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A46974	Agyrto-mastix, or, Some brief animadversions upon two late treatises one of Master George Thomsons, entituled Galeno-pale, the other of Master Thomas O'Dowdes, called The poor mans physitian : with a short appendix relating to the Company of Apothecaries / by William Johnson, chymist to the Kings Colledge of Physitians in London.	Johnson, William, fl. 1652-1678.	1665 (1665)	Wing J854; ESTC R43321	46,440	146

aske such a question This is done long agoe by the appointment of the Colledge whose indefatigable pains and care in this very particular has been such that there is not an Apothecaries Shop almost throughout all England but what for many years hath been furnisht with diverse Excellent Chymical Preparations both from Iron and Steele whose Virtual Qualities are equivalent to those of Natural Martial Liquors if not exceeding them However when there is no opportunity of repairing to the Wells of Tanbridge Epsum Spaw and the like the Patient may be supply'd at home and by this means too The excessive sumption of crude Water to Prejudice may be prevented though I must confess there are some circumstantial advantages by drinking the Waters in Specie at the Spring head which Art cannot supply My Friend comes next to inquire into the Benefit of Convenient Menstruums what may be done by insipid Liquors upon the Bodies of Minerals Which I believe to be but little unless they are reserated first by some Corrosive which I take to be some thing of the Nature of our Master Vanhelmont's Liquor Alkahest without which or some Succedaneum he does not promise you any Primum ens Veneris and consequently not the Primum ens of any other Metal or Mineral But by the way though this Operation cannot be performed without a Corrosive yet it must not be such a one as operates in the Nature of other Corrosives destroying the Bodies of those Concretes dissolved in them but as the Acetum verum Esurinum quod amicè soluit concreta integrè illi injecta by which means e're twice three months pass I intend to offer unto the World for its publick benefit and satisfaction with all respect due to Vanhelmont His Primum ens Veneris not placing the Honour he merits and the Credit of the Medicine to my own contrivance by concealing of its Name under the notion of an Arcanum of my peculiar Invention After this little digression to bring my Discourse into its wonted Chanel I am here to mind the Reader how my Friend in all his Clamorous Scrible as well in this Chapter as else-where in his Book has been continually both Accuser Witness Judge and Executioner whereby he takes occasion not only to Vilifie the Doctors at his pleasure but to foist in whatsoever he thinks may advance the Interest of his Quacking Brethren Whereupon in this Sixteenth Chapter having decry'd the use of the Waters sayes he For our parts few of us depend upon these Mineral Fountains having where with all to supply the wants of our Patients and to procure sanity at home I am sure all the mineral waters in the world though of never so cleansing a Quality will not be able to wash our Author from the stain of his foul and base designs the stream of which runs all the same way and drives directly at self-interest without the least regard to the good of Mankind yet the better to palliate his Juggling he will undertake to give Faithful Advise in general to such as drink these Waters which Counsel though curtail'd and disguised is yet so methodically drawn up and so expresly contrary to his own Principles that it appears verbatim to be borrowed from those he calls Dogmatists The Title of Master Thomson's Seventeenth Chapter did at the first sight deceive me into a tolerable Good Opinion of him and I was in some hopes we should grow Friends but in the perufal I found the Text and the Comment to be of so different a hue that once more I was forc't to dip my pen in the same sharp ink that hitherto hath dropt from it The flattering inscription he hath prefixt is this A Vindication of Chymical Medicines from that false Accusation of being dangerous The beginning of his Chapter is as specious as the Title and carries in the front an undeniable truth viz. That it is a hard thing to strive against the stream of a Vulgar Opinion at any time but especially when countenanc'd and back't by Men of Eminent Knowledge and Fame That Chymical Medicines are dangerous is rather to be reckoned amongst the Vulgar Errours then Opinions but yet this which seems an Errour if rightly stated I am afraid will appear too great a truth and harder for my Friend to strive against if rightly understood for indeed the meaning of it is in respect of the undue preparation by Unskilfull hands and t is upon this account backt and Countenanced by those whom he is forc't to confess to be Men of Eminent Knowledge and Fame 'T is Evident and something I have said before to the same purpose but here I must repeat it that the beginning and rise of Fame to Paracelsian or Hermetical Physick proceeded from some particular Physitians of the Colledge whil'st the Quacks and Mountebanks of these times as they never are wanting in that case impudently assume to themselves the repute of those beginnings and from time to time have continued the same cheat So that when ever any Chymical Medicine by the practise of the Colledge began to get Credit the Empiricks lying at the catch have made it their business either really to steal the Receipt or which is all one for their Design to counterfeit the Medicine and then in their Bills posted in every Corner of the Streets they confidently impose upon the World a false Affirmation which is that by their great Travels and long Study they have produced these Excellent Secrets for the benesit of their Country Thus by such shifts they have all along crept into the Opinion of the Common People in whose Inclination ther 's never wanting a readiness to joyn with irregularity rather then to adhere to any thing that carries the face of Order and Authority Notwithstanding these subtil insinuations they could never have gotten such a Repute in the World but that they Politickly made an advantage of the Factious Principles then abounding in the Common People of our late Unruly times when the Common Interest was to be carried on by crying down Humane Learning then these Illiterate Fellows spit in the face of all the Liberal Arts and Sciences And as at that time in point of Divinity the Fanaticks of that Faction bawling against Learning as Idolatrous and Superstitious yet to delude the World and better to carry on their Design made use of necessitated persons that were Scholars and of Jesuites too who though for another End and Interest were ready to be transformed into the shape and habit of Coblers or any other mean Mechanicks pretending hereby they Preached by the Spirit The same Tricks and Devices have been continually used by our Fanaticks in Physick who as well knew the current of those Times did run in oposition to all Just Authority But they will find their case to be different and the modesty of those Discreet Men rewarded who chose rather to let such snarling Whifflers go on as things inconsiderable then appear contentious with such who by

thought to speak at random or shoot at rovers as this fellow does his bolts though it be in the case of so inconsiderable a person and therefore that I might be furnisht to give a certain Testimony of his insidelity and demonstrate the dangerous consequence that must necessarily ensue upon his bold undertakings I have taken no small pains to examine the truth of those particulars he so mightily boasts of and magnifies himself for and in truth I do not find one in ten to answer in the least to that he so impudently asserts in his Book I do believe if it were possible to trace him through his whole Catalogue one in twenty would not appear to give him a good report and this sure comes far short of those Miraculous cures he would possess the World with an opinion of being the performance of his daily practise If one may judge Ex pede Herculem I shall be able by shewing the falsness of some Cures he boasts of give the world an Essay of the whole Muster That which he particularly insists on and by a formall Preface bespeaks the attention of the Reader even to the least circumstance is the Cure of one Master Richard Rawlinson mentioned in the fourth page of his Book Living on the back-side of the Shambles in New-Gate-Market Out of my desire to know the truth I went to him being my Neighbour and had with him some Discourse concerning this particular he told me he was brought very low by the Scurvey and had been for a good space in a course of Physick for his recovery by the advice of a friend and about that time a Colonel of his acquaintance came to visit him and finding him so ill out of pity sent presently for Master O Dowde who very readily came and after a cursory view of Master Rawlinson appointed him some of his Medicine without any inquiry what had formerly been given him which operating with him as well by vomit as by stool gave him present ease and freed him but 't was only from a Rheumatismus caused by the effect of a Mercurial Preparation which his friend and my acquaintance had given him without discovering to Master Rawlinson the intent of the Medicine in order to his Recovery with which method who ever is acquainted do very well know the Effect and will not wonder that Master O Dowde found my Neighbour in that Condition he is pleased to call an unparallel'd Distemper but will rather admire he should call this a Cure that did but only check the former Medicine and turn the Humour another way which every Artist in Physick or Surgery knows was a hare-brain'd rash undertaking and in all probability did prevent the perfection of his Cure Master Rawlinson not withstanding the repetition of Master Dowde's Medicine being put out of his former course of Physick remains to this day uncured being still deeply affected with the Scurvey and shewing me spots upon his Arm told me with his own mouth that because he did not continue Gratuities according to his expectation he heard no more of Master O Dowde And thus I have given you an impartial account of the great Cure which this false and impudent man would Have stand as a perpetual record to all Ages against the sordid method of Galenical Prescriptions But let this stand as a perpetual record to all Ages against Master O Dowdes false and scandalous aspersions for to my knowledge what had been done before in order to this mans Cure was performed by a Chymical Operator in Surgery a Man so Eminently known to be able in his Profession that had not this bold intruder prevented Master Rawlinson might have at this time been perfectly well His great Idol being thus thrown down before the face of truth all the other petty Imps and Cures of little moment must needs be sensible of the fall and I shall put some of them to the tryal if they are able to stand the test as I take it two or three of them well shaken and examined being found too weak and tottering will be sufficient to give us an estimate of the whole Tribe and plainly evince that they are all either absolutely forg'd or only the effcts of chance I shall begin with Master Adams a Brewer in Saint Thomas Southwark whom Master O Dowde is pleased to say in the third p. of his Book He Curedof a violent Gout in two dayes of Medicine which I must confess to be a very expeditious Cure of such an inveterate Disease But 't is only said not performed for a Friend of mine a person of known Credit afflicted with the same pain willing to be eafed was inclined to believe what he so much desired should be verified in himself but he was not altogether so credulous as to venture upon Master O Dowde without a particular inquiry into the certainty whereupon going to Master Adams he was satisfied by him to the contrary and told that O Dowde was a lying Fellow and that he was no better then he was before the taking of Master O Dowdes Medicine the like account has been given me by divers of those persons mentioned in his Catalogue within these few dayes A second I went to speak withal my self not long ago by Name Mr. Rawley a Baker neer Barking Church in Tower-street this man says O Dowde was under a five years Dropsie Lask and Bloody Flux a Patient so remarkable as to call men and Angels to witness against the Barbarous inhumanity of those Persons that stile themselves Doctors c. 'T would be too troublesome to relate the whole Fable to be brief therefore after a lamentable and as false a report he tells you This Man after wishing for death at last with a terrible Dropsie became his Patient his Leggs and Thighes swoln not imaginably to be moved and hard as boards yet in Eleven dayes Medicine cured by him The Man himself was at that time a sleep upon the Bed and I received the following Narration from Mistris Rawley to this Effect that as to Master O Dowdes description of her Husbands Disease 't was in part true but he was so far from being well or cured in Eleven dayes that he was half a year his daily Patient with little benefit and that Master O Dowde having received divers gratuities did at several times after bring more of his Medicine almost for the space of a year till at last either for want of those former Gratuities or for shame he had not yet Cured him from that day to this he never appear'd Her Husbands Leggs and Thighes being swoln as much as ever it seems Master O Dowde can cure the Dropsie without the removall of the Symptomes A third lye he tells is of Mistris Elizabeth Friend who unfortunately became his Patient he says for the Falling Sickness and relates the Story in the twenty seventh page of his Catalogue to which for brevity sake I refer the Reader Some terrible fits of the Mother

and this further appears by what he sayes immediately after concerning Preparations made with his own fingers for it seems Master Thomson besides his Panacea has some Auxilary Preparations But I will be bold to say If his Interest would give him leave to be honest and deal plainly that he will not be able to produce one Medicine among all his thirty Auxiliary Forces but what he is beholden for to some Apothecaries Shop but because our Empiricks craftily use known Medicines by obscure names this cheat is not so easily demonstrated Thus hath my Gentleman shown our Doctors the way not to redeem the credit of this noble Science which he has indeavoured to stain but yet to restore it to its pristine renown yes such as it was in the days of Yore when Apollo and Aesculapius were Deified for two or three good Receipts and Chiron the Centaure past for an Excellent Physitian in succeeding Ages Physick acquired a greater growth and then knowledge generally increasing in the World Hippocrates and Galen though far exceeding their Predecessors were yet esteem'd but as Men This Noble Science from its small beginnings growing by degrees is arrived now at the highest top of perfection in the most Famous Colledge of London in which there is not one Physitian but far out-shines Apollo himself with his brightest rayes and if they had liv'd in that Age had rivall'd him out of his Apotheosis all this our Quacks are very sensible of and envy and no wonder they indeavour to reduce Physick to its pristine Renown because according to that Calculation they might expect to be inserted into the Catalogue of Physitians and claim a share in the Patent or Diploma which the Colledge does injoy to use our Authors phrase ex condigno these Quacks for the same reason excluded This Rabble seeing themselves thus shut out of doors have of late been knocking their heads together for a New Patent of which Master Thomson seems to give a lame account in the twentieth and last Chapter of his Book Entituled Some Animadversions upon the late attempt to procure a Patent from his Gracious Majesty for the Erecting a Colledge of Chymical Physitians And here I cannot but take notice of His Sacred Majesties great Prudence together with His Exceeding care for the good of his Subjects whose lives he is so tender of that His Majesty would not intrust them in the desperate hands of unskilful Empiricks we are all concerned to give our most Humble thanks to our most Gracious Soveraign that this Design never went beyond an attempt but that this Monster was stifled in the birth and proved Abortive which otherwise was like to prey upon and devour us under the protection of Authority Notwithstanding our Authour has the confidence to say that Never was there a more Just Honest Desirable and usefull Enterprize set upon in this Nation This last Hypocritical strain of his seems to be taken out of the late Rebels Declarations wherein under the most specious pretenses of Justice and Loyalty they hid the most Desperate Treason which when the mask was taken of appeared in its own bloody Colours And therefore I fear my Friend has lost his jest since all men are sufficiently awake to discover his Hypocrisie that desires to betray so many innocent lives under the pretense of preserving them by Physick Thus are the best of Virtues counterfeited by the worst of Vices and those that have the worst ends are necessitated to guild them over with the fairest shews or else they would never be swallowed The like carriage in our new-found Chymists did for a time deceive some honest men into a good opinion of the undertaking who when under the honey they perceived the sting drew back from the Confederacy and are become their greatest Opposers just as it fared with some honest heatted men who had been drawn in and out of good Principles had sided with the Factious in our late troubles yet when the blackness of their designs appeared they proved the most Zealous Loyallists I am inclin'd to make use of this comparison as very pertinent to my present purpose for just as the late Rebels Declared they would make His late Majejesty of Blessed Memory a Glorious King so these Jugglers pretending To Regulate and Reform the present Enormous Abuses in this Excellent Spagyrick Science talk of Advancing it to be Queen Regent in Physick whil'it their real intention is to dethrone Her and set up themselves I Wonder much at the impertinence of these Reformers Do not we all know that Chymistry is already fixt upon a good and sure fundation If their design had been honest as it is found rotten and fallacious to what purpose I pray should it be put down in one place to be set up in another I would have these Jugglers know and indeed they know it full well there is already Erected a Colledge of Chymicall Physitians for I dare say there are none amongst our Doctors that will not own this Epithite and I am sure none more justly deserve it Besides for a further Encouragement and to shew a particular countenance to this Noble Art His Majesty hath caused a peculiar Elaboratory of his own to be Erected which is managed by Monsieur Febure a Person of known Eminency and Parts who hath approved himself to the World to be a most Able Artist So that these Up-starts must intrude partly upon his right as well as upon the Company of Apothecaries and cannot justly be admitted Operators their design being under that notion to become Physitians The business of this new Patent was carried on by Subscriptions to a Petition which being speciously penn'd invited some few of Note to favour the Design but as I intimated before they did upon second and better thoughts re-demand their hands The number of Subscribers of all sorts as Master Odowds List informs me did never exceed five and thirty and when the forementioned Persons had withdrawn there were left behind as Master Thomson confesses Certain very illiterate persons that were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chymici umbratiles mock Chymists no whit exercised in Anatomy and Botanicks inexpert in the History of Diseases c. And these Petitioners pray for a Patent that they may be admitted in a Lawfull way to make good that Excellent Character Master Thomson has given them I hope I need not make any Apology to those Ingenious and Worthy Men who out of their forward and true zeal to Pyrotechny at first consented I am confident they themselves will acquit me that nothing in this Treatise is directed against them it must needs appear that where I mention any as concern'd with Master Thomson I mean only those whom he himself hath confest to be very illiterate persons They may likewise be assured as to what relates to my self I shall ever be ready to give a perfect Testimony of a true and real respect to them as persons whom I know without any sinister ends and interest to

indeed she had for the Cure of which by the Perswasion of some Friend that was deceived into an Opinion of Master O Dowde she was Boarded at his House where he Physick't her at his old rate this poor Gentlewoman by the excessive or to use his own phrase The wonderful Operation of his Three and Twenty times Medicine had so lost her Spirits that she became deeply affected with a Lethargy which he minces into an Indisposition and Drowsiness After this she had the Small Pox but recovered of that Disease she went on in the former course of Medicine till her Lethargy was attended by a kind of Distraction and her former fits so much heighthned that when they were upon her she would stare and start like one perfectly out of her Senses and in the times of her intermission her face was puft up and bloated which by one of Master O Dowdes Figures he calls in his forty sixth page her growing fat After twenty nine dayes of Medicine to the Operation of at least Two Hundred Vomits and One Hundred and odd Stooles grew Strong Chearfull and Fat which Fatness was such Bloatiness that they indeed who had not been acquainted with her might look on it as the usual habit of her body This poor young Gentlewoman whose Cure this impudent man so much boasts of dyed in one of these fits to the great grief of her Friends and in particular her Mother who is at the very Name of O Dowde like a distracted person to think she should be so indiscreet as to suffer her self to be deluded by such a vain bragging Impostor This Relation was given me by the Gentlewomans near Friends who likewise told me they dare not mention O Dowdes Name to her Mother in any case least by the disturbance of her Spirits she should fall into the like passionate fits with her Daughter After these several Convictions I take it for granted that all sober Men will know Master O Dowde for a Lyar and I doubt not but he will have his due and proper punishment which is never to be believed Certainly had this Man been of sober Principles he would never have vented so much Vanity and Frothiness in several places of his Scribble t is so gross that 't is hardly fit for modest eares Some of that which is most cleanly I met with in a passage concerning a young Gentleman whom he Cured of the Pox After a long up-braiding of the Doctors under the notion of Dogmatists with a tedious Method of Curing the Old Gentleman as he calls it to shew his Dexterity that way he brings in for Witness A Witty and Accomplished Young Gentleman who some years since from a simple Gonorrhea was run into a most prodigious POX and almost Two Years course of Physick who afterwards becoming my Patient was perfectly Cured long since And many Moneths after getting an Inveterate Clap was in lesse then Ten dayes cured by Me and then pleasantly assured me that he now was satisfied that in a Clap nothing more was needful then to Pray the Physitian not to the God our Authour so often invocated and pay him well and to it again for it was Cured as soon as a scratcht finger This is the Young Gentlemans Descant upon the Old One Master O Dowde gives him the stile of Witty and Accomplished flattering him into the humour of Paying Well and as it may be guest by this Familiar Dialogue finding him sit for his Company they became Cronies by which Debauchery you may likewise guess at our Authours vain Conversation As it was tedious for me to examine every particular in Master O Dowdes Index of those he sayes he has Cured so it would be to as little purpose to make a New Catalogue of All those I may say he has Killed If I should undertake it I am of Opinion I could fill a Book as Large as his own for when I made inquiry after those whom he Cured in his Book but no where else I met with several Tragick Stories of his bold undertakings I shall recount one or two that Master O Dowde may take notice of and add them in the next Edition of his Book The first was one Thomkins at the spread Eagle near Fleet-Bridge who was another of his Patients for the Old Gentleman but his Medicine wrought so violently with him that he dyed of a Scowring but while under those Gripes and Tortures occasioned by his Potion would often say if he recovered he would be revenged of him and if he dyed which he did suddainly after he was confident O Dowde was the cause of his death Another was a Maid-Servant that unfortunately became his Patient in Long-Lane she upon taking of his Medicine which wrought so violently with her presently died having strange kinde of Cramps and Fits divers others I am furnisht to recite but I forbear to trouble my Reader whom I am confident I have already satisfied and more will nauseate This Master O Dowde though never so desperate in the exhibition of his Medicine as he all along phrases it yet in his manner of Dispensing he uses a more then ordinary caution I made a discovery of this as well by his carriage set out in his own Book as from the relation of several of his Patients His way is never to trust his Medicine in the hands of his Patients but they must either in the presence of Himself or his Boy take down whatever he gives or appoints and in my Opinion this can bear no other interpretation then that he is afraid his Knavery should be discovered in using some common rejected preparation under the shew of his own invented Chymicall Arcanum Just such another Fellow is Master Lockier and I think these Geese are sitly coupled together who by difguising of Vitrum Antimonii commonly called Stibium hath exposed to the world his Pilula Radiis solis extracta and for some considerable time hath sold it for Sixteen Shillings per Ounce whereas to my own knowledge the same quantity of the same Commodity might be had without any trouble in any Apothecaries Shop for Three Pence Such kind of Cheats as these are frequently put upon the easily deluded and credulous people by such Politick Empiricks and Falsifiers in Physick as these I leave it therefore to Master Lockiers choyce whether he had rather be couuted a Knave or a Fool one of the two he cannot avoid for having Publisht in Print that there is no Antimony in his Pill either he is so ignorant he knows not what Antimony is or else he resolved to deceive the World Though for my own part I was well satisfied and found divers of the same Opinion concluding it to be a Mineral that nothing else could Operate in so small a proportion yet notwithstanding for the further satisfaction or the World I made an Experiment in the Publick Elaboratory of the Colledge before divers of the Fellows in order to a Pyrotechnicall Resolution of this Pill