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A00508	The difference betwene the auncient phisicke, first taught by the godly forefathers, consisting in vnitie peace and concord: and the latter phisicke proceeding from idolaters, ethnickes, and heathen: as Gallen, and such other consisting in dualitie, discorde, and contrarietie And wherein the naturall philosophie of Aristotle doth differ from the trueth of Gods worde, and is iniurious to Christianitie and sounde doctrine. By R.B. Esquire.	Bostocke, Richard.; Bostocke, Robert, attributed name.	1585 (1585)	STC 1064; ESTC S104447	72,740	182

of true Physicke because as Plato sayth he that is ignorant in diuine thinges cannot haue right vnderstanding in prophane learning As Apollo and Aesculapius all the Grecians at that time were without the true knowledge of GOD and were Idolaters and both they were honored as Gods and ech of them had a temple dedicated to him But it should seeme by that Plato hath written and Plinie also that their Physicke was altogether Surgery Wherevnto Cicero doth seeme to cōsent in his third Booke de Natura deorum ascribing to Aesculapius the first inuention of bynding and healing of woundes Sabellicus also Strabo do write that the old Physicke was rude and their medicines were such onely as were found out by chaunce to haue holpen any bodie and such they did minister vnto those that were sicke of like deseases Aesculapius did not meddle with bodies infected with inward sicknesses but onely prescribed to such a dyet about meate and drinke as one did to Euripilus that was wounded at the siege of Troy in the presence of his two sonnes Machaon and Podalirius and as they two did to Menataus whom Pandar woūded there because they thought deseases did commonly come to man either by externall hurtes as by pricking cutting or brusing or els did chaunce to him by euill dyet lacke of exercise and euill order of his liuing therfore they thought it necessary to helpe them that were so hurt But they thought as long as men vsed good dyet exercise and good order of life they cōtinued in health and prolonged their life at ease Therefore Phocilides vsed to say that the liuely vertue and power of the body must be exercised whilest wee bee able But Plato sayth that Aesculapius and others were of this opinion that he which would not liue in the appointed and accustomed rule and order of life but by incontinencie of liuing did fall into deseases was not profitable for himselfe nor for others and that the Arte of Physicke had nothing to doe with such nor serued for them and that such ought not to bee cured though they were richer then Midas And that it was against reason to thinke that men should neede Physicke for Rewmes Distillations and for the griefes of the swellings of the inwarde spirites which come through delicacy of liuing and slouth and lacke of good order in liuing and therefore proueth that those deseases were not knowne to Mahaon and Podalirius at the siege of Troye Asclepyades also the Physition sayd that health consisteth in abstinence of meate and drinke and in ryding walking and running Then resteth to consider what maner medicines they vsed in Surgery I doe reade in Plato in the 31. Booke and 3. Dialogue de iusto that when Pandarus had woūded Menalaus at the siege of Troye after Mahon and Podalirius had dried vp the blood of his woundes with their handes they did anoynt the woūd with mitigating Balmes or Oyntments and prescribed him a certayne order and forme of dyet in his meate and drinke Wherby it appeareth that the maner of their Surgery was like vnto that of the Chymicall Surgions whose maner is with Oyles and Balmes to pacifie nature and to keepe the wounde defended from accidents and to leaue the cure to nature which is able then to be his owne Surgion And more playnly to proue their doctrine one Petrus Hasardus is sufficient witnesse who in his French Epistle before the great Surgery of Paracelsus writeth that as he trauailed through the Countrey of Lyuonia he ariued in a certaine Monastery there where he taried two daies in perusing the Lybrarie and there he found two peeces of the workes of the same Mahacon and Podalirius which intreated fully that Chymical forme and maner of doctrine About the tyme of Apollo that is the yeare of the world 2697. liued Orpheus the Thracyan and was the first that is remembred to haue written of Hearbes as some say exactly and he founde out remedies for many deseases After hym followed one Musaeus his Scholler After them liued Hesiodus in the yere of the world 3111. After him liued Pronopis the Master of Homer which likewise had knowledge of Hearbes in the yere of the worlde ●258 Thales Milesius liued in the yeare of the worlde 3379. and before Christ 584. He trauayled into Aegipt and brought into Greece greate knowledge in the Mathematicalls Ameristus or Mamercus succeeded him Before this tyme was one Sisiphus otherwise called Theosophos a famous Physition Chapter 12. Of Pythagoras and his knowledge in this Arte and that he taught in Italy and of his Schollers and folowers And of the medicin of Empedocles And of 70 Bookes that Esdras was commaunded to keepe ABout the yeere of the worlde 3434. liued Pythagoras a Grecian famous for his wisedome and diuine knowledge and for his learning in the Metaphisickes and Mathematicals he labor●● much in Arithmetick he brought Geometrie to perfection as Laertius writeth He lest diuers rules of Astrologicall proguoslic●tion and of this arte some what he found out Musicke in the starres and deriued the same to mittigate the affections of the mynde he did write of the effect of herbes He trauayled into Persia Arabia Aethiopia and Aegypt for learning and knowledge he was conuersant with the Priestes of the Jewes after he had once professed their Religion After his returne hee taught in Italy Hee was a great Cabalist Some say that one Phericides was his teacher which did first write de Natura After Pythagoras in this learning knowledge succeeded as his scholers and folowers Telanges his sonne after hym Xenophanes Archilas Philolaus Lisias Parmenides Leno Eleates Anaxagoras Leucippus Democritus Nausiphales Naucides Epicharmus Alchmeon Epimenides For Aeliames lib. 9. writeth that all the Pithagoreans were studious in Phisicke and many auncient kings and others before the time of Pythagoras were studious in phisicke which I doe omit putting you first in remembrance of Empedocles a singuler Philosopher and notable Phisition about the yere of the world 3308. Suidas writeth of a medicin that hee vsed to minister called Apnus which was of that nature y t it would preserue a mans body 30. dayes without meat that was speachlesse and ready to giue vp the Ghost for so doeth the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifie I thinke the Phisitions the folowers of the Ethnickes wil confesse that it is no part of their profession to make such a Medicine and that their grosse medicins can haue no such vertue because the knowledge of such medicins doth depend vpon Metaphisicke and supernaturall principles which Empedocles Pithagoras Democritus Plato and diuers others doe maintaine in naturall things contrarie to the grosse Phisicke About the yere of the worlde 3503 liued Esdras to whome the most high gaue vnderstanding and commaundement to write and to whom the most high spake thus The first bookes that thou hast written publish openly that the worthy and vnworthy may reade But the last seuentie bookes kepe that thou mayst giue them

into sweete mittigat corrosions heates tastes smelles Coagulations c. of medicines and make them volatill and spirituall to helpe and cure spirituall and long circulated diseases For this cause Erastus and others not conceauing a right the meaning of Paracelsus doe imagine a construction of their owne heads ond braines of that they read in him which is not agreeable with his meaning and vpon such an absurditie of their owne deuise they make long discourses and goe about to disprooue that which is not affirmed or that which they can not skill of I would such folowers of the Ethnickes did in this followe their Prince Captayne Gallen as they doe in the rest of his doctrine which being demaunded at any time of any Sect being himselfe addicted to noue whether it were sound or good or no vsed to say that he could not make any answer there unto vnlesse he had first learned all their decrees and determinations perfectly and had gotten a briefe method to iudge them for no man sayeth he can iudge of things to him vnknowen But alas herein the cause of this Chimicall phisicke consisteth in a desperate state for though this Arte be shewed by worke and experience and experiēces which doe agree with nature and do bring forth like actions by the cause of all certeintie yet it may not come to that triall for in the scholes nothing may be receiued nor allowed that sauoreth not of Aristotle Gallen Auicen and other Ethnickes whereby the yong beginners are either not acquainted with this doctrine or els it is brought into hatred with them And abrode like wise the Galenists be so armed and defended by the protection priuiledges and authoritie of Princes that nothing can be allowed that they disalowe and nothing may bee receiued that agreeth not with their pleasures and doctrine whatsoeuer is ministred to any person according to their rules and Canons although it be to the destrunction of the patient must be reputed accepted ratifyed allowed and accompted learnedly well and rightly done and they are excused and discharged of their fact by the lawe called Lex Aquilia But as long as the vns kilfull and fluggish Phisition may enioy that immanitie and freedome and as long as it shalbe allowed in the Scholes to be heresie and foule ignoraunce to speake against any partof Aristotle Galen Auicen or other like heathens doetrine as long as the Galenists may shrowde themselues vnder the Wings and protection of Princes Priuiledges and Charters the cause of the Chimycall Phisition must needes lye in a desperate state And no man almost shalbe able to attayne to the perfection in true Phisicke As long as Scotus or Thomas Aquinas and such other were so priuileged in the scholes that no interpretation of Gods worde was allowed but such as was brought out of them or agreed with them the cause of true Religion and seruing of God was in desperate state and it lay oppressed and hidden And as long as those that were noseled in such puddle were mainteyned defended and priuiledged by princes and potentates it was hard for trueth to shewe his face abroade openly Wherefore if the Chymicall doctrine agreeing with Gods worde experience and nature may come into the Scholes and Cities in steade of Aristotle Gallen and other heathen and their followers And if it were lawfull I and commendable for euery honest student to labour in the Philosophicall searching out of the trueth by the fire or otherwise and thereby either confirme and make manifest the trueth by this Arte tought cather to adde newe things wel tried to the old that be good and then to reiect the other vastard adulterat sophisticat stuffe and so ioyne words and deedes together then should there be no time spent in vayne and vain glorious bable and sophisticall disputations without due triall by labor and worke of fire and other requisite experiments then should it easely be seen whether Gallen and other heathen or the Chimests were most to be folowed and allowed And whose writings and trauailes were more auaileable for mans health either conseruing or restoring who seeketh more paynefully faythfully sincerely charitably and Christianlike for the certeine helpe of his neighbour and not for lucre or veine glory and pompe the auncient Chimical Phisition or Gallen and his folowers Then as Galen the prince of their Phisicke sayeth if men would not bee sworne to the wordes of any master or teacher they woulde choose out of eche thing that were best and would not be slaues to followe or name them selues either of Hypocrates Praxagoras or of any other man Chater 10. The first authors of the auncient Phisicke and the Succession and Progression thereof to Hermes Trismegestus and how the rest writing thereof yet extant FOR the Authros Inuentors originall succession and progression of this auncient Chimycall Phisicke whose studie and vse doeth flowe out of the fountaines of nature and is collected out of the Mathematicall naturall and supernaturall precepts as is aforesaid in the beginning hereof it is to bee vnderstanded that Adam by diuine reuelation or by arte giuen to him of God did foretell of the vniuersall destruction of the worlde one by water the other by fire And no doubt he was indowed with singular knowledge wisedom and light of nature that assoone as he did behold any beast he by by did so exactly know all their natures powers properties and vertues that he gaue them names apt meete and agreeable to their natures and properties whereby it appeareth he knewe the natures and properties of things better then we whē we haue spent all our life time in searching out their natures which was a singuler gift of God pleased him mightely The sonnes of Seth which were his Nephewes receyuing wisdome knowledge from the hands and deliuery of their Auncitors least that the Mathematicals and that knowledge they had so learned should perish with the fludde did erect two Pillers in which they did ●ngraue their learning knowledge and inuētions out of the which they that should be preserued from the fluddde might learne those knowledges cunning and Arte ss Iosepus writeth in his first booke Chap. 13. of Antiquities which did see one of the Pillers that was of stone in his time standing in Syria as he writeth Abraham the Prince of faith was borne in that Countrey where those Mathematicals and other knowledges learning was thus preserued and continued 292. yeres after the Flood in the yeare of the world 1949. This Abraham hauing knowledge in the Mathematicalls which in his Countrey were preserued as is aforesayd by the wonderfull harmony of the worlde did ascende to the knowledge of the one onely God as some say But rather thereby he did see and perceiue the inuisible thinges of GOD that is his eternall power and Godhead by the creation of the world And he being the mightie and renowmed father of the elect nation no doubt was a greate Deuine as hee was excellent

to the wise among the people For in them is the veine of vnderstanding and the Fountaine of wisdome and the riuer of knowledge in which 70. bookes as some thincke be contayned the vnderstanding of this arte out of the which the worthy from time to time haue receaued the vayue of vnderstanding of this Arte. Chapter 17. That Phisicke which Hypocrates left in writing was not descended from Aesculapius NOwe are wee come to the time of of Hipocrates of Cous in Greece which liued at the tyme of the wars of Peloponensus which began about the yere of y e world 3536. Gesnerus and Andreas Lacuna for credit of their Phisicke say that he was descended from Aesculapius and that Apollo taught Aesculapius Phisicke which likewise did teach his sonnes which were called Asclepiades after their father Aesculapius and so Phisicke by inheritance successiuely did descende from the Parents to the Children vnto Hypocrates And that it was not lawfull for them to communicate the same to any man that was not borne of that family or kinred therefore they that were cunning in that arte were called the sonnes of Phisitions And though his ancestors kinred before him did deteine their arte in their families did not cōmunicate y e same to others yet he reduced it into method and did commit it to writing that it might be common to all men And therefore he is sayde to be author of method and princeps naturalis medicine and the first that did write of Phisicke That Hypocrates was descended from Aesculapius I will not contend because it should seeme by auncient writers to be so or els for reputations sake they did terme him of that progenie But that the Phisick which Hypocrates did leaue in writing was in all poynts the selfe same which Aesculapius did learne of Apollo his father and which he did teache to Machon and Podalirius and was deliuered successiuely by tradition downe the right lyne from them to Hypocrates by the space of 800 yeres for so long time was betweene Aesculapius and Hypocrates is hard to be proued because tradition of doctrine without writing not cos●sting vpon naturall practise nor continuing in one place certeine but at large is no faithfull preseruer of the trueth therof so many yeres neither is it like that the issue of Aesculapius line could bee knowen and did not fayle in 800 yeres nor cease nor degenerate from the steps and studious loue of that arte of their Auncestors neither is it lyke that Hypocrates woulde haue broken his oth if it were true that goeth vnder the name of iusiurandum medicorum Asclepiadarū or Hipocraticū iusiurandū and would make that common which shoulde haue bene kept so secret But if the Phisicke of Apollo Aesculapius was any other then exercise of Surgery as is aforesayd then no doubt was their medicins simple pure and like to the Aethereall fire and therefore altogether vnlike vnto grosse medicins that be nowe stoutly defended as is before declared And that it may appeare that the phisick which Hypocrates had learned was not so precious nor kept so secret in one kinred line and family as we are borne in hand thou must vnderstand gentle Reader that Plinie in his 29 booke cap. 1. and Strabo in his 8. booke doe write that from the time of Aesculapius Phisicke laye hidden and couered in most thicke darkenesse vntill the time of Hypocrates which did bryng it to light by this meanes For whereas it was the maner and fashion of those that were cured and deliuered from any sicknesse to write in the Temple of Aesculapius which was in Cous the maner forme of their remedie and cure thereof to the ende that the like diseases might be by them cured Hypocrates did write out these Medicins and out of them began Phisicke Here thou seest gentle Reader that the Phisicke of Aesculapius was not knowē at Cous at the tyme of Hypocrates but he out of the experiments of olde wiues men and women of the Countrey and Citie which were not kept secret but by custome and vsage were written and fastened to the wall of Aesculapius his Temple openly to be seene he deriued his Phisicke He wrote out those experienses of men and women of all sortes he brought them into order Out of the which afterward he drewe Aphorismes and briefe Rules of Phisicke Besides this it hath bene sayd of some that Hypocrates for enuie that he bare to Aesculapius did set a fire his temple and so consumed the writings of the auncient Phisitians And besides them that bee folowers with them it appeareth by Sudas and other writers that before Hypocrates diuers did write of Phisicke though we haue not their works extant among vs as Democritus the Sonne of Caliphon which was Aesculapius his Priest Nichomachus the Sonne of Machaon did write sixe bookes of phisicke and one of Philosophie Also Hypocrates the first of the seauen which Suidas speaketh of did write of Phisike Orpheus also did write of hearbes and so did Pithagoras and diuers others whereby it appeareth that Phisicke was not kept so secret in one famely but it was at libertie for euery man to see their writings But this is true y t they which did write of y e right true aunciēt phisick Chimical did write darkly and in figuratiue kind of speaches to the entent they would only be vnderstoode of the children of their Science And therefore they did write filiis scientie So they which were cunning in that Arte might well be called the Sonnes of Phisitions as is before declared But to what purpose should any man write darkely of that Phisicke which is so grosse whose medicins be so common to olde wiues and men and women of all sorts And why should any man be called the Sonne of a Phisition for such Medicins rather then the man or woman of the Countrey which had done the like good with such a medicine as the professor of Phisicke did Chapter 10. That Democritus Abderites a Thacian did write of this arte whose bookes are yet extant and of his teachers Scholers and followers and of some of their workes yet extant DEmocritus Abderites of Thracia was in the tyme of this Hypocrates He was olde whē Hypocrates was young Anaxagoras and Lacippus were his teachers Also he trauayled into Caldea Aegipt and Persia for to learne their knowing and knowledge He had a notable Scholler called Metrodorus whose Scholler was Anaxarchus He did write two Bookes one called Magnus diacosmus that is to say of the gouernment and distinction of the nature of thinges and one other de natura mundi He was skilfull in all kinde of Phylosophie naturall morall Mathematikes Metaphysicks and Logick He also did write one excellent worke intituled Democritus de Arte Chimica vel de Arte sacra siue de rebus naturalibus misticis intreating of this Art in effect like vnto that of Hermes Trismegestus aforesayd which is yet extant among vs. Sinesius