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A31225	The chymical Galenist a treatise, wherein the practise of the ancients is reconcild́ to the new discoveries in the theory of physick, shewing that many of their rules, methods, and medicins, are useful for by George Castle ...	Castle, George, 1635?-1673.	1667 (1667)	Wing C1233; ESTC R21752	90,129	232

Mercurius Politicus the Author of Medela and his Book are so inconsiderable that they deserve not to be treated with any respect especially since himself so inhumanly tramples upon the ashes of the Ancients at that wild rate flings dirt upon the learnedst Society of Physitians in the World and libels the Vniversities not only in his Book but in his pretensions to have had his Education in them Yet my design is not so much to concern my self in the man or his scurrilous expressions as to take occasion from those material points in Physick which he has very idly and extravagantly stated to treat of them more closely and pertinently according to the best and truest grounds of Philosophy and Physick Sir I have so far presum'd upon your friendship as not only to trouble you with the reading but countenancing of this Treatise If it be not suitable to the advantages which I might very well have received from a long acquaintance with you your converse being as diffusive of Knowledge as it is of Kindness Pray believe that I have minded more the being just to my Promise than careful of my Credit Sir I am Westmin Martii 10. 1666. Your most obliged friend and humble Servant George Castle ERRATA PAge 14. line 24. insert to p. 22. l. 7. for impart read invent p. 35. l. 10. for lixivat r. lixiviat p. 38. l. 2. for stomocace r. stomacace p. 46. l. 2. leave out Dead of the Consumption p. 72. l. 23. for worlp r. world p. 73. l. 8. for often escue r. often rescue p. 79. l. 24. for canprobaolybe r. can probably be p. 89. l. 12. insert should p. 100. l. 12. leave out they p. 104. l. 6. for Disease r. Diseases p. 115. l. 24. for evaporate r. evaporates p. 133. l. 1. for Cane r. Cave p. 43. l. 30. leave out is p. 44. l. 27. for procatactick r. procotarctick leave out the second its ibid. p. 160. l. ●5 for and r. in p. 169. l. 9. insert he p. 172. l. 29. for Manichaearum r. Manichaeorum p. 175. l. 19. for this r. his For other faults which have passed the Presse I desire the Reader 's courteous Correction THE Chymical Galenist CHAP. I. THat there have been made of late very considerable discoveries in Physick That the Art is yet farther improvable and That the Galenick Hypothesis is insufficient to give a satisfactory account of the Phaenomena of Health and Diseases are no more news to this Age than that America is found out that some parts of the world are yet unknown and that the ancient Maps were imperfect neither is this lesse questioned by G●ographers than the other by Philosophers and Physitians Wherefore in my opinion the Author of Medela ought to have been more civil to those sound Authors of whom to compile a Book he does every where more than borrow than to make them speak to no purpose in his writings who do alwayes to so much in their own For he might with no less extravagancy have inferred from Columbus his Discoveries in the great World That it would be for the Interest of all Kingdoms and Common-wealths to furnish every pretender to Navigation though never so ignorant with Ships Men and Money in hopes he may find out new Countries than from the famous Harvy's or learned Willis's in the lesser World That it is for the benefit of Mankind that the Lives and Purses of men should lye expos'd to the cheat of ignorant Pretenders to Physick upon presumption that they may find out new Regions new Flouds and Channels in the Microcosm But to perswade the World that he and his Brethren the Mountebanks are the onely Men from whom Physick is to expect a farther improvement he endeavours to render all those Physicians who have more learning and modesty than himself as men wholly enslav'd to narrow Principles and jejune Notions and altogether confin'd to a beaten and trite Road in Philosophy and Physick as being enemies to all advancement of Knowledge Which is a falshood so notorious and obvious to be confuted that I need onely to examine Who have been the Authors of the waste improvement of Physick which M. N. himself acknowledges to have been in twenty years so heightned M. del Med. p. 215. that never any Science or Art in the World had such an advance and alteration in so short a time I use his own words and it will appear that the World is indebted to the true Artists rational Physicians learned men and not to the Medicastrorum Empiricorum Medicantiumque 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the dregs and scum of mankind Joha● Rodolph Cam●r●r Memor Med. Centur. 1. Po 37. as Camerarius calls them to whom I will refer the Reader for a farther accompt of those precious Sons of Art as desiring my self to be so civil to the Author of Medela as not to give a Catalogue of that goodly pack of his Brotherhood To shew that the improvement which Physick has receiv'd in this latter Age ought to be ascrib'd to the learned Physicians and men bred up in Universities and Colledges I need go no further for Instances than in our own Nation and the rather because I believe that Forrainers themselves will confess us to have far out-done the whole World in this matter witness the Writings of the renowned Harvey the learned Doctors Glisson Ent Highmore Wharton and the present Ornament both of his University and Nation Dr. Willis For notwithstanding that M. N. and some other touchy-Heads Medel Med. p. 17. as he calls them like his have pryed into one point viz. Whether in the Practice of Physick there need be the hundreth part of adoe about the Anatomy especially seeing that when the body is out of order by Diseases the Blood and Humours have other vagaries than in their usual Channels By his good favour the great advantages which have accrued both to the Theory and Practice of Physick in these late years must necessarily be acknowledged to have proceeded from the discoveries which have been made in Anatomy and that Dogs Pigs and Monkeys have contributed more to the advancement of Physick than M. N. and his Fraternity ever did or are like to do Though it must be confessed his endeavours have not been wanting to be a Benefactor to the Chirurgions Hall and possibly being conscious that he might be more serviceable to Physick dead than alive there was a time when he bid as fair for the Knife as any man Vid A Rope for Pol. It is I say from the accurate inspections into Bodies in which of late Physicians have been wonderfully curious and industrious that Physick has attained to that wonderful height For since the Circulation of the blood has been found out by Doctor Harvey that being laid as a new foundation the whole Fabrick has been built from the very ground The Parts of the Body as to their Figure Site Relations Vessels Texture Magnitude Connexion and Correspondencies have been