Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A19403
|
A short discouerie of the vnobserued dangers of seuerall sorts of ignorant and vnconsiderate practisers of physicke in England profitable not onely for the deceiued multitude, and easie for their meane capacities, but raising reformed and more aduised thoughts in the best vnderstandings: with direction for the safest election of a physition in necessitie: by Iohn Cotta of Northampton Doctor in Physicke.
|
Cotta, John, 1575?-1650?
|
1612
(1612)
|
STC 5833; ESTC S113907
|
131,733
|
158
|
A SHORT DISCOVERIE OF THE VNOBSERVED DANGERS OF seuerall sorts of ignorant and vnconsiderate Practisers of Physicke in England Profitable not onely for the deceiued multitude and easie for their meane capacities but raising reformed and more aduised thoughts in the best vnderstandings With Direction for the safest election of a Physition in necessitie BY IOHN COTTA of Northampton Doctor in Physicke LONDON Imprinted for WILLIAM IONES and RICHARD BOYLE dwelling in the Blacke-Friers 1612. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL AND WORTHY Gentlemen my desired friends and deseruing Patients of Northamptonshire honour health and happinesse of life RIght noble and renowned Gentlemen it is now the tenth yeares since the singular fauors loue merite and tried worth of my thrice honored friend hath first here detained mee in the eye of your vse In this short space of quick time as my publicke office hath bene truly deuoted vnto you all the common right so many your noble peculiar deserts haue worthily challenged their speciall claime In pledge therefore of my loue and dutie vnto you all and in memorie of my trauels amongst you when former vowes shall haply hence reâ—all me what my time here passed hath brought forth most rare or worthy vnto choice obseruation I freely publish and reciprocally here present vnto the countries good and together with generall caution and rule for safe and wholesome medication repay and dedicate The matter and subiect it selfe vnto common reading is of a virgine fresh and as yet vndiuulged view and no lesse of necessarie and serious vse The stile can neither be so farre in loue with it selfe as to forget the matter nor altogether sauoureth of his oft interrupted vnsetled leisure and breuity doth not suffer the reading to be any burthen The paines and losse of secured safetie in silence are mine own and the opportunity euery mans that lusteth to censure or to satisfie any other more honest end I haue thus freely exposed my selfe in a proposed hope that the hence deriued good of many may make good my good desire vnto all Since theÌ„ this small sacrifise of my selfe to all your happy healths a mite answerable to my might doth therwith include a needful vse vnto a common good that after succeeding participation may enlarge the benefite vnto all or at least my poore paines awake more ample merite in some others worth vouchsafe my free honest labor in your friendly acceptance shrowded by the true splendor of your generose and noble worthes may dazle the narrow sight of base obtrectation Thus shal your euer deseruing loues and now desired patronages make both so much more deserued loue your desirous seruant and religiously euer oblige my selfe in all true rights vnto your daigned fauours perpetuall solicitor of humble officious and thankfull memorie IOHN COTTA TO THE READER THe Sunne doth rise and fall and returneth euerie day but when the short day of mans life once goeth downe it neuer dawneth Life is deare and too deare being lost for all inestimable valewes to redeeme and health is the sweetnesse of life and the verie life of liuing without which men while they liue are alreadie dead Thou therefore that louest thy life and for thy life thy health take counsell of a Physition without a fee. So many and so infinitely do the numbers of barbarous and vnlearned counsellours of health at this time ouerspread all corners of this kingdome that their confused swarmes do not onely euery where couer and eclipse the Sun-shine of all true learning vnderstanding but generally darken and extinguish the very light of coÌ„mon sense and reason It is euery mans office to do good for goodnesse sake and both my generall duty vnto a common good and my speciall bond vnto my friends do earnestly solicite me hereto since no man that as yet I heare hath hitherto vndertaken this taske For their sakes therefore for whose harmes by vnskilfull hands I haue oft heretofore sorrowed and for their loues whose life and health I wish heareafter preserued and for their good who will take paines to know it I here commend leauing the common mischiefe to the common care vnto euerie particular for himselfe this needfull detection of harmefull succours and necessarie counsell for safe supplie necessitie being neuer more distractedly miserable in hard choyce of good in so common and confused multitudes of ill For the meanest readers sake whom in this whole worke I labour equally to obserue I haue suited the plainnes and simplicitie of a familiar style and for facilitie of common reading haue also smoothed and cleared the streame and current of this little volume from the stops and interruptions of vnusuall sounds and language as farre as the subiect will permit refreshing onely the learned in the margine Neither haue I esteemed it any indecorum for the meanest vnderstanding sake together with generall cautions and rules to insert particular cases and reports which may be both an inducement to reade and an enticement to continue example being neither least pleasing nor least profitable vnto the vulgar There shall appeare in this following treatise described first such insufficient workemen and practitioners as this time doth generally set forth with their seuerall manners defects and dangers and after shall succeed a plaine patterne of that sufficient Artist vnto whom with iudgement and better satisfaction vnto thy owne vnderstanding thou maist commend thy health and whom the Ancients right reason and experience haue euer allowed I labour not in this plaine discouerie with words to feast prodigalitie nor hope altogether for want of correspondence vnto satisfaction to macerate frugall satietie Few words do best hold memorie and a short taste doth breede more eager appetite I will therefore onely briefly point the common forgetfulnesse by bare aduertisement to better memorie which after may better thence guide it selfe to more large and accurate consideration This plaine endeauour begotten of succisiue houres by good desire thy proposed benefite deseruing Reader hath here brought forth into this common light Enioy therefore therein what seemeth liking or of vse the rest thy wiser thoughts may either in reading abstract or thy ingenuous mind compare with that is better or by it selfe censure as a cipher Farewell Thy weale-aduising friend IOHN COTTA THE SEVERALL TRACTATES of the Treatise following In the first Booke Chap. 1. The Introduction 2. The Empericke his defects and danger 3. Women their custome and practise about the sicke commonuisiting counsellours and commenders of medicines 4. Fugitiues workers of iugling wonders Quacksaluers 5. Surgeons 6. Apothecaries 7. Practisers by spels 8. The explication of the true discouerie of witchcraft in the sicke together with many and wondered instances in that kind 9. Wisards 10. Seruants of Physitions ministring helpers In the second booke Chap. 1. The methodian learned deceiuer or hereticke Physition 2. Benificed Practisers 3. Astrologers Ephemerides-maisters 4. Coniectors by vrine 5. Trauellers In the third Booke The true