case poe against doctor MONDFORD Trinity term Elizabeth roll it be not  actionable to say that a physician have kill his patient with medicine unless  it he charge that he know and wilful administer it for that purpose I roll ab  winch hetley Mod and Bac ab S Cowp action for word whereas the plaintiff be  and be a physician and the defendant intend to defame and prejudice he in his  art fall et wicked speak of he these word Mr poe innuendo the plaintiff have  kill Mr Pasfield of the old Jewry with physic a certain Johan Pasfield late  inhabit within the old Jewry and now decease innuendo which physic be a peel  and the vomit be find in his mouth and doctor Atkins and doctor Paddy a  certain Henry Atkins et Johan Paddy doctor in physic innuendo be there and  find it so and it be true where in fact neither the say doctor Atkins nor  doctor Paddy nor any other ever find any such thing to he commit by he et  where in fact he never administer any physic unto he in peel or otherwise c  the defendant plead a concord in bar which plea be ill plead as it be agree on  both side whereupon the plaintiff demurrer and now coke attorney general move  that a action lie not for these word for it be not any slander to a physician  to say of he that he kill one with physic for he may do it involuntary in n  horned owl know the disease and no discredit unto he Popham and Fenner hold  that the action lie not for it can be any discredit to a physician to say that  he kill one with physic it be a usual and common expression and it may be  without any default in he for they may mistake the disease in their own body  much more ill other and apply wrong medicine which may he the cause of the  patient death and yet no discredit unto they but if it have be that he  scienter et willing minister physic to one to kill he that touch he in his  profession and the word have be actionable but not here and although it he say  that he never administer any physic unto he that be not material wherefore  they without any argument on the plaintiff side Clench repugnant and gawdy  absent adjudge it for the defendant