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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.
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.
VI. Forget not the Poverty of most Patients, who have not Money to pay large chargeable Bills of the Apothecary, nor give large Fees to a Physician; multitudes neglect Physic and venture without it, because Physicians require so much, and are so much for their Apothecaries gain, that they have it not to pay.