54 The TriumpJial Chariot of Antimony. 



cine with my own hands, and admin- 

 istered it with unvarying success to great 

 numbers of people, who are ready to 

 bear me witness under their own hand 

 and seal. 



If I ever had to dispute in the 

 schools with this quality of Doctor, who 

 cannot prepare his own medicines (such 

 as they are), but must leave that work to 

 another, I should justly claim pre-emi- 

 nence over him. For he does not even 

 know the colour of the remedies which 

 he prescribes. He has not the slightest 

 idea whether they are white or black, red 

 or grey, blue or yellow, or whether the 

 medicament is hot, cold, dry, or humid. 

 He only knows one thing that he has 

 found the name of that medicine in his 

 books, and, pluming himself on the 

 antiquity of his hoary ignorance, he 

 claims the right of prior possession. 



Here again I am tempted to cry 

 woe upon these foolish doctors whose 

 consciences are seared with a hot iron, 

 who do not care in the least for their 

 patients, and will be called to a terrible 



