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Reason in season: or, A vvord on the behalf of the non-collegiate physicians and of the right of the people in the choice of their physicians. By A. Hargrave, philomedicus.
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Hargrave, A.
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1676
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Wing H768A; ESTC R220348
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judge they were established a Colledge for any other End then the Cure of the Sick after an easier and safer Manner then Others could do and if they have not done it shall Those that have done what They have not or cannot do be counted Aggressor The Laws of the Kingdom that admit every Man's House as his Castle for a Just Defence of his Propriety and judge every Man or Men a Felon or Felons that break it open yet in the Case of Fire do not in the least accuse Those that for Preservation of the same House and Defence of others force open the Doors to quench it Nor is the restraining of Mad or Passionate Men from injuring Others or themselves either by locking a Door upon them or holding their Hands adjudged a Restraint of Personal Liberty though in other Cases punishable by Law because 't is a Maxim in our Law that all Laws are made for the Benefit not the Hurt of the People in general Therefore it hath been established by the Grand Charter and since confirmed by many Parliaments that if any Act be made contrary thereunto it shall be holden for Null Nor want there Examples for Proof of the same as is well known to All that are acquainted with our own Histories for the End of all Laws is no other but the Preservation either of our Persons or our Estates and so far as this Law doth so it is to be acknowledged and adjudged Good But can Any be so ignorant as to think that if these Men could obtain their desirable Power which they earnestly attempted to acquire from the Parliament in the Year 1664. and seem now again to thirst after it should be for the Preservation of Persons or Security of Estates when by Suppression of the Laborious and Ingenuous Party they should arrogate and assume to themselves the sole Power of Administring shall not the Remedies so many Thousands have experienced the Use of and the Advantages they have found by them be utterly extinct and their Persons endangered for Want of them and their Purses be exposed to the Pleasure of those they must be compelled to make Use of who being but a small Number and in a joynt Confederacy may set what Price they please on their Visits For without Doubt where there is One Colledgiate Practitioner there are three or four Others and if the Number of People be considered in London and seven Miles about it will be found that they of the Colledge are not capable if the Non-Colledgiates practizing Apothecaries and Chyrurgions were supprest to supply the Necessities of half the Sick suppose there were five hundred of them which it is well known they are not what is that to take Care of ten hundred Thousand Persons But if it were so that they were numerous enough and as well furnised with Remedies we see no Reason why any Man should be debarred of his Liberty so as not to choose whom he pleaseth for his Physician seeing it is one of the greatest Helps a Sick Person hath to be satisfied with those about him And should we well weigh what it is to be debarr'd of using what Physitian we please in Time of Sickness it would amount to no less then the Greatest of Cruelty for the Husband must be forced to abandon the Relief of his Wife when Sick if under such a Distemper as their Remedies which we too â—â—â—en find uncapable cannot reach and the Wife also must do the same to her Husband the Father or Mother to their Children and the Children to their Parents which if so are not the Duties of Relations dissolved and the Law of GOD implanted in our Hearts blotted out And is not this an Impiety beyond Parallel For of how great an Advance the Affection of a Patient to his Physician is towards his Recovery none will doubt but if the Sick Man shall be compelled to use that Physician he affects not what great Consternations Doubtings and Trouble of Mind to the uâ—ter undoing of the Patient will unavoidably thence arise in him every Man of a mean Capacity may easily judge Besides in Times of greatest Danger as when the Plague raged We have seen how inhumanely they fled the City leaving its Inhabitants at that Time when their Skill if they had any was of most Use hence you may clearly see whether it be for the Benefit of the People to be compelled to use no other Physicians then those who in Time of greatest Danger will be sure to forsake them But I suppose every Rational Man will judge this enough to prove they have forfeited their Power having broken their Trust which was for better securing the People from the Hands of the Ignorant Now to conclude this Apology let us consider the Preamble of their Patent the main Hinge or Soul of their Constitution which if perused you will find clearly to demonstrate that to prevent the Ignorant Malicious and wicked from hurting the People their Authority took Beginning and was imposed on them for the same End wherefore if They cannot prove Ignorance Malice and Wickedness in the Persons they trouble can any Conscientious Jury-man find them guilty of a Law if it be one that have not deviated from the Scope and End thereof let this be laid to Heart also let it be well weighed that They use not against us the Verity of their Arts but Arms viz. their pretended Law as if they wanted other Arguments to confute Us a sufficient Testimony They rather seek to suppress the Industrious by Power then Reason which if so let all Men consider how safe they are under their Hands and also that Men of Innocency and Prudence seek not coercive Power over Others but leave all Men to be Judges of their Acts and are willing to stand or fall by the Common Law of the Kingdom which never wants Power to chastize Those that by Male-Practice injure their Neighbours FINIS