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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66808	Pyrologia mimica, or, An answer to hydrologia chymica of William Sympson, phylo-chymico-medicus in defence of scarbrough-spaw : wherein the five mineral principles of the said spaw are defended against all his objections by plain reason and experiments, and further confirmed by a discovery of Mr. S. his frequent contradictions and manifest recantation : also a vindication of the rational method and practice of physick called galenical, and a reconciliation betwixt that and the chymical : likewise a further discourse about the original of springs / by Robert Wittie ...	Wittie, Robert, 1613?-1684.	1669 (1669)	Wing W3230; ESTC R1749	130,195	354

pretends so highly should respect his Credit no more but impose upon the Reader who perhaps not seeing my Book would be induced to give him Credit viz. Scarbrough Spaw Second Edition from P. 97. to 119. Besides that being pinched with an Argument of Demonstration which I deduce from Dr. Heylin in his Cosmography he calls in Question the Honour and Honesty of that Learned and Reverend Gentleman P. 301. In the mean time he establishes his own Opinion upon a meer naked Supposition P. 317. which he ought necessarily to have proved or else his Superstruction will fall to the ground for want of a Solid Foundation Yet in that Discourse all he has is from Kircherus in his Mundus Subterraneus Concerning his Ternary of Medicines which next to his opposing of me is the grand Design of his Book there is great cause to suspect he will fall short of his aim Those are his Scorbutick Pills for Purging his Cordial Elixir and his Diaphoretick Can any Rational Man think that all Diseases are so easily cured I am afraid these Pills may at length prove like his Lunar Pills which he mentions P. 120. sometimes as highly extolled by him and used as his Catholicon which upon trial some poor men probably smarted for for he declares them unsuccessful and advises against the further use of them being made up with Aqua fortial and other Corrosive and Poysonous Medicines As to the Elixir Proprietatis doubtless its a good Medicine being duly used Now there are several wayes of preparing it mentioned by Paracelsus Helmont Crollius Amynsicht and others all of them magnifying their own Preparations But it is a Medicine very hot whose Vehicle is the Tartarised Spirit of Wine and so not likely to sute as a Cordial in all Diseases notwithstanding there are some that use it till they are even come into a Proverb among the Vulgar Touching his Diaphoretick it is to be doubted he makes it of the Corr●sive Oyl of Antimony mentioned P. 180. which he tells P. 188. is a more desperate poyson than Mercury Sublimate it self which all men know will corrode Iron I suspect we shall shortly see his Bills upon the Posts of the City after the manner of Quacks proclaiming this Ternary as sometimes he did with his Amulet for the Plague unless he suspect I have marred his Market And lastly he concludes with an Epilogue wherein he most gallantly recants all that he had said in his Hydrologia concerning the Principles of the Spaw For whereas he denied Vitriol to be there and abused me for asserting it he confesses upon further trial that there it is in its Body to wit Terra Vitrioli P. 359. then he confesses Nitre P. 360. yea and P. 364. he yields it to be of all the Minerals the most predominant even as I had affirmed in my Book P. 13. And he is forced to come off with a woful excuse at the lower end of that P. 364. That he only meant that it s not the Nitre of the Shops which is vulgarly sold To say the truth he was forced to make this Recantation as I shall make out afterwards By this time I suppose the Candid and Judicious Reader discerns the folly of the young man whose wrath and envy against me have excited him to abuse the World with an ill premeditated piece of work Insipientis est dicere non putaram But what satisfaction have I now for the injuries he has offered me in his causless endeavour to blast my Reputation I most willingly submit all to the Ingenuity of the Judicious and Impartial Reader being ready to receive him when he shall make his Acknowledgment And now I suppose I might very well spare my self any further labour but I am not so minded let me beg thy patience a little Gentle Reader till I lay down the grounds of this mans quarrel against me and enlarge my Epistle with a few Notes upon his and then I le proceed to his Book About four or five years ago at the most Sir Simpson began to set up for himself in the Practice of Physick and about the same time another also whom he glances at somewhere in his Book These had a Project to overturn the Rational Practice of Physick in this City and County of York and reduce all to the Chymical Way In order to which in all Companies and more especially at the Coffee-Houses they were constantly declaming against the Medicines of the Shops which are prepared according to the Dispensatory established by the Law of the Land and magnifying their own Medicines by which they pretended to be able to do wonders How far this took with some of our Faculty I shall not now mention But there were not wanting others of my Learned Brethren who together with my self did judge it our duty Rem populi tractare and to stand up in defence both of the lives of our Friends and the Rational Method being yet no Enemies to the Chymical Way and such Medicines as therein we knew to be useful and safe Especially I my self did more frequently and publickly appear among the Ingenious Gentlemen that meet at the Coffee-Houses to countermine their design and did speed accordingly on which account they give out that I am a Discourager of Ingenuity which yet those that kn●w me will testifie to be false They to requite me call in further Assistance as I shall by and by make out and combined to fall upon me in reference to my Book of the Spaw where though they wanted just matter of Exception as I shall no doubt clearly evince yet they designed like Hannibal upon the Alps aut invenire viam aut facere ever and anon jerking at my words and wresting my sense pretending to understand the Water both in its Principles and Vertues whereas in truth they could nor have said any more than I had done in more compendious and intelligible words And to make the Book more taking among the Vulgar they have stufft it with Experiments fetcht from all Modern Writers that have treated of Experimental Philosophy very few of them being their own which they have confusedly drawn into this Farrago as Cacus did Hercules his Oxen inversed or reversed to amuse the Reader and on purpose to palliate their Theft In the mean time they were all of them bolting out several Expressions against me and my Book this year and an half which now are come to light through my sides aiming to wound the Rational Practice of Physick which even now they think they have effected in this City or at least they were lately in hope they had done it Another difference there happened betwixt Sir Simpson and my self One Robert Beford a very ingenious Lock-Smith about 3 or 4 years ago was my Patient in a Dropsie which I had managed about 10 dayes not without great hopes of a Cure In which Disease I thank God I have often performed many good Cures On the sudden he told me he would take no

poor men paid dear for his Learning But I wonder what he means by single breathing of a Vein this is the doing it but once and in a small quantity which will not alwayes serve the turn especially in the Disease we are speaking of viz. a Pleurisie in which Case Hippocrates advises to do it in case of extremity twice a day and so on according to the magnitude of the Disease and strength of the Patient as I my self had occasion to do it this last week even to 5 or 6 times while no Diaphoretick Vegetable or Mineral or other Applications inward or outward would take off the Pungent Pains and that with excellent success As for Moderate Phlebotomy that may be and yet be done more than once even often and be accounted but Moderate if the Case require it and better it is to take often than too much at once P. 108. I confess says he I never order Phlebotomy oftner than once in a Fever and that with reluctancy bemoaning my self It seems Mr. S. is a very PITIFVL PHYSICIAN Well! it s enough he shall not teach me but really I believe he has had many partners with him in that sorrow Nay further I have been with some Patients says he who in Pleurisies have undergone a Galenical Method of twice bleeding c. ready for the third time and the Fever as high as at the first whom after all this I have cured with a Diaphoretick Specifick once or twice repeated and sometimes one single Dose thereof has done the feat Speak out man where was this Those that have good advantages to observe and do well know Mr. S. do desire the Reader to understand that here is an HYPERBOLE which among all the other Figures of Rhetorick with which his Writings abound to the amusing of Common Readers he thinks not fit to leave out Then he goes on and says That bleeding doth diametrically oppose the fortification of the Digestions and Vital Spirits because it robs the blood of its treasure surreptitiously stealing away its balsome and debilitates the Vital Spirits making them lower their Top-sails c. Even just so a Ship in a Storm over-laden with Merchants Goods for the saving whereof some part is thrown over-board is much injured by being robbed of her treasure whilst after it she can hoyst up her Top-sail when the Mizen was too much before P. 109. As in Acute so in Chronical Diseases the frequent use of Phlebotomy is not commendable nor proper If he had told what Chronical Diseases he had meant I should probably have joyn'd issue for some do necessarily require it as the Case may be put and others as severely interdict it And therefore he ought to have specified his Case in all reason before he had condemned it The Scurvy is a Chronical Disease and doth require bleeding if there be Strength and a Plethorical Constitution and other things premised that are advised by the Learned So is the Consumption and the Dropsie in both which Cases it is not tolerable Of Thirst in Fevers P. 110. Mr. S. is Retrograde in his Discourse resuming his Topick of Thirst which of all Symptomes is most urging which says he according to the Galenists proceeds from a hot and dry Distemper of the Stomach to answer which Indication they most frequently order cool and moist things which if the cause of thirst were as they suppose they would have a most facile way of Cure in case that were true Contraria suis contrariis curantur And then he falls on as his manner was before to inveigh against Cool Drinks Well! T is no great matter Mr. S. will never hurt Physician while he keeps in this mind and never profit Patient I have already expressed the necessity and usefulness of Cooling Drinks and therefore I 'l not further enlarge onely do say that if it be singly a hot and dry Distemper at the Stomach its necessary to correct it with Drinks that are Cold and Moist as the most present remedy to wit necessitate medii although the end doth not alwayes presently follow the most rational means And if it be the Symptome of a Fever although it require other things which are not done in instanti yet drinking Cool Drink is necessary too lest through the omission of it that Symptome of Thirst become more intolerable than the Fever it self Contraria contrariis curantur As for the Rule that he refers to Contraria contrariis curantur It is to be understood in a right sense Nature it self is Morborum Curatrix and therefore those things which do strengthen Nature have a great influence into the Cure of Diseases although they act not thus by any contrariety of quality in respect of the Disease but from a similitude of property for the supplying of Natures deficiency which having now got new force and vigor arms it self against the Disease and reduces its excesses into a Mediocrity acting in every thing contrary to the Disease and thus Nature works as an efficient and proximal Cause and the remedy as an instrumental and more remore Cause Again There are some Diseases that seem to be cured by their like thus vomiting by a Vomit and purging by a Purge although these are not performed per se but per accidens by the taking away of thos● peccant humors which being retent were the Causes of the Malady But as for such Diseases as do consist in the excess of some one or more of the four first qualities those are cured by their Contraries thus a Hot Disease is best helped by Cooling and a Cold Disease by Heating Remedies and so I might also say of the other two viz. Driness and Moisture and this is agreeable not onely to the Doctrine of Hippocrates and Galen and all their Followers but even the knowing Chymists assent thereto and Paracelsus goes this way who treating of the solution of Metals Tract 2. cap. 8. Hoc inquit ad differentias Metallorum attendi debet ut si Morbus a calore sit Metalla frigida assumas si a frigore calida That is to say As to the difference of Metals diligent heed is to be taken that if the Disease come from heat you take those Metals that are cold and if from cold then such as are heating Onely Mr. Simpson is very hasty for he says P. 110. Nihil fit in instant● If Diseases be cured by their Contraries then the Cure should be forthwith effected even as soon as an answerable degree is applied I deny the consequence for nihil fit in instanti Natural Agents are not so quick and forcible in their Operation nor are Patients so ready to receive impression especially when the contrary quality to what it has already is to be imprinted upon it for there is a reluctancy arising from the contrariety that hinders the instantaneous effect which must first be overcome by the more forcible strength of the Agent before the contrary quality can be stampt upon it