Volume 1

Professional anecdotes, or ana of medical literature.

Date:
1825
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    without the following work of art; that is, without the medicine not prepared by the means of such a regenerated matter, but that I could not obtain them without spending some time in preparing even the least of them, and that the better sort did require a whole year, some of them a year and 8 months, yea, the best, as those of Lullius, 2 year and an halfe; and, I supposed all this to be done, I found that my relieve would still be much protracted, till I had cured some disperate distempers of the poorer sort of people, before I could be believed and receive money from the richer for my cures. The length of time, therefore, was sufficient, I will not mention the want of charges, of a fit place, of many other conveniences, to deter me to go about it upon my own account, to force me to this resolution; to look in time about me, to save myself, and rely no longer upon the vain and faithless promises of a ; altho’, in doing so, I should make another family so well happy as my own. To this I was so much the more inclined, that my corres- pondence in Holland gave me no hopes of procuring, not so much as one or 2 pounds of my third matter, with which I might have prepare the best and highest medicine of extraordinary strength and usefulness, within the time of lest than 3 months. Thus, sir, you see the reason why I would rather part with my indeed inestimable know- ledge, than suffer me, and my family, longer to remain in misery. Beside, pardon me when I tell you plainly, that, let the reason be what it will, why I will part with my secret, this concerns not at all my intended patron, as long as I am contented that he, either in person, or one intro- duced by him, shall be fully satisfied before he parts with any mony, I cannot see why then a gentleman should not rather believe his own, the authors, my own, and our all experiences, than to be so cautious as to breed a suspicion bringing forth this question. However, I am sure that