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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

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