Patient hath not been long out of my hands who had a large Rima reaching from the Sagital suture to the Squamosa by a fall from a very high place and the Skin not broken nor any Tumor appeared Page 157. He gives us another instance of his Falshood in a misrepresenting what he steals or borrows from others for altho' that be his Trade his own Stock being beggarly and empty affording nothing yet the constancy of the practice hath not made him a Proficient therein the story is from A. Pary * Lib. 10. c. 7. who saith the os coronale was cut off the length and bredth of three Fingers The Plagiary saith the bredth only of three Fingers in the original it is said to be done by a sharp Sword in the transcript by along and a strong Sword the Author doth not say as the Bathyllus that he fell with his Face to the ground that the Dura mater was hurt or out of its place upon the cutis of his Face that he was compelled by necessity to take away any of the pericranie or Scull used Tents or Dossils nor that the Body was stab'd through in divers places Thus he shews himself so great a stranger to truth and sense that he is no less able to copy them fairly and truly relate them from others than produce any of his own to say the Dura mater fell on the cutis of a mans Face was never spoke like a man of truth or Surgery He fetcheth almost all his Prognosticks from the Ancient Writers who were Strangers to the cure of those Wounds and diseases that are now frequent this is one cause why he falls into so many errors when he comes to Presages as I shall have occasion elsewhere to observe At present I will single out only one and that the most likely to be true as having much reason and agreeing with the common Phaenomna the sense of former Ages and opinion of most men in this viz. That Wounds of the Heart are absolutely mortal and incurable This noble Intral seems the only part of the Body which being hurt brings inevitable death for reasons which our Author hath stolen from Fallopius and Read it s in his 60th Chapter that he treats on this subject and he doth it with his wonted preface of Anatomy and usual absurd incoherent way of expression the errors of the former are too manifest and obvious the fantastical chimera's and whimseys which nor he or any other man can make intelligible the false notions and descriptions are no less plain having been long since refelled by many accurate Anatomists the Position how strong soever backt which I shall refute stands thus Page 273 The Heart being once hurt brings present death I will not take hurt in the largest sense but strictly as I believe he meant viz. Wounded the same Prognostick is almost in the same words and with the like assurance delivered by Hippocrates Aristotle Pliny Aegineta and the many Ancient Writers both of Physick and Philosophy Cor nullam fert continuitatis separationem Or for the sake of a little Poetry take it in verse Afferat ipse licet sacras Epidaurius herbas Sanabit nullá vulnera cordis ope Ovid. 1. de Pont. 4. Galen Falloâ—ius Forestus and some others express themselves less confidently but divers do affirm that People have survived such Wounds though large many days and some say such harts have been cured That Wounds of the Heart do not alway bring sudden death Many of the Commentators on Hippocrates's Aphorisms have reported Galen lib. 5. loc Aff. cap. 1. and in other places writeth that Beasts have bellowed cryed and walkt after their Hearts have been cut out 1 Hist câ—â—t â— 1. obs 77. Tho. Bartholine saith a youth was deeply wounded in the Heart with a Knife that he walkt alone afterward into the City and lived five daies that he saw a Stagg shot through both Ventricles and walkt fifty paces before he fell 2 Lib. 9. 〈◊〉 30. Pareus reports that one in a Duel was wounded so deeply that his finger could lodge therein and yet he not only fought afterward but pursued his Enemy two hundred paces Mâ— 3 Zodiaâ— Med. Vâ—l. 2. pag. 97.132 Nic. Blegny saith he knew one so wounded who lived five daies and another seven 4 Obs 39. â— cent 2. J. Rhodius faith one wounded into the Cavity of the heart lived nine daies and another six N. 1 Lib. 2. obs 18. Tulpius of one who was wounded into the Liver Stomach Lungs Midriff Mediastinum and Heart that lived two daies D. 2 P. Med. lib. 5. part 2. cap 3. Sennertus of one deeply wounded in the heart who lived sixteen daies See more in the second Book part 4. cap. 3. and the like in Schenkius page 254 262. Bartholini Anat. Reform Ed. ult c. 6. Gualterus Sylva Medica page 406. Moronus Index page 85. Amat Lusitanus cent 6. obs 38. Crook Anatom page 420. Fennelius 3 Observ Chiro 38. Meckeren who knew one survive the wound of his heart six daies We have frequent Instance of hearts * Fab. Hildanus cent 2. obserâ— 27. saith he found a heart prodigiously rotten rotten ulcerate aposthumate tumified having sordid sores of long continuance †Theod. Kirkring Spicil Anatom obs 78 3. stones excrescencies tabid torrified and some have been found without any heart at all Vide Tillesias rerum nat lib. 5. cap. 28. Schenkius and Bartholine ubi supra 4 Li b. 1. obs 31. Dominic Panarolus and Schenkius from Jordan write of a Torrified heart 5 Obs Med. 87. Riverius of an Ulcer eroding a great part thereof which was spit up the Patient enduring it forty daies 6 Prax admir b. 1. obs 14. lib. 20bs 41. Zacutus of a Rotten heart and another Schirrust 7 Obs Chiro Job Meckeren of an Ulcer under one of the Auricles of long continuance Sennertus ubi supra writes of one who wanted the left Ventricle another was indurated And. 1 Anat. q. 18 lib. 9. Laurentius of one whose heart was half rotted away of a Deer in whose heart an old piece of a Dart was found of many Stones and Aposthumes in the heart of a Woman and that a Florentine Ambassador at the Court of France being dissected inventum * You have the like in Theod. Kirkring Spic Anat. obs 16. miscel curios vol. 1. obs 70. cor prodigii instar in eam molem excrevisse ut Thoracem fere totum contineret and that in its Ventricles was near four pounds of blood See more Barthol Hist cent obs 32 45 54 50. That wounds of the heart are curable is the Opinion and dixit of Job Meckeren cap. 36. Blogny Zod. Med. Vol. 2. page 139. Gualterus Sylva M. page 106. Caspar Schottus Physica Medica cur lib. 3. mirab Hom. cap. 34. Moronus Index page 86. Beniven cap. 65. Zacut. Lusitan P. Mirand obs 9. fol. 251. saith that Leeches stuck to
the nearer a man were to his Journeys end the farther he had to go Page 28. He saith wounds do ONLY then inflame when they do not suppurate which is another proof of his skill and reading it being manifest in Books and practice as himself Page 49. confesseth that as digestion is procured by things more or less hot so while Nature or Art are on that work there occurreth heat pain pulsation c. dum pus conficitur dolores ac febres magis accidunt saith †Aph. 17. lib. 2. Hypocrates Pulsus dolor color aucti signant pus fieri saith * instil chir lib. 1. c. 3. Tagaultius see Galen in his comment on the aforesaid Aphorism and on Hypocrates Predict lib. 1. c. 13. Dr. Read Lect. 5. Of Tumors Mr. Woodal Page 141. with many more As wisely doth he assert Page 29. That the main spring of the bloud is given the heart from the Arteries which is quite contrary to truth the spring of the bloud being from the heart to them all that comes into that noble entral being by the veins especially the Cave as every boy that understood the common notion of Harvey's discovery can inform him but he cannot forget the tone of his great Grand-Fathers the Authors he trades with nor forbear that Shiboleth by which he discovers from what magazine he furnisheth himself thus he insinuates as if the pulsifying wheels of the heart do give life and motion which is a corrupt and exploded opinion of Aristotle so far from truth that it s now discovered Th. Barth Anat. Reform lib. 2. cap. 6. not only that all the Organs of motion are from the brain but that this inspontaneous one of the heart is made by particular Nerves from the Cerebel as Dr. Willis hath hath evinced and that some palpitations and all the unequal motions of that noble Bowel as in Malignant Fevers c. are from the impediment of the Spirits conveyed in those Nerves His eight waies of restraining the Hemorrhagies of wounds are taken exactly from Dr. Read lect 3. of wounds a little dishapen and sullyed by passing through his hands Page 32. Begins his Chapter of removing extraneous bodies which he affirms to be the next duty or Intention of a Chyrurgeon if he mean next in order of practice he is wrechedly out and makes work for Penelopes Loom as experienced writers and rational practisers will tell him I know some have led him into this way of writing and he leads on as he is led to use restrictives while extraneous bodies are in a wound unless in very unusual and extraordinary cases will by hardning the flesh contracting the wound and exasperating the sense of the part make the extraction more difficult and when atchieved leave a flux more impetuous than what its intrusion provoked The first and second paragraph of this his sixth Chapter is litle other than a vain repetition of what he had faultily enough said Page 6.21 His insignificant picture of a wounded Gladiator the few and not all the best Instruments for extracting shot c. abundantly exceeded by Fab. ab aq pendente Scultetus Pareus Clowes Lowe Woodal c. His absolute directions to purge in great wounds and three insipid reasons for it his irrespective dehorting from unctuous Medicines and saying that they make wounds sordid and rotten his affirming that Ichor issueth either from the veins or wounded part without mentioning the Nerves Lympha-ducts Arteries Tendons Muscular fibres articulations c. his calling the skin the Instrument of touching as Doctor Read doth together with other such phrases and positions in the seventh Chapter are additional evidence of the skill of our Author who concludes as he began saying over again in his last Paragraph what he had from Guido delivered concerning Sutures in the end of the next proceeding Page In his eighth Chapter he delivereth that Sarcoticks should be of a cold quality giveth a Catalogue of them very little varyed from those in Pary Barbet c. as is his lift of epâ—loticks he directeth to have TENTS c. armed with such medicines as have an AGGLUTINATIVE quality in them which can stop pain asswage inflamation and repel the humors of which sort saith he may be reckoned this â„ž terebinth lot in aq plantag one Ounce a half mel optim depurati one Ounce ung Basilic two Ounces Vitel. ovor no. 2. M. ad ignem fine addendo pulv Myrrhae Aloes ana one Dram croci a scrup M. pro linimento or this â„ž ol hyperic c. 9. ol Catellorum ana two Ounces G. Etemni half an Ounce pulv Veronicae Salviae Myrrhae ana one Dram. tereb ven one Ounce and a half and these in the margent are called Digestives of our Authors a whole sheet of Paper cannot afford Room enough to display the faults of this passage Agglutinative Anodine asswage inflamation repel humors and yet be a Digestive is to assert a great contradiction all Digestives heating and so far from being agglutinative and repellent that they perform the contrary by relaxing and attracting and maturation when doing by unassisted nature is alway accompanyed with pain perturbation c. as I have shewn Page 43. Begins his ninth Chapter of removing Symptomes and accidents which he accounts to be pain Inflammation Hemorrhage again fainting delirium Fever Palsey and Convulsion but to make his discourse compleat leaves out Erysipelas Gangreen â—nd some others reckoned by Fallopius and divers Authentick writers Pain he defines from Galen to be a sad and heavy sense of change following a disease as a shadow doth a substance so he interprets Tristis sensatio and had as good have said pain is pain Algema sive dolor aut tristis sensatio a molest a nervosarum partium irritatione cerebro impressa oritur ex continui solutione sensibili vel insensibili saith Blancard Fibras convellens corrugans Spiritus ab invicem distrabit ac dissipat Anim. Brut. p. 1. c. 11. saith Wallis Inflammation saith our Author Page 44. hapning by a puncture of a nerve divide it wholy because its better let a member lose its use than the whole body its life He is in the right were it an unavoidable dilemma in such accidents though perhaps our novice never saw it there are innumerable instances of severer Symptomes than Inflammations attending punctured Nerves which yet have been cuted without the ultimate pernicious refuge of our skilless Author who takes his measures from the first writter in this and most things else so much hath Mr. Gadburies Astrology mistaken in affirming that if Hypocrates were alive he would borrow from our Plagiary With his usual Ingenuity in representing things from other hands he defines from Galen a Syncope to be a principal lapse of all the Spirits for so he understands praeceps omnium virium lapsus which are the words of that Author * de morb cur lib. 12. as our Country-man Linacrus interprets them and for this quotes the 15th
which is cold be pursued by things hot and taking away all cold Oh preposterous Hysteron Proteron punctured Nerves can endure the hottest Oils which the finger cannot whence I collect that a Nerve hath not the most exquisite sense thus you see erranti nullus terminus Page 273. The heart cannot long be corrupted with injuries neither doth it spin out its grievous punishments * This absurd passage was stoln from Crook Anat. page 419. where he saith of the heart onely this of all the bowels is not wearied with Diseases neither endureth it the grievous punishments of this life Crook was as great a Plagiary as this his Ape and sometimes as unhappy at a Translation this is a quotation from Pliny in Laurentius Anat. page 368. to which refer of life Page 234. he bids his Reader take these one or two Histories and then relates only one blind story which he fathers on Glandorp of a Scholar who FALLING upon a Door †Perhaps it was a stone Door FELL upon a Stone which broke two of his Teeth which were afterward reduced This musâ— be a new and extraordinarâ— Art to reduce broken teetâ— I hope when it is publicâ— the Bone-setters will no usurp upon us and claim iâ— as their Province Page 270 he saith Fallopius writes that he hatâ— seen Inflations of the Lungs cured anâ— others to have died of the same This piece of nonsense Sckenkius led him to by misquoting and misciting that Author as I shall shew anon till when I reserve my reflections on this passage For more concise and succinct Patterns of his absurdity and nonsense see cap. 18. where he calls gun-shot wounds WHOLLY the employ of the Sea-Chirurgion and yet adviseth Milk in the first dresses perhaps he thought the Chirurgion General allowed a barrel or two among the necessaries Page 141. The head-saw is used to remove away the distance of the Cranium left after the use of a Trepan Page 246. Vinegar wonderfully dissolves and discusseth concrete Blood 251. The heart is circumscribed by the Clavicles Sternon c. 246. Boiling Honey makes it more rancid 240. Cartilages of the Wind-pipe are in continual motion 213. The Spleen â—s an Organical Bowel 234. In Wounds of the Spinal Marrow although all sense and motion is destroyed yet Seed Vrine and Excrements are VOLUNTARILY avoided 216. Spigell Laurentius and Bauhine although they wrote in this Century he calls Antient Writers the Eye is framed of six Muscles 214. The Eye-lids are appointed as Draw-bridges to lift the Eye up and down 231. The Ears he must mean the outward flap for he professeth not to meddle with the inward Organ are created for understanding If it were true a great deal of that faculty would come to his share 257. Blood in the Cavity of the Thorax must necessarily and speedily be suppurated being consentaneous in a cutt where the great Veins or Arteries are untoucht 266. The Lungs are the Instruments of Voice made as it were of frothy Blood 271. The Pericardium is so much softer than a Bone as it is softer than the Lungs 274. The Heart in its passive qualities is more moist than the Cutis 255. It distributes to but receives not from any part giving MOTION to others diffusing its proper vertues as it pleaseth it self disposing its sorrows as it thinks fit 277. Is the Chapter of Wounds of the Arteries and Veins and next page Wounds of the Veins and Arteries 278. A Wound of the great Artery is followed with a Feaver Inflamation c. put out the fire and the house will scorch 287. Wounds of the Abdomen may be seen to penetrate with or without hurt 290. An Incarnative Fomentation to expel Wind. 299. He directs to supplemental Noses the Phantastical Ridiculous way of Taliacotus These and abundance more of self-evident pieces of nonsense absurdity you have scattered here and there in this Compleat Book of Wounds sometimes single passages otherwhiles whole pages often entire periods that may justly come under this censure which I will only point at to save the trouble of numerous Recitals See 2 3 Paragraph of the 33th Chapter p. 172. from the 18th to the 22th line p. 176. the first seven lines page 222. almost all the first Paragraph especially the later end concerning the excellency of the Skin of the Face page 227. 1 Parag. See also f. 240 251 257 266 275 277 303 308 c. beside many absurd Phrases and Allusions without sense which are frequent in this Book of a new Method as steering by a Microscope page 111. alluding a Caution page 5. Instruments are Figures page 143. and regulating non-naturals Engines to work with every thing that putrifieth is affected with a hot and moist humour 72. storming by Catharticks 199. sailing on the Coast of Wounds 210. steering a course on the Bloody Main 349. dismantling the parts of the body 285. swimming on the bottom of the Stomach 293. small Rivulets 23. with many more As to his Contradictions and Inconsistencies they are thicker than I have met in ten times the number of pages demonstrating his Memory to be as shallow as his Judgment for he often opposeth himself in the same page sometimes in the same or next line his Method and Observations frequently confute and contradict his Prognosticks for what in the one he affirms to be absolutely mortal and incurable in the other he not only directs to a Method for Cure but relates Proofs and Examples that they have been healed I know little Contradictions and small Inconsistencies may insensibly and unawares slip from the Pen of any man that writeâ— much but it 's very unusual to have so many so palpable obvious so thick and numerous and opposite averments so near one another as they are in so small a Book as this before us Page 77. He positively and without exception saith an Ecchymosis must be suppurated and soon after directs to a method for resolving them Page 21 169 245 304. and elsewhere he dehorts the Chirurgion from medling with such cures as he hath no Authority or encouragement from Art to be concerned with But Page 100 132 138 163 305 c. being in a better humor adviseth to the contrary and persuades him not to forsake any Patient or be discouraged in the most desperate cases Page 113. He forbids the use of moist things to parts without the Scull And soon upon it directs to Wine which is actually such and Oil of St. Johns Wort Yelks of Eggs which are both actually and potentially such Page 129. Hot and moist Constitutions are not so apt for admittance of Putrifaction Yet Page 72 73. he affirms that those Medicines which procure it are all of that temper Page 28. When the Skin is broken he decryeth the use of Oiles And yet in many places directs the use of them in Wounds so Page 36. He is at it again dissuading from the use of unctuous Salves especially where Consolidation is to
be performed because Page 40. Oils do hinder Agglutination Yet in Page 42. He directs â„ž ol Hyperic catellor ana â„¥ ij G. elemni pulv veronicae salviae ana â„¥ i. Tereb Venet. â„¥ iss as a Salve Agglutinative and repelling humors Page 28. He saith wounds do only then inflame when they do not suppurate yet Page 49. He saith pain and heat do attend the part while digestion is performing and inflammation encreaseth while matter is making Page 136. He reflects on those who divide the Art into many parts When he himself is not only guilty of all the superfluous mincing extant but exceeded them in giving two Chapters for one subject tho' the Title be somewhat diversifyed See Chap. 60 61. Page 134. He saith if a Feaver happen on Wounds of the Head before the fourteenth day it s a deadly sign And in the very next period makes the like danger to attend such to which a Feaver supervenes after that time Page 129. He saith Childrens Heads wounded are not so apt for Putrifaction and Page 137. A more speedy purulency of matter happens in them than in Persons of age and to strengthen the contradiction beyond all excuse he gives the same reason for the one that he doth for the other viz. Heat and moisture making it in the one the cause why Putrifaction and digestion is tedious and in the other more speedy and quick Page 160. His Doctrine and advise in the first paragraph is not only very inartificial and absurd but contradicted in the next and the subsequent story Page 273 275 c. He calls the Heart the principle of Life the Prince of the Bowels the chief Engine and yet Page 178. He saith that the Brain is the principal Part. Page 186. He absurdly affirms That Putrifaction and Sphacelus of the Brain are deadly Symptomes not to be found out by the opening of the Scull after the Party be dead and immediately gainsaith it by an instance from Volch Coiterus stoln from Skenckius Page 24 of many dissections where more than half the Brain was putrifyed the Ventricles full of foetid green matter and in the cerebellum very putrid Aposthumes Page 188. He forbids the use of cooling astringent things to the Head in concussions of the Brain Not only contrary to almost all Authors but his immediate direction of a Cataplasm of that temper and quality he saith the same Page restringents are not to be used because they hinder the exhalation of the fuliginous Vapors through the sutures And in the very Page not only directs to the use of Repulsives and to have them continued the first four days but a Fomentation and a Plaister stoln from A Pary lib. 10 cap. 22. which are both of them binding or restrictive as you may see by the Ingredients Orris Lalam Aromaticus Red-Roses Frankincense Mastick Red Wine Myrtils Cypres-nuts c. Page 200. He Apologizeth for the use of Oil in wounds of the Nerves because a moist Medicine And immediately urgeth with the same Zeal and heat of Argument that use of dry things for the same purpose Page 254. He reckons very erroneously extrusion of the airthrough wounds of the Breast as a constant sign of Penetration And in the same Chapter gives a story to the contrary Page 256. He directs to the use of Vinegar to discuss and dissolve Blood cast into the Breast from a Wound so as it may be expectorated And yet in the next Page saith such Blood must necessarily and speedily be suppurated Page 257 258. After he had discoursed of three wayes compleatly omitting a * See Fallopius cap. 13. de vuln pocul fourth viz. Paracentesis to fetch off the Blood extravasate in Wounds in the Breast of which two were Expectoration and pissung he persists in the use of Tents to discharge it that way Page 25 266 267. He denounceth lingring death at least to Wounds of the Lungs And yet not only directs to their cure but reports two stories from Glandorp and several stoln from Skenckius of prodigious Wounds there cured Page 271. He makes Wounds of the Pericardium easily curable and in the same Chapter saith that they generally bring Consumptions hectick Fever ard death Page 273. He Prognosticates present death to Wounds of the Heart And confesseth in the same Chapter not only that a man may survive such a Wound two or three days but that superficial ones may be cured Page 278. The great Arterie wounded the Body grows chill Although in that very Chapter he delivers that a Feaver and Inflammation are symptoms of that Wound He saith page 279. The Veins carry Blood to the Heart and page 275 he affirms that it doth not receive from any part that its disputable whether the Veins have their Original from the Heart or Liver and on the contrary affirms in divers places that they have their Original in the Liver Page 297. he saith The Gut Jejunum is exsanguial and in the same breath saith page 298. they are full of Vessels and that the plenitude of Meseraick Veins doth contradistinguish it from the great Guts Pagr 304. He denounceth absolute death to large Wounds of the Liver and in the same Chapter relates from Glandorp the Cure of one who lost great part thereof and another from Forestus of one who lost a less piece and was cured Page 309. Death quoth he soon followeth if the Stomach be cut although in the same Chapter he not only confesseth such Wounds are curable but gives a borrowed story from Glandorp and two stoln from Sckenkius of most prodigious ones healed Page 24. He represents the substance of the Liver as grumous coagulated Blood and yet page 302. he saith once and again that the same whole substance is a composition of Glandules and Ramifications Again in the same page he suggests as he doth in many other places Sanguification is performed by the Liver and again saith the contrary Page 237. He saith If the Tongue be wounded transversly it 's altogether incurable and delivers in the same page that it 's to be accounted curable if it be not wholly cut off as he exemplifieth by a borrowed though falsly quoted story from Hildanus Page 233. He relates the story of a Souldier shot through the middle of the Ear but presently forgetting himself saith the Cartilage was not hurt Page 140. He saith Incision cannot ought not to be made through the temporal Muscle and page 225. directs to it as a thing necessary and feasible To conclude this Topick look into his 215 page and you will find a sufficient proof of his skill agreeableness sense c. which I will give you verbatim To CONCLUDE this Chapter I shall END with THIS observable History the FIRST whereof shall be of a young man who looking upward had a small Stone fall down upon the upper Eye-lid the which did both hurt it and its CARTILAGE suture being made and the parts enclosed by a Needle the Cartilage remaining unhurt c.