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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41428	The Colledge of Physicians vindicated, and the true state of physick in his nation faithfully represented in answer to a scandalous pamphlet, entituled, The corner stone, &c. / by Charles Goodall ...	Goodall, Charles, 1642-1712.	1676 (1676)	Wing G1090; ESTC R8857	78,779	223

that these Medicines should have suited all palates and constitutions as they knavishly pretend For 't is no difficulty to prove that none of these Medicines which they would gladly have the ignorant vulgar believe Universal can cure diseases better nor yet so well as the Emetick Infusion which every Apothecary hath in his shop nor as the Cathartick pills or potions which our Dispensatory doth sufficiently furnish us withal and every Novice in our Art may easily prescribe but the cures that are performed by the forementioned remedies are to be attributed to little else but the method of using them which they as much contemn and ignore as learning it self And therefore that they might maintain their repute with their ignorant Devotionists they have affixed several monster-dropsied titles to their pretended Arcana as Aqua Tetra-Chymagogon Pilulae Anticachecticae Pulvis Catholicus Emetico catharticus Elixir Lysiponon Archei Sedativum Anodynum Bezoardick and Anti-odontalgick powders fabricated by Sol and Luna Panpharmacons c. which occasions those poor silly souls to fancy their Authors a form above Physicians the very names of their remedies being more likely to fright or conjure away their diseases than their medicines And as for their cures that are cry'd up and down the streets in printed Bills and patched on every post I take them to be of as good credit as their Predecessor's O Dowdes of which the ingenious Mr. Johnson formerly Operator to the Colledge of Physicians hath given the world an account And lest his testimony should not please them or his credit be suspected as having some dependence upon that learned Colledge I shall acquaint them with what characters they have lately given each other in their printed bills the one charging the other for an ignorant Dunce that cannot write three lines of true English and sence for villany and poyson c. and for several of the Cures that he pretends to have done in several parts of England he will prove them forged and lies the other charging his Adversary for Felony Burglary and other misdemeanors And therefore one of the most ingenious of this gang of men having formerly received an account out of several of the Counties of England of the apparent undeniable and inexcusable tragedies that have been caused by taking these Empirical Medicines hath told the world in Print that their Universal remedies are but dangerous Venomes and their Authors but stupid and blockish Philosophers heteroclite pieces of mortality as Weavers Taylors Botchers Coblers c. who of late having thrown aside their Bodkins and Thimbles Lasts Awles and Shuttles are become Asini ad Lyram like so many Apes in a Carpenters work-room c. And lest Mr. H. should be offended with this relation I have given from some of his Brethrens writings I will be so kind as to acquaint him with the operation of some of their famous wonderful and never failing Medicines as they term them which have been attended with the following success The first is discoursed of by Doctor Willis in the first part of his Pharmaceutice rationalis p. 99. who there gives an account of the exhibition of two doses of a Cathartick powder from an Empirick to two Boyes the effect whereof was this that in one of them the powder wrought no less than an hundred times in the space of forty eight hours the other it neither purged nor vomited but in few days his hair fell off and nails grew black and in a short time aqueous pustles broke forth in all the habit of his body which were soon hardned into crusty scabs which were of so poysonous and venenate a nature that the poor boy was miserably afflicted with them for above two years before any cure could be obtained although the most appropriate Medicines were not wanting during that time The second by Doctor Castle who in his Chymical Galenist acquaints us p. 22. that having visited his learned friend Dr. Cox he told him that he had been lately called to a Citizen of London who upon taking a Vomit from an Empirick fell into an Hypercatharsis and out of that into dismal Convulsions in which in despite of the most proper remedies he dyed And 't is not long since that my Apothecary told me that one of this Tribe being sent for to a poor Hostler in a Fever whom finding after some dayes treatment in great want of rest he sent for a dram of Opium at least 58 grains too much with some Diascordium to give this Fellow inwardly which the Apothecary understanding refused to supply him with which caused him to husse like one of the Hectors of the Town that his learning and skill should be called in question by an Apothecary though it were to save a mans life I could likewise acquaint Mr. H. with a Friend and Companion of his who promising his Patient a speedy cure performed it in good earnest the Physick he exhibited being of such a deleterious deadly quality that its operation was not only incredibly violent but in a short time it found its passage into the bloud and from thence for several dayes discharged such large quantities of that noble and vital liquor that the poor languishing Patient speedily dyed notwithstanding the most rational and proper remedies that were made use of by a very great and learned Physician to have prevented his death And if Mr. H. were as good at an application as I find him at a false quotation I could tell him of a man that served seven years with an Apothecary and travelled into Holland Germany France and Spain and thus spent eight and thirty years in laborious pains and travels to gain experience and knowledge in Physick above the common sort and to look into the practise of the best Physicians and Artists of diverse Nations and then coming into England well furnished with a Celestial liquor and other remedies which himself and Patients might depend upon very confidently undertook the Cure of a Gentleman that had for a year or two laboured under a pertinacious Jaundice and inveterate Dropsie though given over by the most eminent and learned Physicians of our Age promising to carry off the disease without any evacuating remedies yet after a weeks use of his Arcana the Patient fell into violent Vomitings and dejections downwards suffering forty or more evacuations in a short space which giving some present relief encouraged the Patient to continue the use of this Gentlemans Physick which after a week or ten dayes time procuring such another evacuating paroxysm it very unfortunately proved so high and fatal to the Patient that he dyed in the Operation the Physician by Certificate giving hopes of his recovery to the last moment of his life Now surely Mr. H. had this Traveller been as studious in his enquiries into the nature and causes of the forementioned distempers as he hath been into Chymical preparations he would not have exhibited those medicines so fortuitously nor yet have passed a prognostick

sort of Fevers before Natures appointed time which is usually about the thirteenth or fourteenth day as they would be to a woman in expectation of bringing forth a healthful and living child in five or six months time Now if these putrid Fevers ought to be managed with so much diligence and observation how wofully would these men bungle and miscarry with all their applauded Arcana when they were called to exhibite them in Fevers specifically different from the former As for instance the putrid Fevers of women in Child-bed where cooling or heating remedies are equally dangerous their proper indications principally allowing the use of Uterines whereby the blood might be attenuated and disposed to discharge it self by the Iliack and Hypogastrick vessels in order to its necessary depuration And thus I might likewise instance in those lacteal Fevers which usually attend the female sex about the third or fourth day after delivery which are solely to be managed by a spare and appropriate diet and committed to Natures regimen and though many times the Symptomes that do accompany this sort of Fevers are a little troublesome and it may be frightful too to the Patients as heat thirst inquietude of the whole body pain in the back shoulders breasts c. yet if these be not encreased by some over-hasty and undue administrations they usually are freed from them within three or four dayes by a constant Crisis of Natures own procuring I might further acquaint Mr. H. with the mischiefs that must necessarily have attended their Coelestial liquors and Stomachical essences in several Fevers that our late dayes have produced of which the world will speedily have a very full and satisfactory account from that excellent Methodist the industrious Dr. Sydenham as particularly the Fevers which did accompany the Small pox when it was the Epidemical distemper of the Town wherein the forementioned Chymical preparations would have been so far from alleviating or curing those severe Symptoms that did attend them that they would rather have highly encreased them amongst the number of which Symptomes profuse and violent Sweats would usually if not constantly accompany the sick and feeble Patients even from their first invasion and that though no Medicines were exhibited or other means made use of to encrease that disease of the blood lympha or nervous liquor And truly so much have most of our late Fevers differed from those putrid ones I lately discoursed of that I doubt not but most observing and unprejudiced Physicians will frankly own that the forementioned Sweats were so far from relieving or curing the Symptoms that attended their Patients that usually more dangerous and mortal ones did speedily affect both head and genus nervosum Now surely if our Indications may best be taken from the juvantia and laedentia in Physick we cannot allow those discharges as critical which are rarely or never attended with relief to the Patient but do rather seem to proceed from some strange perversion and fluor of the mass of blood and other noble juices of the body and though it must be allowed that in all methods some must dye yet doubtless every honest and conscientious Physician is very diligent to observe to what method of Cure a disease doth most happily and generally yield and therefore in Epidemical distempers that seem to be specifically different from each other the advice of the learned Doctor Willis may be thankfully entertained which he giveth us in cases of this nature Praeter medici cujusque privatum judicium experientia potissimùm medendi rationem suppeditat cùm enim hae Febres primò grassantur singuli ferè singula tentant remedia ex eorum successibus unà collatis facilè ediscitur quali demum methodo innitendum erit donec ultimò crebro tentamine seu transeuntium vestigiis via quasi regia lata ad hujusmodi affectuum rationem teritur variisque observationibus monitisque munitur But to proceed I would gladly know of Mr. H. and the rest of the Arcana-mongers of this Town who are apt to believe that all distempers may be happily cured by their strong and Vinous liquors Diaphoretick powders c. what they would have done in those pestilential and malignant diseases which could be cured by no other method but that which they continually decry and exclaim against although very powerful Alexipharmick and Diaphoretick medicines had been frequently made use of in the forementioned cases to little or no advantage And that they may not charge me with discoursing any thing of my own sence in these cases I will acquaint them with my Authors and some observations that I have read of this kind The first they may find in the 359 page of Riverius his praxis where he giveth us an account of a pestilential Fever that raged in so great violence at Montpelier in the year 1623 that multitudes died of it And further lie telleth us that he observed that in all those Patients quibus parotides superveniebant which was usually about the ninth or eleventh day of the disease there commonly preceeding or accompanying a delirium stupor convulsive motions with unequal formicating pulses c. they all died within two dayes after notwithstanding the frequent exhibition of Alexipharmick medicines and the diligent application of Topicks which engaged this ingenious and excellent Physician to think that these swellings proved so fatal because the parts affected were not capable of receiving all the morbifick matter wherefore that which still remained in the blood killed the Patient and therefore he thought that Natures work being begun in those swellings might be happily supplied by venae-section or gentle purgation But these indications seemed to be contra-indicated by the great imbecillity of the Patients who appeared to be even in the agonies of death yet on the other hand considering that it was better to experiment a doubtful remedy in one or two persons than to leave so many to undoubted destruction he resolved first to prescribe Phlebotomy to the quantity of three ounces which blood was very corrupt and after three or four hours the Patients pulse waxing stronger it encouraged him the day following to prescribe him a lenient purge which likewise was attended with that good success that his deplorable Patient was delivered from the jaws of death and afterwards saith he all the sick that had these parotides behind their ears I first bled several times a little at a time and the day following purged them and so all of them who were thus ordered happily recovered not one of them afterwards dying in the whole year that had those parotides behind their ears Which observation this learned and ingenuous Physician thought so necessary to communicate that he tells us in the forementioned page insigne hoc experimentum silentio praeterire nefas fuisset And in the fourth Century of his observations he acquaints us that in the plague it self an ingenious Physician having undertaken the care of the third part of a City