Hereby the filii Artis, or younger Physicians, will sooner come into a
better and more setled practice, and not be beholden to Apothecaries
to bring them Patients wherewith they often upbraid them, and glory
amongst themselves and to other persons, that they introduced such and
such a Physician.

Hereby Chirurgeons will be restored to some of their employment now
usurped by the Apothecaries, as leting of blood, applying Leeches,
Plasters, Cupping-Glasses, Syringing and Salivation, wraping up bodies
in Cere-Cloaths, &c. which indeed do more properly belong to them then
to the Apothecaries; hereby also haply many occasions of quarrel
betwixt Physicians and the Apothecaries will cease, each party acting
according to his own way.

By this means Pseudochymists, and other Mountebanks mouths and
revilings will be stopped, only exclaiming for this, that Physicians
make not their own Medicines. But since the publication of these
papers I am informed that the said Pseudochymists and Mountebanks rail
against me, this Book, and the way propounded, as much as the
Apothecaries, though before equal Enemies each to others. So that they
have fulfilled the Proverb, of like to like. And no wonder since
hereby their Kingdom of darkness is brought to light, and they are
obliged to oppose it, as the Copper-Smiths were to revile St. Paul for
speaking against the Idol of Diana of the Ephesians, whereby their
trade was lost.

And as for the reasonableness of it, that the Physician ought to
support himself by all lawful ways and means, and to have præeminence
above those ignorant persons that incroach upon his profession, 'tis
confessed by all that have considered the great charge, study, and