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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

not good to break such Tumors by Art When in all probability the want thereof destroyed the Patient is strange History a very absurd reasoning Thus again Page 261 advising how to cure an Epulis or Fungus of the Gums he saith that which is not painful may be revelled the manner of which may be this way acted and perform'd by tying a double Thread about it and bring the same every day streighter until you have wholly eaten it away the makes no difference between Revelling and Extirpation nor Incision and Erosion By his Chapter of Struma's and Scrophula Page 265. I foresee how fit he is to write an entire Volum on that Disease he saith Scrophula is a Wen and Struma the Kings Evil and immediately subjoins Scrophula is soft and Wens are hard As if they were two which just before he had made one so Page 281. How their Tumors are Translated from one place to another attribute cheifly to the Nerves in their Operations these being most proper Messengers to carry to and fro This is not said like one that understood the Nerves nor is the Chapter written as if he knew either the causes or remedies of the disease it treats of for he saith nothing of what was most suitable to a Chirurgical discourse thereof viz. manual operation designedly omitted perhaps to make it a COMPLEAT Treatise I take the less notice of this Chapter because I expect a greater occasion from his Treatise of that disease Page 281. the second quotations here are stoln from * Obs med Page 210. Schenkius † Pract. lib. 6. cap. 7. or Riverius that of Aetius falsly said to be the 5 cap. lib. 6. Instead of lib. 15. cap. 6. Truely I have sought in Aetius both in his Chapter de Angina and where he relates the vertues of Agarick and can no where find what these men say as from him Agaricum occultos Abscessus absorbere vel for as materiam evocare which our plagiary thus renders Agarick doth suck up hidden Abscesses AND draw them outward monuiquene Illam statim deglutiret he was ordered not to swallow it he other waies spoyles the story by adding water to the gargle and divers omissions that made it considerable The Tonsils or Amigdals Page 283. he saith are made or framed out of a cold concreted oleaginous and malleous substance save only that its thicker and more firm and this he saith is allowed by Dr. Wharton Adenographia that he understood not though he would Ape that excellent and Learned Author pray consider his description of those Glands cap. 22. Substantia similaris tonsillarum friabilis quasi granulata est instar * From hence he saith they are malleous mellis aut olei frigore concreti nisi quod firmius cohaereat veluti membranea connexione Est similiter colori● subflavi tactui mollis coctione tamer induratur quippe dum cruda est spongiosa porosa conspicitur eam vero porositatem coctione amittit This he proceeds to translate They are of a yellow colour soft in touch but in being boyled hard spongious and porous Page 289. He delivers as a most certain sign in a Empyema that some humor appears outwardly lodging betwixt the Ribs and the exterior parts or it s discerned by its Tumor and after he hath very weakly treated of the disease omitting the best through common Remedies and exact way of apertion he gives us a curtaild story from Riverius in most parts of it falsly represented and abridged it being no where in the Original That the Patient was able only to walk upward or that the Abscess after it did break inward did also break outward Page 294. He saith Tumors of the Diaphragma are made of hot matters and in the next Page saith Phlebotomy is no way proper because the Peccant matter is cold in the end of the same Chapter he saith HE once saw in a Gentleman a Tumor bred in the Diaphragm out of crude and thin bloud in which pain and difficulty of breathing a ●hard and small pulse were present the matter humor was cold tough and crude This he relates as if it were is own when it s manifestly stoln from Schenkius Page 277 bating the contradiction and nonsence viz. That the humor was thin and yet tough the pulse hard and small and that for the performance of this disease there is required pain difficulty of breathing a hard small pulse little or nothing changing it self his account of a Gonorrhea and its causes is as full of absurdity and mistake as is that of Ruptures Page 300. viz. That they dwell in the Hypogastrick Region Page 310. Have their lively formes and shapes in the Tumors of the Testicles other humors have allowed them three Causes as being bred out of an influx of humors decumbency of parts or congestion the Testicles being the chief causes and effects of most of those Ruptures After many such wild assertions he falls into that common errour concerning the Testicles that they are Glandulous and for it quotes Celsus lib. 7. cap. 28. Where is no such thing it s an unhappy quality that as in this case where every Anatomist might have been cited as an evidence he chooseth one that comes not up to his case and can give him no help the place he meaneth must be the 18th not 28 chap. for that only treateth de testiculorum natura c. And therein he hath these words Igitur testiculi simile quiddam medullis habent nam sanguinem non emittunt omni sensu carent This is all the Description he gives of them and no where he saith they are Glandules or Glandulous I know Dr. Wharton lately so describes them as did Galen Fallopius Riolan Spigelius Veslingius Adenogr c. 28. Highmore c. But A. D. 1667. Reynerus de Graef an inquisitive Anatomist of Delph in Holland in his most Exact and Ingenious Treatise De virorum Organis generationi inservientibus as also in his defensio and Letter to the. Royal Society Philos. Transact Numero 52. where you have the Experiments of Dr. King confirming that of Mr. Graeff hath most unanswerably confuted that Opinion proved it a mistake and demonstrated that the Testicles devested of the tunica Albuginea are only a congeries of Vessels and their Liquors without any parenchyma congeries minutissimorum vasculorum semen conficientium quae siabsque Ruptione dissoluta sibi invicem adnecterentur facile viginti ulnarum longitudinem excederent illa enim qui testas corpora Glandulosa pronunciant vehementer errant quando quidem in toto teste neminima quidem pars glandulae conspicicatur How he swerves from the right notion of Hemorrhoidal Fluxes and the Anatomy of that part will be very plain to him that will compare it with the very just and ingenious account Mr. Wiseman gives thereof page 212. And although our Spark impudently affirmeth that Modern as well as Ancient Anatomists allow of his

Book of Galens Methodus Medendi which contains in all but 14. At the same rate he talks of a Delirium which he affirms is nothing else but a deprivation of motion and an alienation of sense I doubt the man speaks feelingly contained in the wounded brain by essence or consent and from deprivation of the principle faculties of motion is this delivered like one that understood plain Latin was it ever so mistaken by the most Ignorant and erroneous scribler is not the man possest with the disease that talks thus out of the way * Delirium is derived from de lira going crooked or out of the way is commonly englished doating or talking beside ones self as our Author now doth Let us compare it with other descriptions Galen lib. 5. de sympt causis omne delirium depravatus est principis Facultatis motus apravis succis aut cerebri intemperie ortum habens with this definition 1 lib. b. obs chir 22. Forestus 2 Instit Chyrurg lib. 2. cap. 4. Tagaultius Fr. 3 de delirio in vuln lib. 2. cap. 28. Peccettus and some others acquiesce and without doubt our Ingenious Author aimed and intended to express himself in this sort too but wanting sense and Latin enough to do it hath failed and most egregiously erred not understanding the difference between deprivation and depravation and that depravatus est principis facultatis motus is in plain English a depraved motion of a principal faculty not a deprivation of motion as he saith in one place or a deprivation of the principle faculty of motion as he mistakes it in another of this Chapter Hypocrates calls it levem desipientiam but * tetrah serm 1. cap. 22. Aetius gives a very strange Character thereof and fatuity oriuntur ambae affectiones frigidorum cerebro facto aliquando vero modica pituita ad cerebrum illapsa Alex Benedictus differs not much from him * lib. 1. cap. 28. Avicen delirium est mentis alienation est symptoma actionis animalis depravatae with this 1 P. M. cap. tract 2. B. Bauderon 2 I. M. lib. 1. cap. 3. F. Planterus * canon 3. and 3 lib. 1. p. 11th cap. 6. Sennertus sit down As to other moderns 4 ● M. lib. 1. cap. ●1 Riverius saith per delirium Ratiocinationis errorem prcecipue intelligimus 5 cap. 15. lib 9. A. Pareus calls it a perturbation of the faculties and functions of the mind from pain feverishness venemous myasma or expence of Spirits 6 lib. 2. cap. 34. Vigierus Pary Willis and almost all Authors although they write of it in distinct Chapters do carefully note that its a Symptom 7 Anim. Brutor Willis calls it a hurt of the animal function such as ariseth in the paroxsms of fevers drunkenness hysterick c. making men speak think and do foolish and absurd things for some time caused by an irritation or confusion verum in delirio spiritus simul omnes exiliunt sibi invicem tumultuose occursantes aut se varie proripientes velut choreas Bacchantium agunt Agreeable to which are the definitions of * nov Idea lib. 2. c. 14.15 c. Sltvius de Boe. † lexic. medicum Blancardus c. now consider how much our Author is beside the Cushion not only in his most scandalous notorious mistranslation of Galens definitions and the Impertinent method he directs for deliriums arising from wounds but the notion of the thing it self which is no more like his he would imitate nor any other extant that I know than it is to sense for inquietude perturbation garrulity c. are the common Smyptoms and diagnosticks of the disease which he quite contrarily calls nothing else but a deprivation of motion and an alienation of sense a description that hath no foundation in Authority experience or reason if he can prove the contrary he shall be to me a great Apollo thus he delivers himself like a man that understood not what he was doing and although a most ridiculous Plagiary talks without Book when he attempts to give us any thing his own he bewrayeth his most scandalous inability and ev'n where he copyeth either through misapprehension or a vain endeavour to disguise what he steals he not only murthers and confounds the Subject but most illiteratly alters the words so as they become unintelligible and nonsence as are those two short and plain definitions from Galen of a Syncope and Delirium A Sixth Symptome to which wounds are incident he accounts a Fever which he very civilly refers to the Physicians as if most of the other accidents were not as much their province but manger this great regard and deference inevitable maggot will work his humor of interloping is irresistible he must in despight of fate or rather in obedience to it for he was born under some strange ascendent come in with some old musty definition though as greyheaded as Avicen whom he introduceth calling a Fever an extraneous adventitious accensive heat in our heart by which the veines and Arteries therewith sharing it s conveyed through the circuit of our whole body and hurteth its actions certainly absurdity is at natural to him as milk to a calf he hath neither truely given you Avicens definition though he call it so nor is it like either sense or the novel sound description of that disease Febris est inordinatus sanguinis motus ejusque nimia effer vescentia Page 47. He injudicially directs to Phlebotomy if a fever arise from the biting of a venemous creature his discourse of the causes and remedies of Crudity are stoln from Dr. Rea● Lect. 12. and treats of all those accidents as if they were not Symptomatical or dependent on wounds but essential and primary diseases Pags 48. The three causes of th● Palsy our Author borroweth from Dr. Willis omitting a fourth not improperly added by Dr. Read beside● others intimated by Galen Sennertus Riverius c. his enquiring what humor causeth a Palsey is very odd at this time of day but his attributing it especially here to flegm is not only contrary to the opinion of the humorists themselves but to Aetiology and right reason it most commonly proceeding from defect sometimes redundancy and violent explosion of the Spirits distortion of the nerves plethora acidity Spasmes c. But in the case before him none other ought to have been considered but that of Contusions or wounds is method for cure is stoln from Dr. Willis how he alters the words and inverts the method you may discern by comparing them together as I here verbatim transcribe from both to our your hand as another pattern of his learning sincerity c. Vt plurimum illius haec tria erunt genera seu potius tres erunt medendi rationes quarum modo haec modo illa vel altera circa morbi hujus Therapiam jniri debet nimirum quatenus resolutio qualiscunque