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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    truly and pertinently they apt and fit euery defigne and action: whereunto their owne vpright iudgement isa truftie guide, and others eyes vndeceiued witnefles. And thus if men will learne to guide themfelues, they fhallnot fo commonly and eafily lofe their eyes inthe gaze of wonders, nor their reafon in the maze of fuch inexplicable and intricate folly. CHAP. V. AY UrICONS » “Sf | HAT whichhath bene formerly faid fut 2) Fre~! fifethto point out the deceiuers la(t menti- oned. Their affinitie giueth occafion to 4 mention in the next place, their next (WA neighbours, diuers our common ynlear- == ned Surgeons, having neither letters nor humanity, nor eucr acquainted with the dialect andlan- - guage of the learned. Thefe men for the moftparr eftee- ¢ Ac&i interio- ming themfelues deferuing well forthe operaty ¢vfes of a res affectus fen- skilful] and well exercifed hand in wounds, incifions, am- facognolcatut, Hurations of fphacelate parts and thelike, hencetake yn+ aut manus ope- : elas . , sAcurentur, to themfelues an emerited priviledge in phyficke practife, Riolanus. Some alfo venture farther, and for fome rare experien- ces arrogate ynto themfelues ability,a power and authori« tie to educate & inftiture Phyfitions , as an ynder-growth d Quofieri -vnto themfelues, by lying promifes), perfwading ma- pofltmodo ny honeftfimple parents to commit their children, other- serniay - wife perhaps more fortunate and ingenuous,, to be their hong aaa apprentices. Hence it cometh to pafle thatmany in thefe vnam rem bene Gaics thus traded vp by their example ynto a:nimbleneffe fecerit,requiris? of deceit, and of aduenturing in all occurrents,fo ordina+ Dicam, fed citd: rily promife like gods, dare aboue men, andart like diuels pout auide crucifying the liues of poore men: while by the grace thermis meliue Of Oe good* decde of good hap,the oportunity of com- Neronianis? © Mitting many tragedies vn{poken is gained. And thus is Martial, the world furnifhed with faCtors forthe graue and the » perdition