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A58319	The urinal of physick By Robert Record Doctor of physick. Whereunto is added an ingenious treatise concerning physicians, apothecaries, and chyrurgians, set forth by a Dr. in Queen Elizabeths dayes. With a translation of Papius Ahalsossa concerning apothecaries confecting their medicines; worthy perusing and following.	Record, Robert, 1510?-1558.; Pape, Joseph, 1558-1622. Tractatus de medicamentorum praeparationibus. English. aut	1651 (1651)	Wing R651; ESTC R221564	102,856	271

adventu 2. Cura Deus 3. Exitu Abbaddon Concerning Physitians in Italy and Holand they have State-allowances but if our Eques can regulate no better between allowances and non-allo Wances you will never bee made a Justice for equall distribution But in the Colledges Epistle the not quoting of the vertues of the Receipts is objected against them but his Wits had never quoted them had not more ancient wits afforded him their light though but a dark one to guide him You say if Apollo had served the nine Muses as they serve their Apothecaries they would have had no more wit then nine Geese I wonder whence the rare bird or rather the feather of an Apothecary for he was not fledg'd when he deserted the trade aspired to this height to be able to teach the Physitians whose Books he is not worthy to carry unlesse as an Ass carrieth meat for his Master and for himself He had rather be Disciple to Zoilus then Apollo He saith The Nation are all already Physitians If their own opinion have not made themselves so your opinion labours to do it with a grain of your selfe-conceited understanding But all the Ancients wrote in their mother tongues and native languages but not all their works by his leave yet all the people were not Physitians neither in Arabia Grecia nor Germany and both in Physick and Arts they retain their Greek and Arabian names to this day And concerning their Doses how uncertainly they have delivered them a searching man may easily discover You had need collogue with the terme of worthy Countrymen when you tell the Colledge doth in effect say they are great fools but you would make them fit for the calling if scurrility could fasten it on them The Apothecaries you say would deserve the name of a company of Dunces if they should complain against the Physitians and not connive for their trade but had my Gentleman gone out a Freeman in the profession the Doctors would have been so bold with him as to have examined his sufficiencie as they do others before they passe their approbations for practise You call Heaven to witnesse none of the Colledge have provoked you Whence comes this bitternes then undeservedly against them but from as you write the Saturnine disposition you were born under you Astrologers write some Planets are evill in themselves yet joyned with some others qualified with their conjunction are better affected though Scripture teach you when God had surveyed all his works they were valde bona and you can produce no place where ever the heavens were cursed But to conclude with the Gentlewomens favours who must not be forgotten You present the beginnings of your labours at their feet in your low humility with an Herculean undertaking to open unto them this famous though too much abused Art of Physick and so conclude with as much Arrogance as you began with Folly Your Friend Nisu bonos A DETECTION OF UNSKILFULL PHYSITIANS The First Part treateth of divers and sundry Errors and Abuses of the unlearned and wicked sort of Physitians THat Excellent man and Great Clerk Aristotle who for his incomparable doctrine is of all Learned men named the Prince of Philosophers hath this saying in the seventh Book of his Ethicks Non oportet tantum verum dicere sed etiam causam falsi assignare that is A man may not only tell the truth but he must also shew and declare the cause of falshood and error As who should say The truth can never so well appear as when it is compared to his contrary which is error lye and falshood Quia opposita semper juxta seposita magis clucescunt Contrary things set one against another are alwayes a great deal better known The Philosophers of ancient time as it appeareth plainly in Aristotle and Galen yea and in the holy Doctors of the Church In many of their works had in a manner more adoe to confute the false errors sophistrie and cavillations that were then used and imagined as true doctrine then they had to write the very truth it self The great mercy of God had never been so well known if the fall and transgression of man had not been And as S. Paul saith in the 5. Chapter to the Romans Where sin hath exceeded there grace hath the more exceded And Christ in Lu●e 7. said of Mary Magdalen Many fins are forgiven her because she loved much Now therefore before I speake of the abuses and enormities of Physick First I will shew and declare What is the part office and condition of a good Physitian Thus doing I will first alledge Hippooratis Jusjurandum that is the Oath that Hippocrates would that every Physitian should take before he practise any Physick I will not recite the whole Chapter but the chiefest part Caeterum quod ad aegros attinet sanandos c. The English is this And as concerning the curing of the sick I will ordain and devise for them as good a diet as shall lie in my power and judgement And I will take heed that they fall in no damage nor hurt Nor yet any mans prayers shall so much prevail with me that I give poison to any man neither will I counsell any man so to doe Likewise I will give no manner of medicine to any woman with child to destroy her child Moreover I will use my life and science godly I will not cut those that have the stone but I will commit that thing only to the Chirurgions In what house soever I shall come in my coming shall bee for the Patients commoditie and profit And I wil refraine willingly from doing any hurt or wrong and from falshood and chiefly from venereous acts what kind of bodies soever I shal chance to have in cure whether it be of men or women of free or bond servants And whatsoever I shall see or hear among my cures yea although I be not sought nor called to any whatsoever I shall know among the people if it be not lawfull to be uttered I shall keep close and keep it as a Secret unto my self Again the same Hippocrates saith in the Book or Chapter called Lex To eschew tediousness I will leave the Latine Whosoever saith he will truly get him the knowledge of Physick he must satisfie his mind and as it were be accompanied with these guides with nature science a place meet and convenient for studie and learning an institution from childhood a labour and painfull diligence with a long time Item In his Book De Medico he saith The Physitian must be of a good colour and comely countenance and of a good disposition of the body he must also be had in estimation among the common people by comly apparrell and by sweet savours so that he be not suspected of too much excesse for by such means the Pacients are wont to be delighted In like manner the Physitian must see and studie that he be of a modest and sober mind and not only