those Diseases, which require the Patient to be kept low; upon the whole your Lordship will be of Opinion, that Nature itself would have operated a Crisis, had she not been interrupted by the Doctor; and that the excessive Bleeding and Purging, only hastened the Approach of his Angel of Death; therefore we hope your Lordships will find the Prisoner guilty, in order to deter others from following their own Conceits, in Cases where the Life of a Subject is concerned. _Council for the Prisoner._ My Lord, the Charge against our learned Client, as open’d by my Brother the Attorney General, is of a very deep Nature; but I hope we shall convince this august Court, that the whole Prosecution is founded upon Malice, and has no other Foundation; but the Envy of some of the Doctors Brethren, who can not with any Patience, see any Reformation in their old Practice; they are Men so wedded to old antiquated Opinions, and superanuated Customs, that the strongest Reason cannot convince their Understandings, or the most glaring Truths, have any Influence upon their obstinate Minds, they are all a Parcel of old Women, who have learned a Sett of Notions from their Grandmothers, which they argue upon without Reason; and put in Practice necessarily on all Occasions, and are now so old, that like Children they cannot walk without Leading-strings. Your Lordships are sensible, that its impossible to lay down any certain Rules for the Practice of Physick; they must differ as Constitutions, Times and Seasons, alter those Regulations, which might have been reasonable in the Days of our Grandfathers, are now out of Date; the Luxury of the present Age, the difference in Dyet, Exercise and Diversions of the present Generation, have produced a new Catalogue of Diseases, unknown to our Ancestors; and for which our antient Writers have not so much as dreamed of a Cure now; when the old Women of the Faculty meet with any such, they still persist in their old Recipes; and by that means killed thousands of his Majesty’s Subjects every Day with Impunity; and that out of Laziness, that they will not be at the Trouble to search for new Cures to new Cases; now our Client has been more indefatigable, he has found out not only a Cure more expeditious for our old Native Distempers; but one that will totally eradicate all our exotick Diseases with which this great Empire abounds; he does not mean to keep this great Catholicon a Secret, he is proud of having this Opportunity of divulging it to Mankind, for whose Benefit he has laboured till he is grown expert in the _Profession_; his _Recipe_ is short and eazy, its only _Bleed_ and _Purge_: He apprehends the Reasonableness of this Practice, is like a self-evident Truth in the Mathematicks; all Diseases flow from peccant Humours, being mix’d with the Mass of Blood, which are so closely united to it, that they cannot be discharged by Perspirations or other natural Secretions; _but if you