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._ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s note: Page 6, ‘preceeded’ changed to ‘preceded,’ “Air to have preceded it” Page 12, ‘suffient’ changed to ‘sufficient,’ “and self-sufficient Person that ever” Page 17, ‘Philosophers’ changed to ‘Philosopher’s,’ “make the Philosopher’s Stone, and” Page 27, italics removed from around ‘and,’ “_Wool_, _Feathers_, _Hair_, and _Skins_” Page 33, ‘shown’ changed to ‘shewn,’ “to have shewn the _Disposition_” Page 34, ‘succeding’ changed to ‘succeeding,’ “good Author of succeeding Ages” Page 55, full stop changed to comma after ‘Women,’ “ignorant old Women, we ought to have” Page 57, ‘tell’ changed to ‘tells,’ “And _Ovid_ tells us” End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Doctor Mead's Short discourse explain'd, by Anonymous