Wesley Corpus

ries of diseases and their cure, and to fubflitute these in the place of experiments. 9. As theories increased , fimple medicines were more and more difregarded and difufed ; ' till in a courfe of years , the greater part ofthem were forgotten , at leaft in the politer nations. Inthe room ofthefe, abundance of new ones were introduced , by reafoning, fpeculative men ; and those more and more difficult to be applied , as being more remote from common obfervation . Hence rules for the application of those , and medical books were immenfely multiplied ; ' till at length phyfic became an abftrufe fcience, quite out of the reach of ordinary men. 10. Phyficians now began to be had in admiration , as perfons who were fomething more than human. And profit attended their employ, as well as honour ; fo that they had now two weighty reafons for keeping the bulk of mankind at a diftance, that they might not pry into the myfleries of the profeffion . To this end, they increased thofe difficulties by design , which began in a manner by accident. They filled their writings with abundance oftechnical terms, utterly unintelligible to plain men.