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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35887	A dialogue between Philiater and Momus, concerning a late scandalous pamphlet called the conclave of physicians		1686 (1686)	Wing D1321; ESTC R9162	69,830	231

of Physick nay even where you are not called upon as a Physician what you shall happen to know in the common conversation of men if it be not convenient to divulge them abroad you shall not divulge them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as judging such things fit never to be once mentioned Therefore according as you keep this Oath inviolably and make no breach of it you beseech God to grant that you may enjoy a comfortable Life and have a successful Practice and that you may be held in esteem among men as long as you live and be famous to future Ages But that if you violate and go contrary to this Oath you wish all evil on the contrary to your self Thus I have given you some part of your Oath in Latine because you took it in Latine not in Greek And I have rendred the words into as plain and proper English as the true Sense of the Original would bear Now Momus tell me soberly have you no Remorse upon your Mind no Stings of a guilty knawing Conscience for that you have so publickly acted contrary to the Tenour of this Oath for the writing such wicked Invectives against the Faculty of Physick and for your thus divulging not only things fit to be concealed but malitiously exposing them in the worst and blacker colours in which your Invention could contrive to draw them Mom. Thou art too weak to dive into my Politicks or to apprehend the solidity and firmness of my Temper My heart is past relenting past admitting poor Peccavi's it is not sophisticated with Gumms and Lachrymae A Stone used in Physick tried that way but is hard as Stone and impenetrable to the test and pricks of a red-hot Needle Dost thou think Preachments or doelful Stories will now mollifie it The tender Virgin indeed has much adoe to get over the first great Fault and when she has at last yielded after a long resistance the poor creature is full of confusion and terror But when once she is arrived to the audacity and courage of a Common Notorious Strumpet she is then past sorrow and repentance and little less than an absolute Miracle can reclaim her into some degrees of her former natural Modesty And so the shame-sac'd Youth who has been bred in a virtuous Country Family when he comes first to Town and enters into one of our Academies for Education he cannot but keep good hours and is inticed or dragg'd to a Brothel House like a Bear to the Stake but after a little initiation into the Mysteries of Debauchery all his discourse shall be flourished with Dam'mees he brings them out with a good grace he proclaims aloud in the Play-house how many Claps he has got already nay he shall make himself if possible ten times filthier than he really is and glory most in that which formerly he would have blush'd to think of Phil. But yet methinks the Laws of our Countrey which have long impowered and established the College of Physicians should be some Motive to perswade you that it is better and more prudent to enter into the Union of that Learned Body than to continue thus without-doors indistinguishable in the wretched and contemptible Herd of Quacks Mountebanks Wise-Women Astrologers and other ignorant or impudent Impostors Mom. I have been divers years at absolute Defiance with them and their Laws I have provoked nay worried them with unpardonable Indignities and Defamations in a word I have never feared to encounter the most powerful and celebrated of them all and to this day I have stood and kept my ground no one of them daring to enter the lists to ingage publickly with me And do you now think I have any reason to be timorous or to startle at their idle Laws No they know their own weakness and are conscious to themselves what a folly they should commit in contending with me at points of Law Phil. I know not what cunning you may have to evade the force of their Laws but I have heard it confidently asserted that never any Empirick yet whom the College has thought fit to prosecute could make his Defence so good against their Power but that at last he was forced to shoot the pit and run for 't or else was reduced to very great Extremities Mom. I hope you will not range me among those little Empiricks whom I scorn as much as the Conclavists themselves Read the Description of my Education in my Casus Medico-Chirurgicus read it throughly and with attention and you will find me to be some-body and not a contemptible creeping Empirick I defie them again and again I laugh and grin at them all in a lump They deal with me at Law Phil. But really bold Sir it is very unfitting that so many swarms of Empiricks and illegal Practisers as do now-a-days pester this great City should be suffered as they do to murder and destroy the King's Subjects and the College not call them to account for it as they did in times past The whole Nobility and the flower of the English Gentry do spend some part of their time in this Metropolis their Wives and Children are many of them here trained up and educated and every body can't distinguish between a Ninny and a man of Sence between an Empirick and a true Physician Mom. For my part I see no difference between the Learned and the Illiterate Empirick Put them in two Scales and you will find the one weigh as much too heavy as the other does too light The one does often do as much good at a venture as the other does mischief deliberately and through ill Principles Phil. I perceive then you are wiser in your own opinion at least than our Noble Kings and most Wise Parliaments For they saw matters of this kind quite otherwise than you do The Preamble to the 3 of Henry 8. chap. 11. runs thus Forasmuch as the Science and Cunning of Physick and Surgery to the perfect knowledge whereof be requisite both great Learning and ripe Experience is daily within this Realm exercised by a great multitude of ignorant persons of whom the greater part have no manner of insight in the same nor in any other kind of Learning some also can no letters on the Book so far forth that common Artificers as Smiths Weavers and Women boldly and accustomably take upon them great Cures and things of great difficulty in the which they partly use Sorcery and Witchcraft partly apply such Medicines unto the disease as be very noious and nothing meet therefore to the high displeasure of God great infamy to the Faculty and the grievous hurt damage and destruction of many of the King's liege-Liege-people most especially of them that cannot discern the uncunning from the cunning Be it therefore to the surety and comfort of all manner of people by the Authority of this present Parliament enacted c. Again the Preamble to King James's Royal Charter granted to the College of Physicians does run thus