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2% The Originall of Phyficke. When Phyficians began to vifit the fickein their houfes When came up This couite_ 
fir the maner of *curing difzafes by oxtward application of viniments and by frications, of Chry- 1» aus Wa 
fippuig and Erafiftratus.Of the*Empiricke practife of Phyfickeof Herophilus and other famous soit rum, isa 
Phyficians, How many times the order of Phyficke bath been chaunged. Whe was the firft profited lefto, ithe bed 
ccd igs bed chabers 
Phyficianin Rome avd when bee began to praclif. What opinion or conceit the annctent Romanes * 72, alepsice, 
had of Phyficians.Finallysthe imperfections and defaults in this art of Phyfickes _- (Mere ibang 
eka arcigay, vel 
: anetaine, quafe 
He admirable nature of anumber of medicines, as well thofe which] have al- medicine un- 
readie fhewed,as thofe which remainas yet to be handled, forceth meto write genri. 
yet mote of Phyficke, and tofound to the very deapth and borteme:albeit 12772 
‘|i knowfull well, thatthere is nota Latine writer who hath travelled hetherto in i.experientics 
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WF Ne. %—s ty) || thisargumentjandam not ignorant how ticklifh anc daungerous a point it is erie ea 
sD S! arficft co fer abroach any new matters, efpecially uch, whereby amanis fire perimés only 
to reape but {mall thankes,and in deliverie wheteof,is to make account of a world of difficulties. of medigness 
Bur for as muchas itis very like that rhofe who are well acquainted with this fludie,will mufe how vee cat of 
it iscome about,thar the remedies drawne from fimples,fo eafie to bec found and fo accommo- the difeate, of 
dat to maladies,are caft behind and growne out of ufe in the practife of Phyficke sit cannot bee, "sere of ahs 
but withall they muftmarvell much,and thinke it a great indignitie, that no {cience and profeffi- 
on inthe world hath had leffe folidiue in it and ben more uncontftant, yea,and how it daily chan- 
geth full norwith ftanding there is notany other more profitable and gainefull chan it. 
Butto enter into the d:fcourfe thereof, Firft and formott; the invention of this att! hath beene 
fathered upoa the *gods, {uch I mean as are canonized gods in heaven : yeaand even at this day *zowit, spot 
we have recourfe ftill unto divine Oracles for many medicines, Moreover,the fabulous tales de- & Aycwlapins 
vifed by Poets have given a greatername and reputation thereto,in regard of the offence come Oren: 
mitted by Zfcalap:vs in railing prince*A ppolyt~ againe to life :for which bold part of his, Jupi- sarch, & ama-_ 
ter being highly difpleafed {more him dead with lightening. And yet for all this, Antiquiti¢ hath 2ucrPr O'd 
not ftaicd tligre,but made relation of others, who were revived by the meanes of the faid Afeur pee read Thef- 
lap:ws or bis art : which during the *Trojane warre whereof the fame and bruiris more certaine, ¢e,7.the fon of 
grewinto much requeft and eltimation:and yet in thofedaies there was no other part of Phyfick ie 
profefled and pradtifed,bur Chirurgerie:and hatin the cure of wounds onely.Butin the age en- *At whartime 
foing,and for many a yeare after, wonderfull it is,in whatob{euritie this noble fcience lay,dead; Capa me 
and as it were buried in darkenefle and oblivion,even untill the famous Peioponefiacke war : for Jia abt aie 
then arofe Hippocrates, who revived and fet on foot againe the auncient practife of AEfculapias fo chaon pradhifed 
Jong fore-let :and being borne in Coos jarenowmed and wealthie Ifland, altogether devote and ©PUBeHe« 
confecrated to Ai/cu/apius,he made an extract of all thereceits,which were found written in the a 
temple of the faid god (for the manner was in that Ifland,that whofoever were cured and delive- 
red of any difeafe, regiftred there upon record, the experiments of medicines whereby they had 
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