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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

to that I may cleer my self and certifie who is illiterate as to the knowledge of things conducible to our better State for that 's the principal end of Language or who of us is the pretender to the Art of Physick or Chymistry that ingenious men may understand the meaning of those terms which you like a cunning Gipsie hoping thereby to suggest to the Reader that no matter of Moment is contained in the whole Tenour of my words call Canting The Efficacie or Inefficacie the Innocence or Nocence of the Stom Esse alias stiled by you Pepper-drops which you maliciously ignorantly vilifie to gratifie the Apothecaries and their poor-spirited Doctors who are forced in this Exigence to truckle to close in and to carry fair with those whom I am certain they cordially hate Neither shall I at present use better Arguments to instigate you to this laudable Galeno-Chymical tryal then those proceeding from your own mouth thus declaring It is a saying in the Civil Law Plus valet umbra Experti Senis quàm Eloquentia Juvenis and those Philosophers which would upon certain prejudicate Opinions and pretences of Reason determine of Medicinal cases are exploded even by Galen Nothing is firm in Physick but what is confirmed by a happy experience And 't is an Imbecillity in judgement saith the great Stagyrite to desert Experience and adhere to Reason I assure you Sir if you lay aside your Multiloquie your boasting of particulars rarely happening instances or examples of Cures past if you wave your mustering and summoning in Authors like to like insignificant as to confute any sagacious Philosophers senses If you forbear your raillery which I fear will hardly be done being so natural to you and adhere to several equal Experiments which you or my self shall propose I protest I will kiss your hand and altogether expunge out of my thoughts any Animosities you have given me cause to harbour against you Wherefore I shall endeavour what possible to stop all your starting holes leaving but one passage which will undoubtedly lead us in the direct way of Truth and speedily decide our Controversies In the first place I courteously offer to you some Essaies tending to the discovery of the Efficacie or Inefficacie of Bloud-letting according to those suppositions you have set down in your Epistolary Discourse Chuse you one of a full Athletick habit of Body afflicted with an Acute or Chronick Disease order him according to your Method by a previous Sanguimission Let us hear before your first attempt of a hopeful Cure what immediate solace or real asswagement introductory to a sound future recovery from this or that sickness barring Opium you can promise in what time you can judiciously engage the danger of the Disease to be past likewise secure seldom erring the Patient from any tedious infirmity as Ague Dropsie Scurvy Consumption commonly ensuing an Accute Grief Be pleased in like manner to destinate to my share one equally Plethorick also every way affected as your aforesaid sick person so nigh as we can deem whom I shall undertake to handle without the emission of Bloud so as to give you some speedy Alleviation to a purpose without offering him any Papaverous preparation I shall also deliver a satisfactory prediction concerning the event of the Malady then let indifferent Judges censure us according to the performances of such who takes the right Method of Curing by moving the Cause of the Disease radically and by preserving the strength proportionally Thus will we proceed to reiterated Probations I once again earnestly press you to accept of the just and strict division of the Hospital sick wretches into two parts the priviledge of the Election of one half being allowed to you then will we fall to our Work demonstrating who according to your great Stagyrite is guilty of imbecility of judgement Moreover I conjure you if you have any Piety Honesty or Sobriety in your Actions to entertain some of those equitable experimental Proposals described in Haematias Pag. 117 118 119 120 121. Thus omitting an empty noise of vain-glorious bragging of those Experiments we have perhaps like good old Women atchieved in reference to the Cure of poor Mortals we will conclude to be tryed judiciously whether we are able to undertake and accomplish our Cures with as much certainty as an expert Mechanick can oblige to make a good Watch or the like Engine being seldom mistaken therein By this means it will be detected whether Bloud-letting doth for the most part hit the mark of Sanation according to Election and Discretion or whether it be introductory as you have asserted for the extirpation of Diseases which in despight of all Opponents I can maintain to be generally seated in the Stomack Spleen or parts adjacent Hence it will appear whether it be any whit proper to let out the Vital Juyce in the Plague which that you or any late Fugitives should stand up for being altogether a stranger sensibly to its Nature argues transcendent Ignorance and superlative Impudence Hence we shall finally discuss whether letting out the Bloud in the Small Pox be not far more dangerous and less effectual for a fundamental Cure then the keeping it in and so rather to trust to excellent Medicaments which may safely discharge the Stomack of Impurities sweeten Acidities allay a super-Fermentation or Ebullition of the Bloud hinder its Coagulation mortifie the Malignity scatter a great part of the Peccant Matter insensibly keep up strongly the Vital Spirits withal cause the less Scars to ensue in the Skin I hope I shall hereby vindicate my Remedies from your virulent Slanders in particular the Stomack-Essence scoffingly called by you Pepper-drops which being full of Salt the unsavory Galenists stand in great need of although their pride will not suffer them to make use of it for the preservation of their suspected Fame from an ill Odour This Remedy I question not to protect maugre all oppositions as the most innocent prevalent Remedy in Healing above any preparation which may be purchased at so easie a rate in England In this civil most commendable reasonable useful practical Contest it will come to light whether the Galenists can in any Adequate Measure overcome those Atrocious Calamities of Body which at this day rage among us without the help of Chymical Medicaments the Oblation of which they oftentimes make secretly to their Patients attributing the happy success coming upon them to their feculent Galenical Mixtures yet railing against publickly and condemning the former being the best flower in their Garden ready to help them at a dead lift By this means it will be made evident what a vast difference there is between Ol●um Vitrioli Sulphuris Mercur. Dulc. Praecipi Rub. Abb. Turb Miner Croc. Metallo Spiri Sal. vulg the use whereof I have many years ago quite left off for as much as they are justly suspected as hazardous in comparison of others Philosophically handled as Essent Stomachi Pil. Polycre nost

have contumaciously pleaded and defended their unjust Cause so that Divisum Imperium cum Iove Daemon habet For all that 't is plain they have lost a great part of the former possession of their Coemeteries and many intelligent persons daily fall off from them yea I question not but at length they will quite be thrown out of all although they pretend to have eleven points of the Law on their side What Stubbe describes that our Party hath been not onely out-talked but out-done by theirs as likewise that the Cures of Erastus transcend those of Paracelsus is Decumanum Mendacium For as to his first assertion I am ready to offer to contradict and out-do them which they dare not put to tryal Touching the second the Bishop of Salisbury hath sufficiently informed us by an Epitaph of a Catalogue of Diseases reputed by the Galenists incurable overcome by Paracelsus Arcana Stubbe threatens a prudent Regulation of their Faculty I wish I could see it but I suppose it must be done if ever by the Authentick Chymist I also hear a rumour of a new Dispensatory coming to light I hope some Culpeper will not be wanting to correct and comment upon it I wish their new Fabrick be laid upon the Basis of Righteousness which I much doubt sith the ground-work thereof is too much placed upon Galenical principles a most sandy foundation Pardon me courteous Reader that I have insisted so long upon the sharp reproof of the vanities and untruths of this Adversary of the Chymical Science I should not question to have made you amends could we but have drawn this Mountebank-like or Quacksalvering-Galenist to an experimental S●ake It would make rare sport to see how the Chymical Mountebanks and Quacks would hate him if he could not make good his Hypotheses for Bloud-letting Wherefore seeing I cannot at present bring him to any handsome terms so that a Specimen of his activity of Curing he glories in might be manifested I leave him to those like himself So let them fight Dog fight Bear when they meet one with another I shall onely add this Caution that those Plagiaries would desist for the future to steal useful verities out of Paracelsus and Van Helmont yet ungratefully and disingenuously to detract from and disown them neglecting to commend the Stile or Bridge they pass over For 't is an infallible truth No fixed great Disease can be cured but by the Method and Medicaments proportionable to what that great Philosopher hath delivered A Vindication of the Authors Stomack-Essence and other effectual Remedies from the slanders and active ignorance of the Galenists THat the greatest enemies which have hitherto calumniated yea at this day do defame supplant and hinder the advancement of this beneficial most useful Chymical Science as likewise eclipse the credit of the true Philosophical Defenders of the same are the meerly interested obstinate and wilfully blinde Galenists is a truth as clear as the beams of the Sun no way intercepted The pretty pranks these sophistical Wits have play'd out of a designment to suppress the happy progress of the Helmontian Doctrine would make a man sometimes laugh with Democritus To look no farther then their ridiculous Apologies Excuses and Pretences if at any time they are provoked to fair Tryals for making good the Axioms of their Art To contemplate their childish evasions when they are Non-plust in their natural Philosophy not able to satisfie any Intelligent person To observe their Vulpone-like windings intrigues and nimble diversions when physical Truth follows them closely at the heels To hear them chatter like Magpies without any savory solid practical information to the Hearers To discover their Stellionated and counterfeit Devices in making the World believe that they are the onely true Chymists yet they renounce and rail against the best endowed Artists To hear them magnifie their Bleeding and Pharmacie yet to leave the City in Plague-time to shift for themselves would make any Splenetick Person break forth into a profuse laughter But to weigh seriously their Mortiferous Bloud-letting their Poysonous Purgations melting and reducing poor Mortals too soon to their first Principles whereby their very souls are sometimes damnified Their way of weakning Nature and strengthning Diseases their crucifying torturing Butchering yet ineffectual course by Issues Blisterings Scarifications c. their endeavours to stifle any good Remedie if it square not with their own particular vile respects To apprehend affectuously how many thousand poor Orphans and Widows are yearly made by these perverse Sectaries of Galen one who I believe was far more ingenuous than his Disciples to ponder I say these things from the very bottom of the intellectual part were sufficient to cause one to lament and weep bitterly with Heraclitus How these Misochymists have opposed all virtuous actions in Healing how they have still kept down by their usurped authority those who would willingly and up for the health of the miserable sons of Adam is not easily to be expressed by the tongue of any Mortal All their study hath principally been to defame detract and traduce those Worthies Paracelsus Van Helmont the Lord Bacon c. to wrangle with them to pick holes in their coat to examine with strict inspection their humane failings but slightly to pass by and disregard their extraordinary gifts and manifestation of Arcana's zealously communicated to posterity by which these ungratefull Persecutors of this Science are enabled to do something extraordinary covertly for the keeping up their tottering Credit Yea so malicious are the haters of physical ingenuity that they would if possible stifle any generous Medicament not squaring with their filthy lucre laziness and grandeur which the Wise Disposer of all things hath bestowed as he pleaseth upon those inconsiderable in their Blear-eyes and contemptible Chymists for greater benefit to mankinde then the huge Pile of an ignoble insufficient Dispensatory contrived by vulgarly admired over-valued Doctors So full of rancour and malice are the Galenists against the upright Pyrotechnists that a Iew never hated a Samaritan more then they do these yea such hath been the desperate ill-favoured designes of a Dogmatist against a Chymist that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 many a generous Philosopher hath for the stable avouching the Virtues of Chymical Remedies made of Tartar c. been in danger to be sent packing to the Tartarean-shades Yea so Cynick-like envious are they that imitating the Dog in the Manger they will neither labour to do good themselves nor suffer others If an honest Mr. Iob Weal a singular Physician and accurate Apothecary have by his industry acquired the knowledge of an efficacious preparation as Lac Sulphuris they presently cry out of it as Poyson fitting to be thrown into the Kennel If Dr. Godhard one of their former Sociates obtained the happiness to have revealed to him the powerful Operation of some Volatile Alkalies which Cure beyond their weak non-sensical Method and Medicaments they presently excommunicate and endeavour to out-law