A short discoverie of the unobserved dangers of severall sorts of ignorant and unconsiderate practisers of physicke in England profitable not onely for the deceived multitude, and easie for their meane capacities, but raising reformed and more advised thoughts in the best understandings: with direction for the safest election of a physition in necessitie ... / [John Cotta].

  • John Cotta
Date:
1612
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Credit: A short discoverie of the unobserved dangers of severall sorts of ignorant and unconsiderate practisers of physicke in England profitable not onely for the deceived multitude, and easie for their meane capacities, but raising reformed and more advised thoughts in the best understandings: with direction for the safest election of a physition in necessitie ... / [John Cotta]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    — | CHAP. I. Thetrue Artift his right de[cription and elettion. 26 8 He corruptible condition of all things in *fubftance, & perpetual] 4Hz¢ /xssium: mutabilitie and alteration in’ace =8 cidents,doth euery moment beget “VF fuch diuers oddes and differences “E& inthe fame things, that their for- Phe) mer confiderations and refpedts, Bos Vex 2 can never conftantly,truly, and in- deed long continue them to be the fame,Hence by viciffi- tude it ordinarily cometh to paffe, that of thofe things whereof lately feeemed certaintie, thereof by continuall acceffe of different accidents and circumftances, is againe begotten © vncertainties. That which late feemed necefla- Sty ry ‘ ; vfus,femper ali- ric, inaninftant becometh cafuall ; that which was true, anid appertee now falfe;that which was good, now euill, and that which poy, ve quzte was poflible, oft impoffible. Neceffity & this vncertainty {cire credasinet ofall things’, doth driue men that defire with more likely {cias, quz pu certaintie, through prudence to guide their actions ynto baie nai r the {choole ofcontemplation of the world, and of the ge- nadieaT event, nerall reuolution ofall things therein,( which is true Phi- lofophy ) that thence by long ftudy and diligence obfer- wing to know and diftinguifh what isin nature, and the ordinarie viciffitude of all things, according to feuerall feafons,circumftances and {ubiedts,meanes,meafpres,*and manners varioufly, now trye,then falfe; nowneceflarie, then ZF e Quin res,xtas