Physick is a jest, a whim, an humour ... To which is added, a discourse or letter on the degree of doctor, in this profession / [By D. de C].

  • De Coetlogon, Dennis, -1749
Date:
1739
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Credit: Physick is a jest, a whim, an humour ... To which is added, a discourse or letter on the degree of doctor, in this profession / [By D. de C]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Affairs. And how, I pray, is it very certain, that thofe they depend thus greatly on, are much more fo ? Or any better judges (furely not lefs unbiafs'd and difinterefted) than them- felves, tho’ ftrongly, and no doubt fufficiently pretending thereto. But alas ! when the fame is duly confidered, wc (hall more probably find it in reality to be an idle, negligent, inconfi- dcrate Pufiilanimity and Fear, rather than from any real and juft Caufe, without that proper ufe of their folid Reafon duly: thcmfelves to infpefl: and examine therein. For without fup- pofingthem to be proper judges of particular Arts, Sciences, or Profemons, or that they are obliged to ftudy them, (though if any, that, methinks of their Health, ought to be the firft, which would not be the worfe for them when ill) yet admitting they do not incline, or are not to trouble themfclves with this part j I cannot however by any means be of opinion, but that the Study of Mankind ought (at leaft in fome degree) to be their Care and Applica¬ tion : Whereas we but too commonly, in re¬ ality do find, that they even know and apply themfelves full as little to that, as to the for¬ mer. When were they, I fay, duly to con- ftder, ftudy, and know, which is that Man or Perfon of real and folid Senfe, Integrity, and Judgment, (which ought indeed to be the Study and Confideration of every one) and that, without the leaft regard to Party, Hu¬ mour, Recommendation, Shew, idle, glary Embellifh-