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Compassionate counsel to all young men especially I. London apprentices, II. students of divinity,…
Compassionate counsel to all young men especially I. London apprentices, II. students of divinity, physic, and law, III. the sons of magistrates and rich men / by Richard Baxter.Compassionate counsel to all young men especially I. London apprentices, II. students of divinity, physick, and law, III. the sons of magistrates and rich men / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by T.S., 1681
Chapter 10: Counsel to Young Students in Physic.Chapter 10: Counsel to Young Students in Physick.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. The experience of other mens practice: And therefore if possible, stay some time first in the house with some eminent Practitioner, whose experiences you may see, and hear his counsel.
III. Begin with plain and easy cases, and meddle only with safe and harmless remedies; And think not your selves Physicians indeed, till you have got considerable experience your selves, there is no satisfactory trusting to other mens experiences alone.
IV. In cases too hard for you, send your Patients to abler Physicians, and prefer not your reputation or gain before their lives.
V. Study simples throughly, especially the most powerful; and affect not such compositions, as by the mixture of the less powerful, do frustrate the ingredients, which would else be more effectual.