LETTER VII. PROFESSIONS-PHYSIC. Finlrent multi letho mala; credula vitam Tibullus. He fell to juggle, cant, and cheat-- A paltry wretch he had, half-starv'd, Butler's Hudibras. PHYSIC. The Worth and Excellence of the true Physician. Merit, not the sole cause of Success.-Modes of advancing Reputation.-Motives of Medical Men for publishing their Works.-The great Evil of Quackery.-Present State of Advertising Quacks.—Their Hazard. Some fail, and why.-Causes of Success.-How Men of Understanding are prevailed upon to have recourse to Empiricks; and to permit their Names to be advertised.-Evils of Quackery: to nervous Females: to Youth:, to Infants.-History of an Advertising Empirick, &c. NEXT, to a graver Tribe we turn our view, And yield the Praise to Worth and Science due; For these are Friends with whom we seldom smile: * Opiferque per orbem dicor. To the Physician of the Soul, and these, But as Physicians of that nobler kind Have their warm Zealots, and their Sectaries blind; To shew the World what long Experience gains, Requires not Courage, though it calls for Pains; |