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A70658	A letter concerning the present state of physick, and the regulation of the practice of it in this kingdom written to a doctor here in London.	T. M.; Merret, Christopher, 1614-1695.	1665 (1665)	Wing M81C; ESTC R32085	26,204	65

in Chymical Authors as any others and have as many and more assistances of learning and experience to judge of them by which I am sure you discern every day as many vain and absurd things in the best of them as any pretended Chymist can finde in the Pharmacopoea since you condemn no sober person that loves this noble Art but such idle and vain men only or to say most softly of them such melancholy Operators who being wholly destitute of those principles that should make them able to judg with reason of their own experiments and transported with the novelty and strangeness of things they do not understand boldly adventure through the lives and blood of men to make tryal of such preparations of which they lighting on them by accident onely neither understand the reason nor the use since I say these things are so you ought not to believe the wise men who govern the Affairs of the Kingdom will ever consent to take away so important a part of Physick out of the hands of so many ingenuous learned and inquisitive men as your Colledge now consists of or so much discountenance an honourable Profession and way of educating Youth in the Nation and give it to such as these especially since the very Philosophical freedom you own and profess has rais'd you so far above the poor and empty name of any Sect or party If therefore your Committee for the materia medica be settled as before was said it will more improve Rational Chymistry in all its parts then any design these men can pretend to Particularly in the Analysis of Vegetables hitherto almost wholly untouch'd which will I doubt not afford more noble as well as more amicable Medicins then Minerals And in pursuit of that if you would address your selves to his Majesty and His Honorable Council and assure them you are ready to erect a publick Laboratory for the use of his Majesties Subjects where all Chymical Medicines fit to be us'd shall be well and faithfully made upon the Faith and Authority of the Colledge and expresly appoint that all Apothecaries whose Physick you shall think fit to buy shall provide all their Chymical things from thence unless any Physician be satisfied to let him prepare them with his own hand nor to permit the use of any other Chymical Preparations to any of your own number except he himself make and prepare them You have no reason to doubt but all wise men will think you are as able to perform as those who if they could do but one hundreth part of what they so impudently promise would be equal in fortune and estate to the greatest Princes of the Nation And if to all these real performances you please to adde a little of outward shew and appearance and assume at convenient times and on publick occasions the decent use of those Ornaments of Habit and other Insignia which the wisdom of our Ancestors has thought fit upon grave and deliberate advice of Princes and Vniversities to bestow upon your Profession you will finde it was not done in vain and that they well consider'd with these things the wise in all Ages have been wont to govern the frail and weak understanding of the vulgar And that among those who are no good Judges of real worth it is the only way to secure it both from being affronted and contemned I hope you will excuse the much freedom I have us'd with you the truth is I have so great a zeal to see something of this nature effected for publick good that if your own particular interest joyn'd with it will not prevail I could desire it may be thought adviseable to provide for it by publick Authority that so the burdensome charge of Physick might be remov'd and that noble Art rendred of more ample consequence to the world the professors of it be so encouraged as Gentlemen may think it a worthy course of breeding for their Children that Philosophy may receive the benefit of its many excellent experiments that a right understanding may be ever preserv'd between Physicians and Apothecaries that every man in particular may finde greater comfort in the use of those numerous Remedies that Almighty God has provided to succour us in our afflictions and last of all that as our Nation has had the honour of one of the best things that ever was discover'd in the Theory of Physick The Bloods Circulation so it may give an example to all the world of the best and soundest and most rational way of Practice With her Ladiships Service presented to you I remain Sir Your assured Friend and Servant T. M. FINIS ERRATA Page 13. line 23. read had p. 20. l. 20. r. require p. 21. l. ult r. Friend p. 22. l. 18. insert Of. l. 20. dele that p. 24. l. 2. dele there p. 29. l. 23. r. unactive p. 34. l. 25. r. his p. 36. l. 2. r. worthy l. 8. r. unseasonably p. 37. l. ult r. must p. 38. l. 32. del so l. 23 r. what p. 42. l. 23. r. for p. 45. l. 12. r. lax p. 60. in mar l. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉