ANIMADVERSIONS ON THE Medicinal Observations OF THE Heidelberg Palatinate Dorchester Practitioner of Physick Mr. FREDERICK LOSS Non omnes falles scit te proserpina Canum Personam capitâ— detrahet illa tuo Mart. Responsum non dictum est quia laesit prius Ter. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Socrat. By ALIUS MEDICUS LONDON Printed for William Willis next door to the Goat in Kingstreet Westminster 1674. Frederico Lossio Heidelbergensi Palatino Dorchestrensi Medico salutem sanam mentem INiquissimus fores in me judex Frederice mi si non aequi bonique feceris meam hanc professionem publicam contra Alium Medicum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sine ratione practicantem Nulla re magis inquit Crato quam exemplo docemur atque confirmamur praesertim cum rationibus instructi actionum causas intelligimus aliorum factis nobis quod ex usu sit admonemur De te igitur exemplum capiens ad eandem oculos collimans metam seu virtutis ea seu veritatis sive etiam Artis nostrae ergo fuerit in hasce quidem ingenii exercitationes quales quales me a mea tandem indignatione abrâ—ptum permisi Si quidquam in iis fuerit quod te urat urent autem plurima non est propterea ut mihi merito succenseas quando id omne culpa factum est tua Pudet haec opprobria nobis Et dici potuisse non potuisse refelli Ovid. Impresentiarum quidem ob rationes alibi memoratas paginas aliquot genti publicae conscripturus eas meo suo idiomate implevi Noli tamen subirasci bone Vir neque hoc animo nimis iracundo fâ—ras dehinc enim si quidquam rescripseris quod opera oleo dignum fuerit Lingua etiam Latina quam calles sane quamque in deliciis plurimis habes non defuturum tibi aliquando responsum fovet MEDICVS ALIVS TO THE Religious Vertuous and Discreet LADY Mrs. ELIZABETH MOORE Of Spargrave Madam SOme Authors call their Books their Children all sure must own them for their Conceptions This of mine is but a Daughter begotten then when yours lay sick at Dorchester and born by the help and Midwifery of your obliging and Testimonial Letter from Spargrave But having been sick almost as long as yours hath been well she is but slenderly grown and none other but a plain English Girle But I hope what she wants in learning she will make up with commendable simplicity and that although her worth may come short yet her honesty will hold out I know very well Madam that you need neither her nor my service 'T is both of us that want your Testimony or rather that give you our humble thanks that we want it not My Daughter is now going abroad to service and she most gratefully acknowledgeth that nothing could have more encouraged her to seek her fortune than the hope she hath of her being the better accepted where-ever she comes because so Grave a Matron and so Honourable a Lady as you Madam have passed your Word that hitherto she hath been just and true in her dealing The Hebrews Madam do express the Female Sex by a word whose root signifies to forget and the Male by Memory And whatsoever Mr. Loss his judgment of me may be I was willing so far to have approved my self Masculine as remembring that I also am a Man and do erre to haâ—e devoted my Daughter though she speaks of wrong and injuries done to myself and their just vindication unto oblivion and forgetfulness and hence which would have been monstrous in Naturals but is frequent enough in Artificials this Child stuck at the Birth above twelve months and if my threatning to be out against him in print if my showing unto my Adversary himself what it was that I had against him if my leaving my Papers with him three or four weeks together many months since and that before any body had perused them if my answering of his Latine Letter in Latine as they are both appended at the end of this Book if my imploying others to speak with him and to demand satisfaction if my sending for himself but to no purpose if my speaking with his own Son and making him sensible but in vain if my offering to refer it to whom he pleased if my naming his nearest best friends if my readiness to appeal to four Physicians my naming them the time the place and giving him notice of it but he would not come If any if all of these could have prevailed to have made him sensible of a publick shame like to befal him or could have awakened his Conscience and made him sensible that in justice he ought to have given me all the satisfaction he could for my wounded credit this Daughter of mine had proved abortive and had never seen light But when my patience and forbearance could work nothing not so much as a visit from him or once speaking to me about the business when I perceived that he still justified himself and that my not-coming out against him was interpreted as proceeding rather from the consciousness of my own impotency and guilt than of his At this throw at last the Child was born and whether she will prove a plague to her Parent and a dishonour or may serve to cherish and nurse up his wounded Reputation and Credit Time will show Mr. Loss is angry with her that she is not a Scholar and doth not speak Latine perhaps it is because she speaks too plain English but I have promised him a Son hereafter that hath been at School and can write Latine In the interim I tell him that in my opiniom one Mother-tongue is enough for a Daughter besides she is to wait upon you Madam and therefore she must not speak an unknown Tongue she pleads more for Truth than Learning and appeals rather to your Vertues than the abilities of some great Scholar She designs not any Feast unto the Learned nor to visit the Universities as Mr. Loss his Latine Observations who himself yet never was there at least as a member of either of them but determines to make out Matters Fact and to prove by witness that he hath not truly stated your Daughter's case To contend with him whether He or I can write best Latine would be pedantick and too much like himself for he hath the wit to tell us that formerly he was a petty School-Master at Dantzik and he wisely relates this himself upon as wise an occasion in his 26th Obs and 1st Book that the world may know that he cannot only write Latine but teach it for a need and that Physicians may see the reason why he is so Magisterial in consultations To vie with him whether He or I be the abler Physitian would be as unworthy Me as Him for this is a query too particular and very unhandsome between any two and is not wont to be agitated but between envious and proud persons for Scholars
some-wayes expiate his fault as a Physician making his dead Patient whom for want of skill he could not cure to become yet a sort of living example of the Calamities and Casualties of the life of Man Thus by a new sort of contrasissura the Physician receives the blow and the Divine sends forth at the fissure the Meditation Near threescore years Old It 's true the Age of a Patient is so generally mentioned by all that write Cases of Physick that it is almost never forgot and the reason is because the knowledg of a Patient's Age may upon several accounts be very useful to the Physician it helps very much to understand the Patient's Temperament which varies according to his Age and withal the predominant humor in his Body which will always be some ways answerable to the Temperament It also helps to understand the strength of the Patient when we are to pass our judgment what the Event will be it likewise helps to indicate or contra-indicate Bleeding or strong Purging and the Rules of dyet and the right ordering of the six Non-Naturals varies much according unto our Age. Besides in this particular case of a Counter-cleft there is scarce any thing that deserves so much to be considered of as the Patient 's Old Age for if by it the futures of the Skull be obliterated great reason there is upon such a knock on the Pate to expect a Counter-cleft But this Author of course reckons up his Patients Age but who can shew in all the Observation where he makes any use or advantage of it Whose Name was Michaeli I suppose there was some mistake in the Printer and that his Name was either Michael or Michel but not Michaeli This Observator is very punctual in setting down the names of all his Patients but I admire that this good man did forget the Christian Name of this same Michel he did remember well enough all his four Cart-Horses and yet that he should so unluckily forget the Carter's Name whether it was Dick or Jack or Tom Names that they are more often called by than by their Sir-names But I 'll say that for our Author that I do not know of any such another neglect in all his four Books of Medicinal Observations where we have Thomas and Robert and William and John and Katharine in abundance But here indeed the Christian Name was forgotten whether out of the abundance of his Divinity in his many lines preamble to this Observation he forgot Christianity or that being conscious of his having digressed too long he would now make the more haste and speed to the matter in hand or that because it was but a poor Carter there was not any thing to be gotten by these formalities which he bestows upon the rich I say what-ever the cause was the matter is not great nor indeed any thing material to the Medicinal Observation But I see if men will be wise they must be wise unto themselves for on a Death-bed others will leave us to our own Christianity touching this we alone must answer for our selves Accustomed to govern and drive forward a Cart with four Horses How this Author came so well skilled in the Carters Trade I cannot tell but from him I learn that our English Phrase To drive a Cart is in a manner as preposterous as to place the Cart before the Horse the Hind may whip the Cart long enough before it will drive but he must first drive the Horses and whilst they draw forward the Cart it is his office to guide and govern it in its progressive motion It is likewise observable that although this Carter fell but from one Horse and it would have been an Observation of Observations if he had fallen from more yet forsooth this Carter had three more which he used to water for he had four Horses to his Cart and yet all four little enough to draw this one remark into a Medicinal Observation A sure sign if we may believe Hippocrates This inference is true but trivial and it doth not reach the case in hand The Carter's Disease was a Fissure in the Skull a part containing this speaks of a concussion of the Brain and the breaking of a Vein parts contained and yet how formally are these Inductions made they are verities almost as plain as the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Truths that no Body hears mentioned but he forthwith grants them so evident and beyond all doubt that methinks it is ridiculous to go about to prove them by Authority and yet our grave Author brings in the Name of the great Hippocrates to confirm their Truth These sort of consequences are much like those which make up a merry Ballad which serves not to teach but to cause laughter There was a Mouse crept up a wall When she fell down she had a fall c. To which may be added these two somewayes suitable When as this Carter first was taken His Skull being crack't his Brains were shaken There was called with me a Chirurgion one skilful in his Art and an honest man I perceive then that every one is not a pittiful Chirurgion in this Author's account so he be not likewise a Physician one thought so well of as to be joyned with him in a Medicinal Consultation All his spight is at another Physician and I think he never gave so honest a character of any Physician that was his Neighbour much worse I am sure he hath neither do I believe that he doth deserve it himself for sure I am I had never been put to this trouble of writing Animadversions on him and his Book if he had quitted himself as one skilful in his Art and an honest man Having made diligent search What search might have been made with diligence and to what good purpose I shall anon declare and indeed now was the time now the opportunity for this so to have been done as that the poor Patient might have received benefit thereby and the neglect of this opportunity was for ought I know the miscarriage of the Carter for had not our Observator been a fore-right Artist one wholly taken up with the scratch in the forehead he might easily have reflected with himself that it was impossible that these bad Symptoms above mentioned which befel this Patient by and by after his fall could ever have proceeded from so slight a wound only in the forehead as was hardly skin-deep and if he had considered the Patient's Age and the probability of a Counter-cleft he would never have rested satisfied with so slight a search and yet this must pass for a diligent enquiry What could be more formally said what could be less done to the purpose Binds up the Wound according to Art Not a scratch in the forehead which any good Woman might have dressed but it is bound up according to Art if this Observator hath the over-looking of it so worshipfully formal is he in all things In his Plethorick Body
that all his proceedings were Immethodical and Irrational enough to satisfie the Reader fully that he had no share in the Cure 5. He magnifies the strength of Nature in this young Lady had it not been for this Alius Medicus was so far from doing good that he had done her hurt It seems he would have hurt her but she would not be hurt It seems also that by continuation of her sickness whereas others grow weaker and weaker until they be upon recovery she wonderfully grew stronger and stronger for in the beginning of her sickness Mr. Loss says she was too weak to bear bleeding by Lancet and yet on the sixth day though it was done Irrationally her strength was greater than to prize it On the seventh by no means would he admit if he could have helpt it that she should be purged no question he thought it very dangerous for so weak a Body and in such a Disease and at such a time but afterwards notwithstanding such mad bleeding and purging and such voluntary large sweating enough one would think to have made a well body sick she was so strong she contemned all and of sick grew well If here be not Contradictions let the Reader judg 5. Alius Medicus his Method of Cure HE knows but of two ways of Answering his Adversary 1. To produce sufficient Witness to prove Matters of Fact 2. To Answer unto every particular Accusation with Reason and Art It hath been a custom with me especially in Patients or Diseases of more than ordinary remark to keep a Diary of my Practice partly for my Patients sake that I may the better understand what should be done for them or what at any time I have done that they found good in partly for my own sake that I might have the surer foundation to build my experience upon in Physick But I little dreamt of making this further advantage in my Journal of this Case of young Mrs. Moore as by it to help to prove particulars very material unto my own Case and to satisfie both my self and others that what I depose is not out of my Memory whose unfaithfulness might betray me unto mistakes but out of my Papers which I then writ even the day when I was first called unto this Patient which was Thursday the 29 th of April 1669. Examining them and Mr. Loss his Book I find our Notes did not agree and although I do not know why my Papers produced should not be as Authentick for me as is a shop-Shop-book for a Trades-man yet in this Case I thought it more prudent to get some other Testimony than to confide in the evidence of my own Papers alone For I did not know but Mr. Loss might have taken Notes too and if so what stranger could judg whether his or mine were true Knowing therefore that it would be to no purpose to go about to build without a foundation and to vindicate my self from his slanders without I could produce sufficient witness for matters of Fact I bethought my self of writing this Letter to Mrs. Moore to whom I have Dedicated my Book because she is a witness not to be excepted against as appears by what I have said of her in my Epistle Dedicatory Madam I Humbly beg your pardon if for my satisfaction I give you the trouble of returning me a particular Answer unto these few Queries concerning your Daughter's being Sick at Dorchester Is her Name Elizabeth Was she sick in Autumn Was her pain in her Side and her Cough in a manner gone when I was sent for Was your sending for me for fear of a Consumption and at the instance of your Vncle Did I accuse what Mr. Loss had done Was her Fever and other Symptoms gone when I Bled her Was the Purge I gave her Powder of Sena Your Resolves unto these Questions will highly oblige Madam Your very humble Servant THE ANSWER SIR YOV may well think me very ungrateful that I have so long been silent had I received your Letter sooner than last night I should have before this time answered your reasonable desire My Daughter's Name which the Lord made you an Instrument of preserving from the Grave is Bridget Her Sickness to my best remembrance was either in March or April The pain in her Side continued extreamly violent her Cough as those that have a touch of a Pleurisie continued very much in so much as I was highly displeased that She had never had any Pectoral drinks and I ordered the Apothecary's Servant to make some and bring it me before I got any rest my self My sending for you was not to satisfy my Vncle but to discharge my duty not being satisfied with what had been done before your coming I did not at all at that time fear a Consumption I must profess you never to my knowledg Censured Mr. Loss or accused him of any thing but did very modestly desire me not to employ you telling me you feared what would happen I know you met with some discouragements by language but you granted my request in taking no notice of it The day when you Bled her She was so ill as I and all the Family despaired of her Life and I remember I asked both your self and Mr. Loss if no more were to be done you told me that unless a Purge relieved her you could not tell what to say only you had hopes that the Scurvy was much of her Distemper and that gave you hopes that she might do very well again if Mr. Loss would consent unto a gentle one that you might try her He was very stifly against it and I remember I thus said I will try it my Child is a dead Child in your account and I will do my utmost for her The Purge was a small quantity of Holland powder with half an ounce of Manna in a draught of Pectoral Decoction Mr. Loss was so angry that he went from me and left her when she had taken it which was no small trouble to me you stayed with me Within half an hour she fell into a quiet sleep and slept one hour and a half she then awoke and vomited and purged and then slept again and so after that she had two or three stools more she presently revived but being admitted to drink a draught of Beer with a Toast this she hath told me since her Letter was by Mr. Loss his order grew ill again for two or three hours then fell into a very great Sweat and did never burn after or had any light speeches and her Vrin was much better I bless the Lord I brought her home with me in one Week She hath confessed since that she got her Distemper by an extraordinary over-much heating of her Blood at Play and drinking cold Beer She is yet alive and with my self gives you her thankful service for your very great Care of her Your very Humble Servant Elizabeth Moore Alius Medicus his Answer unto all Mr. Loss his Accusations To the
purposed to give the World a Catalogue of his Patients more consulting his own Credit in having the Repute of a Physician of so great Practice than the Reputation of his Patients whom thereby he hath diversly injured For There are many Diseases which prudent persons do not desire that every one should know that they are taken with Because although we have all the same Comely and Uncomely parts so that no man can reasonably mock another for what is incident unto himself yet it is too often seen that people in a pet or passion or to gratify some unreasonable fantasie or humour do many times scoff and laugh at or otherwise abuse their Neighbours even upon such slight accounts and therefore wise men what they can prevent this by concealing some Diseases and surely they cannot but think otherwise of them that publish them Besides The Infirmity of the Body is not always the only concern of the Patient when he is named For sometimes his credit and reputation is likewise brought upon the stage perhaps his imprudence and follies are examined yea his very sins and wickednesses raked into I will not quote these Observations yet I say thus much Suppose our Author himself were guilty of some such things as are not fit to be named and should fall into the Gout or some other Disease that might give occasion of a seeming just defamation and of making him an example of God's just Judgment upon him in punishing him in his Age for the sins of his Youth I am perswaded he could not take it well and yet for reasons best known unto himself thus even just thus doth he serve some who certainly never sent for him or gave him a Fee thus to defame them What though some men have Palsies and weakness in their Nerves who did in their youthful time drink strong Ale and generous Wines more perhaps than enough is it therefore a necessary and undeniable consequence that from thence only or principally they contracted their Palsey Are there not hundreds that have drank as much and yet were never so Paralitick Or what if a Physician privately and with himself alone should conclude that this were the only or chief cause must he needs therefore tell all the World his Patient's name both his Christian and Sirname his Trade and the Place where he dwels that nothing might be doubtful in the stigmatizing of the man Alas We are all of us more sinners than we desire publickly to be told of and this sort of open reproof especially without first trying private is likelier to increase sin by stirring up strife than to work the sinner unto a true Repentance and will sooner harden him with Impudence than soften and melt him into Tears And at length this is the business rather of a Divine than of a Physician and it s a piece of charity much fitter for a Closet than a Printing-Press And lastly he that undertakes it also must be sure not to be guilty of the same himself or of as bad What if any one hath got an unseemly Disease though it be with never so much innocency contracted may not his modesty yet oblige him perhaps to be ashamed of it And may he not be unwilling that his Neighbours his Servants yea so much as his own Children should know it And can such an one take it well when he finds it put forth in print with his name appended and the witness of his Physician to attest it There are many Women so modest that unwisely and incautelously they do sometimes sacrifice their lives to that mistaken vertue concealing so long their Feminine Diseases from their Physician until it is too late to discover them Would not some such bless themselves and blush when having told them to him they should hear that he hath told them again unto all the World and here put both their Diseases and their Names in print These and some such as these have been the effects of this Gentleman 's publishing all his Patients Names a thing not only Impertinent but Injurious proving a discomfort if not a discredit to several of them and before he printed his Book he was advised of the Imprudence of the action but in vain Having thus reckoned up some heads of Impertinencies I cannot easily imagine any other cause why our Author should patch up Hippocrates his sleeve with pieces and patterns of all sorts of stuff unless he had been ambitious of a Party-coloured Coat to have something of every thing in his Book with this Motto Omne tulit punctum But he may call to mind these two Verses Grammaticus Rhetor Geometres Pictor Aliptes Dum dubitas quid sis jam potis esse nihil And I do seriously question whether his Book which by these and other stuffings he hath swelled up to the bulk and price of half a Crown if all this Garbish were out and with it all his vulgar Medicinals and Trivial Remarks might not be sold at near its worth for half a Shilling Observatio Prima Contra-Fissura VIta Humana non tantum angusto circumscripta termino sed plurimis miseriis periculis obnoxia est quidam calamitatum Oceanus non tamen idem omnibus Quocunque te vertas quae circa te sunt omnia non modo ambiguae fidei sunt sed aperte fere minantur praesentem mortem videntur intentare ut nescias quid serus vesper vehat Conscende Navem uno distas a morte pede incede per Vrbis vias quot sunt in tectis tegulae tot discriminibus es obnoxius equo inside in unius pedis lapsu vita tua periclitatur Exemplo sit Vir hic sexagenario proximus cui nomen erat Michaeli in rheda quadrigis gubernanda promorenda a multis annis egregie versatus hoc ipso opere victum quaeritans Hic nullo lethi imminentis metu a caballo sternaci cui aquatum ituro insidebat excussus frontem pavimento durissimis lapidibus constrato allisit acceptoque eo loci ex lapsu vulnere aliorum subsidio elevatus semianimis domum suam defertur Mox bilem eructat Nares ei cruentae certo si Hippocrati fides habenda cerebri concussi venulae alicujus ruptae indicio Accersitur mecum Chirurgus in Arte sua peritus vir probus instituto diligenti scrutinio vulnus vix cutem penetrasse invenimus Chirurgus itaque sine ulteriori examine vulnus ex artis lege obligat Interim elotâ alvo enemate sanguinis aliquid in corpore plethorico a Chirurgo de cephalica detractum Sequenti die omnia deprehendimus graviora prorsus lethalia Corpus è Febri incaluit cum obstupescentia desipientia atque ad interrogata omnimoda obmutescentia quae summus noster in Medicina dictator 1. Aphor. 14. in Capite laeso mala pronunciat Vnde pessime de eo sperare coepimus Nihilominus manum tanquam deplorato admovimus Chirurgus ne quicquam eorum quae in
a Pleurisie into his own Then he boldly and positively says that by these means She was in effect cured but thinking with himself that it might be objected Why then was another Physician sent for Surely so discreet a Lady as this Patient's Mother is and held so by me that know her will not easily be thought one so empty i' th brain though full i' th purse as to take hastily a Journey from Spargrave to Dorchester and after She comes there to send for another Physician when her Daughter was recovered To Obviate this he is forced to recede a little from his first brag and to acknowledg that notwithstanding all that he had done there remained yet a Cough but this must not be thought to argue any substance of the Disease in being which should make this shadow or Symptom and therefore lest this should take from his Cure he takes from it and says Though there was a Cough yet it was not very troublesom And yet to remove this forsooth it pleased the Mother who might do what She pleased in this Case to send for another Physician But he seems to fear and doubt that this motive was yet too weak by it self and therefore he strengthens it with a double prop on the one side he suggests that the Mother was afraid of a Consumption but he tells the Reader this was a needless fear and indeed the Mother says plainly that at that time She had no fear of a Consumption on the other side he says that the Mothers sending for another Physician was because of the Instigation of her Uncle Now what else can be the meaning of all this winding and turning this studied and forged preamble but only to ward off and fence himself from having the Imposture discovered of his pretended Cure as also the dissatisfaction of the Mother in what he had done which might reflect either want of Care or Art in him and lastly to bring in with advantage the scroll of Accusations against Alius Medicus who yet say some must not answer them Objections Answered against my writing this Book Obj. 1. IT is not seemly for one Physician to write against another Resp Let the blame therefore lye at his door that began first se defendendo self-preservation is the other's sufficient excuse It was very unseemly in him especially without any warning or just provocation to publish me in print for one that had neither Skill in a Disease nor did understand the Method of Cure but is it unseemly for me to shew my skill and method if I have any No man can deny but that it was very unhandsom in him to throw dirt upon me either privately or publickly and is it any unhandsomness in me to wipe it off He ought not to have vented slanders but will any one say that I ought not to vindicate my Reputation or that it is unseemly because by doing it I write against another Physician which of necessity I must do if I will write for my self I confess it is with much regret that I come forth at all and I have given my Adversary the advantage of some seeming reproach though it deserves rather commendation that my Answer was not out sooner it might have been but my unwillingness to write against him that I knew was obnoxious made me wait many months to see if he would use any means to prevent me but in vain and therefore now at last that I do write against him it is the less unseemly And since there is no Profession whatsoever that can boast of all its Professors that they are good I hope no man will think the worse of Physick if by this Book I make discovery that even amongst Physicians themselves there are some sometimes sick of this Epidemick Disease whose cause yet doth not belong unto the Art they study but unto the corrupt and depraved nature of mankind in general Obj. 2. Wise Men love neither to be Patern nor Patron of any Controversie Resp As I need not fear my being at any time Patron so all things seriously considered I hope I am not yet a Patern of any Controversie for if I had not thought that what I have writ is so home and plain and so fully proved as probably to end our Controversy I would not have printed it Though of necessity I have touched upon some points controverted in Physick or else I could not have answered his Accusations yet matters of Fact are that which I contend for with Mr. Loss whether he or I speak Truth in what we have writ Matters of Dispute are endless and foolish and I have so little pleasure in beating the Air and so small confidence of my opinion being better than his or any others that I should hardly have shript Cross or Pile for the Mastery in a wrangling dispute much less should I have taken these pains meerly to have spun out a fine thread wherewith to make a Cob-web to catch Flies Obj. 3. Mr. Loss having not named me I needed not to have been concerned at his Book Resp He neither doth nor can deny he meant me if therefore I should shufle off my Answer upon this frivolous pretence Prudens Sciens vivus vidensque pereo I see the Snare and go into it and am willingly taken in the very Gin that he hath set for me This is it that he would be at he would have me beholden to him forsooth to save my credit who seems to me the only Adversary that hath made it his business to ruin it Alius Medicus is a Vizard-Mask of his making and he wisheth none other than that I should be so much a Fool as to wear it for when he please he can look under it and when he lists he can pull it off and discover who this Alius Medicus is But because Mr. Loss himself hath made this Objection and several of his Friends at Dorchester I shall be somewhat large in my Answer thereunto Had Mr. Loss named Truth and not named Me I should have had good reason to have acknowledged his great civility in suffering my guiltiness to have passed incognito but if any one commends his charity for thinking thus to conceal my reproach let him if he can excuse his folly in so doing He names the Patient and her Parentage the Town yea the House where She lay sick and with what wit could he imagine to cover me with this Net which every one could look through He should not have medled with me at all for faintly to shadow me over was the only way to make the people the more inquisitive and the discovery the more acceptable for publick slanders as well as private whisperings never spread more than when they are delivered by way of secret If this Alius Medicus were as much a stranger to me as is he whom I never saw or heard of yet being I am able to prove that the Matters of Fact whereof he is accused are false and that
impediamus Naturam crisin per hanc aut illam viam intendentem abstinendum est a pharmaco in die critico tum subductorio tum vomitorio sed usque ad finem diei decretorii spectatoris persona induenda Quodsi tunc Natura nihil egerit praesentibus signis concoctionis pharmacum exhiberi poterit Sed de his docta Medicorum cohors judicet Possem plura adjicere sed haec spero tibi fatisfactura Tu in me aequo sis animo quae a me facta sunt in meliorem partem interpreteris qui nullo animi morbo aut livoris aliquo stimúlo sed nudae veritatis amore scripsi quae scripsi meque in favorem tuum recipe in amicorum numero habe qui tibi omnia opto auguror felicissima E. T. Sudiosiss FRED LOSS Dorchestr XVI Cal. Nov. MDCLXXIII Alius Medicus his Answer to Mr. Loss Clarissime Observator DIE Saturni ultimo multâ vesperâ literas tuas accepi Scriptas a tergo nec dum finitas imo qùod mirandum neque adhuc etiam rem ipsam attingentes Authores vestri verba non dederunt sic est profectò ut dicunt Tu verò verba dedisti plurima ad rhombum nihil facientia Festinans Canis coecos parit catulos Responsio tua parte inauditâ aut saltem non recte intellectâ alterâ praecox nimis praepropera est Descendis quidem in arenam verum tota haec tua digladiatio Epistolaris verbo dicam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est Minutiarum enim quas memoras isto in libello cujus scribendi satago nihil ferò quidquam invenietur Non meus rumor est sed vox Populi Te a consultationibus semper alienum fuisse ea propter iniquè culpam in me unum confers praesertim vero quasi ex meo Te ingenio in eâ re judicem in quâ falsus es non minus quam in figura pilei quo donantur Doctores in ipso inaugurationis actu qui non est extra quadratâ uti refers sed rotundâ figurâ conspicuus Quantum valeam tam doctis quam indoctis Te ob multa merito odiosum reddere maculasque plurimas Tuae Famae inurere brevi fortè plus satis experiêre Interim totus gaudeo quod hac in re tuâque hac Epistolâ me omni culpâ de Libelli mei futuro eventu quantum spectat ad famam tuam evolvis quandoquidem Te murum aheneum praedicas neque uspiam Telis meis penetrabilem literatis praesertim viris edoctis coram Quis te audacior confidentior qui cum Libellum meum nondum videris quia tamen vernaculâ Linguâ conscriptum audis quam docti aequè atque indocti intelligunt praelium ante de victoriâ gloriaris quod cum doctis nequeam vulgo Te odiosum redderem Age verò perge inquam neque amittas tuam banc confidentiam nomenque si potis es ad aras defendas rectè enim tenes tibi respondere reponere necesse fore atque ostentare quantis sis viribus quantisque virtutibus De meâ vero imprudentiâ Temeritate aut Nominis aliûs jacturâ in oculum uirumvis conquiescito Interim tamen ex iis omnibus qui tecum mirantur quorum ne unus quidem probat meum hoc praeceps consilium siste si placet unum aut plures permagni enim nostrâ interest illos paucis velle lubentissime aurium operam illis dicerem De Domina Moore si quicquam ulteriùs mussitare ausis perlegas suadeo tuam ipsius Observationem Medicinalem 25. Lib. 3. Te pudeat eam ibi omni virtutum decore cumulatam praedicasse de qua in hisce literis ingratam cum dixeris omnia dix'ti Quis vero Te obsecro hoc tibi commentum in animum tuum induxit me vitio tibi vertere quod sis Advena aut ille certe aut tu egregiè fingis quando 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ego maximo semper in honore habuerim Neque ignobilem quampiam contra nobilitatem virginis controversiam faciam Quod attinet vero ad Medicum Alium pleuritidem aegrae puellae benignitatem morbi venaesectionem sexto morbi die institutam in puellâ nondum quatuordecem annos natâ purgationem exhibitam die septimo instituta mea 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sine ratione quod attinet ad professionem vestram quantum me amas quam honorifice de me semper locutus sis quam pro virili tuitus sis famam meam existimationem quam propensa in me prae omnibus aliis tua semper fuit benevolentia de his omnibus in Libello meo Cujus institutum si desideras rursum adeas si placet Pentateuchum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dixit Socrates licet id ad rem meam faciat maximè tamen faciet autoritas Divina quam legere est Cap. 19. v. 16. Deuteronomi his verbis Si quis in quenquam iniquus Testis extiterit falsum contra illum protulerit Ambo homines quos inter controversia est apud Jovam stanto coram Sacerdotibus Judicibus qui tunc temporis erunt Judices autem sedulò inquirunto Quod si falsum illum Testem esse deprehenderint falsum contra alterum dixisse Facitote ei quod ipse in alterum commentus erat malumque de medio vestrum tollitote Quod cum reliqui audiverint timeant deinceps ejusmodi facinus apud vos suscipere nève miserescitote vitam pro vita oculum pro oculo dentem pro dente manum pro manu pedem pro pede Quid opus est multis Te paenitentem non defensorem agere expectà ssem verum rem multo aliter evenire intelligo ut ut sit vestram secutus humanitatem ea omnia quae tu mihi ego etiam tibi opto atque auguror felicissima Observationum tuarum Studiosissimus ALIUS MEDICUS Datae Frampton die Lunae XI Cal. Nov. MDCLXXIII ERRATA WHereas several Errors have crept into the Impression of this Book which the Author saw not until it was too late to mend them in their proper places the Reader is desired for what he will there meet amiss to read here as followeth In the Title-Page read Practitioner in Physick Proserpina canum Personam capiti detrahet In the Epistle Dedicatory r. to make out matters of fact it is very base for either of them to print the Case to infer a general Conclusion from a particular Instance to Country-people though he understands no Latin In the Preface read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nauseat those first entertainments stercus Vrina Medicinae fercula prima which we commonly meet with Homo sum humani nihil a me alienum puto condemning the Modesty and Practice of those men fling the stone at their fellow-Physician In the Book it self Pag. 1. line 11. read by those that understand his Latin better than his Art lin 23. a Licentiate P. 2. l. 7. blot out 2dly l. 31. slandering almost all P. 3. l. 8. own words P. 5. l. 35. meek or pettish l. 36. he moves P. 11. l. 12. for Winston r. Muston P. 12. l. 1. r. seems in these P. 13. l. 28. f. Name r. Names P. 14. l. 26. he could not take it well that any one should publish this and yet P. 15. l. 32. and hath put both their Diseases and their Names in print P. 16. l. 6. unless he had been ambitious of a party-coloured Coat and by having something of every thing in his Book of this Motto P. 18. l. 32. a Chirurgion P. 23. l. 24. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P. 25. l. 31. far beyond the binding up P. 26. l. 16. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l. 17. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 P. 27. l. 10. but that it was misunderstood l. 13. blot out foolish P. 28. l. 36. r. shearing of Hogs P. 29. l. 12. he understood the Oracle of Hippocrates P. 30. l. 33. words synonymous P. 33. l. 23. His hands were not probably so providentially stretch'd forth as to ward off the blow P. 36. l. 36. like those shot from a Gun P. 41. l. 30. Gorraeus P. 42. l. 24. and thus very discreetly P. 47. l. 14. Scabious P. 48. l. 23. His Naturals P. 55. l. 17. leave out and. P. 62. l. 2. the principal part ill-affected l. 9. than those from the Pleurisie in her Side l. 21. by those Remedies P. 63. l. 12. blot out and. P. 70. l. 32. held so by all that know her P. 73. l. I should hardly thrip cross or pile P. 76. l. 16. a full Answer unto them P. 78. l. 5. and if fair means would have brought Mr. Loss to a private Treaty l. 33. Is a Defendant uncharitable P. 80. l. 14. such a Revenge is spoken against as doth another hurt l. 23. The vertuous Envy is P. 84. l. 14. in all those senses is still sensless by being false l. 30. into the dancing-School l. 31. carried her home into the Country P. 86. l. 24. this further advantage of my Journal in this Case l. 32. I found our Notes did not agree P. 90. l. 21. high-spirited and yet low selfish and yet self-abasing Physicians P. 92. l. 20. he wants buoying up P. 93. l. 3. that he is wickedly ignorant l. 33. blot out 3. The and put at l. 38 before Credit to men in a Profession P. 96. l. 6. mind my Patients ease more than mine own P. 99. l. 13. Her Disease was with a Pleurisie P. 102. l. 34. unum tantum ab uno indicatur P. 112. l. 27. for quà port a ruit P. 113. l. 3. Here and elsewhere the number of the Accusations are misplaced but their order may be seen p. 81 P. 113. l. 21. she having lost five ounces then l. 32. the intention for which they were let out P. 115. l. 30. at that time she was so sick P. 120. l. 30. die of his disease P. 122. l. 14. this the Medicine wherewith l. 23. is no ways comparable FINIS