Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) _Medicina Flagellata_: OR, THE DOCTOR SCARIFY'D. ----_AEgrescitque medendo._ Virg. _Si tibi deficiant Medici, Medici, tibi fiant: Haec tria, Mens laeta, requies, moderata dieta._ _LONDON:_ Printed for J. BATEMAN, at the _Hat_ and _Star_; and J. NICKS, at the _Dolphin_ and _Crown_, both in St. _Paul's Church-yard_. 1721. _Medicina Flagellata_: OR, THE Doctor Scarify'd. Laying open the VICES of the Faculty, the Insignificancy of a great Part of their _Materia Medica_; with certain RULES to discern the true Physician from the Emperick, and the Useful Medicine from the Noxious and Trading Physick. WITH An ESSAY on HEALTH, Or the POWER of a REGIMEN. To which is added, A Discovery of some Remarkable Errors in the late Writings on the PLAGUE, by Dr. _Mead_, _Quincey_, _Bradley_, &c. With some useful and necessary RULES to be observed in the Time of that Contagious Distemper. _LONDON_: Printed for J. BATEMAN, and J. NICKS. M. DCC. XXI. PREFACE. _It being usual for Authors, in Prefaces, to render an Account of the Occasion which gave Birth to their Writings, and to acquaint the Reader with the Design and Scope of their Discourses; I thought it convenient to continue a Custom approved by many illustrious Examples._ _The Motive of publishing this Tract, is not the Intercession of Friends, for none had ever the View of any Part of it; and that it is not Design of Applause that has engaged me in this Undertaking, the Care I have had to conceal my Name will, I suppose, free me from such Suspicion: the chief Inducement proceeds from an Inclination to Mankind, to instruct them to preserve and prolong their Lives, thereby to prevent them from using fraudulent Quack Medicines (which are now become so universally vendible amongst them) or advising with such as are wholly ignorant; and I should think my self sufficiently rewarded for my Pains, if I could arrive to the Point of reforming the Abuses of the present, and restoring the Simplicity of the ancient Practice, by laying open to the World my Observations of the pretended and fallacious =Methodus Medendi=, and the Insignificancy of a great Part of their =Materia Medica=._