A vindication of the Royal College of Physicians: in reply to the speech of the Solicitor General (i. e. W. Murray) on opening the petition and appeal of Doctor Isaac Schomberg, alias Schamberg ... / [William Browne].

William Browne

Date:: 1753

Credit: A vindication of the Royal College of Physicians: in reply to the speech of the Solicitor General (i. e. W. Murray) on opening the petition and appeal of Doctor Isaac Schomberg, alias Schamberg ... / [William Browne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$C.I0] vijitors, were then thought in being. All this notwithftand- ing; Mr. S. affirmed on the contrary: that this is the charter under which we now exifi; and that all our ele&ions and tranf- aElions are huilt on this foundation. The fociety of apothe¬ caries having occafloned the mifearriage of this charter in parliament: our learned regefter, Sir George Ent,, entred that defeat in his elegant Latin, concluding with thefe words; re7nnon fibi minus, quam nobis, uiilem futuramfuffla- minarunt: they put a flop to a charter, which muft have been as ufeful to themfelves, as to the college: that is, in fuppreffing empirics. But whatfoever the apothecaries of that age might think; thofe of the prefent muft be per¬ fectly fenfible; that it requires the ftriCteft union and har¬ mony between the college and them, to obviate the mifehiefs; and abfurdities of quackery. Such is the difpofition of every age* fuch is the difpofition even of this inlightned age; to fet up, and worfhip that fenfelefs, brazen calf (k) h * In this charter however, Mr. S. took a place for his client; and,, by his ipfe dixity declared him to be one of its commonalty ; that being a neceflary qualification in it for a fellowfhip .* which: was making even this favorite charter ahfurd in reality. For this was declaring, in other terms: that although it confines' all its privileges exprefsly, to thofe onely, who are firfi admitted by the college; yet it extends them, at the fame time, to oney who has never been admitted at cdL If this is not an abfurd- ity: there can be no fuch thing as an abfurdity (If This is the mathematical reduEUo ad abfurdum, vel impoffibilewhen it is demonftrated, that, by admitting the propofition ad¬ vanced, a thing muft be,, and not be, at the fame time. But tO; tf) Cippida tota canem <vcnerantm\ nemo Dianam. J'uv. Ouk £$■’ avoutf cu<?£> i.v$otg<rcrtgQV. Mem Eomine imperito man quam quicqua?n injuJUuJi. Ter. ——Non ejl qued mult a loquamur : (/) Nil ifitra ejl oka, nil extra eji in nuce duri. Her.$