A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c.

Date:
1719
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Credit: A letter to a doctor of physick concerning diascordium, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ral Tyrant) among the reft, even his own Son Ariarathes, The Guilt of thefe his hellilh Cruelties haunted the favage King Night and Day, and fear’d, and frighten’d him out of all Comfort and Security, and tortured him like to make him mad. —(Diri confcia fa£li Mens habet attomtos ; & fur do verbere credit, Occultum quatiente animo tortore fla* gellum. r Juven. Sat. 13. ^.193. And fo he grew into a difturb’d way, and fuipeefted and fear’d all about him, left they ihould (for their own Preferyation) pofton him, as he had done fo many others. Qui terret, plus ipfe timetjfdrs if a Tyrannis Convenit.——- Claudian de 4 Conful. Honor0 f. 290. In Defence therefore of himfelf, he made all poffible Enquiry in all Nations after An¬ tidotes 1 And all he could get, he threw to¬ gether into great hodge podge Compofi- tions. And this leems to me the firft Beginning, and this vaft King the Father of all thefe farraginous Jumbles, and fenfelefs Gallimau¬ fries,
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