Gold Not Gold

P.Pal.lau.pal Lib.Alc.triu.

Cath.Med.elog.Iou.

sixty others; let them consecrate the Palmarian laurel to their name, by which they may banish the lightning bolts so that they might expire immediately; let them sing and decree for themselves a triumph Greek term: thriambon over the Parisian Galenists;

Ouid.Faſt.l.5 376.

The names here are not the same; but the cause is the same, the course is very similar, the laurel and scepter are in the hand of Your Majesty. O Averter of Evil, O Helper, do not avenge, but judge:

You, who for my dearest Mother (that is, the College of St. John the Baptist at Oxford) are already healing a mortal wound, and likewise for my very healthy Nurse here (the College of Physicians of London) are healing her bloodless and withered breasts; which the adulterous, fake shoots of these men try to suck dry and threaten to exhaust for a spirit that is already drawing a weak breath.

Ioſin. R.Sc.9. Reut. R.Sc.7. Hect. Boet. l.2

We do not ask that physicians be held in the highest honor, as they were to the ninth King of the Scots: we wish that, as the seventh King established for the most healthy, it be forbidden, under pain of death or imprisonment, for anyone to call himself a physician who has not been both diligently studious in the medical art, and experienced for a long time, and read much, and done much, dogmatically and canonically. May the privileges granted to this London College of Physicians by the Princes of England and by Your Majesty be kept safe and sound by You. Give help, You who have given hope.

Hor.l.3.od.24 35.

What are laws without morals in vain to accomplish? --
What are good things, what are morals, without strength? We who wish very much to consult and provide for the Commonwealth, because it is a medical one, will not dare or be able to offer anything, if the refractory, unskilled, and importunate Empirics were daring, or will be able, not only to advocate for, but to bring to bear tribunes of the people or the military, learned in law or justice, and magnates, whether by power or by force, so that they might intercede against authority, summons, or decrees. For to what crime (as Libavius complains of these)

Lib.l.2.cp.74. Riol. in Tur.p

is patronage lacking? To what lie is a witness lacking?

Iuuen.ſat.7.1.

It will be no less a source of grief and shame for us than for them, if