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A28877	An examination of Mr. John Colbatch his books viz. I. Novum lumen chirurgicum, II. Essay of alkalies and acids, III. An appendix to that essay, IV. A treatise of the gout, V. The doctrin of acids further asserted &c. VI. A relation of a person bitten by a viper &c. : to which is added an answer to Dr. Leigh's remarks on a treatise concerning, the heat of the blood : together with remarks on Dr. Leigh's book intituled Exercitationes quinq. ... : as also a short view of Dr. Leigh's reply to Mr. Colbatch &c. / by Richard Boulton of Brazen-nose College in Oxford.	Boulton, Richard, b. 1676 or 7.	1698 (1698)	Wing B3829; ESTC R35778	144,987	324

strong Poyson Now by the former of these Authors it is asserted to be an Oyly Acid and by the latter who was a profound Judicious Man it is affirmed for the most Part to be a Mineral Sulphur from which two according to Page the 7. of his own Appendix it is proved to be an Acid because he there Classes all Balsams and Sulphurs amongst Acids so that all the Prejudice that a Sublimed Acid can do may be done by Mr. John Colbatch his Acid. From Page the 21 to the 25. He reckons up all the good Effects of Oyl of Vitriol but mentions not the Mischief that might be done with it which is a great deal more for it corrodes and eats away the Flesh causes an intolerable Heat Page the 28 He says As for Balsams if I should take upon me to describe their Excellencies it would be fitter for a Volum than an Appendix but if he had cast out a great deal of his stuff that he hath put in and which was brought in by the Head and Shoulders and hath no Relation to his Discourse only to fill it up he might have had room enough for Balsams which makes me believe he had very little towards a great Volum From Page the 39 to 71. He lays down several Objections to shew that he cannot Answer them and that it may appear he hath not done it I shall take notice of them in that Order he has laid them The first Objection is how comes it to pass those People that live upon nothing almost but highly Salted Meat are more troubled with the Scurvey To this he Answers That it is not because they eat more Salt but because they eat more Flesh than other People which abounds with Alkalious Particles and as for the Sea Salt is most carried off by Urin. But to this I answer that if it were not the Acid Sea Salt then fresh Beef would sooner create the Scurvey than Salt because according to him it being Alkalious altogether and not being tempered with the Sea Salt it would increase the Alkalies of the Blood I think more But for my Part I am sure Beef is nothing like an Alkaly for as much as I and all the World besides can discern it abounding with a sweet Balsamick Juice the Mass of Blood but that Mass of Blood abounds with Alkaly he 'll say but then he must remember what he said the seventh Page of his Appendix viz. that all oleaginous Balsamicks are to be reckoned amongst Acids and then it will follow that the Taste of the Blood being sweet and Balsamic it must be reckoned amongst Acids so that our Quick-sighted Reformer of Physick hath once more contradicted himself But suppose Beef to be Alkaly it will be no more for his purpose because Page 59 of his Essay he says that a Mixture of Acids with Alkaly causes a Coagulation so that Acid and Alkaly thus carried into the Blood together must thicken the Blood but then that this Distemper may by all means proceed from Alkaly he will suppose the Accid to run off by Urin stil he is never the better for in that same Page of his Essay it appears that as long as the Alkaly is not mixed with Acid there is no Coagulation till it is impregnated by drinking Wine from whence it appears that if the Acid were so carryed off there would be no such Coagulation in Scrobutic Serum Having shewn how he contradicts himself backwards and forwards in Answer to this first Objection I shall pass to the second The second Objection is how it comes to pass that when the Stomach abounds with Acids the Blood does not He Answers The meat we eat being dissolved by a Spirituous Acid Juice it is turned into a Substance for the Nutrition of our Bodies and that this in People that live a Sedentary Life lying too long in the Stomach is turned Acid But this is no Answer to the Question it only tells us how the Stomach becomes full of Acids but how comes it to pass then that when the Stomach is emptyed of this Acid stuff part of it is not squeezed through the Lacteals into the Blood Truly he can give no Reason for it so that the Blood must needs according to the course and tendency of Chyle be tainted with that Acidity The third Objection is That this Acid being kept from going into the Blood would according to him prevent Distempers He Answers That People who are troubled with Acidity in their Stomach make great quantities of Water are very lean and costive which he will prove to be because Acids are not carried into the Blood And first when we make Water much the attenuated Chyle runs off by Vessels which carry it from the Stomach to the Kidneys through the Omentum which prevents it from going into the Blood And from Page 39 to the 40 he would suggest that there are such Vessels for it to pass off by Secondly the Reason why People are so lean is because the Acid Chyle so diluted is carried off and the Oyly Particles of the Blood want Acid to thicken them and to turn them into Fat. Thirdly the Reason why they are costive is because so much Moisture turning off by Urin the excrements are hardned and the Guts want Moisture to Lubricate them To this Objection he gives no direct Answer no not so much as a false one for what he offers for an Answer is so far from being one that it has not the least Relation to the Objection as he explains it for the Objection relates to Distempers in the Blood whereas as he explains those three Phaenomena they are not Distempers of the Blood for he makes Acidity in the Stomach the Cause of too much Urin and of Costiveness and as for Leanness the more Oyly and Sulphureous the Blood is the Fatter is the Body and according to him in the beginning of this Appendix Page the 7th the more Acid it is and consequently cannot find any Inconveniency by his new Reason of making too much Water for though the Acids run off by Urin and never come into the Blood yet since the Blood abounds with Fat Particles accoding to him it would not want Acids But as I have often taken notice of him already so I may still that Contradictions and Incoherency are natural to him and we may expect nothing else from him but I shall not only shew how that his Answer is not direct to the Objection but that he explains those Symptoms he mentions very falsely And first the Reason why People who have Acidity on their Stomachs make much Water cannot be because the Acid Chyle is carried off by such Passages as he supposes because there are no such Passages to be discovered for not all the Anatomists nor Glasses could ever as yet discern the least Foot-steps of them and if there were such Vessels as he supposes to convey so much Urin into the Bladder they must be of a considerable size

the Body Sweat c. may be said not to be Excrements of the Body but of the Blood but that Sweat and Tears are not Alkalies but Acids any Body that hath acquaintance with Mr. Colbatch's Goddess Angerona may taste Tears evidently tasting Salt and likewise when People sweat much their Sweat does not only taste Salt but People that work hard have a strong sowre Smell about them when their Heads sweat much which are sufficient proofs that Mr. Colbatch is mistaken and Angerona hath done him very little Service Thus I have gone through all that Mr. Colbatch hath said relating to the cause of the Gout from which I think I have made it plain that in every particular he is egregiously mistaken and I have not only shewed that he is mistaken but that what he alledges in his own Defence is strong Proof against him and I have also added a great many plain and obvious Observations whereby it is manifest how little he understands what he hath gone about and as he hath oft been bold to tell Learned Men they grope in the Dark so it now appears how miserably he is lost in it which I hope is so evident that Gentlemen will be no longer imposed upon by him tho he make his Pretences with never so much Impudence since the Method he takes is so pernicious and as I have shewed from his own words increases the Distemper and procrastinates its Cure CHAP. IV. Contains Remarks on his Second Chapter HAving thus run over what he has said in his first Chapter concerning the Gout and shewed upon what false Conclusions he has grounded his Method of Practice for want of Judgment to understand those Experiments he made and what gross and erroneous Accounts he hath given of the Abuse of Non-Naturals I say having so fairly detected his Grand Mistakes and so plainly made it appear that he hath not only very short but false Notions of things and having all along laid him open so fairly to the View of Mankind that they may discern his very Essentials to be nothing but Mistakes Blunders Oversights Pretence Impudence and Inconsistency I might spare my self the Trouble of going any farther in laying open his intolerable Absurdities it being certain that whatever is built upon such false Bottoms must not only be very false but dangerous to Mankind and of very ill consequence but since I have gone so far with no other design but to lay open his Faults the clearer that Gentlemen might be forewarned how much they hazard their Health if not their Lives by putting themselves in such Hands so that they may be if possible more fully convinced what danger they lay themselves open to by so doing I shall for their further satisfaction shew them the ill Consequences of his Practice by laying open its Faults there committed The remaining part of his Book is made up of three parts the first he calls the Dietetick Cure the second is levelled against Rational Practice and the third is to lay open his own ill Practice which I shall examine in the order he hath laid them in and first I shall observe his wonderful Dietetick Rules Where First He says Page 44. It is said by some Body that plus Aere quam cibo vivimus we live more by Air than Meat and that Air doth assist in the Nutrition of Animal Bodies the famous Instance of Vipers so well known is sufficient to evince for let a young Viper be put into a Glass Receiver and let the Receiver be covered over with a Bladder with holes pricked in it and the Viper will become as large and fat as if it were in the open Fields What the design of this part of his Dieteticks is he best knows I for my part can't tell what he would have by his instance we live more by Air than Meat except he would have People to eat no Meat but gape for Wind continually but why breathing of Air is so necessary I have elsewhere shewed in my Treatise of the Heat of the Blood and of the Use of the Lungs and that People cannot live without Meat a little Experience tells them But he hath given an Instance of a Viper that does not only live without Meat but grows fat but to what purpose does he mention this except he would persuade his Patients they can live better without Meat than with it sure he would not persuade his Gouty Patients to be closed up in Receivers as the Viper was but if he would they are a little too cunning for him yet I doubt not and how much soever he can impose upon them with his Medicines they will sooner be pinned up in a Coffin by his Medicines than closed in a Glass Receiver to suck Air till he hath been in it himself Page 45. He says People who are troubled with the Gout should endeavour to live in a clear and most serene Air that possibly they can and avoid that which is thick and foggy and full of Extraneous Particles That a clear Air is better than a foggy one is no news of his finding out it being always delivered in Dietetick Rules but would he have Gentlemen to overrun their Countries Should they go into France or some warmer Country perhaps they would be less troubled with it but this is such a piece of old Advice that few can take and therefore he might have left it in those Books he found it in where it was deliver'd with Judgment and Learning All that he further says from Page 46. to 50 is but a Reduction to six Heads what in the Chapter before to make his Hydra more formidable he extended to Eleventhly and as what was there contained was so many Blunders and Marks of his Ignorance in reckoning up the Misuses of Non-Naturals so here he repeats those Faults in less compass and extenuated by extending them only in falsely and as simply prescribing Non-Naturals which tho he had the Dieteticks of Judicious and Learned Men writ ready to his Hand yet fancying himself a great and able Man he must needs mould them anew and turn them into his own simple Form that he might interpose two or three Sentences to recommend the use of Acids but I having already shew'd the dangerous Consequences of the use of Acids and that even according to his own supposition viz. that the Blood would be coagulated by the use of Acids and consequently the Distemper increased I hope Gentlemen will be so cautious of their own Safety as not to be misguided by such a Man who throughout his Book hath so egregiously given us lasting Patterns of his Ignorance CHAP. V. Contains Remarks on his Third Chapter I Come now to his Third Chapter which is irrationally levelled against all judicious and experienced Practice where from Page 50 to 58. he hath set down a Method which was taken with Sir J. G. and Page 58. He says Instead of being any way serviceable it exasperated the Symptoms But I here

Transpiration is stop'd But the wonderful Discoveries of this Mr. Colbatch are not a little to be Admired For he is the first Man that ever perceived the Devil to appear in the shape of the Gout I heard indeed when I was a Boy that the Devil was to be distinguished from a Man by a great Cloven Foot but I could never have thought that Mr. Colbatch would have compared his Gouty Patients to so many Devils except he had Dream't he was a Physician to such before he wrote this Page in his Book He says The Wisest Magicians being not able to cure the Gout was the occasion of that Saying Solvere Nodosam nescit Medicina Podagram But why they should say Physicians cannot Cure the Gout because Magicians cannot I see not any Reason except a Physician and a Magician are equally the same Page 23. But this is one of those Devils which are not to be cast out but by Prayer and Fasting that is Nature her self without help is not able to get the Mastery of it to rid her self from it It seems it is a Devil in earnest and truly I believe they are worse than Possest that make Use of such a Physician but he hath too soon concluded that this kind is to be cured by Prayer and Fasting I scarce think he ever cured any by such Prescriptions And I cannot but admire what a pretty sort of a Divine he would have made who hath such an excellent knack at interpreting Scripture who calls Prayer and Fasting Nature Page 24. Nature hath hitherto been rather Oppressed than Assisted this Hydra being not to be overcome but by pouring in of fresh Battallions armed with pointed Spears and Launces upon him viz by giving large Quantities of Medicines whose Particles are pointed O what a strange Metamorphosis The Devil is turned Hydra And what 's more ingenious Gentlemen must swallow whole Battallions of Armed Men with pointed Spears and Launces Truly a hard Task and a very strong Prescription this sure was a Dream in Flanders where he had reason to think of such terrible Medicines but he unriddles this and calls Acids Armed Men and Spears and really not without reason but Gentlemen have reason to fear that such pointed Medicines would rather increase than ease their Pains since I have shewed them what ill effects Vinegar hath when applied to any Sensible part Page 24. Secondly The use of many sorts of Meat and the too great Ingurgitation of them and then he says The Stomach being put out of order a foundation is laid for Distempers and for that reason Page 25. he says As his Predecessors have explained Distempers by Acids so he will by Alkalies A very noble design and upon very good Grounds but it were unreasonable for either him or his Predecessors to ascribe Acids or Alkalies for the Cause of Distempers merely because the Stomach was foul but he ought first to consider whether of these two were predominant in the Stomach when the foundation of such Distempers was laid which is the way to make it appear whether Alkaly or Acid be the cause of that Distemper So that in order to a right knowledge whether of these two are predominant we are to consider how Digestion is carried on naturally and then it will appear what is the reason that two much Meat hinders it I shall not here go about to explain Digestion any further than is necessary to our present Purpose and shall therefore refer the Reader to his own Observation who cannot but take notice that the better his Meat and Drink is the better he digests it if what Mr. Colbatch says were true in his Novum Lumen Chirurgicum viz. The more generous our Drink is the better so that were he to be judged by his own Words which I have shewed how far they are false Indigestion when we eat too much must proceed from the Fermentation in the Stomach being too low and consequently Crudities or raw undigested Chyle must be carried into the Blood to lay the Grounds of a Distemper now in all Crudities it must needs be acknowledged that Acids abound so that according to Mr. Colbatch his own canting Scraps of Philosophy there wants Alkalies to break the Globules and consequently the Gout must proceed from too much Acids Page 25. he says The same Alkaly which being thrown upon the Joints cause the Gout being thrown upon the Membranes of the Brain may cause a Staggering and may occasion an Apoplexy Really since Mr. Colbatch said it it is very much to be wondered at that Alkalies should be so mischievous as to coagulate the Morbifick Matter of the Gout and cause Apoplexies and yet in the Small Pox break Globules and be guilty of a contrary mischief by thining the Blood and throwing it out through Vessels through which it was before too fine to pass but any thing that 's mischievous hath such a kindness for him that it will be black or white as he wou'd have it otherwise one would think to thin and to thicken are widely different Actions for Alkalies to do but I have before shewn the Absurdities of what he said as to these Distempers and shall not now enlarge upon them The remaining part of Page 25. and Page 26. he fills with a Repetition of an Account he formerly gave of the Reason why drinking Wine does Men that are inclined to the Gout so much harm which I having in his Chapter of the Gout published in his Essay of Acids and Alkalies and also in this shew'd to prove that the Gout proceeds from Acids there is no need to repeat what I there said Again Page 27. He says Fourthly The immoderate use of Venereal Exercises every Body experiences that by a few Venereal Embraces his Spirits become more Languid Poor Man one may see what comfort his poor Wife hath if he hath one if he hath not one may learn how he came to be so compassionate to Angelick Faces in the Small-Pox he speaks so sensible in the case but he says every Body experiences it truly then the World is worse than I thought it had been for one might reasonably expect a Boy at Ten had never experienced such things but one may see he begun to enervate himself betimes But to be serious If Alkalies were the cause of the Gout then Venery would cure the Gout because it draws off the Alkalies of the Blood and Spirits by taking away those parts that invigorate the heat of the Blood but since taking away Alkalies makes Men subject to the Gout by leaving the Blood weak and flaggy it follows that the Gout proceeds from Acids which always most abound in Blood that is least Spiritous as more in Old People than Young Page 27. Few or none are ever troubled with the Gout before Marriage or the use of Venery and yet the Roman Priests who abjure Matrimony are frequently troubled with this Distemper O strange What a mighty stickler for the Church of England That only