A
discouery
of
certaine
Stratagems
,
whereby
our
English
Emperickes
haue
bene
obserued
strongly
to
oppugne
,
and
oft
times
to
expugne
their
poore
Patients
Purses
.
IT
cannot
be
sufficiently
lamented
,
that
the
most
auncient
,
worthy
,
and
honourable
Profession
of
Physicke
,
which
hath
bene
in
preceding
Ages
,
a
Colledge
of
learned
,
graue
,
and
profound
Philosophers
,
is
now
become
the
Common
Inne
,
Receptacle
,
and
Sanctuarie
of
Make-shifts
,
Banker-rupts
,
and
Impostors
.
Fuit
Honos
Medicinae
apud
Seclum
prius
.
Tyme
was
,
when
that
diuine
,
and
excellent
Science
was
had
in
high
,
and
yet
due
Admiration
,
Honour
,
and
Reputation
.
Salomon
the
most
wise
,
rich
,
and
renowmed
Prince
that
the
world
(
from
her
Alpha
to
her
Omega
)
hath
yeelded
,
disdained
not
the
Contemplation
and
Studie
of
this
noble
and
diuine
Art
.
Nay
which
is
more
,
did
illustrate
Physicke
with
his
writings
,
and
composed
a
great
Volume
of
the
Nature
,
of
Byrds
,
Beasts
,
Trees
,
and
Hearbes
,
describing
them
,
from
the
Cedar
in
Libanus
,
to
the
Hyssope
that
groweth
on
the
wall
.
This
excellent
and
incomparable
Worke
,
to
the
vnspeakeable
griefe
,
and
invaluable
losse
of
all
Aesculapians
,
is
perished
in
the
deepe
Sea-gulfe
of
Antiquitie
,
which
hath
swallowed
vp
,
deuoured
,
and
consumed
the
Monuments
of
many
Worthies
.
Mythridates
that
puissant
King
of
Pontus
,
who
was
for
many
yeares
terrible
to
the
World-conquering
Romaines
,
amiddest
his
Martiall
and
Kingly
affaires
,
spent
no
small
time
in
Physicall
Meditations
:
erecting
to
himselfe
by
the
Composition
of
one
Medicine
,
as
noble
,
durable
,
and
admirable
a
Trophee
,
as
Pompey
the
great
did
,
by
his
Victory
against
him
.
In
this
Kings
Closet
were
found
by
that
Noble
Romaine
,
many
Bookes
written
with
his
owne
hand
,
both
of
the
vertues
of
Plants
,
and
Constitution
of
Mans
Body
,
highly
valued
by
that
worthy
Victor
Euax
a
King
of
Arabia
,
wrote
a
Booke
of
Botanologye
,
which
hee
dedicated
to
the
Emperour
Nero.
It
is
reported
by
Historians
,
that
in
auncient
Tymes
there
was
no
King
,
either
of
Aegypt
,
Aethiopia
,
or
Arabia
,
who
did
not
himselfe
either
write
somewhat
concerning
the
Art
of
Physicke
,
or
at
least
by
his
Kingly
bountie
,
and
large
Pensions
,
encouraged
others
to
imploy
their
Heads
and
Wits
in
that
Studie
.
Zenophon
bringeth
in
Cyrus
,
conferring
and
discoursing
with
a
Physition
,
as
a
fit
Colloqunter
for
a
Prince
,
about
the
hidden
Secrets
,
and
deepe
Misteries
of
Nature
.
Iulius
Caesar
,
that
matchlesse
and
inuincible
Romane
Emperour
,
made
a
Decree
,
that
all
Professors
of
Physicke
should
be
free
Denizens
,
and
Burgesses
of
Rome
.
Democides
the
Physition
was
in
such
credit
and
authoritie
with
Darius
the
Persian
,
that
hee
had
a
place
assigned
at
his
Table
,
and
was
as
it
were
fellow-Commoner
with
him
.
Ataxerxes
hauing
sent
for
Hippocrates
,
and
being
denied
with
griefe
and
anger
,
threatned
a
reuenge
against
all
Greece
.
Asclepiades
reiected
Mithridates
Messengers
,
and
refused
all
his
liberall
and
Princely
Offers
.
Erasistratus
the
Phisition
,
receiued
for
a
reward
at
one
Tyme
,
of
King
Ptolomye
,
(
ur
as
others
write
of
Antiochus
)
an
hundred
Talents
:
which
amounteth
in
our
Money
,
to
sixtie
thousand
Crownes
.
Stertinius
complained
of
the
Princes
of
his
Dayes
,
because
his
stipend
for
reading
Physicke
,
was
but
fiue
hundred
thousand
Cesterties
.
This
is
esteemed
4150.
pound
&
two
shillings
,
foure
penee
,
wheras
he
gained
more
by
his
practise
in
the
Citie
.
The
like
stipend
was
giuen
by
Claudius
Caesar
to
this
mans
Brother
.
Trinas
the
Massilian
left
an
hundred
thousand
Sestertyes
by
Legacie
,
to
build
the
walles
of
his
Citie
.
I
forbeare
to
shewe
their
great
fauour
,
credit
,
and
authoritie
with
mightie
Potentates
and
Princes
,
as
Philip
with
Alexander
,
Musa
with
Augustus
.
I
omit
the
Aruncians
,
Albutians
,
Rubrians
,
Lassians
,
and
Carpentans
,
whose
stipend
in
Rome
was
205.
Aureos
.
Thaddaeus
the
Florentine
when
he
rode
abroad
,
receiued
ordinarily
for
his
Fee
,
500.
Crownes
a
day
:
and
for
one
Cure
vpon
Honorius
the
Pope
,
ten
thousand
Crownes
at
a
clap
.
Comineus
the
French
Thucydides
,
telleth
of
a
Phisition
of
Ludouic
the
11.
French
King
,
who
had
from
the
King
,
admirable
,
and
almost
incredible
Fees
and
rewards
.
To
passe
by
these
,
with
many
other
famous
Presidents
of
Antiquitie
,
clearly
demonstrating
to
the
Worlds
view
,
the
true
and
due
worth
and
esteeme
,
of
this
excellent
Profession
,
to
the
staine
and
blush
of
our
present
Age
,
it
maketh
infinitly
for
the
commendation
of
Phisicke
,
that
the
Messias
&
Sauiour
of
the
world
,
the
Emmanuel
,
God
,
it
is
the
Lord
Iesus
himselfe
in
the
daies
of
his
soiourning
,
&
walking
here
vpon
the
Earth
,
(
refusing
to
intermeddle
with
deciding
of
Controuersies
,
&
diuiding
of
Lands
and
Goods
,
did
notwithstanding
spend
a
good
part
of
his
Tyme
(
after
the
performance
of
his
Propheticall
office
in
teaching
and
curing
the
Soules
of
Men
)
in
healing
the
Diseases
and
Maladyes
of
their
Bodies
:
that
is
,
in
plaine
termes
,
in
exercising
the
Office
&
Function
of
the
Physition
.
But
here
me
thinks
before
I
proceed
further
in
this
Argument
,
one
ioggeth
me
on
the
elbow
with
this
item
.
A
Sophister
of
Greece
made
a
long
Oration
in
praise
of
Hercules
.
One
standing
by
,
before
he
could
pronounce
the
whole
,
cut
him
off
thus
.
Quis
(
quaeso
)
vnquam
Herculem
vituperauit
?
In
like
sort
a
man
may
demaund
of
you
,
who
haue
begun
a
Panegyrick
of
Physicke
.
I
pray
you
(
Syr
)
who
euer
in
his
right
wits
dispraised
Physicke
?
Well
I
could
(
if
I
were
disposed
)
answere
this
Quaere
.
But
I
will
bee
content
for
this
Tyme
to
take
it
for
graunted
,
that
no
Man
of
Common
Sence
,
Wit
,
Reason
,
Iudgement
,
Discretion
,
Learning
,
or
Humanitie
,
will
euer
open
his
Mouth
in
dispraise
of
a
Profession
so
auncient
,
honourable
,
beneficiall
,
and
necessarie
vnto
Mankinde
,
(
without
which
,
neither
Theologie
can
often
preuaile
to
reforme
the
vicious
Minde
,
vnlesse
Medicine
dispose
the
Body
,
and
contemper
the
Humours
:
and
Lawe
should
commaund
in
vaine
,
if
Physicke
did
not
yeeld
apt
and
able
Bodyes
to
obey
)
I
will
drawe
nearer
to
my
present
Purpose
:
wherevnto
I
hope
this
short
Praelude
in
Phisickes
Praise
,
will
proue
nothing
impertinent
.
For
if
Physicke
be
of
that
worth
,
honour
and
reputation
(
as
hath
bene
in
part
touched
,
and
might
haue
bene
more
amply
declared
,
but
that
with
the
Dogge
of
Egypt
,
I
am
constrained
to
take
a
snatch
and
away
)
then
,
intollerable
are
the
Indignities
,
and
exceeding
great
are
the
Iniuries
,
which
these
base
Cullions
,
and
Buzzardly
Venturers
,
(
for
so
I
chuse
rather
to
terme
them
,
with
a
Learned
Man
of
our
Colledge
,
then
Emperickes
)
who
leaping
from
theyr
Shopboords
,
and
leauing
their
Mechanicall
Trades
,
haue
,
and
doo
daily
offer
to
that
faire
,
goodly
,
and
gallant
Lady
.
A
Fardell
and
Packe
of
the
deceitfull
Wares
,
and
subtill
Sophistications
of
these
Circumferaneous
luglers
,
hath
alreadie
bene
vnfolded
and
laid
open
in
the
former
Treatise
,
written
in
Latine
by
a
learned
Germaine
.
Now
giue
me
leaue
,
to
acquaint
you
with
some
such
cunning
Sleights
,
and
pretie
tricks
of
Legerdemaine
,
which
I
haue
obserued
to
be
put
in
vse
and
practise
by
our
London
Interlopers
,
and
Quack-saluers
,
wherby
diuers
honest
Men
and
Women
,
haue
bene
notoriously
abused
,
deluded
,
emunged
of
their
Money
,
and
plainly
coney
catched
.
The
cunning
and
slye
Deuises
,
subtill
Policies
,
and
Warre-like
Stratagems
,
whereby
these
valerous
Thrasoes
,
and
great
Magnificoes
doo
lay
a
straight
siege
,
and
make
many
strong
assaults
vpon
their
Patients
Purses
(
for
vnto
the
poore
Purse
is
all
the
Quarell
)
haue
partly
respect
vnto
Themselues
,
and
partly
vnto
their
Patient
.
The
first
Proiect
respecting
Themselues
,
whereby
they
ayme
to
winne
credit
with
the
Patient
,
and
insinuate
themselues
into
his
fauour
,
bringing
him
into
a
Fooles-paradise
,
and
causing
him
to
haue
their
persons
in
high
admiration
,
is
to
blowe
into
his
Eares
,
and
that
with
a
shamelesse
impudent
face
,
and
a
tedious
multitude
of
vaine
,
lying
,
and
vaunting
words
,
that
they
haue
certaine
hidden
,
deepe
,
and
precious
Secrets
,
altogether
vnknowne
to
the
Galenists
,
and
Schoole-Doctors
,
whereby
they
are
able
to
worke
wonders
,
and
to
quell
Gargantua
himselfe
.
If
the
Patient
demaund
how
they
came
by
this
profound
knowledge
,
hauing
neuer
followed
the
course
of
Learning
,
or
studied
in
any
Vniuersitie
:
then
they
eyther
begin
with
a
solemne
grace
,
and
set
countenance
,
a
long
Storie
of
a
written
Booke
of
most
rare
and
admirable
Medicines
,
inuented
by
a
certaine
profound
,
and
deepe
learned
Fryar
or
Monke
,
and
hidden
with
great
care
,
in
the
Wall
,
or
Sellar
of
a
Monasterie
:
Which
Booke
by
great
Chaunce
,
and
their
happy
Fortune
,
hauing
come
to
their
hands
,
they
would
not
part
with
it
for
Saint
Peters
Cope
,
or
a
Kings
Raunsome
.
Or
else
you
shall
haue
a
Tale
of
Manardes
then
great
Physition
of
Spaine
,
who
keeping
a
secret
Booke
of
most
tare
and
excellent
Obseruations
,
your
braue
and
vaunting
Quack-saluer
,
auouching
himselfe
to
haue
bene
his
Man
,
will
boldly
(
blushing
as
much
as
a
blacke
Dog
)
affirme
vnto
you
,
that
beeing
with
him
in
his
sicknesse
,
whereof
he
dyed
,
and
obseruing
diligently
the
place
,
where
Manardes
laid
vp
his
Iewell
,
they
cunningly
after
his
Death
,
seized
on
this
Booke
,
and
conueied
it
away
with
them
.
Hereby
they
are
made
of
vnlettered
Idiots
,
great
and
skilfull
Aesculapians
,
and
vndertake
the
Cure
of
all
strange
,
difficult
,
and
deadly
Maladyes
.
Or
if
the
Patient
misse
of
these
Poeticall
Fictions
,
he
may
well
stumble
vpon
that
good
fellow
,
who
(
as
it
is
said
)
hath
a
long
Discourse
of
Seuerinus
the
Dane
his
sonne
,
who
being
in
seruice
in
the
Spanish
Armado
,
Anno.
88.
was
wracked
and
cast
on
Shore
.
Herevpon
,
wandering
as
a
poore
harbourlesse
,
and
succourlesse
Straunger
,
he
arriued
at
the
last
at
the
house
of
our
Iuppiter
Hospitalis
,
who
receiuing
him
into
home
and
harbour
,
vsing
him
kindly
,
and
at
his
departure
furnishing
him
with
some
supply
of
Pence
,
that
thankefull
Mercurie
,
in
recompence
of
this
great
Hospitalitie
and
Humanitie
,
bestowed
vpon
him
his
Caducean
Rodde
,
or
Booke
of
rare
Physicall
Mysteries
,
whereby
in
an
instant
hee
was
from
a
silly
Sot
,
not
able
to
speake
one
word
of
congruous
Latine
,
presently
Metaphorphosed
into
a
graue
,
demure
,
and
grand
Doctor
,
and
Maister
in
Physicke
.
A
hundred
to
one
,
if
hee
happen
not
on
some
one
or
other
of
these
stale
Ieasts
,
or
at
the
least
,
some
other
of
the
like
Nature
:
Which
notwithstanding
,
a
great
Number
of
our
Common
Ones
doo
as
readily
beleeue
,
as
if
they
should
heare
the
Story
of
S.
Francis
out
of
Legenda
Aurea
.
And
here
by
the
way
,
it
is
worth
our
obseruation
,
that
those
graund
Maisters
do
vtterly
renounce
and
disclaime
Learning
,
and
all
Education
in
any
Vniuersitie
,
wherein
it
is
like
they
neuer
came
(
vnlesse
to
set
vp
their
horse
in
an
Inne
,
whilest
they
breake
their
fast
)
flying
to
a
written
Booke
,
or
some
Medicines
,
receiued
from
a
Friend
by
Tradition
.
And
would
a
Man
imagine
that
any
should
bee
so
voyd
of
common
Sence
,
Reason
,
or
Iudgement
,
as
to
thinke
that
a
fewe
scribled
Receipts
in
an
olde
Moath-eaten
paper
should
make
a
Physition
?
Why
then
euery
one
that
hath
lying
by
him
,
a
good
Booke
of
Lawe
,
as
Rastalls
Statutes
,
or
Littletons
Tenures
,
is
a
Compleat
Lawyer
.
And
hee
that
hath
two
or
three
Bookes
of
Diuinitie
in
his
House
,
is
an
absolute
Diuine
,
and
may
step
vp
into
the
Pulpit
.
If
this
were
so
,
we
might
well
say
with
that
merry
Phisition
,
that
it
had
raigned
Doctors
in
all
Faculties
.
Their
second
Engine
,
or
Plausible
perswasiue
Motiue
,
whereby
they
labour
to
fasten
the
former
Nayle
,
to
winne
Reputation
of
deepe
Skill
to
themselues
,
and
purchase
credite
to
their
Panaceas
,
and
wonder-working
Dregges
,
is
a
pretie
figment
,
or
forgerie
,
not
vnlike
the
first
.
After
they
haue
laide
the
former
ground
,
and
perceiue
the
poore
Patient
to
giue
a
listening
Eare
to
theyr
forged
Fable
,
conceiuing
hope
of
luckie
successe
,
and
by
his
nibling
at
the
baite
,
that
hee
is
like
to
swallow
the
hooke
,
they
proceede
to
Gull
him
thus
.
They
begin
,
to
make
theyr
former
matter
good
,
with
incredible
boldnesse
and
impudencie
,
to
auerie
that
theyr
knowledge
is
so
singular
,
theyr
secret
Medicaments
so
soueraigne
,
and
of
such
admirable
Efficacie
,
that
diuers
Learned
and
Professed
Physitions
,
of
great
Note
and
Account
,
haue
sought
earnestly
,
Wooed
,
and
Sollicited
:
nay
offered
good
summes
of
money
,
to
haue
them
imparted
and
communicated
.
And
because
it
is
sinne
to
belye
the
Diuell
,
and
some
Men
may
thinke
I
wrong
them
with
so
deepe
a
charge
,
I
assure
you
vpon
my
credit
,
I
speake
no
more
then
I
haue
heard
Hisce
Auribus
.
One
base
Thick-skin
(
whose
Story
it
may
be
you
shall
haue
hereafter
more
at
large
)
taking
vpon
him
to
cure
an
incurable
Disease
,
and
being
willed
by
a
Phisition
,
requested
by
the
Patient
to
ioyne
with
him
,
to
make
knowne
his
Medicine
.
My
Medicine
(
quoth
hee
)
with
great
indignation
,
that
I
will
not
for
any
Mans
pleasure
.
D.
Dodcin
,
and
D.
Caso
of
Oxford
,
haue
offered
me
fortie
pounds
yearely
during
my
life
,
if
I
would
acquaint
them
with
that
secret
.
This
was
as
true
as
that
the
Sea
was
on
Fire
,
and
this
good
fellow
quenched
it
with
a
Bale
of
Flaxe
.
Neuerthelesse
,
by
this
and
such
like
pretie
sleights
,
he
carried
away
the
Patient
for
that
Time
,
and
got
some
Crownes
:
the
other
Phisition
,
because
he
refused
to
hold
the
Candle
to
so
base
and
blinde
a
Companion
,
being
reiected
.
An other
Medicastra
,
a
tatling
Gossip
,
(
for
such
likewise
haue
learned
their
Leripoope
,
and
haue
as
glib
,
smooth
,
&
nimble
Tongues
as
the
best
)
hauing
commended
a
Drench
she
had
for
an
old
Cough
,
vnto
the
Skyes
,
auerred
boldly
in
the
hearing
of
a
Phisition
,
that
her
Medicine
was
of
such
vertue
,
and
had
done
so
great
Acts
,
that
D.
Smyth
and
D.
Turner
,
had
taken
her
aside
,
and
with
many
faire
words
,
putting
likewise
some
Angels
into
her
fist
,
had
intreated
her
,
to
impart
to
them
her
Secret
.
But
(
said
she
)
with
a
grace
I
warrant
you
,
Should
I
teach
the
Doctors
?
nay
I
will
neuer
do
it
.
They
would
make
20.
or
30.
pound
yearely
of
it
,
whereas
I
do
good
therewith
,
and
take
small
recompence
for
my
paines
.
The
Physition
smyling
,
answered
.
I
beleeue
you
(
good
woman
)
that
you
will
not
teach
the
Doctors
,
I
will
be
your
warrant
for
that
matter
,
you
shall
need
no
further
Bond
or
Suretie
.
Was
not
this
a
goodly
sweete
Parrate
trowe
yee
?
Haue
not
the
Doctrs
cause
to
lament
that
they
shall
want
the
instruction
of
such
a
Lamia
?
A
third
,
as
bold
and
blinde
an
Empericke
as
London
hath
yeelded
these
many
yeares
,
beeing
by
the
Coll.
committed
to
prison
for
his
notorious
sottishnesse
,
Impudency
,
and
manifold
Misdemeanours
,
(
to
giue
them
the
least
and
lowes
terme
)
gaue
it
out
among
his
fellow
prisoners
,
and
such
as
celected
vetrum
,
that
his
commitment
was
,
because
he
refused
to
disclose
vnto
the
Physitions
,
his
hidden
secrets
,
whereby
hee
performed
such
Cures
,
as
they
were
not
able
to
turne
their
hands
too
.
But
suppose
wee
should
graunt
vnto
these
Braggadocian
Thessali
,
that
they
had
secret
and
good
Medicines
,
yea
such
as
diuers
Physitions
desired
to
knowe
;
would
it
therefore
follow
that
they
were
fit
Men
to
take
vpon
them
the
Profession
,
and
Practise
of
Physicke
?
Nothing
lesse
.
For
Physicke
is
a
great
Lady
or
Princesse
,
hauing
subiect
vnto
her
,
many
large
,
goodly
,
and
spacious
Territories
.
Whereof
the
skill
of
inuenting
,
and
making
a
Medicine
,
is
one
of
the
last
,
and
least
in
Estimation
.
So
that
a
Man
may
be
somewhat
acquainted
in
this
Region
,
and
yet
altogether
ignorant
in
the
ample
and
rich
Countries
and
Fields
of
Phisicke
.
Phisicke
is
defined
by
Galen
in
his
Arte
Parua
:
The
knowledge
of
things
wholsome
,
vnwholsome
,
or
neutrall
.
Or
,
the
Science
of
Things
Naturall
,
Preternaturall
,
and
contrarie
to
Nature
.
Physiologye
the
first
Part
of
Physicke
,
chalengeth
for
her
Patrimony
,
those
seuen
Things
whereof
our
Nature
consisteth
:
Elements
,
Temperaments
,
Humours
,
Spirits
,
Parts
,
Faculties
,
and
Functions
.
Here
is
a
large
walke
for
our
silly
Emperickes
,
as
vncouth
,
and
vnknowne
to
them
,
as
Terra-America
,
China
,
or
Guiana
,
to
our
poore
Plough
men
.
Anatomy
being
but
one
Shyre
,
Prouince
,
or
Countie
,
in
this
Precinct
or
Countrie
,
discoursing
vpon
the
Parts
,
whereof
we
consist
,
is
of
such
Noblenesse
,
Amplitude
,
and
Reputation
,
as
that
many
worthy
,
and
excellent
Wits
haue
bene
content
here
to
take
vp
their
Rest
,
and
dwel
therein
their
whole
Time
.
A
number
of
our
iolly
Quack-saluers
,
are
so
ignorant
of
this
Skill
,
that
they
know
not
whether
Anatomy
be
a
Man
or
Woman
,
an
Horse
,
or
a
Cow
.
And
yet
it
is
as
possible
,
for
him
to
be
a
Phisition
,
that
neuer
knew
or
sawe
Dissection
,
as
for
him
to
be
a
good
Carpenter
,
that
neuer
sawe
an
House
,
or
a
good
Marriner
,
that
neuer
set
eye
on
a
Ship
,
in
his
Life
.
Hygicina
the
second
part
of
Physicke
,
trauelleth
in
preseruing
the
health
of
those
who
haue
obtained
a
sound
Temperament
,
in
their
Similar
parts
,
and
right
Proportion
in
the
Instrumentall
,
by
the
moderate
and
well
ordered
vse
of
those
sixe
Things
,
which
we
call
Preternaturall
.
The
knowledge
of
those
Things
,
which
we
call
Vnwholsome
:
or
contrarie
to
Nature
,
if
you
respect
the
Theorie
,
is
termed
Pathologye
,
and
intreateth
at
large
of
the
Causes
,
Signes
,
and
Nature
of
Diseases
.
If
you
regard
the
Praxis
,
it
is
termed
Therapentice
,
who
grapleth
with
Natures
Enemie
,
and
opposeth
vnto
all
Maladies
,
apt
,
Artificiall
,
and
Rationall
Medicines
,
and
that
in
three
large
Differences
.
The
first
is
called
the
Dyet
of
the
sicke
:
the
second
,
Chyrurgery
:
the
third
,
Pharmacentice
.
So
that
the
Physition
,
as
a
great
Commaunder
,
hath
as
subordinate
to
him
,
the
Cookes
for
Dyet
,
the
Surgions
for
manuall
Operation
,
the
Apothecaries
for
confecting
,
and
preparing
Medicines
.
You
see
then
,
how
goodly
large
,
and
ample
Patrimony
Physick
hath
,
and
that
all
her
Store
,
and
Skill
,
consisteth
not
in
compounding
and
mingling
of
a
Medicine
.
If
that
were
all
,
them
all
our
skilful
Chirurgions
,
and
Apothecaries
(
of
whom
we
haue
many
in
this
Citie
)
should
be
absolute
,
and
compleat
Physitions
,
who
I
dare
boldly
affirme
knowe
moe
and
better
Medicines
,
then
the
brauest
,
and
Crakingest
Mounte-banke
in
the
Land
.
And
yet
how
farre
the
cunningest
of
them
are
,
from
being
able
to
giue
counsell
in
Physicke
,
both
themselues
will
ingeniously
and
freely
acknowledge
,
and
all
men
of
Iudgement
,
may
easily
discerne
.
But
who
so
bolde
as
blind
Bayard
,
who
seeing
not
the
Daunger
,
and
Diche
before
him
,
rusheth
on
without
feare
,
and
plungeth
himselfe
ouer
Head
and
Eares
,
ere
hee
be
aware
.
Herophilus
calleth
Medicines
Manus
Deorum
,
being
prescribed
and
accommodated
by
the
learned
Physition
,
but
flat
Poysons
if
they
come
thorow
the
handes
of
vnlearned
and
venterous
Quack-saluers
.
Nullus
Morbus
idem
omnibus
:
No
Disease
is
of
the
same
Nature
in
all
Constitutions
.
Nullum
Remedium
evndem
vim
habet
in
singulis
.
No
Remedie
hath
the
lyke
Operation
in
euery
particular
Patient
.
A
good
Remedie
in
the
Head
or
Closet
of
an
vnskilfull
,
and
venterous
Periclitator
,
is
as
a
Sword
in
the
handes
of
a
mad-Man
.
Or
as
the
blinde
Mans
staffe
,
which
may
so
fall
,
as
it
may
kill
the
Hare
.
So
theyr
misapplyed
and
mishapen
Remedies
,
may
sometime
quell
the
Disease
,
but
by
as
great
chaunce
and
misfortune
,
as
that
good
Fellow
had
,
who
being
drunke
and
on
horsebacke
,
ridde
in
the
night
safely
ouer
a
foote-bridge
,
crossing
a
broad
and
deepe
Riuer
,
it
beeing
a
thousand
pounde
to
a
Nut-shell
,
that
both
hee
and
his
Horse
should
haue
come
short
Home
.
Natura
est
Curatrix
Morborum
.
Nature
her selfe
is
the
Curer
of
diuers
Diseases
,
into
whose
haruest
these
intruding
Copes
mates
do
thrust
theyr
Sickle
,
reaping
oft
times
her
due
Praise
and
Commendations
.
To
conclude
this
Poynt
,
(
wherein
I
haue
beene
content
to
dwell
the
longer
,
because
it
is
the
strongest
Castle
and
Hold
,
wherein
our
Maister-Emperickes
doo
most
trust
,
and
wherevnto
they
haue
continuall
Resuge
and
Retreat
in
all
assaultes
)
I
dare
boldly
set
downe
this
Maxime
,
and
Theorem
,
and
maintaine
the
same
against
all
Commers
,
that
Morbi
curantur
magis
Methodo
,
quam
Medicina
.
Diseases
are
rather
cured
by
a
Rationall
Methode
grounded
vpon
Arts
Indications
,
then
by
force
of
any
Remedie
,
though
neuer
so
soueraigne
.
The
Indications
whereby
Iudiciall
and
Rationall
Physitions
are
guided
and
directed
(
as
by
Ariadnaees
threed
)
in
the
Curation
of
Diseases
,
are
many
,
(
and
not
to
be
stood
vpon
at
this
Tyme
)
all
of
them
neglected
,
and
vnknowne
to
the
poore
blinde
Emperickes
.
And
yet
the
Poet
could
say
,
speaking
but
of
one
of
them
.
Temporibus
medicina
valet
data
Tempore
prosunt
,
Sed
data
non
apto
Tempore
Vina
nocent
.
But
hauing
(
as
I
hope
)
sufficiently
battered
this
Fort
,
and
ferrited
these
Coney-catching
Companions
from
their
Sanctuarie
,
or
rather
Fox-hole
,
I
will
proceed
,
or
rather
post
vnto
their
third
Topicall
Place
,
or
Latebra
Sophistica
,
whereby
they
seeke
to
mount
vpon
the
Banke
of
Fame
,
and
raise
vp
Themselues
in
the
Conceit
of
their
simple
Patients
.
When
they
perceiue
the
Patient
to
haue
swallowed
the
two
former
Flyes
,
then
they
begin
to
stand
vpon
theyr
Typtoes
,
and
with
a
composed
Countenance
,
and
Stagge-like
gesture
,
to
relate
such
straunge
,
vncouth
,
lowde
ringing
,
and
Paradoxicall
Narrations
,
as
a
man
would
suppose
they
were
solemnly
set
to
lye
for
the
Whetstone
.
Vbi
adbibit
plus
paulò
sua
mihi
quae
narrat
Facinora
.
When
they
are
set
vpon
theyr
Ale-bench
,
(
for
it
is
worth
noting
by
the
way
,
that
eyther
at
the
Ale-house
or
Tauerne
,
where
is
their
chiefe
Haunt
,
theyr
matches
for
Cures
are
vsually
made
)
and
are
a
little
whitled
,
it
is
wonderfull
,
what
fabulous
Tales
and
Stories
,
what
vnsauorie
and
odious
Leasings
they
will
tell
of
theyr
incredible
,
and
admirable
Curations
,
performed
vppon
most
desperate
,
and
deadly
Sicknesses
,
and
such
Persons
as
were
altogether
giuen
ouer
and
forsaken
,
as
forlorne
and
past
helpe
by
the
Physitions
.
There
you
shall
heare
of
Dropsies
,
dead
Palsies
,
(
as
they
tearme
them
,
olde
and
knottie
Gouts
,
Apoplexies
,
great
and
growne
Stones
in
the
Bladder
,
a
great
rabble
moe
of
Churlish
and
Sturdie
Companions
,
all
bowing
the
knee
,
vayling
the
Bonnet
,
and
dooing
lowe
obeysance
to
our
grand
Seignior
,
Magnifico
,
Mounsier
Mountebanke
.
And
least
you
should
call
in
Question
the
credit
of
those
good
old
Gentlemen
,
or
doubt
of
the
Truth
of
their
Poeticall
,
Hyberbolicall
,
and
extrauagant
Discourses
,
you
shall
haue
them
name
the
Cities
and
Townes
,
Parties
,
and
Places
where
their
great
myraculous
Workes
and
Wonders
were
acted
and
executed
:
Marry
they
wil
be
sure
not
to
name
any
Parties
or
Places
too
neare
at
hand
(
for
that
might
peraduenture
marre
all
)
the
fooles
are
more
wise
then
so
.
But
if
you
would
finde
out
the
cettaintie
of
these
Matters
,
you
may
perhaps
ryde
your
horse
out
of
breath
Some
of
them
will
haue
for
their
Associate
,
an
old
Weather-beaten
Broking
Companion
,
somewhat
known
to
the
Patient
,
(
as
very
a
&c.
as
themselues
)
who
shall
play
Gnathos
part
,
soothing
them
vp
in
all
their
loud
Leasings
.
His
maner
is
,
to
scratch
and
clawe
our
Magnifico
by
the
Elbow
,
and
to
tolle
on
the
silly
Patient
,
in
this
sort
.
(
Syr
)
vpon
my
credit
,
this
is
an
honest
and
simple-meaning
Gentleman
,
if
he
say
the
word
,
you
may
be
bold
to
build
and
write
vpon
it
.
He
would
not
tell
you
an
vntruth
(
I
dare
say
and
sweare
too
for
a
need
)
if
he
might
gaine
thereby
an
hundred
pounds
.
Though
he
goe
but
plaine
,
yet
his
Reputation
is
good
in
the
Towne
and
Countrey
where
he
dwelleth
.
He
is
sought
vnto
farre
and
neare
.
He
is
acquainted
with
diuers
Noble
men
,
and
great
Personages
,
and
hath
accesse
vnto
them
,
and
is
admitted
into
Ladies
Chambers
,
when
your
gay
Doctors
with
their
veluet
Ierkins
are
shut
out
of
Doores
,
to
coole
their
heeles
.
He
hath
bene
a
Traueller
in
his
Dayes
,
and
hath
thereby
attained
such
deepe
and
profound
skill
in
Physicke
,
and
such
rare
and
precious
Medicines
,
that
hee
putteth
downe
all
the
Doctors
where
euer
he
commeth
.
Vpon
my
knowledge
,
he
hath
cured
them
,
which
had
bene
with
all
the
Doctors
in
London
,
and
spent
great
summes
of
money
,
without
receiuing
any
good
,
till
they
met
with
him
.
I
may
say
to
you
,
he
is
the
oddest
Man
in
a
Land
.
If
he
vndertake
you
,
I
will
bee
his
warrant
that
hee
will
cure
you
.
I
neuer
knew
him
yer
to
faile
in
any
.
He
hath
the
Luckyest
hand
in
a
Countrey
.
I
neuer
knew
any
miscarrie
vnder
it
.
Doth
not
this
slye
,
and
subtill
Pricker
tell
a
smooth
Tale
,
to
couer
and
colour
this
pack
of
cloaked
Knauery
?
And
no
maruell
.
For
he
speaketh
and
pleadeth
for
his
Fee
,
and
Shareth
with
his
Maister
Thraso
Mounsier
Magnifico
,
hauing
sometimes
a
Proctors
,
sometimes
a
Councellors
Paye
for
his
labour
.
Thus
these
two
Veterators
,
or
Couzening
Copsemates
act
their
Parts
,
as
it
were
on
a
Stage
,
circumuenting
and
insnaring
simple
Men
and
Women
,
altogether
vnacquainted
with
these
quaint
Deuises
,
laughing
them
to
come
behinde
their
backes
,
ryding
them
for
Asses
,
boasting
of
their
fiye
and
cunning
conueyance
of
their
matters
,
and
each
of
them
vaunting
that
he
played
his
Part
best
.
In
this
sort
do
they
solace
themselues
with
their
sweete
stolen
Bread
,
and
make
merry
with
their
Patients
money
.
For
you
must
vnderstand
,
that
vsually
it
purchaseth
neither
House
,
Goods
,
nor
Lands
,
but
a
fewe
Pots
of
the
best
Ale
or
Wine
in
the
Towne
.
And
yet
they
receiue
moe
Crownes
oft
times
for
one
of
their
Couzenages
,
(
for
Cures
I
will
neuer
call
them
)
then
diuers
learned
and
honest
Physitions
,
for
two
or
three
,
iuditially
,
and
happily
performed
Curations
.
Hauing
now
coursarily
passed
ouer
the
first
Kinde
of
the
warre-like
Engines
,
whereby
being
raised
vpon
the
Mount
of
their
owne
Praise
and
Fame
,
these
braue
Pot-souldiers
doo
make
a
fierce
and
strong
batterie
vpon
the
silly
Patients
Purse
:
I
will
proceed
to
the
second
Ranke
,
of
militarie
Statagems
,
and
Warre-like
Policies
,
by
which
they
doo
eft-soones
,
feale
the
Walles
,
enter
the
Ramperts
,
and
like
valiant
,
and
victorious
Conquerors
,
possesse
them
of
the
Piece
and
Fort
,
holding
out
against
their
matchlesse
Puissance
.
As
the
former
had
respect
vnto
themselues
,
and
their
owne
Fame
and
Reputation
:
So
these
last
haue
Reference
and
Relation
wholly
to
their
Patients
Good
.
First
therefore
(
let
the
Disease
be
what
it
will
or
shall
)
(
for
if
you
will
haue
the
Truth
,
for
the
most
part
they
care
not
,
nor
know
not
)
neuer
so
daungerous
,
deadly
,
desperate
,
incurable
,
they
will
promise
most
confidently
and
arrogantly
,
a
perfect
,
absolute
,
&
compleat
Cure
.
All
is
fish
with
them
that
commeth
to
Net
.
They
make
no
bones
at
it
.
And
yet
the
Poet
could
say
thus
much
.
Non
est
in
Medico
sempèr
releuctur
vt
Aeger
.
Interdum
docta
plus
valet
Arte
Malum
.
Hyppocrates
the
Father
of
Physicke
,
and
Phoenix
of
the
World
,
whose
Writings
are
by
venerable
Antiquitie
esteemed
Oracles
,
and
not
words
of
Humane
Tongue
:
who
(
as
Macrobius
saith
)
could
neither
deceiue
,
nor
be
deceiued
,
whose
Humanitie
and
Benignitie
was
such
,
that
hee
knew
nothing
,
but
that
hee
would
wee
should
likewise
knowe
,
whose
deepe
reach
,
insight
,
and
admirable
Skill
was
so
great
,
that
no
Man
after
him
,
knew
any
thing
,
whereof
he
was
ignorant
,
this
honourable
Dictator
of
Physicke
affirmeth
often
,
that
there
are
many
Diseases
incurable
.
This
commeth
to
passe
,
partly
because
some
diseases
are
hereditary
a
Semine
Paterno
,
and
beeing
bred
in
the
bone
,
as
we
say
,
will
hardly
bee
rooted
out
of
the
flesh
:
partly
by
the
Furie
and
Violence
of
some
Maladie
and
Symptoms
,
far
surmounting
Natures
strength
.
And
that
appeareth
eyther
by
the
Nobilitie
,
and
Necessitie
of
the
Parte
offended
,
or
the
Worthinesse
and
Excellencie
of
the
Action
violated
,
or
by
the
euill
Nature
,
and
secret
Malignitie
of
the
Affect
.
Herevpon
it
is
that
Hyppocrates
saith
:
Soluere
fortem
Apoplexiam
impossibile
,
leuem
haud
facile
.
And
that
in
regard
of
the
Dignitie
of
the
Part
affected
,
the
necessary
vse
and
excellencie
of
the
Actions
of
Sence
and
Motion
,
mightily
oppugned
,
and
the
boysterous
,
and
churlish
Violence
of
that
most
terrible
and
deadly
Disease
.
Herevpon
likewise
that
honourable
old
man
,
the
Mirrour
of
Antiquitie
,
in
the
same
Book
of
Aphorismes
,
which
hath
merited
the
highest
Place
among
humane
Writings
.
Aphor.
1.
sayth
.
O
portet
non
solum
Medicum
suum
,
officium
facere
,
sed
etiam
Aegrum
,
&
Astantes
,
&
externa
esse
rite
comparata
.
The
Physition
must
not
onely
performe
his
office
,
but
the
sicke
Man
and
his
Ministers
must
do
their
Parts
,
and
outward
Things
must
be
well
disposed
.
This
golden
Sentence
set
in
the
Fore-front
of
that
Diuine
worke
,
giueth
vs
plainly
to
vnderstand
,
that
all
the
Keyes
of
Curation
hang
not
at
the
Physitions
Gyrdle
;
it
resteth
not
wholly
and
solely
in
him
,
to
performe
the
Cure
,
but
Patients
and
Nurses
haue
likewise
their
Offices
and
Charges
to
looke
vnto
,
and
externall
Accidents
may
marre
all
the
Market
.
Morbi
sua
Natura
curabiles
,
saepe
Patientium
&
Clinicaram
niscitia
,
incuria
,
inobedientia
,
aut
morositate
incurabiles
redduntur
.
This
was
the
cause
why
Galen
wisheth
Physitions
neuer
to
meddle
with
those
who
are
intemperate
,
and
wholly
addicted
to
satisfie
theyr
Appetite
,
and
sensuall
Delights
:
for
(
sayth
he
)
neither
shalt
thou
reape
credit
,
not
they
any
good
or
benefite
by
Physicke
.
A
great
Emperour
bringing
with
him
to
a
sicke
Courtier
,
two
of
his
Physitions
,
demaunded
of
them
what
they
Iudged
of
the
sicknesse
,
whether
it
were
cureable
,
or
no
?
The
first
answered
,
that
it
was
cureable
.
The
other
that
he
Iudged
it
incureable
.
I
(
sayeth
the
Emperour
)
what
is
the
Reason
of
this
Dissention
and
Difference
betwixt
you
?
No
difference
(
my
Lord
)
answered
the
later
Phisition
.
Ille
enim
ad
Rem
respicit
,
Ego
ad
hominem
.
He
respected
,
in
his
answere
,
the
Disease
,
and
I
the
Patient
,
whom
I
know
to
bee
so
vnruly
and
intemperate
,
that
it
is
not
possible
to
Cure
him
.
How
ignorant
,
vnruly
,
indiscreet
,
and
vntractable
,
that
I
say
not
peeuish
and
peruerse
many
Patients
are
,
it
is
too
well
knowne
to
Physitions
,
and
Others
likewise
who
are
not
too
too
exceeding
partiall
,
and
therefore
needlesse
and
tedious
for
me
to
stand
vpon
it
.
The
manifold
Errors
and
Misdemeanours
of
the
friends
of
Patients
,
especially
Women
,
Nurse-keepers
,
Seruants
,
Cookes
,
Surgions
,
and
Apothecaries
,
would
fill
a
seuerall
and
great
Volume
.
I
will
onely
point
at
one
vulgar
and
common
Fault
,
greatly
hindering
the
happy
proceeding
,
and
succeeding
of
our
Cures
in
London
.
And
that
is
the
ficklenesse
,
and
fugitiue
Inconstancie
of
our
Patients
,
who
being
perswaded
by
euery
pratling
Gossip
that
commeth
in
to
see
them
,
and
silly
Chare-woman
that
attendeth
them
,
will
haue
for
euery
Day
they
are
sicke
almost
,
a
new
and
seuerall
Phisition
,
and
perhaps
chaunge
euery
Day
for
the
worse
.
Thus
doo
they
deli●iari
and
play
the
Wantons
because
of
their
ease
and
plentie
of
water
at
their
Doores
(
I
meane
the
varietie
of
good
and
skilfull
Physitions
)
but
chiefly
by
the
fond
and
witlesse
motions
,
of
these
busie
giddy
headed
women
,
who
are
constant
in
nothing
but
Inconstancie
,
blowne
too
and
fro
with
euery
breath
,
like
a
Feather
.
Sometimes
they
will
dispraise
and
debase
the
former
Phisition
,
for
no
other
reason
,
but
because
hee
is
knowne
vnto
them
:
and
magnifie
and
commend
a
straunger
because
he
is
vnknowne
,
as
a
man
of
deepe
learning
and
Iudgement
.
Otherwhile
the
Phisition
is
too
young
,
and
wanteth
Experience
:
and
then
they
will
extoll
to
the
Patient
,
a
blinde
Empericke
,
who
hath
neither
Wit
,
Learning
,
nor
Experience
,
and
yet
hee
must
be
the
Man
.
Sometime
againe
the
Physition
is
too
old
,
and
spent
,
his
Memorie
and
Iudgement
faileth
him
,
hee
is
now
done
,
you
must
take
an
other
that
is
more
fresh
and
readie
in
his
Matters
.
With
these
and
the
like
,
idle
,
trifleling
and
childish
Follyes
they
do
often
inter●urbe
and
hinder
our
Curations
:
and
the
Physitions
are
blamed
,
traduced
,
and
disgraced
,
when
the
Patient
himselfe
,
or
his
wise
Counsellors
deserued
well
,
much
rather
to
be
whipped
.
Qui
Plures
consulit
Medicoes
in
singulorum
Errorem
cadit
,
ipse
falsus
maxime
.
He
that
runneth
after
many
Phisitions
,
oft
times
deceiueth
them
all
,
and
himself
most
&
worst
of
all
.
That
externall
Euents
do
interrupt
the
course
of
Curation
,
and
dash
all
on
the
sudden
.
it
is
most
euident
.
A
Physition
in
London
had
a
Patient
,
who
hauing
bene
sicke
of
a
burning
Feuer
,
and
beeing
in
good
way
of
recouerie
,
a
Creditor
of
his
(
to
whome
hee
owed
a
round
summe
,
hearing
of
his
Sicknesse
,
and
daunger
,
pressed
suddenly
into
the
Chamber
where
hee
lay
,
and
expostulating
with
him
,
in
many
sharpe
,
and
rigorous
words
and
threats
for
securitie
of
his
Debt
,
so
disquieted
,
vexed
,
and
ouerheat
the
poore
Man
,
that
hee
relapsed
into
a
Phrensie
and
Idlenesse
of
Braine
,
crying
out
still
vpon
his
Creditor
,
that
he
would
lay
him
vp
,
that
the
Sergeants
were
at
his
backe
,
readie
to
seize
vpon
him
:
that
he
must
lye
by
it
,
his
Wise
and
Children
should
be
〈◊〉
:
and
thus
rauing
,
within
fewe
dayes
dyed
.
This
Man
might
haue
recouered
in
the
Phisitions
Iudgement
,
if
this
vnhappy
Accident
had
not
happened
.
Incomparable
Galen
,
the
store-house
of
all
good
learning
,
from
whose
reading
,
the
best
learned
shall
euer
returne
more
learned
,
concurieth
in
this
point
,
with
his
Maister
Hyppocrates
,
as
hath
bene
alreadie
by
the
way
touched
,
and
might
be
by
many
places
of
his
workes
plainely
proued
,
if
it
were
not
altogether
superfluous
,
to
spend
Tyme
,
and
blot
Paper
,
in
a
matter
so
euident
.
Consider
then
,
the
intollerable
&
shamelesse
Impudencie
of
our
vaunting
Pyrgopolynices
,
who
wil
take
vpon
him
to
set
Hyppocrates
and
Galen
to
Schoole
,
as
simple
&
rude
fellows
in
respect
of
his
graund-Maistership
.
And
heerein
that
brain-sicke
Germaine
,
that
notorious
Sophister
,
and
Impostor
of
the
World
,
Paracelsus
,
hath
plainly
discouered
himselfe
to
be
a
mere
Mounte-banke
:
(
for
if
he
had
bene
a
learned
Man
,
he
would
neuer
haue
done
it
)
barking
euery
where
in
his
rouing
and
rauing
Discourses
(
for
Method
or
Art
they
haue
none
in
them
)
at
Galen
,
one
of
the
Springs
of
Physicke
,
chalenging
himselfe
for
Ignorance
,
his
Medicines
for
insufficiencie
,
and
inualiditie
:
all
his
Successors
and
Followers
in
the
Physick
Schooles
and
Vniuersities
,
for
Dolts
,
Dunses
,
and
Asses
,
in
comparison
of
his
goodly
Selfe
.
Ebrius
est
nec
enim
faceret
haec
sobrius
Vnquam
.
The
Wine
was
in
,
and
the
Wit
was
out
,
when
hee
did
and
spake
this
,
or
else
vndoubtedly
he
would
neuer
haue
done
it
.
But
to
let
him
goe
,
into
whose
grosse
,
and
palpable
Absurdities
,
intollerable
Insolencies
,
and
incredible
Sophistications
,
if
a
man
should
enter
,
he
should
find
Powles
work
,
as
we
say
:
it
is
more
then
manifest
,
both
by
the
Authorities
,
and
sound
Reasons
of
these
graue
and
learned
Phisitions
,
to
whom
,
these
base
Companions
are
not
worthy
to
hold
the
Candle
,
or
to
be
Named
the
same
yeare
with
them
,
that
all
Diseases
are
not
Cureable
;
and
that
therefore
they
are
notorious
,
and
not
sufferable
Impostors
,
who
take
vpon
them
,
more
then
the
greatest
Maisters
of
Art
would
euer
arrogate
to
Themselues
;
and
that
which
indeed
is
not
in
their
power
to
performe
.
The
like
may
be
said
of
Cures
,
which
was
said
of
Martiall
affaires
.
In
rebus
bellicis
,
Militum
virtus
,
locorum
opportunitas
,
Classes
,
Comeatus
,
Auxilia
,
multum
tuuant
,
Qnin
ipsa
.
Rerum
Domina
Fortuna
magnam
partem
suo
sibi
Iuro
vindicat
,
&c.
So
in
Curations
,
the
Skilfulnesse
,
and
Carefulnesse
of
the
Physition
,
the
Discretion
and
Tractabilitie
of
the
Patient
,
and
diligence
of
the
Keepers
and
Attendants
,
the
faithfulnesse
of
the
Apothecaries
,
Surgions
,
and
other
Ministers
,
the
remouing
of
all
externall
Impediments
,
do
greatly
further
and
forward
Curations
:
but
aboue
all
,
and
when
all
is
done
,
there
is
a
great
Commaunder
who
sitteth
in
Heauen
,
and
chalengeth
to
himself
by
good
right
,
the
chiefe
sway
and
stroke
in
all
this
Businesse
.
In
him
are
the
issues
of
Life
,
and
of
Death
,
he
hath
created
both
Physicke
and
the
Physition
.
Quo
sine
Diptamnus
nil
,
Panacea
iuuat
.
Except
the
Lord
build
the
House
,
the
builders
,
&c.
Except
the
Lord
watch
the
Citie
,
the
Watch-men
,
&c.
The
Eternall
who
hath
giuen
vs
these
Soules
and
Bodies
,
(
of
whom
it
should
seeme
these
iolly
fellowes
,
these
boasting
Thrasoes
do
fildome
,
or
neuer
thinke
)
hath
reserued
to
himselfe
a
soueraigne
and
ouerruling
Power
:
whereby
hee
doth
oft
times
crosse
the
Meanes
,
and
frustrate
the
Hopes
of
the
most
skilfull
and
exquisit
Artists
,
much
more
,
of
our
bold
Periclirators
,
who
blindly
,
sottishly
,
and
sencelesly
,
go
to
worke
.
This
caused
that
Eternised
old
Man
,
whose
Fame
is
like
to
last
as
long
as
the
World
lasteth
,
cry
out
,
that
there
was
Diuinum
quid
in
morbis
,
a
certaine
Misterie
in
Diseases
,
which
neither
he
,
nor
any
humane
Wit
could
euer
sound
.
Their
next
Topicall
Place
,
or
perswasiue
Insinuation
pretending
the
Patients
good
,
is
this
,
that
as
they
vndertake
without
all
peraduenture
,
an
absolute
Cure
,
be
the
Disease
neuer
so
stubborne
or
pernitious
;
so
they
likewise
promise
with
no
lesse
Impudence
and
Vanitie
,
a
short
and
speedie
Cure
.
This
is
exceeding
plausible
to
the
poore
Patient
,
bringing
him
a
sleepe
,
and
causing
him
to
scratch
where
it
itcheth
not
.
He
will
(
forsooth
)
leap
ouer
the
hedge
before
he
come
at
it
:
he
will
not
stand
thrumming
of
Caps
,
or
picking
strawes
all
the
yeare
,
but
with
great
Celeritie
&
Dexteritie
,
dispatch
that
in
a
weeke
,
which
the
Rationall
Physition
,
the
Schoole-Doctor
with
his
Cautelous
Caueats
,
will
lye
bungling
and
iumbling
at
a
Moneth
or
two
.
Yet
the
wise
Man
willeth
vs
to
hasten
slowly
,
and
telleth
vs
that
a
soft
fire
maketh
sweete
Mault
,
that
a
Thing
is
done
soone
inough
,
if
wel
inough
:
that
hastie
Bitches
bring
forth
blinde
Whelpes
:
that
rash
Temeritie
is
the
Daughter
of
Folly
,
and
Mother
of
Repentance
.
Diuers
Diseases
proceeding
from
Inanition
and
Exhaustion
,
require
necessarily
,
a
conuenient
space
of
Tyme
,
that
Natures
losse
and
expence
may
be
by
degrees
repaired
,
restored
,
and
(
as
it
were
)
reedified
.
Others
are
of
a
Churlish
,
Stubbborne
,
and
Rebellious
Disposition
,
and
must
be
gently
and
softly
handled
,
and
by
litle
,
and
litle
,
in
some
length
of
Tyme
,
tamed
and
cicurated
.
They
are
like
a
sleeping
Dogge
which
must
not
sudenly
be
awaked
,
least
you
do
Irritare
Crabronem
,
duplicare
malum
,
and
bring
an
old
house
vpon
your
owne
,
(
or
at
least
)
the
Patients
Head
.
Rome
was
not
built
in
a
Day
,
and
no
Matter
of
waight
or
moment
,
can
be
negotiated
and
managed
in
a
moment
or
trice
,
vnlesse
we
will
huddle
,
and
slubber
them
vp
in
such
sort
,
as
we
must
doo
,
redoo
,
vndoo
,
and
as
good
neuer
a
whit
,
as
neuer
the
better
.
Their
last
and
surest
Card
,
whereby
as
with
a
cunning
&
strong
Engine
,
they
breake
open
the
Gates
of
the
long
assayled
Fort
,
making
themselues
Lord
,
and
Owners
thereof
,
so
as
the
poore
Patient
dooth
yeeld
himselfe
as
altogether
vanquished
and
subdued
,
and
not
able
,
to
hold
out
any
longer
,
is
this
.
They
will
solemnly
professe
,
that
though
their
skill
be
singular
,
and
supereminent
,
yet
their
Desire
is
rather
to
doo
Good
,
then
to
heape
vp
Gold
:
(
for
if
they
had
bene
of
that
humour
,
they
might
haue
bene
worth
thousands
,
and
●umbled
themselues
in
siluer
before
this
time
)
and
therfore
for
the
good
liking
they
conceiue
of
the
Patient
,
and
his
gentle
and
courteous
Nature
and
behauiour
,
they
will
require
nothing
,
vntill
they
haue
performed
,
and
perfited
the
Cure
.
Herevpon
the
Patient
is
so
well
appayed
,
that
he
thinketh
he
hath
gotten
the
Popes
holownesse
by
the
Toe
,
&
met
with
the
plainest
,
kindest
,
honestest
,
and
friendlyest
Gentleman
in
the
World
.
But
you
must
know
,
that
though
our
craftie
Copsemate
,
and
old
beaten
Veterator
,
gloze
,
and
glauer
thus
,
yet
hee
meaneth
nothing
lesse
.
For
hauing
by
this
meanes
entered
into
worke
with
the
Patient
,
after
three
,
or
foure
Dayes
,
all
which
while
,
he
will
shewe
himselfe
double
Diligent
,
and
tell
him
many
a
fayre
Tale
,
and
loud
Lesing
,
hee
will
(
spying
his
opportunitie
)
breake
with
him
thus
.
(
Syr
)
you
discerne
(
I
hope
)
that
I
haue
a
speciall
care
of
you
,
you
see
what
continuall
paines
I
take
,
beside
the
expence
and
laying
out
of
my
money
out
of
my
purse
for
your
Medicines
.
I
trust
you
will
haue
some
consideration
hereof
,
and
allow
me
money
for
to
pay
the
Apothecarie
.
The
Patient
(
if
he
be
of
any
good
,
or
kinde
Nature
,
being
ouercome
with
kindnesse
)
cannot
but
yeeld
to
this
equall
Motion
,
and
vsually
wil
out
with
his
purse
,
and
giue
him
foure
or
fiue
Angels
,
to
buy
Poticary
Ware
,
as
they
vse
to
speake
.
This
our
broking
Mounte-banke
receiueth
with
a
right
good
will
,
saying
to
himselfe
,
that
hee
shall
not
now
loose
all
,
but
that
hee
is
reasonable
well
payde
for
fiue
or
sixe
,
or
at
most
tenne
shillings
bestowed
in
Drugges
And
for
the
most
part
,
when
they
haue
gotten
possession
of
this
money
,
they
haue
attained
the
end
and
toppe
of
theyr
drifts
.
For
you
must
vnderstand
,
that
the
greatest
part
of
them
tarry
not
out
the
processe
of
theyr
Cures
.
But
hauing
made
foure
or
fiue
such
like
Markets
in
seuerall
places
of
the
Towne
,
wherevnto
they
arriue
,
they
betake
themselues
faire
and
roundly
to
their
heeles
,
giuing
theyr
Patients
the
bagge
,
and
leauing
them
in
the
lurch
,
in
the
middest
of
their
Foole-conceited
Hopes
.
And
although
I
might
say
,
His
facient
exemola
fidem
,
for
Examples
of
these
notorious
Couzenages
doo
abound
,
and
are
too
plentifull
in
all
Places
,
yet
because
I
feare
least
I
haue
tarried
too
long
in
this
base
Argument
,
and
spent
too
much
time
in
stirring
this
filthy
Dunghill
,
I
will
hasten
to
an
ende
,
and
exemplifie
my
Discourse
with
one
onely
Store
.
That
base
,
vnlettered
,
and
vnmannered
Thick-skin
,
(
of
whom
mention
by
the
way
was
formerly
made
,
B.
of
H.
by
the
Thames
side
)
comming
to
London
,
and
noysing
abroad
by
his
Trumpettors
,
his
singular
and
admirable
Skill
and
Dexteritie
in
curing
diuers
daungerous
,
desperate
,
and
in
truth
,
incurable
Diseases
,
was
brought
by
some
of
his
Brokers
,
to
a
graue
and
honest
Cittizen
,
afflicted
with
that
Maladie
,
wherein
the
learned
Physitions
flye
to
Solus
Culter
,
Solus
Cultellus
.
This
noble
Swanne
,
this
vaine
and
vaunting
Clowne
,
bragging
of
sundrie
great
and
wonderfull
Cures
by
him
performed
vpon
Gentlemen
and
others
in
the
Countrey
,
whom
he
blushed
not
to
name
,
knowing
that
the
Parties
being
absent
,
he
could
not
be
controlled
,
professed
to
cure
him
absolutely
(
without
cutting
)
and
that
in
three
weekes
space
.
The
Cittizen
though
hee
gaue
too
listening
an
eare
to
these
goodly
Tales
of
our
cracking
Mounte-banke
,
and
was
somewhat
tickled
to
heare
of
Health
and
Recouery
,
and
that
with
such
celeritie
and
expedition
,
yet
hauing
a
tollerable
and
good
conceit
of
a
Phisition
,
whom
formerly
he
vsed
,
sent
vnto
him
,
desiring
him
to
conferre
with
our
deepe
and
profound
Artist
,
&
to
ioyne
with
him
in
the
Curation
.
The
Physition
repayring
to
the
Patients
house
,
and
entering
Parlee
with
our
Mounsier
Magnifico
,
Signior
Rusticus
,
requested
him
to
know
what
Course
he
would
take
in
the
Cure
.
I
(
quoth
he
)
will
giue
him
no
Physicke
.
How
will
you
then
(
replyed
the
Physition
)
remoue
the
Disease
.
I
will
do
it
(
saith
our
Quack-saluer
)
by
a
certaine
Gift
giuen
mee
,
and
by
a
rare
and
precious
secret
Medicine
which
I
vse
.
No
maruel
(
answered
the
Phisition
)
if
your
Medicine
being
no
Phisick
,
be
straunge
and
rare
indeed
aboue
all
I
euer
heard
.
But
will
you
declare
and
shewe
your
Medicine
,
that
wee
may
discerne
and
Iudge
of
the
fitnesse
and
efficacie
thereof
,
to
performe
this
great
and
strange
effect
.
Nay
by
your
leaue
(
said
hee
)
you
shall
pardon
me
,
the
foole
is
wiser
then
so
.
If
I
would
haue
discouered
my
Secret
,
two
great
Doctors
of
Oxford
would
haue
assured
me
an
Annuitie
of
fortie
pound
yearely
,
during
my
life
.
I
am
sufficiently
knowne
I
tell
you
(
Syr
)
and
that
to
no
Babes
,
or
base
Persons
,
but
to
diuers
of
the
greatest
Noblemen
in
the
Land
:
and
am
admitted
to
their
Speech
and
Presence
,
when
Veluet
Coates
daunce
attendance
without
.
The
Phisition
perceiuing
by
this
small
Conference
,
Mounsier
Mounte-banke
to
bee
of
the
right
stampe
,
taking
the
Patient
aside
,
and
shewing
him
the
grosse
Ignorance
,
and
intollerable
Arrogancie
of
the
Sottish
Asse
,
perswaded
him
in
many
words
,
to
shake
him
off
,
if
he
respected
his
Life
,
Health
,
or
Credit
,
as
a
meere
Couzener
and
Impostor
.
But
he
(
though
otherwise
of
sufficient
wisedome
)
was
so
inueigled
,
or
rather
bewitched
with
the
great
bragges
,
and
sencelesse
Tales
of
this
braggadocian
Quack-saluer
,
that
he
would
admit
of
nothing
sounding
to
his
Disgrace
,
or
Disparagement
:
affirming
that
by
dealing
with
him
,
he
could
receiue
no
detriment
,
since
hee
required
no
money
,
vntill
he
had
absolued
and
finished
his
Cure
.
The
Physition
answered
,
that
though
hee
made
that
goodly
pretence
to
drawe
him
on
,
and
himselfe
into
the
Cure
,
yet
it
was
like
,
that
by
one
meanes
or
other
hee
would
get
into
possession
,
some
peece
of
mony
(
for
sure
hee
was
,
that
was
the
whyte
and
marke
hee
aymed
at
)
and
then
bidde
him
farewell
.
This
proued
afterwards
a
very
shrewd
and
perillous
Prediction
.
For
within
fewe
Dayes
,
passing
by
the
Citizens
House
,
he
called
in
,
to
see
how
the
world
went
,
and
was
by
him
saluted
thus
.
(
Syr
)
I
doubt
you
will
proue
a
Prophet
,
my
Cunning
Man
,
the
last
Day
,
complaining
that
he
layed
out
his
money
at
the
Apothecaries
,
to
buy
Simples
to
compound
my
Medicines
,
I
thinking
it
no
reason
hee
should
bee
at
such
charge
for
me
,
opened
my
Purse
,
and
gaue
him
foure
Angels
.
But
I
haue
wished
them
since
twise
in
it
againe
:
for
I
feare
hee
will
make
your
words
good
,
he
hath
cast
me
once
or
twise
by
his
tamperings
and
Drugges
,
into
the
fit
of
an
Ague
,
so
that
I
was
readie
(
but
for
shame
)
to
haue
sent
for
you
.
I
beleeue
,
when
all
is
done
,
hee
will
shewe
himselfe
a
Couzening
Companion
.
The
Physition
smyling
,
answered
:
who
then
I
perceiue
your
deepe
Doctor
will
not
loose
all
his
labour
.
He
hath
now
as
much
money
as
he
will
looke
for
at
your
hands
,
and
you
as
much
Good
,
as
you
must
expect
from
his
.
Hee
hath
cleared
three
Angels
at
the
least
,
(
sheare
gaines
)
for
three
or
foure
Visitations
:
which
if
you
had
giuen
the
most
learned
Phisition
in
the
Citie
,
you
would
haue
scratched
your
Elbow
,
and
thought
your selfe
vndone
.
Yet
he
fayled
in
his
first
conceit
,
which
notwithstanding
is
commonly
their
Rest
.
For
not
long
after
the
shamelesse
Companion
faigned
a
necessary
and
vrgent
occasion
of
going
into
the
Countrey
,
and
before
he
went
down
,
desired
to
haue
so
much
of
those
Commodities
wherein
his
Patient
dealt
,
as
came
to
three
Pound
.
The
Citizen
knowing
that
by
his
meanes
he
had
got
in
the
Citie
of
diuers
honest
Men
through
his
Hyberbolicall
Commendation
,
twentie
Nobles
at
the
least
,
was
content
to
lay
them
aside
for
him
.
But
when
he
expected
his
present
payment
,
he
phopped
him
thus
.
Syr
,
we
agreeed
for
your
Cure
for
fiue
pound
.
I
haue
receiued
alreadie
fortie
shilling
:
now
this
three
pound
maketh
vp
the
iust
summe
.
Nay
by
your
leaue
(
said
the
Marchant
)
I
looke
for
readie
money
for
my
Ware
.
You
haue
had
on
me
alreadie
foure
Angels
,
and
I
am
no
whit
better
then
I
was
,
but
rather
in
worse
State
.
Performe
your
vndertaken
Cure
,
and
you
shall
be
assured
of
your
money
without
faile
.
If
it
be
so
(
said
hee
)
I
must
leaue
it
behinde
me
til
I
return
or
send
you
vp
money
:
for
I
haue
sent
downe
my
money
before
me
.
But
neither
Man
nor
Mony
returned
in
haste
.
This
was
an
old-beaten
Souldier
,
a
good
Proficient
,
well
trained
vp
in
this
Schoole
of
Couzenage
,
and
Coney-catching
,
hee
had
learned
his
lesson
perfectly
,
and
was
able
to
runne
it
ouer
vpon
his
fingers
Ends.
For
if
you
compare
his
Story
with
our
present
Discourse
,
you
shall
see
that
he
neither
failed
nor
faltered
in
any
one
Point
of
his
Portuse
.
Thus
I
haue
spent
(
as
you
see
)
some
fewe
successiue
and
Idle-vagant
houres
,
in
vnfolding
and
laying
open
the
Packe
and
Fardle
of
these
circumferanious
Iuglers
,
and
pedling
Pettifoggers
in
Physicke
,
who
by
these
Adulterate
,
and
Sophsticate
Wares
,
deceiue
,
abuse
,
pray
,
and
feed
vpon
the
ruder
and
simpler
sort
of
People
.
Yea
,
and
by
your
leaue
,
sometimes
ouerreach
&
circumuent
those
,
who
think
themselues
iolly
fellowes
,
and
great
wise
Men
,
to
the
great
blemish
and
disgrace
of
that
auncient
,
worthy
,
and
honourable
Profession
of
Physick
,
discredit
,
obloquie
,
and
contempt
of
learned
and
good
Phisitions
,
and
to
the
great
damage
and
detriment
of
her
Maiesties
Subiects
,
both
in
their
Bodies
,
and
outward
Estates
.
My
hope
is
,
that
this
Cursorie
,
and
Rapsodicall
Discourse
(
for
to
haue
ransacked
euery
Corner
and
Creuise
in
this
Budget
,
would
require
a
longer
Tractat
,
and
may
hereafter
be
performed
if
this
(
Labor
)
proue
plausible
and
grateful
may
do
good
to
some
,
and
hurt
none
,
except
the
intruding
and
shifting
Mounte-banke
,
whose
prosequution
,
and
persequution
,
both
I
,
and
all
the
learned
Gentlemen
of
our
Colledge
,
haue
in
our
Initiation
and
Inanguration
solemnly
vowed
,
and
protested
.
It
being
the
very
ground
and
Originall
,
of
all
those
large
and
bountifull
Immunities
and
Priuiledges
graunted
first
to
our
Societie
,
by
that
puissant
Prince
of
famous
memorie
,
Henry
the
eight
,
and
afterward
ratified
and
confirmed
by
his
Peerlesse
Daughter
,
Queene
Elizabeth
,
the
Mirrour
of
all
Heroicall
and
Princely
vertues
,
the
Assertor
and
Protector
of
true
Relion
,
the
Maule
of
Antichrist
,
the
Astonishment
and
Wonder
of
Christendome
,
and
the
whole
World
,
that
we
should
,
Videre
&
prospicere
,
ne
quid
in
Rebus
Med.
Resp.
Detrimenti
caperet
.
That
is
,
that
we
should
foresee
and
take
order
,
that
the
Common-wealth
be
not
wronged
in
Matters
appertaining
to
Phisicke
.
It
is
therefore
an
odious
Calumnie
,
and
slaunderous
vntruth
,
which
these
base
and
out-cast
Companions
giue
out
,
when
they
are
punished
by
the
Colledge
,
for
theyr
grosse
Sottishnesse
,
shamelesse
Intrusion
,
and
vnsufferable
,
and
pernicious
Offences
and
Disorders
,
that
they
are
therefore
onely
pursued
by
vs
,
because
they
take
away
our
profit
,
(
when
as
in
truth
,
they
eft-soones
make
worke
for
vs
)
and
doo
more
good
,
then
the
Colledge
of
Phisitions
:
whereas
the
great
Acts
they
do
,
may
appeare
partly
by
this
present
Discourse
,
and
yet
more
euidently
by
those
lamentable
Accidents
,
and
miserable
Ends
of
many
poore
soules
in
London
in
a
yeare
,
falling
into
these
Hucsters
,
or
rather
Hacksters
hands
.
Our
Consciences
toward
God
,
our
Dutie
toward
our
Prince
,
our
Loue
to
our
Countrey
,
the
honour
of
our
Profession
,
the
Oath
we
haue
taken
in
our
Admission
,
do
all
binde
vs
,
as
by
a
double
or
triple
cord
or
band
,
Ad
persequendum
indoctos
Empericos
,
&
Impostores
.
To
pursue
vnlearned
Emperickes
,
and
Impostors
.
In
conclusion
therefore
,
I
desire
them
who
haue
occasion
to
vse
Physicke
,
to
remember
alwayes
his
saying
,
who
affirmeth
,
that
Plus
mali
a
medico
quam
a
Morbo
imminet
,
si
aut
audacia
,
aut
Imperitia
Poccet
.
There
is
more
Daunger
to
bee
feared
from
the
Physition
,
then
from
the
Disease
,
if
he
offend
either
in
blockish
Ignorance
,
or
rash
Temeritie
;
and
thinke
it
safe
for
them
,
to
be
of
the
same
minde
with
a
great
Learned
Clarke
in
our
Land
,
who
in
a
daungerous
sicknesse
,
being
moued
by
some
friends
to
vse
an
vnlettered
Empericke
.
Nay
(
quoth
he
)
I
haue
liued
all
my
Life
by
the
Booke
,
and
I
will
now
(
God-willing
)
likewise
dye
by
the
Booke
.
And
so
I
wish
from
my
heart
to
euery
one
of
them
,
in
Tyme
of
Health
,
a
sound
,
faithfull
,
and
constant
friend
,
who
is
called
Medicamentum
vitae
,
and
that
they
may
auoyd
the
Silken
and
Oylye
Tongues
of
the
flattering
Sycophant
,
and
in
Time
of
Sicknesse
,
an
honest
and
learned
Physition
:
and
that
they
may
not
fall
into
the
butcherly
hands
of
the
mercilesse
Carnifex
(
I
would
but
(
because
it
is
out
,
and
not
amisse
,
let
it
goe
)
haue
said
)
Quack-saluer
.
Carpere
vel
noli
Nostra
,
veledae
Tua
.
FINIS
.