both parties. Though I will not deny but some persons
out of gratitude for their Cure, have rewarded me beyond this
proposal. Some of my acquaintance have desired me to be more plain in
this last Paragraph, especially in that part of it where I say I do
not bind my self to the said practice; and to declare more fully the
Cases that may perswade me to the contrary; which are these and such
as these. First Where Patients of their own free offers will contract
with the Physician, or have formerly too meanly rewarded him for his
Cure, in both which the Statutes of our College allow a contract to be
made with Patients. Another case is, if a Physician be consulted once,
and for his Fee hath given Medicines gratis, if the Patient frequently
send for his Medicines without the least reward at all. Or if the
Patient living far in the Country, having (as before) once consulted
the Physician, as in the last case, and shall for weeks, nay months,
send for the same Medicines. Or if the Patients friend shall recommend
a Medicine to another friend of his unknown to the Physician; and
where he gives no Counsel, if a Physician in the Country shall desire
some of his Medicines, which are all the cases that occur at present;
I say in some of these, the Physician must needs be payed for his
Medicines; but in other, 'tis rational he should be payed for his
advice, as he desireth new Medicines, which charge will be far short
also of the Apothecaries Medicines, whether repeated or prescribed
upon new advice.

Now the great charge of Apothecaries Bills, and nauseousness of their
Medicines, appears to be the cause why long habitual diseases, as the
Kings Evil, Falling-Sickness, Convulsions, Melancholies, and Winds in
the Bowels, Gouts, &c. become seldom relieved, though they may with a
constant, facile way, be perfectly cured, where neither the great
charge, nor unpleasantness of Medicines, deterr them from a continued
necessary use of Remedies. And for the same reasons many will be kept
from relapses, who being tired out with taking variety of Medicines,
give over before the tone and strength of their parts is restored,
which is necessary to be done in all long Diseases.

He may so contrive his Medicines, first, That they may be taken in
small quantity, and be made more grateful to the tast, and stomach,
and perform more then those of the Apothecaries, commonly slovenly
made, and of themselves Fulsom, Nauseous, and Sluggish. Secondly, His
Med