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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51447	Themis avrea the laws of the fraternity of the Rosie Crosse / written in Latin by Count Michael Maierus, and now in English for the information of those who seek after the knowledge of that honourable and mysterious society of wise and renowned philosophers ; whereto is annexed an epistle to the fraternity in Latine, from some here in England.; Themis aurea. English	Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622.	1656 (1656)	Wing M287; ESTC R21726	55,939	168

reason by sense a thing most ridiculous unlesse it be in the cure of diseases where the Qualities are in confusion When the Aegyptians understood this they studied and most esteemed of that Physick which was experimental and not notional and therefore they used to place their Sick person in the streets that if any one of the people that passed by had laboured under the same disease he might tell the Specifick remedy with which he was cured whence it sometimes so falls out that an old woman or an Emperick in some certain diseases may effect more by one proper specifick then many Physitians by their methods and long courses I would not be misunderstood as if there were no judgement to be used in the administration of Physick but that experience should be the onely guide Medicine whether speculative or practical must concur and meet in truth I say we must not as to the invention or prescription of Physick trust too much to Reason enformed falsly concerning the nature of things but when experience hath confirmed us in mysteries and secrets because reason is too weak-sighted to reach them we must not perversly slight them disesteeming enviously what we cannot attain I do not account him a rational Physitian who hath onely a large scrowle or bill of Simples in his memory and can distinctly tell you what are hot in the first degree what in the second what in the third and can run thorow the second Qualities and third and if at any time he is called to a Patient from this rabble as from the belly of the Trojane horse issue many Receipts many bands when he is ignorant of the most inconsiderable Simple and knows not how rightly to apply it Shall not he who understands and is well acquainted with his Medicin●● be of more repute A few select prescriptions that are infallible and effectual to the cure are of more worth then a rude multitude of Galenical Receipts We have indeed now so great variety of Medicines that it puzzles a Physitian more to chuse what is best then to invent for it is not the abundance of remedies that overcomes a disease but the vertue method order and choice of time and place that give successe We read in Histories of the courage and skill of a Spartane King who with a band of 400. stout Lacedemonians possessed the streights by which Xerxes should passe with an Army of 1700000. and made there a great slaughter of them when the insulting Persian boasted that they would close the Sun with their arrows the Spartaine King answered that then we will fight in the shaddow By these examples it appears tha● a select company of choice souldiers have great advantage against a confused multitude And why are not a few choice remedies beyond an heap of vain receipts Some have said that an Army is compleat that hath an hundred thousand and if the number exceeds it will be tumultuous and in no order and discipline We may assert the like of Medicine if it increaseth to a great number it rather kills then cures for every Specifick waging war or being opposite to another must necessarily disturb Natures peace and tranquillity CHAP. VI Although other Physitians may challenge as indeed they deserve a due reward yet the Brethren do cure gratis not valuing money WE read in History that great persons Kings and Princes have entertained famous and learned Physitians not onely allowing them a considerable annual stipend but have raised them to great preferment and honour Erasistratus found out the disease of Antiochus viz. his love of his mother in Law of which he recovered him and received of his Son Ptolomy an hundred Talents Democides restores the Tyrant Polycrates for two Talents of Gold The same person for curing Darius had given to him a very rich chaine of Gold and two golden Cups Jacobus Cocterius Physitian to Lewis the second King of France had 50000. Crowes yearely paid him and Thaddeus the Florentine got 50 Crownes daily travelling up and down to cure the sicke The reward and gaines Physick bringeth in hath caused many Students to employ all their time and labour therein who for the most part look more to the profit then health of their Neighbour and good of the Common-wealth If we indeed consider to how many infirmities we are subject we shall finde Physick to be as necessary as food and raiment and then able Physitians are to be sought for who may judiciously administer it but no man will employ all his paines cost and labour in that of which he shall reap no harvest who will be anothers servant for no wages Will a Lawyer plead without his Fee neither is there any injunction or law to command and oblige a Doctor to cure for nothing It would be very hard and rigorous if any man should be forced to give away what properly belongs to him Menecrates the Syracusan had nothing for his paines but affected Divinity he would be thought and accounted Jupiter which was worse then if he had required a reward sutable to his Calling The Brethren are so far from receiving a Fee that they s●orne it so far from vain glory of their successe that they will not have such a favour acknowledged They have not one Medicine for a great man another for the poor but equally respect both frequent in visiting comforters in affliction and relievers of the poor Their labour is their reward their paines to them gain no Mice or other Vermine can diminish their heap no Dragon or wild Beast can either poison or exhaust their Fountain Coelius Lib. 16. Cap. 10. tells us of Philo a Physitian who found out certain Medicines which he called The Hands of the gods but this great Title was but as Ivie hung out for a shew to take the eyes of the Spectatours to surprise the eares of the Hearers which promised more then they performed and rather deluded then helped any having a glorious outside but within dregs and corrupt But the Brethren although they have the most efficacious Medicines in the World yet they had rather conceal the Vertues then boast of them their Powders perhaps may be accounted a little Cinaber or some slight stuffe but they effect more then seems to be expected from them They possesse the Phalaia and Asa of Basilius the Nepenthes that drives away sorrow of Homer and Trismegistus the Oyntment of Gold the fountain of Jupiter Hammon which at night is hot at noon is cold lukewarme at sun rising and setting for they contemn gaines and income by their possession neither are they enticed with Honour or Preferment they are not so overseen as one of whom Tully speakes who wrote against others affectation of esteeme and placed his name in the Frontispeice of his Book that he might be more known they embrace security and are not buried but live and are active in silence Is not this a rare Society of men who are injurious to none but seek the good and