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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64581	Helmont disguised, or, The vulgar errours of impericall and unskillfull practisers of physick confuted more especially as they concern the cures of the feavers, stone, plague and other diseases : in a dialogue between philiatrus, and pyrosophilus : in which the chief rarities of physick is admirably discoursed of / by J. T. ...	Thompson, James, Student in physick.	1657 (1657)	Wing T999; ESTC R2900	62,808	154

HELMONT Disguised OR The vulgar Errours of Impericall and unskilfull Practisers of Physick confuted More especially As they concern the cures of The Feavers Stone Plague And other Diseases In a Dialogue between Philiatrus and Pyrosophilus In which the chief Rarities of Physick is admirably discoursed of By J. T. Esq Student in Physick London printed by E. Alsop for N. Brook and W. Leybourn and are to be sold at the signe of the Angel in Cornhil 1657. To the Ingenious Reader TO be in print it hath not at all been my Ambition though I appear so by perswasions of some who having perused unexpectedly this Posthumus as it lay in his solitude within the narrow confines of a Studdy have thought it more fit for publique view then my self so conscious was I of its calumny Their power prevalent and their judgments not contemptible they have called out this Ideot to take the ayr and walk a few turns in the wide World but how it may return is uncertain since Contempt and Pride lies in ambush every where But these are as active to betray others as well as this It must therefore fear the less Now as I said this publication being so wholly theirs it had been but proper they should have been this Usher also Perhaps they were so charitable to think Good Wine needs no Bush and since they are silent I will say but little but that shall be positive truth The discourse here is but brief succinct and plain yet are its extents copious misterious and honest and freely lays down those solid principles both of Philosophy and Physick as may give the best consideration and reason scope enough to swim as well as wade in the due poising their validities Such heads being chosen as reasonably includes the primary Institutions both of Physick and disease where otherwise that great Jewel of Nature HEALTH would be but crasie in its supports unlesse the cordial remedies bee improved from these fundamentals being such Indications as lays the Axe to the Root if duly and seriously weighed Now one of these improvers worthy Reader I could desire thou mightest be if the offer be not received it will not be the first labour hath been lost in good attempts However let not prejudicate opinion nor the impertinent presidents of others startle the advantages may certainly be accrued by these Again let not the most dangerous enemy of Mankinde SATHAN prevail in his snares betraying us to Sickness as well as Death by pretending Novelties impossibilities or aery toys Nor let our Author be vilified who once in this Nation hath been stiled renowned Helmont and was by the same hand afterward recanted Being thus fortified dear Reader this little Dialogue may prove a Legend of health and happiness not yet faln upon by any but our worthy Author whose ends doubtless were sincerity and true zeal to serve and preserve as much as may bee and with the least disturbance all humane decayes As for my self I desire thy improved capacity may supply my defects who have here but hinted at what a better genious may happily be renowned for which is all the designe and ends of Civill Reader Thy faithfull Friend JA. THOMPSON Sept. 10. 1657. ERRATA P. signifieth Page L. signifieth Line F. signifieth For. R. signifieth Read PAg. 2. l. 6. f. these banquets r. those banquets p. 3. l. 10. f. neither cured r. never cured p. 3. l. 11. f. any malady r. his malady p. 8. l. 14. f. in time r. in times p. 8. l. 18. f. to propose r. not to propose p. 22. l. 22. f. either r. pride p. 33. l. 12. f. why r. what p. 48. l. 8. f. t. r. it the first line of p. 56. is misplaced and not to be read till you come to the last line of p. 57. and then read Nature is overthrown c. p. 57. l. 19. f. life keep r. veins keep p. 58. l. 3. after Schools add judge blood to be c. p. 68. l. 14. f. wanding r. wandring p. 72. l. 20. f. revelled r. repelled p. 103. l. 26. after abundantly r. find p. 112. l. 6. un the arm r. unto the arm p. 128. l. 8. f. your arbitrement r. their arbitrement PHILIATRUS AND PYROSOPHILVS OR HELMONT Disguised Discourses about Fevers the Stone the Plague the four Humours c. Ph. DId you not lately Sir put forth a new Doctrine of Fevers Py. Yes I did Ph. What shewed you therein Py. That a Fever is unknown to the Physick Schools as well in its essence root and properties as in the remedy thereof Ph. Surely this could not chuse but many ways offend Physitians and especially anger such as scorn to learn of any man Py. It did so for such as perswaded themselves they knew enough said what Shall the Academies endure these calumnies without recenting them Have so many renowned wits and we our selves been stocks hitherto Is he onely feasted at Apollo's table that he should dare out of these banquets ●o arrogate unto himself th' adept understanding or knowledge of curing Ph. And did not these high speches move you Py. Alas I knew mine own intention and though it were accompanied with the poverty of my confessed ignorance and though my confession of that ignorance takes not away the stain thereof yet the integritie and sinceritie of that intention may deserve pardon because the truth of every thing in curing is to be esteemed according to the work which it leaves after it Now to detect the errours of such as went before us not nominating any man is not to be thought a calumnie For I treat of things that are Humane publike and for Charities sake If therefore I shall say that no man was hitherto heard of who seeking his grounds of curing from Ethnicks knew the roots of Fevers or of any other diseases and their lawful remedies And further if I shall demonstrate thus much to be true I think I may be deemed faultless and not injurious Ph. But what if they will not take it so Py. Then let me entreat them to compassionate my ignorance and instruct me For I assure them that my commiseration of humane kind is my onely motive hereunto Lest any man hereafter should trust his life in the hands of trustless helpers who hitherto neither cured out of certain knowledge any man of any maladie But if some escaped with life they were recoverd only by the merciful hand of God and by the strength and goodness of their proper nature Ph. Surely you have had no meaning to be injurious to all that went before you and men may be satisfied herein because you protest as much Py. God forbid I should not know that the demonstration of a thing which is not known tending to the good or profit of our Neighbour is void of calumnie Especially considering that the Physitians ignorance is as a crime and that a man is one day to give skin for skin Thus an Officer accusing any man of a crime is excused