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[English Translation] such as this without having a perfect knowledge of the causes and remedies specific to illnesses, commit great errors to the detriment of the infirm. When they begin to enter these offices they can be about three years old they are each pledged by the public for one hundred and fifty pounds without being subject to other things than to think of the poor; For as for the rich they pay the price of the ordinary tax both for vacations and for remedies, which are assessed by the jurist Doctors and Magistrates of the capital cities, which price the Doctors would not dare to exceed without great difficulty. They have two servants who help them to prepare the remedies, pick the herbs, give clisters, bleed and apply the medicines together with two wise and pious chambermaids who put themselves in there by devotion, having dedicated themselves entirely to the services of the sick. The Nobility does not seek other Doctors than these, since they are very learned and expert, and it is not lawful for other foreign Doctors and charlatans to practice except under them, and unless they have first demonstrated their knowledge and capacity, which being approved, they are allowed, and if they have some beautiful and rare well-tested secret, it is |
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