[4094] “Chirurgicus medico quo differt? scilicet isto,
          Enecat hic succis, enecat ille manu: 
        Carnifice hoc ambo tantum differre videntur,
          Tardius hi faciunt, quod facit ille cito.”

But I return to their skill; many diseases they cannot cure at all, as apoplexy, epilepsy, stone, strangury, gout, Tollere nodosam nescit medicina Podagram; [4095]quartan agues, a common ague sometimes stumbles them all, they cannot so much as ease, they know not how to judge of it.  If by pulses, that doctrine, some hold, is wholly superstitious, and I dare boldly say with [4096]Andrew Dudeth, “that variety of pulses described by Galen, is neither observed nor understood of any.”  And for urine, that is meretrix medicorum, the most deceitful thing of all, as Forestus and some other physicians have proved at large:  I say nothing of critic days, errors in indications, &c.  The most rational of them, and skilful, are so often deceived, that as [4097]Tholosanus infers, “I had rather believe and commit myself to a mere empiric, than to a mere doctor, and I cannot sufficiently commend that custom of the Babylonians, that have no professed physicians, but bring all their patients to the market to be cured:”  which Herodotus relates of the Egyptians:  Strabo, Sardus, and Aubanus Bohemus of many other nations.  And those that prescribed physic, amongst them, did not so arrogantly take upon them to cure all diseases, as our professors do, but some one, some another, as their skill and experience did serve; [4098] “One cured the eyes, a second the teeth, a third the head, another the lower parts,” &c., not for gain, but in charity, to do good, they made neither art, profession, nor trade of it, which in other places was accustomed:  and therefore Cambyses in [4099]Xenophon told Cyrus, that to his thinking, physicians “were like tailors and cobblers, the one mended our sick bodies, as the other did our clothes.”  But I will urge these cavilling and contumelious arguments no farther, lest some physician should mistake me, and deny me physic when I am sick:  for my part, I am well persuaded of physic:  I can distinguish the abuse from the use, in this and many other arts and sciences:  [4100]_Alliud vinum, aliud ebrietas_, wine and drunkenness are two distinct things.  I acknowledge it a most noble and divine science, in so much that Apollo, Aesculapius, and the first founders of it, merito pro diis habiti, were worthily counted gods by succeeding ages, for the excellency of their invention.  And whereas Apollo at Delos, Venus at Cyprus, Diana at Ephesus, and those other gods were confined and adored alone in some peculiar places:  Aesculapius and his temple and altars everywhere, in Corinth, Lacedaemon, Athens, Thebes, Epidaurus, &c.  Pausanius records, for the latitude of his art, deity, worth, and necessity.  With all virtuous and wise men therefore I honour the name and calling, as I am enjoined “to honour