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judgement_n	act_n	king_n	parliament_n	3,280	5	6.9453	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45580	Reason in season: or, A vvord on the behalf of the non-collegiate physicians and of the right of the people in the choice of their physicians. By A. Hargrave, philomedicus.	Hargrave, A.	1676 (1676)	Wing H768A; ESTC R220348	6,938	7

Reason in Season OR A VVORD on the Behalf of the NON-COLLEGIATE PHYSICIANS And of the Right of the People IN THE Choice of their Physicians By A. Hargrave PHILO MEDICVS Magna est Veritas et praevalebit Printed in the Year 1676. Reason in Season c. FOrasmuch as there was never any Prohibition of the Practice of Physick or Chyrurgery to those that had Skill therein until the time of King Henry the 8th it is to be presumed that the Exercise of these Arts is Common Right For our Kings and Governours had no such Thoughts as some now have that the Educations of the Universities only capacitated Persons for that Practice because had they so judged it cannot be imagined they would for so many Hundreds of Years in a Nation of such pregnant Faculties have forborn to specifie their Resentment thereof especially considering that the Clergy the Original and Support of Academick Learning were the great Ministers of State for the most part under every King since the Conquest and how easie it had been for them had they seeing they ruled All apprehended it Essential to Healing may be judged by every Rational Man Nor doth it appear by that Act of the third of Henry the 8th where the Bishops are the Licensers of Physick that there was ought of other Learning required then Judgment in the Faculty because it was appointed by that Act They should call to their Assistance any Four Teachers thereof and as if this also were thought too great an Infringment of Liberty it was by another Act of Parliament in the 34th Year of the said King's Reign taking no notice if there were any such of that in the 14th and 15th Year of the same King ordered That Any that had Skill in Herbs Roots Waters or to cure any Outward Sores the Stone Stranguries Agues and Impesthumes not withstanding any thing specified in the former Act should have Liberty so to do and good Reason For they found that Limitation of Practice to a set Number increased Pride and Covetousness grand Hindrances to the Improvement of Physick and the Di●ressed wanted Help and they that did them Good were Troubled for so doing as the Preamble to that Act sufficiently manifests Now although some may Object This later Act was only made against that Branch of the former which concerned Chyrurgeons yet you may without Difficulty discern that Agues the Stone and Stranguries Distempers not cured by Outward Medicines are referred to Any Persons skilful therein Yea the very Letter of the Act specifying Knowledge in Herbs Roots and Waters Chymical Spirits and other Preparations of theirs being at that time unknown doth undeniably demonstrate some part of Physicians Practice if not the better part For though Colledgiate Physicians through Ignorance Idleness refer the Stone to the Knife and so make it a part of Chyrurgery yet the Stone in the Kidneys all men know the Knife never reached where one is troubled with the former there are six if not ten with the latter● and can any one think that that Act should only or simply respect Chyrurgery For in A●u●s though they are sometimes cured by Topicks most men now know that internal Remedies are more efficacious The Strangury outward Medicines could never cure to testisie which I call to witness the Calamities of the Sick and the Error of Physicians marked with a Bloody Character who by doting on the Stone outward Remedies have neglected the One thing necessary viz. the Assistance of the Physical Man and by that means miserably prostrated their Patients to Death Wherefore we may reasonably conclude that Parliament never intended to make the Power given to Physicians as a Bar to Natural Endowments or the Improvements of others in any wise relating to the cure of the sick And although by Mis-information they had enthroned Colledgiates as Judges yet upon sense of their Inabilities they were willing to curtayl their Power A sufficient Demonstration that the Limitation of Physick never arose Naturally as needful but by surprise of persons in authority with pretences of what was not It is also to be considered that in none of the Acts made during that King's Reign was any thing specified to limit the Practice of Physick to those only that were Academical and although men now dote upon that kind of learning which as we would not contemn so we are unwilling too much to adore yet 't is to be presumed our Ancestors left Nature free to bring forth her own Virtues as all the fore-going Generations before that time had done especially when they saw the limitation to a particular so far to endanger the who●● For if we contemplate the original of Physick it oweth not its Birth to any Academy it having had its being long before they were known in the world Nor had it its Rise in Societies but in and from particular persons as in the former Ages of the world from Hermes Machaon Esculapius Hippocrates c. and in the latter from Basil Valentine Paracels●● Alexander Suchte● Helmont c. Hippocrates indeed though a Man descended from the Race of Physicians was reckoned the Founder thereof and because he cured the Plague ●●dged to be endowed with a Divine Nature as Petus Physician to Arta●●r●●● testified to his Master and to have done more in his single Person then all his Ancestors had 〈◊〉 and this same Man also by his Volumns written hath so far proved his Gifts as to be esteem'd the Patron of Physick though we do not find him acquainted with ought but his Mother Tongue And that it was so is probable enough seeing Collegiates and Academists confess and the World knows that Natural Gifts arise not from nor are tyed to learning of Languages for if they were then every Man who hath learned French Dutch Spanish or any other Language besides his own should necessarily he endowed with more Excellent Gifts then others the contrary of which is daily obvious Nor can there be at this day such Pretences for Academick Learning as heretofore might have been in order to the understanding of Physick because the Sum of all that hath been written by the Ancients is now in the English Tongue although at the time of that Act making it was lockt up in other Languages Moreover Chymistry the great Ornament of Physicians and Benefit to the Sick was not so much as thought of to be essential to the Practice of Physick but of later times experience testifies little can be effected therein without it And it is apparently evident that Colledgiates have made very small Progress therein but those that are not of them and whom they at this day persecute have solely aimed at and brought to Light such Remedies as do more easily safely and speedily effect the Cure of the Sick then the Medicines of their Dispensatory can at this day What! shall we then defend a shadow that cannot benefit us and destroy a substance that helpeth to preserve us The Colledge