who had not enough of Judgement and Art to compare them aright. And because this Art is not acquir'd but by use. (for it is more likely that a Man shall judge aright in an affair who has been us'd to weigh circumstances, and consider things calmely, and look well on every side, than another of no greater Spirit, who never apply'd him self to be serious in any thing) Therefore the Doctor re∣commended the study of Geometry and Mathematicks to Physicians, that they may learn to reason justly, and com∣pare things observed in Physick as exactly (as far at least as the nature of the observations can admit) as they had been us'd to do in Mathematicks. And therefore this Pamphleteer ought not to meddle with drawing conclu∣sions in Medicine, since he is one of those (see page 22.) To whom the Mathematicks have never done good.
And the Doctor was the more pressing to this, Because all the actions of our Body, and the Bodies that act upon ours, as Medicaments, &c. are the motions of some fluid or solid things, and that these all observe the Laws of motion treated of and demonstrated in the Mecha∣nicks. And for this reason, did the Doctor recommend the study of Mathematicks to his Hearers.
Now how bravely is all this refuted, by our Pam∣phleteers saying, That all wise men know, that Medicine is of a quite other nature than Astronomy? What if it be? Are we therefore not to be exact in our observations, or are we not to follow a Medicine built on observations, because the Astronomers build on them? But sayes our Pamphleteer, the observations made by Physicians in sundry places, agree, and those made by Physicians in sundry places, as France, AEgypt, Rome, doe not a∣gree;