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A67812	Medicaster medicatus, or, A remedy for the itch of scribling. The first part written by a country practitioner in a letter to one of the town, and by him prefaced and published for cure of John Brown, one of His late Majesties ordinary chyrurgeons, containing an account of that vain plagiary and remarks on his several writings : wherein his many thefts, contradictions, absurdities gross errors, ignorance, and mistakes are displayed and divers vulgar errors in cyrurgery and anatomy refuted / by James Young.	Yonge, James, 1647-1721.	1685 (1685)	Wing Y40; ESTC R27595	92,013	244

the heart of a person that survived it Matth. Glandorp Spec. Chirurg cap. 33. relates that Rabbits lived many months after they were run through the heart Page 254 261. Sken●kius saith the like of a Stagg and of one in whose heart a piece of an Arrow was found that had long stuck there that a Boy was cured cui os pectoris excisum cor aliquandiu nudum apparuit nam involucrum ejus computruerit the History page 254. which he calls a wound of the Tunicle of the heart was undoubtedly as his Author first thought of the heart it self Page 256. He reports that some have been found without * Miscell curios Vol. 5. obs 25. hearts as doth also Hildanus cent 4. obs 51. Moronus Index page 85. Tillesius rer nat ubi supra my Lord Bacon Mr. Boyle vide Bart holin † Lib. 2. cap. 6. Anat. Reform Editio ultima Rhodius obs 39. cent 2. relates the cure of a large wound of the Pericardium he supposeth that wounds of the heart it self are incurable and saith there was a Stagg who had a small piece of Dart sticking in his heart sine vitae noxa that a Boy was dissected without a Pericardium But what need I say any more when our most agreeable Scribler is his own Confuter for after all his positive Prognosticks page 23 273 c. he very fairly confesseth that superficial wounds here hapning may be c●●red I have taken unusual pains and been very particular on this point partly to refute our Confident partly to shew the incertainty and fallacy of many presages delivered by the first Writers and the vanity of relying on them but cheifly to perswade my Brethren of the Plaister-box that no wound is incurable and beat them out of the contrary discouraging and mischeivous opinion The vital flame in the heart and the airs ingress then and mixing its nitrous particle with the bloud are things much controverted among learned men though positively affirmed by our Author I will say only this that I am sure he understands not that controversy and that many very eminent Anatomists are against the later Hypothesis vide Dr. Harveys Proem to his book de Corde circulatione Dr. Walter Needham format foetu cap. 6. where he declares it the Opinion of Dr. Highmore also Dr. Henshaw Aero chalinos page 62. beside Demerbrook Cornelius c. Page 281. He defines with most of the Ancients an Aneurisma to be a breach of the inner coat of an Artery the blood distending the outer which I know hath been the common Opinion but the absurdity thereof you will find well discovered by Van Horn Microtecne sect 1. paragr 15. page 215. Wiseman lib. 1. cap. 16. Pareus calls it the Rupture of an Artery the Blood extravasating among the Muscles and he himself varieth from his definition in the Histories he gives page 380. of his Book of Tumors where he hath a particular Chapter of this Disease which is of an Aneurism from a wound and saith in that Chapter that the common cause is puncturing an Artery But to be short in this Topick because in all the rest I shall have occasion to evince abundance of his Errours take those brief Instances which I shall but name page 23 29 44 45 273 and many other places he makes the heart the fountain of motion page 309. he calls the stomach a cold Intral and in reckoning the coats omits the crusta * See willis Pharm Rat. part 1. cap. 2. sect 1. villosa page 287. 297. he affirms the meseraick Veins convey the Aliment to the gate of the Liver and suck up the nourishment from the small guts page 227. he reckons the ascent and descent of the Cava from the Liver page 194. he suggests that the Heart and Liver are not only the Original of the Veins and Arteries but the Oceans from whence they fetch both their vital and natural blood and spirits page 179. that the Brain is made of sperm and maternal blood that it 's of a cold and moist temper page 198. the chief seat of cold and glutinous moisture that the Nerves are cold in nature and cold in substance Thus as I have said by his Ignorance in the improvement of our Art and injudicious sucking the fallible Principles and Opinions of the Ancients men to whom we are infinitely indebted and from whom it 's no detraction to say they knew not as much as is now known he runs himself into many gross errours and mistakes chiefly in Anatomy Prognosticks and Dogma's of which I shall superadd a few instances more and conclude this Head Page 316. He pronounceth Wounds of the Kidneys in general Mortal and inevitably so if the Pelvis be hurt though Pareus relates the story of an Archer condemned to be hanged and upon Solicitation by some great men who had been troubled with the Stone he submitted to have those Parts opened survived the operation was cured and pardoned We have also a Tradition that our Famous Harvey cut out a Stone from a mans Kidney But his old Friend and constant supplier Schenkius tells him Page 451. Three stories of Wounds of that Part cured and himself notwithstanding his Prognostick subjoins to this Chapter the History of another stoln from Glandorp See also P. Foresius obs Chir. 5. lib. 6. He discovers many errors in his discourse Page 266. of the Lungs and respiration positively presumes to determine the dispute as yet undecided among the best Philosophers and * Thruston Diatribe Mayow de respicar Willis Phar. Ration F. Burtis Epist Barthol Swammardam de Re spir Malpighius Casp Barthoy Dinphr struct Dr. Gibsons Epitom Dr. Needham de foe tu c. Anatomists of the Age viz. What 〈◊〉 the cause and use of Pulmonary respir●tion He saith Page 255 from Gale● that matter heaped up in the Breast pa●ing into the vena sine pari is through t●● vena ava carryed to the right Ventricl● of the Heart and passing thence DOWNWARD by the descending Trunk of the Cava to the Liver pr●mark how he contradicts what 〈◊〉 said Page 277 that the ascent and descent of this Vein was from the Liver It s carryed to the Emulgents Page 254. He delivers that Wounds penetrating the Breast are known by Wind coming through the Orifice Which is a fallible Diagnostick especially when the Wound is made by a small Rapier and the Body deflexed when it s received so that upon returning to a right posture the parts alter and cover one another in discoursing concerning Wounds of the Gullet he commits many mistakes Page 244 he saith that Pipe marcheth on the right side of the Spondyls that Deglutition is helped by the Muscles of the Larinx * Willis Pharm Rat. part 1. cap. 2. attributes nothing thereof to the Gullet whose Anatomy he doth not understand and accounts the Muscles of the Phariax among those of the Larinx He directs to Nutritive Glisters Page 246. Which I doubt do signifie little

Brain to Fire and the Sun for Heat Page 10. And yet in many other places talks of it at a rate as would chill a man to hear him Page 13. So also That the wheels and Instruments of our motions from first to last 14. are lodged in our middle Region That the Mediastinum keeps up the heart from falling 16. That the Pancreas is tyed to the Guts as a Pillow or Prop to keep up the Veines Arteries and Nerves 26. That cutting hare-lips belongs to the separative Part of Chirurgery reducing Ruptures and curing blindness 28. to the supplying Part. That Album or the Common white Ointment doth Agglutinate and Consloidate That solution of continuity must be removed 34. as if it were a substance and to be remedyed by Ablatrix 39. That Choler is bred out of the thin hot parts of the Chyle and hath no Spirits That insipidness is tastable 42. Page 51. That Aneurisms are Schirrus's and malignant Vlcers a Melancholy Tumor That an Abscess is a substance converted into Pus 57. that when white Pus is making a fever and pain occur Page 84. And yet atchieved without inflamation That HIPPOCRATES CHRISTIANNED all Tumors Oedema Page 66. That Flegm is the proper Instrument of the joints 67. That the great Artery is not descending untill it be as low as the Navel 75. That Rue and Scordium are cold Antidotes 119. That a hot intemperiety of the Liver breeds a plentiful quantity of bloud and a flux of humors to the face causing an Erysipelas there 178. That there is a double humor in a Carbuncle the one flowing the other flowed 191. That a Gangreen is a disease consequent to the effect not the cause That in an Unguis 251. Paulus adviseth to sprinckle a little salt in fine powder on it mixed with the white of an egg and so applyed on Cotton or Lint That a pair of cold nippers or forceps 256. induce a Cicatrix 289. That a humor appearing outwardly is a most certain sign of an Empyema These and a great many more which I pretermit are wise sayings of ours kilful Author and need only be cited and exposed Some more concise phrases and modes of expression are Familiar to him as running soars calling in their leakage depopulating the flesh a heathen Christen a disease c. But I wave them chap. 29. He flourisheth in his discourse of Amputations at a rate that would tempt an unwary Reader to beleive he hath been a man of extraordinary practice in war's and experience in foreign Countreys beside a particular excellency in that operation but when you come to inspect his Chapter and compare it with other Authors or the most Common and vulgar way you will find it less considerable than the worst of them and that they signifie no more to instruct Youth or direct an Artist than the silly insignificant picture which he saith doth give a lively portaicture of this operation which its so far from being that scarce any thing can be less descriptive or more erroneous for he paints the Chirurgeon sawing upon the undivided flesh of a leg obliquely over the calf thereof and instead of a griper you have a fellow that looks more than half scared in the operators face and instead of griping leans upon the upper part of the patients knee he makes a ligature above the Elbow as if he were going to bleed him and passeth his knife as far below it no dress or Instrument in the whole scene save a knife and a saw with the teeth wrong set no dish of Ashes Rolers Fire Irons or other necessaries common in that work but the whole draught seems made by one possest which the vulgar error that Chirurgions in taking off the limb saw through flesh and all his nuncupative Directions are such as no less tempt me to beleive him a a stranger to the expert way of Amputation for he saith you must make strict bandage by a Roler below the knee and below that divide the flesh is any men the wiser for these Directions he calls a catling a dividing knife and adviseth therewith to separate the membrane it should be the flesh between the bones but not one word of the periosteum on them no other than a corrosive dress to the ends of the bone then he directs to unctuous and slabby dresses ev'n to the end of the cure which certainly can never cure the stump of a Leg of which he then discourseth for want of dryers and detergers to suppress the fungus and exuberant flesh and desiccate those stubborn difficult ulcers which they alway result into Moreover a man would expect from one of practice or skill a better Testimony than the dismembring a Child above the Elbow which is the only one he doth or perhaps then could produce de proprio as which that of a mans great Toe had been as considerable an instance I find him as I have already hinted often mistaken in the Chirurgical notion of Digestion and of the faculty of Digestive Medicine viz. That they rarify and discharge matter per poros cutis which is properly discussion dissipation or dispelling Digestion is by all Artists known to mean suppuration or maturation ripening or turning into Pus or quittor extravasate bloud lacerate fibres or other matter cast out of the vessels This every Boy knows to be the first Intention in curing wounds and he himself hath so said in the 69 Page of his Book of that Subject how different it is from his sense thereof in this place and elsewhere and how fit he is to write Books who hath so bad a memory and so wrong a Judgment I refer ev'n to himself An Hydrocephalus he saith Page 225. is to be cured by insensible evacuation as being that which he much better approves of than sensible BECAUSE it s neither so safe nor so secure Jesu He is so great an enemy to sense that he will not endure it in his practice how then can we expect it in his writings I perceive now the reason for all the errours non-sense and falshhoods in his Books i. e. because things less safe or secure are with him most eligible was there ever such a reason given before or any thing preferr'd on such a principle Well dear Squire next Edition of Bakers Chronicle thou shalt be recorded for one of the men of note in Charles the Seconds time should he endeavour to excuse his perverse passage by pretending it a slip of his pen or that he meant that the sensible was the less safe way how came he to overlook it when he corrected the Errata of the Press or what makes him speak so kindly of a Paracentesis in the same Chapter which he concludes with five stories all stoln from Schenckins Obs med Page 9. and mostly represented his wonted way in that from Leonellus puer a young child Scissurae apparebant apertae You

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 Observatio●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