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lord_n	daughter_n	son_n	thomas_n	10,981	5	7.7420	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64416	Some papers writ in the year 1664 In answer to a letter, concerning the practice of physick in England. By Dr. C. T. Published at the request of a friend and several fellows of the College of Physicians.	Terne, Christopher, 1620-1673.	1670 (1670)	Wing T760; ESTC R220666	33,486	59

that appearred but of an ordinary condition with his urinal in hand desiring as he phrased it his worships advice upon due consideration of his complaints if proved the man had gotten a disease that too often happens to his betters and being now of some moneths standing required a little more than ordinary care to root it out he said enough to make the Physitian commiserate his case who without any consideration of his promises of being very thankful gave him directions then without a Fee and so from time to time after for his cure so that in about two months time with six or seven pounds charge to the Apothecary who was wise enough to be paid for his Physick as the patient had it the man thought himself perfectly cured but in this time the Physitian had learned that he was a fellow did pay for his debauches and was able enough to pay for his cure too and so grew into some expectation of the fellows promises who one day coming to him told him he was come to give his worships content the Physitian honestly advised him to be sure he were well because in this disease men too often thought themselves well too soon since it was in humane bodies like horse radish in the ground where if the least Fibre of the roots be left it will over run the ground again but he boasting of good stomach freedom from paines and cleanness of skin very generously laid down two half Crowns for the Physitians reward vvho disdaining the meaness of it told him if he vvere able to give no more he vvould not take that from him adding that if he had gone to some of those that use to make bargaines they would have made him pay twenty pounds for his cure besides his Physick to which the fellow replied with a little emotion how Sir twenty pound I protest I vvould not take so much Physick again if you vvould give me forty shillings and so vvith his tvvo half Crovvns in his hand left the Physitian vvho heard no more of him nor did he I assure you ever think of suing him I doubt not but many of our profession often meet with such returnes as these and if we did not meet with more generous and worthy dealing from better persons the practice of Physick would be forsaken by all learned and ingenious persons And the world would want that improvement of real knowledge which that faculty hath and doth every day make But as I insinuated before this Story was only brought in to advertise you that whilst all men are their own Chancellours as to the reward they give their Physitians those rewards are perhaps the least part of the charge in taking Physick and yet it must be acknowledged as you observe that the charge of Physick is sometimes intollerable and unconscionable and I will endeavour now to let you see how indeed it too often comes to be so And that you may know I am not partial to our selves I will acknowledge that I fear Physitians sometimes contribute to the making this charge Apothecaries very often but patients are for the most part the occasion of it themselves few amongst us are so wise as the Romans who entertaining or being entertained by some English with more Wine than men of that Nation use to drink was the next morning very sick with all those accidents that accompany the debauches of men not used to it he sent presently for his Physitian a learned and ingenious person of our Nation one who lived long in Rome and from whom I had the Story who finding what his sickness was by making him keep his bed that day with a little broth only found him the next morning reasonably well recovered but still in fe●r that so violent a sickness as he had felt the day before would not go off so easily and therefore prayed another visit from his Physitian in the afternoon who then found him up and almost in the opinion he should be well which his Physitian wholly confirmed him in the man with great joy vvhen the Physitian vvas going puts two Zechines of Gold into his hand at which he being a little surprized such fees by men of his quality not being usually given there nay my Doctor saith the patient when you cure me without putting those Devills of Senna Rhubarbe Agaricke Marobatanes into my Belly I will pay you five times better than when you torment me with all or any of them but few amongst us will think a Physitian deserves a reward if he orders them no Physick not considering that he that conducts a sick man soonest safest and vvith least trouble to that health he vvants deserves better than he that by unpleasant long and troublesome vvaies brings him to it It is of an English man the Story is told who gave the Barbor a shilling ana his Wife six pence who helped in pulling him about the roome by his tooth and not drawing it but thought the tooth-drawer did not deserve six pence who pulled it out dexterously and quickly because he had taken no more paines in the doing it This humour too often inclines the Physitian when perhaps there is little need of it to charge the patients belly vvith Physick and his Table vvith pots and glasses but if the Apothecary be a friend to the family and the Physitian called in by him if he doth not then serve the Apothecary as much as the patient 't is ten to one but he is turned out again however will scarce ever be called another time And it seems to me Sir that I am now upon the very reason of the great charge you mention in taking Physick perhaps there are fevv Trades-men that think it a fault to sell as much of that commodity they Trade in and to as much profit as they can I am sure the selling as much as they can to those will buy it can never be thought one yet few people mark that it is as much the interest of the Apothecary to do this as it is of any other Trades-man When an Apothecary calls to see how my Lord or his worship or my Lady and the family are as to health he is a very diligent honest careful good natured man at that time the daughter Betty or the son Thomas looke as they had the vvormes or they did not eat their Supper with any Stomach last night perhaps by reason of two full a Dinner at noon or the VVoman or the Maid have a pain in their Heads it may be by sitting up late when the Master and Lady were in Bed but the Apothecary will send something that is good for them presently that Doctor such a one prescribed for usually it is upon the authority of some Physitian and with pretence to his Medicines they drive on this trade and the Child or the Woman is well and all is well at that time but sometimes it happens that by the untimely exhibition of a very good remedy they