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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<HEAD>Dr. Merrett <HI>Aged</HI> 81. <HI>and upwards, Dr. in Phy&s;ick, of</HI> Oxford 53. <HI>Years, Practitioner in</HI> London <HI>from the Year</HI> 1638. <HI>Fellow of both the</HI> Royal Societies, <HI>Keeper of</HI> Dr. Harvey<HI>'s</HI> Mu&s;aeum <HI>in the College of Phy&s;icians, Cen&s;or Eleven Years, which never but one ever was,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>makes to his Pari&s;h of</HI> St. Andrews Holbourn <HI>this Propo&s;ition following,</HI> viz.</HEAD>
<P>THat he will give without Demand of any Reward, to 150 Per&s;ons, Medicines of his own making, in all Fevers, Fluxes what&s;oever; which are the two Heads of Di&s;ea&s;es mo&s;t Mortal every where, e&s;pecially in this Sea&s;on of the Year? He excepts all Invaders, which the Law calls Empericks, <HI>viz.</HI> Apothecaries, Chirurgeons, and all inferior Interlopers, becau&s;e he well knows, they will play all the Tricks that Malice and Fancy can Invent; which with all care and diligence he will prevent.</P>
<P>He will give Advice to no more than ten in a Day, till the afore&s;aid number is Completed.</P>
<P>He expects that all tho&s;e who are able &s;hould come to his Hou&s;e in <HI>Hatton-Garden,</HI> near the Chappel, tho&s;e that are not, he will Vi&s;it within the Circuit of the <HI>Garden,</HI> if further from him, he expects a Coach.</P>
<P>Not that he excludes any other, that are not Pari&s;hioners, during the afore&s;aid time, but to &s;uch he will give his Medicines and his Advice together, at the &s;ame rate found in Apothecaries Bills, and with better &s;ucce&s;s than any of the Shop Medicines, and fewer of them in every Ca&s;e; and promi&s;es to take but three &s;hillings a Quart for a Cordial call'd Pearl, which the Apothecaries make them pay ten or twelve Shil|lings for the &s;ame quantity, and much the like rate in other Medicines.</P>
<P>His Cures are performed in a &s;hort time in acute or other &s;hort Di&s;ea&s;es, without Dangerous and Mortal <HI>Opium,</HI> never us'd by him; rarely any Chymical Medicine, or any other of the Shops; or Je&s;uits Bark, painful Bli&s;ters, Cupping-Gla&s;&s;es, Cly|&s;ters, violent Vomits, Purges, or Bleeding. His Medicines are &s;imple, grateful, &s;afe, and mo&s;t agreeable.</P>
<P>Whereas his Adver&s;aries give out, that he will not Con&s;ult Phy&s;icians, he never refus'd, nor &s;hall not; &s;o that the Con&s;ultation be according to the Statutes of the College, <HI>viz.</HI> in Latin; and therein inquiry to be made into the Di&s;ea&s;e, the Cau&s;e and Symptoms of it; and a right Application of Remedies to them all; <HI>viz.</HI> of the <HI>indicans</HI> and <HI>indicatum,</HI> the &s;ole Chari&s;tical mark of a Complete Phy&s;ician, and the di&s;tinction of him from all other, whether Rational or Emperical; for both the lat|ter pretend alike to uncertain Experience, but to &s;en&s;ible and unque&s;tionable trials, <HI>&agrave; priori.</HI></P>
<P>He de&s;ires the Chri&s;tian and Ingenious Reader, not to take up fal&s;e Reports, and credit them, without clear Evidence of the Truth, or fal&s;e Conclu&s;ions from bare words or feigned Actions; which he will clear to any that &s;hall declare them, and &s;atisfy the &s;crupulous with thanks.</P>
<P>He will &s;hortly Republi&s;h his Character of a Complete Phy&s;ician, and the Frauds of Apothecaries, a third Edition, and thereto his way in general of his attainment of the top of his Art; the Knowledge of &s;imples <HI>&agrave; priori;</HI> long &s;ought for, but never attain'd by any; as the Learned, and true Phy&s;ician, or Naturali&s;t, Dr. <HI>Li&s;ter,</HI> un|known to me, but by his Writings, affirms in his Excellent Preface to his Book of Di&s;ea&s;es, and all other Phy&s;icians I have read.</P>
<P>Whereas in &s;ix Libels again&s;t my Book of the Frauds of Apothecaries, each Libel|ler in&s;inuated tacitly a Scandal again&s;t me, I cannot but expect another from the Col|leges putting me out; both which &s;hall be an&s;wer'd in my afore&s;aid Book, to the Eternal &s;hame of my Adver&s;aries. The Reader therefore is reque&s;ted to &s;u&s;pend his Belief till the Narration be Publi&s;ht out of their own Records and other Courts of Law; and the Author declares, he will An&s;wer no Namele&s;s Libels.</P>
<P>To An&s;wer the Objections of many, I have, by this Propo&s;al, &s;et my Candle on a Candle&s;tick, and &s;uffer'd my light to &s;hine before Men, that God might be glorified, and Men benefited by my continued &s;tubborn labour, and great Expences I have been at to attain this great Light; e&s;pecially to incourage Men of my own Faculty to the like Undertaking.</P>
<P><HI>His hours of Attendance &s;hall be from Nine in the Morning to Twelve, and from Two to Five in the Afternoon.</HI></P>
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