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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50413	Macis macerata: or, A short treatise, concerning the use of mace, in meat, or drink, and medicine In six sections, the fifth whereof containeth some hints at the signaturs of simples; and the sixth, is concerning the original and cure of wind, in mans-body. By Matthew Mackaile chyrurgo medicine.	Mackaile, Matthew, fl. 1657-1696.	1677 (1677)	Wing M147; ESTC R218643	24,208	110

Macis Macerata OR A Short Treatise concerning the use of MACE In Meat or Drink and Medicine In six Sections the fifth whereof containeth some Hints at the Signaturs of Simples and the sixth is concerning the Original and Cure of Wind in Mans-Body By MATTHEW MACKAILE Chyrurgo Medicine ABERDENE Printed by IOHN FORBES Printer to the Town and Colledges 1677. Unto the Right Honorable GEORGE SKEEN of Fintray Lord Provest ALEXANDER ALEXANDER GILBERT MOLYSON ALEXANDER GORDON ALEXANDER BURNET Baylies CHARLES DUN Dean of Gild Mr. PATRICK SANDELANDS Treasurer And the rest of the Honorable Councill of the City of ABERDEEN Right Honorable WHen I call to rememberance that in the Year 1671 I was invited by your Ho. Predecessors to serve this Antien● and Honorable City as a Chirurgian and Apothecarie and the great Obligations by Them and your Ho. some of of You being then Magistrats conferred upon me I could not but be incited to this Address as a demonstration of my Gratitude wherein I cannot but reminde You that at that time it was prudently Overtured that the Complement of being made Burger should not be conferred upon me untill my Qualifications were tryed I had never such overweaning thoughts of my self as to pretend to more than a Competency of Knowledge in what I professed which for me to deny were Ingratitude to my Maker and I hope Your Ho. have been convinced of it by the Tryal which I did then undergo and what the Almighty hath since enabled me to doe a sufficient testimony whereof are my Noli me-tangere tactum or a Treatise concerning Cancers and the Skeleton which I made and previously thereto publickly did and gifted to the Biliotheck of the Marischal Colledge in the Year 1676. I must also render most hearty thanks for Your Ho checking a most invidious and ignorant Mountebank H. H for his impertinently and falsly reflecting upon all the Learned Physi●●a 〈◊〉 in this City and my self whom he did insolently name when mounted on his Stage Iuly 4 1677 Right Honorable I shall not molest Your Eyes or Ears with any adulatory expressions neither render my self censurable for them seeing the Elogies d●e unto You in your Stations do transcend my Ability to express them but only breath those hearty wishes that this City hereafter may never be served by any but such as are much more accomplished than my self and that You may still persist in the Exercise of all noble Vertues and be instrumentall for perpetuating the Splendor of this City by a hopefull and happy Progeny which is the serious desire of Right Honorable Your Ho most humble Servant Matthew Mackaile ABERDEEN August 15 1677. Epistle to the Reader IN this criticall Age no doubt ther will be found some of the malevolent and severe Tribe of Zoilus whose parcellliterature incapacitating them permanently to criticise wher there may be some ground for it formerly given by my self yet will be verbally attempting it which maketh mo apprehensive that some will acouse me of too much scribling But seeing I ever levelled my Endeavours at a far nobler End than the Nothing of vulgar Applause and that the temper of my Genius is too Stoical to be amused by the weak assaults of Detraction I think I may satisfie my self and all ingenious and sober persons when I consider First that I did never obfletricat other mens Notions into the World 2ly Nor medale with any Subject which another had taken in hand 3ly As I have not advantaged my self therby neither have I given occasion to any to be at much Expense for what I offered to their consideration 4ly Being in the Countrey sometimes a day or two I thought this no bad way of spending the vacant hours 5ly My chief design was the advantage of others which tho I ingeniously acknowledge I could not so considerably advance as others have doue by their more elaborat Endeavours by this small Treatise yet I hope therin will be found some things which shall under the comprehension only of such as have more than looked into the misterious Temple of Aesenlapius of whose favourable acceptance I am not much doubtful And as for the Invidious their censure I value no more then their knowledge prompting them to talk as if they were the man with whom knowledge and skill should dye and as if Art had dignified them with the key of Nature-Cabin and thinking that they are Masters of her greatest S●crare tho they know not how so open her House of Offies without raising a most noxious small Such empty and ridiculous Railers the true Grievance of Societies who vent formenting passions only set on work by their own shallow surmises will never be able to sulley the Reputation of any scr●ing their Generation in a fairer Repure then is their own Notwithstanding of which I thought it my duty having this opportunity a little to vindicat my Reputation from the Aspersions most furiously and without any provocation cast upon it by a most confident and ignorant Mountebank Henry Hammilton who coming to Aberdeen in the end of May 1677 did twise or thrise appear upon his Stage like Simon the Sorc●rer giving out that himself was some great one whilst I was in the Countrey at every time very directly reflecting upon me and Iuly 4. named me particularly so endeavouring to commend his own Skill by deerying of mine and particularly affirming that he had cut and cured David Craighead of a Cancor in his Lip which I had been about nyne moneths and could not effectuat withall assuring the Spectators that it would never break out again Notwithstanding of which before the end of August a new Tumor did appear in the same place and was a little V●cerat This poor man having been recommended to my care by a Right Honorable Earle in this Shyre I did by the blessing of God cure him without cutting betwixt the 19 of August and the 13 of October 1675 after which he continued whole several moneths The Winter being over he returned to me fearing a Recidive but I refused to meddle with him because he had troubled me more then all others in his condition had done And particularly at the begining I had no little difficulty in perswading him to let take off his big Beard which made me resolve herafter only to cut those of his quality If this M. had only reflected upon my self I had taken the less notice of his Calumnies but seeing he did also assault all the learned and skilful Physitians Chirurgions in this Kingdom by his most Non-sensicall and ridicolous printed Paper which is a scandall to our Nation the deserved respect which I ow unto them hath made me give the following account thereof First Therein he by way of Inscription designeth himself Mille Opifex Midica●●inis Auctor Auspex Primus Lecheos docuit depallere And afterwards Opithalmista Lishomus and Professor no less then 14 times Secondly He having forgot the common Proverb Laus proprio sordescit in ore