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. III. yulgar capacitie,] haue deliuered the fen- tentious fumme of thofe things which | ‘ fuere illi Thef- the learned in the largenefle of many vo- (lnadint Be ail lumes haue widely {cattered and cons jpforum See 2 founded which as according tothe firft Theflalus,qui | promife and purpofe, it giveth vnto the meaneft alight i fx menfum ynto® larger field of prudent confideration, fo doth it alfo ESD OS CaGicing ar- | { ynto the yonger ftudent yeeld a profitable tafte of that tom non modo true way and method which profperoufly guideth vato vorabantipfi, petfection. And although fharpe witted folly in the am- fed & aliosdo- bition of proud conceit hath oft times devifed and ima- f*F profite- ginied eafier and fhorter wayes and ¢ cuts ynto an higher cure fe pitch, yer aftér-time hath ftill otherwife proucd it vnto dicusoptime étroneous men,when for the moft part their eyes and time fingulorumna- are aloft out, and folly hath alreadie too fufficiently fat- tura tationem- blainine this our time here, dayly experience is iuft ree PO 3 pic ft: Shae ucr{um' cogno- | proofe.) From that which hath formerly bene difcourfed, yerit. Verunta- | there feemeth yet remaining’a doubt demanding an{wer: men nihil pro- re whether none’ but men,asbefore,knowne learned , may bibet quo mi- proue of fafe or commendable vfe? Where the caufes and FS ae difeates are both common and vulgar,andno circumftance ajicu; pulchr’ requireth more then ordinarie confult, there without confulat, dum doubt ordinary harmleffe remedies without deeper coun- modo experi- fell-or aduice,;may by themfclues fufficiently ¢ {atisfie an Bde qua cuis viuall need. For this caufe the Emperick is iuitly to be pre- Ra ferred before all other fects , for that (forthe moft part) feepeti ras | neuer changing his approued ordinary. good remedies, he admodum mul- thereby in ordinary cafes doth more commonly benefice; tos fibi ipfis op- while other {eGtaries from the wilde 4 compofition of their tos medicos . ‘ : videmus,cum confufed and deceiued minds(euer therefore vainly con- 1-243 fibyenire atque opitulari non poffint: Ariftot.Eth.1o. d Methodicidebitz pharmacorumcom- pofitionisignari opera Artis inuertunt, Galen.de Seé. (EON itty § 2 tinually | = ne | Nd thus with a plaine fenfibleneffe vnto e Biutufmedi