have any concern for their P^*Vfltt,or intend to improve Pharmacy it felf 
Here he confiders, that if Phyfitians depend onely upon what they read in 
Books, they (hall never promote this Art beyond its prefent limits 6 and 
that, if Phyfitians in former times had not been knowing in Simples', ex- 
amined their Vertues and Tempers,, inquired into their effefts, and mix'd 
them with their oW» hanfts, there had been no fuch Science as Phyfick • and 
therefore thofe things, which gave^ a being to this noble Faculty, ought to 
help to make it compleat ; towards which as nothing can contribute more 
than the Improvement of Pharmacy fo neither can any thing promote 
that more, than Phyfitians taking it into their management. Befides all 
which, he thinks it moft fit, that they, who exercife themfelvesin the Vra- 
tlife of Vhyfickj be fatisfy'd, their Medicins are good • whereby their mind 
will be free and without any clog : which would add more difficulties and 
dangers to a thing, by it felf hard and dangerous enough. 
Thefe and other Confiderations, infiftedon in this Difcourfe , will, in 
the Author's perfwafion, induce all Phyfitians, who have refpeft to the 
Good of their Patients , Honour of their Profeffion, or own Reputation 
to put Pharmacy into other hands, and better methods (for which he inti- 
mates, that a ftrong refolution is already taken) than thofe, wherein now 
it is ; whereby they, who dishonour it ( meaning the apothecaries ) will 
either be reduced toa fenfe and performance of their Duty, or fufficiently 
puniftied, 
Befides all this^ there are interfperfed in this Difcourfe not a few particu- 
lars, both Philofophical and Phyfical 5 fuch as concerne the Improvement 
of Natural Vhilofophy by the exercife of Chymiffry in the hands of difcreet 
and able Phyfitians j the Difcovery and ufe of abundance of Generous Re- 
medies, hitherto induftrioufly concealed by their PofTeffors from the Apo- 
thecaries and Common Ghymifts, upon the confideration, that they would 
make a prepofterous ufe of them , fuch as are the E fences of Vlants made 
by the t^nion of their Volatile Spirits, EfTential Oyles, and fixed Salts, Vo- 
latile Salt or Spirit of Tartar, Tin&ure of Corals, EfTences of Vearlr &ni. 
Crabs Eyes, Valentinus^ Tinfture of Antimony , his Mineral Bezoar, Hel- 
monts ElixirVroprietatzs, Us Laudanum, the Volatil Spirit of Vitriol, the 
Anodine Sulphur of Vitriol t its EfTential 6jle\ the Tincture of Gold, &c. 
All which the Author affures ro have feen himfelf, and declares himfelf 
ready to witnefs, that they have had extraordinary Effe&s. And he omits 
not particularly to infinuate, how much Diet can contribute to the cure 
or moderation of Diftempers ; and he affirms boldly, That there is fcarce 
any Chronical Difeafe, that is cured by the Shop-medecines, which may not 
be cured with more certainty, eafe and pleafure by Drinks, ( joyn'd with 
a regular DyetJ as Wine, Ale, Beer, Cider, &c. impregnated in the time 
of their Fermentation, with tjie Vertues of Simples, Animal, Vegetable or 
Mineral, or their Prepanirkms &c. 
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Printed by 7".iV. for John Jtitotyn, Vvintcv to the Royal Society, and aire 
to be fold at die Bell* little without Temple-Bar, 1668. 
