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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    cannot either open the neceflarie veine, or ventilate or e- uacuate the corrupt bloud fromthe bruifed part, or in the vergittendenda ting the caufe and neceflitie, Nature. cannot fetch home cherie ee from the fields and mountaines her medicinall herbes, Fi ee fruit, wood and plaots vnto her owne neceffitie; burArt ai uddise fern, tranf{porteththem vnto her at feucrall feafons,and for fe- ote ucrall needs, Nature cannot decodt, infule, compound, ¢Vtnaturare- Mixe or prepare herrootes, mettals, orother drugs and &¢ operansimi fimples,in number and nature infinite; but Art is vato her rans reducenda Phyfition mufteuer haue Nature forhischiefe 4 counfel- & adiuuanda. N | lor, fo muft he euer againe be fufficient and able fubftitute atura eniin yey . alids agit fatis, and¢ helpervnto her, Notto {peake ofhis excellent fub- alidsparum, iect (whichis thelife and health of mankind) his diuine alids nihil.” dire@tion inhis calling (led by the vnchanged order and Galen.devene Wi fedome of God himfelfe, manifelted and fet forth vnto fe&t.contraEra- ,. ; Giltrat. him inthe ftruture and great frame of heauen and earth) hé 98 Sededoeei_ Goth exact and require in him all poffible perfection to Wainw m- found and fadome the depthand height thereof, For asit Eft cain Deus is manifoldly and vomeafurably infolded and wrapped vp omnium caufa- inthe intricate wifedome of his vniuerfall workmanship, rum caula& - {9 muft long dayesand time carefully fpent, indefatigable pn Ey» ftudie, paines and meditation, reftleffe vigilance, a: cleare Ca be a fynderftandi d fincere affeCtion worke and] i Naturacttor- eye of vnderftanding, and fince worke.and la- dinaria Dei po- bour it out, and thence muft his prudent and wife action teftas. Scalig de deriue thie ground of all his cousifels and.confultations: fubtil. ‘4 And thus muft the truePhyfition euer behold God as his i Natira quid a- cuide,and be gouerned and directed by his hand.For God liud quam Deus © h aby q ce hicieen denen & diuina ratio 48 nature > aboue nature, and.natire ishis hand + and fub- toti mundg & , ordinate power: God being) therefore the caufe of caufes partibuscius. inpature, heisthe giuer of health andlife in nature, and salertes Renee the Phyfition is his * feruant 8 minifter therein. To learne Wesairanond , offuch a teacher, to imitate fo abfolute apatterne, what Dei.operaverd wifedome is {ufficient,what fufficiency worthy? Ifany man aoftra.Scalig. thinke it a light labourto finde out the order andreafon of