey my honoured Friend and Patron and Dr. Glisson and some others tho now much neglected where it ought to be most cultivated One part seems to be wholly neglected from which the greatest Practical Skill is to be attained that is by feeding or suddain killing Animals with Poisons Volatil or Lixivial Salts or with any of the stronger Simples and after opening them to find out the effects upon the Blood and Humours of the Body Whosoever hath rightly considered and digested the Physical qualities which is a great defect in Medicine will attain very clearly the true Nature of things as appliable to Man's Body and discover plainly the infinite Errors in Practice and may demonstrate his Practice by reasoning from Effect to Cause and from Cause to Effect and then by comparing one to another and those to the Tribes hereafter mentioned The other Leg of Physick is The knowledge of Natural things in the Latitude after expressed 'T is not the business of this Paper to set forth the great and large extent of Physic that is of all Tangible Bodies of the Universe This hath bin frequently perform'd in many Orations and Harangues at the College of Physicians especially in that incomparable Speech of Sir Thomas Millington both for Matter and Language Anno 1679. That which is intended in this Paper is to set out a Compleat Physician and thereby to guide people in their choice when they have occasion to use one wherein men are exceedingly mistaken to the loss of Health Life and Money I begin with the Name which is in our English Tongue the most proper of any Language whatsoever The word Physician derived from the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is plainly and fully rendred by the word Naturalist that is one well vers'd in the full extent of Nature and Natural things hereunto add the due and skilful preparation and application of them to Mens Bodies in order to their Health and prolongation of Life and you have a comprehensive Definition of a Physician 'T is not then a particular Knowledge or Art of one or a few things but in general of all Bodies whether Elements inanimate or living Now this Knowledge implies not only a bare visible skill of their Names and Parts only but a strict and serious examination of them by diligent experiments and tryals of them by all the Senses by all wayes and comparisons amongst themselves to investigate their Natures relating to men principally and all other uses they may be applyed to I shall speak briefly to each and first of Plants Vegetables being the largest Genus in Nature comprehendeth the greatest part by far of Materia Medica or things used for Physic These are to be known in all their Parts by Name as also as digested into Tribes and Families as they are reasonably well done by both the Baubins and better by Dr. Morison tho not so suitable to the design of teaching others as 't is to be wished they had But of his Work and a better Method something shall be shewed in due time By a right Method may be more than conjectured the properties of Simples by the bare first sight of them and fully known by the other senses as every one must confess who hath seriously reflected on this Matter Nay hereby also may well nigh be known I had almost said perfectly what they will afford what Waters Chymical Oils Spirits Salts and in what quantity This I do not say of all the Tribes but of most of them in a just Method delivered But if you apply them to the other Senses especially tast and smell and other tryals may be found out their full Nature But then there is required some exercises of the Senses and exactness in them and also the skill of words adapted to each sense As for Tasts the Vintners have added some and where defect is more are to be invented The want of words appliable to our Senses is the greatest impediment to the improvement of this most divine and useful Art The next thing is to range into a good Method what Properties are sutable to what Diseases and what parts in particular let the instance be bitter as also in what hurtful And by this way you may in a few sheets of Paper comprise all Diseases well defined and their Remedies by Simples generally the best way of Practice more fully more scientifically and better retained than in many and huge Volumes of Herbals Pharmacopaea's and Practical Writers This being done then the Physician is to find out by Tryals Sympathies and Antipathies as to Mixture of them one with another Preparation of them by Powdering c. and by Distillation whereby may be known what is fit for Distillation what for Decoctions 'T is a shame to see the Pharmacopaea's stufft with such a multitude of distill'd Water and not one in ten good for any thing nay offensive both to tast smell and stomach Nay there are few of the more generous Spirits but have Ingredients which afford nothing beneficial but rather prejudicial to those Compound