The right of precedence between physicians and civilians enquired into ... / Written by Dr. Swift.

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[1720?]
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Credit: The right of precedence between physicians and civilians enquired into ... / Written by Dr. Swift. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Divine. That good Mar) has often quieted my Confcience with an Emetick, has diffipa- ted troublefome Thoughts with a Cordial or exbi¬ terating Drops, has cur’d me of a Love Fit by breathing a Vein, and remov’d Anger and Re¬ venge by the Prefcription of a Draught, thence call’d Bitter ^ and in thefe and other Inftan- ces has convinc’d me, that Phyfick is of Ufe to the very Soul, as far as that depends on the Crafis of the Body. -——■ Mentem fanari corpus ut *grumy Cernitnus etfle&i Medicind poffe videmus. Lucret. And I am fo fully perfwaded of this, that I never fee a Wretch go to Execution, but I lament that he had not been in the Hands of a good Phyfician, who wou’d have correfted thofe peccant Humours of his Body which brought him to that untimely Death. Now can any Thing like this be pleaded in Behalf of one or other of the two Laws we are dealing with, or of both together ? By the Way, I mu ft obferve here, that thefe two Laws, Civil and Canon, are put in Couples' for their Unluckinefs, and, I think, they ought to be muzzled too. And here lies the Difad vantage of the prefent Difpute, Phyfick we know is a plain fimple Thing j now that this Angle Faculty, without one Friend on Earth to take itfs Parr, and be a Second, Ihould
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