The modern practice of physick vindicated, from the groundless imputations of Dr. Pitt / [Joseph Browne].

  • Joseph Browne
Date:
1704
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Credit: The modern practice of physick vindicated, from the groundless imputations of Dr. Pitt / [Joseph Browne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    0 08 GAARA oe dala Si are — Phyfick Vindicateds- = gg tafe to him very 4 propos,by asking aScrivenet here prefent, what he wou’d draw a Pair of ndentures for ? He antwer’d, not under a Guinea, Why, fays the Gentleman, How do you reckon, Sir? Tyo Sheets of Parch- ment are uot worth above. Half a Crown, Pen and ink but of little value; and how cam you pretend to be fo unteafonable ? Sir, anfwers the Scrivener, do you reckon no- thing for my Clark’s Writing, and my At- tendance? No, Sir, fays the Gentleman, not if Ideal with ypu as Dr. Pitt does by the Apothecaries , for,as long as Pen, Ink, and Paper are cheap, I know no reafon why you fhen’d ask Eleven-pence ina Shilling Profit, any siore than the Apothecary ? ,’ Tis true, Gir, anfwer’d he,. if this be the cafe, and e- qual Juftice be diftributed to ally the Actor. nies and Scriveners wii] be in as bad a condi- ‘tion as the Apothecaries. 3 hey: bey ‘ : ; Aas oe . Butto return to the Doctor, who is got from the Living to the Deadjand Momming with all the dry’d, infipid, and loathfome parts of other Animals; .jaftly falls under his Cenfure-| For | am no more in love with the Dead; than the Doctor; and muft confefs, tif upon the Liviag my Thoughits are chiefly employd; and therefore, for continuance ‘of ‘that Life; [expe little. from the Dead x fac think they onght not only to be rejecte asufelels; but very dangerous and offentive, : ‘