Hill, Aaron (1685-1750)

The Plain Dealer. No 27

London

Monday, June 22. 1724

"I express myself, with much Seriousness, when I declare, as I here do, that I know not one Science, so Advantageous in Theory, as Mr. Jyngle's New System of Mind Midwifery."

I express myself, with much Seriousness, when I declare, as I here do, that I know not one Science, so Advantageous in Theory, as Mr. Jyngle's New System of Mind Midwifery. If this lucky Gentleman can but make it answer in Practice, according to the vast Idea's I conceive of its Excellence and Use, he will be as much superior to Hippocrates as the Soul is to the Body. Now, Hippocrates, as Sir Clouterly Rumble, in one of his Physical Treatises, informs us, was complimented with Divine Honours, just as his Predecessor Aesculapius had been erected to the Dignity of a Demi-God, from so low a setting out, as that of a Tooth-drawer. As mean a Conception, therefore, as I, or any of my Readers, might have, too hastily, entertained of Mr. Jyngle, as a mere Repeater of his own Rhimes, there is now ample Room for forming great Idea's of his Abilities, and of the Preferment, he may come to, since he is, the Inventor, and will, in all Probability, be the Perfecter of this more noble Art of Healing. And if, in the very Infancy of his Science, he makes a thorough Cure of his desperate Patient Sir Clouterly; I do verily think, after that, there will not be the least Room for any sick minded Person whatsoever, to despair of Success under his Regimen.
(p. 213)

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Text from The Plain Dealer: Being Select Essays on Several Curious Subjects: Relating to Friendship, ... Poetry, and Other Branches of Polite Literature. Publish'd originally in the year 1724. And Now First Collected into Two Volumes (London: Printed for S. Richardson, and A. Wilde, 1730.) <Link to Vol. I in ECCO-TCP><Link to Vol. II in ECCO-TCP>

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