ick-Garden, to be acquainted with the Foetures of Plants, but
particularly with those that are familiarly prescrib'd by Practitioners,
to prevent being outwitted by Herb-women in the Markets, and to enable him
to give a better Answer, than is said once of a Physician, who having
prescrib'd _Maiden-hair_ in his Bill, the Apothecary asked which Sort he
meant; t'other reply'd, some of the Locks of a Virgin. _Thirdly_,
Supposing our Student having made sufficient Progress in Philosophy, may
now pass to _Leyden_, and may enter himself into a _Collegium Anatomicum_,
Anatomy being the Basis and Foundation whereon the weighty Structure of
Physick is to be raised; and unless he acquires more than ordinary
Knowledge and Dexterity in this, will certainly be deceiv'd in the
Expectation of ever arriving to the Honour of an accomplish'd Physician: A
Proficiency in that Part fits him for a _Collegium Medicum Institutionum_,
and afterward for a _Collegium Practicum_, and then 'tis requisite he
should embrace the Opportunity of visiting the Sick in the Hospital twice
a Week with the Physick-Professor, where he shall examine those Patients
with all the Exactness imaginable, and point at every Disease, its
Symptoms, as it were, with his Fingers, and afterward propose several
Cases upon those Distempers, demanding from every young Student his
Opinion, and his Grounds, and his Reasons for it; withal requiring of him
what Course of Physick is best to be prescrib'd: This is the only Way for
a young Physician to attain a Habit of knowing Diseases when he seeth
them; and a confident Method of curing those that may repair to him,
without running the Hazard of being censured by Apothecaries, or derided
by them for his Bills, as too many are, that at _Oxford_ or _Cambridge_
have only imbib'd a Part of _Senuert_'s Institutions, and overlook'd
_Riverius_'s Practice, and thence attaining an imperfect and unhappy
Skill, by enlarging the Church-yards in the City or Country; but what is
more, he shall escape the Danger a young Student I formerly knew at
_Oxford_ precipitated himself into, by imagining every Disease he read was
his own. I must likewise advise our Student to take his Lodgings there at
an able Apothecary's House, to contract the Knowledge of Drugs, and of
preparing, dispensing, and mixing them in Compositions, and then by Means
of his own Qualifications, may boldly pretend to inform, correct, and
improve those Apothecaries which the Chance of