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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14595	The copie of a letter sent by a learned physician to his friend wherein are detected the manifold errors vsed hitherto of the apothecaries, in preparing their compositions, as sirropes, condites, conserues, pilles, potions, electuaries, losinges, &c: wherein also the reader shall finde a farre better manner how to preserue and correct the same ...	I. W., fl. 1586.	1586 (1586)	STC 24906; ESTC S104450	15,658	34

The copie of a letter sent by a learned Physician to his friend wherein are detected the manifold errors vsed hitherto of the Apothecaries in preparing their compositions as Sirropes Condites Conserues Pilles Potions Electuaries Losinges c Wherein also the reader shall finde a farre better manner how to preserue and correct the same to the great honor and credite of the Physician and comfort of the sicke but chieflie and especiallie to the great prayse and glorie of Almightie God RIght welbeloued Coosin deere friend these are to certifie you that I haue receiued your letters dated the third of Marche wherein I perceyue you seeme to be sorowful for that I am so much addicted to this new sect of Physicians called by the name and title of Paracelsians a more odious and contemptible name I perswade my selfe you could not haue bestowed vpon it then to intitle it A new sect But sith you cannot iustlie prooue it I can the better brooke the accusatiō it seemeth that you neuer read many of Paracelsus his workes nor yet that booke lately set forth by Master B. in our mother tounge which if you had done I hope you would not haue called it the New Phisicke For in those authors you shall find this proposition truely and manifestly confirmed that it had his beginning with our first father Adam and so from time to time hath cōtinued vntill this day but indeed so amplified and enlarged of late and brought vnto euery mans sight that hath both his eies by the long labour and infinite paines of Paracelsus that it seemeth to be borne a new with him I cannot therefore be a little grieued at you nor take small offence at your scandalous and slanderous termes which from the corrupt coller of your angrie mind you haue giuen forth against him For haue you not called him Heretike Coniurer Dronkard Iugler Tospot Aleknight c Ah deere Coosin did you euer read any heresie in his bookes if you had then were it your dutie to haue named where but if you speake it onely vpon hearesay as many of your coate do commōly then are you greatly to be reprehended I assure you I haue read so many bookes of his as are extant and find not any spot of heresie in him but contrariwise a pure and true Christian a friend and fauourer of the flocke of Christ a great enemie to the enemies of Iesu as the deuil pope turke And who euer wrote more against coniuring then he did against Nigromancie sorcerie witchcraft gluttony and suche like abhominations repayre to his bookes De occulta Philosophia and De Magia there shall you finde it Iudge him not then good Coosin by the mouth of his enemies who speake of enuie no more then you would by the verdict of his friendes but trie him by his owne wordes Me thinkes you goe very neere him to find fault with his drinking I think you haue forgotten what Countryman hee was Can you giue the Dier leaue to quaffe the Smith to carrowse and will you grudge Paracelsus to drinke measurably and with reason remember with your selues for I speake to you and all your companie and fauorites that Paracelsus sate not all day on a cushion with a pen in his hand but was occupied both night and day in distilling subliming calcining melting fixing resoluing coagulating reuerberating digesting cementing which things could not be performed without great horrible and strong fires which must needes cause a man to haue a iust quarrell to the cuppe But that hee was a drunkard or tooke more then he could beare away you cannot prooue neither doo his workes declare As for his learning you say he had none if you coūt knowledge of diuers tounges learning as I thinke you doo he had the knowledge and vse of as many as any author you haue and wrote in more Galene wrote but in one tongue that his mother tongue no more did Hippocrates or Aristotle neither can you certainely say that they had any more but hee wrote as well in the Latine tongue as in the Germane tongue which you may perceiue if you please to peruse his booke De Tartaro Hee was also a reader in Basilia which hee could not performe without great learning aske Erasmus he will say the same Moreouer you lay to his charge that his medecines were nothing but poison wherof you nominate some particulars viZ. Oile of Vitriole the glasse of Antimonie the precipitate of Quickesiluer and the rust of Iron as you terme it As for the glasse of Antimonie if it doth otherwise then well you doo him great wrong to burthen him with it for you shal not finde in all his works that he did once name it I denie not but you may find in diuerse places of his workes where he maketh mention of prepared Antimonie and what great vertue it hath in curing many diseases if you suppose that he meant the glasse thereof you are farre deceaued there is great oddes betweene that the Magisterie essence or tincture thereof If you account and esteeme Mathi Gesnerus Andernacus and such like for Paracelsians as I thinke they would haue prooued if they had liued a litle longer I confesse that at that time the glasse of Antimonie was had in great estimation so that some of them so oft as they named it would terme it Stibium nostrū others would not sticke to call it the Philosophers stone yea they auouched that they would do more good with it in three dayes in any desperate disease then they could with their Methodicall medicines in a whole moneth And so often as any great griefe came to their handes whether would they runne for succour but to the same glasse What would they haue done thinke you if they could haue obtained the perfect preparation therof that is to separate him quite from his impurities which is nothing performed in vitrifiyng him For in this glasse the earthly sulphur is so mingled with his Mercurie that he is made rather worse then better and so of force he must do more harme then good And you Galenists cannot so much disprayse it but we doo as much euer did abhor it for our Master hath taught vs a farre better order how to vse it The oile of Vitriole if so be it be wel drawē rectified and with the spirite of wine well circulated vntill it come to a pleasant tartnes not onely we haue found great commoditie therin as oft as wee had neede to asswage thirst open obstructions or withstand the malignitie of feuers but a great many of your opinion haue highly commended the same and will not giue it a Paracelsian name for they thought it not good enough for such an excellent extractiō but they haue giuē it a new name and termed it their artificiall Melancholie If Dioscorides durst minister a dramme thereof vnprepared why should wee feare to giue a scruple of it when it is purged from his venome by the