His Medicines are of two Sorts; one Set of them published in a very small Book, tho’ there is a large Account of their Virtues and Uses. There is a second Sort, which some worthy Gentlemen of great Families, and great Estates, have told us of, and these were the Secrets of an eminent Physician. But how do Gentlemen know Secrets in Physick? It is not hard to guess who were chiefly concern’d in their Information, and who have made a goodly Income from a pretended Inheritance to pretended Secrets. This is the Shrine of the great Diana, to which every Thing must not only submit, but for it every other Shrine must be removed, even Truth it self; so that we may quickly hear of Doctor R——f’s Secrets for the Plague, if it should be the Will of God to send it us for a Punishment of our Sins.
How easy a Matter is it to become a great Physician, but how difficult to a Man of Education and Honour? Hence it is that we find in all Times, tho’ never more than in the present, that Physick is the common Resort of all indigent Men, that no other Arts can provide with a Living. Here Doctor Rosary has made a better Market for his Beads, than ever was in any Roman Catholick Country, Spain and Portugal not excepted. At this Time too, he is among the chief Writers on the Plague, and with insufferable Assurance, dedicates that Trifle to the President of the College of Physicians, where, in the end, he tells the World, how useful his Necklace is for the Plague.
Amulets, indeed, have been in great Esteem in Times of the Plague, and I hope some great Physician will lend his Name to one, that may frighten away this terrible Disease.
FINIS.
Footnotes:
[1]. Sect. 2.
[2]. Page 3.
[3]. Page 11.
[4]. Page 70.
[5]. Page 24.