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A67813	Sidrophel vapulans, or, The quack-astrologer toss'd in a blanket by the author of Medicaster medicatus ; in an epistle to W---m S---n [i.e. William Salmon] ; with a postscript, reflecting briefly on his late scurilous libel against the Royal College of Physicians, entituled, A rebuke to the authors of the blue book, by the same hand.	Yonge, James, 1647-1721.	1699 (1699)	Wing Y42A; ESTC R32944	55,470	76

Gassend c. 4. is the Dog Star which they say is known to cause great heat but I say it 's no such matter It 's true that the time of his appearance happening in the fervour of the Summer Solstice in the Days of Aristotle when it was first observed gave occasion to the Mistake But as now it appears a Month later than it did then without any change in the Season so when Ten Thousand Years hence if the World last so long it will rise Five Months later and by the Anticipation of the Equinoxes his Kennel be as low as Capricorn it will make no more alteration in it but become then to us on this side the Aequator what it is now to them so far on the other viz. a Significator of Cold. Add to this That if the Canicular Star caused the Heat of the Dog-Days why do we not feel it in February and in the Night the Star being then above our Horizon All this and much more which I might urge proves that the supposed heat of it comes from the Sun who having accended the Air in his way to our Tropick in his return meeting this Star the Old Astronomers falsly attributed that fervour to the Dog-Star which is wholly owing to the Sun and would be if no such Star appeared For a third Argument in behalf of Astrology we are ask'd a Question sit only for the Mouth of those Men. What are the Stars made for if not for Influence By which they suggest that they are made for nothing else But I will Answer them with another Question Is any Man now so Ignorant of the Coelestial System as not to know that those Millions of Stars visible to us beside the many Millions more beyond our Ken are Suns Moons Earths habitable and without doubt inhabited Orbs of vaster Magnitude than this Earth Or will any but an Astrologer believe or suppose those Myriads of vast Bodies were created to be the cause of Mens Vices Miseries and Ruin to force or incline them to all their detestible Villainies to be the Instruments of fatal necessity and force poor Mortals to those Actions they would not otherwise be guilty of Are Astrologers themselves ignorant that they give Light and Direction in the Night and in Navigation tell the Mariner his Latitude when the Sun is obscured on the Meridian Are they not reasonable grounds to admire the Power of the Great Creator and the Beauty of Heaven Is not the wonderful Regularity of their amazing Motions a great Conviction of Atheism and a proof of the Deity John Gadbury Almanack 1692. that Stale Bafled Advocate for Astrology hath lately offered several other Ridiculous Things in defence of it which the Athenian Philosophers have sufficiently Confuted and Exposed to which I referr Sidrophel and without Astrology can foretel him that so Ignorant and Unlearned as I am I have said more against his Art than he is able to Answer CVLPEPER REDIVIVVS Or a Second Part of SIDROPHEL VAPULANS Briefly containing some short Reflections on a late Scandalous Libel against the Royal College of Physicians London Entituled A Rebuke c. Written by William Salmon Ecce iterum Crispinus Juven TO prevent Amusement Sir and help you to understand rightly if it be possible some Passages in the foregoing Epistle it 's needful to tell you That it was written four Years since and hath lain so long in Lavender by Advice of some Friends who thought Sidrophel so Contemptible a Blockhead as not to be worth the Notice even of the meanest Artist That his Railing was no more to be regarded than the barking of a Dog That to oppose him would give him Reputation and be apt to make People think him Considerable who is indeed a Contemptible Adversary That to meddle with him would foul a Man's Fingers raise Dust in his Eyes and Noise in his Ears That Reason and Argument were lost on such an Incorrigible and Conceited Opiniator and would be so far from Silencing or Amending that it would Animate and Provoke him to greater Clamour and more noisy Scolding These Diss●●sives have hitherto restrained me from taking the Satisfaction which hath been so long my due and giving him the Chastisement he hath so long deserved But when I saw in his last Scandalous Libel against the College the unbridled Impudence with which he Affronts those Worthies and in what a Senseless Rude manner he Reproacheth so many Great and Learned Men and that upon no other occasion but a most Pious and Charitable Design to relieve the Poor when neglected and refused by others who were Requested and Encouraged by the College of Physicians and City to engage in that Charitable Undertaking I laid aside all diverting Considerations to pursue that of a just Resentment against so Shameless and Scurrilous a Reviler And accordingly resolved that his Ignorance and ill Manners should no longer be a Sanctuary to him but that I would Expose and Punish him by the Pen who hath so much offended with it How Culpable and deserving Chastisement he is his own Pen confess'd while he was Railing in the midst of his Dung-Boat against the College and the Author of Medicaster Medicatus and bespattering us with his nasty Cargo even then under that stinking Dispensation Rage and Malice so blinded and transported him Seplasium Pref Sect 11. that he forgot what he was doing and declared That to fling Dirt on any Man was inhumane and unchristian and yet no Man has been more busie in that filthy Practice than he and even against such to whom more Respect and Deference was due than to an hundred such as I am In his last Libel against the College and its Worthy Members which hath thus provoked me he doth in most opprobrious Language with great Impudence and little Sense Revile their Persons Disparage their Skill Undervalue their Learning derogate from that Power and Authority which divers Acts of Parliament and Royal Charters have given them Reproaches and Censures their late Generous Project to serve the Poor with Advice and Medicines without Profit arrogate a Power and pretend an Ability to Reform Physick Surgery Pharmacy Chymistry and Anatomy c. and to make his new House an Academy and himself an Oracle Greater and Wiser than Apollo Wherefore Not to Expose and Chastise such an Insolent and Vain glorious Assumer were a fault equal to his own I have therefore taken in Hand the Rod which hath so long lain in Pickle for him and put it in ure that this Noisy Spark may better know himself and the World see how Empty a Creature he is who thus would Affront and Impose upon his Foolish and Ignorant Admirers I suppose that Honourable and Learned Body to which this ignorant Empirick is such an Enemy will not be wanting to Vindicate themselves and Punish him according to his Deserts Power and Ability I am sure they want not and I doubt not but they will exercise both on so provoking an occasion and

Age. And indeed he was obviously so to all Understanding Readers of his Pamphlets Stubbs against Thompson c. For excepting a few hard words the Cant and Jargon of Helmont and an Arcanum or two that he boasts of more famous for the Death than Cure of his Patients there is nothing at all in them His Notions are untintelligible His Opinions as far as they can be understood very Erroneous his Language Bombast Affected and very Silly And his Assertions Heterodox and Wrong Take a few Specimens The time is at hand quoth he that a Phlebotomist will be look'd upon no better than a Bronchotomist or Cut-throat Preface Blood is the immediate Instrument of the Soul in which it shines Thompson's true way of preserving the Blood p. 2. p. 4. displaying its Radiant Beams every way that Sensation Motion Nutrition and all other Functions may be performed The Blood of Man is graduated to the highest Perfection fitting to be a Receptacle of so Divine a Guest the Immortal Soul which as long as it is here incarcerated lying couched in the Sensitive being bound to act by Corporeal Organs suffers many Obscurations Defections and Eclipses through variety of Meteors arising in the Horizon of this Microcosm from the Blood degenerate and depraved Blood is an Vniversal Substance divisible only by some external p. 6. accidental means as the Air or Fire which causes a various Texture and different Position of its Atoms c. Both of these do strangely larvate and disguise this puniteous Balsom c. Did they rightly understand how Blood like Mercury might be Polymorphised p. 6. c. these Dogmatists would never be so forward to pierce poor Mans Skin rashly let out and throw away the substantial support of Life c. The efficient Cause or Agent of Blood is the innate Archeus or Vital Spirit p. 9. which chiefly makes this formal transmutation of whatever is nourishable This works by his principal Instrument the Ferments in the Duumvirate and in the rest of the Digestions For this Primum Mobile moving sine Motore alieno sets all the other Wheels in Motion till being exantlated and its Vital Power exhausted all the inferiour Orbs forthwith subsist are at a stand and fail This Autokineton is the Seat or Subject of the Sensitive Soul where it is emicant and translucent in the same manner as the Beams of the Sun received in by the Air in a serene clear Sky are effulgent and bright but in a cloudy dusky Heaven are offuscated and opacous If timely prevention be not made either by potent strength of Body p. 12. or a prevalent Art the Man decays in his Faculties the Archeus becomes aculeated extimulated and becomes exorbitant framing variety of Exotick Morbifick Idaeas causing a Syndrom of Heteroclite Symptoms The next notable Cause that makes great alteration for the worse in this Vital Juice p. 14. are the extravagant Perturbations Storms and Tempests that arise in this Microcosin raised through misapprehensions misapplications and misinterpretations of things obvious to our Sense contrived by a luxated or dislocated imagination This feral Brat of Hell Melancholy doth disturb the Oeconomy of the Soul's residence p. 15. and is the Original of a black fuliginous Archeus c. Anger intoxicates pourtraying the perfect Idea of Madness which sometimes is so graduated that no Poyson in this part of the World seems to be more active for a few Atoms of this venomous Gore penetrating the cutaneous Membrane hath infected the whole ruddy Mass introducing most truculent Symptoms If we be not Master of our unruly Passions it is impossible there should be an Eutomie an Eucrasie and Eumetry in this Solar Juice Diseases are first embryonated and characterized in the Vital Spirit p. 27 residing in the Hypocondries Stomach and Spleen c. An inveterate pain of the Head takes its first beginning from the enormon of the Duumvirate where the seminal Rudiments and Idea of this Disease were abumbrated or shadowed forth by the sensitive Soul excited to Passion upon the apprehension of something disagreeing and injurious to Vitality Afterward the same is perfectly delineated in the Archeus of the Brain in which the Scene laid below is now brought to light above Now is to be seen a Syndrom of many Symptoms which plainly shew the Nature of the Disease suitable to the part afflicted Here the Latex and Vital Juice apostalize by degrees from their purity the Ferments c. As the Soul inhabits the Archeus p. 28. so this is permanent in the Blood and all three take up for their Metropolitan or chief place of Residence the Stomach and Spleen in which the Soul by means of the Duumvirate acts freely An Epispastick of Cantharides being laid on p. 39. where there is Vitality the Skin in a short space is separated from the Flesh by an acrimonious Ichor which the Archeus fabricated being put into a fretting condition upon the apprehension of this virulent I laister Nothing is more congenerous symbolizing with the Animal Gas of Life than highly exalted Spirit of Wine being forthwith imbraced p. 44. united and identified one with another by reason of their Affinity and Congruity Physicians do not truly understand the energy of Zymosis what a powerful alterity is made by it and how the sulphureous Particles of the Vegetables becomes Vrinous like the Spirit of the Animal whereby it is enabled to profligate the Morbifick Matter through all the Emunctories Sluces and secret Passages of the Body This is the direct way of curing Fevers fundamentally though they conclude the Fate of such must needs be sad when such Presumptuous Phaeton like Pyrotechnists drive the Mettlesom Horses of the Sun of this Microcosm so furiously And yet with all this Ignorance he had such a stock of Confidence as to encounter that Prodigy of Learning above-named But his Heart was too big for his Head It was such an Impar congressus that I pitied to see the poor forward Creature so overmatcht and baffled so publickly exposed and charged with Ignorance in the Writings of Hippocrates or Galen and all the very Rudiments of Physick without one word to say in his own behalf which did not confirm the Imputation his Antagonist publickly laid on him As to his surviving Friend G. H. y He like himself hath been many Years a busie Scribbler of Heterodox Opinions and Principles in Philosophy and Physick prostituting the Noble Art of Healing and Libelling the most Famous Practicers and Eminent Professors of it in this Age and Nation viz. Such as Sir Th. Brown Dr. Charlton Cox Willis Lower Short not sparing the most Learned College of Physicians London Men whose Books he was not worthy to carry after them If you would see the Philosophy and Learning that was in the Head of him I meddle not with that in his little Finger because Sidrophel writtily saith there is too much for me read his Archiologia