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Title: Medicina Flagellata
Or, The Doctor Scarify'd

Author: Anonymous

Release Date: July 14, 2010 [EBook #33155]

Language: English

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_Medicina Flagellata_:
OR, THE DOCTOR SCARIFY'D.

----_AEgrescitque medendo._ Virg.
_Si tibi deficiant Medici, Medici, tibi fiant:
Haec tria, Mens laeta, requies, moderata dieta._

_LONDON:_
Printed for J. BATEMAN, at the _Hat_ and _Star_;
and J. NICKS, at the _Dolphin_ and _Crown_,
both in St. _Paul's Church-yard_. 1721.

_Medicina Flagellata_:
OR, THE Doctor Scarify'd.

Laying open the VICES of the Faculty, the
Insignificancy of a great Part of their
_Materia Medica_; with certain RULES to
discern the true Physician from the Emperick,
and the Useful Medicine from the Noxious and
Trading Physick.

WITH
An ESSAY on HEALTH,
Or the
POWER of a REGIMEN.

To which is added,

A Discovery of some Remarkable Errors in the
late Writings on the PLAGUE, by Dr. _Mead_,
_Quincey_, _Bradley_, &c. With some useful
and necessary RULES to be observed in the
Time of that Contagious Distemper.

_LONDON_:
Printed for J. BATEMAN, and J. NICKS.
M. DCC. XXI.

PREFACE.

_It being usual for Authors, in Prefaces, to render an Account of the
Occasion which gave Birth to their Writings, and to acquaint the Reader
with the Design and Scope of their Discourses; I thought it convenient to
continue a Custom approved by many illustrious Examples._

_The Motive of publishing this Tract, is not the Intercession of Friends,
for none had ever the View of any Part of it; and that it is not Design of
Applause that has engaged me in this Undertaking, the Care I have had to
conceal my Name will, I suppose, free me from such Suspicion: the chief
Inducement proceeds from an Inc