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his whole lifetime extremely crazy or kill him out- 

 right." 



Concerning the selection of a physician, Dr. Harvey 

 says: "If you shall meet with a physician that can 

 safely, and not over speedily Cure you, without giv- 

 ing the Jesuits' Powder, never meddle with the Jesuit, 

 with whom the less a man has to do either sick or well, 

 its the better." 1 



In the closing chapter of his book Dr. Harvey vi- 

 ciously attacks "The Conclave of Physicians" 2 who 

 change their methods of treating fever (examples 

 given) as the years pass until finally "they fall into 

 an empirical course, as exhibiting Jesuits' Bark against 

 all continual and intermittent fever, which now (Jes- 

 uits' Bark} by all men is judged to be more fatal than 

 any of the former. 



Quite different in tone, and more effective, is the 

 argument of the staunch supporter of cinchona, Dr. 

 Thomas Sydenham, in "The Whole Works," 1715. 3 

 His moderation, "viewing a disease as a thing in 

 itself", is shown by the following passage from his 

 Preface: "If any one should object here, that we had 

 long ago a sufficient number of Specific Remedies, 

 this very Man, if he will make diligent search, would 



'These rather coarse arguments (the more vicious not reproduced), might lead one 

 to consider the author a mountebank. But his record, as given in Lippincott's Biographical 

 Dictionary, is as follows: 



"Harvey (Gideon), an English physician and writer, born in Surrey, was medical at- 

 tendant of Charles II in his exile, and was subsequently physician to William III. Died in 

 1700." 



Evidently the section of the Medical Profession with which he did not affiliate. Par- 

 ticularly vicious is he againt the "Paris Conclave" and the eminent English anatomist, 

 Dr. Thomas Willis, to whom he devotes Chapter XVII, titled "Willis, his Hypothesis of 

 Agues is Ridiculously Erroneous." 



'The Translator's Preface from the Latin edition (by John Peachey, M.D.) is dated 

 1711. The Author's Preface, undated, follows. The Translator's English volume is dated 

 1715. The Author's final word (see page 78) makes the date of his last contribution Septem- 

 ber 29, 1686. 



