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A31225	The chymical Galenist a treatise, wherein the practise of the ancients is reconcild́ to the new discoveries in the theory of physick, shewing that many of their rules, methods, and medicins, are useful for by George Castle ...	Castle, George, 1635?-1673.	1667 (1667)	Wing C1233; ESTC R21752	90,129	232

or Jugler can cure them The time and motion of a Disease are of so great moment in the giving of Physick that the very same Remedy which sav'd a mans Life to day may in the same Disease at a different time kill another to morrow Physitians have taken great pains in distinguishing the times of Diseases and proportioning Rules and Remedies to them The Learned Dr. Willis W●llis de Feb. c. 10. in his Book De Febribus tells us of what grand Importance the consulting of the Pulse and Urine is in putrid continual Feavers and clearly Demonstrates That the Administration of Vomits Purgers Sweaters Cordials or Narcoticks without observance of due Directions taken from them is of so dangerous Consequence as that any of these Medicins unseasonably given will cause or hasten the death of the Patient Willis de Feb. c. 11. In the 11 Chapter the Doctor is very careful to set down what is to be done in the several times of the Disease That in the Augment both Purgers and Sweaters which make too great a disturbance in the blood are as dang●rous and destructive as blasts of wind are to a House whose Rafters are all in a flame and in the State the motion of Nature is to be watched nothing is unadvisedly to be attempted Blood-letting and strong Purgations are altogether forbidden No● is there only a necessity of consulting a Learned Physitian in Diseases which are Acute but even in those which are Chronical nay inasmuch as Agues in which Empirical Remedies carry the Vogue Can any Cure certainly be effected except the very Tools of the Mountebanks be managed by a judicious hand For in Tertians Plaisters to the Wrists Breast and other parts seldom stop the Fit except Purging or Vomiting or if it be required Bleeding has first with judgment been used as Dr. Willis observes and I have found most true by daily experience Willis de Feb. c. 4. Quotidians and Quartans require much more skill in the management of them there being several more intentions to be driven at than in Tertians which require a rational Artist to apprehend and prosecute I might run through all the Diseases in mans Body and quote all the Cautions in Ludovicus Septalius and others to be used in the Cure of them to farther evince That Learning and Art are much more requisite to the preserving and restoring of Health than affected Ignorance and impudent Pretensions to Secrets and Revelations which are not at all in Nature But having proved at large That the Learned Physitians have been the only Improvers of the Art of Physick That the great Improvements in Physick have been upon the Score of the Discoveries in Anatomy That skill in Anatomy is most necessary to the understanding and cure of Diseases That Chymistry has been rendred serviceable to Physick only by the rational Physitian and Philosopher That Medicins are often spoiled by Chymical preparations That Chymical Medicins by the confession of the best Chymists are to be used with method and are dangerous in the hands of unskilful men That the Books of Chymists cannot be relied upon because they are obscure and unfaithful That the bragging of Pseude-Chymists can much less be credited That it is not easie for them to experiment Medicins nor invent new ones That Physick cannot be administred without the evident destruction of mens Lives except the Physitian understand the Nature and Force of the Remedy the Constitution and Strength of the Patient the Nature and Motion of the Disease Having I say prov'd these particulars I have answered all the grounds upon which M. N. pleads for a Liberty in the profession of Physick and moreover Demonstrated That that Liberty tends as little to the good of Mankind as a Pestilence War or what is most destructive to the Safety and Being of Humane Nature CHAP. II. IN his second Chapter M.N. pretends to prove That there is so great an alteration in the Diseases of this present time from what they were in former as to make void and useless the whole Art of Physick deliver'd down to us from the Antients But I do not question to make it appear That the difference in Diseases both in relation to time and place is not so great as he would make it nor so considerable but that a rational Physitian may make very good use of their Methods Rules and Medicins in the Time and Countrey wherein we live I do not at all question that Diseases here in England are something different from those of the same kind in Greece Italy France and Spain and that they may in some particulars vary from the Descriptions left us by the Antients by reason that the Countries wherein they liv'd and made their Observations have a very different influence upon the Bodies and Constitutions of the Inhabitants of those parts from what ours have upon us But that the Variety is to be ascribed to the alteration in time rather than the difference of Climate and Dyet I very much doubt I think it no very absurd thing to believe That Diseases here in England observed the same motions and afflicted men with the same Symptoms which now they do even in the time of Hippocrates or Galen only allowing that some Chronical Distempers may be somewhat altered by the change of ou● way of living and Dyet which being now more delicate soft and luxurious must be confessed to render our Bodies more obnoxious to Infirmities than the wholsom plainness of our rough Ancestors But as to Epidemical Diseases I suppose that then as now they differ'd almost every Year according to the variety of the weather and temperature of the seasons and according to the impressions which the excess of the qualities of the several Years made upon the blood no less in their times than ours their Epidemical Feavers were accompanied with odd and new Symptoms I know well the French Disease is since come in upon us from America but that there is no body now free from a spice of it and that it bears a great share in all Distempers I have so much respect for my Countrey and Mankind as to think That no man but M. N. will assert who I suppose measures every mans body by his own and like an Icterical man sees all Objects yellow because his own eyes are of that colour As to his instance in Agues which he sayes give the greatest bafflle to Physitians I suppose those baffled persons to be men of his Rank and Ability in Physick For I have found it by sundry Experiments to be most true That a Tertian may be cured as easily and constantly as any other Disease if a right method be observ'd before the blood be too much depraved by ill Diet or unseasonable Physick The Author of Medela could not have pitched upon a Disease more unluckily for himself there being no Distemper which suits more exactly with the descriptions of the ancient Physitians than this As for the authority of

much bent or stretched that the Hand be not sustained by the Patients own strength lest it tremble and alter the pulse and then that the Physitian is to try the difference of holding the Wrist upward or downward or Sidewayes and that he must have frequently accustom'd himself to try the pulses of men in health and if it can be done to learn what sort of pulse his Patient had when his Body was in good order From these and several other Cautions given by the Learned it appears That though the Ancients held the Doctrine of Pulses to be of great concern in the curing of Diseases yet they apprehended many difficulties in giving an infallible determination of their significations and they seem no more to have believ'd that every rude hand which can only scribble an ill Book could pass a true Judgment upon the Pulse than a wise man will credit the Fortune which is told him by a Gypsie which sort of Vagabonds by the way are reckoned up by Camerarius in his Catalogue of Mountebanks and Empericks And truly I think with good reason for their Predictions are as much to be relied upon as M. N's Physick and therefore they may be both well ranked together since he and they though by different methods drive at the same end for as they with their Pedlers French and crossing the hand he with his Pox and Canting amuses the credulous Vulgar that he may with the less suspition prosecute his grand design upon their Pockets I will now conclude and dismiss the Author of Medela whose Book though very slight and trivial I have all along in this Treatise taken notice of for that it pretends to argue from the new Discoveries which have been made of late in Physick and from I know not what imaginary change in the nature of all Diseases that the old way of Physick in respect of Method and Medicins is become insufficient and uselesse and therefore the fundamentals of it to be demolished and a ridiculous Chimaera of his own substituted in their room Whereas the modern Discoveries in Anatomy and Chymistry are so far from destroying the Practice and Method of the Ancients that they very firmly corroborate and establish their Doctrines by furnishing us with the true reasons of those Processes and Methods which were delivered down to us from them only upon their experience and knowledge of the matter of Fact though they were ignorant of the true causes Thus we know the Ligature in letting of blood was alwayes used by the Chyrurgions though the reason of it was never understood before the Circulation of the blood was discovered Most of the Doctrines in the Therapeutick part of Physick are like this founded upon experience and therefore the improvements in the Physiology and Pathology of that Art will not as M. N. would have it destroy but illustrate them Wherefore in the reforming of Physick and suiting an Institution to the late Discoveries in Anatomy and Chymistry care must be taken that we imitate wise and thrifty Builders who in raising a new House in the place of an old one which they have pull'd down make use of many of the old substantial Materials some of which are often much the better for their age FINIS THE CONTENTS CHAP. I. THat it does not follow from the new Discoveries in the Theory of Physick that a Liberty should be allowed in the practice of it pag. 1 2 The Rational Physitians have been the only Improvers of the Art pag. 3 The great Improvements of Physick have been from the late Discoveries in Anatomy Pag. 4 The true Causes of Diseases are to be learn't from Anatomical Inquiries Pag. 5 A Man is as Mechanically made as a Watch or any other Automaton Pag. 5 6 Diseases are the Disorders of the Springs and Engins of the Body Pag. 7 8 The difference between a dead and living Man according to Des-Cartes Pag. 9 Chymistry has been made useful to Medicine only by the Rational Physitians and Philolosophers Pag. 10 Chymical Medicins are not always to be prefer'd before the tryed Remedies of the shops Pag. 10 11 Some Medicins spoil'd by Chymical Preparations ib. The virtue of some Remedies does not lodge in any of the Chymical Principles but results from the determinate Structure of the whole Concrete pag. 12 13 The Powders of Pearl Coral and Harts-horn are to be prefer'd before the Magisteries and the Reasons why pag. 13 14 Crato 's Character of Paracelsus ib. He often reduced slight Distempers to dangerous and mortal Diseases pag. 15 He was notwithstanding his great Remedies very unhealthful himself and liv'd not beyond 47 years ib. The Chymists are unfaithful and obscure in their Writings pag. 16 Maxims and Remedies which are established by long Experience are not to be rejected for their unexperimented Medicins pag. 17 Ignorant Men are not to be allowed to use the best Chymical Medicins pag. 18 The Opinions of Beguinus and Libavius as to that point pag. 18 19 The nature and force of Remedies is known only from Experience pag. 19 20 Most of them were at first found out by Chance or learnt from wild Beasts pag. 20 21 Those Medicins which have been found out by the Enquiries of the Smell and Taste or resolving of Bodies into their Principles could not be relied upon till they were established by Experience ib. The Salts Sulphurs and Mercuries of Bodies are believed by Chymists and Physitians to differ specifickly one from the other pag. 21 22 Medicins cannot be invented ib. Some Instances of Murders committed by Mountebanks and ignorant Persons by giving those Medicins whose virtue and force they understood not pag. 22 23 24 25 The danger of Antimony not well prepar'd ib. The mixing of things which are harmless may sometimes produce a poys●n ib. The strength and constitution of the sick person ought to be understood by every man who gives Physick pag. 24 25 Mercurius dulcis hurtful to some Constitutions and the reason why pag. 26 The Disease and the Motion and Times of it are to be understood by every Man who gives Physick pag. 27 The Inference pag. 30 CHAP. II. DIseases in England not much altered since the time of Hippocrates and Galen pag. 32 Epidemical Diseases then as well as now differed almost every Year pag. 32 Agnes answer very exactly the Descriptions of the Ancients pag. 33 The Quotation out of Sennertus is misunderstood by M. N. pag. 33 34 Blood-letting justified in putrid Fevers ib. And sometimes when the Vrin is thick and red pag. 34 35 Dr. Willis his Opinion as to Blood-letting in putrid Fevers pag. 35 36 The Scurvy anciently Endemial to Brittany and other Northern Maritim Countries pag. 37 It is the same with the Stomacace and Scelotyrbe of Pliny The Britannica of Pliny was Scurvy-grass pag. 38 Sennertus his Opinion as to this Case ib. The Nature of the Scurvy according to Senrertus and Dr. Willis It consists in the Saline Dyscrasie of the mass of blood