hot and moist constitution which IS MOST APT to admit putrifaction partly because the habit of their bodies is thin and so ministreth occasion to the breathing out of the spirits in deadly Wounds of the Head the Patient lives longer in the Winter than in the Summer for in it the natural heat is not so easily raised as in thâ— Summer This I know was takeâ— from Hippocrates by the Doctor Parey and some others but see now hoâ—â— our Bathyllus hath mangled anâ— grimac't it Page 129. Wounds in thâ—â— Heads of Children oftentimes prove unâ— happy they being of a hot and moist comstitution and this NOT SO APT foâ— the admittance of putrefaction in Summer time the Patient lives a shorter time than in the Winter for in this time the unnatural heat is not procured for putrifaction I know not a more absurd or unintelligible passage in all that learned mans Works excepting his Anatomy which is nothing but Errours than in the 20th Lecture of Wounds where speaking of the use of the Head-saw he saith It will serve to cut asunder the distance of the Cranium left after the application of the Trepan in divers parts At this our Filcher would be nibbling supposing there was some extraordinary meaning in it fools naturally admiring most what they understand least and resolved to have it but to make it more like his own varieth it thus page 141. used also to remove away the distance of the Cranium left after the application of the Trepan His whole discourse of Trepanning cap. 25. hath nothing in it which is â—ott o be found more fully methodically and intelligibly exprest in abundance of Authors which I need not name The two Stories ending them are from Hildanus obs 19 21. cent 1. in whom there is no mention of the Venereal act with a common Strumpet which our Author saith was the occasion of that Relapse so that here he adds to this Story and omits a considerable part of the next viz. an account of what was observable upon dissection within the Skull of that unfortunate Lady The Cataplasm which he gives page 147. is stoln from Doctor Read sect 10. The Story page 148. from Blotius concerning the Son of Philip King of Spain which our Author for Alterations sake falsly calls Nephew to Charles the Fifth * So he translates Nepos which in Classick Writers is used for Grandson but perhaps it 's not agreeable to our Authors way of Pedigree nor skill in Latine who finds it more credit to be accounted the Nephew of Mr. Cropp Chief Chirurgeon of Norfolk as he calls him than the Son of Brown a Taylor in Norwicâ— is in Sckenkius page 15. and Bonnetus Index page 95. but transcribed according to his wonted exactness and integrity The other Story of the same page concerning aâ— Boy fifteen years old iâ— stoln from Hildanus whâ— saith he fell into the Feâ—ver the 14th day from thâ— hurt and our exact Plagiaâ—ry saith the 11th The two Observations page 162. are stoln from Sckeâ—kius Page 18. And placed here very unsuitably the second third and fourth stories Page 170. are also stoln from Sckenkius Page 31 32. The first quotation quite spoiled in the Copy The unguent Matrisylva Page 174. is from Forestus though he points not where it s to be found the Author gives two Receits thereof the one simple the other compound Obs chir 42.44 lib. 6. of the Mastick and thus the Author prescribes an ounce the plagiaryÊ’ i. the last â„ž Page 175. is stoln from Dr. Read Page 137. The History of Dodoneus is a defac't transcript from his usual Magaine Sckenkius Page 27. And here most impertinently illated the Chapter treating of Wounds of the two Meninges and in the observation not so much as the cranium broken or hurted Page 181 182. The several Medicines there directed are from A. a cruce and to be found in Sckenkius 23. Page The Docoction Page 182. is from Dr. Read Page 141. The History 184. from Sckenkius Page 19. The Decoction and Plaister 188. from Pareus lib. 10. cap. 22. Page 189. He promiseth as a rarity viz. Something HIS OWN which he prepares our expectations to receive as a great boon giving it the Character Bromfield and other Quacks do their Pills viz. A true and happy composition of which I have with admirable success had the advantage to speak the truth of it pray mark the Grammar and Elegancy This great Arcanum in the margent he calls his own and in the Column Nunckle Cropps Now is he not a most despicable and odious plagiary abandoned to impudence and ignorance if it appear that he puts upon us and that the invention of this not extraordinary Cataplasm was neither the ones nor the others I have already shewed you where there are many like it and in John de Vigo the very same Lib. 3. tract 1. cap. 5. save only that Nuncle Cropp or his wise Nephew put in Motherwort instead of Woodbine Behold now the skill the honesty of the confident Assumer I find but this and one more directly titled his own and both of them as common in many Books as nonsence and impertinence are in his own and the later on which he plumes and brags to have been invented before either of the pretenders to it were in their swadling clouts The fomentation and powder Page 193. are stoln from Doctor Read Page 14. and Cornarius observation from Schenckius Page 26. His method for one of punctured Nerves Page 201. is stoln from Fallopius so are his medicines viz. the two unguents only where the original * de vulnerib particul Page 231. Ed. Francf saith common oyl the eccho translates ol an t scrip Page 189. The observation of Dodoneus was nothing at all to the purpose and stoln from Schenkius Page 27. as was that of the jvy leaves Page 190. from Page 28. and impertinently here inserted Page 204. he gives us an history from Forestus which he saith is in obs 20. fol. 183. but is in 38 obs cent 6.1 much wronged in the translation That from Horatus Augenius is Verbatim in Schenckius Page 636. that of Amat Lusitanus is in Forestus loc cit most impertinently placed in this Chapter and the patient though a Countess veryrudely called old Gentlewoman an Epithit most detestable to that Sex The three stories Page 265. of Hollerius and Alexand. Bened. are stoln from Schenckius Page 280. So are those Page 270. of Gemma and Fallopius see Schenckius Page 253. The later containing an absurd assertion not to be found in the Author whence Schenckius borrowed and our Author stole them The Histories of Benivonius Cardanus P. Salius are stoln from the same Book as is also that of Cyriacus Lucius for which he quotes de suis observat when it was but a private Letter sent to Schenckius Page 262. The Histories of Galen Beniverius c. in the 285. page of our Scribler is stoln from the same hand Page 270. That of
And translated according to his â—ormer skill and sincerity thus page â—65 the greasy matter in the story of Hildanus is originally materia Gypsea â—age 37. the span long is in the origiâ—al senripalmaris longitudinis page â—1 calculum gypseum excreavit he translates from Langius did here FRAME a kind of a limestoâ—â— page 114. in the story of Vesalius translates Vix librae vel sesquilibâ—â— pondus excederat scarce weigheâ— pound or half a pound Page 97. In History of Vega stoln from Schenkiâ—â— Page 290. He saith the Physician whom she was committed did clear 〈◊〉 from the blame which was put upon 〈◊〉 by her Master and excused her modeâ— by affirming women might have Mâ—â— in their Breasts without conceptiâ—â— this contrarywise is in the originâ— Medicus vero cui res fuit commisâ—â— accusabatur enim ab hero constantâ— sime affirmabat ipsam gravidam eâ—â— At the like rate he cripples things in mâ—ny other of his translations particulaâ— page 60. from Dr. Wharton cap. 1â— page 63. from the 22. Chapter of 〈◊〉 same Author and page 68. where 〈◊〉 translates the Doctors five uses of tâ—â—â— Tonsils very odly Come we now to his Book of the Kinâ— Evil which he calls an exact discourâ—â— in that modest plain dress thoâ—â— God wot there 's neither exactness mâ—desty nor plainness but the wildeâ— loosest most defectivâ— absurdest aâ— unintelligible miscelany of words aâ—â— â—ost impudent affirmations that ever â—â—me from the press and because his â—pistle to the Reader contains much of â—â—at kind I will be a little particular on 〈◊〉 Since its the mode of the age â—quoth he to let no Book go withâ—ut a Preface it may well seem a wonder that among the multitude â—f Books so little hath hitherto â—een writ of his desease it â—vermore having been of ancient â—anding and so general concern â—ith men especially since there 's â—arce any kind of skill but may be â—arnt by Art match me this â—aragraph in any but his own Books â—nd I will not say he is the Ignorant bugâ—ear in the next page certainly none â—ut such would thus infer and make it a â—onder more is not writ of Scrophulae â—ecause its a fashion to write prefaces â—â—r that 's his logick and like saying â—nce my Mare hath stratted Colt it â—ay well seem a wonder you don't â—o to Church I know there have not very many â—mple Theories been publisht of that disâ—â—ase but he is of little acquaintance with â—ooks if he thinks there hath been but â—â—ttle in general written thereof I will undertake to name above an * Let him consult Schenkius Gualterus Moronus and Bonettus and see if he cannot find this number hundrâ—â—â— forreiners who have published eithâ—â— Observations Remedies Theorieâ—â—â— Methods or Counsels concerning 〈◊〉 and many of them such as he preteâ—â—â— to know besides divers of our own Couâ—treymen as Primrose Whartoâ—â— Crook Low Bannister Pemâ—â—â— Bruil Clowes Tookes Bonhaâ—â— Cook Digby Barrough Williâ—â— and beyond them all Mr. Sarjeaâ— Wiseman who writ but eight years bâ—fore this novise and yet is no where tâ—ken notice of by him save in the 122. pâ—â— his tract of Glands and there only to coâ—fute him as the Preacher did Bellaâ—mine with THOU LIEST But to proceed in the examen of thâ— most absurd Paragraph the Kinâ— Evill hath EVER MORE been a diâ—ease of ANCIENT standing whâ— alway an old desease is it infinitâ— never had a beginning this certainâ— was not spoken with that exactnesâ— the Title page promiseth le ts go on anâ— of so general a concern with maâ—kind especially since there 's scarâ— any skill but may be learnt by Aâ—â— This is just such an Impertinent Coâ—clusion as the first and an inference 〈◊〉 â—ore agreeable If a man would be very Critical here 's work cut out in this one â—eriod enough to prove that none â—ut a very Ignorant or a very careâ—ess writer would deliver himself â—o very incoherently and absurd Passing by his silly Apology for suspision of theft we jump upon that for stepping aside from the opinion of the Ancients of which if any one accuse him I will be his advocate and prove him not guilty that is to say that he hath followed them as well as he could and steered by their compass according to the best of his understanding It s true he varyeth now and then a point or two but that 's nothing among friends its plain he followeth none but their gray headed and his own addle brain'd thoughts notwithstanding he pretends the contrary but that he hath raised a new pile of matt er for the generation of this disease is utterly false unless nonsence and absurd unskilful rambles be it for there is not a new nor a sound notion concerning it in all the Book From hence he makes a sudden transition into his own History where he modestly saith of himself I EVER MORE 1 Here 's another infinite in a determinate Sphere having been conversant iâ— Chirurgery almost from my Cradle being the sixth 2 This pedigree must be from his Vnckle Crop a kind of bastard-like way of Geneology as if he either had no Father or were ashamed to own him Generation of my own Relations all eminent Masters of our profession some of the latter of which have been extraordinary well known for their parts and skill by many of the most worthy and knowing Masters I came early into the practice * When he was Mr. Hollyers Cub thereof in this great City and have for above twenty four years seen the practick as well as read the Theorical part thereof and this not at whiles and and intervals but I had the 3 a usual trope with such Rhetoriclans eye of the Hospital as my first and early gleanings and since I could write man the late wars had my skill shewn on my 4 which way self as well as many others who were committed to my charge Since I have been blest by my dread Soveraigns command to attend as one of his CHIRURGIONS at all healings altho 5 The meanest healing or the meanest Chirurgion the meanest and have seen several 6 The beef eaters have out seen him in this particular thousands approach his Royal presence for ease and cure I thought it my duty as 7 will express well as my zeal to search into the roads and circuits of this evil I have herein therefore kind Reader presented thee with a more plain discovery of this disease The falshood of these latter assertions are very manifest than hither hath as yet appeared in the World and this performed with that plain and easie method and dress that the meanest capacity may be allowed a sufficient judge in the description thereof by way of distinction 8 unriddle me his meaning hâ—re to prevent confusion These boastings are enough to tempt a credulous man into a great opinion of our pretender that he is some mighty issue of a whole
that be in both the syllabusis aforesaid unless he intend the Quadrigeminus for it which he ought to have explicated however Quadratus is the more modern word He is so far from giving an accurate description that he perplexeth and confounds things as in page 48. Teres minor and page 49. nonus humeri Placentini He makes them two distinct Muscles as indeed they are but gives them one description and the same use as you may find by comparing leaf with leaf for he makes them both depressors of the os humeri and in his Synopsis he maketh them one and the same nonus Humeri Placentini sive Rotundus minor Octavus Humeri Placentini sive Coracho Brachialis for so he writes it in his Synopsis are two distinct Muscles corachobrachialis is the nonus humeri Placentini but he is ignorant thereof he maketh them one though in both the syllabus he might plainly see they were two and accordingly of two different uses for the first is a depressor and the last an adductor He very disingeniously makes the octavus in both the syllabuses to be an elevater when as the learned Authors in the original and in their publick exercises of Anatomy always delivered that the octavus humeri was a depresser This mistake I believe he was lead into by Mr. W. Molins Myastomia Page 38. so unable is he to be an Author and unfit ev'n for a Plagiary Of the nonus Humeri Placentini he saith Folio 49. inseritur acuto Tendine in collum ossis humeri But in the Sculpt Tab. 20. He plainly sheweth it rightly enough for it is Placentinus his own cut in medio ossis Humeri Of the octavus Casseri i. e. Placentini he saith Page 46. Per corpus ejus transit nervus quidam Thus the Blind lead the Blind Mr. W. M. Myotomia page 41. told him that through the Body of this Muscle doth pass a Nerve but our â—uide in his Figures not knowing or forâ—etting that he had fixt it in the octavus â—umeri when he accurately described â—hat Muscle sheweth it in his Icon Tab. â—0 relating to the nonus humeri which 〈◊〉 very true for its Casserus Placentiâ—us's own Cut. I shall detain you no longer in the Preâ—ace having much exceeded the common â—ounds what remains to be said against â—im shall be kept cold only I must Apoâ—ogize that if in our endeavour to cure â—im of this Pruritus scribendi or itch of â—cribling Which thus busieth his Finâ—ers and makes them scratch Paper we â—ave acted smartly himself must confess â—t S. A. And conformable to the method of â—uring that disease i. e. By painful sharp Remedies and folly being ever commixed ye pursue the wisest mans advice in using 〈◊〉 Rod. It s true we have been severely plain â—ut not rude as he hath been to many of â—is betters a very eminent Casuist of â—ur own Bishop Taylor Grand Exemp p. 247. alloweth us to reprehend evil â—ersons in Language properly expresâ—ive of the crime which I think we have â—ot transgrest by indecent reproofs or unâ—uit able words I know no name for a Spade â—ut a Spade nor any extraordinary courtesie due to a man who bestows himseâ—â— with so little truth or modesty or offerâ— that violence and injury to mankind iâ— things of that importance to them as hâ— hath done by perverting and corruptinâ— the means and methods of their recovery and preservation from hurt and those mâ—serable distempers to which they are so incident and obnoxious and the contrary tâ— which viz. Health is accounted by wise men the greatest temporal happiness If where he playeth the Fool anâ— shews himself an Impostor Thievish Ignorant c. we tell him so in plaiâ— English I think he hath no wrong doâ—â— him If he can prove the contrary thâ—â— we have abused or falsly accused him lâ—â— him make it out and instead of a seconâ— part of Medicaster Medicasturs 〈◊〉 shall have a retraction and peccavi 〈◊〉 A FORM OF HIS OWN which uâ— on occasion of the late hearing before 〈◊〉 Person of Honour between himself aâ—â— our Company was publickly read befoâ—â— his Face and as I am informed 〈◊〉 therein acknowledgeth himself more viâ—â— and mean spirited than mine or any othâ—â— Pen can express Medicaster Medicatus The First Part. Containing Animadversions on Mr. Brown's Books of Preternatural Tumors and of Wounds being a Letter from a Country Practitioner SIR THat extravagant Curiosity which so strongly inclined me to the perusal of new Books especially of Natural Philosophy and the Art of Healing and hath heretofore given you the trouble to procure and me the cost to purchase all that come forth is very much cooled and abated by the disappointment I have lately met in some of them not that I so much regret being deceived in my expectations or of my mony and time nor which is worse the fruitless trouble in hath occasioned my Friend as I resent the indignity and disparagement they have begotten to a noble and very useful Art of whose reputation and interest I am very tender and zealous I am moved with indignation to find that while Ingenious and Inquisitive men are labouring to improve and advance it and its esteem in the world by their excellent Writings laborious Experiments and useful Discoveries so many medling Fops busily interpose and not only amuse disturb and discourage them by the gagling of their Goose-quils but disparage the growing credit of the faculty by their follys and falshoods to see so many bold Ignorants thrust themselves through the Press with swoln Titles under their nauseous fantastical Pictures with which like Ballads they front and lead in their empty Books which no more answer the pretence of their Title Pages than the excrements of a few bad do the Marrow of many good Authors and come so far short of what they would imitate or oppose as they who have attempted to Ape our inimitable Duty of Man or adventured to confute our Immortal Harvey Who that 's Loyal or hath a due veneration for his Prince can without abhorrence behold the Sacred name of the King debas'd and profanely mixed with that of every Quacksalver that dares assume it to make himself a Title to see the August Illustrious Character of Majesty trampled on and laid at the feet of every Empericks Effigies who is but Audacious enough to style himself His Majesties Physician Chirurgion Operator or Oculist though perhaps the Coxcomb be not fit enough for a Toad-eater to a Mountebank To observe men of our profession write as if they design'd to engross to themselves the Character which P. de Commines and M o. Sorbier generously bestowed on the whole Nation what else meaneth the scurrilous Conclavist the nonsensical Galenopale the verbose Polyrhizos the filly Hilminthologer the no-bone fashion Alamode man the snarling Glow-worm the churlish Topographer of B. and other clamorous Witlings whose writings serve that odious end and design men who discover their own ignorance and ill natures
most Ridiculous Scribler The Justice of this Censure I will manifest to you very plainly without a rigid or particular survey of all he hath written and without squeezing or putting any thing to the Rack and here I must profess copiousness of matter which is usually an advantage is become to me an Impediment I am choaked with plentitude He is so all over vanity that I know not where to begin his Follies are so perplext I know not how to unravel them without being as Immethodical and appearing as great a Bungler as himself I will begin as he doth and attack his Compleat Treatise of Tumors which being the first broaching of his Hog-s Head his fresh and untired Effort may be presumed most nervy and strong and give us the greatest difficulty to encounter and subdue This Book we find by the Authors Picture was written in the 35th year of his age which I suppose is pointed to us that we may admire the profound Sagacity and great abilities of so young a man His Title-Page calls it a Compleat discourse of Tumors Compleat either to distinguish it from others who have written defectively on that Subject or else a slye suggestion as if he had said all that Subject was capable of or perhaps because it hath discoursed of all the diseases compellated under those Titles how little it deserves that Character on either of these accounts will be sufficiently demonstrated in the ensuing Pages and that on the contrary its empty defective stoln for the most part from imperfect erroneous and obsolete Writings abounding with vanities errours contradictions nonsence impertinences and more faults than any Book of its bigness of a Subject so common and easy and affording such plenitude of excellent precedents and guides It s scarce credible that any man should be so blockish as this to obtrude on the World under those Titles things so little deserving them nor less surprising is it to see a Book so full of Palpable errours and manifest evidences of a silly Illiterate Author containing nothing Ingenious or valuable full of the Scum and Crudities of their Notions Medicines and Observations who were long since exceeded and exploded to see such things proclaimed useful commendable ingenious learned elaborate c. by men that knew better and from whose Sagacity his egregious errours manifest faults and aberrations could not escape had they perused what they praised is to me matter of Astonishment and should be to them occasion of shame and repentance We wanted one that could our griefs declare And thank our happy Stars we have him here What 's then thy due who curest each malady Yet thy great Skill is such Thy work being perfect Were fam'd Hippocrates alive to write He from thy work would humbly borrow light For having this Learn'd Book men need no more John Gadbury Student in Physick and Astrology Its strange that neither the Stars nor Skil in Physick could undeceive this Hyberbolical Poetical Astrological Physical Applauder and teach him better than to think this dull empty Scrible deserved the praise he gives it or that Hippocrates could or would borrow from one who stole from himself and those that ecchoed his Doctrine He dedicates this praise-worthy Peice to his Vnckle Crop who by what Authority and good manners I know not he calls the chief Chirurgeon in Norfolk to whom and to his Readers he makes rambling impertinent Epistles using the same Tropes and vain glorious Ostentations he hath over again in his Book of wounds Impudence plum'd with various coloured Feathers of Ignorance and Boldness this tract well deserves the study and practice of a young Chirurgeon who ought to read it soberly and practise it constantly I have here acted the part of a faithful Chirurgeon This is a Subject indeed not to be touched with every COMMON Pen every Slip whereof in some cases may dislocate the Discourse and cause a solution of continuity in the matter its leaves are not lined with froth or Emperical Romance but rather gathered furnished and delineated with digested wholesom fruit of LEARNING example history most lively resembling the rose the Lading is well besiowed on our Vessel having received your gentle Windes to blow on it I question not its well sailing and may be kept from the Shelves and Rocks Now after so many Encomiums from such men as the President and Censor of the Colledge from Sr. T. B. Mr. Sarjent K. Mr. Daniel and the starry Doctor Strengthened and confirmed by the Authors own kind approbation and applause of himself and the Minerva of his Mercurial Brain who but would have raised expectations and look Sharp for some great and transcendent performance but alas It s a birth of the mountains great Cry and litle Wool nothing but the Husk or Shell of some seed whose kernel by length of time is turned into Maggot or other noxious Insect and being here by our Novice noysily crackt is exposed to Sale as wholsom good new fruit Although I am as great an admirer of the Antiquity and usefulness of our Art and would assert its Interest and Reputation as much as any man yet I am so much an Enemy to Arrogance and a Friend to Truth that I must expose him when he reasons at so ridiculous a rate to illustrate it and screws his pretences too high as he doth page 1. where he unreasonably asserts The Art of Healing came into the world almost as soon as man For soon after his Birth was this found out as both Reason and History make good Page 2. And here also may we Epitomize that Healing and Medicine were invented before other Arts Now all the Reason produced to make this good is an uncertain supposition that primitively they were subject to diseases and consequently put upon inventing Remedies and the History is from Genesis 50.2 where it is said Joseph commanded the Physicians to Embalm Jacob. As to the first How doth it appear they had ANY diseases in the first Ages of the world one would think otherwise by their longevity and I think Mr. Burnet hath rendred it more than probable In his Theory of the Earth a Book of extraordinary thoughts and uncommon ingenuity that before the Flood they were very healthy had a general Eucrasia and temperamentum ad pondus Dr. Brown in his Garden of Cyrus page 1. gives an ingenious proof of the great Antiquity of Physick because Adam had a Dormitive when he slept while God performed all the parts of Chyrurgery in making Woman out of his side but that 's too Poetical The Taylors will tread on our heels with the same way of reasoning and pretend near it if not equal Antiquity for their Craft by the sewing of the Fig-leaves and making Aprons Others imagine that after the fate of Abel men bethought of Remedies for the accidents to which they saw themselves liable but we have not the least footsteps or colour of any such matter in History sacred or prophane we are told
men of the erroneous opinion were convinced by seeing the entire Vterus the Ovari's c. remain in due place and in the midst of the Vagina the unhealed place of extirpation with the ligature about it The Women of Holland being generally of a large size Phlegmatick and full of moysture their bowels more lubricous and slippery and according to Common Fame their Vulva's higher and lower than others none may be presumed more incident than they to a prolapsion of the real Vterus if such could be and consequently those Authors being all of them of that Country and eminent Practizers could not be Ignorant thereof or deceived into a wrong opinion I once dissected a Woman who dyed of an Ascitis which had vexed her two years and had for ten months a very large prolapsion two Physicians were present and saw the womb entire and that the Tumor was a Sarcoma or excrescence of the inner coat of the Vagina I have been called to a Woman with Child who hath had this accident very largely and I know another Mother of divers Children that alway since her first bringing forth had a small prolapsion in her last month after Conception But to return to our Author Page 378. Begins his Chapter of Aneurisms in treating of which he omits divers necessary things and commits many extravagant ones and that not only in the manner but matter of his discourse which I shall have occasion more at large to canvas when I come to consider his Notions thereof Page 280. In his Book of wounds there he tells us that some allow inward Causes and reckons as such CONTUSION CONCUSSION Intenseness and Obstruction these being accounted the chief inward Causes An Absurdity and Tautology that would make a School-Boy Blush Contusion Concussion the chief inward Causes and not one word of Erosion Impetus Plethora c. Which are common and very considerable ones Some quoth he also add melancholy bloud as a Cause but the most usual sign of its Causes is drawn from the Ignorant Chirurgions pricking too deep the two scopes of cure are Pharmacy and Chirurgery the first are convenient Ligature excellent Pharmacy and Lead strictly bound over the part If it be large and in the INGUEN expect no cure Page 378. Large Aneurisms NOT hapning in the GROYN or head are accounted mortal 380. Ligature of the Arterie in an Aneurism is dangerous troublesome painful and seldom brings any benefit to the patient I would rather have Amputation at this perverse rate he amuseth them that cannot understand him and misguides those who think they do and this not only by his pen but his pencil his pictures may please youths profit them they cannot Page 166. He pretends to shew by Sculpture the manner of Amputating a Cancerate Breast but gives you nothing like it save a Woman drest very modish sitting in a chair and a man with a Pencil as it were marking or writing on her Breast which is half covered with her cloaths not in any posture or is there any Instrument fit for the operation Just so he gives a lively portraicture as he calls the picture Page 245. of couching a Cataract that looks nothing like it but as if one were going to bleed another in the Temple his lively picture expressing the manner of Amputating large Limbs Page 205. I have already examined Page 256. He shews himself as unable to draw after anothers figure or depaint pictures or stories especially Latin ones this is manifest in that of Aqua Pendents Polypus Forceps which are not at all like the Original or that in Scultetus nor his own Description for the edge of the curved end which should cut through the Pedunculus of a Polypus and ought to be sharp for that purpose is delineated thicker than the edge of a mill-crown Thus Sir in defence of my censure and Apologie for my caution in buying books at all adventures I have freely imparted to you those observeable faulty passages which I found in Mr. Browns first Book that bawlkt me There remaines only that I shew how little it deserves the title of being Compleat what Impertinent and superfluous Chapters it contains and how far from having those many excellent modern Observatioâ—s said in the Title Page to conclude most Chapters It cannot be a compleat Treatise of Tumors because it treats not of all the diseases properly so called and very defectively and erroneously of those it doth the later I have sufficiently evinced as to the former he omits Priapismus Polypus Cordis Arthritis nodosa Anchylops and some Tumors about the eyes Spina Ventosa Variola Hypersarcosis Testudo Phymosis Paraphymosis Gangleon Thymi Crystae Condyloma Exitus ani Procidentia Vaginae Vteri gutta Rosacea Elephantiasis Impetigo Ecchymosis Varex Pernio Furuncle Epynyctis Terminthus Tympany Gibbosities of the joints in the Rickets and Gowt Tumors Symptomatical to wounds and Contusions Tumors of the Collumellae or Vvula abscesses of the womb and vagina in Child-Bed Warts Corns Scorbutick Tumors intumescency of the Spleen and many more to be found in other Writers on this Subject His Impertinent Chapters treating of Subjects not properly comprehended among Tumors are that of Phlebotomy Vlcerate Cancers Herpes exedens Tinea Cataract Gangreen and Spacelus because they are often without swellings and use not to be computed among them His Observations are some of them quoted though stoln at second hand from Galen Hippocrates Paulus Albucasis Aetius Celsus Halyabbas Rhasis c. and such as were very ancient the rest are either from Vigo Schenkius Aqua pendente Bauhinus Benivenius Fallopius Hildan us Forestus Guido Laurentius Lusitanus Placentinus Tagaultius Pareus Vigierius Who and their contemporaries he calls the Ancients Page 216. of his Book of wounds many of them wrote above 200 most of above one hundred years since all of them before this age there then remaines as truly modern of all his Catalogue only Bannister Crook Read Wharton and Barbet the two former are accounted old and long since dead so is Dr. Wharton and Dr. Read but allowing them modern and add Barbet they have not yeilded him one in ten of his Observations and Schenckius more than altogether so that contrary to his Mounte-Banck Title-Page instead of most of the observations being modern they are almost all old yea very Ancient His Book of Wounds we find written when he was a year older tho' not a jot wiser than when he hatcht that of Tumors one years experience hath not strengthned his reason added Nerves to his Judgment or bettered his acquisitions we find some alteration in his face by the picture but not a whit in his abilities by the discourse although with his wonted vanity he calls it also Compleat Indeed he runs his Chapters into as great a number and the Treatise into as many divisions as I have met in any Book mincing them so that he gives us one Chapter concerning wounds of Arteries and veins and another for wounds of the veins and
Albucas page 292. from him page 367. Those of Jacotius Hollerius Pareus c. in his 300 Page are in the of 368. if Schenckius The Observations Page 317. aâ—â— stoln from Schenckius and Glandorâ— How he hath butcherd the two lastâ— I shall shew anon Those in his 312. page from Fallopius and Oethaeus whom our heedless Transcriber calls Ortheus are in the 332. page of the same Author That in page 320. is in the 484. of Schenkius so are the two stories of Dodoneus page 313. From him also page 150. that of Arceus 223. is from the said hand Page 177. That concerning the Prince of Orange page 243. from him also page 201. So that in all he hath stoln in this single Treatise from that one Book above sixty Histories of observations My next work was to prove our Spark notwithstanding his vain pretences to the contrary by numerous quotations much Greek c. pretence to learning to be an Illiterate and silly scribler and that ev'n in the easiest and most inferiour parts of writing this the whole tenor of his language and strain of expressions together with most of his translations plainly enough demonstrates as I have already exemplified and shall further prove He cannot excuse himself by the common pretence viz. That any of those faulty words or passages were the errors of the press because he corrected them and that I have no where fixed my reflexions on any of them nor have I taken any notice of little common slips of the pen or faults in Orthography such are Procataretick Paracenthesis Epolonticks Raninae c. those being incident from the best Writers But I shall attempt my point by substantial and inexcusable aberrations and of them give you but a few and those cogent instances it being needless as well as endless to produce all this book affords Page 94. treating of venemous wounds he most impertinently brings in the famous story of Parysatis poysoning of Statira for which he quotes Ctesias an Author never seen by him it s delivered to us by Plutarch in the life of Artaxerxes From him Hieron Mercurialis had it as I conjecture and from him Schenkius quotes it Page 811 and thence ouâ— Illiterate according to the best of him skill in Latin translated it Plutarch Mercurialis and Schenckius agree iâ— the story thus Ctesias Author antiquissimus in libro de Rebus Persicis scribit quandam mulierem Statyram vocatam maxime semper timuisse venenum omni diligentia usam ut illud evitaret factum tamen ut quaedam alia mulier eam hoc modo venenaret Cultelli partem alteram tantum veneno infecit deinde coram Statyra divisit aviculam parvam coctam qua parte avis tacta fuer at a veneno cultelli oblata Statyrae illico eam extinxit cum interim qua parte avis non fuerat tacta a veneno nullum detrimentum ipsi ministranti intulerit This strange story the truth of which is much question'd is by our man of letters * Sr. Tho. Brown pseuded ep thus rendered into English Page 94. Ctesias an old author in lib. de rebus persicis writes of a Woman who through her whole life time dreaded poyson and made it her greatest care to escape it she invited another Woman to Dinner who seeing her Knife lye on the Table that which for many years before never parted from †I believe so he Tran slates cultelli partem alteram tantum Venenâ— infecit c. her side but at Dinner time took up this Knife and poysoned it at the end she cutting her victuals therewith was soon dispatched of her life and the other parts of the meat which were untoucht with the Knife were void of all Poyson Page 148. He gives us a story of Blotius but stoln out of Schenkius Page 15. And by him thus delivered from the original Carolus Philippi Hispaniarum Regis Filius Caroli V Nepos ex quartana aerem mutare jussus in arce quadam nobilem puellam corollas nectentem intuitus cum ludendi causa ad illam properaret Illa vim metuens in cubiculum fugit pessulumque ostio obdidit Juvenis eo magis irritatus in cubiculum praeceps pergradus effracta violenter janua delapsus gravissimum vulnus in capite accepit This we find thus translated by our artless Author Charles Nephew to Charles the Fifth of Spain Who after having been troubled with a quartan Ague was by his Physicians directed to walk and refresh himself in the Air as he was going out of his Chamber-Door and seeing a Maid of Honour making of Garlands made hast to her she hereupon being surprised making hast away fell against the Bar of her Chamber-Door the young Gentleman being herewith vexed that he should be the occasion of this mischief in a fury going to his Chamber meets with an unhappy fall which caused a Wound in his Head coming from his Chamber This is neither agreeable with the original or sense going to his Chamber meets with a unhappy fall coming from her Chamber Who can reconcile this contradiction and non-sense Page 156. He quotes Fallopius expos in lib. Hippoc de vulner cap. 16. for a story that 's in the 13. chap. and stoln from Schenckius Page 32. Who thus delivereth it verbatim from the Author Ratio autem est quia pars exterior patitur contusionem qua communicatur interiori laminae quae durior est et ideo superficies interna ejus vitrea dicitur quare externa in eodem ictis potest cedere in seipsam et interior cum non possit cedere in seipsam contrahit rimam Now observe the nonsense and falshood of the Translation Page 156. of our illiterate The reason of his proceedings after this manner was the outer part being contused the contusion was communicated to the second Table and whereas the outward could not fall into it self nor the inward Table into it self hereby it suffered this fissure Once more he is at Fallopius page 270. quoting him as the Author of this nonsensical passage Pulmonibus vidi inflatos sanatos inflatos etiam mortuos quare vulnera pulmonis ex aequo se habent by him thus translated I have seen Inflations of the Lungs cured and others to have died of the same Fallop de Vuln. cap. 12. that he stole this from Schenkius is most certain for there the words are thus falsly transcribed and the reference mistaken the place to which he points if he mean lib. de vuln pecul doth indeed discourse of Wounds of the parts contained in the Breast but hath not a syllable in it like this But in the fourth Chapter of his Book de vuln in gen Tom. 2. He hath something like it de pulmonibus autem hoc scio quod vidi plurimos sanatos imò infinitos infinitos etiam mortuos quare vulnera hujus partis ex aequo se habenct It s excusable in Schenkius to mistake because he did it but seldom and among
so many thousand Transcriptions to err sometimes is scarcely evitable but for our Scribler to take upon trust and swallow nonsense misquotation and all and pretend he had it from the original there remains no excuse but an unanswerable proof that he quotes at second hand and understands not what he delivers to us is unacquainted with Latin and the Books he pretends to know and understand If there be not enough to prove this part of my undertaking against him I must refer you to cap. 10. And see how he comes off with Dr. Willis's notion and History there delivered to chap. 29. for the History from Pareus to his 16. chap. for another from the same Author to his 25. chap. for the two stories from Hildanus to his 33. chap. for the two stories from Nicholas Florentinus vide Schenkius p. 31. to his 34th chap. for a story from Hollerius stoln from Schenkius page 27. to his 39th chap. for an History from Peter Forestus obs chir 38. lib. 6. not the 20th as he misquotes to his 14. chap. for a story from the same Author to cap 44 for an observation from Solenander Sect. 5. cons 15. which you will find to be the 32. story in that Consal and all these with almost all the rest of the observations in his Book translated after such sort as shews plainly he doth not understand Latine duorum canum magnorum from P. Forestus two little Dogs Page 78. in ditione from Schenkius page 332. in the City Depravatus page 46. Deprived praeceps Principle depravatusmotus deprivation of motion tenebat did cover capita dead Corps c. Nay I undertake to assure you that there is not one story in ten of those his Books contain but are falsly translated and would have been more truly rendred by a School-Boy of a years standing To conclude this Topick take two Evidences more of this nature they are both in his 317 page and stoln from Schenkius Page 461. The first from Dodoneus speaking of a Woman stab'd in one of her Kidneys quem Vulneratum fuisse particula ejus è vulnere exempta ostendit he wholly neglects the other from Fallopius whom by this and other citations I find he never read for he quotes him usually de vulneribus not distinguishing because not knowing whether it be his Book de vulner capitis an exposition on Hippocrates in his first Tom. or that de vulneribus in genere or that de vulneribus peculiaribus both which are in his second Tom. in the place before us he quotes him lib. de Vuln. cap. 12. Schenkius saith de vulneribus capitis cap. 12. But there is no such matter in that place nor is that sort of hurt mentioned any where in those three Books of Wounds save in his 22. chap. de vuln pecul and cap. de vuln in genere in the former there is no such passage as this our Author mentions in the later there is somewhat like it viz. et ego vidi post ictum pugionis concrevisse carnem illam laxam et sanasse Schenkius thus renders it Vidi renem sinistrum pugione vulneratum sanari Quia parenchyma scilicet sanguis ille crassus concrevit in carnem And our unletter'd plagiary I have seen the left Kidney pricked and wounded because the Parenchyma like thick Blood concreted into Flesh O most egregious ignorant With what Face canst thou appear in the Front of such impudent falshoods and heaps of nonsense blush for shame and do penance for this most Criminal way of abusing the World and misguiding young Tiro's in an Art of so much use to Mankind draw a Curtain before all thy Pictures thy Faces like the Brass that stampt them hide in some gloomy place never to see light till thou hast expiated the discredit thou hast done our Art and learnt more modesty knowledge c. And then appear in print again and Title thy Book the Retractation or Index expurgatorius of John Brown who now sensible and ashamed of his own ignorance and vanity doth make this publique confession thereof to the World whom he hath shamelesly abused by his empty insignificant writings Sir I pray you pardon this little transport and suffer me to make good my charge against him by pointing to you a few passages out of an abundance wherein he expresseth himself as weakly and silly as any Writer you can have seen page 137 he makes no differences between Symptomes and Sentences page 187. Contusions of the brain proceed from some outward cause invading the brain hapning by a fall from an high place upon a hard part being either stony or rocky page 199. Puncture of Nerves is an accident that doth happen most COMMONLY by the Ignorance of the Chirurgion SOMETIMES page 200. And here also as to the affected part we are here to consider both the breadth and narrowness of the affected part page 271. The pericardium is a membrane enwrapping the heart swimming in it this to a man that knows Anatomy must seem such sense as to say the purse swims in the mony abundance of the like instances of his wit and learning in Orthography Syntax and other parts of common sense and literature are intersperst in his writing and cannot escape the intuition of any man tho but indifferently skill'd in either I must not pass by a very great example of his way of reasoning c. in his 185 page where he wisely endeavours to prove the possibility of an Abscess in the brain by urging this Aphorism of Hippocrates If matter water or bloud issue from the Nostrils Mouth or Ears of any troubled with the head-ache it doth discharge it as if what thus floweth thence must certainly be from an Abscess from within the meninges and not rather extravasations or congestions without them as is usual as wise and as much to the purpose is his calling on Galen Avicen Rhasis to prove that nature found out contrived had been better said these as proper Chanels for that purpose if a man would argue at this rate and reason from such Topicks how easy is it to prove the Moon made of a green Cheese I had almost forgot to entertain you with some pleasant instance of his skill in Etymologie which he shews very often and not seldome appears a ridiculous fop whether it be more silly than illiterate thus to force derivations as is commonly practiced we will not dispute page 211 Frons à ferendo because it carryeth in it the LIVELY resemblance of heavyness sadness moroseness c. a very pretty comparison the lively resemblance of dead dullthings I know by others its said so to be derived Quod indicia animi prae se farat But why not more likely from Frondis the branch of a tree because it lively resembles the invisible dilemma's and divarications some mens Wives place there Page 222. Vultus a voluntatis indicio why not from volvendo as some have derived it or rather from Vulva because of their lively