said
Professors almost exclusively. Nevertheless, there were, even in those
days, some few doctors of real learning, and repute, who found valid
reasons for attributing medicinal and curative virtues to certain
Precious Stones, and Metals.
Dr. John Schroder, " that most famous, and faithful Chymist," produced in 1669, " The Compleat Chymical Dispensatory ; in
Five Books ; treating of All Sorts of Metals, Precious Stones, and
Minerals ; How rightly to Know Them. And How they are to be used in
Physick ; with their several Doses." " The like work being very proper
for all Merchants, Druggists, Chirur-gions, and Apothecaries ; also for
such ingenious persons as study Physick, or Philosophy." This learned
Volume was written in Latin; and was afterwards Englished by William
Rowland, Doctor of Physick, who had previously translated Hippocrates,
Rivierus, Bartholinus, Platerus, Sennerius, Rulandus, Crato, and other
ancient classical writers. It was " printed, and sold at the Sign of
the ' Two Angels, and Crown,' in Little Brittain."
"
To you, Noble Merchants," wrote Dr. Rowland, " I have presented this
Work because during my long captivity in Algiers, Tunis, and Alexandria
I received many favours from you, wherefore I studyed how I might in
point of Gratitude do something with my Pen which might not only
eternize your Names, but make you more acquainted with all things of
the Creation wherein you Trade ; as Metals, Precious Stones, and other
Minerals; that you might be more quick sighted therein. And that you
might (when you are constrained to be your own Physicians, as
Travellers are used to be) be able to cure yourselves, and preserve the
health of others." " With these Remedies (by God's assistance)
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