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

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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$C h Y M i s t R y hath produced many Excellent Medicines, fo no doubt, but that there are feveral more that will be Di (covered. As Cbymical Medicines are very Efficacious, fo if they are either ill Prepared, or Mifapplied, they are the more AHfchie- vous\ which have occafioned great Difputes between the Galenifts and Cbymifts. And yet. Medicines will fiot be brought to their height, with¬ out the joynt Endeavours of them both *, and Bricklayers and Carpenters, may as well quarrel which of them are the be ft Builders, though every good Building requires both their Hands to it. There the Blood, Urine and Saliva, in every Diftemper and Age, may be Cbymically Examined in their Texture, Quality and Tindture^ and alfo by Mi cr of cope, Air-Bump, Hidroflaticks, as well as by every fort of Drug, Mineral and Metal \ as Spam-Water is tried by Gauls. And alfo, Exact Obfervations to’ be made on the Pul/e, which Sir John Floyer hath begun a good Introduction to $ it being of great Confequence, for Pbyficians to Judge of the State of their Patients by. VI. Prop. That there be one Hofpital at each of our Two Univerfities. They being the Great Nurferies of our Graduated Pbyficians, make Hofpitals there to be abfolutely NecefTary for their better Inftrudtion, by adding Brattice to their Apho- rifms and Theory ^ they will Learn more in Seven Years, than In Fourteen Years without them, and the better Qualifie them for Practice, in whatfoever Quarter of the Kingdom they fhall fettle. At prefent its not eafieTor the Students to get a Body to Difledt at Oxford, the Mob are fo Mutinous to prevent their having one. The great Experience of the Phyficians of London and Wejlminftery makes them the mo ft Eminent, and accounted the befi in the Kingdom ^ and it is with great Difficulty that a Phyfttian in full Pradtice, can be procured to go Twenty Miles out of London, whilft they may have feveral Patients Dangeroufly Ill, to be Daily Vifited. Which$