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COOPER, at the _Globe_ in + _Pater-noster-Row_. 1746. + + (Price Six-Pence.) + + + + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + +[Illustration] + + + + + THE + + INTRODUCTION. + + +Before we enter upon this remarkable Tryal, it will not be improper to +inform the Reader of some Customs amongst the _Chinese_, which differ +from those in other Countries of _Europe_. + +Those People are great Encouragers of all useful Learning; which they +endeavour on all Occasions, to turn to the Benefit of the publick in +general, and the Ease and Happiness of every individual Subject in that +vast Empire. + +There are publick Schools in all the Provinces and great Cities of the +Empire, for the Education of Youth in the liberal as well as mechanick +Arts; where the Genius of the Children are carefully studied and +improved in those Arts to which Nature seems to have given them the +strongest Bent without consulting the Whim or Pride of the Parents; by +this means, it’s no rare thing to see the Son of a Nobleman drudging at +the meanest Handicraft; and that of a Peasant shining in the highest Orb +of Life. + +Birth, Title, or Riches, give amongst these people no Claim to the +smallest Preferment; Merit only recommends the Man to Encouragement in +that Sphere of Life, to which his natural Genius has fitted him. + +When a vacancy in any of the Offices happens, the Candidates are chosen +out of the publick Schools; and the Person fittest for the Employment +always is chosen, without Respect of Persons. + +In this Country, the _Physician_ is a very considerable Office; not only +in the Emperor’s Court, but in that of all the _Mandarines_ or great +Governors and Officers of State. + +Before any Man is preferr’d to the Office of Physician, either to the +Sovereign or to any of his great Men, he undergoes a strict and +impartial Examination, as to his Knowledge of the Theory and Practice of +Physick, as well as of the other Branches of Learning, which are +necessary to compleat the wise Physician. + +The Examiners are not those of his own Profession; but the Great Council +of _Mandarines_; who are Men who have been found universally qualified +in all the Branches of humane Literature, before they were admitted to +be of this Council; which is the supream Council of the Empire, and some +what resembles our House of Peers, only they seem to be vested with much +higher Powers. + +When the Person so examin’d is found qualified, he has a Certificate +sign’d by the President of the Court, which empowers him to practice, as +a Doctor under the Regulations which are prescribed by it; from whence, +he must deviate, upon no Account under the Pain of Death. + +The Physicians, are held in great Esteem and Veneration; are there +modest in their Behaviour; of strict morals, and universal Benevolence, +most of them observe as great a Chastity of Manners, as the Clergy; and +value themselves upon their Piety and the Veneration of the Gods, whose +Worship they think it is the Duty of their Function to propagate, as +much as if they were daily at the Altar: They are Men of good Nature and +Humanity, and abound in Acts of Benificence and Charity; Opportunities +to exercise which, they covet as much as Employment in their Profession: +They dare not refuse to attend the meanest Person who calls for their +Assistance; and if a Beggar, send for a Physician, before a _Mandarin_, +he must go to the Beggar, tho’ the _Mandarin_ should be in never so much +Want of him; and the good natured Man, not only assists his Patient with +his Counsel, but supplys his Wants. + +When the Physician, attends on a Patient, he enters upon a Book his +Case, with every minute Circumstance relating to the Distemper; together +with the Medicines administred and their Effects during the whole +Process; whether the Patient dies or Lives, this Book, he is obliged to +return within a limited Time, to an Office kept for that Purpose. If he +upon any Occasion falsifies the Case, or has gone out of the ordinary, +Course of Practice, if any Accident happens to the Patient he is surely +punished. + +The Emperor’s Physicians are always put to Death when he dies; and those +of other Persons, are try’d by the Court of Mandarines, upon Application +of the Friends of the deceas’d, and put to death or otherwise punish’d +according to the Nature of their Crime, from whence we may judge, that +it is a very dangerous thing, to be of that Profession in this Country; +however there are but few Instances where the Physicians of private +Persons have been put to death; as a Pretence to the Knowledge of +Physick, rashness or Impudence, will not in this Country, obtain a +_Diploma_, none but Men of Merit are of the Faculty: These are obliged +to make Conscience of their Business; and dare not venture to try +Experiments; there are no Apothecary’s whose Interest the Doctor has +Occasion to consider in the _Recipe_; he prepares the Medicine himself, +and is too much interested in the Success, to give any more than he +thinks necessary; the Officinals in their Dispensary, are so few, that +you may write them all on a quarter of a Sheet of Paper; and he never +makes a Bill for his Druggs? but is paid so much a Visit, whether he +gives any Physick or not. Thus he is not under the least Temptation to +make an Apothecarys Shop of his Patient’s Belly; but carefully watches +Nature; and assists her when she is weak to the best of his Skill; but +leaves her to her self, when she is strong enough to bring about her +Designs without his Aid. + +Before the present Tryal, there had not been one at _Pekin_, for near +twenty Years; which made this make a considerable Noise through the +whole Empire: The Patient happened to be the _Mandarin_ TONWIN; a Man of +great Authority, much esteemed and trusted by the Emperor; who had made +him Treasurer to his Army; by whom he was not less loved than by the +People in General; as he did Justice to the first, in their Pay, and +promoted the Interest of the last to the utmost of his Power; he was a +Friend to Mankind in General, but particularly to the virtuous, and +thought that Day Ill-spent wherein he had not given them Proof of his +Humanity and Bounty: The Death of this great Man, so universally +esteemed, was somewhat sudden; and his Physician was blamed by some, +tho’ not by the _Mandarines_ nearest Friends; however, it was wispered +about, that he had deviated from the Rules laid down by the great +Council of _Mandarines_; and by the Malice of the Doctor’s Enemies, the +Clamour became publick; in so much, that the great Council, ordered the +Register of the Case to be inspected; and the _Senescal_ was ordered to +draw up an Accusation against the Doctor; with a Copy of which he was +served and taken into Custody; and a Time appointed for a solemn Tryal +before that High Tribunal. + +People were variously affected with the Preparation for the Tryal; some +thought the Doctor guilty; others thought him innocent; and this only +the Effects of the secret Machinations of his Enemies: Those of his own +Profession, for what Reason I am not able to learn, were his most open +Enemies; and thought by all to be his secret Accusers; however, the +Doctor seem’d not at all dismay’d; but hugg’d himself in reflecting on +his own Innocence, which comforted him the more, that he had not the +least Suspicion, that the high Tribunal, before which he was to be +try’d, would mix any Partiality in their Sentence. I have taken Care to +use as few _Chinese_ Terms of Law as possible; and have chose such +_English_ Words, as seem’d to come nearest to the Meaning of the +Original; and in order to make the whole more comprehensible to an +_English_ Reader, I have all along substituted some _English_ Forms, +where I could with Propriety, especially where they served to make the +Tryal more Intelligible. + +[Illustration] + + + + + THE + + TRYAL, &c. + + +On the Day appointed for the Tryal, the great Council of Mandarins +assembled in a great Hall, in the second Court of the King’s Palace, the +President was seated on a Throne, under the Canopy of State; the Ensigns +of his high Office being carried before him, and attended by twenty four +Officers with drawn Sabres in their Hands, who stood round the Steps of +the Throne; the rest of the Mandarins were ranged on each Hand of him in +their Robes of Honour. Silence being commanded in the Name of the +Emperor, the Prisoner was brought to the Bar, to which he approached by +making three Obeysances, and then lay prostrate on his Face, till the +President commanded him to rise; acquainting him, that he had nothing to +fear but his own Guilt; for if that was not found in him, the Court +would not only acquit him, but load him with new Honours; after a short +Speech to this Purpose, Silence was again commanded, and the _Mandarin_ +Secretary, was ordered to read his Indictment; which was conceived in +Words to this Effect. + +You _Nosmoth_, Doctor of the Divine Science of Physick, stand indicted +before this Sovereign Court, at the Suit of our Sovereign Lord the most +High, mighty, and Puisant Emperor, _Abdaer_ Emperor to the World, Lord +of Vast Territories, Commander of Kings, and Beloved of the Sun, to whom +all are Slaves &c. &c. For, that you not having the fear of the Mighty +Gods before your Eyes, but being Instigated thereto, by the Suggestion +of the Black Angel, who Commandeth the Burning Lake; and with malice in +your Heart, and out of Envy and premedicated spite, to the Great +_Mandarin Tonwin_ Slave of our Great Emperor, and Treasurer of his +Invincible Armies, Didst on the Sixth Day, of the Second Month, of the +Year of our Empire, six thousand seven hundred and forty six, conspire +and contrive the Death of the said _Mandarin_; that is on one or other +of the Days of the said second Month; thou didst maliciously, with a +certain Instrument made of Steel, called a _Lancet_, stab the said +_Mandarin_ in the right and left Arm, and didst take from him, a large +Quantity of his Blood, to the amount of fifty seven Ounces; and likewise +didst prevail with the said _Mandarin_, by false unreasonable, and +scandalous Suggestions, to swallow certain Quantities unknown, of +poisonous Drugs, for sixteen or seventeen Days together; and likewise +caused during the said Space of Time, to be introduced into the _Anus_, +(Anglice A——se,) of the said Mandarin, a certain Machine, call’d a +Clister-Pipe, through which was squeezed a certain further Quantity of +poisonous Drugs, into his Bowels; and contrary to the Duty of your +Profession as a Physician, ordered the said Mandarin, then your Patient, +to eat of Meats and Drinks, improper for his Condition, and neglected to +administer such Medicines, as you knew by the Help of the great God +Paphor,[A] would have restored him to Health; by all which your Acts of +Malice, before-mentioned, you permitted the Angel of Death, to carry +away the said _Mandarin_; by which Means our great Emperor, has lost a +faithful Slave, the Empire an useful Member, and the distressed a great +Protector; this is your Accusation, are you Guilty or not Guilty. + +----- + +Footnote A: + + The God of Physick amongst the _Chinese_. + + + _Council for the Prisoner._ + +My Lord President, before we, that have the Honour to be of Council for +the Prisoner, can permit him to plead, we humbly beg Leave to offer some +Reasons to the august Court, why an Indictment in this Case does not lye +against our Client, we humbly apprehend, that the Consent of the Friends +of the Deceased, ought to have been specified in the Indictment, since +the great Mandarin, the Manner of whose Death is now in Question, is not +of the Blood Royal; there never has been an Instance before, where a +Physician has been tried, but upon the Application of the Friends of his +Patient: This is introducing an unheard of Practice, and subjecting the +Gentlemen of that Profession, to uncommon Hardships; who are already but +too much at the Mercy of the designing and malicious: We have an +Affidavit ready to read to your Lordships, sign’d by the nearest agnat +of the deceas’d Lord; wherein they disclaim the Prosecution, and express +their Satisfaction; both of the Skill and Integrity of our Client; +therefore we hope this august Court will quash this Indictment. + + + _Council for the Emperor._ + +My Lord, We are not a little surpriz’d to find the Council for the +Prisoner, make such an extraordinary Motion; when they must certainly +know, what gave Rise to this Tryal: The Prisoner at the Bar, in +Conversation with some of his own Profession, found that they did not +approve of his Method in this Particular; he was offended at their +pretending to find Fault with his Practice; which he asserted he could +justify; This produced a Dispute amongst them, in which he thought he +was scandaliz’d, and brought his Complaint before this Court, for the +Scandal: Your Lordships did not think fit to try the Cause upon that +footing, but to come at the Bottom of the whole Affair, order’d the +Emperor’s _Seniscal_ to prosecute in this Manner. + +Thus the Tryal was at first brought on by the Doctor himself; which he +now declines, why? because it’s not in the Shape he projected, which +shews a more than ordinary Kind of Obstinacy in his Temper, an +Ingredient very unfit to compose a Physician. + +But my learned Brother is likewise mistaken in Point of Law; Tho’ we +have not the Precedents he mentions; yet it’s founded on the Nature of +Things: The august Emperor has an Interest in the Life of every Subject; +and is in Reality in the Quality of Father to each of them; and often +more a Parent than their own natural Fathers: Does he not in all other +criminal Cases, prosecute without the Consent of the Party damag’d; why +may he not then in this? Unless the Physicians claim a Priviledge not +common to the rest of the Subjects of this Empire. + +The Court, after a short Debate, overruled the Objection to the +Indictment; and ordered the Prisoner to plead; he thereupon pleaded not +guilty; and submitted to the Judgment of the Court. + +Here the Court broke up and adjourned the farther hearing to next Day, +when the learned Body being again assembled, in Court, and the President +seated in the Formalites as before gave Orders for proceeding on the +Tryal, which was accordingly done by the Council for the Emperor, who +rising up opened the Case as follows. + + + _Council for the Emperor._ + +My Lord, the Prosecutors for his Imperial Majesty, are so far from +taking any rigorous Advantage of the learned Genman at the Bar, that +they are resolved to try the Cause upon his own State of the Case now in +the _Mandarin_ Secretary’s Hand: They are to suppose, that he has +according to his Duty, fairly stated the Symptoms of the Disease under +which his Right Honourable Patient laboured; and that he has given a +just Account of the Medicines he ordered to be administred in order to +effectuate a Cure; and from this his own State of the Facts, we hope to +convince this august Court, that the Doctor, has followed a Practice, +quite different from those prescribed by your Lordships in similar +Cases; apply’d Medicines improper for the Patient’s Distemper; and in +every Circumstance, acted, as if he rather intended, to increase the +Malady, than save his Patient’s Life; we shall make it appear, that the +Doctor instead of assisting Nature, has endeavoured to convert the Order +of Things, and obstructed her as much as lay in his Power; and we shall +likewise make it appear beyond Conjecture, that the Method used with the +Patient, during the Process of his Illness; hasten’d his End, much more +than the Fever it self: Out of Respect to the _Diploma_ issuing out of +the Court, which entitled the learned Gentleman to practice the divine +Science of Physick, we dare not attribute his Misconduct to Ignorance; +Charity forbids us to suppose it Malice; and good Manners hinders us to +use the Word Obstinacy; but to whatever Motive we may ascribe it the +Facts are incontestable, and the Effects have been fatal to the noble +Lord once an illustrious Member of this great Court. + +Your Lordships, will observe from the Case, that a reumatick Fever, +attended with Pains in the Limbs and a sore Throat, was the Disorder +which afflicted the _Mandarin_ TONWIN, and there never was during the +seventeen Days which the Fever lasted, any thing else administred, to +obtain a Cure; but Bleeding and Purging; how far that was proper in the +Patients Circumstances, we shall very soon determine, we are to observe, +that from the Beginning of the Doctors Attendance, the Patient shewed a +great Disposition to sweat; especially in the Night-time, when it was +sometimes according to the Doctors Report, to Excess. This My Lord, we +look upon as an Attempt of Nature, to get rid of the malignant feverish +Matter, which oppress’d her, by Means of Perspiration; and is by all +Physicians, looked upon as the most common as well as the most natural +Crisis of all feverish Disorders; it was my Lord the Doctors Duty, to +have taken hold of this favourable Disposition of Nature, to have +assisted her, by giving Medicines which would have provoked +Perspiration: But he followed a quite different Course; he willfully +obstructed the Grand Physician; instead of encouraging the Sweat, he +made the Patient get out of Bed to avoid it; seem’d obstinately bent to +obtain a Cure by nothing but purging and bleeding. + +As to the purging, he alledges the Patient was costive; we admit he was; +but does it follow from thence, that he must be purged for seventeen +Days together: The harder the Patient was to work upon, the greater +Reason the Doctor had to desist purging; especially using any Medicine +that would inflame the Bowels, which Jallop certainly does; purging +naturally weakens the strongest Constitution, without the Assistance of +an acute Distemper; but how weak must that Patient be, who suffer’d the +Weight of both, and another Evacuation as destructive of natural +Strength as the other, _viz._ Bleeding. As to the Bleeding, the Doctor +would insinuate from this Case, that he could not take too much Blood +from the Patient, since notwithstanding the monstrous Quantity taken, +the Vessels seemed overcharged, and it burst out at the Nostrils; but +the Doctor is not aware that two Causes absolutely different, will +produce the self same Effect as too great a Quantity of Blood may +produce an Hemorrage; and too small a Quantity the same; in the one Case +the Vessels are distended beyond their proper Tone, and in the other as +much below it; which was certainly the Case of the honourable Patient +unhappily the Subject of the present Debate; the Texture of the Blood +and Vessels were broken by the vast Quantity taken away, and a +Mortification of the Ulcers in the Throat naturally followed; as Nature +had not sufficient Strength left, to stimulate the Blood, and keep it in +its proper Motion; besides, the Regimen of Dyet prescribed by the +Doctor, was quite preposterous; Milk is naturally hot, and as it is of +the Nature of prepared Chyle, turns too soon to Aliment, to be proper in +those Diseases, which require the Patient to be kept low; upon the whole +your Lordship will be of Opinion, that Nature itself would have operated +a Crisis, had she not been interrupted by the Doctor; and that the +excessive Bleeding and Purging, only hastened the Approach of his Angel +of Death; therefore we hope your Lordships will find the Prisoner +guilty, in order to deter others from following their own Conceits, in +Cases where the Life of a Subject is concerned. + + + _Council for the Prisoner._ + +My Lord, the Charge against our learned Client, as open’d by my Brother +the Attorney General, is of a very deep Nature; but I hope we shall +convince this august Court, that the whole Prosecution is founded upon +Malice, and has no other Foundation; but the Envy of some of the Doctors +Brethren, who can not with any Patience, see any Reformation in their +old Practice; they are Men so wedded to old antiquated Opinions, and +superanuated Customs, that the strongest Reason cannot convince their +Understandings, or the most glaring Truths, have any Influence upon +their obstinate Minds, they are all a Parcel of old Women, who have +learned a Sett of Notions from their Grandmothers, which they argue upon +without Reason; and put in Practice necessarily on all Occasions, and +are now so old, that like Children they cannot walk without +Leading-strings. + +Your Lordships are sensible, that its impossible to lay down any certain +Rules for the Practice of Physick; they must differ as Constitutions, +Times and Seasons, alter those Regulations, which might have been +reasonable in the Days of our Grandfathers, are now out of Date; the +Luxury of the present Age, the difference in Dyet, Exercise and +Diversions of the present Generation, have produced a new Catalogue of +Diseases, unknown to our Ancestors; and for which our antient Writers +have not so much as dreamed of a Cure now; when the old Women of the +Faculty meet with any such, they still persist in their old Recipes; and +by that means killed thousands of his Majesty’s Subjects every Day with +Impunity; and that out of Laziness, that they will not be at the Trouble +to search for new Cures to new Cases; now our Client has been more +indefatigable, he has found out not only a Cure more expeditious for our +old Native Distempers; but one that will totally eradicate all our +exotick Diseases with which this great Empire abounds; he does not mean +to keep this great Catholicon a Secret, he is proud of having this +Opportunity of divulging it to Mankind, for whose Benefit he has +laboured till he is grown expert in the _Profession_; his _Recipe_ is +short and eazy, its only _Bleed_ and _Purge_: He apprehends the +Reasonableness of this Practice, is like a self-evident Truth in the +Mathematicks; all Diseases flow from peccant Humours, being mix’d with +the Mass of Blood, which are so closely united to it, that they cannot +be discharged by Perspirations or other natural Secretions; _but if you +purge and bleed away all the Humours in the Body, we are sure none that +are peccant will remain Quod erat Demonstrandum_. This answers all +Cases, all Circumstances, Times, Seasons and Climates, and is an +Improvement in Physick, for which we hope our Client will be rewarded +with a Statue instead of a H——r. + +They have made a deal of Pother about Sweating, but is it not plain, +that alone would not have served the Patient; when its well known that +in Spite of all the Doctors Endeavours to hinder it, it increased +immoderately, and yet produced no such wonderful Effects as they would +attribute to it: Grant that Bleeding and Purging weakens; so does +Sweating; our Client My Lord, apprehends, that if he had bled more +plentifully, he would at least have got the better of the Fever some +Days sooner than he did; the Patient might have died its true, but that +would not have been his Fault if he had used the Means to disburthen him +of his Blood, where the Malady lay; therefore we hope the Court will +acquit the Prisoner. + +Its not the Custom in that Country for the Judge to give a Charge as +there is no Jury, but the Prisoner was ordered to withdraw, and in a +little Time he was called back and acquainted with his Sentence, which +we must beg of the Publick to excuse us from publishing. + + + _FINIS._ + +------------------------------------------------------------------------ + + Transcriber's Notes + + ● The following issues should be noted, along with the resolution: + + 11 it was wispered about, that he had _sic_: wispered + 12 before which he was [he was] to be try’d, Removed. + 13 especially w[h]ere they served to make the Added. + 14 S[c]ience of Physick, stand indicted before Added. + 15 Instigated thereto, by the Sug[g]estion Added. + 17 sign’d by the nearest agnat of the deceas’d _sic_: agnat + 20 rigorous Advantage of the learned Genman _sic_: Genman + 21 as if he rather inten[d]ed, to increase the Added. + 21 practice the divine Science of Ph[i/y]sick, Replaced. + + ● Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75845 *** diff --git a/75845-h/75845-h.htm b/75845-h/75845-h.htm new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eeb7e1d --- /dev/null +++ b/75845-h/75845-h.htm @@ -0,0 +1,889 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> + <head> + <meta charset="UTF-8"> + <title>The genuine tryal of Dr. Nosmoth | Project Gutenberg</title> + <link rel="icon" href="images/cover.jpg" type="image/x-cover"> + <style> + body { margin-left: 8%; 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Cooper</span>, at the <i>Globe</i> in</div> + <div><i>Pater-noster-Row</i>. 1746.</div> + </div> +</div> + +<div class='nf-center-c0'> + <div class='nf-center'> + <div>(Price Six-Pence.)</div> + </div> +</div> + +<div class='pbb'> + <hr class='pb c010'> +</div> + +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<span class='pageno' id='Page_5'>5</span> +<img src='images/i003a.png' alt='' class='ig001'> +</div> + +<div> + <h2 class='c011'><span class='c012'>THE</span><br> <br><span class='c013'>INTRODUCTION.</span></h2> +</div> + +<div class='c014'> + <img class='drop-capi' src='images/i003b.png' width='80' height='80' alt=''> +</div><p class='drop-capi0_7'> +Before we enter upon +this remarkable Tryal, it will +not be improper to inform +the Reader of some Customs +amongst the <i>Chinese</i>, which +differ from those in other Countries of +<i>Europe</i>.</p> + +<p class='c015'>Those People are great Encouragers of +all useful Learning; which they endeavour +on all Occasions, to turn to the Benefit of +the publick in general, and the Ease and +<span class='pageno' id='Page_6'>6</span>Happiness of every individual Subject in +that vast Empire.</p> + +<p class='c015'>There are publick Schools in all the Provinces +and great Cities of the Empire, for +the Education of Youth in the liberal as +well as mechanick Arts; where the Genius +of the Children are carefully studied and +improved in those Arts to which Nature +seems to have given them the strongest Bent +without consulting the Whim or Pride of +the Parents; by this means, it’s no rare +thing to see the Son of a Nobleman drudging +at the meanest Handicraft; and that of a +Peasant shining in the highest Orb of Life.</p> + +<p class='c015'>Birth, Title, or Riches, give amongst +these people no Claim to the smallest Preferment; +Merit only recommends the +Man to Encouragement in that Sphere of +Life, to which his natural Genius has +fitted him.</p> + +<p class='c015'>When a vacancy in any of the Offices +happens, the Candidates are chosen out +of the publick Schools; and the Person +fittest for the Employment always is +chosen, without Respect of Persons.</p> + +<p class='c015'><span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span>In this Country, the <i>Physician</i> is a very +considerable Office; not only in the Emperor’s +Court, but in that of all the +<i>Mandarines</i> or great Governors and +Officers of State.</p> + +<p class='c015'>Before any Man is preferr’d to the +Office of Physician, either to the Sovereign +or to any of his great Men, he undergoes +a strict and impartial Examination, +as to his Knowledge of the Theory and +Practice of Physick, as well as of the +other Branches of Learning, which are +necessary to compleat the wise Physician.</p> + +<p class='c015'>The Examiners are not those of his +own Profession; but the Great Council +of <i>Mandarines</i>; who are Men who have +been found universally qualified in all +the Branches of humane Literature, before +they were admitted to be of this +Council; which is the supream Council +of the Empire, and some what resembles +our House of Peers, only they seem to +be vested with much higher Powers.</p> + +<p class='c015'><span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span>When the Person so examin’d is found +qualified, he has a Certificate sign’d by the +President of the Court, which empowers +him to practice, as a Doctor under the Regulations +which are prescribed by it; from +whence, he must deviate, upon no Account +under the Pain of Death.</p> + +<p class='c015'>The Physicians, are held in great Esteem +and Veneration; are there modest +in their Behaviour; of strict morals, and +universal Benevolence, most of them observe +as great a Chastity of Manners, as +the Clergy; and value themselves upon +their Piety and the Veneration of the +Gods, whose Worship they think it is the +Duty of their Function to propagate, as +much as if they were daily at the Altar: +They are Men of good Nature and +Humanity, and abound in Acts of Benificence +and Charity; Opportunities to +exercise which, they covet as much as +Employment in their Profession: They +dare not refuse to attend the meanest +Person who calls for their Assistance; and +if a Beggar, send for a Physician, before a +<i>Mandarin</i>, he must go to the Beggar, tho’ +<span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span>the <i>Mandarin</i> should be in never so much +Want of him; and the good natured +Man, not only assists his Patient with his +Counsel, but supplys his Wants.</p> + +<p class='c015'>When the Physician, attends on a +Patient, he enters upon a Book his Case, +with every minute Circumstance relating +to the Distemper; together with the +Medicines administred and their Effects +during the whole Process; whether the +Patient dies or Lives, this Book, he is obliged +to return within a limited Time, +to an Office kept for that Purpose. If +he upon any Occasion falsifies the Case, +or has gone out of the ordinary, Course +of Practice, if any Accident happens to +the Patient he is surely punished.</p> + +<p class='c015'>The Emperor’s Physicians are always +put to Death when he dies; and +those of other Persons, are try’d by +the Court of Mandarines, upon Application +of the Friends of the deceas’d, and +put to death or otherwise punish’d according +to the Nature of their Crime, +from whence we may judge, that it is a +<span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>very dangerous thing, to be of that Profession +in this Country; however there are but +few Instances where the Physicians of private +Persons have been put to death; +as a Pretence to the Knowledge of Physick, +rashness or Impudence, will not in this +Country, obtain a <i>Diploma</i>, none but +Men of Merit are of the Faculty: These +are obliged to make Conscience of their +Business; and dare not venture to try +Experiments; there are no Apothecary’s +whose Interest the Doctor has Occasion to +consider in the <i>Recipe</i>; he prepares the +Medicine himself, and is too much interested +in the Success, to give any more +than he thinks necessary; the Officinals in +their Dispensary, are so few, that you +may write them all on a quarter of a +Sheet of Paper; and he never makes a +Bill for his Druggs? but is paid so much +a Visit, whether he gives any Physick or +not. Thus he is not under the least Temptation +to make an Apothecarys Shop of +his Patient’s Belly; but carefully watches +Nature; and assists her when she is +weak to the best of his Skill; but leaves +her to her self, when she is strong enough +<span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>to bring about her Designs without his +Aid.</p> + +<p class='c015'>Before the present Tryal, there had +not been one at <i>Pekin</i>, for near twenty +Years; which made this make a considerable +Noise through the whole Empire: +The Patient happened to be the <i>Mandarin</i> +<span class='sc'>Tonwin</span>; a Man of great Authority, +much esteemed and trusted by the Emperor; +who had made him Treasurer to his +Army; by whom he was not less loved +than by the People in General; as he did +Justice to the first, in their Pay, and promoted +the Interest of the last to the utmost +of his Power; he was a Friend to +Mankind in General, but particularly to +the virtuous, and thought that Day Ill-spent +wherein he had not given them +Proof of his Humanity and Bounty: The +Death of this great Man, so universally +esteemed, was somewhat sudden; and his +Physician was blamed by some, tho’ not +by the <i>Mandarines</i> nearest Friends; however, +it was <a id='tn1'></a>wispered about, that he had +deviated from the Rules laid down by +the great Council of <i>Mandarines</i>; and by +<span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span>the Malice of the Doctor’s Enemies, the +Clamour became publick; in so much, +that the great Council, ordered the Register +of the Case to be inspected; and +the <i>Senescal</i> was ordered to draw up an Accusation +against the Doctor; with a Copy +of which he was served and taken into +Custody; and a Time appointed for a +solemn Tryal before that High Tribunal.</p> + +<p class='c015'>People were variously affected with the +Preparation for the Tryal; some thought +the Doctor guilty; others thought him innocent; +and this only the Effects of the secret +Machinations of his Enemies: Those +of his own Profession, for what Reason I +am not able to learn, were his most open +Enemies; and thought by all to be his secret +Accusers; however, the Doctor seem’d +not at all dismay’d; but hugg’d himself +in reflecting on his own Innocence, which +comforted him the more, that he had not +the least Suspicion, that the high Tribunal, +before which <a id='tn2'></a>he was to be try’d, +would mix any Partiality in their Sentence. +<span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span>I have taken Care to use as few <i>Chinese</i> +Terms of Law as possible; and have chose +such <i>English</i> Words, as seem’d to come +nearest to the Meaning of the Original; +and in order to make the whole more +comprehensible to an <i>English</i> Reader, I +have all along substituted some <i>English</i> +Forms, where I could with Propriety, +especially <a id='tn3'></a>where they served to make the +Tryal more Intelligible.</p> + +<div class='figcenter id002'> +<img src='images/i011.png' alt='' class='ig001'> +</div> + +<div class='chapter'> + <h2 class='c011'><span class='c016'>THE</span><br> <br><span class='c017'><em class='gesperrt'>TRYAL</em>, <em class='gesperrt'>&c</em>.</span></h2> +</div> + +<p class='drop-capa0_1 c018'>On the Day appointed for the Tryal, +the great Council of Mandarins +assembled in a great Hall, in the second +Court of the King’s Palace, the President +was seated on a Throne, under the Canopy +<span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span>of State; the Ensigns of his high +Office being carried before him, and attended +by twenty four Officers with +drawn Sabres in their Hands, who stood +round the Steps of the Throne; the rest +of the Mandarins were ranged on each +Hand of him in their Robes of Honour. +Silence being commanded in the Name of +the Emperor, the Prisoner was brought +to the Bar, to which he approached by +making three Obeysances, and then lay +prostrate on his Face, till the President +commanded him to rise; acquainting +him, that he had nothing to fear but his +own Guilt; for if that was not found in +him, the Court would not only acquit +him, but load him with new Honours; +after a short Speech to this Purpose, Silence +was again commanded, and the +<i>Mandarin</i> Secretary, was ordered to read +his Indictment; which was conceived +in Words to this Effect.</p> + +<p class='c015'>You <i>Nosmoth</i>, Doctor of the Divine +<a id='tn4'></a>Science of Physick, stand indicted before +this Sovereign Court, at the Suit of our +<span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span>Sovereign Lord the most High, mighty, +and Puisant Emperor, <i>Abdaer</i> Emperor +to the World, Lord of Vast Territories, +Commander of Kings, and Beloved of +the Sun, to whom all are Slaves &c. &c. +For, that you not having the fear of the +Mighty Gods before your Eyes, but being +Instigated thereto, by the <a id='tn5'></a>Suggestion +of the Black Angel, who Commandeth +the Burning Lake; and with malice in +your Heart, and out of Envy and premedicated +spite, to the Great <i>Mandarin +Tonwin</i> Slave of our Great Emperor, and +Treasurer of his Invincible Armies, Didst +on the Sixth Day, of the Second Month, of +the Year of our Empire, six thousand seven +hundred and forty six, conspire and contrive +the Death of the said <i>Mandarin</i>; that is on +one or other of the Days of the said second +Month; thou didst maliciously, with +a certain Instrument made of Steel, called +a <i>Lancet</i>, stab the said <i>Mandarin</i> in the +right and left Arm, and didst take from +him, a large Quantity of his Blood, to +the amount of fifty seven Ounces; and +likewise didst prevail with the said <i>Mandarin</i>, +<span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span>by false unreasonable, and scandalous +Suggestions, to swallow certain Quantities +unknown, of poisonous Drugs, for +sixteen or seventeen Days together; and likewise +caused during the said Space of Time, +to be introduced into the <i>Anus</i>, (Anglice +A——se,) of the said Mandarin, a certain +Machine, call’d a Clister-Pipe, +through which was squeezed a certain further +Quantity of poisonous Drugs, into +his Bowels; and contrary to the Duty of +your Profession as a Physician, ordered +the said Mandarin, then your Patient, to +eat of Meats and Drinks, improper for his +Condition, and neglected to administer +such Medicines, as you knew by the Help +of the great God Paphor,<a id='rA'></a><a href='#fA' class='c019'><sup>[A]</sup></a> would have restored +him to Health; by all which your +Acts of Malice, before-mentioned, you +permitted the Angel of Death, to carry +away the said <i>Mandarin</i>; by which Means +our great Emperor, has lost a faithful +Slave, the Empire an useful Member, +and the distressed a great Protector; this +<span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>is your Accusation, are you Guilty or not +Guilty.</p> + +<div class='nf-center-c0'> +<div class='nf-center c020'> + <div><span class='c021'><i>Council for the Prisoner.</i></span></div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class='c015'>My Lord President, before we, that +have the Honour to be of Council for the +Prisoner, can permit him to plead, we +humbly beg Leave to offer some Reasons +to the august Court, why an Indictment +in this Case does not lye against our Client, +we humbly apprehend, that the +Consent of the Friends of the Deceased, +ought to have been specified in the Indictment, +since the great Mandarin, the +Manner of whose Death is now in Question, +is not of the Blood Royal; there never +has been an Instance before, where a +Physician has been tried, but upon the +Application of the Friends of his Patient: +This is introducing an unheard of Practice, +and subjecting the Gentlemen of that +Profession, to uncommon Hardships; who +are already but too much at the Mercy of +the designing and malicious: We have an +Affidavit ready to read to your Lordships, +sign’d by the nearest <a id='tn6'></a>agnat of the deceas’d +<span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>Lord; wherein they disclaim the Prosecution, +and express their Satisfaction; +both of the Skill and Integrity of our +Client; therefore we hope this august +Court will quash this Indictment.</p> + +<div class='nf-center-c0'> +<div class='nf-center c020'> + <div><span class='c021'><i>Council for the Emperor.</i></span></div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class='c015'>My Lord, We are not a little surpriz’d +to find the Council for the Prisoner, +make such an extraordinary Motion; +when they must certainly know, +what gave Rise to this Tryal: The Prisoner +at the Bar, in Conversation with +some of his own Profession, found that +they did not approve of his Method in +this Particular; he was offended at their +pretending to find Fault with his Practice; +which he asserted he could justify; +This produced a Dispute amongst them, +in which he thought he was scandaliz’d, +and brought his Complaint before this +Court, for the Scandal: Your Lordships +did not think fit to try the Cause upon +that footing, but to come at the Bottom +of the whole Affair, order’d the Emperor’s +<i>Seniscal</i> to prosecute in this Manner.</p> + +<p class='c015'><span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>Thus the Tryal was at first brought +on by the Doctor himself; which he +now declines, why? because it’s not in +the Shape he projected, which shews a +more than ordinary Kind of Obstinacy +in his Temper, an Ingredient very unfit +to compose a Physician.</p> + +<p class='c015'>But my learned Brother is likewise +mistaken in Point of Law; Tho’ we have +not the Precedents he mentions; yet it’s +founded on the Nature of Things: The +august Emperor has an Interest in the +Life of every Subject; and is in Reality +in the Quality of Father to each of +them; and often more a Parent than +their own natural Fathers: Does he not +in all other criminal Cases, prosecute +without the Consent of the Party damag’d; +why may he not then in this? +Unless the Physicians claim a Priviledge +not common to the rest of the Subjects +of this Empire.</p> + +<p class='c015'>The Court, after a short Debate, overruled +the Objection to the Indictment; +<span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span>and ordered the Prisoner to plead; he +thereupon pleaded not guilty; and submitted +to the Judgment of the Court.</p> + +<p class='c015'>Here the Court broke up and adjourned +the farther hearing to next Day, when +the learned Body being again assembled, +in Court, and the President seated in the +Formalites as before gave Orders for proceeding +on the Tryal, which was accordingly +done by the Council for the Emperor, +who rising up opened the Case as +follows.</p> + +<div class='nf-center-c0'> +<div class='nf-center c020'> + <div><span class='c021'><i>Council for the Emperor.</i></span></div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class='c015'>My Lord, the Prosecutors for his Imperial +Majesty, are so far from taking any +rigorous Advantage of the learned <a id='tn7'></a>Genman +at the Bar, that they are resolved +to try the Cause upon his own State of +the Case now in the <i>Mandarin</i> Secretary’s +Hand: They are to suppose, that he has +according to his Duty, fairly stated the +Symptoms of the Disease under which his +Right Honourable Patient laboured; and +that he has given a just Account of the +<span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>Medicines he ordered to be administred in +order to effectuate a Cure; and from this +his own State of the Facts, we hope to +convince this august Court, that the Doctor, +has followed a Practice, quite different +from those prescribed by your +Lordships in similar Cases; apply’d Medicines +improper for the Patient’s Distemper; +and in every Circumstance, acted, +as if he rather <a id='tn8'></a>intended, to increase the +Malady, than save his Patient’s Life; we +shall make it appear, that the Doctor instead +of assisting Nature, has endeavoured +to convert the Order of Things, and obstructed +her as much as lay in his Power; +and we shall likewise make it appear beyond +Conjecture, that the Method used +with the Patient, during the Process of +his Illness; hasten’d his End, much more +than the Fever it self: Out of Respect to +the <i>Diploma</i> issuing out of the Court, +which entitled the learned Gentleman to +practice the divine Science of <a id='tn9'></a>Physick, +we dare not attribute his Misconduct to +Ignorance; Charity forbids us to suppose +it Malice; and good Manners hinders +<span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>us to use the Word Obstinacy; but to +whatever Motive we may ascribe it the +Facts are incontestable, and the Effects have +been fatal to the noble Lord once an illustrious +Member of this great Court.</p> + +<p class='c015'>Your Lordships, will observe from +the Case, that a reumatick Fever, attended +with Pains in the Limbs and a sore +Throat, was the Disorder which afflicted +the <i>Mandarin</i> <span class='sc'>Tonwin</span>, and there never +was during the seventeen Days which the +Fever lasted, any thing else administred, +to obtain a Cure; but Bleeding and Purging; +how far that was proper in the Patients +Circumstances, we shall very soon +determine, we are to observe, that from +the Beginning of the Doctors Attendance, +the Patient shewed a great Disposition to +sweat; especially in the Night-time, when +it was sometimes according to the Doctors +Report, to Excess. This My Lord, +we look upon as an Attempt of Nature, +to get rid of the malignant feverish Matter, +which oppress’d her, by Means of +Perspiration; and is by all Physicians, +<span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>looked upon as the most common as well +as the most natural Crisis of all feverish +Disorders; it was my Lord the Doctors +Duty, to have taken hold of this favourable +Disposition of Nature, to have assisted +her, by giving Medicines which +would have provoked Perspiration: But +he followed a quite different Course; he +willfully obstructed the Grand Physician; +instead of encouraging the Sweat, he made +the Patient get out of Bed to avoid it; +seem’d obstinately bent to obtain a Cure +by nothing but purging and bleeding.</p> + +<p class='c015'>As to the purging, he alledges the +Patient was costive; we admit he was; +but does it follow from thence, that he +must be purged for seventeen Days together: +The harder the Patient was to +work upon, the greater Reason the Doctor +had to desist purging; especially using +any Medicine that would inflame the +Bowels, which Jallop certainly does; +purging naturally weakens the strongest +Constitution, without the Assistance of +an acute Distemper; but how weak must +<span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span>that Patient be, who suffer’d the Weight +of both, and another Evacuation as destructive +of natural Strength as the other, +<i>viz.</i> Bleeding. As to the Bleeding, the +Doctor would insinuate from this Case, +that he could not take too much Blood +from the Patient, since notwithstanding +the monstrous Quantity taken, the Vessels +seemed overcharged, and it burst out at +the Nostrils; but the Doctor is not aware +that two Causes absolutely different, will +produce the self same Effect as too great +a Quantity of Blood may produce an Hemorrage; +and too small a Quantity the +same; in the one Case the Vessels are distended +beyond their proper Tone, and in +the other as much below it; which was +certainly the Case of the honourable Patient +unhappily the Subject of the present +Debate; the Texture of the Blood and +Vessels were broken by the vast Quantity +taken away, and a Mortification of the +Ulcers in the Throat naturally followed; +as Nature had not sufficient Strength left, +to stimulate the Blood, and keep it in its +proper Motion; besides, the Regimen of +<span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span>Dyet prescribed by the Doctor, was quite +preposterous; Milk is naturally hot, and +as it is of the Nature of prepared Chyle, +turns too soon to Aliment, to be proper in +those Diseases, which require the Patient +to be kept low; upon the whole your +Lordship will be of Opinion, that Nature +itself would have operated a Crisis, had +she not been interrupted by the Doctor; +and that the excessive Bleeding and Purging, +only hastened the Approach of his +Angel of Death; therefore we hope your +Lordships will find the Prisoner guilty, +in order to deter others from following +their own Conceits, in Cases where the +Life of a Subject is concerned.</p> + +<div class='nf-center-c0'> +<div class='nf-center c020'> + <div><span class='c021'><i>Council for the Prisoner.</i></span></div> + </div> +</div> + +<p class='c015'>My Lord, the Charge against our +learned Client, as open’d by my Brother +the Attorney General, is of a very deep +Nature; but I hope we shall convince this +august Court, that the whole Prosecution +is founded upon Malice, and has no other +Foundation; but the Envy of some of the +Doctors Brethren, who can not with any +<span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>Patience, see any Reformation in their old +Practice; they are Men so wedded to old +antiquated Opinions, and superanuated Customs, +that the strongest Reason cannot +convince their Understandings, or the +most glaring Truths, have any Influence +upon their obstinate Minds, they are all +a Parcel of old Women, who have learned +a Sett of Notions from their Grandmothers, +which they argue upon without +Reason; and put in Practice necessarily on +all Occasions, and are now so old, that +like Children they cannot walk without +Leading-strings.</p> + +<p class='c015'>Your Lordships are sensible, that its +impossible to lay down any certain Rules +for the Practice of Physick; they must differ +as Constitutions, Times and Seasons, alter +those Regulations, which might have been +reasonable in the Days of our Grandfathers, +are now out of Date; the Luxury +of the present Age, the difference in Dyet, +Exercise and Diversions of the present Generation, +have produced a new Catalogue +of Diseases, unknown to our Ancestors; +<span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>and for which our antient Writers have +not so much as dreamed of a Cure now; +when the old Women of the Faculty meet +with any such, they still persist in their +old Recipes; and by that means killed +thousands of his Majesty’s Subjects every Day +with Impunity; and that out of Laziness, +that they will not be at the Trouble to search +for new Cures to new Cases; now our Client +has been more indefatigable, he has +found out not only a Cure more expeditious +for our old Native Distempers; but one +that will totally eradicate all our exotick Diseases +with which this great Empire abounds; +he does not mean to keep this great Catholicon +a Secret, he is proud of having this +Opportunity of divulging it to Mankind, for +whose Benefit he has laboured till he is +grown expert in the <i>Profession</i>; his <i>Recipe</i> is +short and eazy, its only <i>Bleed</i> and <i>Purge</i>: +He apprehends the Reasonableness of this +Practice, is like a self-evident Truth in the +Mathematicks; all Diseases flow from peccant +Humours, being mix’d with the Mass +of Blood, which are so closely united to it, +that they cannot be discharged by Perspirations +<span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span>or other natural Secretions; <i>but if you +purge and bleed away all the Humours in the +Body, we are sure none that are peccant will +remain Quod erat Demonstrandum</i>. This +answers all Cases, all Circumstances, Times, +Seasons and Climates, and is an Improvement +in Physick, for which we hope our Client +will be rewarded with a Statue instead of a +H——r.</p> + +<p class='c015'>They have made a deal of Pother about +Sweating, but is it not plain, that alone +would not have served the Patient; when +its well known that in Spite of all the +Doctors Endeavours to hinder it, it increased +immoderately, and yet produced +no such wonderful Effects as they would +attribute to it: Grant that Bleeding and +Purging weakens; so does Sweating; our +Client My Lord, apprehends, that if he +had bled more plentifully, he would at +least have got the better of the Fever +some Days sooner than he did; the Patient +might have died its true, but that +would not have been his Fault if he had +used the Means to disburthen him of +<span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span>his Blood, where the Malady lay; therefore +we hope the Court will acquit the +Prisoner.</p> + +<p class='c015'>Its not the Custom in that Country +for the Judge to give a Charge as there +is no Jury, but the Prisoner was ordered +to withdraw, and in a little Time he was +called back and acquainted with his Sentence, +which we must beg of the Publick +to excuse us from publishing.</p> + +<div class='nf-center-c0'> +<div class='nf-center c020'> + <div><span class='c021'><em class='gesperrt'><i>FINIS.</i></em></span></div> + </div> +</div> + +<div class='chapter'> + <h2 class='c011'>Footnotes</h2> +</div> + +<div class='footnote' id='fA'> +<p class='c014'><a href='#rA'>A</a>. The God of Physick amongst the <i>Chinese</i>.</p> +</div> + +<div class='pbb'> + <hr class='pb c000'> +</div> + +<div class='tnbox'> + +<div class='nf-center-c0'> + <div class='nf-center'> + <div><b>Transcriber’s Notes</b></div> + </div> +</div> + + <ul class='ul_1'> + <li>The following issues should be noted, along with the resolution: +<table class='table1'> +<colgroup> +<col class='colwidth6'> +<col class='colwidth68'> +<col class='colwidth25'> +</colgroup> + <tr> + <td class='c022'><a href='#tn1'>11</a></td> + <td class='c022'>it was wispered about, that he had</td> + <td class='c023'><i>sic</i>: wispered</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class='c022'><a href='#tn2'>12</a></td> + <td class='c022'>before which he was [he was] to be try’d,</td> + <td class='c023'>Removed.</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class='c022'><a href='#tn3'>13</a></td> + <td class='c022'>especially w[h]ere they served to make the</td> + <td class='c023'>Added.</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class='c022'><a href='#tn4'>14</a></td> + <td class='c022'>S[c]ience of Physick, stand indicted before</td> + <td class='c023'>Added.</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class='c022'><a href='#tn5'>15</a></td> + <td class='c022'>Instigated thereto, by the Sug[g]estion</td> + <td class='c023'>Added.</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class='c022'><a href='#tn6'>17</a></td> + <td class='c022'>sign’d by the nearest agnat of the deceas’d</td> + <td class='c023'><i>sic</i>: agnat</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class='c022'><a href='#tn7'>20</a></td> + <td class='c022'>rigorous Advantage of the learned Genman</td> + <td class='c023'><i>sic</i>: Genman</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class='c022'><a href='#tn8'>21</a></td> + <td class='c022'>as if he rather inten[d]ed, to increase the</td> + <td class='c023'>Added.</td> + </tr> + <tr> + <td class='c022'><a href='#tn9'>21</a></td> + <td class='c022'>practice the divine Science of Ph[i/y]sick,</td> + <td class='c023'>Replaced.</td> + </tr> +</table> + </li> + </ul> + +</div> + +<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75845 ***</div> + </body> + <!-- created with ppgen.py 3.57e on 2025-04-12 19:04:35 GMT --> +</html> + diff --git a/75845-h/images/cover.jpg b/75845-h/images/cover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..fb5e4f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/75845-h/images/cover.jpg diff --git a/75845-h/images/i003a.png b/75845-h/images/i003a.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..e0125f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/75845-h/images/i003a.png diff --git a/75845-h/images/i003b.png b/75845-h/images/i003b.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..950b768 --- /dev/null +++ b/75845-h/images/i003b.png diff --git a/75845-h/images/i011.png b/75845-h/images/i011.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..691a3b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/75845-h/images/i011.png diff --git a/75845-h/images/ititle.png b/75845-h/images/ititle.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..b4d3e73 --- /dev/null +++ b/75845-h/images/ititle.png diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b5dba15 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +This book, including all associated images, markup, improvements, +metadata, and any other content or labor, has been confirmed to be +in the PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE UNITED STATES. + +Procedures for determining public domain status are described in +the "Copyright How-To" at https://www.gutenberg.org. + +No investigation has been made concerning possible copyrights in +jurisdictions other than the United States. 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