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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62435	Loimologia A consolatory advice, and some brief observations concerning the present pest. By Geo. Thomson, Dr of physick.	Thomson, George, 17th cent.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665. aut	1665 (1665)	Wing T1026; ESTC R220876	14,362	27

be magnified I am sure only for their mischievous effects Bleeding Purging and Vomiting which rarely they say have plate in the Plague but are generally dangerous that 's truth in all diseases whatsoever menaged by them and therefore not to be used but I assert not at all upon some extraordinary urgent indicant or just Occasion when I pray is that more visible then in the Pest when a Mans life is most in danger and with the greatest caution equal with catching the Contagion which only an able Physician I would fain see such an one among the Galenists can judge of I plainly smell the Reason of that they would fain have their fees but they are loath to fetch them and truly by my consent they shall never be sent to them and therefore no Advice in General nor in particular by them can be given And what then signifies your three great Remedies no more to be trusted to then broken Reeds being so far from relieving and supporting a poor Wretch that vacillates and staggers up and down intoxicated with this venomous Disease that they penetrate and wound him to the Heart throwing him quickly flat on the ground If these your great Remedies be not to be trusted to how shall any venture upon your small ones I wish ye had carried them all along with you both great and small and we should have had a fair and happy riddance both of such useless Doctors and the like remedies together Then perhaps this populous City would have given an ear to those Physicians and remedies which are neither generally nor particularly dangerous as they were formerly falsly accused by you It is one of the greatest Riddles in the world to me that some men very perspicacious and knowing in other things should suffer their lives to be thus trifled and squandred away by these Galenists the best whereof dare not confide in their own three great Remedies and withall deter others from the use of them being conscious to themselves that they are not really worthy of the name of Remedies or any way to be trusted to for the cure of this fierce Sickness We supplicate the immense God he would be pleased to give the worthy Magistrates of this City an understanding heart that they may consult and forthwith execute what may be efficacious for the preventing the Depopulation and ruine that is like to be from this Contagion Wherefore we shall humbly propose that there may be a competent number of such able Chymical Physicians employed that may visit the infected in this City take them by the hand cheare them up by couragious Expressions giving them those Active Medicines that will Auspice Den if the Poison have not too far seized upon the Spirits mortifie and expel it using all industry whatsoever to preserve the rest of the family from Contagion to purifie the Air to clense the utensils of the house to purpose from any venomous Odour which we will undertake to perform depending upon the bounty and free gift of the Magistrate as we may deserve only we desire we may have Commission encouragement and countenance from him without contracting for a Stipend in a higling manner as the Galenists of late insisted upon and a certain Chymist too much a Suffenus postulated when his Majesty out of his gracious care for the Town of South-Hampton commanded an election to be made of an able Spagyrist to be dispatched away forthwith for the stopping the raging infection in that place The person whose fortune it was to be chosen could not rest himself satisfied with the Kings royal word and pleasure which would have been reward enough to a truely-ingenuous man but he must stand upon stipulation upon a contract and mercenary terms with the most potent Prince in Christendome to the great prejudice and disgrace of this noble Art and the disrepute of the Learned professors thereof which unhandsome Action I for my part declare to the world utterly to disowne and shall always renounce the subscription to such dirty things and to take off any aspersion upon my self in this particular I openly protest that it was done without my consent or knowledg having not been at their Convention this half year For I am resolved never to joyne with some men that carry an Enterprise to bring a black cloud upon learning and a vile estimation upon Schools of sound Education and shall always defend Decency Eutaxie and good Government in the Church and State although the Galenical Gastri-mytho's those deluding Whisperers have otherwise but falsly represented me to the world by the mouth of that paltry fellow Iohnson Yet thus much I profess that I shall not be wanting to give due Respect to the meanest Chymist whatsoever in his Station supposed he be Philomathes a well-wisher to Literature Industrious Conscientious and Honest in his way and shall also joyn with him as it becomes me for the promotion of the Spagyrical faculty and give thanks to him for the least mite of knowledge he shall cast into this vast Philosophical Gazophylacium wherein are contained profound pyrotechnical Secrets After this little digression let 's return and address our selves to the prudent Senators of this great City to whom we humbly tender our service in our Profession for the good of the distressed Nation not in a precarious manner for want of Employment or a lucriferous design for our own Interest and self-ends which we scorn and detest not unwitting that merx ultronea putet offered Ware stinks but really and cordially for the relief principally of our Calamitous Neighbour whose Skin is daily Sacrificed to Moloch If we receive an Auspicious and serene Influence from Authority we shall plainly demonstrate that imploring a blessing from the Father of Lights we are able to save those who would otherwise perish in the hands of the Galenists and then we doubt not deserving well herein our generous Covernours will shew themselves grateful to us and will in some proportion recompence us according to our merits if not ipsa quidem virtus sibimet pulcherrima merces we shall rest our selves contented that we have done what becomes honest and knowing Physicians and that no Exceptions may be taken at us by a company of meerly Titular Pharisaical Chrysalides or outsides some of us here nominated do declare without cracking ostentation common to our Antagonists that we can vindicate our selves Graduates having taken the degree of Doctors ex condign● as in right we deserve it not as a company of unworthy Medicasters Asini Phalerati that have acquired it by Custom Money or the intercession of Friends whose nakedness would become shamefully ridiculous and contemptible to the world if they were stript of their Doctoral Gowns For our parts we had rather be what we ought then seem to be and to this I doubt not but most if not all the persons here mentioned will subscribe Chymical Doctors Chymical Students and Practitioners Dr Iohn Frier Mr Thornly Dr Ios. Dey Mr Tho.