Galeno-pale, or, A chymical trial of the Galenists, that their dross in physick may be discovered with the grand abuses and disrepute they have brought upon the whole art of physick and chirurgery ... To which is added an appendix De litho-colo ... / by Geo. Thomson ...
Thomson, George, 17th cent.
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Galeno-pale, or, A chymical trial of the Galenists, that their dross in physick may be discovered with the grand abuses and disrepute they have brought upon the whole art of physick and chirurgery ... To which is added an appendix De litho-colo ... / by Geo. Thomson ...
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Galeno-pale
:
OR
,
A
CHYMICAL
TRIAL
OF
THE
GALENISTS
,
That
their
Dross
in
PHYSICK
may
be
discovered
.
With
the
grand
Abuses
and
Disrepute
they
have
brought
upon
the
whole
Art
of
PHYSICK
and
CHIRURGERY
,
in
their
Method
touching
Phlebotomy
and
Purgation
.
Their
vain
Curiosity
in
Anatomy
reprehended
;
and
their
false
Rule
of
Contraries
in
the
Cure
of
Diseases
manifested
.
Also
,
a
full
Answer
to
the
Objections
charged
by
the
GALENISTS
against
the
CHYMISTS
,
and
Chymical
Medicines
vindicated
.
To
which
is
added
an
Appendix
,
De
Litho-Colo
:
or
,
An
History
of
Three
large
STONES
excluded
the
Colon
by
Chymical
Remedies
.
By
GEO.
THOMSON
,
Medicinae
Doctor
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
Homer
.
Odys
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
London
,
Printed
by
R.
Wood
,
for
Edward
Thomas
,
at
the
Adam
and
Eve
in
Little
Brittain
,
1665.
To
the
most
Reverend
Father
in
God
,
GILBERT
,
By
Divine
Providence
,
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
,
Primate
and
Metropolitan
of
all
England
,
and
one
of
His
Sacred
Majesties
most
Honourable
Privy
Council
.
May
it
please
Your
Grace
,
AMong
the
many
Moecena's
of
Hermetick
Philosophy
,
I
conceive
none
more
fitting
to
protect
the
Medicinal
Verities
here
set
down
,
then
Your
Grace
;
who
hath
been
pleased
to
express
very
much
kindeness
and
love
for
this
Noble
Art
,
to
the
no
small
encouragement
of
the
Professours
thereof
.
And
all
things
duly
pondered
,
where
can
Chymical
Physick
better
shelter
it self
against
Maligners
and
Opposers
of
it
,
then
under
the
wings
of
Divinity
,
on
which
it
ought
to
attend
as
an
Hand-maid
?
yea
,
there
should
be
a
Synergie
,
and
conspiration
of
all
Arts
and
Sciences
to
advance
Theology
,
which
makes
the
better
Part
of
us
happy
.
How
can
the
Soul
act
aright
when
there
is
an
Atonie
,
Ametrie
,
and
Dyscrasie
in
the
Body
?
Sith
as
the
Chyle
is
,
such
is
the
Chyme
,
or
rubified
juyce
;
as
is
the
Chyme
,
so
is
the
Sanguis
,
or
purest
part
of
the
Blood
;
and
as
this
is
,
so
are
the
Vital
Spirits
(
the
immediate
instrument
of
the
Soul
)
either
luminous
and
clear
,
or
dark
and
muddy
;
and
so
capable
to
act
well
or
ill
:
How
sollicitous
then
should
we
be
to
search
out
those
great
Arcana's
in
Nature
,
which
the
good
Creator
hath
ordained
for
the
preservation
and
redintegration
of
these
Bodies
,
(
which
upon
slight
occasions
from
within
and
without
,
are
obnoxious
to
be
valetudinary
,
and
put
out
of
frame
)
that
the
Diviner
part
may
operate
the
more
freely
,
vigorously
,
and
orderly
.
Certainly
there
is
no
better
way
to
attain
this
then
by
Spagyrick
Philosophy
,
which
separates
Tribulos
&
Spinas
,
what
is
Hurtful
and
Superfluous
in
every
Concrete
,
from
the
profitable
,
pure
,
and
sincere
;
bringing
it
to
such
an
Entelechie
and
Excellency
,
that
it
is
able
to
display
that
radiant
Virtue
which
God
hath
implanted
in
it
for
the
good
both
of
Body
and
Soul.
And
were
this
course
closely
followed
,
and
generally
countenanced
,
those
rebellious
and
enormous
Vices
of
the
Minde
,
too
grassant
at
this
day
among
us
,
which
in
great
part
arise
from
the
Feral
,
Anomalous
,
unheard
of
Prodigious
,
and
untractable
Diseases
of
the
Body
,
might
in
some
measure
be
reformed
;
and
certainly
if
there
be
not
some
timely
prevention
,
mox
daturi
progeniem
vitiosiorem
,
most
of
our
Posterity
is
like
to
be
born
diseased
.
Seeing
therefore
no
Medicine
is
able
to
mortifie
these
Seminal
Principles
of
Diseases
,
or
wash
off
those
Radical
Tinctures
which
have
been
traduced
to
us
from
our
Parents
,
but
the
best
sort
of
Chymical
Preparations
exalted
to
the
highest
degree
of
perfection
;
some
of
which
have
been
of
late
years
brought
to
light
by
the
indefatigable
industry
of
some
Ingenious
men
,
whom
the
Galenists
have
endeavoured
to
eclipse
,
and
despitefully
to
suppress
by
Calumnies
and
Reproaches
;
we
humbly
beg
Your
Graces
favour
to
stand
up
for
the
defence
of
our
Art
,
so
far
as
truth
,
sound
reason
and
Optical
Experiments
shall
permit
;
and
that
Your
Grace
would
be
pleased
to
joyn
with
some
other
Heroes
of
the
Nation
,
either
to
stop
the
mouthes
of
these
Anti-Chymists
,
or
to
constrain
them
to
make
good
by
matter
of
Fact
,
and
fair
equal
Trials
here
proposed
,
what
they
alledge
against
us
;
that
there
may
be
a
full
discovery
made
who
are
the
Physicians
,
quos
creavit
Altissimus
,
and
who
are
they
that
go
about
ludere
cum
corio
humano
:
And
this
present
and
future
Age
shall
be
bound
to
celebrate
Your
Praises
;
My
Lord
,
Your
Graces
most
humble
and
obedient
Servant
,
Geo.
Thomson
.
To
the
Reader
.
Courteous
Reader
,
BE
pleased
to
bestow
what
time
you
can
well
spare
in
perusual
of
this
short
Treatise
,
which
(
how
contemptible
soever
it
may
seem
to
thee
)
may
perhaps
be
a
means
to
save
thee
from
the
jawes
of
untimely
death
,
and
prolong
thy
dayes
.
The
main
Scope
of
the
Author
is
,
to
do
thee
,
his
Countrey
,
and
the
whole
World
service
,
in
reference
to
that
which
(
according
to
the
innate
law
of
Self-preservation
)
every
Creature
desires
(
that
is
)
Life
:
which
if
not
accompanied
with
Health
,
cannot
but
be
very
tedious
.
That
therefore
thou
mayest
enjoy
a
sound
Body
and
Soul
,
next
Temperance
in
all
things
,
embrace
an
Honest
and
Able
Physician
;
not
one
whom
thou
fancies
,
but
who
is
really
so
,
according
to
these
infallible
signs
here
described
.
The
sum
of
this
Discourse
is
nothing
but
a
Touchstone
depending
upon
matter
of
Fact
,
to
try
whether
a
Physician
be
as
he
professes
himself
,
and
ought
to
be
,
one
that
having
a
Commission
from
the
Angel
Raphael
,
is
endued
with
the
gift
of
Healing
,
not
palliating
,
dawbing
and
plaistering
upon
an
unstable
foundation
.
Here
thou
mayest
learn
to
keep
thy
Blood
wherein
is
the
Life
,
and
not
prodigally
to
spend
it
,
upon
every
trifling
occasion
,
which
may
do
thee
more
service
sometimes
then
the
best
Doctor
in
England
,
and
help
those
Diseases
he
cannot
.
Here
thou
mayest
be
instructed
to
beware
of
uncorrected
Purgatives
,
which
do
but
colliquate
and
putrefie
the
wholesome
Chyme
,
or
juyce
of
the
Body
,
enervating
it
without
any
considerable
ease
,
unless
accidental
;
and
to
value
that
Physick
which
carries
off
the
occasional
Morbifick
matter
to
thy
benefit
,
without
any
notable
Debility
succeding
.
In
this
Enchiridium
thou
wilt
finde
the
difference
between
a
sincere
and
corrupt
Physician
;
one
that
dares
act
subdio
,
in
the
face
of
the
Sun
,
that
men
may
behold
him
whether
he
doth
right
or
wrong
,
and
so
justifie
him
or
condemn
him
;
and
between
him
that
studies
to
be
in
the
dark
,
and
cast
a
mist
before
the
Spectators
eyes
,
that
he
may
play
legerdemaine
with
them
.
Lastly
thou
wilt
see
whose
Actions
are
able
to
bear
the
test
of
the
Fire
best
,
(
by
which
every
Work
is
to
be
tryed
)
the
Galenical
or
Helmontian
,
whose
facts
like
Gold
or
Silver
,
leave
the
least
Scoria
or
Dross
behinde
;
and
whose
like
Lead
or
other
base
mettals
,
leave
most
.
We
hope
no
man
that
desires
the
preservation
of
himself
,
King
,
and
Countrey
,
but
will
allow
these
Operative
Propositions
to
be
just
,
equal
,
profitable
,
and
laudable
,
to
put
an
end
to
that
which
garrulity
and
multiloquacity
will
never
determine
.
Wherefore
,
Candid
Reader
,
all
that
we
shall
request
of
thee
,
is
to
stand
still
and
see
,
that
we
may
have
right
done
us
,
forbearing
to
be
prejudicate
and
partial
;
and
if
ever
thou
shouldest
need
us
,
we
shall
endeavour
to
gratifie
thee
with
that
Physick
which
we
are
confident
no
Galenist
in
England
possesses
.
Now
if
it
fall
out
that
our
faithful
and
wholesom
counsel
herein
should
(
through
the
subtil
wiles
and
and
crafty
devices
of
our
enemies
)
be
rejected
,
we
shall
rest
our selves
contented
that
we
have
done
our
duty
,
and
shall
shake
off
the
dust
of
our
feet
upon
them
,
qui
valdè
volunt
perire
,
being
satisfied
that
their
perdition
is
from
themselves
.
Geo.
Tomson
.
The
Contents
.
CHAP.
I.
A
Short
Description
of
Galen
,
from
whom
they
are
denominated
Galenists
.
Pag.
1
CHAP.
II.
An
account
of
that
true
Chymical
Philosopher
,
and
learned
Physician
,
Helmont
,
whom
we
Own
for
our
Patron
.
pag.
4
CHAP.
III.
Of
the
Abuses
and
disrepute
the
Galenists
have
brought
upon
Physick
,
and
the
Reformation
they
have
of
late
pretended
.
7
CHAP.
IV.
How
the
Galenists
have
domineered
in
the
World
,
and
deceived
it
.
15
CHAP.
V.
In
what
space
of
time
a
good
Physician
may
resolve
his
Patient
of
the
Event
of
his
Disease
.
21
CHAP.
VI.
How
much
precious
time
the
Galenists
spend
in
Anatomical
Curiosities
to
little
purpose
.
25
CHAP.
VII
.
A
just
reproof
of
the
Ignorance
of
most
of
them
in
Surgery
.
30
CHAP.
VIII
.
What
a
noise
our
Adversaries
make
with
their
Laboratory
,
and
how
they
vaunt
that
they
use
Chymical
Medicines
according
to
their
Method
.
35
CHAP.
IX
.
An
Answer
to
some
Objections
laid
to
our
charge
by
the
Galenists
.
38
CHAP.
X.
An
Expostulation
why
the
Dogmatists
will
not
come
to
the
touchstone
of
true
Experience
.
41
CHAP.
XI
.
How
much
to
seek
the
Galenists
are
in
that
necessary
Philosophy
which
directs
us
to
the
Cure
of
Diseases
.
44
CHAP.
XII
.
Of
the
two
grand
Supporters
of
the
Galenical
Physick
,
Phlebotomy
and
Purgation
.
48
CHAP.
XIII
.
Of
the
second
Supporter
,
fruitless
Purgation
.
56
CHAP.
XIV
.
Of
that
fictitious
Rule
of
Contraries
,
by
which
the
Dogmatists
are
guided
in
the
cure
of
Diseases
.
65
CHAP.
XV.
A
brief
Examination
of
their
Pharmacopoea
.
70
CHAP.
XVI
.
A
Cursory
View
of
the
Mineral
waters
,
to
which
the
Dogmatists
flye
,
as
to
a
Sanctuary
,
in
Difficult
Cases
.
77
CHAP.
XVII
.
A
Vindication
of
Chymical
Medicines
from
that
false
Accusation
of
being
Dangerous
.
83
CHAP.
XVIII
.
Of
the
Galenical
Method
.
90
CHAP.
XIX
.
Of
the
Helmontian
Method
.
96
CHAP.
XX.
Some
Animadversions
upon
the
late
Attempt
to
procure
a
Patent
from
His
Gracious
Majesty
,
for
the
Erecting
a
Colledge
of
Chymical
Physicians
.
103
A
History
of
three
large
Stones
excluded
the
Colon
by
Chymical
Medicines
.
109
Galeno-pale
:
OR
,
A
Chymical
Trial
of
the
Galenists
,
that
their
Dross
in
Physick
may
be
discovered
.
CHAP.
I.
A
short
Description
of
Galen
,
from
whom
they
are
denominated
Galenists
.
THe
great
Patron
,
to
whose
Decrees
and
Dictates
(
right
or
wrong
)
the
Dogmatists
have
obliged
themselves
to
subscribe
,
is
Galen
of
Pergamus
in
Asia
;
who
lived
about
fifteen
hundred
years
past
,
in
the
time
of
Adrian
.
He
was
a
man
doubtless
of
excellent
parts
,
and
very
laborious
,
but
took
a
very
indirect
course
to
make
a
discovery
of
the
Truth
of
things
,
as
they
are
in
themselves
,
by
bringing
them
to
the
touchstone
of
sound
Experience
;
by
making
an
Analysis
or
Resolution
of
Bodies
,
that
their
Principles
might
be
laid
open
,
and
their
Heterogeneities
manifested
;
without
which
it
is
impossible
for
any
man
to
be
a
Philosopher
as
he
ought
.
He
had
a
great
ambition
of
writing
much
,
as
it
plainly
appears
by
those
voluminous
Tracts
that
are
now
extant
,
besides
what
are
lost
;
for
't
is
reported
that
he
wrote
four
hundred
Books
in
Physick
:
to
what
good
purpose
,
any
discreet
impartial
man
may
easily
judge
.
His
loquacity
hath
much
affected
some
men
,
who
count
Learning
principally
to
consist
in
variety
of
Languages
,
Polylogie
,
and
plausible
Argumentations
,
though
deduced
from
false
Axioms
.
Hippocrates
his
concise
Aphoristical
Doctrine
,
written
according
to
the
sincerity
and
candor
of
that
age
,
was
amplified
and
vainly
enlarged
by
his
fruitless
and
frivolous
Comments
,
to
a
huge
bulk
,
contrived
on
purpose
to
get
a
fame
in
the
World
,
by
those
that
are
ready
to
subscribe
to
any
Positions
of
Antiquity
,
for
their
ease
,
rather
then
to
Anatomize
things
as
they
ought
by
the
Fire
,
that
thereby
they
may
be
reduced
into
the
visible
parts
.
So
ignorant
herein
was
their
great
Master
Galen
,
that
he
never
saw
either
Rose-water
or
Quicksilver
.
How
much
to
seek
he
was
in
Anatomy
,
Vesalius
hath
delivered
;
who
makes
it
to
appear
in
many
places
,
that
he
never
dissected
the
Body
of
man.
In
the
Botanicks
,
or
knowledge
of
Plants
,
he
hath
instructed
the
World
no
more
then
Dioscorides
his
predecessour
,
whom
he
hath
plainly
transcribed
in
many
places
word
for
word
,
concealing
the
Author
,
sticking
in
the
mire
of
the
four
Elements
,
their
Mixture
,
Qualities
,
and
Temperaments
,
neglecting
the
Virtus
Cherionia
,
Crafts
,
and
specifick
properties
of
Simples
.
His
followers
have
,
and
do
even
obstinately
to
this
day
,
to
the
destruction
of
millions
,
cry
up
his
method
;
a
tedious
way
to
cure
Diseases
,
but
a
short
one
to
get
money
.
The
two
principal
Pillars
that
support
this
rare
Method
,
are
Phlehotomy
and
Purgation
,
both
of
which
we
can
demonstrate
to
be
pernicious
to
Humane
Nature
,
destroying
more
then
ever
the
Sword.
In
the
knowledge
of
the
Causes
,
Quiddity
,
or
Essence
,
immediate
Subject
,
and
radical
Cure
of
Diseases
,
(
an
incurable
Catalogue
whereof
he
hath
delivered
to
posterity
)
that
he
was
extream
blinde
,
we
shall
undertake
to
evince
and
prove
è
facto
.
All
this
duly
considered
,
would
make
a
man
stand
amazed
to
see
how
refractorily
his
Disciples
do
maintain
(
to
this
day
)
those
rotten
principles
in
Physick
derived
from
him
;
and
how
wilfully
they
hood-wink
themselves
,
delighting
in
the
darkness
of
their
own
erroneous
Tenents
,
lest
they
should
behold
the
bright
beams
of
Chymical
Philosophy
,
to
the
diminution
of
their
own
sinister
respects
.
CHAP.
II.
An
account
of
that
true
Chymical
Philosopher
,
and
learned
Physican
,
Helmont
,
whom
we
Own
for
our
Patron
.
HElmont
a
German
,
was
without
all
question
,
ordained
in
these
last
times
by
especial
providence
of
God
,
for
the
comfort
and
relief
of
distressed
Man
;
to
be
an
instrument
to
discover
those
gross
Errours
and
notorious
abuses
in
Physick
,
that
have
relation
to
the
Life
and
Soul
of
Man
,
committed
by
those
that
rested
themselves
contented
to
be
ignorant
with
Antiquity
,
and
enjoy
profit
,
honour
,
and
ease
,
rather
then
question
any
thing
delivered
to
them
(
how
false
soever
)
by
making
a
severe
scrutiny
into
the
bottom
of
Nature
,
by
difficult
labours
with
their
own
hands
,
and
great
expence
of
their
purses
.
This
Worthy
Man
who
(
we
confess
)
hath
instructed
us
in
the
Principles
of
Philosophy
,
was
omnifariam
doctus
;
one
that
was
very
knowing
in
the
Doctrine
of
the
Ancients
,
having
made
a
wonderful
speedy
progress
in
the
Learning
of
the
Schools
,
as
well
versed
in
the
Languages
as
the
best
Galenist
;
who
,
after
that
he
had
rolled
every
stone
in
the
old
Philosophy
,
and
ran
through
that
Cyclopeodie
,
or
universal
Learning
,
yet
could
finde
no
solid
satisfaction
in
the
natural
Causes
of
things
,
till
he
came
to
Pyrotechnie
,
wherein
he
laboured
fifty
years
compleat
,
leaving
those
lying
Sophisms
that
he
had
imbibed
,
contemplating
things
as
they
were
in
themselves
.
Hereby
he
learnt
the
genuine
beginnings
of
all
Concretes
,
making
separation
of
them
into
their
fundamental
parts
;
dissolving
and
coagulating
,
fixing
and
volatilizing
Bodies
;
looking
narrowly
into
the
defects
,
alteration
,
life
,
and
death
of
things
;
extracting
,
dividing
,
conjoyning
several
bodies
,
bringing
what
was
crude
to
maturation
;
and
promoting
natural
Causes
,
by
removing
those
impediments
that
they
could
not
arrive
at
their
just
ends
.
Hence
he
dived
into
the
Seminal
virtues
and
properties
of
things
,
and
was
able
to
give
an
account
of
their
true
,
efficient
,
and
natural
Causes
;
bringing
to
light
the
Doctrine
of
Fermentation
,
the
Original
and
activity
of
Spirits
,
with
the
rare
Effects
of
Tinctures
;
and
this
by
Mechanical
demonstration
of
the
Fire
.
This
is
he
that
hath
plainly
detected
the
most
absurd
perilous
Doctrine
of
the
Galenists
,
proving
their
palpable
ignorance
of
the
Causes
of
Diseases
,
and
their
proper
Cures
;
setting
down
infallible
Arguments
to
evince
how
destructive
their
Bleeding
and
Purgations
are
to
mankinde
;
challenging
them
to
make
good
what
he
had
delivered
by
visible
instances
and
examples
of
fact
;
which
they
would
never
come
to
,
nor
ever
dared
to
answer
him
by
way
of
confutation
,
but
by
denying
all
that
he
had
proposed
,
giving
him
scurrilous
and
opprobrious
language
,
(
as
it
is
their
common
custom
when
they
have
nothing
to
say
for
themselves
)
calling
him
Fanatick
,
Innovator
,
Dreamer
,
carping
at
any
lapse
or
Peccadillo
in
his
Writings
with
aggravations
to
the
height
:
hating
and
abhorring
to
the
death
all
those
that
stood
up
in
his
behalf
,
naming
them
Hereticks
in
Physick
;
and
all
this
gratis
dictum
,
without
the
least
tittle
of
truth
.
Thus
hath
this
worthy
man
been
sleighted
,
villified
,
and
reproached
,
for
not
still
conniving
at
those
capital
Errours
in
Physick
,
which
they
have
greedily
swallowed
down
without
any
scruple
,
to
the
ruine
of
millions
.
However
,
let
these
pittiful
Physicians
rail
at
,
and
calumniate
this
Heroe
,
't
is
our
duty
,
who
have
received
so
much
benefit
from
him
,
to
acknowledge
him
our
Master
,
and
to
maintain
his
true
Positions
,
to
the
utmost
of
our
power
against
all
gain-sayers
.
CHAP.
III.
Of
the
Abuses
and
disrepute
the
Galenists
have
brought
upon
Physick
,
and
the
Reformation
they
have
of
late
pretended
.
YE
have
of
late
made
a
great
stir
,
though
to
little
purpose
and
credit
,
to
procure
a
Power
from
the
Supreme
Authority
of
the
Nation
,
that
ye
might
make
a
Reformation
in
this
Noble
Profession
of
Physick
,
there
being
(
as
ye
say
)
no
visible
means
left
but
your selves
to
compass
it
.
But
what
was
your
drift
in
this
?
Truly
,
we
believe
the
first
thing
,
next
the
enslaving
the
poor
Apothecaries
,
would
have
been
a
total
Suppression
of
those
that
had
opposed
your
fictitious
Principles
,
false
Axioms
,
and
indirect
practices
in
Physick
,
that
then
ye
might
have
domineered
as
ye
pleased
.
But
stay
a
while
,
we
hope
the
Sage
Magistrate
will
take
it
into
consideration
,
that
ye
are
the
chiefest
persons
that
need
reformation
;
and
that
your
Purgations
need
purgation
,
they
being
(
as
we
can
prove
by
matter
of
fact
)
not
fitting
,
so
uncorrected
,
to
be
taken
into
the
Body
.
We
hope
moreover
they
will
take
notice
,
that
your
Bloody
course
ought
to
be
voted
cruel
and
unchristian
,
the
Life
or
Soul
being
seated
in
the
Blood
:
God
having
created
the
Medicines
of
the
Earth
,
not
Bleeding
,
cutting
holes
in
the
Skin
,
Blisterings
,
and
such
like
butchering
Tortures
,
to
cure
miserable
man.
'T
is
true
,
there
are
sad
exorbitancies
,
irregularities
,
and
abuses
in
Physick
,
but
who
we
pray
have
been
the
principal
occasions
of
them
but
your selves
?
who
have
conjured
up
such
Swarms
of
Quacks
in
every
place
,
(
who
like
Locusts
eat
the
bread
out
of
honest
Physicians
mouths
)
by
your
Profane
Prescripts
?
and
now
you
would
fain
lay
them
down
,
but
ye
cannot
;
for
they
are
become
too
potent
for
you
,
some
of
them
having
so
well
improv'd
their
time
,
that
they
are
like
for
ought
we
can
see
to
cast
you
out
of
the
saddle
,
and
to
ride
with
Foot-cloaths
themselves
,
dealing
but
deservedly
with
you
.
If
ye
had
better
practised
the
Pythagorical
Doctrine
,
these
things
had
never
been
;
or
had
ye
delivered
your selves
,
as
ye
finde
fault
Paracelsus
,
Helmont
,
and
other
sons
of
Art
did
,
more
obscurely
,
and
Aenigmatically
,
who
foresaw
these
mischiefs
,
and
endeavoured
to
prevent
them
,
Physick
had
flourished
to
this
day
in
its
splendor
and
beauty
:
But
as
ye
have
handled
the
matter
,
every
Good-wife
,
any
silly
fellow
may
read
your
Dispensatory
,
use
some
of
those
Medicines
without
your
method
,
and
sometimes
no
less
success
;
yea
,
and
may
laugh
at
some
of
those
ridiculous
Compositions
discovered
to
them
by
your
trusty
servant
Culpepper
.
But
all
this
is
no
hinderance
but
a
furtherance
to
encrease
your
Practice
,
(
as
we
have
heard
some
of
you
say
)
sith
these
illiterate
Ideots
do
but
make
work
for
you
.
Is
it
so
,
but
we
much
doubt
it
;
surely
if
ye
aimed
at
this
at
first
,
to
multiply
these
men
to
augment
Mortalities
for
your
advantage
,
it
was
a
very
wicked
Design
,
not
to
be
endured
by
a
Nation
:
but
if
this
be
fallen
out
through
your
incogitance
accidentally
,
that
these
men
have
brought
in
the
more
gain
to
you
,
to
the
detriment
and
ruine
of
the
people
,
and
simply
for
this
reason
,
ye
desire
to
be
Arnautists
,
or
self-deniers
,
why
do
ye
(
pretending
to
the
Higher
Powers
a
Publick
Good
)
not
likewise
instruct
them
in
some
way
,
how
the
indigent
Commonalty
may
be
cured
better
and
cheaper
;
giving
us
infallible
testimonies
of
some
rare
Cures
above
others
,
and
your
zealous
charity
for
your
Neighbours
,
by
abating
your
excessive
Fees
,
and
by
curing
him
gratis
that
hath
faln
into
Thieves
,
like
the
good
Samaritan
.
And
we
think
it
were
but
just
,
that
they
who
have
gotten
such
Riches
in
Physick
,
as
some
of
you
undoubtedly
,
by
the
destruction
of
those
that
might
have
been
preserved
,
should
Zaccheus-like
,
impart
a
portion
to
those
that
are
distressed
.
And
certainly
there
is
now
great
need
of
this
retribution
,
and
as
the
state
of
things
stands
,
another
course
must
be
taken
(
without
this
costly
Physick
)
to
cure
the
Poor
of
the
Nation
;
which
if
our
prudent
Senators
shall
please
to
listen
to
,
we
shall
in
all
humility
propose
to
their
wise
considerations
;
beseeching
them
to
consider
what
sad
consequences
must
of
necessity
have
come
upon
a
Concession
to
the
presumptuous
Desires
of
these
men
:
How
thousands
of
poor
People
must
have
neglected
the
means
,
and
so
have
run
the
hazard
of
perishing
,
having
not
wherewithal
to
seek
to
these
chargeable
Doctors
for
recovery
,
the
Apothecary
not
daring
to
sell
them
a
little
London
Treacle
Mithridate
,
&c.
unless
authorized
by
them
;
as
if
their
Prescripts
were
able
to
infuse
new
Virtues
into
Medicines
.
Neither
should
any
have
stretched
forth
his
hand
to
have
pulled
his
languishing
Brother
out
of
the
ditch
,
unless
licensed
by
them
.
What
we
pray
should
our
City
have
done
,
if
some
Epidemical
contageous
Disease
,
as
the
Plague
,
had
reigned
amongst
us
,
sith
they
(
according
to
their
Masters
Dictates
)
would
all
have
run
out
of
it
:
We
plainly
see
the
greatest
Clarks
are
not
alwayes
the
best
Politicians
,
for
we
stand
amazed
to
see
such
learned
Physicians
,
men
so
highly
reputed
for
their
parts
,
to
carry
on
such
an
unreasonable
Project
,
meerly
for
their
own
sinister
interest
,
(
the
Publick
good
therein
being
altogether
neglected
)
as
to
sollicite
the
highest
Court
of
Iudicature
,
to
confirm
such
a
Patent
to
them
,
that
they
might
be
sole
Masters
of
their
Lives
,
Souls
,
and
Fortunes
,
without
controulment
:
That
they
might
Brow-beat
,
Insult
,
and
Tyrannize
over
those
that
are
no
whit
inferiour
to
them
in
worth
.
Did
Ambition
,
Covetousness
,
and
Revenge
so
blinde
them
,
that
they
should
think
that
such
wise
Senators
would
ever
condescend
to
make
themselves
and
People
Slaves
and
Vassals
to
the
insolent
lusts
of
those
,
who
never
gave
us
any
proof
,
pledge
,
or
earnest
of
their
Cures
in
Physick
above
many
Apothecaries
;
who
have
protested
to
us
,
that
there
were
some
of
these
stately
Doctors
so
extream
ignorant
in
materia
medica
,
that
they
did
not
know
the
Ingredients
of
certain
trivial
Compositions
presented
to
their
eyes
:
yea
,
and
that
some
of
their
Prescripts
have
been
so
notoriously
extravagant
and
pernicious
,
that
the
Apothecary
hath
been
forced
to
correct
them
,
unless
he
would
have
suffered
the
Patient
to
run
the
hazard
of
perishing
.
We
confess
,
the
Apothecary
in
many
defects
and
obliquities
is
not
to
be
excused
,
however
(
as
Diogenes
struck
the
Father
when
the
Son
offended
)
so
we
think
the
Doctor
deserves
the
lash
for
not
rightly
educating
and
instructing
his
poor
obsequious
servant
;
for
we
are
verily
perswaded
had
they
been
more
discreetly
tutor'd
,
they
would
have
proved
better
.
But
hinc
illae
lacrhymae
,
this
is
that
which
wrings
the
Doctor
,
and
galls
him
to
the
heart
,
that
he
should
bring
up
birds
to
pick
out
his
own
eyes
;
that
after
so
many
years
sweet
congress
,
and
mutual
correspondence
,
his
Labourer
,
Drudge
,
or
Excrement
(
as
a
Doctor
was
heard
to
call
him
)
should
now
stand
in
defiance
against
him
,
and
take
upon
him
to
cure
Diseases
equally
with
him
.
And
to
say
truth
,
a
man
cannot
tell
which
of
the
two
exceeds
;
for
we
are
of
that
opinion
,
one
may
pick
and
chuse
,
but
find
never
a
barrel
better
Herring
.
The
Servant
is
now
become
a
Doctor
,
the
Dispencer
a
Prescriber
:
Both
use
the
same
Method
,
the
same
Indications
,
the
like
Medicines
,
and
with
equal
success
for
ought
we
can
see
.
Of
the
two
we
confess
,
the
Apothecary
hath
for
the
most
part
the
start
of
his
Doctor
,
for
as
much
as
he
not
onely
knoweth
the
Composition
exactly
,
and
at
his
pleasure
can
frustrate
both
Physicians
and
Patients
expectation
;
but
also
being
more
conversant
with
the
Sick
man
,
can
advantage
himself
more
then
the
other
by
frequent
observations
,
which
opportunity
the
Doctor
,
partly
through
pride
,
and
partly
through
covetousness
and
idleness
,
loses
.
Now
good
Master
Doctor
Galen
,
let
us
reason
a
little
soberly
;
have
ye
not
brought
your
Hogs
to
a
fair
market
;
whether
of
us
(
we
beseech
you
)
have
been
most
prudent
and
provident
?
ye
that
have
made
this
noble
Science
(
the
Professours
whereof
Divine
Writ
hath
charged
to
be
honoured
)
to
become
a
meer
mercenary
or
a
meretricious
business
;
a
very
Trade
to
get
money
,
an
Imposture
to
serve
your
own
ends
,
setting
up
an
Apothecary
your
Emissary
and
Decoy
,
to
fetch
in
gainful
Practice
;
or
we
that
have
alwayes
been
tender
of
the
reputation
of
Physick
,
and
the
Lives
of
the
infirm
;
and
for
that
end
have
not
onely
studied
hard
for
many
years
,
beating
our
brains
to
do
that
which
is
fitting
according
to
Art
;
but
also
laboured
with
our
own
hands
night
and
day
,
not
without
hazard
of
our
lives
,
and
great
expences
,
that
we
might
understand
what
we
do
,
and
do
what
we
ought
for
the
Lives
of
our
poor
miserable
Patients
;
that
we
might
alwayes
have
in
readiness
those
Arcana's
,
of
which
the
vulgus
hominum
is
,
and
ever
will
be
ignorant
.
Had
we
prostituted
our selves
and
the
Art
,
or
taken
those
indirect
courses
which
ye
have
done
,
we
are
certain
we
might
have
been
possessours
of
Riches
and
Honours
equal
with
you
.
CHAP.
IV.
How
the
Galenists
have
domineered
in
the
World
,
and
deceived
it
.
'T
Is
unspeakable
how
these
Galenists
have
imposed
upon
credulous
men
,
how
by
their
plausible
Rhetorick
they
have
allured
them
,
and
made
the
people
willingly
to
resign
their
Lives
up
to
their
Judgements
,
notwithstanding
all
those
sad
presidents
lively
represented
to
their
eyes
.
What
fair
pretences
have
they
made
use
of
to
gull
them
into
their
Physick
?
What
a
supercillious
command
have
they
had
over
their
obsequious
Apothecary
,
to
speak
for
them
,
to
lye
for
them
;
yea
,
and
to
do
some
things
for
them
,
to
the
hazard
of
his
Soul
;
being
forced
to
maintain
,
and
sometimes
to
own
all
their
miscarriages
,
misdemeanours
,
and
gross
aberrations
in
Physick
,
or
else
he
,
his
wife
and
children
must
bite
on
the
bridle
.
These
are
they
that
have
infused
into
the
people
abominable
vulgar
Errors
in
Physick
,
which
neither
Doctor
Primerose
,
Doctor
Browne
,
nor
a
thousand
like
them
,
are
able
by
the
best
of
Rhetorick
or
Logick
to
eradicate
,
till
some
notable
and
eminent
Cures
relating
to
their
Lives
,
by
degrees
,
shall
convince
them
of
the
contrary
;
which
is
a
hard
thing
to
do
,
because
these
Mysochymists
and
haters
of
truth
,
have
prejudiced
them
against
the
Assertors
of
it
.
Great
men
are
not
a
little
entangled
in
their
snares
,
being
lured
and
caught
by
their
bewitching
tongues
,
by
their
fame
of
being
great
Schollars
,
well
versed
in
all
the
Languages
,
excellent
Mathematicians
,
Historians
,
Geographers
,
which
are
qualifications
very
laudable
,
and
which
we
very
much
respect
;
but
what
is
all
this
to
a
Sick
Man
that
lies
groaning
upon
his
bed
in
a
violent
Feaver
,
tortur'd
with
the
Gout
,
the
Stone
,
the
Cholick
,
the
Iliack
,
haling
for
breath
as
for
life
?
What
is
this
mans
Learning
to
him
,
if
he
cannot
ease
him
and
give
him
Relief
,
quatenus
a
Physician
?
If
after
all
learned
Argumentation
,
and
Eloquence
of
the
Galenist
,
some
trivial
Chymist
that
hath
learnt
something
by
blowing
the
coals
for
his
Master
,
shall
cure
him
,
without
any
long
preamble
;
be
serious
and
tell
me
(
as
we
are
all
Philautists
,
and
desire
self-preservation
)
whether
this
man
(
though
otherwise
not
to
be
justified
in
his
ignorance
)
be
not
to
be
encouraged
and
to
be
had
in
some
estimation
in
any
well-governed
Land
?
Consider
this
therefore
Worthy
Magistrates
,
that
as
ye
are
the
Sons
of
Adam
,
ye
will
alwayes
be
prone
to
Diseases
;
and
doubtless
none
of
you
in
such
a
case
but
will
highly
prize
a
man
that
shall
offer
,
promise
,
and
perform
a
Cure
for
you
,
above
another
that
tires
you
out
either
with
none
,
or
false
promises
.
Great
Patriots
,
be
pleased
to
take
notice
how
they
have
villified
and
slandered
true
Artists
,
perswading
the
World
falsly
,
that
Chimical
Medicines
(
which
we
frequently
use
without
strict
weighing
them
)
were
dangerous
,
received
an
Empyreuma
,
or
hurtful
impression
from
the
Fire
;
that
they
did
either
Kill
or
Cure
in
a
short
time
:
yea
,
some
of
them
have
been
so
impudently
audacious
to
assert
,
That
whosoever
took
Chymical
Medicines
,
although
he
were
cured
for
the
present
,
yet
in
the
revolution
of
a
year
it
would
cost
him
his
life
.
So
that
in
their
fury
they
have
cast
into
the
Kennel
out
of
a
very
honest
and
able
Apothecary's
Shop
,
a
most
safe
,
innocent
,
and
effectual
Chymical
Medicine
,
and
afterward
have
endeavoured
the
ruine
of
the
poor
man.
A
quondam
noted
Galenist
,
in
greatest
part
reclaimed
from
their
fopperies
,
and
almost
got
out
of
that
durty
practice
,
protested
that
he
knew
a
most
eminent
Doctor
of
the
Colledge
,
that
passes
for
one
of
the
most
learned
amongst
them
,
that
did
not
dare
to
venture
to
give
five
or
six
grains
of
Antimonium
Diaphoreticum
,
which
we
can
give
with
confidence
,
security
,
and
good
effect
,
often
to
thirty
or
forty
grains
.
They
formerly
cried
down
Oyl
of
Vitriol
by
no
means
fitting
to
be
taken
into
the
body
,
because
it
did
corrode
a
Glove
,
supposing
it
would
act
the
same
in
the
Stomack
.
As
for
Mercurius
dulcis
,
and
other
Preparations
of
Mercury
,
they
concluded
them
all
to
be
little
better
then
poyson
;
which
now
they
frequently
make
use
of
,
not
scrupling
to
give
it
to
Children
,
but
we
fear
to
their
destruction
sometimes
,
as
they
order
the
matter
by
their
method
,
and
a
careless
preparation
of
it
,
which
they
alwayes
referre
to
another
.
Yet
it
is
not
long
since
that
a
Galenist
of
great
fame
did
upon
some
Discourse
of
Mercury
confidently
affirm
,
that
he
knew
he
could
do
as
much
with
crude
Mercury
,
as
any
with
it
never
so
well
prepared
:
which
he
dares
not
(
we
are
sure
)
maintain
to
be
true
by
any
visible
instance
,
but
spake
it
meerly
out
of
a
Vatinian
hatred
to
Chymical
Preparations
;
which
nothwithstanding
he
and
his
Fraternity
are
forced
to
make
use
of
closely
,
labouring
to
pump
and
fish
them
out
of
others
.
Now
at
length
finding
that
they
have
strived
in
vain
against
truth
,
by
their
obloquies
and
false
suggestions
still
kicking
against
a
prick
;
and
finding
they
cannot
obscure
the
bright
beames
of
Pyrotechnical
Philosophy
,
they
take
now
another
supplanting
course
,
and
of
a
sudden
will
all
become
Chymists
;
but
Galeno-Chymists
,
as
monstrous
and
Anomalous
as
a
Centaure
or
Syren
:
and
hereby
they
think
to
blear
the
eyes
of
the
world
,
to
make
them
believe
,
that
their
Method
sweetens
all
our
sharp
Vitriolate
Medicines
,
allayes
all
our
Corrosives
,
fixes
all
our
Mercurial
Preparations
;
and
in
short
,
makes
all
safe
and
sound
,
which
otherwise
would
be
destructive
in
our
fingers
.
Thus
they
still
juggle
with
,
and
delude
the
world
,
still
protracting
and
spinning
out
the
time
,
very
unwilling
to
part
with
ease
,
gain
,
and
honour
,
notwithstanding
thousands
suffer
by
their
indirect
practice
,
e're
they
will
come
in
quietly
,
and
sincerely
submit
to
the
truth
,
for
the
good
of
the
Nation
;
although
they
know
at
last
they
must
be
forced
to
yield
,
time
bringing
that
to
light
which
is
their
principal
study
to
involve
in
obscurity
.
For
we
make
no
question
but
that
posterity
will
admire
their
obstinacy
herein
,
and
abhorre
them
for
it
.
Well
,
come
what
will
come
,
for
ought
we
can
see
they
are
still
resolved
to
maintain
their
State
and
Grandure
as
long
as
they
can
,
for
their
present
life
,
and
then
let
the
world
hereafter
censure
them
,
what
care
they
:
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
as
the
Greek
Poet
hath
it
.
Yet
it
hapned
that
one
of
their
greatest
Donns
,
being
questioned
by
a
Perspicacious
Gentleman
,
what
the
reason
was
,
that
he
ordered
something
very
incongruous
in
reference
to
his
Patient
;
and
being
charged
home
by
him
,
whom
he
knew
would
not
be
baffled
,
made
this
express
answer
;
Hang
it
(
quoth
he
)
we
are
but
a
Company
of
Cheats
.
This
was
reported
to
us
by
a
person
of
Quality
,
that
dares
testifie
the
truth
of
it
to
the
face
of
him
that
spake
it
.
CHAP.
V.
In
what
space
of
time
a
good
Physician
may
resolve
his
Patient
of
the
Event
of
his
Disease
.
HE
is
unworthy
the
name
of
a
Physician
,
that
in
Acute
Diseases
doth
not
on
the
fifth
or
sixth
day
after
his
admission
,
either
make
Nature
master
of
the
Disease
,
or
else
on
the
sixth
or
seventh
give
a
positive
prediction
what
will
be
the
conclusion
thereof
;
and
that
with
so
much
certainty
,
that
he
should
seldom
be
mistaken
but
as
a
man
:
For
it
is
a
grand
ignominy
,
and
an
intollerable
disgrace
,
to
see
a
Mechanick
to
engage
himself
to
bring
to
pass
what
he
undertakes
,
and
a
learned
Physician
,
either
not
to
dare
to
promise
you
any
thing
of
a
Cure
,
or
wholly
to
frustrate
your
expectation
.
It
is
no
wonder
if
some
men
taking
advantage
of
your
weakness
in
this
particular
,
have
cast
it
in
our
teeth
,
that
our
Art
is
altogether
conjectural
;
and
that
we
do
all
things
therein
by
hab
nab
,
happy
be
lucky
;
hitting
the
mark
with
as
much
uncertainty
as
those
people
called
Andabatae
,
that
fought
with
one
another
winking
;
we
wish
these
Scoffs
and
Taunts
might
lie
at
the
doors
of
those
that
have
justly
deserved
them
.
In
Chronick
Infirmities
a
longer
time
must
needs
be
required
to
give
satisfaction
to
the
Patient
concerning
his
Recovery
,
the
matter
of
the
Disease
being
many
times
fixt
in
the
Body
,
and
as
it
were
settled
on
the
lees
,
the
ferment
of
the
parts
being
either
vitiated
,
or
in
great
part
abolished
;
and
the
Archeus
or
vital
Spirit
being
much
diminished
,
the
immediate
instrument
of
the
Soul
,
by
which
it
acts
for
our
health
or
sickness
,
in
which
every
Disease
nestles
,
and
is
primarily
seated
and
characterized
,
without
the
power
of
which
none
can
be
cured
;
(
of
which
the
Galenists
have
been
too
ignorant
,
until
such
time
most
Acute
Helmont
(
like
a
bright
star
of
truth
)
made
it
appear
)
As
the
matter
stands
thus
,
a
Physician
may
very
well
assume
a
fortnight
or
three
weeks
at
most
,
finally
to
conclude
what
he
is
able
to
do
for
his
Patient
;
whether
he
be
capable
(
as
he
conceives
)
to
be
restored
to
health
,
if
not
,
then
to
resign
him
up
to
another
that
may
be
able
to
do
more
:
for
this
wier-drawing
course
in
Physick
,
to
keep
a
Patient
long
in
suspence
,
without
any
relief
,
(
peradventure
for
some
private
ends
)
is
to
be
abominated
.
'T
is
a
strong
Argument
of
great
Weakness
or
Deceit
in
a
Physician
,
when
in
some
reasonable
time
he
cannot
or
will
not
give
an
account
what
is
like
to
be
the
Issue
of
his
labours
:
such
an
one
is
to
be
avoided
as
the
Plague
,
that
is
blinde
and
cannot
discover
the
Mark
he
is
to
shoot
at
;
or
aims
at
the
Purse
of
his
Patient
,
rather
then
the
Recovery
of
his
Health
.
Be
advised
whosoever
thou
art
,
not
to
suffer
him
that
waits
for
a
Crisis
,
and
cannot
give
thee
in
a
short
time
a
sufficient
Testimony
of
an
effectual
Cure
,
to
proceed
any
further
;
for
be
assured
that
a
good
Physician
never
looks
after
a
Crisis
,
(
standing
still
as
a
meer
spectatour
while
Nature
is
oftentimes
worsted
upon
unequal
terms
by
its
enemy
)
but
with
all
expedition
unroosteth
that
unwelcome
Guest
,
that
hath
taken
up
its
lodging
in
the
vital
Spirits
,
wherein
the
longer
it
lurks
,
the
more
difficult
it
is
to
eject
;
for
cunctando
crescit
,
and
so
at
length
confounds
the
Oeconomy
of
the
whole
Body
:
wherefore
an
Honest
and
Prudent
Chymist
,
Principiis
obstat
,
falls
forthwith
upon
the
extirpation
of
any
malady
,
whereas
the
Galenist
labours
to
circumcise
and
lop
off
here
and
there
the
Branches
or
Symptoms
,
lulling
his
Patient
asleep
with
some
incorrected
Opiate
,
mitigating
sleight
pains
by
Anodines
,
quenching
his
Thirst
by
cooling
Iuleps
,
bedaubing
his
Feet
,
Wrists
,
and
Front
,
with
Cataplasms
,
and
the
like
,
to
the
wearisomness
and
vexation
of
the
sick
Man
,
without
any
real
casement
of
his
Grief
.
Hence
it
falls
out
that
some
of
our
learned
Galenists
have
protracted
an
Acute
Feaver
,
to
the
one
and
twentieth
day
,
and
that
in
hope
of
a
Crisis
,
which
we
are
confident
might
have
been
taken
down
before
the
seventh
.
Hereby
they
hatch
up
some
Chronick
tedious
languor
,
which
usually
follows
at
the
heels
of
most
Malignant
Feavers
they
take
in
hand
,
because
they
never
searched
the
Soar
to
the
bottom
,
but
onely
skinn'd
it
over
.
Oftentimes
do
these
Botching
Galenists
bring
to
light
a
viperous
Generation
of
Long
Infirmities
,
that
might
easily
have
been
destroyed
at
first
in
Ovo
the
Embryon
,
which
afterward
growing
too
headstrong
for
them
,
elude
and
slight
all
their
trivial
Applications
.
And
all
this
they
can
still
do
under
the
notion
of
safe
Medicines
;
when
indeed
a
generous
man
had
better
have
dyed
Caesars
death
,
and
nimbly
to
have
been
sent
into
the
other
world
by
some
precipitate
Quack
,
or
venturous
Pseudochymist
,
where
he
might
be
at
rest
,
then
to
crumble
and
moulder
away
in
a
languishing
feeble
manner
;
and
withal
to
sustain
those
torturing
and
racking
Carnifications
,
by
their
Blisterings
,
Cuppings
,
Scarifications
,
Cauteries
,
and
Setons
,
with
their
loathsome
Potions
,
Consuming
Purgatives
,
their
severe
Cookeries
,
and
rigid
Diet-drinks
,
and
at
length
to
drop
into
the
pit
.
Let
any
discreet
man
judge
whether
such
Doctors
as
these
deserve
a
Patent
,
who
have
nothing
wherewithal
to
excuse
their
Homicide
,
but
that
they
perform
it
with
the
fairest
Method
in
the
world
.
CHAP.
VI.
How
much
precious
time
the
Galenists
spend
in
Anatomical
Curiosities
to
little
purpose
.
OUr
Antagonists
raise
no
small
dust
,
and
make
no
little
noise
with
their
Dissection
of
Bodies
,
which
were
much
to
be
commended
,
if
they
did
not
spend
more
time
then
needeth
,
rather
for
ostentation
,
and
to
get
a
fame
abroad
,
then
for
any
notable
improvement
in
the
Cure
of
poor
miserable
Man.
For
if
it
savoured
not
too
much
of
vain-glory
,
they
would
rather
exercise
these
operations
more
privately
amongst
themselves
,
and
instruct
any
ingenious
Gentleman
,
that
desires
to
be
informed
therein
,
so
far
as
might
conduce
for
his
particular
satisfaction
;
and
not
make
a
publique
Theatrical
business
of
it
,
for
the
entertainment
of
any
rude
fellows
:
but
enough
of
that
.
As
exact
Anatomists
as
these
men
are
,
we
know
this
for
a
truth
,
that
the
lodging
place
of
Diseases
is
seldom
to
be
discovered
by
the
Knife
;
which
indeed
was
boldly
attempted
(
though
in
vain
)
by
an
industrious
Galenist
of
late
years
,
who
cut
up
a
Pestilent
Body
,
to
finde
out
in
what
part
the
Plague
did
principally
reside
,
to
the
loss
of
his
own
life
,
perhaps
for
want
of
some
Arcanum
which
an
Helmontist
could
have
given
him
.
Anatomy
we
stand
up
for
,
as
much
as
any
,
without
which
we
are
certain
a
Physician
must
necessarily
be
much
defective
in
Physick
;
in
which
(
we
dare
say
)
some
of
us
have
bestowed
as
much
pains
as
most
of
our
Opponents
:
and
something
we
can
say
without
vain-glory
,
that
we
were
the
first
that
in
these
parts
of
Europe
have
made
the
Experiment
effectually
of
taking
out
the
Spleen
of
a
Dog
,
without
which
he
lived
perfectly
well
two
years
and
a
quarter
;
the
same
being
often
repeated
by
others
who
stiffly
opposed
it
at
first
.
But
what
is
all
this
to
the
grand
matter
in
hand
,
which
crowns
and
gives
life
to
all
the
rest
,
that
is
,
to
be
master
of
those
Remedies
which
(
proportionable
to
Diseases
)
are
able
to
tame
and
subjugate
them
to
the
law
of
Nature
?
What
would
it
profit
to
tell
our
Patients
that
we
had
taken
the
Spleen
out
of
a
Dog
,
if
they
(
afflicted
in
that
part
)
could
receive
no
benefit
from
us
?
what
pittiful
comforters
should
we
be
in
such
a
case
?
'T
is
true
,
the
Invention
of
the
Circulation
of
the
Blood
by
industrious
Doctor
Harvey
,
is
highly
to
be
commended
,
and
gives
some
satisfaction
in
the
solving
certain
Phaenomena
in
Physiologie
and
Aitiologie
;
yet
we
can
see
the
Therapeutick
part
little
advanced
thereby
,
so
that
many
stubborn
Diseases
are
equally
as
hard
to
conquer
(
caeteris
paribus
)
as
they
were
before
its
discovery
.
Are
your
Officinal
Medicines
,
on
which
ye
solely
depend
,
any
whit
more
sufficient
and
powerful
to
cure
now
,
then
before
the
Venae
Lacteae
of
Asellius
,
and
the
Vasa
Lymphatica
of
〈◊〉
were
brought
to
light
?
Or
ye
(
for
this
reason
)
better
Physicians
then
formerly
,
notwithstanding
all
your
raking
and
groping
in
these
uncomfortable
dark
cadaverous
Subjects
?
surely
not
at
all
:
if
the
Spagyrist
had
not
somewhat
supplied
your
want
in
that
which
is
most
necessary
;
affording
you
a
few
more
prevailing
Helps
for
your
Patients
Sanity
,
then
ye
ever
possessed
heretofore
.
What
would
it
avail
if
ye
knew
the
exact
site
of
the
smallest
string
or
fibre
in
the
Microcosme
,
and
yet
were
not
able
to
reduce
it
,
dislocated
,
into
its
right
place
?
How
uncomfortable
to
one
afflicted
with
some
grievous
malady
,
is
that
Physicians
Anatomical
Lecture
of
Mans
Body
,
if
he
be
ignorant
in
the
Anatomy
of
some
Active
,
Spriteful
,
Enlivening
Medicine
,
that
may
give
him
ease
.
Whatsoever
therefore
is
introductive
,
subservient
,
and
of
far
less
moment
comparatively
,
ought
to
be
set
behinde
,
and
have
less
pains
bestowed
upon
it
,
then
what
is
absolutely
necessary
,
and
doth
primarily
and
immediately
conduce
to
the
attaining
that
End
,
which
both
Physician
and
Patient
desire
above
all
things
;
and
such
is
the
Knowledge
of
Generous
Remedies
,
which
can
never
be
acquired
without
Herculean
labour
:
for
the
hammering
out
of
which
,
our
whole
〈◊〉
if
we
should
live
an
hundred
years
)
is
too
scanty
.
'T
is
certain
,
every
Mechanick
ought
to
have
a
competent
insight
of
that
Machine
,
as
Watch
or
Clock
,
&c.
which
he
goeth
about
to
mend
;
but
if
he
want
Instruments
and
fitting
Tools
,
how
is
it
possible
he
should
rectifie
any
great
Defect
in
it
:
In
like
manner
it
behoves
a
Physician
to
be
acquainted
with
the
Structure
and
Conformation
of
this
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
admirable
Engine
,
Mans
Body
,
so
far
as
is
needful
and
expedient
,
to
instruct
him
in
the
Reparation
and
Restitution
of
it
,
when
at
any
time
it
is
cast
off
the
Hinges
of
its
Sanity
,
through
any
occasion
from
within
or
without
:
But
above
all
it
concerns
him
,
to
spend
the
greatest
part
of
his
precious
time
,
to
bend
all
his
sinews
,
and
to
put
forth
his
whole
strength
,
to
finde
out
those
powerfull
Remedies
,
which
are
indeed
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
able
to
reduce
and
compose
any
Ataxie
,
Exarthresie
,
or
Exorbitance
in
this
lovely
frame
.
Desist
then
ye
vain-glorious
Galenists
from
spending
your
dayes
about
impertinent
and
superfluous
Searches
in
stinking
Carcasses
,
which
are
never
able
to
teach
you
how
to
destroy
the
Rampant
Diseases
daily
breaking
violently
into
these
living
Houses
,
without
Pyrotechnical
Anatomy
,
which
alone
can
reclude
the
Secrets
of
Nature
,
and
shew
us
where
every
Disease
is
seated
,
and
by
what
effectual
wayes
it
may
be
disturbed
,
and
thrown
out
of
that
Vital
Light
in
which
it
lives
and
dyes
.
CHAP.
VII
.
A
just
reproof
of
the
Ignorance
of
most
of
them
in
Surgery
.
CErtainly
it
was
an
evil
Design
at
first
,
and
a
plain
demonstration
of
idleness
and
pride
in
Physicians
,
when
they
brake
into
parts
those
Faculties
,
which
did
formerly
,
and
should
alwayes
indivisibly
reside
in
one
man.
We
confess
Fractures
and
Dislocations
require
the
hand
of
a
professed
Artist
,
that
is
throughly
versed
in
Anatomy
and
accurate
Experience
in
this
kinde
;
but
when
Medicines
taken
inwardly
are
principally
to
perform
the
Cure
,
outward
as
well
as
inward
Diseases
belong
to
the
Physician
,
so
it
may
be
done
to
the
encouragement
of
the
Professours
of
Surgery
;
sith
honos
alit
artes
:
as
the
matter
stands
now
,
it
is
not
amiss
for
the
Surgeon
to
have
a
share
in
the
profit
,
although
the
Physician
hath
the
greatest
hand
in
the
Cure.
We
have
oftentimes
admired
the
Ignorance
of
some
Galenists
,
that
have
not
been
able
to
undertake
a
Whitlow
,
a
Scald
,
a
green
wound
,
a
trivial
Soar
,
but
have
been
forced
to
send
them
to
a
Surgeon
living
remote
,
as
if
it
no
whit
concerned
them
;
and
as
if
any
one
could
be
a
true
Physician
,
and
be
destitute
of
that
which
essentially
belongs
to
his
Art.
Needs
must
that
Physician
be
extreamly
mutilated
in
his
knowledge
,
that
is
to
seek
to
cure
a
Phlegmon
,
an
Erysipelas
,
Fistula
,
or
malignant
Ulcer
:
For
we
can
confidently
averre
,
and
make
it
evident
,
that
't
is
the
inward
Medicament
that
must
principally
cure
most
outward
Discases
,
if
they
be
ever
radically
and
to
a
purpose
healed
,
outward
Applications
being
oftentimes
of
no
effect
.
Yet
we
will
not
deny
some
virulent
Ulcers
may
to
a
wonder
receive
sanation
by
vertue
of
Chymical
Preparations
outwardly
applied
;
as
,
Balsamum
Fuliginis
,
Balsamum
Sameck
,
the
pure
Sulphur
of
Venus
,
Antimony
,
and
other
Minerals
,
of
which
none
but
a
true
Son
of
Art
can
be
possessour
.
But
above
all
is
to
be
extolled
,
that
admirable
Magnetical
way
of
curing
,
which
doubtless
if
rightly
improved
would
work
stupendious
things
;
so
that
some
Galenist
would
presently
conclude
that
there
is
Witchery
,
or
some
supernatural
means
made
use
of
:
So
blinde
and
stupid
they
are
in
the
most
needful
Phylosophy
,
that
what
their
Brains
cannot
conceive
,
they
presently
reject
as
Diabolical
or
impossible
.
Tell
them
of
the
Alkahest
,
or
universal
Menstruum
,
of
Lapis
Chrysopeius
,
Lapis
Butleri
,
of
a
Panacaea
,
they
will
but
deride
and
flout
at
it
,
boldly
and
presumptuously
denying
any
such
thing
to
be
in
rerum
natura
,
because
their
shallow
wits
being
altogether
soused
and
steeped
in
durty
Humours
,
Qualities
,
Temperaments
,
Mixtures
,
and
Contrarieties
,
never
had
the
happiness
to
have
the
least
glimpse
of
the
admirable
perfections
of
such
things
.
This
we
can
set
down
positively
as
a
truth
,
that
that
Physician
that
knows
not
something
of
the
Cure
of
Diseases
both
inward
and
outward
this
way
,
is
but
a
meer
novice
,
alwayes
learning
,
and
never
like
to
come
to
any
perfection
in
his
Art
:
Let
him
be
never
so
much
applauded
for
his
excellent
parts
,
and
great
Learning
,
he
shall
alwayes
be
esteemed
by
the
wisest
,
an
Ideot
in
Phylosophy
,
altogether
ignorant
of
the
radical
and
intrinsecal
causes
of
things
.
We
doubt
not
but
there
is
excellent
use
of
Manual
operation
,
where
the
Knife
is
to
perform
the
Cure
,
as
in
Amputations
of
parts
,
Lithotomie
,
and
the
like
.
But
we
know
this
experimentally
,
that
both
Physician
and
Surgeon
are
too
forward
to
lop
off
parts
,
and
butcherly
to
cut
holes
in
the
skin
;
whereas
many
times
this
bloody
course
might
be
omitted
,
and
the
sick
person
restored
in
great
part
,
if
not
altogether
,
to
his
pristine
health
,
without
mutilation
or
sauciation
;
as
we
could
instance
of
late
in
a
Gentleman
,
belonging
to
a
Noble
man
,
whose
Leg
after
all
their
tedious
torturing
,
and
frivolous
attempts
,
as
,
Blood-letting
,
Purgation
,
Salivation
,
Sudorificks
,
Diet-drinks
,
Mercurial
Applications
,
and
Cauteries
,
they
at
length
despairing
of
his
Recovery
,
advised
to
be
cut
off
:
which
God
(
by
means
of
his
poor
servant
a
Chymical
Physician
)
prevented
,
the
Gentleman
being
restored
to
his
perfect
health
,
and
his
Limb
saved
.
It
were
to
be
wished
,
that
ye
would
study
to
dissolve
and
reduce
into
their
first
matter
,
those
Coagulations
frequently
hapning
;
as
,
Scrofulous
Tumors
,
Nodes
,
Scirrosities
,
Ganglions
,
Wens
,
&c.
without
Scarifications
and
Incisions
:
but
especially
to
bend
your
whole
strength
,
to
finde
out
some
potent
Arcanum
(
which
God
no
doubt
hath
created
)
for
the
untying
and
colliquating
that
monstrous
Product
,
in
mans
Body
,
the
Stone
,
without
cruel
Lithotomie
by
a
frightfull
Knife
.
Did
you
not
despond
to
finde
,
and
supinely
slight
the
pursuit
of
something
in
this
kinde
,
yea
,
if
ye
did
not
maliciously
discourage
others
,
without
controversie
such
an
Arcanum
might
have
probably
been
brought
to
light
,
able
to
dissolve
the
Stone
even
in
the
Bladder
.
But
it
is
enough
for
you
to
rest
your selves
contented
with
the
old
profitable
way
of
Perforating
and
broaching
the
Body
,
which
if
it
fail
,
ye
presently
protest
ye
have
done
as
much
as
Art
can
;
which
narrowly
examined
by
a
judicious
Physician
,
would
perhaps
prove
very
impotent
.
How
often
have
ye
received
credit
and
applause
from
the
world
,
when
in
the
Dissection
of
dead
Bodies
,
ye
have
found
any
of
the
Viscera
corrupted
,
or
hard
congealed
substance
;
as
,
stones
in
the
Kidney
,
Gall
,
or
other
parts
,
justifying
and
magnifying
your selves
,
that
more
could
not
have
been
done
by
Art
;
whereas
peradventure
at
that
time
ye
were
first
admitted
,
the
Corruption
might
have
been
hindred
,
and
Coagulations
dissolved
.
Some
few
years
since
a
Chymical
Physician
expelled
three
large
Stones
nestling
about
the
region
of
the
Spleen
,
the
least
as
big
as
a
large
Turky's
egg
,
out
of
a
Maid-servants
Body
,
by
virtue
of
some
Paracelsian
Medicines
,
perfectly
restoring
her
to
health
,
which
she
enjoyes
to
this
day
;
whom
we
are
confident
if
a
Galenist
had
undertaken
,
he
would
by
his
Blood-letting
,
pernicious
Purgation
,
Blisterings
,
&c.
have
destroyed
,
and
the
cause
of
her
Disease
should
never
have
been
discovered
,
unless
by
accident
the
Knife
had
made
it
appear
;
which
would
have
sufficiently
excused
the
Galenist
,
and
cleared
him
as
one
that
did
what
possibly
could
be
done
by
Art.
CHAP.
VIII
.
What
a
noise
our
Adversaries
make
with
their
Laboratory
,
and
how
they
vaunt
that
they
use
Chymical
Medicines
according
to
their
Method
.
YE
make
your
boast
that
ye
possess
(
as
well
as
we
)
your
Laboratory
,
and
variety
of
Furnaces
:
That
ye
use
Chymical
Preparations
,
according
to
your
Method
,
not
as
we
do
,
at
random
.
That
ye
knowing
the
ill
qualities
and
properties
of
them
,
and
how
hazardous
they
are
,
do
upon
a
pinch
flye
to
them
,
having
made
use
of
first
other
safe
Medicines
.
These
are
fair
pretences
of
truth
we
confess
,
but
if
we
search
narrowly
to
the
bottom
,
we
shall
easily
discover
them
to
be
meer
delusions
.
As
to
the
first
which
ye
glory
in
,
your
Laboratory
,
we
answer
,
'T
is
not
the
Laboratory
or
specious
Furnaces
that
simply
makes
the
Spagyrical
Physician
,
no
more
then
a
vast
Library
of
it self
will
make
a
learned
Schollar
.
Is
there
any
more
in
this
then
a
meer
pomp
and
vanity
,
to
have
multiplicity
of
Instruments
,
and
not
be
able
to
make
use
of
them
according
to
the
true
principles
of
Art.
For
we
dare
averre
it
,
that
that
man
that
is
an
enemy
to
the
Doctrine
of
Helmont
,
cannot
possibly
arrive
to
be
a
true
Chymical
Philosopher
.
He
may
indeed
be
like
one
,
as
the
Ape
is
said
to
be
like
a
man
,
and
therefore
most
deformed
;
Simia
quòd
similis
turpissima
bestia
nobis
,
&c.
Do
ye
think
ever
to
attain
to
this
difficult
Knowledge
by
virtue
of
your
Master
Galens
Rules
,
who
never
saw
Quick-silver
or
Rose
water
?
whom
incomparable
Helmont
hath
made
appear
altogether
blinde
in
the
true
Fundamentals
of
Nature
,
not
knowing
aright
the
Quiddity
or
Essence
of
a
Disease
,
the
Cause
,
the
immediate
Subject
,
or
place
thereof
,
nor
the
direct
and
perfect
Cure
of
it
.
Be
not
deceived
,
for
it
is
no
such
easie
matter
,
as
ye
would
make
the
world
believe
,
to
become
a
Philosopher
by
the
Fire
:
lay
aside
therefore
your
dearly
beloved
Galen
,
who
hath
made
you
so
rich
by
the
ruine
of
others
,
and
study
Helmont
night
and
day
;
and
when
ye
have
attained
some
of
his
Theory
,
then
buy
(
as
he
advises
)
Coals
and
Glasses
.
By
this
means
we
doubt
not
but
ye
will
become
sound
Physicians
,
if
otherwise
never
.
To
what
you
alledge
concerning
your
use
of
Chymical
Medicines
,
we
may
safely
,
say
,
it
had
been
happy
for
the
credit
of
this
Art
,
if
none
had
ever
come
into
your
fingers
,
or
been
prescribed
by
you
;
having
so
perverted
the
use
of
them
,
partly
through
adulterate
and
sophisticate
Preparations
,
proceeding
from
ignorance
,
supine
negligence
,
or
covetousness
;
partly
through
your
dogmatical
Method
,
prescribing
them
unseasonably
,
when
ye
have
suffered
Nature
to
be
worried
by
a
Disease
,
and
thrown
flat
on
its
back
;
and
exhausted
it
by
cruel
Phlebotomy
,
poisonous
Purgations
,
Blisterings
,
Scarifications
,
&c.
upon
this
ye
take
occasion
to
maligne
,
slight
,
and
villifie
those
Chymical
Medicines
,
which
ye
either
never
had
good
,
or
never
knew
how
to
use
.
Yet
thus
much
we
have
observed
,
when
a
Patient
findes
any
benefit
,
't
is
for
the
most
part
by
virtue
of
some
Chymical
Medicine
which
ye
mix
(
as
ye
usually
do
)
with
your
trumpery
,
meerly
to
disguise
the
matter
,
lest
too
much
respect
should
be
attributed
to
a
Medicament
which
ye
have
borrowed
from
your
Adversaries
.
Moreover
,
let
any
indifferent
man
judge
,
whether
it
be
not
a
part
of
the
most
odious
Ingratitude
that
can
possible
be
devised
,
for
these
men
to
scoff
at
,
to
rail
against
,
to
calumniate
and
backbite
them
,
from
whom
they
have
received
the
best
means
they
enjoy
to
cure
their
Patients
;
without
which
they
had
been
before
now
exploded
and
thrust
off
the
stage
of
the
World
with
disgrace
.
CHAP.
IX
.
An
Answer
to
some
Objections
laid
to
our
charge
by
the
Galenists
.
OUr
Adversaries
object
to
us
,
that
many
ignorant
Empiricks
make
use
of
Chymical
Preparations
,
to
the
destruction
of
many
credulous
persons
:
posting
themselves
up
in
every
corner
of
the
Street
,
proclaiming
themselves
to
be
possessours
of
great
Arcana's
,
even
to
Panacaea's
,
whereby
they
profess
they
can
work
wonders
,
and
cure
a
Catalogue
of
Diseases
which
the
Galenists
count
incurable
;
but
being
brought
to
the
touchstone
of
sound
experience
,
they
are
found
to
be
meer
Impostors
,
empty
of
all
sound
knowledge
,
no
whit
able
to
perform
any
thing
proportionable
to
their
promises
.
Moreover
,
they
urge
that
our
Chymical
Authors
are
Hyperbolical
,
or
excessive
in
the
praises
of
their
Medicamens
,
extolling
them
beyond
the
activity
of
the
things
themselves
;
and
that
they
frequently
set
down
false
Processes
,
which
when
a
young
beginner
first
puts
to
a
trial
,
according
to
his
Authors
description
,
he
is
disappointed
and
discouraged
in
limine
,
even
in
the
first
essay
or
onset
,
which
is
enough
to
make
us
censure
you
Stentors
and
vain
boasters
.
This
we
confess
ingeniously
is
not
to
be
denied
in
part
,
and
we
could
wish
it
otherwise
;
but
't
is
the
fate
of
the
best
things
to
be
corrupted
,
and
't
is
an
ill
Argumentation
to
conclude
any
thing
to
be
evil
,
because
some
have
abused
it
.
For
our
parts
,
we
utterly
disown
and
renounce
these
mens
actions
,
condemning
their
ignorance
as
severely
as
ye
can
,
desiring
they
might
be
suppressed
,
and
chastized
according
to
their
demerits
.
Yet
thus
much
we
can
say
for
some
of
them
,
that
having
got
some
trivial
Chymical
Medicines
perchance
from
your
Apothecary
,
neglecting
your
Method
,
(
which
many
times
ties
you
up
so
fast
,
that
ye
want
liberty
to
use
some
laudable
Medicines
for
your
Patients
recovery
)
they
have
performed
some
eminent
cures
to
your
disgrace
and
their
own
applause
;
which
hath
made
some
admire
your
great
imbecillity
herein
,
to
the
dishonour
of
Learning
.
We
know
a
Chymist
that
desires
no
more
Practice
in
Physick
to
get
a
competent
living
by
,
then
those
Patients
to
whom
ye
cannot
make
a
promise
of
a
Cure
after
two
or
three
moneths
time
,
whom
he
would
undertake
to
resolve
in
less
then
a
moneth
.
And
assuredly
to
any
discreet
man
this
is
proof
enough
,
how
erroneous
ye
are
in
that
which
chiefly
concerns
the
life
of
man.
For
our
parts
we
should
think
it
very
strange
,
and
be
infinitely
ashamed
,
if
any
Patient
should
be
cured
by
the
Galenists
,
whom
we
have
given
over
,
which
(
we
are
sure
)
ye
on
the
contrary
part
cannot
make
good
.
As
touching
Chymical
Authors
,
that
set
you
not
in
express
terms
the
right
way
to
make
some
Medicines
,
and
likewise
prize
some
more
then
they
deserve
,
for
these
we
Apologize
not
:
But
by
your
favour
,
we
conceive
that
many
times
the
errour
lieth
in
you
,
who
want
true
Chymical
Rudiments
,
and
not
in
them
who
think
it
not
wisdom
(
seeing
the
unhappy
success
thereof
)
to
set
down
all
things
so
plain
,
that
an
Apothecaries
boy
may
understand
them
.
For
believe
it
,
if
ye
had
those
Philosophical
Principles
which
Helmont
hath
delivered
to
the
world
,
these
trivial
Authors
could
not
so
easily
deceive
you
:
In
him
we
are
sure
ye
will
finde
sound
Doctrine
,
and
demonstrable
,
by
which
we
doubt
not
to
confute
your
false
Theorems
and
Axioms
in
Philosophy
.
We
plead
not
for
any
that
magnifie
any
Preparations
beyond
what
they
deserve
,
it
is
enough
if
we
engage
our selves
no
further
with
you
,
then
wherein
the
things
themselves
shall
justifie
us
.
CHAP.
X.
An
Expostulation
why
the
Dogmatists
will
not
come
to
the
touchstone
of
true
Experience
.
WHy
halt
ye
thus
between
two
opinions
,
and
will
not
come
fairly
and
candidly
to
give
the
World
an
assurance
of
your
sound
Practice
,
which
concerns
their
Lives
and
Souls
,
but
still
equivocate
,
playing
fast
and
loose
,
tergiversating
,
wrangling
,
and
quarrelling
about
Punctilio's
in
Physick
,
assuming
to
your selves
a
strange
Heteroclite
or
Hermophraditical
name
,
as
Galeno-Chymists
,
invented
by
your
brains
to
blinde
the
world
;
a
name
altogether
inconsistent
with
a
true
Physician
,
who
may
very
well
be
expressed
by
two
syllables
.
Why
hath
not
your
Sect
yielded
formerly
to
Helmonts
fair
Proposal
,
while
he
was
alive
,
that
there
might
be
a
final
conclusion
of
these
Controversies
by
matter
of
fact
?
(
indifferent
Iudges
appointed
on
both
sides
to
give
their
censure
)
Why
do
ye
not
accept
of
the
same
at
this
day
,
if
ye
were
not
conscious
to
your selves
of
your
owne
weakness
?
What
poor
shifts
and
starting-holes
have
ye
found
out
,
what
pittiful
fig-leaves
have
ye
joyned
together
to
cover
your
nakedness
,
and
to
wave
this
fair
,
necessary
,
and
most
evincing
way
,
to
discover
Truth
by
Action
?
Contrary
to
which
,
all
your
Sophistical
Disputes
,
your
Paralogismes
,
your
Quirks
,
your
Tricks
and
plausible
Juggles
signifie
nothing
;
no
nor
your
great
Schollarship
,
not
rightly
squared
and
applied
to
the
use
and
benefit
of
mankinde
,
and
the
charity
of
your
neighbour
.
Let
not
therefore
any
Physignathus
,
inflatus
scientia
,
supercilious
Critick
,
chattering
Linguist
,
or
one
that
knows
how
to
dispute
Problematically
and
Artificially
to
deceive
his
Brother
;
let
not
such
(
we
say
)
who
professes
and
practises
Physick
,
being
grosly
ignorant
of
the
right
knowledge
of
things
,
for
the
commodity
and
use
of
the
world
,
boast
or
vaunt
of
his
glittering
endowments
in
this
kinde
:
but
let
him
rather
lay
his
hand
upon
his
heart
,
and
considering
his
own
emptiness
,
reflect
upon
himself
,
how
he
hath
deceived
and
been
deceived
;
and
at
length
let
him
,
though
a
Senior
,
(
for
it
is
never
too
late
to
repent
sincerely
,
and
be
wise
to
salvation
)
embrace
the
sound
Doctrine
of
Helmont
,
who
will
teach
him
to
save
mens
Lives
as
he
ought
.
If
any
be
so
ingenious
to
say
,
I
have
done
what
I
can
,
and
I
know
no
other
way
then
Bleeding
,
ordinary
Purging
,
and
Sweating
Medicines
,
and
doubt
whether
there
be
a
better
,
and
would
willingly
learn
;
we
shall
undertake
to
demonstrate
to
this
man
,
that
which
will
be
very
satisfactory
to
him
,
and
question
not
to
convince
him
,
if
he
be
not
notoriously
obstinate
of
his
mistakes
in
this
kinde
.
CHAP.
XI
.
How
much
to
seek
the
Galenists
are
in
that
necessary
Philosophy
which
directs
us
to
the
Cure
of
Diseases
.
NEeds
must
the
Galenist
erre
in
the
cure
of
Diseases
,
when
they
are
very
ignorant
of
their
Causes
.
Their
very
Fundamentals
and
Principles
in
natural
Philosophy
being
false
,
as
Helmont
hath
plainly
made
it
appear
.
What
an
absurdity
is
it
to
take
in
Fire
,
which
is
neither
a
Substance
nor
an
Accident
,
to
make
up
the
four
Elements
,
and
to
fetch
it
from
the
highest
Region
,
next
the
Moon
,
that
it
might
enter
into
all
Concretes
:
and
from
these
Quaternary
Elements
to
deduce
their
four
Humours
,
Complexions
,
and
Temperaments
,
and
accordingly
to
proceed
in
the
Cure
of
man
;
bending
all
their
forces
to
remove
Qualities
,
Accidents
,
and
Products
of
Diseases
,
leaving
the
Disease
it self
behinde
?
What
an
erroneous
Definition
have
they
made
of
a
Feaver
,
and
therefore
it
is
no
wonder
if
they
go
unsuccessfully
about
the
Cure
;
as
if
there
were
no
more
to
be
done
but
to
take
an
Indication
from
preternatural
Heat
,
and
so
to
cool
in
the
same
degree
,
for
the
restauration
of
the
Patient
to
his
former
sanity
;
making
that
essential
to
a
Feaver
which
is
but
a
meer
product
,
depending
upon
the
exorbitancy
of
the
Archeus
,
or
vital
Spirits
?
What
errour
can
be
more
gross
then
to
maintain
,
that
the
natural
Heat
of
the
Stomack
,
by
means
of
the
parts
adjacent
,
is
able
to
alter
what
is
taken
into
it
so
powerfully
,
that
in
a
short
time
even
such
hard
Bodies
,
as
Bones
,
Iron
,
and
Glass
,
are
dissolved
in
it
,
which
the
Culinary
Fire
cannot
easily
conquer
;
taking
no
notice
that
the
Stomack
of
Fishes
are
actually
cold
,
and
yet
digest
most
vigorously
.
Surely
't
is
very
improbable
that
these
men
should
rectifie
the
indigestion
and
defects
of
the
Stomack
,
that
know
not
how
it
performs
its
office
aright
.
Hence
it
comes
to
pass
,
that
they
often
destroy
by
their
faeculent
Medicines
the
Eucrasie
or
Tone
of
that
part
which
ought
to
be
taken
into
care
above
any
in
the
whole
Body
.
Analogous
to
Fire
,
they
have
brought
in
an
Humour
called
Choller
,
part
whereof
they
say
is
gathered
into
a
Receptacle
of
a
Bladder
,
which
overflowing
and
exceeding
(
they
affirm
)
causes
the
Jaundies
,
and
many
other
Diseases
depending
upon
that
Humour
;
reckoning
that
an
Excrement
(
to
be
purged
out
with
Rhubarb
)
that
is
of
most
noble
use
,
which
no
perfect
Creature
can
want
,
neither
Beasts
,
Fowl
,
or
Fish
;
ordained
by
God
as
a
special
Balsom
,
to
preserve
the
Body
from
putrefaction
;
by
virtue
of
which
the
second
Digestion
is
performed
,
the
Acide
juyce
of
the
Stomack
being
converted
into
a
Saline
.
Their
ignorance
herein
hath
produced
many
capital
Errours
in
Physick
,
which
would
be
too
tedious
to
insist
upon
.
From
the
Element
of
Earth
they
have
deduced
another
Humour
called
Melancholly
,
which
they
have
placed
in
the
Spleen
,
reputing
it
a
part
destinated
for
that
purpose
;
never
dreaming
till
Helmont
divulged
it
,
that
in
it
and
the
continuate
Arteries
,
is
resident
a
ferment
of
most
admirable
use
for
the
Digestion
of
the
the
Stomack
,
which
being
interrupted
through
multiplicity
of
occasional
Causes
,
engender
various
Diseases
;
as
,
Scurvy
,
Plurisie
,
Quartanes
,
&c.
which
they
neither
know
how
to
cure
,
nor
by
their
good
wills
would
suffer
others
.
What
a
miserable
Errour
is
it
in
Philosophy
to
assert
,
that
the
Stone
in
the
Kidneys
and
Bladder
is
engendred
from
Phlegme
,
(
which
they
say
symbolizes
with
the
Element
of
Water
)
which
Humour
by
power
of
a
graduated
Heat
(
but
where
to
be
found
in
the
Body
we
know
not
)
is
brought
to
that
stony
consistence
;
which
how
to
break
they
are
altogether
unwitting
,
unless
by
the
knife
.
It
hath
been
a
common
practice
to
keep
their
Patients
some
moneths
to
Diet-drinks
of
Guaiacum
,
Sarzaparilla
,
Sassafras
,
out
of
an
intent
of
drying
up
superfluous
moisture
,
and
imaginary
Catarrhs
in
the
Body
;
as
if
one
of
their
strong
Purges
would
not
more
effectually
answer
that
Indication
in
one
day
,
better
then
their
former
course
in
a
moneth
.
These
things
Helmont
hath
plainly
shewed
to
be
ridiculous
.
Who
in
his
right
wits
will
take
these
men
to
be
found
Philosophers
,
that
attribute
the
cause
of
extream
thirst
in
a
Feaver
simply
to
Heat
and
Drought
;
whereas
at
the
same
time
a
great
quantity
of
cool
liquor
floats
in
the
Stomack
,
to
some
pints
perhaps
.
They
see
Hydropick
persons
abound
with
great
quantity
of
moisture
all
over
the
body
,
and
yet
cannot
be
provoked
to
sweat
;
however
they
never
gave
us
any
clear
Reason
thereof
till
Helmont
appeared
.
Infinite
have
been
their
mistakes
in
Nature
,
and
false
Hypotheses
,
to
the
detriment
of
mans
life
,
which
are
sufficiently
laid
open
by
that
great
Philosopher
Helmont
.
And
therefore
having
given
you
a
little
glimpse
of
these
things
,
that
ye
may
conceive
ex
ungue
leonem
,
we
shall
referre
you
to
know
more
of
that
worthy
Author
,
who
hath
delineated
and
characterized
them
exactly
;
from
whom
we
acknowledge
to
have
received
most
part
of
our
Instructions
.
CHAP.
XII
.
Of
the
two
grand
Supporters
of
the
Galenical
Physick
,
Phlebotomy
and
Purgation
.
DId
the
World
rightly
understand
what
destruction
of
mankinde
hath
been
made
by
this
Sanguinary
way
of
curing
Diseases
in
all
Ages
,
since
this
prodigal
emission
of
Blood
came
first
in
use
,
(
suggested
without
all
doubt
by
that
sworn
Enemy
to
mankinde
the
Devil
)
it
would
(
being
enraged
)
utterly
abominate
any
such
Physician
,
or
such
a
pretended
remedy
.
How
happy
may
those
Nations
be
reputed
in
this
particular
,
(
witness
their
Longaevity
and
Sanity
above
ours
)
whom
Nature
hath
so
well
instructed
,
as
not
to
part
with
this
precious
treasure
of
Life
,
unless
against
their
wills
through
some
violent
separation
of
the
connexed
parts
.
And
certainly
were
we
but
governed
by
Nature
,
which
intends
all
things
for
its
own
preservation
,
and
never
erres
therein
,
unless
interrupted
or
put
by
its
scope
through
some
transverse
contingent
,
we
would
by
no
means
admit
of
this
Bloody
course
for
a
Cure
;
being
sufficiently
convinced
,
that
this
Solar
Balsom
the
pure
Blood
,
called
by
the
Latines
(
to
distinguish
it
from
Cruor
)
Sanguis
,
the
very
Stamen
and
Subtegmen
,
the
subject
and
material
foundation
of
Life
,
is
never
exterminated
or
cast
out
of
the
Body
by
Nature
,
unless
extimulated
through
some
exasperating
and
hostile
matter
that
is
gotten
into
it
.
And
indeed
to
let
out
promiscuously
Sanguis
and
Cruor
,
good
and
bad
together
,
which
is
unavoidable
,
for
qua
data
porta
ruunt
,
is
equally
absurd
,
as
to
cut
off
part
of
the
fleshie
substance
of
the
Finger
,
that
the
Splinter
or
Thorn
therein
fastened
may
be
removed
;
or
to
suffer
generous
Wine
to
run
out
,
that
some
distasteful
and
fracedinous
odour
contracted
from
the
Vessel
may
be
taken
off
;
or
that
the
Ebullition
or
Effervescence
thereof
,
proceeding
from
the
impetuous
Spirits
,
endeavouring
a
segregation
of
impurities
in
it
,
may
be
asswaged
:
whereas
it
is
more
consonant
to
reason
,
to
pick
the
Thorn
out
of
the
finger
,
to
impregnate
the
Wine
and
Vessel
with
some
odoriferous
fume
or
liquor
,
that
it
may
become
fragrant
and
pleasing
in
smell
;
likewise
to
take
down
the
fermentation
of
the
fretting
acide
Atomes
thereof
by
some
artificial
means
,
that
is
able
to
lenifie
and
appease
the
Spirits
,
and
settle
all
quiet
.
Doubtless
the
same
may
be
accomplished
in
mans
Blood
,
(
when
at
any
time
through
some
preternatural
occasion
it
becomes
tumultuous
,
exorbitant
,
and
degenerate
from
its
genuine
goodness
)
by
ridding
it
of
that
pungitive
acidity
and
cadaverous
foulness
,
which
makes
it
disturbed
and
restless
as
long
as
it
remains
in
it
;
for
omne
vivens
mortui
impatiens
esse
solet
.
And
this
we
are
certain
an
able
Physician
can
effect
,
being
admitted
while
there
is
a
competent
strength
,
which
we
are
alwayes
most
careful
to
preserve
and
augment
,
contrary
to
the
tenour
of
your
Practice
.
For
so
soon
as
we
have
discharged
the
first
and
second
Digestions
,
of
what
did
burthen
and
clog
them
,
we
either
exhibit
some
potent
Arcanum
,
which
upon
its
first
entertainment
into
the
Stomack
,
doth
either
pacifie
the
fury
of
the
vital
Spirit
,
or
by
its
illuminating
beams
doth
disperse
the
black
Atomes
that
obnubilate
the
same
Spirit
,
that
it
cannot
act
for
the
good
of
the
whole
:
Or
we
give
some
Volatile
Alkali
,
enriched
with
the
specifick
Virtues
of
fit
Concretes
,
capable
to
be
circulated
with
the
Blood
into
all
parts
of
the
Body
,
being
allied
to
the
foresaid
Spirit
,
and
symbolizing
with
it
.
These
are
powerful
in
Opening
,
Cleansing
,
Expectorating
,
Volatilizing
any
congealed
Blood
,
invigorating
the
natural
,
and
correcting
the
preternatural
Ferment
;
extinguishing
the
acidity
of
the
Latex
in
the
Blood
,
dissolving
Scirrous
and
Tartareous-like
matter
,
with
which
sometimes
the
Veins
,
Arteries
,
and
other
parts
of
Body
are
as
it
were
parietted
.
These
are
Diuretick
,
Diaphoretick
,
and
Antimalignant
mortifying
Erysipela's
,
breaking
and
profligating
Vomica's
,
or
any
Abscesses
in
the
Body
;
and
this
we
can
engage
our selves
to
perform
,
without
any
notable
diminution
of
the
strength
,
or
fear
of
recidivation
,
or
any
dangerous
lapse
into
some
Chronick
Disease
,
which
the
Phlebotomists
dares
not
promise
with
any
security
:
for
it
often
happens
that
the
Patient
is
sent
Piece-meal
to
his
grave
,
being
(
as
it
were
)
grated
into
his
first
Elements
,
because
his
Disease
was
never
rightly
mannaged
in
the
beginning
.
Now
the
greatest
Plea
the
Galenists
have
for
Blood-letting
,
is
taken
from
Plethora
sanguinis
,
an
extraordinary
fulness
of
Blood
quoad
vasa
,
or
quoad
vires
,
as
they
call
it
;
that
is
,
when
the
Vessels
are
over-filled
,
or
the
strength
oppressed
with
too
great
redundance
of
Blood
;
and
here
they
speak
equivocally
,
leaving
us
to
seek
what
Blood
they
mean
,
either
that
which
is
properly
named
Sanguis
,
the
most
pure
sincere
,
and
sublimest
juyce
in
our
Body
,
in
which
the
Soul
is
chiefly
seated
,
or
that
crude
(
lately
rubefied
liquor
called
)
Cruor
,
oftentimes
abounding
with
superfluities
and
recrements
:
If
they
take
their
Indication
of
Bleeding
from
the
first
,
we
can
confidently
upon
sound
Arguments
deduced
from
some
experimental
Demonstrations
(
which
we
would
set
down
at
large
,
if
succinctness
which
we
aim
at
did
permit
)
assert
,
that
there
is
no
such
thing
really
existent
in
the
Body
of
man
;
for
never
had
any
man
too
much
of
that
most
vital
Balsom
called
Sanguis
,
the
encrease
or
diminution
of
which
,
shortens
or
prolongs
our
dayes
;
for
could
there
be
every
way
a
plenary
,
absolute
,
and
continuate
reparation
of
the
same
,
our
Lives
would
be
protracted
to
an
exceeding
great
length
beyond
what
they
are
.
This
therefore
is
by
no
means
to
be
exhausted
or
squandered
away
upon
trivial
occasions
,
at
the
unreasonable
and
arbitrary
commands
of
a
desperate
Galenist
,
but
to
be
precisely
preserved
and
hoarded
up
,
as
the
onely
Treasure
and
Stock
of
Life
.
Well
,
if
they
take
their
Indication
to
Bleed
from
fulness
of
the
last
called
Cruor
,
then
sith
this
consists
of
partly
excrementitious
matter
,
and
partly
wholesom
juyce
,
disposed
,
and
in
a
fair
way
to
be
made
Sanguis
by
long
Circulation
,
they
must
necessarily
by
opening
a
Vein
,
let
out
without
any
election
,
the
laudable
as
well
as
the
depraved
parts
in
the
Cruor
,
and
its
inseparable
companion
the
Sanguis
,
and
all
to
satisfie
one
supposed
palliating
Scope
(
of
little
moment
in
comparison
of
the
rest
)
an
inanition
of
that
which
erres
in
quanto
,
which
being
attained
,
produces
more
hurt
then
profit
any
way
;
and
might
easily
have
been
corrected
by
Diaphoreticks
,
and
those
proper
Medicines
that
respect
a
Quale
in
the
Blood
,
and
cause
a
free
Diapnoe
thereof
;
consuming
insensibly
(
according
to
Sanctorius
his
Statica
)
no
small
quantity
of
our
Substance
in
four
and
twenty
hours
,
sufficient
in
a
very
short
space
with
Abstinence
joyned
thereto
,
to
take
down
any
Athletick
habit
of
the
Body
▪
so
that
the
principal
Indication
in
this
case
ought
to
be
taken
from
Cacochymie
,
which
frequently
infests
us
to
our
destruction
,
and
that
imaginary
and
insignificant
plenitude
to
be
neglected
.
There
is
we
confess
something
to
be
said
for
the
defence
of
immediate
derivation
of
some
degenerate
Blood
,
impacted
any
where
,
as
when
in
a
Phlegmon
the
Vein
contiguous
to
the
part
affected
is
opened
,
that
the
faeculent
:
Blood
contained
therein
,
oppressing
it
,
may
be
directly
and
moderately
discharged
,
that
thereby
the
residue
may
be
more
difflable
and
easie
to
be
discussed
:
Likewise
,
when
there
is
some
muddy
foul
Cruor
restagnant
about
the
Spleen
and
Womb
,
threatning
an
Abscess
or
some
other
malady
,
&c.
in
this
condition
the
Opening
the
inward
Haemorrhoides
or
Uterine
Veins
may
sometime
profit
,
without
dammage
to
the
whole
;
supposed
the
Physician
be
destitute
of
those
generous
Arcana's
,
that
are
able
without
any
solution
of
continuity
,
to
reach
the
part
affected
,
and
to
conquer
the
Disease
radically
,
by
mundifying
the
Blood
,
and
by
ridding
it
of
that
Thorny
,
Vexatious
,
and
Virulent
acidity
of
the
Latex
that
oftentimes
gets
into
it
.
All
this
seriously
weighed
,
who
would
not
avoid
this
Blood-sucking
course
,
and
rather
commit
himself
to
such
a
Physician
,
who
,
not
as
a
meer
illiterate
Empyrick
or
Quacksalver
,
ventures
his
Medicine
at
random
,
without
any
sound
reason
or
intellectual
notion
of
what
,
wherefore
,
when
,
and
how
much
of
it
he
gives
;
but
being
throughly
acquainted
with
the
Diagnôsis
of
the
Disease
,
is
able
upon
very
firm
grounds
to
make
a
Prognôsis
of
it
,
and
so
to
proceed
to
a
Therapeia
,
according
to
just
,
necessary
,
and
direct
Indications
,
accurately
designing
an
Adaptation
,
Appropriation
,
and
Adaequation
of
the
Remedy
to
the
Disease
.
Away
then
with
this
detestable
lavish
Phlebotomy
,
that
hath
destroyed
more
then
Tobacco
or
the
Sword
together
,
may
it
be
banished
the
Court
,
City
,
and
Countrey
,
nor
ever
be
depended
upon
hereafter
in
this
Island
,
or
any
of
His
Majesties
Territories
,
for
the
cure
of
any
difficult
Disease
;
but
let
it
be
confined
and
inflicted
as
a
feral
Plague
upon
all
those
that
delight
in
Blood
,
and
hate
our
Gracious
Sovereign
,
and
all
his
loyal
Subjects
.
CHAP.
XIII
.
Of
the
second
Supporter
,
fruitless
Purgation
.
T
Is
not
without
great
reason
that
excellent
Hippocrates
mentions
one
Aphorisme
no
less
then
four
several
times
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
that
is
,
If
that
be
carried
out
of
the
Body
by
Purgation
that
ought
to
be
,
the
sick
man
findes
himself
the
better
for
it
,
and
his
spirits
more
chearful
,
and
better
able
to
bear
his
Disease
;
as
if
he
had
foreseen
the
great
mischief
that
was
like
to
come
upon
indiscreet
Evacuation
,
with
deletery
Catharticks
,
which
putrefie
and
colliquate
the
lately
tinged
Chymus
into
a
faetide
and
cadaverous
substance
;
whereby
some
juggling
Physicians
take
opportunity
to
impose
upon
their
credulous
Patients
,
that
they
are
in
a
fair
way
of
recovery
,
(
though
they
finde
it
otherwise
)
sith
so
many
ill
Humours
,
as
Choller
,
Phlegme
,
&c.
are
purged
out
of
their
Bodies
,
whereas
in
very
truth
not
a
jot
of
the
morbifick
Cause
hath
been
so
much
as
touched
.
We
have
a
History
to
confirm
this
out
of
Helmont
,
&
experto
credamus
,
for
the
worthy
Author
tells
us
,
that
taking
his
leave
of
a
young
Lady
,
holding
her
by
the
hand
he
caught
the
Itch
;
whereupon
he
sent
for
two
of
the
most
eminent
Galenical
Physicians
in
that
City
,
to
consult
with
for
the
cure
of
it
:
who
,
upon
the
sight
of
a
Purulent
Scab
presently
delivered
their
opinions
,
That
there
was
abundance
of
Adust
Choller
and
Salt
Phlegme
in
his
Body
,
which
occasioned
a
depraved
Sanguification
in
his
Liver
.
Upon
this
account
,
after
they
had
largely
bled
him
,
and
prepared
the
Humour
(
forsooth
)
with
their
fulsom
and
nauseous
Apozemes
,
containing
about
fifty
Ingredients
,
with
addition
of
Agarick
,
Rhubarb
,
every
fourth
or
fifth
morning
,
to
the
end
that
this
supposed
retorrid
Choller
and
Salt
Phlegme
might
be
drawn
forth
,
according
to
that
innate
similitude
of
Substance
,
that
they
would
fain
make
us
believe
is
between
the
Purgative
and
the
Humour
;
and
at
length
they
gave
him
those
virulent
Pills
de
Fumaria
every
third
day
three
times
,
which
wrought
so
liberally
,
that
they
almost
filled
two
buckets
with
the
foresaid
Humours
:
But
hear
with
what
event
in
his
own
words
,
Iam
venae
mihi
exhaustae
erant
:
Genae
conciderant
,
vox
rauca
,
totus
corporis
habitus
concidens
tabuerat
:
descensus
quoque
è
cubiculo
atque
gressus
erant
difficiles
,
quia
genua
me
vix
sustinebant
.
That
is
,
Thus
at
length
were
my
Veins
emptied
,
my
Cheeks
fallen
away
,
and
I
could
hardly
speak
for
hoarsness
;
my
whole
Body
was
wasted
,
so
that
I
could
hardly
get
down
out
of
my
Chamber
,
it
being
most
tedious
to
me
to
stir
,
for
my
Legs
were
scarce
able
to
bear
me
up
;
yea
,
my
Stomack
failed
,
that
I
had
neither
Appetite
nor
Digestion
:
and
withall
my
Itch
was
as
bad
as
ever
.
Thus
was
this
great
Philosopher
(
who
at
first
,
setting
aside
this
Cutaneous
infection
,
was
found
Winde
and
Limb
as
we
say
)
brought
almost
to
the
gates
of
Death
by
this
enormous
Purgation
,
who
without
doubt
might
have
been
cured
very
suddenly
,
if
that
true
peccant
matter
,
which
is
the
principal
occasional
cause
of
Diseases
,
and
is
but
little
in
quantity
,
had
been
carried
off
by
some
appropriate
Solutive
,
and
the
Miasma
which
stole
in
through
the
pores
of
the
Skin
,
and
there
settled
in
the
innate
Archeus
,
had
been
mortified
;
which
course
Helmont
at
last
took
for
his
recovery
,
after
he
had
been
macerated
,
and
excarnified
by
a
Hypercatharsis
,
alwayes
accompanied
with
a
Dysphoria
and
ill
effect
.
This
remarkable
Story
of
Helmont
(
the
same
being
re-acted
many
thousand
times
since
)
may
give
men
a
strict
Caveat
how
they
put
their
Lives
into
the
hands
of
such
desperate
,
persidious
Evacuators
,
who
cast
men
into
Purgatory
,
and
yet
never
expiate
the
Disease
,
Assuredly
those
Physicians
that
exterminate
out
of
the
Body
good
and
bad
at
random
,
the
Cruor
or
good
Juyce
,
and
the
Scoria
or
Dross
,
with
such
uncorrected
Catharticks
,
that
are
no
better
then
absolute
poison
,
leaving
sometimes
an
impression
behinde
hardly
deleble
;
seldom
giving
any
alleviation
,
unless
(
as
clavus
clavum
expellit
)
per
accidens
,
may
be
very
well
compared
to
a
mad
person
,
that
in
cleansing
a
foul
house
,
casteth
out
with
the
filth
some
of
the
most
useful
Furniture
belonging
to
it
.
And
yet
what
is
more
commonly
practised
amongst
the
Galenists
,
who
being
consulted
,
do
upon
the
bare
inspection
of
the
Urine
,
frequently
and
rashly
prescribe
Bleeding
and
Purging
;
the
last
whereof
being
best
of
the
two
,
though
bad
enough
as
they
order
the
matter
,
doth
generally
more
mischief
then
good
.
We
speak
not
this
utterly
to
condemn
some
moderate
Evacuations
,
both
by
Vomit
and
Stool
,
sith
we
our selves
oftentimes
intend
the
same
and
make
it
our
Scope
;
but
we
never
give
them
so
uncorrected
as
they
,
to
the
injury
and
impairing
of
Nature
:
but
they
are
such
that
are
alwayes
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
consentient
and
competent
Remedies
for
the
profligatiag
the
Disease
,
leaving
behinde
an
Euphoria
,
an
alacrity
of
the
Patient
,
and
an
abatement
of
the
Infirmity
according
to
his
capacity
.
Neither
do
we
depend
upon
Solutives
simply
,
as
sufficient
to
cure
any
difficult
Disease
,
but
having
often
that
most
excellent
Rule
of
Hippocrates
in
our
thoughts
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
that
is
,
to
carry
the
Morbifick
matter
that
way
Nature
is
most
enclined
to
send
it
our
,
supposed
the
passage
be
commodious
.
We
never
give
any
Purgative
Medicine
,
but
the
same
is
Diaphoretick
,
Diuretick
,
and
Expectorative
:
For
whereas
your
Catharticks
are
often
pernicious
in
malignant
Feavers
,
as
the
Pest
,
Small
Pox
,
Spotted
Feaver
,
and
the
like
,
so
that
the
Archeus
being
distracted
upon
the
admission
of
such
an
unwelcome
guest
,
leaves
the
propulsion
of
the
malignant
matter
,
and
bends
all
her
forces
to
conflict
with
the
late
received
poison
,
whereby
it
comes
to
pass
that
the
venom
of
the
Disease
,
which
before
tended
to
the
Peripheriae
,
or
outwards
parts
of
the
Body
,
hastens
forthwith
to
the
Centre
,
and
there
fixes
upon
some
of
the
noble
Viscera
,
We
on
the
contrary
can
safely
exhibit
,
in
any
of
the
foresaid
Diseases
,
some
Medicament
that
may
rid
the
first
Region
either
upward
or
downward
of
trash
and
trumpery
,
which
encumbers
it
there
;
and
at
the
same
time
both
kill
and
drive
out
the
Venom
to
the
extream
parts
,
and
grand
Emunctory
of
the
whole
Body
the
Skin
:
questionless
he
that
omits
this
last
principal
intention
,
shall
seldom
cure
any
Feaver
,
or
any
other
Malady
as
he
ought
.
And
indeed
it
is
most
happy
for
us
that
what
Hippocrates
faith
is
most
true
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
That
is
,
our
whole
Body
is
porous
and
transmeable
,
especially
our
Skin
:
for
did
we
not
freely
breathe
out
those
hurtful
Atomes
,
that
are
engendred
within
,
and
likewise
insinuate
into
us
from
without
,
we
should
perpetually
be
obnoxious
to
Feavers
,
and
other
horrid
Diseases
,
that
would
quickly
destroy
the
World
;
for
never
did
any
one
recover
of
a
Feaver
,
but
by
Transpiration
either
sensible
or
insensible
;
which
ought
especially
to
be
regarded
by
all
legitimate
Physicians
,
that
they
may
labour
vigorously
with
their
own
hands
to
have
in
readiness
such
noble
Arcana's
,
that
may
reach
the
sixth
Digestion
,
and
there
joyn
with
the
Archeus
,
to
extinguish
any
malignity
,
to
difflate
and
dissipate
the
gross
Peritomata
,
and
virulent
Excrements
therein
contained
.
He
that
is
ignorant
herein
,
may
as
well
presume
to
cure
the
stinging
of
a
Scorpion
,
the
biting
of
a
Viper
,
or
Tarantula
,
by
Purgatives
,
as
with
any
assurance
to
heal
most
Infirmities
that
are
predominant
among
us
at
this
day
.
For
very
many
Diseases
have
in
them
that
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
of
Hippocrates
,
something
of
a
more
spiritual
and
invisible
Nature
,
then
to
be
carried
off
by
gross
Purgatives
.
Hath
not
the
Apoplexie
(
that
destroyes
a
man
in
the
twinckling
of
an
eye
)
something
in
it
like
the
poison
of
a
Basilisk
?
Is
there
not
in
the
Palsie
something
of
the
stupefying
Nature
of
the
Fish
Torpedo
?
Have
not
some
Plagues
destroyed
men
suddenly
like
some
Mephitical
or
pernicious
Damps
,
arising
in
the
subterranean
and
deep
caverns
of
the
Earth
,
which
happens
to
those
that
dig
in
mines
?
Questionless
the
Letharigie
arises
from
a
poison
analogous
to
Opium
or
Hyoscyamus
.
The
Itch
may
be
compared
to
the
venom
of
Cowich
,
The
Spots
in
Feaver
and
the
Scurvy
,
to
the
biting
of
Fleas
.
The
small
Pox
to
some
virulent
Epispastick
;
and
the
Measles
to
Nettles
or
Gnats
.
There
is
sometimes
engendred
in
our
Bodies
an
nitrosulphurous
matter
,
that
may
be
compared
to
Gun-powder
,
which
puts
us
as
it
were
into
a
flame
,
and
would
quickly
shatter
us
in
pieces
like
a
Granado
,
were
there
not
free
vent
for
its
expiration
through
the
pores
of
the
skin
.
In
a
Gangrene
,
the
part
is
mortified
as
if
some
potential
Cautery
were
applied
to
it
.
What
a
strange
poison
is
there
in
the
Rickets
,
that
often
makes
an
Exostosis
,
and
bends
the
Bones
of
Children
like
a
bowe
?
But
most
prodigious
is
that
poison
in
Plica
Polonica
,
that
in
one
night
doth
so
complicate
and
contort
the
Hair
,
that
all
the
art
of
man
cannot
untangle
and
unsnatle
it
;
which
if
you
attempt
to
cut
off
with
a
pair
of
Sciffers
,
a
large
Haemorrhagie
or
flux
of
Blood
presently
follows
,
to
the
hazard
or
ruine
of
life
.
Many
more
Diseases
in
this
Microcosme
might
be
instanced
,
that
do
manifestly
express
a
poisonous
Nature
of
affinity
with
those
in
the
Macrocosme
;
but
this
may
suffice
to
convince
those
men
of
most
palpable
ignorance
,
that
think
the
common
course
of
Scouring
the
Body
with
ordinary
and
deletery
Laxatives
,
is
sufficient
to
cure
most
Diseases
that
consist
of
so
subtil
and
almost
immaterial
substance
.
It
is
as
possible
to
hinder
the
Magnetick
Operation
of
the
Loadstone
upon
Iron
,
by
the
interposition
of
a
piece
of
Lawn
,
as
to
be
able
to
cure
the
foresaid
Diseases
by
faeculent
colliquating
Catharticks
.
Certainly
that
cannot
be
an
appropriate
and
adequate
Remedy
,
that
is
not
in
some
degree
proportionable
to
the
Disease
,
as
it
is
more
or
less
graduated
and
sublimed
in
its
activity
:
For
let
us
take
into
our
contemplation
,
what
an
inconsiderable
thing
in
bulk
is
able
from
without
to
discompose
,
and
disorder
the
whole
frame
of
our
Bodies
,
turning
them
as
it
were
topsie
turvie
in
a
trice
.
In
what
a
minute
subject
matter
doth
the
poison
of
a
mad
Dog
,
a
Viper
,
a
Tarantula
reside
?
of
what
little
moment
is
it
in
bulk
to
our
eye
,
and
yet
how
admirable
are
their
effects
to
our
speculations
?
Sith
then
Venoms
no
whit
inferiour
to
the
forementioned
,
are
oftentimes
produced
in
our
Bodies
,
being
exalted
to
that
degree
of
malignity
,
that
they
sometimes
destroy
us
solo
intuitu
et
radio
,
how
sollicitous
and
sedulous
should
we
be
to
enquire
after
such
Antidotes
,
which
the
great
Creator
hath
ordained
,
equivalent
to
their
poisons
;
that
may
be
able
with
as
much
celerity
and
vigour
to
preserve
and
restore
us
,
as
the
other
to
pessundate
and
destroy
us
.
This
undoubtedly
might
be
compassed
by
industrious
and
learned
labourers
in
Chymistry
,
did
not
these
obstinate
Galenists
(
who
alwayes
stick
in
the
mire
of
their
stercoreous
Purgatives
,
as
,
Scammony
,
Colocynthis
,
Agarick
,
and
Rhubarb
,
utterly
to
be
sequestred
from
the
Body
of
man
so
unprepared
,
(
as
is
evident
through
their
whole
Dispensatory
)
and
never
to
be
made
use
of
so
crude
and
hostile
to
Nature
by
any
Son
of
Art
)
discourage
and
disparage
us
,
and
take
off
the
hearts
of
Princes
from
favouring
us
,
by
falsly
traducing
this
Honourable
Science
,
and
the
Professours
thereof
.
CHAP.
XIV
.
Of
that
fictitious
Rule
of
Contraries
,
by
which
the
Dogmatists
are
guided
in
the
cure
of
Diseases
.
THat
Sentence
,
Contrariorum
contraria
sunt
Remedia
,
is
generally
taken
up
by
the
Galenists
as
a
certain
Rule
,
by
which
they
presume
to
abate
or
remove
most
Maladies
;
but
with
what
little
success
,
and
what
little
verity
there
is
in
it
,
may
easily
be
obvious
to
any
intelligent
Observer
,
that
hath
but
seen
a
Feaver
directly
cured
.
What
destruction
hath
been
made
of
mankinde
by
this
one
Position
,
to
which
they
have
adhered
most
superstitiously
,
(
though
altogether
false
,
having
,
as
Helmont
hath
proved
,
no
absolute
being
in
Nature
)
is
unspeakable
.
How
many
Orphans
and
Widdows
have
reason
to
brand
with
a
Curse
this
one
Sentence
,
whose
Parents
and
Husbands
might
have
survived
many
years
,
had
not
their
Physicians
taken
a
contrary
course
to
cure
them
,
and
thereby
sent
them
packing
to
the
Grave
?
Some
of
us
could
relate
notable
storries
not
long
ago
acted
by
them
in
this
kinde
,
which
for
brevity
sake
we
shall
now
omit
.
For
the
first
thing
they
usually
declaim
against
in
a
Feaver
(
when
they
have
got
a
Patient
in
a
hopeful
way
of
recovery
out
of
our
hands
,
by
their
insinuating
close
wayes
)
is
,
that
our
Medicines
(
if
they
finde
that
they
be
spirituous
,
active
,
and
strike
upon
the
Nostrils
any
whit
strongly
,
or
affect
the
Tongue
by
their
Leptomerie
and
subtil
penetrative
Atomes
)
are
too
hot
(
forsooth
)
for
the
Disease
,
and
endanger
the
inflammation
of
the
Blood
,
causing
thirst
,
&c.
whereupon
,
having
by
their
smooth
eloquence
possessed
the
Patient
with
a
dislike
of
such
Remedies
,
they
presently
fall
upon
(
according
to
the
foresaid
Maxime
)
the
prescribing
of
cooling
Juleps
,
P●isans
,
Emulsions
,
Decoctions
saturated
with
crude
Herbs
,
uncorrected
juyce
of
Poppy
,
and
the
like
,
hardly
allowing
them
a
draught
of
small
Beer
,
but
by
no
means
any
Wine
;
whereby
it
comes
to
pass
that
the
Tone
and
Ferment
of
the
Stomack
is
subverted
,
Transpiration
hindered
,
the
Malignity
detained
,
the
Blood
made
restagnant
,
the
Vital
Spirits
depauperated
,
losing
their
activity
and
force
,
becomming
torpid
and
careless
to
preserve
themselves
,
and
the
Morbifick
matter
more
tenaceous
;
and
at
length
perhaps
the
sick
Man
rid
of
his
Disease
,
and
laid
cooling
in
the
Church-yard
.
Were
it
not
far
better
to
trust
in
a
Feaver
to
a
Pepper
or
Mustard
Posset
,
a
Decoction
of
Carduus
Benedictus
,
Aron
,
and
Horse-raddish-roots
,
that
quicken
the
Archeus
,
strengthen
the
Stomack
,
rarifying
and
cleansing
away
the
febrile
,
gross
,
viscous
matter
by
Urine
and
Sweat
,
then
to
such
dull
,
destructive
,
and
mortifying
Iuleps
of
the
Galenists
,
given
according
to
the
pernicious
Rule
of
Contraries
?
How
do
these
men
neglect
the
saying
of
Hippocrates
,
Naturae
(
that
is
the
vital
Spirits
principally
)
sunt
morborum
medicatrices
,
when
they
will
not
support
and
invigorate
them
with
a
little
Spirit
of
Wine
,
(
with
which
they
symbolize
above
any
thing
)
because
it
conspires
with
the
Feaver
,
and
so
too
hot
;
not
considering
those
qualities
of
Heat
and
Cold
are
but
Products
and
Consequents
of
the
Disease
,
which
being
removed
,
there
presently
follows
a
cessation
of
them
in
an
instant
:
so
that
it
matters
not
whether
the
Medicine
be
Hot
or
Cold
,
so
it
eradicate
the
Malady
,
which
irritates
and
exasperates
the
Archeus
,
that
it
is
impatient
till
it
have
shut
out
such
an
unwelcome
guest
;
and
according
as
it
makes
several
Assaults
and
Onsets
upon
the
occasional
Matter
,
so
it
varies
in
those
momentary
and
transient
qualities
of
Heat
and
Cold
in
the
extream
parts
;
which
are
but
insignificant
in
comparision
of
that
which
is
primarily
to
be
looked
after
,
the
enabling
and
advancing
the
enormontick
power
of
the
vital
Spirits
,
to
profligate
the
Disease
;
which
can
be
done
no
better
way
then
by
spirituous
Liquors
,
which
whosoever
denieth
moderately
and
seasonably
,
for
fear
of
some
small
inconvenience
,
which
the
violation
of
the
Maxime
of
Contrariety
may
induce
,
may
very
well
be
reputed
a
pittiful
ignorant
Physician
.
For
we
are
able
to
make
it
appear
optically
,
that
Wine
(
as
it
may
be
ordered
in
the
hands
of
an
Artist
)
is
able
to
conquer
many
very
acute
Feavers
,
even
that
they
call
a
Causus
.
The
same
reason
they
observe
for
the
curing
of
Diarrhaea's
,
Lienteria's
,
Gonorrhaea's
,
Vomitings
and
Haemorrhagies
,
making
use
of
Astringents
and
Corroboratives
,
that
may
diametrically
answer
the
Laxity
and
weakness
of
the
parts
,
whereby
they
many
times
constipate
in
the
Body
,
and
as
it
were
wedge
in
that
which
Nature
went
about
to
extricate
;
whereas
any
but
a
daubing
and
palliating
Physician
,
would
aim
at
the
extirpation
of
the
original
Cause
of
these
Effects
;
which
being
once
expedited
,
all
the
Products
,
Symptoms
,
Phoenomena
,
and
Epigenomena
cease
immediately
.
But
to
be
short
,
for
I
must
but
touch
upon
these
things
,
't
is
no
wonder
and
these
men
take
a
contrary
way
to
heal
Infirmities
,
sith
they
have
alwayes
been
and
still
continue
so
contrary
and
opposite
to
the
most
sound
Pyrotechnical
Philosophy
,
stiffly
holding
fast
their
opinions
(
we
fear
)
with
one
of
their
great
ones
,
who
swore
in
another
case
,
se
nolle
persuaderi
etiamsi
aliquis
persuaserit
:
That
he
was
resolved
not
to
be
convinced
that
he
was
in
an
Errour
.
CHAP.
XV.
A
brief
Examination
of
their
Pharmacopoea
.
WHat
invalidity
and
impotence
to
heal
Infirmities
there
is
in
their
Preparations
in
general
,
set
down
in
the
Pharmacopoea
Londinensis
,
as
a
pattern
and
rule
for
all
their
Servants
to
follow
,
is
obvious
to
any
one
that
hath
made
a
considerable
progress
in
the
Theory
and
Practice
of
Physick
,
so
that
he
be
not
prejudicated
and
carried
away
by
sinister
respects
.
It
would
require
a
long
time
to
scan
and
set
down
at
large
those
Nonsensical
,
Ridiculous
,
Improper
,
and
Languid
Medicaments
they
have
ordained
for
the
help
of
man
:
We
shall
onely
compendiously
give
you
a
Glance
of
some
of
them
.
We
finde
throughout
their
whole
Dispensatory
these
remarkable
Errours
inseparable
and
common
to
all
their
Preparations
.
First
,
we
observe
a
great
Defect
in
the
Analysis
,
or
opening
the
body
of
any
Concrete
,
that
its
Crasis
or
purer
part
may
be
obtained
;
so
that
what
they
give
is
very
little
of
its
Virtue
,
separated
by
halves
,
or
drowned
and
swallowed
up
with
the
Scoria
,
Faeces
,
and
Excrement
of
the
whole
;
so
that
it
is
impossible
it
should
explicate
its
activity
as
it
ought
.
Secondly
,
we
observe
what
a
Congeries
,
Cento
,
Linsey
Wolsey
of
Simples
they
jumble
and
clutter
together
,
to
some
scores
,
without
any
reasonable
symbolizing
contexture
or
congruity
,
looking
more
wayes
at
once
,
then
ever
Argus
his
eyes
,
but
still
from
the
principal
mark
;
clashing
,
conflicting
,
and
at
greater
hostility
with
each
other
,
then
ever
their
supposed
contrary
Elements
;
whereby
they
castrate
and
rob
many
a
single
Ingredient
(
by
this
confused
Hotch-potch
)
of
its
eminent
Properties
,
which
being
duly
prepared
and
applied
,
would
do
a
Physicians
business
.
Thirdly
,
we
cannot
but
especially
take
notice
and
condole
the
ineffectual
,
frivolous
,
and
vain
Corrections
of
those
virulent
and
poisonous
Concretes
,
which
they
take
into
many
of
their
Compositions
,
thinking
it
enough
to
adde
to
them
a
little
Anniseed
,
Ginger
,
Cinamon
,
or
some
Gum
,
with
the
like
,
onely
to
disguise
and
palliate
,
no
whit
to
mitigate
the
violent
Powers
of
those
things
that
are
of
themselves
destructive
to
our
Nature
.
'T
is
strange
they
should
be
so
wilfully
ignorant
,
in
making
no
scruple
of
prescribing
ten
or
twelve
grains
of
Scammony
,
and
little
less
of
Colocynthis
,
manifest
poisons
so
uncorrected
,
and
yet
startle
at
,
and
are
very
nice
to
give
four
or
five
grains
of
Antimonium
Diaphoret
.
whose
supereminent
Purgative
operation
is
taken
off
by
virtue
of
a
Spirituous
Salt
that
purifies
and
fixes
it
in
the
Fire
.
But
't
is
the
custom
of
these
Polypragmones
to
busie
themselves
about
impertinencies
,
and
to
neglect
matters
of
greatest
weight
,
stumbling
at
a
straw
and
leaping
over
a
block
,
straining
at
a
gnat
and
swallowing
a
camel
,
superstitiously
precise
in
the
regulation
of
the
Patients
Diet
,
over
punctual
in
the
contrivances
of
Slibber-sauces
,
and
withal
to
offer
him
pestilent
and
lethiferous
Medicaments
,
which
they
are
not
at
all
sollicitous
to
correct
.
If
such
be
not
ignorant
in
their
Art
,
we
would
willingly
be
informed
who
are
?
that
neither
know
how
to
make
a
good
Medicine
,
nor
how
to
order
it
in
every
respect
when
they
have
it
,
as
we
can
make
evident
.
It
cannot
be
denied
but
that
the
best
of
the
Remedies
in
the
Dispensatory
are
Chymical
,
for
which
they
are
beholden
to
us
,
and
these
(
we
assure
you
)
are
of
the
lowest
Tribe
and
meanest
trivial
sort
in
comparison
;
neither
are
these
free
from
being
sophisticated
through
inadvertency
of
some
,
and
covetousness
of
others
,
nor
are
they
at
the
best
such
as
they
might
be
exalted
to
in
the
hands
of
an
Artist
.
We
shall
instance
in
some
few
that
are
frequently
used
:
Who
,
but
such
as
are
supine
,
and
indifferent
whether
they
kill
or
cure
,
would
suffer
the
flowers
of
Brimstone
to
be
so
slightly
prepared
,
that
we
can
see
little
difference
between
it
and
the
vulgar
finely
powdered
?
whereas
if
it
be
Pyrotechnical
handled
,
four
or
five
grains
sublimed
shall
effect
more
good
then
a
dram
of
the
ordinary
.
The
most
usual
,
safe
,
and
best
Vomit
(
in
their
account
)
is
borrowed
from
Antimony
,
called
Infusio
Croci
Metallorum
,
and
yet
this
acts
but
uncertainly
in
the
carrying
off
the
morbifick
matter
;
for
wanting
its
due
alteration
and
correction
,
it
causes
sometimes
no
small
discommodity
in
malignant
Feavers
;
moreover
,
their
Method
will
not
suffer
them
to
use
it
aright
;
not
knowing
when
,
how
often
,
nor
to
whom
it
may
be
given
with
any
confidence
,
that
an
Euphoria
or
alleviation
may
follow
:
and
the
reason
of
their
hesitation
therein
,
is
their
often
being
frustrated
in
their
intention
,
and
some
sad
consequences
that
have
come
upon
it
.
They
have
taken
into
their
Shops
another
Vomit
called
Mercurius
vitae
,
which
we
wonder
they
would
ever
venture
to
admit
into
a
Catalogue
of
their
safe
Medicines
,
with
a
—
&c.
sith
they
alwayes
heretofore
railed
at
it
,
and
are
not
yet
absolutely
reconciled
,
calling
it
Mercurius
mortis
:
Some
of
them
having
had
ill
fortune
with
it
,
because
their
shallow
wits
understand
not
the
right
process
,
the
just
dose
,
management
,
and
use
of
it
,
which
a
Mountebank
or
Quacksalver
is
better
acquainted
with
(
to
their
disgrace
)
then
they
;
for
by
vertue
of
this
common
Vomiting
Powder
,
many
an
illiterate
Empirick
hath
gained
no
small
reputation
in
conquering
those
stubborn
Effects
which
baffled
them
,
and
were
believed
incurable
.
Now
(
setting
aside
the
abuse
of
the
thing
)
if
Mercurius
vitae
meanly
prepared
,
and
extravagantly
given
by
Ideots
,
be
able
to
do
such
rare
feats
in
Physick
,
what
think
ye
might
be
done
by
it
if
graduated
,
exalted
,
and
perfected
in
the
hand
of
a
learned
well
experienced
Chymist
,
that
utterly
renounces
the
Galenical
Method
?
In
Feavers
and
Agues
they
cannot
but
confess
that
they
are
much
obliged
to
us
for
the
discovery
of
Oyl
of
Vitriol
,
which
doth
them
the
best
service
therein
of
any
one
thing
they
possess
,
for
the
extinction
of
the
thirst
,
and
allaying
the
Ebullition
and
Effervescence
of
the
Blood
;
not
by
cooling
,
as
they
grosly
imagine
,
but
by
comforting
the
natural
ferment
of
the
Stomack
,
and
by
correcting
that
Alkalizate
,
Exotick
,
and
putredinous
matter
therein
.
How
difficult
it
is
to
procure
this
Medicine
legitimate
(
and
without
exceptions
)
from
the
Shops
,
let
any
Euchymist
that
hath
laboured
with
his
own
fingers
herein
be
judge
?
For
as
those
directions
they
have
set
down
for
the
drawing
it
over
are
very
ordinary
,
and
much
inferiour
to
the
more
sublime
way
,
so
likewise
their
use
and
application
thereof
is
very
suitable
;
for
the
Prescription
of
it
is
many
times
as
absurd
,
and
to
be
derided
,
as
their
ordering
of
four
drops
of
the
Spirit
of
Vitriol
in
the
composition
of
Electuar
.
Sassaphr
.
consisting
of
two
pound
of
Sugar
and
other
Ingredients
.
How
poor
,
jejune
,
and
barren
is
the
Preparation
of
Pearles
and
Coral
with
Vinegar
,
that
doth
but
onely
superficially
divide
them
,
and
as
it
were
pulverize
them
into
small
parts
or
atoms
,
not
at
all
penetrating
them
Centrally
and
Essentially
?
What
dull
Preparations
of
Mars
have
they
set
down
,
more
becoming
some
Feminine
Practioners
then
such
learned
Doctors
?
Mercurius
sublimatus
dulcis
,
and
Praecipitatus
,
are
now
exhibited
by
some
of
them
,
for
the
Cure
of
knotty
and
stubborn
Diseases
,
as
,
Lues
Venerea
,
and
the
like
,
but
after
a
deal
add
,
niceness
,
and
scrupulosity
,
they
were
loth
to
venture
upon
them
,
till
some
confident
Surgeons
lead
them
the
way
,
and
taught
them
a
better
Method
then
their
own
,
to
destroy
these
Hydra-like
monstrous
Diseases
,
that
have
of
late
sprung
up
among
us
.
How
strangely
blinde
most
of
them
have
been
in
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
or
manual
tractation
of
Mercury
,
may
appear
by
a
Galenist
,
who
bitterly
enveighing
against
Chymical
Remedies
in
the
presence
of
a
Spagyrist
,
by
whom
when
he
was
questioned
,
why
he
did
then
prescribe
Mercurius
dulcis
,
as
appeared
in
one
of
his
Prescripts
upon
the
File
,
and
being
convinced
of
the
truth
thereof
,
and
how
it
was
a
Mineral
,
protested
he
verily
thought
it
had
been
a
Vegetable
,
and
had
its
original
from
the
Herb
Mercury
.
Hence
we
may
learn
how
perfunctory
and
drowsie
many
of
these
Prescribers
have
been
,
and
what
little
inspection
and
scrutiny
they
have
made
into
that
which
is
deservedly
reputed
by
all
Hermetical
Philosophers
,
a
miracle
in
Nature
.
Thus
they
credulously
rest
themselves
contented
,
trusting
to
other
mens
Eyes
and
Hands
in
things
concerning
Mans
Life
,
thinking
it
sufficient
if
they
can
get
by
roat
the
bare
Names
of
some
Paracelsian
Medicines
,
though
they
neither
know
the
facture
of
them
,
what
they
give
to
their
Patiens
,
nor
how
much
,
nor
when
,
as
they
ought
.
For
did
they
take
pains
themselves
,
they
would
quickly
discover
that
these
Mercurial
Sublimates
and
Praecipates
in
the
Shops
are
very
imperfect
,
compared
with
those
that
an
Adeptus
is
able
to
produce
.
CHAP.
XVI
.
A
Cursory
View
of
the
Mineral
Waters
,
to
which
the
Dogmatists
flye
,
as
to
a
Sanctuary
,
in
Difficult
Cases
.
HAd
not
kinde
Nature
provided
some
better
means
and
more
forcible
Helps
for
the
poor
Diseased
,
ready
to
his
hand
,
then
the
Galenist
,
he
had
been
at
a
very
sad
pass
.
How
many
by
virtue
of
these
Mineral
Wells
have
been
restored
,
that
have
been
brought
to
a
very
low
ebb
by
Ill
Physicians
,
having
run
through
a
long
and
irksome
course
of
Physick
,
even
to
desperation
?
We
are
apt
to
believe
,
that
those
that
lately
endeavoured
to
Engross
all
Physical
Practice
into
their
own
hands
,
would
by
their
good
wills
likewise
have
prohibitted
the
admirable
use
of
the
Waters
,
unless
to
whom
they
should
have
prescribed
them
,
that
their
Method
might
have
gain'd
the
more
credit
:
For
we
are
perswaded
that
they
looked
upon
the
Waters
with
as
Envious
an
Eye
,
as
ever
they
did
upon
our
Chymical
Preparations
;
(
although
they
have
been
forced
to
make
use
of
both
upon
a
pinch
)
and
why
?
Because
when
all
their
costly
Compositions
could
do
no
good
,
some
few
Draughts
of
a
Cheap
Mineral
Water
hath
done
the
business
.
Which
thing
may
very
much
plead
for
the
rare
Effect
of
Minerals
(
which
they
have
so
declaimed
against
formerly
)
were
not
the
Dogmatists
perverse
beyond
expression
.
One
would
think
they
should
not
so
long
with
such
Heat
have
contended
against
them
as
dangerous
,
scarce
allowing
them
a
place
in
the
Apothecary's
Shop
,
after
so
many
visible
Experiments
of
their
Sanative
Property
,
to
which
they
have
been
beholden
at
a
dead
lift
.
Had
they
not
minded
their
own
,
more
then
the
publick
good
,
they
would
have
observed
Nature
,
and
contrived
by
Art
those
Medicines
,
that
might
at
least
have
equalled
,
if
not
excelled
,
what
she
was
pleased
liberally
to
afford
us
out
of
the
Bowels
of
the
Earth
for
our
comfort
.
Who
,
that
had
not
been
lazie
and
supine
,
but
would
have
found
out
e're
this
a
Succeda●eum
to
Natural
Martial
Liquors
,
that
so
powerfully
rectifie
the
Spleen
,
and
open
the
tuff
Obstructions
of
the
Hypocondries
,
cleanse
away
any
Sabulous
Synagma
,
and
gross
impurities
from
the
Kidneys
,
takes
off
the
Acidity
of
the
Serosa
Colluvies
,
and
corrects
the
noxious
Aspect
of
the
Womb
,
pacifying
and
amending
its
furious
exorbitance
?
Were
it
not
much
for
the
repute
of
Physick
,
to
have
alwayes
in
readiness
(
at
all
Seasons
of
the
year
)
some
such
Artificial
Preparations
contracted
into
a
small
bulk
,
(
proportionable
to
the
foresaid
Natural
)
answering
the
like
Intentions
,
that
thereby
the
Patient
might
save
the
labour
of
a
long
journey
,
and
the
Excessive
Sumption
of
crude
Water
to
his
prejudice
sometimes
?
What
cannot
a
good
Menstruum
friendly
to
Nature
,
free
from
Corrosion
,
do
in
this
kinde
?
that
is
able
to
reserate
those
secret
Active
Virtues
that
are
fast
locked
up
in
Mettals
,
and
bring
them
to
light
.
By
this
means
the
Primum
Ens
of
Minerals
may
be
discovered
,
and
their
Sulphurs
extracted
,
which
are
able
to
perform
wonderful
Cures
in
the
hand
of
an
Adeptus
.
If
the
Esurine
Salt
of
Sulphur
Embryonate
lightly
touching
a
Vein
of
Iron
or
Copper
,
and
therewith
imbued
,
is
able
to
exert
and
express
such
powerful
Efficacy
in
Healing
within
and
without
;
ought
not
this
to
excite
any
industrious
man
to
follow
the
footsteps
of
Nature
,
to
observe
the
beginning
and
progress
of
her
Motions
and
clandestine
Working
in
the
innermost
parts
of
the
Earth
;
and
accordingly
to
imitate
her
in
dissolving
either
of
the
foresaid
Mettals
,
by
an
Appropriate
Saline
Liquor
,
that
is
able
to
penetrate
them
Centrally
.
If
ye
took
pains
herein
as
ye
ought
,
many
a
calamitous
Disease
might
be
overcome
in
the
beginning
,
which
through
delay
and
procrastination
becomes
incurable
,
before
the
Patient
arrives
at
the
Mineral
Waters
.
It
was
not
without
Reason
that
a
famous
Empirick
did
cause
an
Esurine
Water
every
other
day
to
be
fetched
fresh
,
which
he
made
use
of
as
the
best
Liquor
to
receive
and
convey
the
Virtues
of
Concretes
;
which
may
be
a
fair
president
for
you
that
are
destitute
of
better
Remedies
.
And
sith
ye
will
not
vouchsafe
to
foul
your
own
fingers
about
matters
of
so
great
moment
concerning
the
Life
,
shew
your selves
so
far
desirous
to
do
Righteous
things
,
as
to
put
in
practice
what
Nature
,
or
some
laborious
Artist
,
shall
offer
you
prepared
.
For
our
parts
,
few
of
us
depend
upon
these
Mineral
Fountains
,
having
wherewithal
to
supply
the
wants
of
our
Patients
,
and
to
procure
Sanity
at
home
:
and
we
conceive
that
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
that
is
,
some
Vinous
Spirituous
Liquor
,
a
surer
,
safer
,
and
more
expedite
means
to
overcome
a
fixed
Disease
,
then
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
the
pouring
in
a
great
quantity
of
raw
Water
,
not
without
some
inconvenience
,
as
we
have
known
,
though
prescribed
by
a
most
Exquisite
Galenical
Method
.
But
the
Offence
in
these
Esurine
Waters
is
far
more
Venial
then
the
frequent
Oblation
of
Aqueous
and
maukish
Iuleps
in
Feavers
,
sine
Sale
,
aut
Sole
,
without
either
Spirit
or
Life
;
as
Unsavoury
and
Torpid
as
the
Authors
that
Dictate
them
,
who
with
as
much
Judgement
and
Reason
prohibit
those
the
use
of
Salt
,
that
are
inclined
to
the
Duelech
,
Stone
,
and
other
Troubles
,
which
we
are
certain
is
most
effectual
to
prevent
them
.
Doubtless
it
is
far
better
if
opportunity
be
offered
,
to
take
a
journey
to
the
Wells
,
and
to
drink
moderately
of
those
Esurine
Waters
,
abounding
with
Saline
Corpuscles
,
then
to
be
obliged
to
take
the
dull
Drench-like
Potions
of
the
Dogmatists
,
more
fitting
for
a
Horse
then
a
Man
;
for
those
being
of
thin
parts
quickly
pass
through
,
and
carry
with
them
some
Peccant
Matter
,
seldom
leaving
any
great
evil
Impression
behinde
:
but
these
being
gross
and
muddy
put
the
Expulsive
Faculty
to
much
trouble
to
discharge
them
,
leaving
many
Faeculencies
and
Grounds
behinde
,
and
thereby
debilitate
the
Digestion
of
the
parts
.
Now
our
faithful
Advice
in
general
to
such
as
drink
these
Mineral
Waters
,
is
,
that
they
first
take
some
proper
Emeto-Cathartick
,
that
may
cleanse
away
any
filth
lurking
in
the
Stomack
,
Guts
,
and
Mesentery
.
Secondly
,
That
they
begin
with
a
small
quantity
at
first
,
and
so
rise
higher
by
degrees
,
according
to
the
capacity
of
the
person
;
alwayes
taking
after
the
Water
that
which
may
rectifie
its
Crudity
,
corroborate
the
Ventricle
,
and
other
parts
,
stir
up
and
encrease
the
Vital
Spirits
,
furthering
the
Water
in
its
operation
.
Thirdly
,
that
the
Diet
be
very
moderate
,
alwayes
gratifying
the
Appetite
,
offending
rather
in
Liquid
then
Solid
nourishment
;
and
here
generous
Wine
taken
soberly
with
discretion
,
cannot
but
profit
and
produce
many
good
effects
.
CHAP.
XVII
.
A
Vindication
of
Chymical
Medicines
from
that
false
Accusation
of
being
Dangerous
.
IT
is
a
hard
thing
to
strive
against
the
stream
of
a
vulgar
Opinion
at
any
time
,
but
especially
when
countenanced
and
backt
by
men
of
eminent
Knowledge
and
Fame
.
Nought
in
this
case
save
somewhat
of
a
Miracle
,
is
able
to
undeceive
those
,
that
have
obliged
themselves
to
an
implicite
Obedience
,
and
indisputable
Belief
of
whatsoever
their
admired
Professours
shall
deliver
,
conceiving
what
proceeds
from
their
mouths
must
needs
be
Oracular
.
Such
reverence
doth
some
mens
Authority
carry
with
it
,
that
they
need
not
take
pains
to
invent
Arguments
,
where
an
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
puts
the
matter
out
of
doubt
.
Indeed
we
much
approve
of
this
in
Religious
Matters
,
but
can
by
no
means
allow
it
in
Humane
Arts
and
Sciences
,
which
ought
to
have
something
of
Demonstration
to
confirm
the
Truth
of
them
.
What
Difficulties
some
of
us
have
undergone
to
perswade
some
prepossessed
against
us
,
(
that
have
imbibed
the
Exitious
Precepts
of
the
Galenists
)
to
admit
of
those
Chymical
Remedies
(
which
we
knew
would
save
their
Lives
)
is
well
known
to
those
that
have
been
made
sensible
of
their
Errour
herein
.
For
the
very
name
Chymical
did
sound
so
Deadly
in
their
ears
,
that
many
in
those
places
(
where
we
practised
)
did
apprehend
,
that
he
that
dealt
in
such
Medicines
had
a
design
to
destroy
them
;
and
that
he
was
to
be
avoided
as
a
Necromancer
,
or
one
that
busied
himself
in
some
unlawful
Art
:
So
that
if
prevalent
necessity
had
at
any
time
forced
them
to
take
these
Preparations
into
their
Bodies
,
they
were
even
sick
with
conceit
;
and
we
had
more
ado
to
cure
their
Misapprehensions
and
Crazie
Fancies
,
then
their
Diseases
.
Yea
,
now
and
then
all
our
Eloquence
and
best
Reasons
could
not
prevail
to
perswade
them
,
that
what
we
had
given
them
was
innocent
,
leaving
no
ill
effect
behinde
;
and
that
they
were
perfectly
restored
without
Relapse
.
Now
their
scrupulosity
principally
arose
from
this
ground
,
(
besides
what
the
Dogmatists
had
infused
into
them
)
because
we
performed
our
business
with
quickness
and
dexterity
,
without
those
large
Purgations
which
they
had
been
formerly
used
to
.
To
satisfie
all
these
foolish
and
frivolous
Doubts
,
which
their
great
Doctors
had
buz'd
into
their
ears
,
took
up
no
little
time
and
patience
.
Now
,
these
things
considered
,
have
not
the
true
Chymists
been
put
to
a
very
hard
task
,
to
conflict
with
a
sworn
Enemy
the
Galenist
,
a
peevish
,
prejudicated
,
unruly
weak
Patient
,
and
a
predominating
Disease
.
What
,
but
Omnipotent
Truth
,
could
ever
have
brought
this
Despised
and
Exploded
Art
into
any
Estimation
,
that
the
Professors
thereof
should
dare
to
look
any
Opposer
in
the
face
,
and
defie
what
he
can
openly
object
against
it
.
Magnarum
usque
adeò
sordent
primordia
rerum
.
The
greatest
things
have
but
minute
and
contemptible
beginnings
,
attaining
perfection
by
degrees
.
Never
was
any
excellent
,
useful
Invention
brought
to
light
,
inconsistent
with
some
mens
Interest
,
but
presently
there
emerged
malicious
Zoili
,
or
proud
Emulatours
,
that
contrived
how
they
might
strangle
it
in
the
birth
,
by
defamation
and
false
suggestions
.
This
course
the
Galenists
took
in
the
Infancy
of
this
noble
Science
,
crying
it
down
with
all
might
and
main
,
conjuring
the
world
that
they
should
avoid
all
Chymical
Medicines
as
most
dangerous
;
damning
them
all
without
distinction
.
And
when
they
saw
they
could
not
maintain
this
falsity
long
,
e're
some
Benevolent
Patients
that
had
found
the
contrary
by
experience
,
made
it
appear
otherwise
:
Then
missing
their
aim
here
,
they
inserted
this
Hypothesis
,
If
they
be
not
well
Prepared
;
as
if
any
Artificial
thing
could
be
innoxious
if
not
well
prepared
;
for
even
our
common
Food
not
well
ordered
may
be
dangerous
to
us
;
and
a
nasty
Slut
may
poison
a
man
,
and
verifie
the
Proverb
,
God
sends
meat
,
and
the
Devil
sends
Cooks
.
Who
that
argues
for
Spagyrical
Medicines
doth
not
take
it
for
granted
,
that
they
ought
to
be
made
by
an
Artist
?
Will
ye
never
desist
from
diminishing
the
worth
of
a
good
thing
,
because
some
have
abused
it
?
Is
Chymical
Physick
in
express
terms
(
without
equivocation
)
any
whit
dangerous
,
unless
depraved
by
you
and
some
illiterate
Pseudochymists
?
How
is
it
likely
that
ye
should
ever
make
an
approved
Chymical
,
that
never
made
a
Good
Galenical
Remedy
?
Whose
are
most
saving
,
and
consequently
safe
,
yours
,
that
are
either
like
Chip
in
Potrage
,
or
else
hazard
the
producing
some
mischief
;
or
ours
,
that
according
to
the
capacity
of
the
Patient
(
due
circumstances
observed
)
acts
as
infallibly
for
his
welfare
and
preservation
,
as
Fire
burns
and
Water
moistens
,
from
a
Power
of
its
innate
gift
,
that
the
great
Creator
hath
bestowed
upon
it
.
You
would
do
very
well
to
reflect
upon
your
Dispensatory
,
wherein
(
except
some
few
Chymical
lent
you
)
all
your
Preparations
either
omit
to
do
what
they
should
,
or
commit
what
they
should
not
:
And
certainly
these
are
dangerous
per
se
,
supposing
they
be
made
accordingly
to
your
best
Art.
If
ours
offend
it
is
but
per
accidens
,
because
those
Requisites
set
down
are
neglected
to
make
them
such
as
we
intend
them
.
For
Example
and
Experience
,
which
is
the
true
Touchstone
that
must
discover
us
:
Let
any
of
you
in
perfect
Health
pick
out
of
your
formal
Apothecary's
Book
,
stuffed
full
of
supernumerary
Preparations
,
the
most
Safe
and
Active
of
them
,
that
do
you
the
greatest
service
,
to
the
number
of
ten
;
weigh
out
the
known
Dose
of
any
one
singly
,
with
the
strictest
curiosity
you
please
;
take
each
of
you
the
same
into
your
own
Stomacks
,
and
repeat
the
Dose
as
often
as
ye
dare
;
and
so
proceed
likewise
with
another
,
and
so
on
to
the
residue
of
the
ten
:
When
ye
have
acted
your
parts
,
we
likewise
(
every
way
sound
)
selecting
ten
of
our
Arcana's
,
will
swallow
down
(
without
trusting
to
the
Scales
)
a
sufficient
quantity
of
any
one
(
that
may
be
most
suspected
)
which
we
commonly
exhibit
to
the
Sick
for
their
recovery
;
look
how
often
ye
have
taken
of
each
of
your
ten
,
so
often
will
we
iterate
or
duplicate
the
sumption
of
any
one
of
ours
.
And
then
let
any
indifferent
person
judge
who
bears
their
Medicines
best
,
having
the
fewest
bad
Symptoms
following
,
and
so
conclude
accordingly
whose
are
most
dangerous
.
Such
hath
been
our
zeal
for
the
good
of
our
Neighbour
,
that
we
have
for
some
years
seldom
given
any
thing
to
our
Patients
which
we
have
not
first
taken
into
our
own
Bodies
perhaps
many
times
:
And
consideratis
considerandis
,
an
Acute
Medical
Observer
shall
learn
more
feelingly
from
himself
,
that
which
tends
to
the
right
use
of
any
Arcanum
,
then
he
shall
from
another
.
Assuredly
for
our
parts
,
we
had
rather
run
the
hazard
of
an
ambiguous
Remedy
our selves
,
who
know
,
and
can
best
correct
any
supervenient
inconvenience
thereof
,
then
to
proffer
it
upon
uncertain
grounds
to
another
,
who
perchance
through
his
impatience
and
morosity
will
neither
suffer
us
to
amend
what
is
fallen
out
amiss
,
nor
listen
to
any
reasonable
Apology
how
it
came
to
pass
.
If
the
Galenist
did
take
this
course
,
he
would
not
give
Chymical
Preparations
with
such
a
Tremulous
hand
as
he
doth
,
being
doubtful
whether
they
be
made
as
they
ought
,
and
what
certain
effect
they
may
have
.
For
all
this
proceeds
from
a
want
of
that
true
experimental
knowledge
which
he
may
(
setting
aside
this
timorous
childish
apprehension
of
danger
and
hurting
himself
)
acquire
,
by
frequent
repetitions
of
ingesting
that
into
his
own
ventricle
,
which
may
instruct
him
far
better
then
anothers
.
We
deny
not
but
the
Ambient
Air
,
and
the
differing
Constitution
of
several
individual
Bodies
do
somewhat
alter
the
Operation
of
that
which
works
by
sensible
vacuation
,
which
is
to
be
considered
,
but
not
to
be
insisted
upon
too
superstitiously
;
but
we
see
no
reason
why
some
transcendent
Arcana's
which
act
tono
unisono
invisibly
,
should
not
cure
diverse
persons
alike
indifferently
,
in
the
East
Indies
,
and
this
part
of
the
World
,
with
some
small
variation
of
the
quantity
.
So
that
an
Adeptus
may
presume
to
induce
,
that
if
the
best
sort
of
Medicines
have
a
constant
happy
effect
upon
himself
at
all
times
of
the
year
,
the
same
cannot
but
express
the
like
energie
upon
others
,
presented
by
an
expert
hand
that
hath
an
eye
in
it
.
It
were
to
be
wished
that
Physicians
would
animate
some
nice
scrupulous
Patients
,
and
convince
them
of
those
harsh
conceits
they
oftentimes
harbour
,
(
not
without
just
cause
)
that
they
shall
make
an
Apothecary's
Shop
of
their
Bellies
;
(
and
if
what
they
take
do
not
work
it
will
poison
them
)
by
swallowing
down
the
same
before
their
faces
,
that
they
may
recant
of
their
folly
,
and
be
further
incouraged
to
submit
to
those
Rules
which
are
easie
to
observe
,
without
any
rigour
or
danger
in
them
.
And
we
admonish
any
that
desires
to
be
approved
in
the
Iatrical
Art
,
to
make
it
his
principal
pains
and
study
to
be
throughly
acquainted
with
the
Practical
use
of
those
Medicines
he
possesses
so
exactly
and
accurately
,
as
a
Shoo-maker
with
his
Last
,
or
an
Artificer
with
his
Tools
;
that
knowing
what
he
can
trust
to
,
he
may
after
a
judicious
examination
of
the
Sickness
,
begin
and
proceed
in
the
Sanation
of
the
same
with
confidence
,
and
no
less
real
performance
.
CHAP.
XVIII
.
Of
the
Galenical
Method
.
OUr
Adversaries
do
much
glory
and
vaunt
in
their
Method
of
Curing
,
asserting
,
that
if
a
man
have
never
so
excellent
Medicines
,
if
he
be
ignorant
therein
,
he
cannot
discharge
his
duty
as
he
ought
.
We
desire
first
to
know
of
these
learned
Grecians
,
what
(
according
to
the
Etimon
)
this
word
Methodus
signifies
.
Is
it
,
we
pray
,
any
more
then
a
short
way
of
healing
Maladies
?
How
short
ye
come
of
this
,
the
world
may
easily
judge
,
who
keep
your
Patients
in
a
course
of
Physick
so
long
,
till
ye
run
them
quite
out
of
breath
,
and
all
under
a
pretence
of
Method
.
Is
it
worthy
of
a
Physicians
Method
to
dally
with
his
Patient
some
moneths
,
even
years
,
and
not
absolutely
satisfie
him
,
whether
he
be
curable
or
no
:
or
perhaps
after
he
hath
exhausted
his
strength
and
purse
,
to
send
him
into
the
Countrey
,
to
the
Wells
,
or
Bath
;
yea
,
sometimes
into
France
,
that
the
less
notice
may
be
taken
of
it
if
he
chance
to
dye
(
as
we
have
known
)
by
the
way
?
Is
not
this
a
rare
Method
to
see
a
Physician
keep
a
pudder
,
and
make
a
great
noise
about
a
sick
mans
Diet
,
precisely
to
enjoyn
him
,
upon
loss
of
his
Life
,
not
to
violate
the
least
punctilio
;
strictly
forbidding
those
things
which
(
given
by
the
Nurse
or
standers
by
,
and
concealed
from
the
Physician
)
have
cured
him
?
To
see
a
sick
wretch
in
a
vehement
Feaver
,
almost
parched
up
for
want
of
moisture
,
and
not
a
draught
of
small
Beer
allowed
him
to
quench
his
unsatiable
thirst
,
or
a
little
Wine
to
refresh
his
drooping
spirit
,
is
enough
to
make
a
man
afraid
of
such
a
Method
.
To
hear
them
when
a
man
is
in
a
peracute
Feaver
,
Logically
discourse
of
their
Indications
,
General
,
Subalternate
,
and
Specifick
,
Profitable
and
Unprofitable
,
Artificial
and
Inartificial
,
Condications
and
Contraindications
;
with
those
they
call
Consentientia
,
Correpugnantia
,
and
Permittentia
,
and
be
extreamly
ignorant
of
Indicata
,
or
Remedies
,
proportionable
and
competent
to
cure
the
Feaver
;
suffering
the
Patient
either
to
perish
,
or
to
fall
into
some
desperate
Chronick
Disease
,
and
so
to
twindle
and
moulder
away
at
length
;
whereas
if
things
had
been
rightly
ordered
,
all
this
might
have
been
prevented
,
is
sufficient
to
make
a
man
explode
and
nauseate
their
Method
.
When
we
hear
how
curiously
they
examine
,
which
of
the
four
Humours
,
arising
from
the
mixture
of
the
four
Elements
,
(
which
never
had
an
existence
in
Nature
,
as
Helmont
hath
sufficiently
proved
)
abounds
in
the
Body
,
that
thereby
they
may
finde
out
a
convenient
Purge
;
as
,
Rhubarb
for
Choller
,
Agarick
for
Phlegme
,
&c.
loosening
the
Body
by
stool
sometimes
fifty
or
sixty
times
;
to
the
consumption
of
the
strength
of
the
Sick
party
,
without
any
ease
,
the
Morbifick
matter
still
remaining
behinde
untouched
.
When
they
learnedly
babble
concerning
Complexions
,
Temperaments
,
Constitutions
,
being
grosly
ignorant
of
the
Seminal
,
Formal
,
and
Vital
Properties
of
things
;
not
able
to
discover
in
the
least
without
relation
,
or
to
give
any
plausible
reason
thereof
from
their
durty
Elements
,
Humours
,
and
Qualities
,
that
this
man
naturally
abhors
Posset-drink
,
a
second
Honey
,
a
third
an
Egg
,
which
if
they
should
take
into
their
Bodies
,
in
some
Diseases
,
were
enough
to
cost
them
their
lives
.
When
they
stand
so
superstitiously
upon
the
Season
of
the
Year
,
the
Climate
of
the
Countrey
,
the
Qualities
of
the
Air
,
the
Time
of
the
Day
,
that
before
they
can
take
an
opportunity
,
the
Patient
is
ten
times
more
hard
to
cure
,
or
perhaps
past
relief
:
All
this
(
rightly
understood
)
would
justly
provoke
a
man
to
condemn
,
abhorre
,
renounce
,
and
defie
their
Method
.
Who
that
hath
any
spark
of
charity
in
him
,
but
must
needs
pitty
that
distressed
wretch
,
who
hath
a
Physician
attending
him
,
that
gapes
for
a
Crisis
even
to
the
one
and
twentieth
day
,
doubtful
what
is
like
to
be
the
issue
then
;
and
in
the
mean
time
exhausts
the
purple
Soul
of
his
Patient
by
frequent
Phlebotomy
,
spending
his
Spirits
by
some
torturing
course
,
marring
the
ferment
of
the
Stomack
;
and
is
so
far
from
assisting
and
furthering
Nature
,
that
he
becomes
a
remora
,
or
hinderance
to
her
;
so
that
if
strength
of
Body
be
not
extraordinary
,
't
is
impossible
such
an
one
should
escape
without
a
miracle
:
Certainly
a
man
may
not
offend
to
say
that
this
is
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Satans
device
and
plot
to
destroy
mankinde
.
Or
we
may
justly
censure
this
Galenical
Method
,
as
the
word
Methodus
signifies
,
according
to
another
interpretation
,
Fictio
,
or
Ludificatio
;
a
meer
Imposture
or
Cheat.
Had
not
a
man
better
either
to
trust
to
God
and
Nature
,
or
,
if
he
can
be
procured
,
make
use
of
some
honest
,
plain
Physician
,
who
without
any
deceit
or
pompous
Preludium
,
shall
fall
to
his
work
of
curing
you
.
'T
is
a
sad
thing
to
behold
a
young
man
in
the
flower
of
his
years
,
in
full
strength
of
body
,
abounding
with
Vital
Spirits
,
sending
for
a
Physician
in
the
beginning
of
his
Disease
,
to
be
thus
Methodized
into
his
Grave
,
by
them
that
pretend
to
be
such
grave
learned
Doctors
;
who
,
if
he
had
dyed
in
the
Field
bravely
,
ought
little
in
comparison
to
be
lamented
.
Can
any
sober
,
wise
man
blame
any
one
that
knows
this
to
be
true
,
and
dares
demonstrate
it
,
that
he
is
Satyrical
and
invective
against
these
notorious
actions
?
That
man
questionless
that
knows
he
can
prove
these
things
to
be
so
,
cannot
but
damnifie
his
Soul
,
if
he
make
not
a
timely
discovery
of
them
for
his
Countreys
good
.
We
invocate
the
supreme
Power
,
that
't
is
not
malice
to
any
mans
particular
person
,
nor
a
principal
Design
to
be
known
in
the
World
to
our
advantage
,
that
hath
excited
us
to
declare
our selves
thus
,
to
the
detriment
of
any
mans
individual
credit
and
reputation
:
Far
be
it
from
us
,
for
these
things
(
if
it
could
have
consisted
with
Charity
and
a
good
Conscience
)
should
never
have
been
published
;
and
we
hope
our
future
actions
will
sufficiently
demonstrate
our
sincerity
herein
;
though
we
expect
from
our
Adversaries
nothing
but
harsh
censures
,
underminings
,
quick
eyes
to
discover
our
lapses
,
calumnies
,
and
reproaches
.
But
't
is
sufficient
that
we
have
done
our
duty
,
to
give
the
world
a
fair
warning
of
these
Abuses
,
which
if
it
make
not
good
use
thereof
,
let
it
be
upon
their
score
,
sith
we
have
done
what
we
ought
.
CHAP.
XIX
.
Of
the
Helmontian
Method
.
AS
you
magnifie
your
own
Method
,
so
ye
often
cast
it
in
our
teeth
that
we
use
none
,
and
that
we
can
give
little
account
of
what
we
do
,
but
as
Empiricks
.
As
to
this
we
would
willingly
know
of
you
,
whether
of
the
two
performs
things
more
orderly
and
methodically
,
he
that
brings
the
Life
into
confusion
,
disorder
,
and
at
last
perhaps
to
a
sad
Catastrophe
,
by
a
tedious
,
impertinent
,
groundless
,
absurd
,
and
fruitless
means
,
quite
beside
the
mark
;
or
he
that
sweetly
composes
,
pacifies
,
and
allayes
the
disorders
,
irregularity
,
exorbitancies
,
and
tumults
in
the
Microcosme
,
by
direct
and
adequate
applications
and
appropriations
of
those
friendly
Medicines
,
which
may
assist
Nature
immediately
to
conquer
its
grand
enemy
the
Disease
,
that
at
length
there
may
be
a
happy
conclusion
to
Health
,
without
your
insalutiferous
Method
?
What
man
that
hath
been
throughly
cured
of
a
dangerous
Disease
in
a
short
time
by
us
,
will
ever
finde
any
fault
that
we
did
not
use
your
long
Method
;
a
meer
Ens
Rationis
,
invented
to
delude
the
world
?
Are
ye
to
be
excused
that
go
far
about
to
destroy
your
Patients
,
notwithstanding
your
tinkling
and
trapped
Arguments
and
Conclusions
deduced
from
false
Premises
?
For
our
parts
we
had
by
far
rather
enjoy
an
ability
in
our
Profession
,
to
relieve
a
languishing
wretch
,
tortured
and
racked
with
some
cruel
Malady
,
then
by
making
a
great
noise
in
the
world
,
puffed
up
with
empty
knowledge
,
be
reputed
great
and
eminent
Schollars
,
but
altogether
ignorant
in
the
cure
of
a
Disease
;
Frustra
fit
per
plura
,
quod
fieri
potest
per
pauciora
,
is
known
to
every
ingenious
man.
If
we
Heal
in
a
fortnight
a
Sickness
,
that
ye
cannot
in
a
moneth
,
are
not
we
the
best
Methodists
?
If
we
strike
at
the
Root
of
a
Disease
,
ye
at
the
Branches
;
if
ye
mistake
in
applying
Agents
rightly
to
Patiens
,
erring
egregiously
in
the
Primary
,
Efficient
,
and
Material
Causes
of
a
Disease
,
often
blundering
and
overseen
in
your
Prognosticks
,
and
extreamly
blinde
in
the
proper
Crasis
of
things
,
thus
groping
in
the
dark
,
are
seduced
by
the
Ignes
fatui
of
your
Elements
,
Humours
,
Temperaments
,
seldom
(
unless
by
accident
)
hitting
the
mark
(
as
ye
ought
)
your
Patients
sanity
:
If
we
can
give
a
better
evidence
and
Phisolophical
account
that
we
are
in
the
right
in
Iatrical
Practice
above
you
:
If
we
,
when
we
come
to
our
Patient
,
after
some
short
inquisition
shall
declare
,
that
there
is
such
a
cause
of
his
Disease
,
and
that
the
subject
of
it
is
in
such
a
part
;
and
that
if
he
be
observant
,
we
shall
in
some
little
time
satisfie
him
,
whether
we
have
a
Remedy
sufficiently
potent
to
make
Nature
master
of
the
Disease
or
no
;
and
so
accordingly
make
our
Prediction
confidently
,
and
that
on
the
fifth
or
sixth
day
after
our
first
visit
in
acute
Diseases
:
If
we
peremptorily
deliver
,
that
by
Gods
help
we
doubt
not
but
to
cure
him
,
and
bring
to
pass
the
same
,
without
relapse
or
succeeding
Diseases
,
far
better
then
the
Galenists
,
will
not
any
man
say
that
we
are
the
best
Methodists
?
What
signifies
it
if
ye
abound
with
hundreds
of
Medicaments
,
composed
by
your
own
Apothecaries
,
which
ye
say
ye
use
according
to
Indications
,
and
not
one
of
these
a
competent
or
adequate
remedy
for
many
great
Diseases
?
Is
it
not
better
to
enjoy
twenty
or
thirty
good
Auxiliary
Preparations
,
made
with
our
own
fingers
,
the
meanest
whereof
shall
be
more
effectual
then
the
best
of
yours
;
and
these
used
not
(
as
ye
falsly
object
)
at
Random
,
at
a
Venture
,
but
Rationally
,
and
according
to
a
just
Techmarsis
,
taken
from
Nature
and
the
Disease
;
the
one
whereof
we
shall
(
as
ought
to
be
done
)
assist
to
overcome
the
other
,
by
removing
impediments
,
and
occasional
causes
,
by
purifying
and
strengthning
the
Organs
,
by
tinging
the
parts
with
some
excellent
and
appropriate
Balsom
,
by
invigorating
and
rectifying
the
ferment
of
the
Stomack
and
other
parts
,
by
dulcifying
the
degenerate
sharp
Latex
,
which
infests
the
Blood
,
Viscera
,
or
any
instrument
,
by
expunging
and
razing
out
the
Character
or
Idaea
of
the
Disease
in
the
Archeus
,
or
Vital
Spirits
;
lastly
,
by
pacifying
the
displacency
,
tumults
,
fury
,
and
exorbitancy
of
the
Archeus
.
And
when
we
have
made
the
truth
of
these
things
appear
in
the
presence
of
modest
,
indifferent
,
and
discreet
Judges
,
we
shall
give
sound
,
satisfactory
,
Philosophical
Reasons
of
what
we
have
done
,
which
we
will
undertake
to
elucidate
thus
.
We
will
so
many
of
us
on
each
side
(
as
we
shall
agree
upon
)
visit
the
sick
people
of
some
Hospital
,
with
equal
and
competent
Arbiters
or
Censors
:
After
that
each
party
hath
given
his
Verdict
,
and
Opinion
of
the
nature
of
the
Disease
,
inward
or
outward
,
we
will
make
our
Prediction
what
is
like
to
be
the
Epilogue
or
Event
thereof
,
whether
it
be
curable
or
no
,
and
in
what
time
probably
it
may
be
brought
to
pass
.
Let
the
Galenist
,
or
Helmontian
,
that
doth
(
according
to
the
Sentence
of
those
elected
persons
,
to
whose
award
we
are
to
stand
)
perform
his
business
best
in
the
Diagnostick
,
Prognostick
,
and
Therapeutick
part
,
prevail
,
and
be
taken
into
the
favour
and
tuition
of
the
Magistrate
;
and
the
other
be
rejected
,
and
banished
out
of
the
City
with
disgrace
,
never
to
appear
here
to
practise
Physick
any
more
.
Or
we
will
deal
with
you
in
this
manner
,
we
will
summon
so
many
Patients
that
have
Feavers
,
or
other
Diseases
,
in
the
City
,
whom
we
will
visit
together
,
and
according
to
our
former
proposition
,
enter
upon
a
direct
proof
,
who
may
best
deserve
a
Diplôma
or
Patent
.
Or
we
will
(
if
ye
please
)
act
severally
,
we
will
(
with
so
many
impartial
Judges
)
undertake
twenty
persons
that
have
Acute
Diseases
,
and
so
many
Chronick
;
after
that
we
have
illustrated
the
Nature
,
Condition
,
and
Magnitude
of
the
Disease
to
the
standers
by
,
(
our
foresaid
Arbitratours
)
we
will
enter
upon
the
Cure
with
a
Prognostick
,
in
Acute
Diseases
,
after
our
first
admission
,
upon
the
fifth
or
sixth
day
;
and
in
Chronick
Diseases
,
in
the
space
of
three
weeks
or
a
moneth
at
farthest
.
Ye
shall
be
bound
to
act
the
like
,
the
same
Supervisors
attending
you
that
did
us
;
who
,
after
they
have
seriously
weighed
all
Circumstances
,
being
rightly
informed
,
and
considered
what
difficulties
both
parties
have
been
put
upon
,
shall
determine
as
each
of
us
have
done
better
or
or
worse
,
who
are
the
true
Artists
,
and
so
receive
a
Reward
or
Mulct
.
Moreover
we
declare
,
that
we
shall
take
into
our
hands
twenty
sick
persons
that
have
Acute
Feavers
of
what
kinde
soever
,
and
of
these
twenty
,
we
will
engage
to
secure
under
God
Sixteen
of
them
upon
the
fifth
or
sixth
day
after
our
approach
,
or
to
give
a
Prognostick
upon
the
same
dayes
,
how
the
Disease
will
terminate
;
in
which
if
we
fail
,
we
shall
be
willing
to
suffer
accordingly
,
supposed
that
ye
come
to
the
like
trial
.
And
because
ye
insist
so
much
upon
Bleeding
,
and
there
is
no
Disease
according
to
your
own
Positions
,
that
requires
it
more
then
a
Pleurisie
;
we
dare
oblige
our selves
to
cure
more
Pleuritick
persons
,
citò
,
tutò
&
jucundè
,
without
Bleeding
,
then
ye
shall
,
making
use
of
the
same
.
This
is
the
way
,
great
Doctors
,
for
you
to
redeem
the
credit
of
this
noble
Science
,
and
to
restore
it
in
some
part
to
its
pristine
Renown
,
and
doubt
not
,
if
ye
do
your
business
as
ye
should
,
but
that
our
Sovereign
Lord
the
King
will
give
you
a
Diploma
,
and
confirm
a
Patent
to
you
ex
condigno
;
for
questionless
he
is
of
Hannibals
minde
,
Hostem
qui
feriet
erit
sibi
Carthaginensis
.
Do
well
and
have
well
.
But
if
ye
fall
to
your
wonted
Scribling
,
your
quarrelling
de
lanâ
caprinâ
,
your
captious
and
critical
Censures
,
your
guilful
Sophisms
,
and
Paralogisms
,
making
the
world
believe
that
this
is
but
a
foolish
Contest
,
and
that
Truth
cannot
be
determined
this
way
,
by
reason
of
the
variety
and
multiplicity
of
circumstances
to
be
observed
;
and
that
to
put
these
Controversies
to
a
trial
in
an
Hospital
,
is
to
put
our
Sickle
into
another
mans
Harvest
,
with
such
like
Mormolyceia
,
or
Bugbears
,
which
ye
returned
us
as
Answers
,
when
some
of
us
did
urge
by
Letters
,
and
Challenge
you
in
particular
to
this
most
expedient
proof
:
Yea
,
one
of
you
arguing
with
another
of
us
in
the
presence
of
some
ingenious
persons
,
(
and
the
Galenist
confounding
the
Argumentation
with
much
prattle
,
on
purpose
to
amaze
the
Auditors
,
that
they
might
not
rightly
understand
the
Opponent
the
Chymist
,
(
by
whom
,
when
he
was
put
upon
then
,
as
at
several
other
times
,
an
Essay
of
Action
)
made
a
pish
of
it
,
objecting
,
that
in
difficult
Cases
,
we
Chymists
had
alwayes
a
recourse
to
Action
.
If
(
we
say
)
ye
shall
continually
deal
thus
with
us
,
and
disregard
us
,
that
profess
,
and
can
vindicate
our selves
Schollars
,
and
Philosophers
,
equal
with
you
,
we
are
resolved
(
after
this
Epitome
,
being
onely
an
hint
to
the
World
of
some
of
your
Indecorums
in
Physick
)
to
publish
an
History
of
your
Errours
therein
at
large
.
CHAP.
XX.
Some
Animadversions
upon
the
late
Attempt
to
procure
a
Patent
from
His
Gracious
Majesty
,
for
the
Erecting
a
Colledge
of
Chymical
Physicians
.
NEver
was
there
a
more
just
,
honest
,
desireable
,
and
useful
Enterprise
set
upon
in
this
Nation
,
then
an
endeavour
of
some
Chymists
to
purchase
an
Influence
and
favourable
Countenance
from
our
Sovereign
Lord
the
King
,
that
thereby
we
might
be
authorized
and
encouraged
to
meet
together
,
and
consult
(
without
interruption
)
about
some
expedite
and
effectual
way
,
for
the
regulating
and
reforming
those
present
enormous
Abuses
in
this
excellent
Spagyrick
Science
;
and
for
the
prevention
of
the
same
for
the
future
;
and
that
we
might
joyn
our
forces
for
the
meliorating
and
advancing
of
that
Art
,
which
in
despite
of
all
Adversaries
,
will
in
some
short
time
manifest
it self
to
be
Queen
Regent
in
Physick
.
Moreover
,
seldom
hath
there
been
any
Design
more
generally
countenanced
and
animated
by
the
learned
Nobility
,
and
ingenious
Gentry
of
England
,
then
this
.
But
such
hath
been
our
fate
,
that
some
malevolent
ill-disposed
persons
(
as
well
from
within
as
from
without
)
have
both
maliciously
and
ignorantly
cast
such
rubs
in
our
way
,
that
we
have
been
disappointed
from
attaining
that
end
,
for
which
his
Gracious
Majesty
hath
professed
to
have
no
small
kindeness
.
That
therefore
every
Inquisitive
man
may
in
part
receive
some
satisfaction
,
what
hitherto
hath
obstructed
our
business
,
we
certifie
him
,
that
some
of
us
have
been
overseen
at
first
in
admitting
among
us
certain
very
illiterate
persons
,
that
were
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Chymic●
Umbratiles
,
mock
Chymists
,
no
whit
exercised
in
Anatomy
and
Botanicks
,
inexpert
in
the
History
of
Diseases
,
their
Efficient
and
Material
Cause
,
their
Event
,
or
any
Cure
,
of
which
they
could
give
any
Philosophical
reason
:
These
have
been
among
us
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
foul
blots
and
disgraces
,
presumptuous
Boasters
,
heady
and
high-minded
,
intruding
themselves
to
our
disturbance
;
whereby
our
subtil
supplanting
enemies
have
taken
advantage
to
defame
us
,
representing
us
to
the
world
a
company
of
Fanaticks
,
falstly
suggesting
that
we
went
about
to
tread
under
foot
all
Learning
,
and
to
introduce
a
meer
Empirical
way
of
Practice
in
Physick
,
with
such
blasting
language
,
contrived
on
purpose
to
diminish
our
Repute
,
and
to
disenable
us
from
atchieving
that
which
would
prove
so
useful
to
the
world
;
that
they
may
the
better
establish
their
pretended
Polyarchical
Government
in
the
Galenical
way
.
That
these
Aspersions
therefore
may
be
taken
off
,
and
no
more
reflect
upon
us
to
our
prejudice
,
who
profess
our selves
Philosophers
by
the
Fire
;
we
freely
declare
,
that
we
are
Philomathêis
,
hearty
lovers
and
promoters
of
Learning
,
and
shall
never
go
about
to
derrogate
from
Schools
and
Academies
,
but
shall
vigorously
defend
them
so
far
as
truth
will
admit
;
and
shall
be
ready
to
censure
him
that
pleads
for
Amathie
,
or
illiterature
in
the
Body
Natural
,
disposed
(
if
ever
opportunity
be
offered
to
him
)
to
stand
up
for
Anarchie
in
the
Body
Politick
.
And
we
are
resolved
upon
mature
thoughts
,
never
to
joyn
with
such
,
that
(
disclaiming
against
Schollarship
)
go
about
to
lay
the
foundation
of
such
an
Illustrious
Art
,
upon
the
sandy
foundation
of
some
wilde
and
extravagant
Notions
,
that
they
have
picked
up
by
chance
from
some
slight
Operations
made
at
a
venture
.
For
whosoever
enters
upon
Pyrotechnie
,
ought
to
have
beforehand
some
general
knowledge
in
the
Nature
of
things
,
and
to
acquire
some
infallible
Axioms
and
Theorems
delivered
to
him
,
by
those
that
have
been
most
expert
;
which
how
any
one
can
attain
to
,
without
a
competent
knowledge
in
the
Scholastick
Languages
,
we
are
much
to
seek
.
And
certainly
Helmont
never
thought
a
rude
and
illiterate
person
destitute
of
any
previous
Theory
,
a
fit
Agent
to
aspire
to
the
Mysteries
of
this
profound
Science
.
For
our
parts
we
should
be
willing
to
condescend
to
any
thing
below
our selves
,
that
such
an
eminent
Attempt
as
a
Society
of
Chymical
Physicians
might
be
established
;
but
should
unwillingly
yield
that
such
a
Great
Mistress
of
Knowledge
should
be
committed
to
those
,
that
are
no
whit
able
to
protect
,
adorn
,
or
credit
her
.
'T
is
not
a
good
Medicine
,
purchased
we
know
not
how
,
or
stumbled
upon
by
some
ridiculous
chance
,
that
makes
a
real
Philosopher
,
nor
multiplicity
of
Furnaces
,
contrived
on
purpose
to
get
a
fame
in
the
world
,
but
undeniable
and
stable
Principles
,
that
enoble
an
Adeptus
,
or
son
of
Art.
Le
no
therefore
any
blinde
Bayard
,
that
wants
the
discretion
to
hold
the
Reins
of
Phebus
his
Steeds
,
presume
to
drive
the
Solar
Chariot
of
Pyrotechnie
,
lest
instead
of
cherishing
and
illuminating
the
World
,
he
bring
all
into
confusion
and
combustion
,
as
some
Pseudochymists
among
us
of
late
have
endeavoured
.
To
conclude
,
although
we
have
been
hitherto
crossed
in
this
noble
Enterprize
,
on
one
side
by
the
Galenist
,
and
on
the
other
by
the
Pseudochymist
,
or
pretender
thereto
,
(
this
most
innocent
Art
being
as
it
were
crucified
in
the
midst
between
them
)
yet
we
question
not
but
that
at
length
in
despite
of
all
opposition
,
true
Chymistry
will
flourish
,
and
moving
in
its
right
Sphere
,
will
scatter
all
black
clouds
and
mists
of
Ignorance
and
Envy
,
and
shine
out
in
its
perfect
splendor
.
The
Figure
of
two
Colick
Stones
extracted
out
of
the
Body
of
Anne
Taylor
.
An
Appendix
.
DE
LITHO-COLO
:
OR
,
A
History
of
three
large
Stones
excluded
the
Colon
by
Chymical
Medicines
.
THe
importunity
of
some
friends
have
moved
me
to
expose
(
on
a
sudden
)
to
publick
view
these
prodigious
and
monstrous
Stones
,
generated
in
the
Colon
,
that
the
World
may
be
informed
what
strange
Coagulations
sometimes
happen
in
this
Microcosme
;
and
what
need
we
have
to
look
after
Remedies
of
the
Superlative
Degree
,
to
dissolve
and
dispossess
them
of
their
lodging
place
.
The
Narrative
is
thus
:
In
the
Year
,
1655.
I
was
sent
for
in
the
midst
of
February
to
Anne
Taylor
(
servant
to
Mr.
Sikes
a
Brewer
,
living
at
Rumford
in
Essex
)
about
twenty
years
old
,
of
a
florid
ruddy
colour
,
having
a
square
Body
,
Vivacious
and
Active
,
but
low
in
stature
;
who
was
suddenly
taken
with
a
violent
Pungitive
pain
on
the
left
side
,
an
inflation
and
distention
of
the
Epigastrium
,
a
Feaver
,
an
Aking
in
her
Loins
,
Inquietude
,
a
nauseous
Disposition
,
frequent
Belchings
,
and
great
constriction
of
the
Belly
.
Having
examined
the
Symptoms
,
I
apprehended
that
her
Disease
arose
principally
from
the
Spleen
,
stuffed
with
feculent
degenerate
Blood
,
which
having
contracted
Malignity
,
darted
its
venom
at
the
Pleura
,
Stomack
,
Intestines
,
and
Reins
;
hence
the
Vital
Spirits
being
disturbed
,
an
Estuation
and
Effervescence
arose
in
the
Blood
,
which
caused
a
Feaver
.
This
considered
,
I
presently
offered
upon
my
first
access
in
the
Afternoon
,
an
Emeto-Diaphoretick
,
which
making
some
small
evacuation
,
gave
her
ease
,
but
of
short
duration
,
for
a
few
hours
after
there
was
a
recrudescence
and
exacerbation
of
all
the
foresaid
Symptoms
.
The
next
morning
I
offered
her
an
Emeto-Cathartick
,
intending
to
carry
the
morbisick
matter
most
downward
,
but
in
vain
,
for
it
still
regurgitated
,
and
came
away
by
Vomiting
:
however
,
she
found
an
abatement
of
the
racking
pain
of
her
Side
,
and
other
parts
,
which
yet
still
returned
by
fits
.
Then
I
plied
her
hard
with
those
things
that
were
Diaphorerick
,
Resolving
,
Abstersive
,
for
the
space
of
three
or
four
dayes
,
making
use
of
requisite
Topicks
;
not
omitting
whatsoever
might
pacifie
and
invigorate
the
Vital
Spirits
against
future
paroxisms
.
Upon
the
sixth
day
after
my
first
admission
,
coming
to
see
her
,
I
found
her
chearful
,
(
the
Pain
of
her
Side
and
Feaver
abated
)
with
many
hopeful
signs
of
speedy
recovery
,
onely
she
complained
of
a
Weight
of
her
left
Side
,
tending
downward
toward
the
Kidneys
,
and
a
straitness
of
her
Belly
,
but
yet
she
thought
a
small
matter
more
would
perfectly
cure
her
;
so
giving
her
precaution
,
I
bad
her
go
on
to
take
what
remained
,
charging
her
to
give
me
notice
if
any
thing
fell
out
amiss
.
The
Sabbath
day
following
,
being
the
tenth
from
the
first
onset
of
her
Sickness
,
a
messenger
came
in
all
haste
to
me
to
Horn-Church
,
relating
the
anguish
and
cruel
torments
that
this
wretched
Maid
suffered
about
the
Region
of
her
Loins
,
with
straining
to
vomit
,
sharpness
of
her
Urine
,
and
difficulty
to
make
it
,
and
continual
watching
.
Upon
this
I
began
to
think
that
the
Kidneys
had
a
great
share
in
the
production
of
those
Iragical
Accidents
,
which
formerly
appeared
:
wherefore
I
presently
dispatched
away
to
her
another
Emeto-Cathartick
,
and
some
other
Chymical
Preparations
,
that
were
of
force
to
cleanse
and
sweep
away
any
sabulous
matter
,
or
gross
impurities
from
those
parts
.
Having
taken
the
first
she
was
put
into
great
straits
,
and
had
many
pangs
,
yet
upon
my
strict
injunction
they
urged
her
to
take
whatsoever
I
sent
:
which
,
upon
every
sumption
and
repetition
,
caused
a
Crispation
and
Convulsive
motion
of
the
Genus
Membranosum
,
the
Archeus
endeavouring
to
make
an
extrusion
of
that
which
as
long
as
it
harboured
in
its
bosom
,
could
never
be
at
rest
;
so
that
by
a
frequent
exciting
the
Expulsive
faculty
,
and
by
corroborating
the
Spirits
at
the
same
time
,
Nature
by
an
Alternate
vicissitude
of
rest
and
motion
producing
Throwes
,
was
delivered
at
length
by
the
help
of
some
dextrous
hands
of
three
strange
stony
Concretions
,
conceived
in
the
upper
part
of
the
Colon
nigh
the
Spleen
.
Now
the
first
appearance
of
these
was
after
a
great
Agony
on
Munday
night
,
being
the
eleventh
day
;
for
the
Sphincter
of
the
Anus
being
notably
dilated
,
a
hard
rough
Body
was
discovered
in
the
Fundament
by
a
Midwife
,
or
some
of
the
officious
Women
there
present
,
who
by
frequently
assaying
,
and
tender
contrectation
thereof
,
made
shift
to
get
out
one
of
these
deformed
Stones
(
more
friable
then
the
other
two
)
by
fracture
and
piece-meal
,
and
then
forthwith
sent
to
me
to
hasten
to
be
a
spectator
of
this
monstrous
Birth
.
No
sooner
had
I
entred
the
House
,
sounding
with
the
exclamation
of
the
Neighbours
,
but
I
was
presented
with
some
fragments
of
an
Exotick
matter
,
which
I
beheld
not
without
just
admiration
.
This
(
quoth
some
of
them
)
is
nothing
in
comparison
of
what
is
behinde
,
wherefore
we
desire
you
to
meet
another
Doctor
and
Surgeon
tomorrow
morning
about
nine
of
the
clock
;
which
I
easily
assented
to
in
such
a
difficult
case
,
both
for
instruction
,
and
also
the
evasion
of
slanderous
tongues
,
which
I
knew
had
much
partial
respect
for
this
safe
Galenist
they
sent
for
,
that
could
(
if
she
miscarried
)
maintain
it
Cum
Privilegio
.
The
next
morning
I
precisely
observed
the
time
appointed
,
waiting
three
hours
for
his
Worship
,
but
neither
he
nor
the
Surgeon
coming
,
I
thought
good
to
take
my
leave
,
and
to
resign
her
up
to
whom
they
pleased
;
but
by
perswasion
of
the
Master
of
the
House
,
who
told
me
(
let
the
issue
be
better
or
worse
)
he
would
undertake
to
defend
me
against
the
Galenical
Gang
;
I
fell
to
my
work
,
and
having
taken
a
strict
view
of
the
outward
site
of
the
bigger
of
these
Stones
,
whose
Basis
appeared
every
way
about
an
inch
to
my
eye
;
the
Sphincter
being
much
expanded
through
great
stress
,
I
concluded
that
these
lapideous
Concretions
were
either
to
be
broken
by
a
fit
Instrument
,
and
so
to
be
drawn
out
by
parcels
,
or
to
be
extracted
whole
,
if
it
could
be
done
without
danger
of
lacerating
the
Sphincter
:
To
this
end
I
presently
sent
for
a
plain
Barber
Surgeon
of
the
Town
,
Thomas
Flemmin
,
since
dead
,
whom
I
enjoyned
to
fetch
me
the
strongest
pair
of
Curling-Irons
he
had
,
which
forthwith
done
,
I
directed
him
to
insinuate
and
worm
them
in
between
the
Sphincter
and
the
Stone
,
to
lay
fast
hold
,
and
to
try
whether
he
could
turn
it
about
;
which
he
did
artificially
,
and
setting
a
strong
hand
,
pulled
it
out
confidently
in
a
trice
.
The
other
quickly
followed
,
and
the
Patient
was
immediately
freed
from
her
dolorous
condition
,
a
large
quantity
of
Urine
issuing
forth
which
had
been
stopped
nigh
forty
eight
hours
.
After
this
succeed
an
involuntary
flux
of
Excrements
,
through
a
weakness
of
the
Fibres
of
the
Guts
and
Sphincter
violently
distended
,
which
were
at
length
restored
to
their
former
Tone
by
virtue
of
a
Fumigation
which
she
received
,
sitting
over
a
pan
of
quick
coals
.
Thus
was
this
miserable
Virgin
recovered
at
length
from
an
untimely
death
,
by
force
(
under
God
)
of
some
Chymical
Medicines
,
which
may
adde
a
little
to
the
lustre
of
this
useful
Art
:
For
none
but
Remedies
more
potent
then
ordinary
could
have
forced
three
such
petrified
Bodies
of
that
bulk
,
lurking
under
the
left
short
Ribs
,
through
the
manifold
Cells
of
the
Colon
down
to
the
strait
Gut
,
and
so
to
be
voided
.
Ever
since
she
hath
enjoyed
her
health
,
onely
taking
two
or
three
years
(
Spring
and
Fall
)
what
was
requisite
;
and
since
married
an
Inn-keeper
,
Francis
Chatterton
,
living
now
at
Rumford
at
the
Sign
of
the
Dolphin
,
by
whom
she
hath
had
two
Children
.
For
present
satisfaction
take
this
short
Description
of
the
three
Stones
thus
:
Touching
the
first
which
the
Midwife
and
some
others
brake
out
by
their
subtil
working
into
it
with
their
fingers
,
in
my
absence
,
I
cannot
give
that
exact
observation
as
of
these
two
I
have
in
my
own
custody
;
for
they
having
shared
it
amongst
themselves
,
desiring
to
keep
it
for
a
Rarety
,
had
so
dispersed
it
,
that
I
am
not
able
to
set
down
any
certain
Dimensions
of
it
:
but
so
far
as
my
conjecture
can
reach
,
according
to
their
relation
,
it
might
very
well
be
equal
in
quantity
to
the
greatest
of
these
two
,
inclining
to
a
Cylindrical
shape
,
of
a
friable
and
fragile
substance
toward
the
Superficies
,
but
more
tenacious
toward
the
Centre
;
consisting
of
Dissimilar
parts
,
wherein
appeared
many
white
Filaments
like
Alumen
Plumosum
.
The
Cortex
or
outside
was
of
a
Pitchy
colour
,
but
the
innermost
part
brownish
.
The
second
of
the
three
,
and
the
first
of
the
two
which
I
extracted
,
and
now
reserve
by
me
,
is
of
a
Cone-like
Figure
,
broad
beneath
and
sharper
above
,
nigh
three
inches
in
length
,
two
and
a
quarter
in
bredth
abouut
the
Basts
,
one
and
three
quarters
in
the
midst
,
and
somewhat
above
half
an
inch
on
the
top
.
The
outward
coat
covering
the
inward
like
a
bark
,
is
more
compact
,
and
of
a
tartareous
substance
,
partly
blackish
and
partly
mouse
coloured
.
It
hath
four
great
Dokes
in
it
,
two
nigh
the
Basis
,
and
two
nigh
the
cone
,
beside
many
small
ones
,
and
Tortuous
Incisures
.
Under
this
Cortex
lieth
a
Calcarious
matter
,
which
hath
a
small
quantity
of
a
Thready
or
Lanuginous
substance
mixt
with
it
,
tending
to
a
gravel-like
colour
.
It
weigheth
now
not
above
two
ounces
seven
drams
,
being
diminished
and
circumcised
by
those
that
handling
it
have
out
of
curiosity
picked
off
something
considerable
;
and
withall
the
ambient
Air
hath
made
it
somewhat
lighter
,
but
at
first
its
weight
was
much
more
.
The
second
to
this
is
Triangular
,
almost
Equilateral
,
each
side
being
about
two
inches
three
quarters
in
length
,
and
near
two
in
bredth
.
It
s
substance
much
resembles
the
other
,
onely
its
outside
here
and
there
is
softer
to
the
touch
,
feeling
Plushie
like
some
part
of
a
Stags
horn
,
to
which
it
is
like
in
colour
.
In
the
middle
appears
a
harder
Body
dissimilar
from
the
Angles
,
which
seem
to
be
Appendices
to
it
.
In
it
are
some
small
Cavities
,
but
one
very
large
,
like
the
hollow
part
of
that
the
Latines
call
Astragalus
,
an
Huckle-bone
.
It
is
lighter
then
the
other
considering
its
proportion
,
weighing
one
ounce
five
drams
and
a
half
.
We
observed
when
these
Colick-Stones
first
came
to
light
,
that
many
Plum-stones
and
Cherry-stones
lay
couched
in
several
hollow
places
in
them
,
which
had
continued
in
her
Body
about
half
a
year
undissolved
,
appearing
fresh
as
if
they
had
been
newly
swallowed
.
Hereby
the
bulk
of
these
Coagulations
was
encreased
,
that
they
became
more
hard
to
be
precipitated
,
their
unequal
asperities
impeding
their
passage
,
exasperating
and
galling
the
tender
and
most
sensible
Tunicles
of
the
Colon
:
Hence
arose
most
exquisite
Dolours
,
which
this
poor
wretch
underwent
for
several
dayes
,
which
would
undoubtedly
have
destroyed
her
,
had
not
her
Vital
Spirits
been
lenified
,
appeased
,
and
supported
by
some
Spagyrical
Cordials
that
were
most
amicable
to
them
.
Throughout
the
whole
course
of
the
Disease
,
I
avoided
Cooling
Iuleps
,
Barley
Liquors
,
ordinary
Opiates
,
or
any
common
papaverous
Preparation
of
the
Galenists
,
which
would
have
brought
Nature
into
a
nummed
and
drowsie
condition
,
and
so
have
made
it
supine
in
the
Expulsion
of
these
Hostile
Guests
,
that
had
taken
such
firm
possession
in
the
Colon
to
its
utter
ruine
.
I
make
no
question
but
a
Dogmatist
would
presently
without
any
scruple
(
being
confirmed
by
those
Indications
there
present
to
which
they
severely
adhere
)
have
first
Bled
her
perhaps
two
or
three
times
,
under
the
notion
of
a
Pleurisie
,
then
Expectorated
her
with
their
nasty
slaps
;
but
failing
here
would
have
given
her
Laudanum
for
the
mitigation
of
her
intollerable
pains
;
and
so
bringing
her
into
an
everlasting
sleep
,
have
sent
these
remarkable
Coagulations
into
the
Grave
with
her
unseen
.
This
Tragical
History
ending
Comically
,
I
have
here
communicated
to
the
World
,
that
it
may
be
allured
to
become
a
Phylo-Chymist
,
and
understand
the
insufficiency
of
Galenical
Preparations
to
help
in
extremity
;
and
to
encourage
all
Ingenious
and
Industrious
Artists
in
their
labours
;
that
such
a
Litho-tribon
,
or
Break-stone
Arcanum
may
be
attained
,
that
hath
power
to
dissolve
the
Stone
even
in
the
Bladder
,
without
direful
Cystotomy
.
To
conclude
,
I
shall
hereafter
(
if
God
permit
)
give
you
a
fuller
and
larger
account
of
this
Colick
Duelech
,
with
some
other
unusual
Observations
,
collected
in
eighteen
years
diligent
study
and
Practice
;
and
shall
likewise
give
you
my
thoughts
of
Splenotomy
,
or
exection
of
the
Spleen
out
of
a
living
Dog
,
his
life
preserved
:
which
I
can
(
absit
jactantia
)
vindicate
to
be
the
first
that
made
any
sound
and
notable
trial
thereof
in
Europe
known
publickly
,
although
some
of
our
Galenical
Anatomists
have
very
unhandsomly
assumed
the
Credit
of
it
to
themselves
.
In
the
mean
time
make
good
use
of
this
here
delivered
,
and
be
grateful
to
the
most
High
if
thou
reapest
any
benefit
thereby
.
The
Stones
before
spoken
of
are
in
the
Authors
keeping
,
at
his
Lodgings
near
to
the
Blue
Boar
Inne
without
Allgate
;
where
any
Ingenious
Person
that
desires
to
be
further
satisfied
concerning
them
,
may
be
freely
admitted
to
see
them
.
FINIS
.
Errata
.
PAg.
2.
line
28.
read
their
.
pag.
42.
l.
1.
read
Hermaphroditical
.
p.
60.
l.
3.
r.
profligating
.
p.
62.
l.
1.
r.
Perittomata
p.
63
l
27.
for
magnetick
read
specifick
.
p.
68
l.
15.
r.
comparison
.
p.
74.
l.
14.
1.
Affects
.
p.
77.
l.
8.
r.
precipitates
.
p.
92.
l
7.
r.
Coindications
.