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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	nature_n	spirit_n	1,729	5	5.0066	4	false

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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

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 That is to say Such Apothecaries only as debase themselves to Truck and truckle under him in his dull method to the extream abuse and hazard of their Patients 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 a True Englishman Ecclesiast 10. 5 6. There is an evill which I have seen under the Sun Folly set in great dignity and the Rich in wisdom and vertue set in low places London Printed for the Author 1676. A CHARACTER OF A TRUE PHYSICIAN A True Physician is one unto whom God hath opened the eyes of his mind and demonstrated the properties of things as he did to Adam before the fall and to Solomon upon his begging of Wisdom and unto Bazaleel and Aholiab for the Glory of his Name in Israel II. Or a True Physician is one whom God hath qualified with a longing desire to know Nature in her operations Integrity and defects and how they may be amended For which he doth ask seek and knock in a right way not at the doors of Aristotle or Galon with diligence patience and constancy till it be given and opened unto him his heart is not set upon gain but out of charity to the poor distressed he doth persist in this pursuit of knowledge and the mercifull God hears him and gives him what he seeks for Then having received his Talent he doth not bury it in a napkin but doth improve it untill with it he gain 2 and with them 5 and with them 10 and then he doth not seek to get worldly Honour Riches and Fame so much as the good of those he undertakes nor is he startled at the sad Catalogue of incurable diseases which the Proud fond usurping School-Doctors have most shamefully compiled but he by his Noble Balsamic Medicines is able to overcome as the valiant Champion is reported to have conquered the devouring monster He viz. A Son of Art knows how by his Chymick Art to prepare either Animal Vegetable or Mineral so as their vertue be separated from all gross Adherents that it may be an apt Medicine to perform what God in Nature hath granted to it But this his Art and knowledge is not such as he sucks from the Schools but such as is applicable to Action the other being but mere empty shadows or meer ornaments at best But this his Art consists in the knowledge of corruption and generation for he that knows the wayes of Generation will easily come to be acquainted with the true menstruum of Bodies which in the Art of preparing Medicines is most usefull For every thing that Nature affords for the subsistence and health of Man is crude and needs a further digestion before it can be converted either into the substance of Man or into a wholesom Medicine so that a Physician ought to be so skill'd in Nature's path as to imitate and assist Nature that all crude bodies in order to Medicine may without the kitchin of the stomach be set to putrify to be digested and so dissolved that their spiritual nature may after that solution be easily extracted and taken out of them and so transmitted to the several parts of the body And to this purpose Chymistry serves for by the help of this Art we know how to digest to dissolve to putrify to separate the pure from the impure and so to come by perfect Medicines For all bodies more or less partake of the grosness and terrestriety of their Matrixes but after their principles are separated from that terrestriety adhering which they drew from their Matrixes they make it plain enough by their powerfull effects that it is to this state they ought to be reduced before they can work with efficacy and yet they still retain their Character and Internal Idea Thus will a little quantity of such a well prepared Medicine manifest its self in the powerfull operating and assisting of Nature to cast off her enemies viz. Diseases with speed and safety But verily so great and precious a blessing as this God never bestows nor imparts to any of those fraudulent Tyrants who would limit the Holy one of Israel and stop and stifle those noble improvements in Physick which themselves neither do nor can understand whilst they remain proud usurpers and worshippers of Mammon Then Give ear you Pedantick Galenists and Chymicophants of the pretended Colledge who persecute this Divine Science and the Professours thereof give ear I say and tell me with what conscience can you prosess your selves to be Physicians seeing that all Medicines or Physick are without Chymistry imperfect Without that Chymistry I say which out of the Manifest Light of Nature hath its invincible Grounds and Canons laid down in those excellent Writings of the Hermetick Philosophers for This is the only Art which by supplying us out of the Light of Nature with convenient means and particular Natures to separate the pure from the impure will teach us first how to heal all the Diseases of the Macrocosmicall substances and afterwards by examples and experiments deduced from those exteriour Cures will shew us the right and infallible cure of all Diseases in our own Bodies He that knows not how to purge and heal Metals how can he restore the decay'd or weakned Radical Balsam in Man and repair it by comfortable and concordant Medicines to perform perfectly all its appointed functions which must necessarily be put into action before any Disease can be expelled he that knows not what that is in Antimony which purges Gold how can he come by an effectual and wholesom Medicine that will purge and cast out those extrarious peccant causes that afflict and destroy he Body of Man He that knows not how to fix Arsenick or to take away the corrosive nature of Sublimate or to coagulate sulphureous spirits and by a convenient specifical Medium to break and dissolve stones in the greater World will never in the Body of Man allay and tame the Arsenicall Spirits of the Microseomic Salt nor take away venemous indispositions of Sulphur nor dissolve the Stone in the Bladder and drive it out being dissolved Now as the Antient Philosophers who knew Nature indeed obtained their noble Medicines by the strict exact observations of Nature in her own path how that kind was multiplied by kind and without putrefaction there could be no generation and as they found out excellent Medicines by doing all things in the Metallick Kingdom according to the possibility of nature so if you would have A Medicine indeed although inferiour to theirs whether of the Mineral Animal or Vegetable Kingdom you must proceed in the same