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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30934	Sudorificum regale, or, The royal sudoforick	Barker, Richard, Sir.	1676 (1676)	Wing B779A; ESTC R29065	14,525	39

frequently used and prescribed Drugs which he drew out of his Hawking-Bag encountred them in the face of a Parliament presuming more on their Ignorance than his own Skill Nocumenta Documenta Sure I am the operating Chymiater hath much more advantage by his commendable Industry over the unpractised Prescriber by the knowledge he thereby necessarily acquires of the natures of Herbs Drugs c. anatomized by the Fire and of his Medicines extracted out of them or compounded of them and thence of Diseases and their Cures The Instance lately given by Tachenius of common Water commended by a great Physician for a Cordial will for ever silence what can be pretended to the contrary For want of this Skill it was that the excellent Heurnius durst not use Oyl of Aniseed in the Colick which he cured with its Decoction He that will take the pains to read Tachenius his Hippocrates Chymicus shall thence learn the reason with many other forcible Arguments proving the necessity of Practick Chymiatry I am perswaded that at this day after so long Practice and Experience I shall not need to make any long defence of our Chymical Medicines against those obsolete and antiquated objections or scandals rather with which the ignorant Vulgar are deterred from their use to the great damage of their own health and of Physick it self as well as the Experienced Physician The Ingenious and Learned who are well vers'd in both Practices will I am confident not only allow willingly that some Ornament and Assistance may accrew unto the noble Profession of Physick by the Chymist but readily subscribe to his Impartial Judgment who having faithfully examined and judiciously weighed what could be said on both sides concluded that the right Practice of Chymiatry was the highest Perfection of Physick and the noblest way of practising Physick was by Chymical Medicines And whereas the vertues of many Simple Medicines lie not in their whole forms or substances but in many are divers in divers parts and those not separable by other than Chymical Instruments and Operations as their Spagyrick Anatomy doth manifest The care of the skilful Chymist is to separate what is contrary and retain only what is proper to effect his curative intentions without danger and with the least offence to his Patients And to make use of the Words and therein of the Testimony of an Impartial Author He separates the unprofitable improper gross and terrestrial that he may make his Medicines efficacious acceptable and durable It is meer Ignorance or Malice which is worse and both wilfully affected if any at this day pretend that Chymical Medicines are violent or dangerous For first as to the intent of the Chymist it is plain his purpose endeavour and labour is not to prepare violent and dangerous Medicines but to render those crude and violent ones which are administred by others less hurtful dangerous violent and offensive And there is no reason to imagine that he who studies and attains to make the malignant hurtful dangerous violent Medicines used by others benign profitable safe acceptable and prides himself so much therein should administer them of contrary qualities Neither in those cases wherein the urgency or obstinacy of the Disease requires strong Medicines are the Chymical prepared more dangerous than crude and unprepared which are prescribed by others of necessity who have no better unless borrowed from the Chymists In the next place As there 's no ground either from the intention or operation of the Chymist to asperse his Medicines with the odious Epithete of dangerous or violent but thence it is manifest that they deserve rather the quite contrary commendations so neither can this be attributed to them from the consideration of the matter of their Medicines for crude Hellibore Colloquintida Scamony Euphorbium c. used by the Ancients were rather more dangerous and violent and not more effectual than their Extracts and other Preparations now in use with our Chymiaters Witness the Purgatives above commended wherein the most forcible Medicines are daily used without any bad accidents but what may more justly be imputed to the Physician or Physick it self than to the Chymical Preparation Medicine or Operator If we proceed further and examine the Principles according to which the Chymiaters compose and dispense their Medicines we may appeal to that decisive Judgment long since made by one who was throughly experienced in both ways and who cannot not be justly excepted against by either in these words Principia Chymica Galenicis qui elementa tantum cognoscunt incognita magis ad Medicinam attinent quam elementaria Hither I might transcribe many things to this purpose discussed by that Renowned Chymiater Otto Tachenius in his late Contests with Zwelfer and others Correctors of the Augustan Dispensatory wherein it doth manifestly appear how necessary the right knowledg of those two Chymical Principles of Acid and Alchaly is unto the right Preparation and Dispensation of Medicines which cannot be attained without Chymical Experiments and Operations For want of which Skill Learned Men not altogether ignorant neither of Chymistry may run into very great mistakes But I refer my self in this particular to that worthily above-commended Chymiater whose Works now the Jewels of private Cabinets will I hope shortly be as common and familiar in the Learned Chymiatrick World and as useful to the cure of some yet formidable Diseases by the skilful application of those Principles to their Remedies as the Fire and Water whereunto he well resembles them But I cannot dismiss this Learned Witness of the usefulness of Chymical Principles and Learning without producing his Testimony given to the Antiquity of them which he asserts to have been the same with the Family of Aesculapius for his skill in Physick accounted a God amongst the Greeks derived into publick notice by the Works of Hippocrates who for his profound Learning hath obtained the Title of the Divine And to the Apostacy made by the Galenists from his Principles to the more narrow and gross of the Elements we may justly ascribe the non-proficiency of Physick and Philosophy it self from those times until ours wherein some Learned Men as it were against the prescription of the Galenists have again endeavoured to introduce his Acid Alchaly bitter sowre 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and instead of their Fire Air Water and Earth Hot Cold c. But neither may we allow ignorant or envious persons to decry strong and vehement Medicines or Chymiatry which produces or Chymiaters who apply them in such cases wherein they are necessary And the Galenists with one consent acknowledge those of the Shops not to be effectual for as this cannot be denied that some Chymical Medicines or Preparations are the only ones from which it can be hoped that some stubborn and otherwise incurable Diseases can be removed and subdued being sufficiently testified of hundreds of Persons by such means relieved though not always violent who had been given over after Consultation So that