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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    death atrendthem,oft faintings, {woundings, fodaine ex- tin@tion of the natural] heate,anxietie and vexation, with, other accidents of eafie corruption and putrifaction in the one, as of fupefaction and mortificationin the other. This did witneffe alate Sommers fodaine heates, wherein. the vnaduifed hafty fatisfying of thirft with cold drinke, | by heapes in diuers places in Northamptonfhire fent la- bourers & harueft people into their.graues. With thefe for farther illuftration,{ might number without number many more; but ynto the wife and worthy , awordis fuficient intimation,And though many ignorants may {peake faire and pleafing,and commend things that looke {mooth,and filing vpon the liking of the ficke; yet provident necef- fitie will hence be warned to be wife for st felfe,not rafhly admiting fo dangerous ¢ flattery, nor too (wiftly trufting ashe fuel Syrens for their fongs, nor Crocodiles for their teares:but che aly 5 in matters fo nearly concerning lifeand death, duly and:Quid. carefully inquiting,and according to the verdict of vnder- ftanding and reafon, trying and examining, and not for- geting befide the hazard in vnfafe error by vnfufficient Counfellors, the loffe of time and oportunitie for better helpe, which ofttimes is never *fegained. And for. enter-25¢ero medici- tayning fo meane counfell in the vfe of fuch meanes as days Ta peat Cae ry amanifeft danger and malignity in their natute and Vfes inu Thee ee 5 > inualueremo Ticouldthinke no man fo voide of counfell,- as to neede ras. therein counfell; yet becaufe experience of fome etrors:Ouid. herein. paft is argument of other remaining pofhble:to come, I will oncly by one example aduernfe , and from that example it will be eafic for euery one to raifea rule and caution ¢to himfelfe. It is ordinary with many wn-' d Foelix qui- skilfull bufie-bodies vnder colour and pretext of gentle: cunque dolore and fafe dealing, tomake familiar and ordinary the vfeof Alterius difees perillous medicines,which haplyalfo they do notfo diftin- pee or guifhor repute, and therefore cannot befaid to lye, ( be Tibutl caufe they.{peaketheirthought, ) yet tell not truth, ‘be- caufe they thinke notright. I was fometime folicited by a. Hiforias carefull mother forher child, whomI found byafharpe | Lerly 7 Ea and eImpiafub