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A62434	A letter sent to Mr. Henry Stubbe wherein the Galenical method & medicaments, as likewise bloud-letting in particular, are offered to be proved ineffectual or destructibve to mankind, by experimental demonstrations : also his answer thereunto by letter / on which animadversions are made by Geo. Thomson, Dr. of physick ; by whom is added a vindication of his stomach-essence, or alexi-stomachon and other really-powerful remedies, from the malicious slanders and active ignorance of the Galenists.	Thomson, George, 17th cent.; Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676. Mr. Stubbe's answer.	1672 (1672)	Wing T1025; ESTC R32804	28,813	33

him If a Learned Dr. Starkey prepare an Anodyne Pill or any Arcanum to lenifie poor Mortals grief they and all their Clients are presently in an uproar with Occlamitations that he is a dangerous Physician either quickly killing or curing Now it hath pleased the Omnipotent Philanthropos to impart to the meanest of his Servants the knowledg of this helpful Remedy the Stomach Essence and several other not vulgar Medicines they are ready in ambush upon all occasions to backbite disesteem carp cavil and condemn them as too hot strong dangerous and violent All which they will have simply believed without farther probation In the same manner as if one of the same Trade should depretiate vilifie or debase another Shop-keepers Commodities yet refuse to justifie by the Touch-stone of sensible examination before a lawful Magistrate the disrepute falsly brought upon anothers Wares certainly none ought to deny but that he who doth deal so unworthily in this kinde deserves to be forced in a legal way to give satisfaction to the wronged party This is all in chief I expostulate and demand of the Galenists that they would forbear unhandsomely to impeach my Medicaments according to their own perverse Opinions Suppositions or Phansies and crazie Conceits of their Populars without a right judicious visible legitimate proof That whensoever they injuriously call me Mountebank or Quacksalver or animate the more ignoble sort of Apothecaries for some of the gentlest ablest best Artists are more civil and handsome towards me so to do they would in earnest reflect upon themselves deliberately pondering who hath most aptly purchased these scoffs and taunts They who in time of the Plague ran away leaving Spiritus Antiloimoides to which they did not dare to trust themselves a very insufficient Medicament as I am ready to demonstrate against such an Atrocious Disease as it plainly appeared by its effects upon their Mock-Chymist Iohnson and others to be published in the Weekly Intelligence as if it were some rare Arcanum working Miracles whereas it was but a meer Meteor so vanished away never to be heard of by them or seen to this day Or this inconsiderable Baconist who with confidence and utmost care attended all infected persons that came or sent unto me poor as well as rich administring with my own fingers such appropriate Remedies without hanging out a Bush or setting any one to make an out-cry of their Hyperbolical Virtues which at this day I patronize as they are described in Loimotomia or Pest dissected ready to produce them for their vindication experimentally from the malice or ignorance of all Opponents Let those also who have got the best of their practice by means of a Theatrical concourse of Vulgars make a query in cooler Bloud when at any time in their furious passion they vent against me the foresaid invective undecent language an de Ipsismet fabula narretur whether they may not rather take themselves by the Nose setting the Saddle upon the right Horse then mount get up and ride openly into Smithfield or Tower-hill and forbear to go any more into A Corner Let them moreover canvase who of us have been the truest friend to the sick man keeping up the honour and reputation of Physick the Doctors who have vilely venditated it by their prophane prescriptions yea have suffered to be put into a Frame or pasted up and to be publickly exposed to all Passengers Medicaments perhaps so trivial and mean as the foresaid Spirit Antiloimoid approved and licensed under their Seal Or G.T. who hath always been prudently tender to bring any such Infamy upon Physick All things thus duly premeditated I know no reason but I may without scandal to this eminent Science bring to light decently for the solid benefit of my distressed Country-men some noble Remedies especially this comfortable Stomach-Essence declaring sincerely the singular endowments thereof for the health of man as I have by manifold repetitions of tryals found to be true The Vertues hereof I shall transcribe out of Haematiasis setting them down here more plainly that meaner capacities may understand the use or application of this Remedy which although one of my lowest rank is able explicately to baffle divers of H. S. Quacking generous Medicaments Notwithstanding first I must give warning to all intelligent men that the ignorant rash envious censures delivered by Stubbe and the rest of the Galenical Tribe with all their Sticklers to wit that Ess. St. is Preternatural or effectively too hot strong dangerous and violent are absolute untruths to be discovered by the Test of offered experience If then they refuse the probation of its innocence the Father of Lyes ought to be believed as soon as such his Disciples Wherefore I signifie that it exceedingly strengthens the Stomack helps its Digestion encreaseth and makes active the Vital Spirits and their instruments by which they work called Ferments rectifies the Spleen scatters and expels Wind Vapours or any wandring wilde Spirit which flies in a moment from one place to another vexing the parts It sweetens in some measure the sharpness of the thin liquors in the body which oftentimes causes pains fevers c. It subtilly enters the Veins and Arteries being carryed about with the Bloud which it very much cleanses It carries off to the outside whatsoever is impure causing a kindely breathing in the skin It also causeth Urine conveying Gravel from the Kidneys hindring that it may not be engendred and fixed It is helpful in difficulty and pain of making Water coming forth sometimes by drops 'T is of great service against pains of the side the Colick Griping of the Guts It is a very great Cordial preserving from fainting and restoring those who are surprized with loss of Vital Spirits It is very effectual to keep one from and to cure Surfeits It is very powerfully good against the Scurvy or any poysonous ill-conditioned infectious evils It prevents and helps to cure all kinde of Fevers It quencheth the thirst to an admiration above all supposed cooling things whatsoever So that a Gentleman Mr. Sa. Wainwright in York-shire hath given it under his hand that he was perfectly cured by means of this Stomack-Essence of a strange preposterous thirst troubling him twenty five years after Meat which he could never before conquer for that it came Hereditary from his Father and Grand-father afflicted therewith all their lives time especially towards night It bringeth Preternatural heat or coldness to a due moderation by removing the efficient Cause thereof reducing the parts to their former strength It is available against Fits of the Mother the Whites It dissolves congealed curdled Matter ripeneth Raw Juyces bringing them either to a better condition for the use of Nature or preparing them to be sent packing out of the body by convenient ways and medicaments It abates a nauseous Disposition or Vomiting by confirming the Membranes of the Stomack and by promoting the throwing off that which disturbs it It cutteth and cleanseth away slimy

A LETTER Sent to Mr. Henry Stubbe WHEREIN The Galenical METHOD MEDICAMENTS As likewise BLOUD-LETTING in particular Are offered to be proved ineffectual or destructive to Mankinde by Experimental Demonstrations Also his ANSWER thereunto by Letter On which Animadversions are made By GEO. THOMSON Dr. of Physick By whom is added A Vindication of his STOMACK-ESSENCE or ALEXI-STOMACHON And other really-powerful REMEDIES From the malicious Slanders and active Ignorance of the GALENISTS LONDON Printed for Nath. Crouch in Exchange-alley over against the Royal Exchange 1672. A LETTER Sent to Mr. Henry Stubbe SIR HAd not one Affliction upon the neck of another like Waves of the Sea rushed in of late upon me to the obscuration yea even almost subversion of the Intellectual Faculties of my Soul I had ere this retorted to your Reply and by a Chymical tryal discovered your malicious scurrilous false aspersions cast upon this noble Science of Curing Directly and the true Professors thereof Now sith it hath pleased the Omnipotent to give me an extraordinary Evasion out of the greatest Calamities I ever yet sustained being restored in some measure to my former Health and a more composed Minde I am firmly resolved if you stand not to the Test as to make good practically what you have divulged against me in your Epistolary Discourse to publish your sophistical impertinent frivolous Arguments of Bloud-Letting Your distortion of the solid genuine sence of those Reasons I have declared against it Your omission of answering to purpose that which I most insist upon for the Confutation of the Galenical Hypotheses in the Radical Cure of Diseases Your implicite concessions or subtile compliance with some Objections I bring against Phlebotomy yet a wrangling opposition made by you against the same Your useless cavlis about punctilio's or words when you neglect the reality of the main matter in Controversie Lastly your raillery and abusive language against those whose actions deserve not the least opprobrious speech from you 1. Be assured 't is not your artificial wily Disputations the copious citation of Authors of the same opinion with your self your Rhetorical Terms your Philologie or rather much babbling to the confusion of the thoughts of those who desire to be duly informed concerning the Nature of Things your confident mercenary scribling undertakings in the behalf of a company of disingenious Galenists shall ever run me down as you brag or dispossess me of the Truth of that Science in which my own and multitude of others senses have experimentally instructed me Till you convince me this way by Medicinal Actions deliberately entred upon performed judiciously you will never prevail with upright understanding Persons so far as to harbour any other belief but that you and your Abettors aim at your own unworthy interest rather then the fundamental Cure of Diseases Wherefore if in this particular ye desire to cleer your selves of what is yet deservedly laid to your charge let me supplicate you and the Incensors of your hired Pen as ye have any kindness for your King and Country to give me leave practically to exhibite before your eyes the legitimate sincere way of Curing by having regard to efficient central Causes of all Diseases without this circumcising Bloud-letting as I have stated it If then you will vouchsafe candidly to see what may be done solidly beyond your botching method by those whose Souls after they were taught better things by a plain search into Nature abhorred to commit the facture of Remedies which principally belongs to the Physitian to meer lucrifick Apothecaries we may have great hopes there will be an end put to these Heats and Animosities between us For 't is not your Malignant Accusation you lay to the Lord Bacon as Flagitious can invalidate his experimental Philosophy nor that effeminate or childish allegation against Van Helmont to wit that his Neighbours in the same Street knew him not when he was enquired after by Dr Kraft perhaps such a crafty as your self will move any one intuitively intelligent to disesteem so noble a Philosopher beloved of Heaven above others to whom was granted the greatest inspection into Nature above any we are this day acquainted with as I can make evident if need be In truth these Hypochondriack flatuous outrages of yours do not at all obscure these Heroes yet they much Eclipse your own parts Indeed you are herein to be pittyed that you should suffer your self thus willingly to be hurried away by your pestilent inordinate Passions to the prejudice of your better part the disparagement of Learning and the evil contagion of others This alone was a sufficient Testimony to me that you was obstinately bent to oppose me right or wrong as soon as I heard some months before the Edition of your Papers by a faithful friend having expostulated this Matter withal reproved you for calling me Mountebank as likewise reprehended your designe to write against my Physical Assertions what your excuse was your own heart being conscious of unhandsome dealing in the thing that you were put upon it to gratifie your Hyperbolically extolled Patron and so could not avoid it Is this worthy of a Philalethes to become a Mercenary to betary the most precious things existent in hope for this obedience to acquire some Secular preferment or recompence Certainly Mr. Stubbe you cannot but know your large Talent was concredited to you for more illustrious Ends then chiefly to gain a Temporary felicity here However although you have adventured upon an unjust Cause as I conceive by the Instigation of some Misochymists yet admit but a Pyrotechnical Tryal that the most ingenious of men may be assured who of us is mistaken I 'll engage should you be worsted to pass by all your Obloquies yea to sollicite those whom you have wronged by your virulent Tongue to do the same upon your serious Resipiscence which will infallibly bring you in a greater reward then your Patron will ever purchase for you how specious soever pretences may be made Neither let your inconsiderable thoughts you entertain of me take you off from the direct experimental Indagation after sanative verity sith you who have bestowed so much time and study in the Theory for the verbally refelling my Arguments so that you are forced to confess ridiculously pretending your self not able to comprehend my language you never under-went a more difficult Task in your life should not methinks shrink back in driving home and making good all your Reasons really by matter of Fact to my final Destruction which might if your abilities do permit be effected with far less Reluctancie Constraint or Penance then the late Work you undertook considering till then the wiser sort will look upon you as a company of onely wording Physicians destitute of wholesome Works One thing is very observable through your whole Discourse that whensoever you are every way beset by solid Truths in so much that no way is left to get out then you fall into scurrilous