An essay towards the improvement of physick. In twelve proposals. By which the lives of many thousands of the rich, as well as of the poor, may be saved yearly. With an essay for imploying the able poor ... / [John Bellers].

  • Bellers, John, 1654-1725
Date:
1714
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Credit: An essay towards the improvement of physick. In twelve proposals. By which the lives of many thousands of the rich, as well as of the poor, may be saved yearly. With an essay for imploying the able poor ... / [John Bellers]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ter Advantage to a Prince, or State, than it is for them to procure all the Knowledge of the Art of Healing, that the Uniuerje can poflibly fupply them withal. And when any good Medicine, or Method, is difcover- ed, that it he Univerfally made known, to every Practi¬ tioner of Phyjick in the Nation: Whilft many of your felves, are at times, diftributed into every County of it, as well as others of your Fellow Subjects, where you may want the Advice of the mod Skilful Phyfitian; and then one effectual Remedy will be of more worth, than the Riched of Gems: For when a Dileafe comes with a Summons to the Grave, a White Staff, or a Star and Garter, are made of no Value. It is too great a Burthen to be left upon the Shoulders, or to the Care of the Phyfitians alone, no Private Purls being able to bear the needful Charges of it: Efpecially conddering the NecelBtyof many, and the IndilTerency of others of that Faculty, further than to procure a plen¬ tiful Subfidance for themfelves : And how much it con¬ cerns every other Perfon; there is the more Reafon to expedf, the State fliould bear a good part of the Expence of it. The Neglect pf which, by former Princes and Statesmen, hath kept Phyjick fo much at a Hand for many Hundred Years that are pad. Or elle, Could fo plain a Cafe, as the Circulation of the Blood, have remain¬ ed a Secret fo many Ages; until our Country Alan Harvy dii covered it, about Eighty Years ago. And what is as Strange, that, all the Ages and Coun¬ tries of the \V orld, for above TwoThoufand Years fince HiptocratePs Days, have hardly produced fo many more.