into the Practice of Physic in the country, and,
Thirdly, To Answer your Question.
First, I am then in the first Place to mention the Qualifications necessary for a Physician.
These Qualifications are,
1. Good natural Abilities; as an aptness to learn; a great memory; a sound judgment; a piercing sight; a steady hand, and a humane Temper and Disposition.
2. He should understand the Learned Languages, that he may be enabled to read Books written in Latin, Greek, etc.
3. Arithmetic, which is very useful in various Branches of the Medical Art.
4. Geometry, which is of great utility in the Demonstrations of Botany, Anatomy, etc.
5. Mineralogy, or a genuine History of the Natural Substances which belong to the Mineral Kingdom.
6. Botany, or a Natural History of Plants, their Classes, Subdivisions, various genera, and species.
7. Zoology, or a general History of the Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Insects, etc.
8. Chymistry, which exhibits how to Analyze, Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Substances; or of Separating Bodies by Fire, whereby they are resolved into different Parts, or Principles, for Medicinal, and other Purposes.
9. The Materia Medica, which gives a Narration of the Medicinal Properties, not
