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A50420	Moffet-well, or, A topographico-spagyricall description of the minerall wells, at Moffet in Annandale of Scotland translated, and much enlarged, by the author Matthew Mackaile ... ; as also, The oyly-well, or, A topographico-spagyricall description of the oyly-well, at St. Catharines Chappel in the paroch of Libberton ; to these is subjoyned, A character of Mr. Culpeper and his writings, by the same author.; Fons Moffetensis. English	Mackaile, Matthew, fl. 1657-1696.	1664 (1664)	Wing M148; ESTC R17306	83,120	201

62.4 Married Cephas John 1.42 A stone Dan Gen. 30.6 A judgment El-beth-el Gen. 35.7 Elymas Acts 13.8 A Sorcerer Ephraim Gen. 41.52 Fruitfull Gad Gen. 30.11 A troup or band Hephzibah Isaiah 62.4 My delight in her Ichabod 1 Sam. 4.21 Where is the glory Jedidiah 2 Sam. 12.24,25 Beloved of the Lord. Jerubbaal Judg. 6.32 Let Baal avenge Joseph Gen. 30.24 Increasing Issachar Gen. 30.18 An hire Ishmael Gen. 16.11 God hath beard Israel Gen. 32.28 A prevailing with God Levi Gen. 29.36 Joyned Loammi Hos 1.9 Not my people Loruhamah Hos 1.6 Not having obtained mercy Melchizedeck Gen. 14.18 and Heb. 7.2 King of righteousness and peace Moses Exod. 2.10 Drawn out Naphtali Gen. 30.8 Wrestling Seth Gen 24.25 Simeon Gen. 29.33 Hearing Zebulun Gen. 30.20 Dwelling Moreover the pious and learned Interpreters being most zealous to advance the knowledge of God and of the Scriptures did upon the margents of many Bibles set down the interpretations of the most part of the proper names I shall only add that Mr. Culpeper his censure of those Chapters in the Chronicles savoureth of no less presumptuous impiety than first the taxing of Almighty God His Wisdom and Will in not authorizing the holy Pen-men of the Scriptures to explicat all the proper names as they did the most considerable Secondly that he would have had the Interpreters to have added unto the Scriptures the explications of those proper names which are not explicat in the original text by doing of which they should have made themselves the object of that dreadfull threatning Revel 22.18 As for that expression of his Whole sentences in Scripture are so translated that it would make a man sick to see them I shall only say this of it that no ingenuous and rational man would have so impudently asserted so great a paradox and untruth without instancing some particular sentence for proving of his assertion It is one of Mr. Culpeper his own physical sentences that physick without a reason is like a pudding without fat the like whereof may very well be said of this his extravagant assertion destitute of probation It is admirable that Mr. Culpeper who in his Epistle prefixed to his Translation of the London Dispensatory assumeth unto himself fellowship with Christ and his Apostles and likeness to God did not take the pains to translate or correct some of those Scriptures which he reprehended But his surviving wife in her Epistle prefixed to his Treatise of Aurum potabile seemeth to give a sufficient reason for this omission in these words My husband left seventy nine books of his own making or translating in my hands Also my Husband left seventeen books compleatly perfected in the hands of Mr. Cole for which he payed my Husband in his life-time Let the sober and judicious Reader judge of the probability of this considering that he had not above nine years for this work and his astrological studies also for he began not to write till the year 1648. or 1649. and he died 1654. or 1655. and whether or not many books have been printed in his name since his death which were not written some years after the same particularly that book entituled Arts Master-piece or the beautifying part of physick whereby all defects of nature in both sexes are amended age renewed youth continued and all imperfections fairly remedied Never before extant though long since promised by Mr. Nic. Culpeper but now published by B. T. Doctor in physick London printed 1660. Concerning this book I have these six things to acquaint you with 1. That it is most probable Mr. Culpeper never wrote it else his Relict had published it as she hath done other books since his death 2. The publisher of it in the Title-page putteth B. T. for his name but at the end of his Epistle to all truly virtuous Ladies ●e setteth L. D. which discrepancy reflecteth not a little upon the Publisher as well as upon the Printer 3. In the Title-page he affirmeth these Experiments to be so far discovered that every man may be his own Apothecary but it is most probable that the Penner of them was as ignorant of the knowledge of that ingenious art as a Mole is destitute of the visible faculty for pag. 71. he ordereth the making of an Oyntment without Oyl or any unctuous liquid body 4. Many if not the most part of the prescriptions contain 1. either such things as are most costly as that Oyntment pag. 70. to cause a beard for the making of which he prescribeth three ounces of Musk. 2. Or such things as cannot easily be gotten as pag. 71. the blood of a Batt for making of an Oyntment for hindering the growth of hair And pag. 73. the turd of a Mole for making of another Oyntment to the same purpose And pag. 77. the blood of a Tortoise for making an Oyntment to take away the hair 3. Or else such things as are ridiculous because not seconded with reason As pag. 79. the Gall of a white Ox for making of a liniment to whiten the hair as if the Gall of a red or black Ox would not serve as well And pag. 100 Grass-plantane the rine taken off and washt nine dayes in spring water for making an oyntment for leprous faces Those nine dayes of purification might be sufficient for bleetching both the herb and the face into other colours 5. Frustra sit per plura quod fieri potest per pauciora That is there might be from amongst the Tautological farrago of those prescriptions some few composed of the choicest simples for every several distemper there mentioned which would prove more usefull than any of these which are so confusedly set down 6. The book is no wayes answerable to its promising Title-page which may give just ground to suspect that the effects of those remedies will be as disproportionable to the expence that men must be at in trying of the experiments It is a most infallible token of ignorance cheating and foolish ostentation for a man to prefix a most flourishing Title-page to his book which doth scarcely deserve any at all such as is that book entituled A discovery of subterraneal treasure viz. of all manner of Mines and Minerals from the Gold to the Coal with plain directions and rules for the finding of them in all Kingdoms and Countries And also the art of melting refining and essaying of them is plainly declared so that every man that is indifferently capacious may with small charge presently try the value of such eares as shall be found either by rule or by accident As also a way to try what colour any berry leaf flower stalk root fruit seed bark or wood will give with a perfect way to make colours that they shall not stain nor fade like ordinary colours London Printed 1653. and are to be sold by Humphrey Mosley at the Princes Armes in St. Pauls Church-yard This book consisteth of nine sheets only and is so miserably defective in performing any

seem to be enriched by reason of the acrimony of their taste resembling that of the Balsam of Brimstone which is esteemed one of the best Ant-asthmatick medicines which we have and is best known unto our Aesculapian sons and servants by the name of Dr. Macullochs Balsam because that learned and expert Physician to his Majesty King James the sixth of glorious memory was the inventer of its more terss preparation whereof the antients were ignorant and which he left behind him unto us his Country-men 7. We shall propose and answer three questions one whereof is concerning Coals and the rest are concerning Oyls Quest 1. Why do not Coals yield a sixed salt when exposed to spagyrical resolution seing they are one of the kinds of minerals which do most abound in salt It is answered 1. that because they do not render this kind of salt it is not to be supposed that therefore they contain none of it for the whiteness of their ashes and their intense corrosive quality when converted into Lime by calcination with stones of their own nature as was said do sufficiently demonstrat the contrary ● They do not yield any fixed-salt because when they are calcined their fixed-salt doth so corrode the metallick earth which they contain that it converteth the same with its self into a magisterial pouder from which as from the magisterial pouders of Pearls Corall Lead c. experience teacheth the impossibility of separating the corrosive salt 3. They afford no fixed-salt because they are of the nature of Lime-stones from which when converted into the most corrosive Lime it is impossible to extract any fixed-salt Teste Zuelfero Chymico expertissimo in Animaadversionibus suis in Appendice in Antidotorum Classem de salibus Theriacalibus Pharmacopoeiae Augustanae ab ipso ingeniosissimè reformatae pag. 276. colum 2. Quest 2. Why do some oyls perpetually descend unto the bottom of the water as some oyls which ar destilled by descension Ans These oyls being more crass than others are also more ponderous and therefore cannot be supported by water which is endued with more tenuity of parts but when these oyls are by reiterated destillations rectified and so deprived of these craster parts the water will support them Quest 3. Why do the most part of if not all oyls descend unto the lowest parts of sulphureous spirits as of Wine Barley c of an aqueous consistence Ans The tenuity of the spirit is the undeniable cause why it cannot support the more crass oyl unless it be in a most exile quantity which is most participant of its nature and properties For if you will mix some crass water with such a spirit it will then support the oyl to which it formerly denied that service Seing the curious Former of all things hath much embellished the superfice of our Scottish ground with so many mineral springs of different natures and richly enambled its bowels with such a variety of metallick markasites as is well known it is much to be regrated that so few have attempted the discovering of their natures or having made some progress in that adventured to expose their conceptions concerning either of them unto Fames fingering I know not if any of our Country-men have published any thing concerning our Mettals and it is to be feared that there will be little or nothing done to this purpose in haste seing it hath pleased the Almighty to put an end unto the dayes of that most learned and ingenious Mineralogist the Lord Hopton who died Dec. 1662. And according to my best knowledge there are only three who have written concerning our Mineral Springs The first is Dr. Moor present Professor of Medicine in the Vniversity of Aberdeen who published a little book concerning the Well of Peterhead in the year 1636. from which it is manifest that then though a student only of Medicine he was privy to many of the most excellent actions of Art and Nature The second is Dr. Anderson who wrote most learnedly upon the Cold-spring of King-horn in anno 1618. and in that his book mentioneth many rare springs wherewith Scotland is replenished and which we will here insert because that book is rare to be found The first is the spring which issueth from the top of Rattray-cave in the Barony of Slains whose water doth in a short time congele into a hard stone as saith our forecited Author also in his memorial of the most rare and wonderfull things of Scotland Our learned and ingenious Country-man Dr. Sylvester Rattray doth also make mention of this water in his book entituled Aditus novus ad occult as sympathiae Antipathiae causas inveniendaes Here you would take cotice of a story which will convince you of the possibility of this A Scottish Gentleman having been in France and there acquainted with another of that Country who it seemeth was curious to know the various and almost miraculous operations of Nature did inform him by writing concerning this Well and its water The French man returned him this answer I am sorry that you should think me such a fool as to believe such a Paradox as this is that water should in a short time be converted into a stone Whereupon our Country-man fearing least the other should think this a meer fiction he took the pains to set a glass under the droping water untill it became full and then he sent the glass unto him the water therein contained being converted into a stone A very ingenious argument for convincing so confident a Gain-sayer Secondly a spring of the same nature which himself did see in one of the vaults which were most curiously hewed out of a solide rock of Roslain-castle Thirdly two Wells in the Castle of Dumbarton distant two or three foots the one from the other the uppermost whereof springing from north to south yieldeth a very salt water the other running from south to north exhibiteth fresh water Fourthly the Mud-earth wells of Menteith Fifthly the Lady-well of Strathearn Sixthly the Lady-well of Ruthven-Seventhly this Oyly-well at St. Catharines Chappel The third is Mr. William Barclay whom Dr. Anderson stileth his very learned friend and old Parisien acquaintance and of whom he writeth that he would have all the effects of the Cold-spring of King-horn to proceed from Tinn c. So it is very probable that that Gentleman hath written something concerning that or some other spring And seing there are very many rare and admirable springs in several places of this Kingdom far distant from one another concerning which none hath as yet put pen to paper such as live near to any one of them would do well to attempt the discovering of their natures and virtues and then publish them for the good of others by the doing of which they would purchase unto themselves further access into natures Cabin where they would find greater discoveries of her manifold and great mysteries with the knowledge of which Providence hath decreed to inrich

have given you a taste only of what I found in such of his writings as providence did throw into my hands And all that ever I learned from them is this which I look upon as the Corollary of this discourse Mr. Culpepers writings are only either other mens writings which he hath translated into English or collections out of other mens works which he hath deformed with malicious scurrilous detracting and railing expressions and studied to beautifie with some ridiculous and sometimes impertinent jests So that that sentence which you will find in the Epistle to the Reader prefixed to his Translation of the London Dispensatory may be most pertinently applyed unto himself mutatis mutandis A Physician riding passing in Plush Print and not one grain of wit more than was printed before he was born By these words he doth well condemn those who rest satisfied with what is already discovered and known unto all and press not forward unto new discoveries which ought to be the only exercise of the Scholars especially Physicians of our age wherein is abundance of most excellent books already published concerning all subjects and yet there was never a scribler in the world which made the Press ruminat more to little or no purpose than he did For a conclusion to this discourse I will answer one great objection wherewith I will very probably be troubled hereafter which is this since Mr. Culpeper his death his relict Mrs. Alice Culpeper hath in print by way of Epistle renounced many books of her Husbands printed in his life-time one whereof called Culpepers last Legacy c she denieth to have been written by him because it is not written according to her Husbands lofty and masculine stile and in such a solemn valediction he could not possibly have forgot his wonted respects to the Colledge some whereof we have mentioned before to whom he did so frequently address himself in ●ivers of his writings and others of them are in Epistles subscribed by him self viz. the English Physician and Directory for Midwives which I have seen alledged to be very falsely printed and to contain many gross mistakes So that those passages which I have before mentioned out of his writings and particularly that ridiculous assertion concerning Barrenness in his Directory for Midwives Book 3. Sect. 3. at the end printed 1652. but left out of those which were since printed The words are these I will tell you no more than I have known tryed the cure is easie and was done by the man only who could not give his wife due benevolence making water through his wives wedding Ring so there was one superstition helped another may possibly be alledged to be such mistakes as he or rather she in his name did dis-own For answer 1. I conceive that it is a gross reslection upon her Husband to make people believe that he was such a fool as could not keep his papers till they had gone to the Press with his own knowledge 2. It is probable that when Mistris Culpeper shall die some of her relations will in her name renounce that Epistle of hers which I found prefixed to the English Physician the Treatise of Aurum Potabile and the Directory for Midwives all reprinted 1656 after his death because she would not have been so much unchristian as to have denied that book Culpepers last Legacy to be her Husbands especially because it containeth none of his wonted respects to the Colledge which were nothing but most unchristian and scurrilous railings against men by serving of whom he would have been honoured but he was ever so foolish as to forsake this mercy Having called to remembrance that Distichon of Cato's Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis Sermo datur cunctis animi sapientia pa●…cis I will proceed no further Farewell POSTSCRIPT TO CULPEPERS GHOST Animula vagula I am confident that since thy arrival at the Elysian fields and conference with so many able scrutators of natures mysteries as are mentioned in thy book entituled Culpepers Ghost thou hast attained the knowledge of such things as thou wast not well acquainted with in this world as appeareth from thy expressions page 5. and 6. concerning Chymistrie and therefore I will propose unto thee some Querees to which I desire thee to return answers with the first Post Quer. 1. What is it in the Netle which at the first touch offendeth a mans hand and sudainly vesicateth the skin seing Cantharides do vesicat as strongly though not so soon All that you have said of this in your English Physician which in the Epistle to the Reader you assirmed to contain a reason for every thing that is written is this Nettles are so well known that they need no description at all they may be found by feeling in the darkest night Quer. 2. Why Cantharides which do vesicat but slowly are so prejudicial to nature when immoderatly used not only internally but also externally as appeareth from their inimical operation upon the Bladder and yet Nettles which vesicat so sudainly do no harm when used as a good Pot-herb Quer. 3. Why the decoction of Nettles provoketh the Menstrua seing the juyce of the leaves stayeth bleeding at the mouth as you affirmed in your English Physician without giving any reason for averting the challenge of improbability Quer. 4. Why the sensitive plant contracteth it self at the touch of man Quer. 5. Why recent Red Roses being boyled amongst Oyl do not communicat their redness unto the Oyl as Chamomel doth its greenness Quer 6. Why the eyes of a Cat and the flesh of many fishes ar● luminous in the dark seing the most scintillent Diamond is defficient in this Quer. 7. Why the flesh of fresh-water fishes are not at all luminous in the dark Quer. 8. Why the spirits of Sulphur and Vitriol do intend the redness of the Tincture of Roses when extracted by warm water Quer. 9. Why the smoak of inflamed Brimstone maketh a recent Red-rose of a white colour when held unto it Quer. 10. Why the Oyl of Tartar being instilled into the said Tincture or put upon the whitned Rose destroyeth the redness of the one and maketh both contract a green colour Quer. 11. Why the Tincture of Red-roses having a little Allum dissolved into it and tasted by a man maketh his spittle of a green colour seing the Allum did not alter the colour of the Tincture Quer. 12. Why Dogs which take much pleasure in killing of wilde fowls or in serving such as kill them with Guns as Plivers c. will eat none of their flesh or bones Quer. 13. Why doth not the Sugar of Syrups made of acide juyces as of Limons Sorrel c. crystallize after they have been boyled too much as the Sugar of other Syrups viz. the Syrup of Violets pale Roses c. Quer. 14. What is it in Aloe which is so eminently astringent and stoppeth the slux of blood when externally applyed to wounds seing it is very