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A39205 An Elegy upon the death of the much lamented, able and learned physician Doctor Thomson who dyed March the 11th, 1677. 1677 (1677) Wing E474B; ESTC R36267 1,084 1

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AN ELEGY Upon the Death of the Much Lamented Able and Learned Physician Doctor THOMSON Who Dyed March the 11th 1677. Vivit Post funera Virtus Must good men still dye first and is there gone That Able Learned Doctor George Thomson A Knowing Chimist as this Age afforded And will in after-times stand so recorded The gift of Healing Heavens did him Blesse What others fail'd in he did soon redresse Unwearied was the pains that he did take To make good Medicine for poor Mortals sake Then le ts Lament of him we are bereft There is but few now like him that are left His solid Judgment is Philosophy His learned Books doth plainly testifie He knew most Plants their Vertues what they were And Minerals extracted with great care He was Experienc'd in Anatomy As his Dissections well can verifie For he it was that first a Spleen did take Out of a Dog a tryal for to make Which to the World did satisfaction give How that a Creature without a Spleen might live Two monstrous stones residing nigh the part Of Collick Gut he brought out by his Art And is admir'd by those that do them see How two such stones should in the Body be The Plague in sixty five he did Dissect A Pestilentian Body with respect To save mankind out of the Jaws of Death That every hour was then bereav'd of Breath His own he hazarded to save his Neighbours Life For Wife her Husband and for the Husband Wife The Parent and the Child praise to God gave That by his means were sav'd from the Grave And shall we let this worthy Doctor dye And not bestow on him an Elegy His great Abilities was plainly shown That he was only amongst the knowing known He was a Loyal sufferer for the King Which at that time did persecution bring A right good Christian liv'd and so did die For that 's the true Religio Medici His Charity unto the World was known His Bread was cheerfully on the Waters thrown Unhappy World that never prize till when They are deprived of such Worthy Men. Now this good Man must here no longer stay For they are taken from the Evil day For he is mounted up on heavenly wings To sing forth Praises with the King of Kings Eas'd of his Labours Sickness and his Pain He 's now made Happy for Death to him his gain What needs more words a future World he sought And set the Pomp and Pride of this at naught Heaven was his aim let Heaven be still their Station That leaves such works for others imitation An EPITAPH HEre lies wrapt up within this Bed of Clay Expecting for to rise at the last day The Pious Able Learned Physitian And great Phylosopher Doctor Thomson Reader bewail this worthy Doctors losse For we shall find the want of him a Crosse When Sickness comes enrag'd with fretting pain In vain we shall then wish him back again Earth hath his Body his Soul is gone to rest With his Redeemer for ever to be blest With Allowance London Printed in the Year 1677. 104.