The genuine tryal of Dr. Nosmoth, a physician in Pekin
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Title: The genuine tryal of Dr. Nosmoth, a physician in Pekin

For the murder of the Mandarin Tonwin, treasurer to the army of the emperor of China, before the great council of Mandarines

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Release date: April 12, 2025 [eBook #75845]

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Original publication: London: M. Cooper, 1746

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THE GENUINE

TRYAL

OF

Dr. NOSMOTH,

A

Physician in Pekin;

FOR

The Murder of the MANDARIN

Tonwin, Treasurer to the Army of

the Emperor of China, before the great

Council of Mandarines.

TAKEN
In short Hand by the LINGUIST of the
English Factory.

LONDON:

Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in

Pater-noster-Row. 1746.

(Price Six-Pence.)

THE

INTRODUCTION.

Before we enter upon this remarkable Tryal, it will not be improper to inform the Reader of some Customs amongst the Chinese, which differ from those in other Countries of Europe.

Those People are great Encouragers of all useful Learning; which they endeavour on all Occasions, to turn to the Benefit of the publick in general, and the Ease and Happiness of every individual Subject in that vast Empire.

There are publick Schools in all the Provinces and great Cities of the Empire, for the Education of Youth in the liberal as well as mechanick Arts; where the Genius of the Children are carefully studied and improved in those Arts to which Nature seems to have given them the strongest Bent without consulting the Whim or Pride of the Parents; by this means, it’s no rare thing to see the Son of a Nobleman drudging at the meanest Handicraft; and that of a Peasant shining in the highest Orb of Life.

Birth, Title, or Riches, give amongst these people no Claim to the smallest Preferment; Merit only recommends the Man to Encouragement in that Sphere of Life, to which his natural Genius has fitted him.

When a vacancy in any of the Offices happens, the Candidates are chosen out of the publick Schools; and the Person fittest for the Employment always is chosen, without Respect of Persons.

In this Country, the Physician is a very considerable Office; not only in the Emperor’s Court, but in that of all the Mandarines or great Governors and Officers of State.

Before any Man is preferr’d to the Office of Physician, either to the Sovereign or to any of his great Men, he undergoes a strict and impartial Examination, as to his Knowledge of the Theory and Practice of Physick, as well as of the other Branches of Learning, which are necessary to compleat the wise Physician.

The Examiners are not those of his own Profession; but the Great Council of Mandarines; who are Men who have been found universally qualified in all the Branches of humane Literature, before they were admitted to be of this Council; which is the supream Council of the Empire, and some what resembles our House of Peers, only they seem to be vested with much higher Powers.

When the Person so examin’d is found qualified, he has a Certificate sign’d by the President of the Court, which empowers him to practice, as a Doctor under the Regulations which are prescribed by it; from whence, he must deviate, upon no Account under the Pain of Death.

The Physicians, are held in great Esteem and Veneration; are there modest in their Behaviour; of strict morals, and universal Benevolence, most of them observe as great a Chastity of Manners, as the Clergy; and value themselves upon their Piety and the Veneration of the Gods, whose Worship they think it is the Duty of their Function to propagate, as much as if they were daily at the Altar: They are Men of good Nature and Humanity, and abound in Acts of Benificence and Charity; Opportunities to exercise which, they covet as much as Employment in their Profession: They dare not refuse to attend the meanest Person who calls for their Assistance; and if a Beggar, send for a Physician, before a Mandarin, he must go to the Beggar, tho’ the Mandarin should be in never so much Want of him; and the good natured Man, not only assists his Patient with his Counsel, but supplys his Wants.

When the Physician, attends on a Patient, he enters upon a Book his Case, with every minute Circumstance relating to the Distemper; together with the Medicines administred and their Effects during the whole Process; whether the Patient dies or Lives, this Book, he is obliged to return within a limited Time, to an Office kept for that Purpose. If he upon any Occasion falsifies the Case, or has gone out of the ordinary, Course of Practice, if any Accident happens to the Patient he is surely punished.

The Emperor’s Physicians are always put to Death when he dies; and those of other Persons, are try’d by the Court of Mandarines, upon Application of the Friends of the deceas’d, and put to death or otherwise punish’d according to the Nature of their Crime, from whence we may judge, that it is a very dangerous thing, to be of that Profession in this Country; however there are but few Instances where the Physicians of private Persons have been put to death; as a Pretence to the Knowledge of Physick, rashness or Impudence, will not in this Country, obtain a Diploma, none but Men of Merit are of the Faculty: These are obliged to make Conscience of their Business; and dare not venture to try Experiments; there are no Apothecary’s whose Interest the Doctor has Occasion to consider in the Recipe; he prepares the Medicine himself, and is too much interested in the Success, to give any more than he thinks necessary; the Officinals in their Dispensary, are so few, that you may write them all on a quarter of a Sheet of Paper; and he never makes a Bill for his Druggs? but is paid so much a Visit, whether he gives any Physick or not. Thus he is not under the least Temptation to make an Apothecarys Shop of his Patient’s Belly; but carefully watches Nature; and assists her when she is weak to the best of his Skill; but leaves her to her self, when she is strong enough to bring about her Designs without his Aid.

Before the present Tryal, there had not been one at Pekin, for near twenty Years; which made this make a considerable Noise through the whole Empire: The Patient happened to be the Mandarin Tonwin; a Man of great Authority, much esteemed and trusted by the Emperor; who had made him Treasurer to his Army; by whom he was not less loved than by the People in General; as he did Justice to the first, in their Pay, and promoted the Interest of the last to the utmost of his Power; he was a Friend to Mankind in General, but particularly to the virtuous, and thought that Day Ill-spent wherein he had not given them Proof of his Humanity and Bounty: The Death of this great Man, so universally esteemed, was somewhat sudden; and his Physician was blamed by some, tho’ not by the Mandarines nearest Friends; however, it was wispered about, that he had deviated from the Rules laid down by the great Council of Mandarines; and by the Malice of the Doctor’s Enemies, the Clamour became publick; in so much, that the great Council, ordered the Register of the Case to be inspected; and the Senescal was ordered to draw up an Accusation against the Doctor; with a Copy of which he was served and taken into Custody; and a Time appointed for a solemn Tryal before that High Tribunal.

People were variously affected with the Preparation for the Tryal; some thought the Doctor guilty; others thought him innocent; and this only the Effects of the secret Machinations of his Enemies: Those of his own Profession, for what Reason I am not able to learn, were his most open Enemies; and thought by all to be his secret Accusers; however, the Doctor seem’d not at all dismay’d; but hugg’d himself in reflecting on his own Innocence, which comforted him the more, that he had not the least Suspicion, that the high Tribunal, before which he was to be try’d, would mix any Partiality in their Sentence. I have taken Care to use as few Chinese Terms of Law as possible; and have chose such English Words, as seem’d to come nearest to the Meaning of the Original; and in order to make the whole more comprehensible to an English Reader, I have all along substituted some English Forms, where I could with Propriety, especially where they served to make the Tryal more Intelligible.

THE

TRYAL, &c.

On the Day appointed for the Tryal, the great Council of Mandarins assembled in a great Hall, in the second Court of the King’s Palace, the President was seated on a Throne, under the Canopy of State; the Ensigns of his high Office being carried before him, and attended by twenty four Officers with drawn Sabres in their Hands, who stood round the Steps of the Throne; the rest of the Mandarins were ranged on each Hand of him in their Robes of Honour. Silence being commanded in the Name of the Emperor, the Prisoner was brought to the Bar, to which he approached by making three Obeysances, and then lay prostrate on his Face, till the President commanded him to rise; acquainting him, that he had nothing to fear but his own Guilt; for if that was not found in him, the Court would not only acquit him, but load him with new Honours; after a short Speech to this Purpose, Silence was again commanded, and the Mandarin Secretary, was ordered to read his Indictment; which was conceived in Words to this Effect.

You Nosmoth, Doctor of the Divine Science of Physick, stand indicted before this Sovereign Court, at the Suit of our Sovereign Lord the most High, mighty, and Puisant Emperor, Abdaer Emperor to the World, Lord of Vast Territories, Commander of Kings, and Beloved of the Sun, to whom all are Slaves &c. &c. For, that you not having the fear of the Mighty Gods before your Eyes, but being Instigated thereto, by the Suggestion of the Black Angel, who Commandeth the Burning Lake; and with malice in your Heart, and out of Envy and premedicated spite, to the Great Mandarin Tonwin Slave of our Great Emperor, and Treasurer of his Invincible Armies, Didst on the Sixth Day, of the Second Month, of the Year of our Empire, six thousand seven hundred and forty six, conspire and contrive the Death of the said Mandarin; that is on one or other of the Days of the said second Month; thou didst maliciously, with a certain Instrument made of Steel, called a Lancet, stab the said Mandarin in the right and left Arm, and didst take from him, a large Quantity of his Blood, to the amount of fifty seven Ounces; and likewise didst prevail with the said Mandarin, by false unreasonable, and scandalous Suggestions, to swallow certain Quantities unknown, of poisonous Drugs, for sixteen or seventeen Days together; and likewise caused during the said Space of Time, to be introduced into the Anus, (Anglice A——se,) of the said Mandarin, a certain Machine, call’d a Clister-Pipe, through which was squeezed a certain further Quantity of poisonous Drugs, into his Bowels; and contrary to the Duty of your Profession as a Physician, ordered the said Mandarin, then your Patient, to eat of Meats and Drinks, improper for his Condition, and neglected to administer such Medicines, as you knew by the Help of the great God Paphor,[A] would have restored him to Health; by all which your Acts of Malice, before-mentioned, you permitted the Angel of Death, to carry away the said Mandarin; by which Means our great Emperor, has lost a faithful Slave, the Empire an useful Member, and the distressed a great Protector; this is your Accusation, are you Guilty or not Guilty.

Council for the Prisoner.

My Lord President, before we, that have the Honour to be of Council for the Prisoner, can permit him to plead, we humbly beg Leave to offer some Reasons to the august Court, why an Indictment in this Case does not lye against our Client, we humbly apprehend, that the Consent of the Friends of the Deceased, ought to have been specified in the Indictment, since the great Mandarin, the Manner of whose Death is now in Question, is not of the Blood Royal; there never has been an Instance before, where a Physician has been tried, but upon the Application of the Friends of his Patient: This is introducing an unheard of Practice, and subjecting the Gentlemen of that Profession, to uncommon Hardships; who are already but too much at the Mercy of the designing and malicious: We have an Affidavit ready to read to your Lordships, sign’d by the nearest agnat of the deceas’d Lord; wherein they disclaim the Prosecution, and express their Satisfaction; both of the Skill and Integrity of our Client; therefore we hope this august Court will quash this Indictment.

Council for the Emperor.

My Lord, We are not a little surpriz’d to find the Council for the Prisoner, make such an extraordinary Motion; when they must certainly know, what gave Rise to this Tryal: The Prisoner at the Bar, in Conversation with some of his own Profession, found that they did not approve of his Method in this Particular; he was offended at their pretending to find Fault with his Practice; which he asserted he could justify; This produced a Dispute amongst them, in which he thought he was scandaliz’d, and brought his Complaint before this Court, for the Scandal: Your Lordships did not think fit to try the Cause upon that footing, but to come at the Bottom of the whole Affair, order’d the Emperor’s Seniscal to prosecute in this Manner.

Thus the Tryal was at first brought on by the Doctor himself; which he now declines, why? because it’s not in the Shape he projected, which shews a more than ordinary Kind of Obstinacy in his Temper, an Ingredient very unfit to compose a Physician.

But my learned Brother is likewise mistaken in Point of Law; Tho’ we have not the Precedents he mentions; yet it’s founded on the Nature of Things: The august Emperor has an Interest in the Life of every Subject; and is in Reality in the Quality of Father to each of them; and often more a Parent than their own natural Fathers: Does he not in all other criminal Cases, prosecute without the Consent of the Party damag’d; why may he not then in this? Unless the Physicians claim a Priviledge not common to the rest of the Subjects of this Empire.

The Court, after a short Debate, overruled the Objection to the Indictment; and ordered the Prisoner to plead; he thereupon pleaded not guilty; and submitted to the Judgment of the Court.

Here the Court broke up and adjourned the farther hearing to next Day, when the learned Body being again assembled, in Court, and the President seated in the Formalites as before gave Orders for proceeding on the Tryal, which was accordingly done by the Council for the Emperor, who rising up opened the Case as follows.

Council for the Emperor.

My Lord, the Prosecutors for his Imperial Majesty, are so far from taking any rigorous Advantage of the learned Genman at the Bar, that they are resolved to try the Cause upon his own State of the Case now in the Mandarin Secretary’s Hand: They are to suppose, that he has according to his Duty, fairly stated the Symptoms of the Disease under which his Right Honourable Patient laboured; and that he has given a just Account of the Medicines he ordered to be administred in order to effectuate a Cure; and from this his own State of the Facts, we hope to convince this august Court, that the Doctor, has followed a Practice, quite different from those prescribed by your Lordships in similar Cases; apply’d Medicines improper for the Patient’s Distemper; and in every Circumstance, acted, as if he rather intended, to increase the Malady, than save his Patient’s Life; we shall make it appear, that the Doctor instead of assisting Nature, has endeavoured to convert the Order of Things, and obstructed her as much as lay in his Power; and we shall likewise make it appear beyond Conjecture, that the Method used with the Patient, during the Process of his Illness; hasten’d his End, much more than the Fever it self: Out of Respect to the Diploma issuing out of the Court, which entitled the learned Gentleman to practice the divine Science of Physick, we dare not attribute his Misconduct to Ignorance; Charity forbids us to suppose it Malice; and good Manners hinders us to use the Word Obstinacy; but to whatever Motive we may ascribe it the Facts are incontestable, and the Effects have been fatal to the noble Lord once an illustrious Member of this great Court.

Your Lordships, will observe from the Case, that a reumatick Fever, attended with Pains in the Limbs and a sore Throat, was the Disorder which afflicted the Mandarin Tonwin, and there never was during the seventeen Days which the Fever lasted, any thing else administred, to obtain a Cure; but Bleeding and Purging; how far that was proper in the Patients Circumstances, we shall very soon determine, we are to observe, that from the Beginning of the Doctors Attendance, the Patient shewed a great Disposition to sweat; especially in the Night-time, when it was sometimes according to the Doctors Report, to Excess. This My Lord, we look upon as an Attempt of Nature, to get rid of the malignant feverish Matter, which oppress’d her, by Means of Perspiration; and is by all Physicians, looked upon as the most common as well as the most natural Crisis of all feverish Disorders; it was my Lord the Doctors Duty, to have taken hold of this favourable Disposition of Nature, to have assisted her, by giving Medicines which would have provoked Perspiration: But he followed a quite different Course; he willfully obstructed the Grand Physician; instead of encouraging the Sweat, he made the Patient get out of Bed to avoid it; seem’d obstinately bent to obtain a Cure by nothing but purging and bleeding.

As to the purging, he alledges the Patient was costive; we admit he was; but does it follow from thence, that he must be purged for seventeen Days together: The harder the Patient was to work upon, the greater Reason the Doctor had to desist purging; especially using any Medicine that would inflame the Bowels, which Jallop certainly does; purging naturally weakens the strongest Constitution, without the Assistance of an acute Distemper; but how weak must that Patient be, who suffer’d the Weight of both, and another Evacuation as destructive of natural Strength as the other, viz. Bleeding. As to the Bleeding, the Doctor would insinuate from this Case, that he could not take too much Blood from the Patient, since notwithstanding the monstrous Quantity taken, the Vessels seemed overcharged, and it burst out at the Nostrils; but the Doctor is not aware that two Causes absolutely different, will produce the self same Effect as too great a Quantity of Blood may produce an Hemorrage; and too small a Quantity the same; in the one Case the Vessels are distended beyond their proper Tone, and in the other as much below it; which was certainly the Case of the honourable Patient unhappily the Subject of the present Debate; the Texture of the Blood and Vessels were broken by the vast Quantity taken away, and a Mortification of the Ulcers in the Throat naturally followed; as Nature had not sufficient Strength left, to stimulate the Blood, and keep it in its proper Motion; besides, the Regimen of Dyet prescribed by the Doctor, was quite preposterous; Milk is naturally hot, and as it is of the Nature of prepared Chyle, turns too soon to Aliment, to be proper in those Diseases, which require the Patient to be kept low; upon the whole your Lordship will be of Opinion, that Nature itself would have operated a Crisis, had she not been interrupted by the Doctor; and that the excessive Bleeding and Purging, only hastened the Approach of his Angel of Death; therefore we hope your Lordships will find the Prisoner guilty, in order to deter others from following their own Conceits, in Cases where the Life of a Subject is concerned.

Council for the Prisoner.

My Lord, the Charge against our learned Client, as open’d by my Brother the Attorney General, is of a very deep Nature; but I hope we shall convince this august Court, that the whole Prosecution is founded upon Malice, and has no other Foundation; but the Envy of some of the Doctors Brethren, who can not with any Patience, see any Reformation in their old Practice; they are Men so wedded to old antiquated Opinions, and superanuated Customs, that the strongest Reason cannot convince their Understandings, or the most glaring Truths, have any Influence upon their obstinate Minds, they are all a Parcel of old Women, who have learned a Sett of Notions from their Grandmothers, which they argue upon without Reason; and put in Practice necessarily on all Occasions, and are now so old, that like Children they cannot walk without Leading-strings.

Your Lordships are sensible, that its impossible to lay down any certain Rules for the Practice of Physick; they must differ as Constitutions, Times and Seasons, alter those Regulations, which might have been reasonable in the Days of our Grandfathers, are now out of Date; the Luxury of the present Age, the difference in Dyet, Exercise and Diversions of the present Generation, have produced a new Catalogue of Diseases, unknown to our Ancestors; and for which our antient Writers have not so much as dreamed of a Cure now; when the old Women of the Faculty meet with any such, they still persist in their old Recipes; and by that means killed thousands of his Majesty’s Subjects every Day with Impunity; and that out of Laziness, that they will not be at the Trouble to search for new Cures to new Cases; now our Client has been more indefatigable, he has found out not only a Cure more expeditious for our old Native Distempers; but one that will totally eradicate all our exotick Diseases with which this great Empire abounds; he does not mean to keep this great Catholicon a Secret, he is proud of having this Opportunity of divulging it to Mankind, for whose Benefit he has laboured till he is grown expert in the Profession; his Recipe is short and eazy, its only Bleed and Purge: He apprehends the Reasonableness of this Practice, is like a self-evident Truth in the Mathematicks; all Diseases flow from peccant Humours, being mix’d with the Mass of Blood, which are so closely united to it, that they cannot be discharged by Perspirations or other natural Secretions; but if you purge and bleed away all the Humours in the Body, we are sure none that are peccant will remain Quod erat Demonstrandum. This answers all Cases, all Circumstances, Times, Seasons and Climates, and is an Improvement in Physick, for which we hope our Client will be rewarded with a Statue instead of a H——r.

They have made a deal of Pother about Sweating, but is it not plain, that alone would not have served the Patient; when its well known that in Spite of all the Doctors Endeavours to hinder it, it increased immoderately, and yet produced no such wonderful Effects as they would attribute to it: Grant that Bleeding and Purging weakens; so does Sweating; our Client My Lord, apprehends, that if he had bled more plentifully, he would at least have got the better of the Fever some Days sooner than he did; the Patient might have died its true, but that would not have been his Fault if he had used the Means to disburthen him of his Blood, where the Malady lay; therefore we hope the Court will acquit the Prisoner.

Its not the Custom in that Country for the Judge to give a Charge as there is no Jury, but the Prisoner was ordered to withdraw, and in a little Time he was called back and acquainted with his Sentence, which we must beg of the Publick to excuse us from publishing.

FINIS.

Footnotes

A. The God of Physick amongst the Chinese.

Transcriber’s Notes

- The following issues should be noted, along with the resolution:

11 | it was wispered about, that he had | sic: wispered
12 | before which he was [he was] to be try’d, | Removed.
13 | especially w[h]ere they served to make the | Added.
14 | S[c]ience of Physick, stand indicted before | Added.
15 | Instigated thereto, by the Sug[g]estion | Added.
17 | sign’d by the nearest agnat of the deceas’d | sic: agnat
20 | rigorous Advantage of the learned Genman | sic: Genman
21 | as if he rather inten[d]ed, to increase the | Added.
21 | practice the divine Science of Ph[i/y]sick, | Replaced.

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Table of Contents

- The Genuine Tryal of Dr. Nosmoth, a Physician in Pekin, for the Murder of the Mandarin Tonwin, Treasurer to the Army of the Emperor of China, Before the Great Council of Mandarines

- THE INTRODUCTION.

- THE TRYAL, &c.

- Footnotes

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