But farre more commendable is M. Atwel, sometimes Parson of Caluerly
in Deuon, & now of S. Tue in Cornwall. For besides other parts of
learning, with which he hath bene seasoned, he is not vnseene in the
Theoricks of Phisike, & can out of them readily and probably
discourse, touching the nature and accidents of all diseases.
Besides, his iudgment in vrines commeth little behind the skilfullest
in that profession. Mary his practise is somewhat strange and varying
from all others: for though now and then he vse blood-letting, and
doe ordinarily minister Manus Christi, and such like cordials,
[61] of his owne compounding (a poynt fitting well with my humour,
as enabling nature, who best knoweth how to worke) yet mostly for all
diseases he prescribeth milk, and very often milk and apples, a course
deepely subiect to the exception of the best esteemed Practitioners;
and such notwithstanding, as whereby either the vertue of the
medicine, or the fortune of the Phisicion, or the credulitie of
the Patient, hath recouered sundry out of desperate and forlorne
extremities.
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