Tabular observations recommended as the plainest and surest way of improving physick. In a letter to a friend / by Francis Clifton.

  • Clifton, Francis, -1736.
Date:
1731
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Credit: Tabular observations recommended as the plainest and surest way of improving physick. In a letter to a friend / by Francis Clifton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ * ] 4 -/ ’ Time was, when the pra&ice of Phyfick was thought fo difficult and important, that none but Men of the greateft Sagacity, the beft Learning, and the mo ft Humanity, were per¬ mitted to manage it; and upon this foot the College of ‘Phyficians was ere&ed: but alas the Face of Phyfick has been much chang'd fince; and many a one has got more by the Crafty (I'm lorry to fay it) than he woud ever have got by the Art, of Phyfick. A favou¬ rite Servant, a good-natufd /lining Nurfe, and a buftling 'Tothecaryy (not to mention o- ther circumftances) have been of more lervice to fome perlons, than if they had made them- felves Matters of all the learning of Antiquity. Happy Mortals ! who, without the trouble and fatigue of Learning, cou'd jump at once into all the honours and advantages of it. Some have never been able to ftand well with the Publick, notwithstanding all their care and concern for it 5 while others have found it in a manner impolfible to ftand ill with it, let 'em do whatever they woifd. Somethings or other has always been trump'd up in their fa¬ vour, and though they have even rid the Pub- lick, they have been known at the fame time to have been courted by it 5 fuch an advantage is it to be born fortunate. While others have been flighted, as if they knew nothing of the matter; they, on the contrary, have been art¬ fully reprefented, as Men of fuch fagacity and : * under-