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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50437	Medicus absolutus adespotos the compleat physitian, qualified and dignified : the rise and progress of physick, historically, chronologically, and philosophically illustrated : physitians of different sects and judgements, charactered and distinguished : the abuse of medicines, imposture of empericks, and illegal practisers detected : cautioning the diseased in the use of medicines, and informing them in the choice of a good physitian / by Everard Maynwaring ...	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1668 (1668)	Wing M1497; ESTC R32063	68,087	196

way to vend them or they will be spoiled before they be spent Although this does not excuse you in the Injury done to Physitians yet if it be so as you say it mitigates your fault à tanto but why do you not seek a Redress by better and more careful means by consulting the Physitians whose Candor towards you is such they will be ready to joyn and assist your Corporation in rectifying and obviating those inconveniencies for the future you complain of by preventing the swelling number and great increase of Traders By contracting and taking off the superfluous and supernumeraries of your Melicines imposed upon you and by suppressing the Chymical Empericks and all other illegal practisers which being done as it is not very difficult to be effected the Business of Physick will lie between the Physitians and your selves and then you will have no Cause or Plea to exceed the bounds of your Trade nor the Physitians just Cause to complain of you as they have at this day But Mr. Apothecary if you practice and be much abroad visiting your Patients who must manage your Business at home Apoth My Boyes can do the Business in the Shop they can make Medicines and serve Customers and if a Physitians Bill come they can make up the Medicine well enough to serve turn But what if the Boyes should mistake or for want of Care and Skill the Medicine be ill made will not that reflect upon you if it do not operate well according to the intention of the Medicine Apoth No I can come off well enough I can say the Medicine was made according to the Prescription the Doctor cannot disprove me let the fault lie at his door I must look after my occasions abroad my Servants are sufficient to do the Business at home I cannot be alwayes in my Shop nor will I tye my self to wait upon his Business but at my own conveniency 't is true we were at first but Ministri Medicorum but now we are in a fair way to be Medicorum Magistri we can bring them into practice and we can put them out of practice when we please if we do but whisper in the Patients ear this Doctor does not prescribe well he comes no more there another is sent for that we like bettter that useth our Shop or pleaseth our humour our words goe far in the opinion of the Patient and except he be very much preingaged and bent upon a Physitian we can sway him this way or that way as our interest leads us but if he names a Chymical Physitian one that makes his own Medicines we cry him down might and main he spoils our Trade we can say he is a Quack or a man of no parts though he be the ablest Physitian in the Town that his Medicines are mineral Physick and dangerous we will blast his Credit if it be possible he shall have no Reputation if our words can defame him but he that practiseth at our own Shop that sends his Bills hither that is the best Physitian and him only we advise you to 'T is enough we understand now the mystery and design of your Trade your unlawful practice of Physick and influence upon the Sick your encroachments upon Physitians and secret injuries We understand now the Apothecary's advice and kindness to the Patient in the choice of a Physitian his judgement and censure of Physitians upon what Bias it runs When Physick was in its Infancy and after it began to increase and have good growth in Hypocrates Galen's times Physitians then managed the whole Business themselves there was no Apothecaries but the careful industrious Physitian prepared his own Medicines and would not intrust so great a Concern in the hand of others but when Physick came into a general repute and use Physitians few and Patients many they began to commit the preparation of their medicines to others whom they did instruct and train up in Pharmacy and were wholly guided and commanded by the Physitian and were very obsequious usefull servants to him but these having gained the knowledge of Medicines a freedome in making and selling and by time privileges of incorporation the case is altered now the Physician hath lost his faithfull servant he is now independent an Apothecary yes and a Physitian too and thinks himself as well interessed and concerned in Physick as the Doctor and interferes with him in his practice Freitagius checks the boldness of these men very sharply De Abus● medicina pag. 97. Nimis audax impudensque facin●● est Pharmacopoeos scientiae quadam frivola opinione infl●●os velle recta morbis remedia inconsulto medico auctoramento proprio ventosa arrogantia confidentia plus quam Cyclopica decernere 'T is strange that our predecessors had not the Prognostick of this in their heads to obviate the mischiefe that might befall their successors that they did not consult what might happen upon on the Introduction of Sub-ordinate men and committing the Arcana's of art to their trust that they did not as well provide against the infidelity and encroachments of these as design their own ease and present conveniency T is plain they did not and the ill consequents are as evident give an inch and they take an ell Physicians gave them the profit of Medicines but they take the benefit of practising too and ask no leave the propriety of Medicines they challenge as properly belonging to them the next will be a propriety in practice they are not satisfied with their trade they would be equall with Physitians and having gained that ●●●●es ut fi●nt aquales aequales ut 〈◊〉 maj●res cert●● the next endeavour is to be above them Success begets boldness and incourageth farther attempts winners know not how to leave off their game Many of these Apothecaries are grown very confident in the Practice of Physick and custome which makes all things familiar will legitimate and approve them in the opinion of common people such thriving leaders shall not want followers t is casie to guess then what will be the issue and event of it this is a bad omen and seems to threaten the Crown which undoubtedly will fall upon this faculty as it comes on apace if not timely prevented by the prudence and unanimous consent of the Professors The only means to avert this ill fate and although the Seniors that are well planted may think themselves secure and that the storm will not happen in their days yet they cannot but be sensible of the great encroachments and injuries now offered to themselves which will fall much heavier upon the Juniors not so able to contend but must truckle Dr. Thomson noting the abuses in Physick does not without cause charge many of them upon the imprudence of the Professors in the il management of their own business T is true saith he there are sad exorbitancies Galius ●al● irregularities and abuses in Physick but who we pray have been the principal

Chance that you did not expect the second Experience is Ex proposito when one does purposely and designedly make a tryal the third is Experientia imitatrix when a Physitian useth or rejecteth those things which in the like cases he has found to do good or hurt and this is that Experience chiefly meant which constituteth that Emperical Art upon which bottom this Emperical Sect was founded and denominated Those men judged Reason useless in their practice and trusted wholy to Experience and therefore did not trouble themselves about examining of Causes and searching into the abstruse nature of Diseases and Bodies but herein differ the Empericks of ancient times and these in our daies for they profess and own nothing but Experience to be their Guide and Master and herein they were ingenious but our Empericks pretend not only Experience but great Knowledge when they are very ignorant in Philosophy and the Tongues now the ancient Empericks and the modern neither make inspection into the Disease it self or the Cause by a rational discourse and investigation being unable so to do but altogether fix their eyes upon the Phaenomena the external and sensible appearances the syndrome and concurrence of Symptomes which historically they have noted in the like Cases and therefore do give the same Remedies This Sect in ancient times flourished chiefly amongst the Egyptians as Herodotus reports every Disease almost had a particular Physitian some were for the Eyes others for the Teeth some for the Feet others for the Hand and so each of them applyed themselves to the Cure of some particular part of the Body Men of note of this Sect were Serapio Philinus Apollonius Glaucius Heraclitus Tarentinus Menodotus c. But in process of time finding their blind Experiments to deceive them which they wholy relyed on they began to establish themselves upon a better foundation and did inquire into Causes and the nature of things Themison Laodicaeus introduced and was Author of that Sect called the Methodists Methodists who held that the knowledge of Causes did not conduce to the Cure nor had they any consideration of the Sick in respect of Temperament Age Custome Sex strength of the Patient time of the Year Region or any thing else which a good Physitian ought to have but only looked upon the Disease in facto esse as it appeared by the Dianosticks and from thence only they took their indication for Cure They made their Art very compendious and short and asserted against Hypocrates who pronounced Vitam brevem artem longam Aphor. that the Art of Physick was neither long not hard and Thessalus would vainly boast and promise to teach it in six months without the assistance of any other learning They reduced all Diseases under these two Heads Astriction and Laxity for which two general Medicines they appointed an Astringent for Laxity and a Laxative for Astriction and one of these was used in all Cases of this Sect was Saranus Antipater Thessalus Trallianus and others The vanity of whose Art was such that I need not use any Argument to refute their Opinions I come now to the Rational Physitians Rational Physitians who are the considerable Party that deserve to be insisted upon and rightly understood they were stiled Rational Physitians because by a strict ratiotination they did search into the Causes of all things and were not contented to trust Experience only for their Rule and Guide as the Emperical Sect but did joyn Reason with Experience to confirm and ascertain the truth of what they did believe they took Cognisance of the whole frame of Nature and dived into the Secrets thereof they brought under examination the natural action and proprieties of all things they considered accuratly the Frame of Man's Body in its natural and preternatural state what was conducing to preserve him in health and what would free him from sickness they took an account of all the preternatural affects that humane bodies were incident to how procured how differenced and discerned and how to be remedied and this they did establish by Rules and Precepts to constitute and settle the Medicinal Art upon a hand some and certain foundation These Rational Physitians though aiming all well and industriously tending towards one end yet differed much in their Progress and Medicines to attain it and still continue so to this day Of these there are two grand dissenting Parties Dogmatists or Galenists and Chymists or Hermetic Physitians they were called Dogmatists from the many Opinions that did arise amongst themselves and now called Galenists from Galen their great Patron whom they assert and profess themselves to be his Disciples and own his Doctrine Galen lived about six hundred years after Hypocrates Galen and practised Physick at Athens Alexandria and Rome where he was in great fame and splendor he was a very learned man and intended the honour and good of the Profession as appears by his great labour and pains which he took in writing so many Volumes of Physick and crushing the Emperical Sect and Methodists that defamed this excellent Art but for all this he was not so fortunate in his works as to build the stately structure of Physick which he had notably framed upon a right foundation which caused him to accumulate errors that his voluminous Writings are of little advantage except to those who are wary and intelligent and rightly principl'd that know how to pick and chuse such I say may make some good use of his Works but they that admire and read him so as to swallow all that 's presented and become a perfect Disciple of his such shall never be excellent in the true knowledge of Physick if they persist Doubtless had this great Physitian been acquainted with the discoveries in Physick which some Physitians in these dayes are Masters of his parts and industry were such he had excelled all before and after him and Galen then would not have been a Galenist but a Chymist I shall not note the failings of this great man others have sufficiently done that already yet many there are that think his Works most perfect at least will have them so Servilia quorundam recentiorum ingenia satis mirari non possum Senert Co● ct disse● Chym. cum Gal●● qui scribere ausi sunt se cum antiquis errare malle quam cum recentioribus verum dicere sayes Sennertus So addicted are many jurare in verba magistri they will maintain the Credit of their Patrous right or wrong But Julius Scaliger notes the pertinacious defence of antique Authors to be very injurious to truth and increase of knowledge Equidem saepenumerò miratus sum mortalium vel audaciam vel pertinaciam Lib. 3. de Caus Ling. Lat. qui tuentur errores quos ii qui commiserunt si viverent emendarent Many there are who dotingly do so adore their Patrons that they will maintain such tenents of theirs as they themselves had they been alive now