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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64060	Medicina veterum vindicata, or, An answer to a book, entitled Medela medicinæ in which the ancient method and rules are defended ... / by John Twysden ...	Twysden, John, 1607-1688.	1666 (1666)	Wing T3547; ESTC R20872	69,388	234

Medicina Veterum vindicata OR AN ANSWER To a Book entituled Medela Medicinae In which the ancient Method and Rules are defended and farther shewed that there is no such change in the Diseases of this Age or their Nature in general that we should be obliged to an alteration of them Against the Calumnies and bitter Invectives of an Author who calls himself M. N. Med. Londinens but in his Epistle before a Book put out by Mr. Bolnest gives himself the name of Mar. Nedham By John Twysden Doctor of Physick and one of the Fellows of the Kings College of Physicians in Lond. London Printed by J. G. for John Crook at the Sign of the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard 1666. To the Right Honorable Edward Earl of Clarendon Lord High Chancellor of England Chancellor of the Vniversity of Oxford and one of His Majesty's most Honorable Privy Council AND To the Right Hon. Sir John Keeling Knight Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of Kings-Bench The Right Hon. Sir Orlando Bridgman Knight and Baronet Lord Chief Justice of His Majesty's Court of Common-pleas To the Right Hon. Sir Matthew Hales Knight Lord Chief Baron of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer With all the rest of the Judges and Barons of His Majesty's Courts in Westminster My Lord and you my Lords the Judges BE pleased to give me leave to acquaint your Lordships that I have not presum'd to present this small Tractate under so noble a Patronage out of any worth I conceiv it can draw from the Author but onely what it takes from the nobleness of the Subject being the Profession of Physick a Profession of late struck at by many Writers who have not made themselves in any thing more famous then in their bold Calumnies against those Rules and Method which more learned men then themselves have for many Ages thought fit to recommend unto Posterity Neither have they rested here but endeavoured to draw His most Gracious Majesty's concurrence to their undertakings and by that dangerous way of innovating through subscriptions of Hands laboured to erect a new Society of Chymical Physicians in London in opposition to that Body already setled 'T is certainly high time to fly to your Lordships for protection whose wisedom is discerning enough and integrity always awake to do justice to our poor College especially when His Majesty's Name is like to be traduced their Liberties granted by His Charters and confirmed by Acts of Parliament in danger to be infringed by introducing a Liberty in practising Physick by every one shall pretend himself able in that Faculty I shall humbly cast my self and what I have written at your Lordships feet being in nothing more ambitious then by any act of mine to express the great Honour I have for all of your learned Profession and the service I shall ever readily pay to your Persons who am My Lords Your Lordships Most humble Servant JOHN TWYSDEN THE PREFACE IT will not be amiss to let the Reader understand that I had not put an end to the Answer of Medela Medicina published by M. N. when there came to my hands a Treatise made publick by one Edward Bolnest called Medicina Instaurata with an Epistolatary Discourse prefixed by the Author of Medela Medicinae at the end of this Epistle you have his name Mar. Nedham so that we need no more guess at him who now owns the Name and Book I have passed my censure upon the first and hold it not unprofitable to the Reader to make some Reflections upon the last He begins with a commendation of those noble Preparations the virtues whereof the Author of that Treatise gives as he saith the world some account of then commends his learning and ability and from that one example concludes that their Society are not a company of illiterate Professors 't would indeed follow that if there were one learned man among them that they were not all illiterate but notwithstanding the Society might be unlearned and as perhaps it will be found most of them very ignorant for denominatio sumitur à majore parte But I had let this pass had he not made use of this mans parts to upbraid those that are truly and deservedly made Doctors in our Vniversities by calling them in scorn their Worships and Mr. Doctors telling us of strange Cures every day performed by their party with new Medicines and Preparations which are left as incurable by Galenick remedies things false and ridiculous and with no wise man to gain credit till upon a full information of the fact and knowledge of the Medicine it might appear to the world to be new and I believe it would then be found that nothing is used by any of that gang but what hath been long enough known to others and often practised with various success But 't is with these men as with your common Fortune-tellers who upon a good guess are cried up as rare Artists when their numerous lies are not taken notice of So one cure after the application of any remedy by these men is by their own Trumpet blown about whereas the many killed by their ignorance are not taken notice of After some more vain excursions against the unprofitable learning and idle pride of the Professors of Physick and the Scholastick way of learning which must needs strike at all Vniversities where 't is professed as he doth at that Scarlet there given them as a badge of their honour worthily acquired in those places interlarding his discourse with disgraceful speeches against Hippocrates and Galen whom he calls Dreamers and a jeer or two against those that were admitted Fellows of the King's Colledge of Physicians in London in honorem not considering that unhandsome glances at actions done by Collegiate Bodies allowed by the Kings Charter and established in their Rights by Acts of Parliament doth obliquely strike at the Founder and Protectors of them nor that those preferred by us to that honour were persons most of them of great desert and knowledge in that Science they before made Profession of and many of them dignified with Honourary Titles from the King He tells you of the great labour of him and his fellows to erect a new College which by the way yet lies in Utopia or buried in the middle of the Atlantick Sea to put people in a ready way of ease and security for their lives and purses asserting that most of the Lords and Noble Gentlemen of learning prefer their way before the Galenick and that therefore we cry up our selves also as Chymists things very injurious to the whole body of the Nobility and Gentry out of which I am confident they cannot pick ten Families that will venture their healths upon the practise of these Operators as they call themselves by Fire without the sound advise and judgment of those well skilled in the Dogmatick or Galenick way 'T is true Gens humana est novitatis avida some may be content to hear them