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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

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 LONDON Printed for James Allestry at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCLXX For my Worthy and much Honoured Friend the Author of the following Discourse Sir I Own a very great Obligation for those Papers you were pleased to entrust me with so freely as you did and at the first request and though it be now five or six years since you writ them yet I know they will be hugely welcome to the publick and the World will be informed that what is now prosecuted is in truth a matter of consequence and not a caprice of young unpractis'd heads as some endeavour to render it but managed seriously by men of the ablest of the Profession and worthy of the care and consideration of our Superiours And pray give me leave in a few words to acquaint you with the occasion I had to desire them of you at first It was my good fortune not long since to be in the Company of five or six persons not only considerable for their Estates and Interest in the City but likewise for their mature understanding of business as they were discoursing of seueral matters relating to the Trade both of the City and Nation in general it happened that one past through the room in which they sat to go up a pair of stairs that lead into a Chamber where the only Son of the Gentleman at whose House they were then lay under some little Aguish distemper One of the Company that spyed him saluted him by his name which occasioned another to demand who it was to whom the Gentleman of the House replyed it was his Apothecary gone up to visit his Son who was at that time a little indisposed whereupon another ask't the rest if they had seen two Discourses lately publisht by two very eminent Members of the College of Physicians which says he the Apothecary's passing by put me in mind of one besides himself said he had seen and read them and added frankly they seemed in his judgment very judiciously writ and very much to be considered by all that regarded their healths so they left off a little their former discourse and began to enter into the matter of those Books and the persons that read them represented to the Company some of the most important passages as their memories served whilst they were thus discoursing the Apothecary came down and was called by the Master of the House to this part of their Conference To do him right he spoke very civilly and told the Gentlemen he hoped all these appearances of difference between the Colledge and them would soon pass over and presently took leave and went away After he was gone one among the rest a very grave man who had sat all the while silent and heard what was produc't out of these Books began very solemnly to declare that since health was one of the greatest goods of life and that which alone gives as it were their being so to all the rest and since it was so much the interest of a Prince to preserve his people in strength and vigour he profest he could not understand how that reconcilement of these differences between the Physicians and the Apothecaries which so much concern the lives and healths of the Kings Subjects could ever be so well made up as the person that was gone said he hoped to see For said he if what has been alledged out of these Books here be true there has been too long already a foul and shameful abuse put upon the people by the present method of practising Physick as it now so he phrased it joggs on between the Physician and Apothecary and that since those able and well-known Physicians had so freely and honestly of themselves proposed ways of redress and so far opened the eyes of all men to discern the mockeries they have been gulled with so long he said it was too late for them now easily to retreat And believed that all men who had read those Books would as well as he look upon such a composure as a new way only of continuing the former abuses under some more artificial and secret disguise But whatever said he may be done out of Conscience I am sure they shall destroy their interest by it and as long as ever Apothecaries continue practising as they do so long shall the most gainful and secure part of practice come into their hands by means of the Bills they formerly have and daily will receive from them and nothing remain for the Physician but such sollicitous and extream Cases where the Apothecary shall vouchsafe to call him in in which his own credit shall every moment run as great a fortune as the Patients life For said he how many men in this Town have been already or ever shall be intended by the Physicians as Apothecaries only we in spight of common course they now take to hinder it shall to save charge and expence of Physick always esteem and make use of as a sort of cheaper Doctors except only in such extremities where our lives are in manifest danger And I have often wondred that so great a Company of prudent men should do such things every day which if we in our particular Trades should suffer we should not only be laught at but others of the same way would presently endeavour to obstruct or punish For I have often observed my self to tell truth when I have been with my Physician either for my own concern or any of my Family and have received good by what has been prescribed my Apothecary has often recommended the same and repeated it again without the knowledg of the Doctor and at other times told my Wife of an excellent course against the Scurvy ordered by an eminent Physician and named him and sometimes commended a Powder of another Doctors against the Worms for my Children which he said he had by him All which things I noted to be so prejudicial to the Physician that I could not choose but wonder that Physicians would so carelesly expose the fruit of all their time and studies and put every day the best of their Trade out of their own hands into anothers who had so little consideration of them And this indeed wholly deterred me from breeding one of my Sons a Physician since I saw how easily every good Medicine that my Doctor had came into the hands of my Apothecary for a fee or two and after that both I and all my Friends could readily command it and Mr. Doctor never the wiser When this Gentleman had done we began freely to tell one another being all Tradesmen who knew as well the difficulty of getting as the use and consequence of money how it was customary with us to send to our Apothecaries only unless where