Volume 1

Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature.

Date:
1825
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Credit: Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I must also give you my thanks for telling me (which 1 take as a certain token of true friendship) that my pro- posals are lyahle to be interpreted to my desired advan- tage, that whereas in my proposals I say that my 2 first matters are easily procured and without charge prepared by the sun and the moon, to the great benefit of the undertaker, why then it comes, one, you think, may reasonably ask, that I do not help myself, but be willing to sell or dispose, at such an easy rate, my knowledge, which is altogether inestimable. My answer is, or will be, altho’ it be true that the 2 first matters are easily procured, and very cheap, and the chief preparation thereof also costs nothing, as consisting in the small trouble, or rather care, to expose them to the sun and moon, yet, there are other things required, which will cost both mony and patience; first, all our matters must be mortified, and this is done in an ordinary pipkin, without making a fire, or very little charge ; and that in few hours there followeth the regeneration of them by the influence of the sun and the moon; which, although it cost nothing in itself, yet, since it will require a month, it may be 5 or 6 weeks, yea, longer, according as the sin shall be more or less surly or pleased to assist us in our operation; it necessarily must follow, that it will cost some- thing. And, further, it will be necessary that the regene- rated matter be circulated for 3 months to become more spirituall; in which time no man can live for nothing; it is the time there is wanting for this work of nature which 1 thought would prove too long for me when I made my proposals, which was last winter, after I had stayed almost 2 whole years in vain, for that money, which, every quar- ter of the first year, was promised me by order of the Elector, but never received. Moreover, when I consi- dered, although I should have performed this operation, fhe same, nevertheless, would not answer my expectation