Wesley Corpus

x - men. They affected to deliver their rules, and to reafon upon them, in an abstruse and philofophical manner. They reprefented the critical knowledge of Anatomy, natural Philofophy (and what not ? Some of them infifting on that of Aftronomy and Aftrology too) as neceffarily previous to the understanding the art of healing. Those who understood only, how to reflore the fick to health, they branded with the name of Empirics. They introduced. into practice, abundance of compoundmedicines, confifting of fo many ingredients, that it was scarce poffible for common people to know which it was that wrought a cure Abundance of exotics , neither the nature nor names ofwhich their own countrymen understood : Of chymicals , fuch as they neither had skill , nor fortune , nor time to prepare Yea , and of dangerous ones, fuch as they could not use , without hazarding life , but by the advice of a phyfician. And thus both their honour and gain were fecured ; a vast majority of mankind being utterly cut off, from helping either themselves or their neighbours, or once daring to attempt it. 11. Yet there have not been wanting from time to time, fome lovers of mankind,