Volume 2

The method of physick, containing the causes, signes, and cures of inward diseases in mans body, from the head to the foot. Whereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our physitions commonly use at this day, with the proportion, quantity, and names of each medicine / [Philip Barrough].

  • Barrough, Philip, active 1590
Date:
1639
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Credit: The method of physick, containing the causes, signes, and cures of inward diseases in mans body, from the head to the foot. Whereunto is added, the forme and rule of making remedies and medicines, which our physitions commonly use at this day, with the proportion, quantity, and names of each medicine / [Philip Barrough]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ... TO THE READER: | ded of the readers for being too fparing in urtering the reafons wherby 1 was fisft induced to publifh this my labour,For I know not how it cémeth to paffe, yet we fee it daily,that ridiculous toyes,and ablurd pamphlets,being put forth without any colour, be nevertheleffe plaufibly and pleafingly accepted + where asa man moved with an honeft care to profit his country, being willing to Jeave a reftimony ofthe fame behind him,” when he offereth any worke, if it hath nota dele&table fubjeatit behoveth him to fhcw many grave and fubfians tiall reafons of his doings, or elfe they willnor yeeld their hoped for. benefit, which is to be benignely conftrued, and perufed with humanity.So that if a man covet to have his books favourably accepted and read, he muftibehaye himfelfe fo in writing,as $olen did ist framing his lawes,who(asPlgtarch faith ) did not fafhion them according to the true line of equity,but ft downe fuch as he thought the people would willingly obferve : even fo the iniquity of the time hath brought to pafle,that thofe books which are generally perufed ‘and read throughout,muft not ferve the time, but mutt fatisfie the opinion of men, A manmay,cafily difcourfe of this, but the fatitafies of men are too.yariant to preyaile a whitin.diffwvading them: Formine owne pare(that I may new end) T have\nat fought nor hunted after any vaineaglory by the: edition of this my labour,: but onely I haveendeayouted by this meanes (being unable any way elfe)to.do fome good to. my country-men: which defire-of mine fhall fafGici« ently. comfort me,though I want the outward probation of the world, And yet this one thing I would crave.at the hands of the learned, that if by chance my books come under their cenfure,they will either give them their goed 'word,or els fuffer themfel ves to be judged Of by performing the like labours And as Martiak pretily fung 5 | , Cum tua non edas, carpis mea carmina Lelic Carpere vel nelinofira,vel ede tua. | Though indeed this fupplication of mine may tather more fitly be preferred unto the unlearned, who thinké they have gotten aigoodly meanes'to purchafe theit owne credit ,when they can,under fome colour,maligne the duings ‘of ae. ny man, as though others well doings were'as impeachments to’ their eitima- tions, or the etrours of other men the fubje@ of their praifes,: | Fhofe kindes of ferpents, I fay, which do nothing elfe but picke quarrelsiwith Authors, J would advife them ¢ithe#\taifpeake themfelyes,> or (if their ignorance will not letthem) to lay their Engets on their mourhtill othermen: tell their talejand not to make their harveft of other mens cflencés unwillingly committed whi- left they themfelyes reft unable to do any whit of good,And thus,good reader, J will abruptly end, expe@ing the favourable aceeptation of thefe my labours , which expeéation of mine if it be not deluded,] hall be further encouraged ta eonfecrate the refidue of my ftudies to thy comimodityy sfod os