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A08437	The anatomyes of the true physition, and counterfeit mounte-banke wherein both of them, are graphically described, and set out in their right, and orient colours. Published in Latin by Iohn Oberndorff, a learned German: and translated into English by F.H. fellow of the Coll. of Physitions in London. Hereunto is annexed: A short discourse, or, Discouery of certaine stratagems, whereby our London-empericks, haue bene obserued strongly to oppugne, and oft times to expugne their poore patients purses.; De veri et falsi medici cognitione. English	Oberndorf, Johann.; Herring, Francis, d. 1628.	1602 (1602)	STC 18759; ESTC S120711	37,471	55

Curations and the Physitions are blamed traduced and disgraced when the Patient himselfe or his wise Counsellors deserued well much rather to be whipped Qui Plures consulit Medicoes in singulorum Errorem cadit ipse falsus maxime He that runneth after many Phisitions oft times deceiueth them all and himself most worst of all That externall Euents do interrupt the course of Curation and dash all on the sudden it is most euident A Physition in London had a Patient who hauing bene sicke of a burning Feuer and beeing in good way of recouerie a Creditor of his to whome hee owed a round summe hearing of his Sicknesse and daunger pressed suddenly into the Chamber where hee lay and expostulating with him in many sharpe and rigorous words and threats for securitie of his Debt so disquieted vexed and ouerheat the poore Man that hee relapsed into a Phrensie and Idlenesse of Braine crying out still vpon his Creditor that he would lay him vp that the Sergeants were at his backe readie to seize vpon him that he must lye by it his Wise and Children should be 〈◊〉 and thus rauing within fewe dayes dyed This Man might haue recouered in the Phisitions Iudgement if this vnhappy Accident had not happened Incomparable Galen the store-house of all good learning from whose reading the best learned shall euer returne more learned concurieth in this point with his Maister Hyppocrates as hath bene alreadie by the way touched and might be by many places of his workes plainely proued if it were not altogether superfluous to spend Tyme and blot Paper in a matter so euident Consider then the intollerable shamelesse Impudencie of our vaunting Pyrgopolynices who wil take vpon him to set Hyppocrates and Galen to Schoole as simple rude fellows in respect of his graund-Maistership And heerein that brain-sicke Germaine that notorious Sophister and Impostor of the World Paracelsus hath plainly discouered himselfe to be a mere Mounte-banke for if he had bene a learned Man he would neuer haue done it barking euery where in his rouing and rauing Discourses for Method or Art they haue none in them at Galen one of the Springs of Physicke chalenging himselfe for Ignorance his Medicines for insufficiencie and inualiditie all his Successors and Followers in the Physick Schooles and Vniuersities for Dolts Dunses and Asses in comparison of his goodly Selfe Ebrius est nec enim faceret haec sobrius Vnquam The Wine was in and the Wit was out when hee did and spake this or else vndoubtedly he would neuer haue done it But to let him goe into whose grosse and palpable Absurdities intollerable Insolencies and incredible Sophistications if a man should enter he should find Powles work as we say it is more then manifest both by the Authorities and sound Reasons of these graue and learned Phisitions to whom these base Cōpanions are not worthy to hold the Candle or to be Named the same yeare with them that all Diseases are not Cureable and that therefore they are notorious and not sufferable Impostors who take vpon them more then the greatest Maisters of Art would euer arrogate to Themselues and that which indeed is not in their power to performe The like may be said of Cures which was said of Martiall affaires In rebus bellicis Militum virtus locorum opportunitas Classes Comeatus Auxilia multum tuuant Qnin ipsa Rerum Domina Fortuna magnam partem suo sibi Iuro vindicat c. So in Curations the Skilfulnesse and Carefulnesse of the Physition the Discretion and Tractabilitie of the Patient and diligence of the Keepers and Attendants the faithfulnesse of the Apothecaries Surgions and other Ministers the remouing of all externall Impediments do greatly further and forward Curations but aboue all and when all is done there is a great Commaunder who sitteth in Heauen and chalengeth to himself by good right the chiefe sway and stroke in all this Businesse In him are the issues of Life and of Death he hath created both Physicke and the Physition Quo sine Diptamnus nil Panacea iuuat Except the Lord build the House the builders c. Except the Lord watch the Citie the Watch-men c. The Eternall who hath giuen vs these Soules and Bodies of whom it should seeme these iolly fellowes these boasting Thrasoes do fildome or neuer thinke hath reserued to himselfe a soueraigne and ouerruling Power whereby hee doth oft times crosse the Meanes and frustrate the Hopes of the most skilfull and exquisit Artists much more of our bold Periclirators who blindly sottishly and sencelesly go to worke This caused that Eternised old Man whose Fame is like to last as long as the World lasteth cry out that there was Diuinum quid in morbis a certaine Misterie in Diseases which neither he nor any humane Wit could euer sound Their next Topicall Place or perswasiue Insinuation pretending the Patients good is this that as they vndertake without all peraduenture an absolute Cure be the Disease neuer so stubborne or pernitious so they likewise promise with no lesse Impudence and Vanitie a short and speedie Cure This is exceeding plausible to the poore Patient bringing him a sleepe and causing him to scratch where it itcheth not He will forsooth leap ouer the hedge before he come at it he will not stand thrumming of Caps or picking strawes all the yeare but with great Celeritie Dexteritie dispatch that in a weeke which the Rationall Physition the Schoole-Doctor with his Cautelous Caueats will lye bungling and iumbling at a Moneth or two Yet the wise Man willeth vs to hasten slowly and telleth vs that a soft fire maketh sweete Mault that a Thing is done soone inough if wel inough that hastie Bitches bring forth blinde Whelpes that rash Temeritie is the Daughter of Folly and Mother of Repentance Diuers Diseases proceeding from Inanition and Exhaustion require necessarily a conuenient space of Tyme that Natures losse and expence may be by degrees repaired restored and as it were reedified Others are of a Churlish Stubbborne and Rebellious Disposition and must be gently and softly handled and by litle and litle in some length of Tyme tamed and cicurated They are like a sleeping Dogge which must not sudenly be awaked least you do Irritare Crabronem duplicare malum and bring an old house vpon your owne or at least the Patients Head Rome was not built in a Day and no Matter of waight or moment can be negotiated and managed in a moment or trice vnlesse we will huddle and slubber them vp in such sort as we must doo redoo vndoo and as good neuer a whit as neuer the better Their last and surest Card whereby as with a cunning strong Engine they breake open the Gates of the long assayled Fort making themselues Lord and Owners thereof so as the poore Patient dooth yeeld himselfe as altogether vanquished and subdued and not able to hold out any longer is this They will solemnly professe that though their

the wearing of them showeth and proueth a good Warriour But these for the most part rush into Apolloes Temple with vnwashen handes and vnlettered heades and as they are as blinde as Beetles so they haue not so much as a desire to see into the mysteries of that abstruse Facultie they either vse no Teachers at all or else make choise of some Thessalicall Empericks as learned as themselues or some smoaky Chymist or black Vulcane able to teach them nothing but that which must afterward be vntaught yet notwithstanding they swell like the Terentian Thraso with a vaine and phoppish conceit of skill and knowledge as though they were the onely profound Doctors and learned Phisitions of the world To conclude they are such as cannot abide to take any paines or trauell in studie they reiect incomparable Galens learned Commentaries as tedious and friuolous Discourses hauing found thorow Paracelsus Vulcanian shop a more compendious and short way to the Wood spending Tyme the most noble and precious creature of God either with dooing nothing or vainly and foolishly about toyes as in finding the Foolosophers stone making Potable gold or in doing that which is euill and pernitious as in making some pleasant refined poysons vnder the names of Turbith minerall or Butyrum Arsenici to keepe Charon from wanting worke or else with a troubled and shittle head tossed too and fro like a feather and turning as oft as the weather-cock they neuer bring any thing to good effect or perfection Others are so notoriously sottish that being ouer head and eares in the myrie puddle of grosse Ignorance yet they will by no meanes see or acknowledge it so that they know not so much as that they know nothing For to giue an instance in the most absolute exquisite and diuine frame of mans Body if they can shewe a rude Description thereof hanging in their chamber and nick-name two or three parts so as it would make a horse to breake his halter to heare them they think themselues iolly fellowes and are esteemed great Anatomists in the eyes of the Vulgars Now in the knowledge of Plants they are old excellent and will roundly shewe you Spynach in stead of Sorrell a Nettle for Betony and Colchicū for Saffron that very demurely without any blushing Others as wise as these affirme very confidently if not impudently that the knowledge of Plants and other simples appartaineth not vnto them but to the Apothecaries But it seemeth to me very ridiculous if not altogether dishonorable and ignominious that he who taketh vpon him to be an other Apollo and great Doctor should not know the Instruments of his owne Art Now they are not so ignorant doltish but they are as enuious impudent and wainscot-faced And since there is no punishment allotted vnto Ignorance in the weale publike sauing the blot and brand of Infamy that is so familiar and accustomed vnto them from the cradle that it toucheth them no more then a flea-byting And Impudencie is so rooted in the bones and bred in the flesh that they not onely in secret lash and whip with their venemous and serpentine Tongues all honest and learned Phisitions but at their pleasures do tyrannise and excarnificat mens bodies and through their bayard like boldnesse and licentious impunitie make hauocke of their silly Patients making experiments and trying their Tartareall conclusions by more then Tragicall Deaths For there is no crime so haynous or odious which lewd and lost Companions do not perpetrate vnlesse they be bridled and restrained by feare of punishment but if the Magistrate looke thorow the fingers and winke at their naughtinesse or else maintaine and patrocinate them therin then they carrie all away smoothly and sleep soundly on both sides But these men should doo farre better neuer to vndertake those things wherein they haue no skill then to professe those Arts which they neuer learned Now it is the honestest and safest course for good and learned Phisitions since they haue no power in their hand to redresse these Enormities and that there is small hope of a better world to haue no societie with these Barbarians enemies to all Antiquitie Humanitie and good learning least they heare the old saying Like will to like As was said of the Diuell dauncing with the Collier Antithesis 2. 1. Part. IF we from hence proceed to the Course of life and practise of a right Aesculapian wee shall see him differ as much as white and blacke from the croaking and hedge creeping Quack-saluer His maine and principall drift and endeuour by meanes of his education in those studies which wholly rauish the mind with the loue of Vertue is that as a faithfull friend and well-willer of Nature he may religiously vnspottedly charily preserue the precious healt and life of man and conserue the Estimation Dignitie of that most honorable and worthy Profession For he thorowly wayeth and considereth the excellencie of his Arts subiect Man that noble admirable and incomparable worke of Iehouah the Temple of the holy Ghost the most eminent and cleare Myrrour Spectacle among all creatures of the diuine wisedome Iustice Goodnesse I say Man framed after the similitude of the Eternall Which noble and worthy Creature committeth his dearest Selfe and Life into the hands and trust of our Phisition Concerning whom together with all his Operations Practises in his Facultie he is to giue account vnto Nature and the Author therof the Eternall as a carefull Inspector sincere Iudge of them in the day of that great general Assise euerlasting Sabaoth of the world When hee seriously and diligently pondereth these things hee must needs remember his owne Condition and that it concernes him to looke well to the vpshot and Conclusion Herevpon he attempteth nothing he appointeth and determineth nothing but with sound Aduice Councel Iudgemēt searching out with great care industrie and diligence the nature and force of present Maladies weighing all things in the ballances of Reasō with great and singular Dexteritie repelling them and with admirable wisedome foretelling and presaging future Calamities He accounteth nothing more deare vnto him then the Health of his Patients wherevnto he is wholly deuoted refusing no labour or danger be it neuer so imminent to attaine that end Nay he cōsumeth himselfe with griefe and care for other mens Calamities reckoning their woes his owne miseries and all to this end that hee may performe the office of a true Phisition and deliuer his Patients from vnauoydable Perils and rescue men as it were out of the iawes of Death For Phisicke being the Art of helping and healing not of killing and excarnificating as Scribonius saith well the Professor thereof our Phisition dooth not value men by their Fortunes and Places in the world but reacheth out his helping and healthfull Hand vnto all that desire his assistance and maketh sure neuer to hurt any but helpe as many as possibly he can Herevpon as beseemeth a good and