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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62433	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.	1665 (1665)	Wing T1023; ESTC R33830	49,948	138

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