. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . THE D.^NGERS OF .^. Eoy. 0 E- vi.) _lmitta yn\&So. An« •J>. THE PHLEBOTOMISTS GlIllE.(TrintVi/ Collcqe, Camhridije.) 112 THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE KINGDOM. [1274 would not be understood, never to visit a patient withoutdoing something new, lest the patient should say he can donothing without his book ; and, in short, to sustain a reputa-tion for infallibility at all costs. Such men were not li
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . THE D.^NGERS OF .^. Eoy. 0 E- vi.) _lmitta yn\&So. An« •J>. THE PHLEBOTOMISTS GlIllE.(TrintVi/ Collcqe, Camhridije.) 112 THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE KINGDOM. [1274 would not be understood, never to visit a patient withoutdoing something new, lest the patient should say he can donothing without his book ; and, in short, to sustain a reputa-tion for infallibility at all costs. Such men were not likelyto combat popular beliefs, if they did not directly encouragethem. Bacon quoted Constantine (the introducer of Arabmedicine into Europe) with the express approval of the use ofcharms. These talismans, said he, are not to be used becausethe} can bring about any change, but because they bring thepatient into a better fiame of mind. One often wonders that pretensions so utterly baseless asthose of magic were not exploded at once. Several reasonsprevented this from lieing the case. We must rememberthat- this was an era of dawn when wonderful things wereexpected if one left ones own parish. It was a matter ofeveryda} knowdedge that there was a place in Irel
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