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Our Poets present you the Play and the Farce together; and our Stages still retain somewhat of the original civility of the 'Red Bull. "Atque ursum et pugiles media inter carmina poscunt. Would you not think that physician mad! who having prescribed a purge, should immediately order you to take restringents upon it? "But to leave our Plays, and return to theirs.
This doctor therefore proposed, “that upon the meeting of the senate, certain physicians should attend it the three first days of their sitting, and at the close of each day’s debate feel the pulses of every senator; after which, having maturely considered and consulted upon the nature of the several maladies, and the methods of cure, they should on the fourth day return to the senate house, attended by their apothecaries stored with proper medicines; and before the members sat, administer to each of them lenitives, aperitives, abstersives, corrosives, restringents, palliatives, laxatives, cephalalgics, icterics, apophlegmatics, acoustics, as their several cases required; and, according as these medicines should operate, repeat, alter, or omit them, at the next meeting.”
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