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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50436	Inquiries into the general catalogue of diseases shewing the errrors and contradictions of that establishment with a new scheme representing more truly, and essentially, the various diseased state of humane nature / by E.M. Med D.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1691 (1691)	Wing M1496; ESTC R5399	10,560	8

else they were highly culpable and I measure their ability by those utmost endeavours I thought the Learning and Experience of this Nation had been summoned to that great Consultation And I believe it was so intended appointed and so thought to be But I find by the result there was a mistake that there was some Learning some Experience and some necessary Observations left out that might have seasoned all the rest and made that Convention of Learning more wholsom and more healing something they have not met with in their Books I believe they were sound enough at Heart and the Hands employed good but the failure was in the Head Let it not be said therefore that such a Medical provision for Army or Fleet was the best that the Learning of England could afford I should be very sorry if there were not an English Physician to outdo all that to design above it I had a curiosity to see the Mountains bring forth what was the product of those Learned Heads and Expert Hands so much Money and so much Time spent about that great Work and it was as I expected Fleet Army and Hospitals are a great charge to the Kingdom and that which indispensably is necessary but if the ends for which that Money is appointed and spent be not answered and satisfied much of that charge is lost and what is greater than that the lives of many The formality of Physick I hate separate from the reality Fleet and Army if they venture their lives to save ours we should do what can be done to save theirs and I know there are better Means and Methods than hitherto practised for their preservation I were guilty if I should keep silence 'T is easie to determine what Physick is sent abroad when I see what is used at home the Guinea Recipe's are but mean contrivances what do you think then are the Soldiers and the Sailers Medicines We account it an advantage to have so many lives of the Enemy and you may account it an equivalent to save so many lives of our own Men for whether in Battle or in Sickness 't is much what the same a dead Man is a lost Man How many brave English Spirits have languished and perished not for want of Medicines but for want of true Medicine and due administration Hinc illae lachrimae To dye by the fury and force of the Enemy was what they voluntarily durst do but to dye by the improvidence and folly of their friends was what they little expected The Marks and Mementoes of Medical insufficiency are more and greater than the Wounds and Scars of the Enemy Truth must not be shamefac'd nor Knowledge out-dar'd by any pedantic supposed Learning imposed upon the credulous Popularity How might I now upbraid the World since I see 't is more easie and gainful to deceive than truly to serve such a Master Ten thousand pounds for Medicinal provision by Sea and Land is a good Sum for a years service but to lose ten thousand Men twice told in that year by Sickness not in Battle is too great a loss What is past cannot be recall'd but for time to come the like Calamity may be prevented If Ears and Doors be shut yet Eys and Mouths are open I cannot wait from day to day and spend my time for opportunity to declare farther in this matter I must turn this Paper a drift to take its chance perhaps it may meet with some distinguishing kind Hand weighing the import to give it conduct where it should arrive FINIS