Volume 1

A letter on the origin, nature, and dignity of the degrees of doctor, more particularly in physick, conferred in universities / [Anon].

  • Dennis De Coetlogon
Date:
1736
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A letter on the origin, nature, and dignity of the degrees of doctor, more particularly in physick, conferred in universities / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    has here been hinted ; but ’tis well if your Idea of the Profeffion (from this) be of a fuperior Form than that of their being mul¬ tiplied by Luxury, and confequently, and principally, the mere Scavengers of the Ef¬ fects of that Luxury and Corruption, Sloath, Intemperance, and Irregularity of Living, ra¬ ther than from that of the Defedts of Nature or Accident; are, in fine, thus the grand Soothers of Mens Folly and Extravagance; fo that the Wife and Regular, are but rarely Cuftomers: And though the more immedi¬ ate Gain of common Riches feems to attend the other Side; yet, for private Satisfa¬ ction to Men of Knowledge, fuch will ftill with to cultivate the latter, as I would yours, &c. I am, &c. V t POSTSCRIPT. EVEN the Word or, fir[l Phy- fician, feems a Queftion, whether known, or in Ufe amongft the Romans, till towards the Time of Conjiantine, or the firft Chriftjan Emperors, £ j * ■ * ' ' » * i