Flagellum: or, a dry answer to Dr. Hancock's wonderfully comical liquid book, which he merrily calls Febrifugum magnum, or common water the best cure for fevers ... (a book proved ... to be wrote when the Doctor was asleep) / by Gabriel John.

  • John, Gabriel.
Date:
1723
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Credit: Flagellum: or, a dry answer to Dr. Hancock's wonderfully comical liquid book, which he merrily calls Febrifugum magnum, or common water the best cure for fevers ... (a book proved ... to be wrote when the Doctor was asleep) / by Gabriel John. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 5« ) own printed Recipe's. And what can be faid to all this? Why truly,wifeTow flyles him, p*S. our Englifh Paracelfus, and prefers both him and Cul¬ pepper to Dr. Peachy and Quincy, berth which were Men of very good Senfe and Learning } the one a Fellow of the College of Phyficians in London, and the other-of the Univerfityof Edinborough. But to leave thefe Trifles, let us follow our Friend Tfom in things of greater Moment. Inp. 5. Tom is very myftical, where he fays, ‘The Cafe is very plain, that Phyfick is no particular Mans, nor body of Mens particular Province, unlefs it be fome particular Perfons, as particular private Arcana, that indeed would be dangerous, for the greatejl DoLlor on Earth to dabble in, by mere imita¬ tion ; the liberty of finding out and ujing thofe things for the good of others, being every Man s Right, whom it jhall pleafe God to inable, as is plain from the Sacred Tfext.— Now if any Man in England, or beyond Sea, in Southwark, can make Senfe of all this, I will give him the right Hand of Fellowfhip, and that’s a proud Word you’ll fay ; nay, if Tom him- felf can do it, I will fay that he is not fuch a Noodle as I took him to be: and in particular let him tell us what Text it is that he proves all this Nonfenfe by. What! fays he, p* 15. may not thofe that have real Secrets, and Skill to put them in practice, have the Liberty to do good ? —— Again, p. 17. And if it pleafe God to blefs their Studies, &c. have they not the fame Juflice and Right to put it in practice, efpecially when their honefi endeavours are crown d with conflant Succefs in things curable. ——- Why, lau y e there now ! — the Man does not always talk downright Nonfenfe, but fometimes writes that he may be underftood.-Where Men have Skill to pra&ife, let ’em pra&ife, provided they are examin’d by their Godfathers whether they really