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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67812	Medicaster medicatus, or, A remedy for the itch of scribling. The first part written by a country practitioner in a letter to one of the town, and by him prefaced and published for cure of John Brown, one of His late Majesties ordinary chyrurgeons, containing an account of that vain plagiary and remarks on his several writings : wherein his many thefts, contradictions, absurdities gross errors, ignorance, and mistakes are displayed and divers vulgar errors in cyrurgery and anatomy refuted / by James Young.	Yonge, James, 1647-1721.	1685 (1685)	Wing Y40; ESTC R27595	92,013	244

the heart of a person that survived it Matth. Glandorp Spec. Chirurg cap. 33. relates that Rabbits lived many months after they were run through the heart Page 254 261. Sken●kius saith the like of a Stagg and of one in whose heart a piece of an Arrow was found that had long stuck there that a Boy was cured cui os pectoris excisum cor aliquandiu nudum apparuit nam involucrum ejus computruerit the History page 254. which he calls a wound of the Tunicle of the heart was undoubtedly as his Author first thought of the heart it self Page 256. He reports that some have been found without * Miscell curios Vol. 5. obs 25. hearts as doth also Hildanus cent 4. obs 51. Moronus Index page 85. Tillesius rer nat ubi supra my Lord Bacon Mr. Boyle vide Bart holin † Lib. 2. cap. 6. Anat. Reform Editio ultima Rhodius obs 39. cent 2. relates the cure of a large wound of the Pericardium he supposeth that wounds of the heart it self are incurable and saith there was a Stagg who had a small piece of Dart sticking in his heart sine vitae noxa that a Boy was dissected without a Pericardium But what need I say any more when our most agreeable Scribler is his own Confuter for after all his positive Prognosticks page 23 273 c. he very fairly confesseth that superficial wounds here hapning may be c●●red I have taken unusual pains and been very particular on this point partly to refute our Confident partly to shew the incertainty and fallacy of many presages delivered by the first Writers and the vanity of relying on them but cheifly to perswade my Brethren of the Plaister-box that no wound is incurable and beat them out of the contrary discouraging and mischeivous opinion The vital flame in the heart and the airs ingress then and mixing its nitrous particle with the bloud are things much controverted among learned men though positively affirmed by our Author I will say only this that I am sure he understands not that controversy and that many very eminent Anatomists are against the later Hypothesis vide Dr. Harveys Proem to his book de Corde circulatione Dr. Walter Needham format foetu cap. 6. where he declares it the Opinion of Dr. Highmore also Dr. Henshaw Aero chalinos page 62. beside Demerbrook Cornelius c. Page 281. He defines with most of the Ancients an Aneurisma to be a breach of the inner coat of an Artery the blood distending the outer which I know hath been the common Opinion but the absurdity thereof you will find well discovered by Van Horn Microtecne sect 1. paragr 15. page 215. Wiseman lib. 1. cap. 16. Pareus calls it the Rupture of an Artery the Blood extravasating among the Muscles and he himself varieth from his definition in the Histories he gives page 380. of his Book of Tumors where he hath a particular Chapter of this Disease which is of an Aneurism from a wound and saith in that Chapter that the common cause is puncturing an Artery But to be short in this Topick because in all the rest I shall have occasion to evince abundance of his Errours take those brief Instances which I shall but name page 23 29 44 45 273 and many other places he makes the heart the fountain of motion page 309. he calls the stomach a cold Intral and in reckoning the coats omits the crusta * See willis Pharm Rat. part 1. cap. 2. sect 1. villosa page 287. 297. he affirms the meseraick Veins convey the Aliment to the gate of the Liver and suck up the nourishment from the small guts page 227. he reckons the ascent and descent of the Cava from the Liver page 194. he suggests that the Heart and Liver are not only the Original of the Veins and Arteries but the Oceans from whence they fetch both their vital and natural blood and spirits page 179. that the Brain is made of sperm and maternal blood that it 's of a cold and moist temper page 198. the chief seat of cold and glutinous moisture that the Nerves are cold in nature and cold in substance Thus as I have said by his Ignorance in the improvement of our Art and injudicious sucking the fallible Principles and Opinions of the Ancients men to whom we are infinitely indebted and from whom it 's no detraction to say they knew not as much as is now known he runs himself into many gross errours and mistakes chiefly in Anatomy Prognosticks and Dogma's of which I shall superadd a few instances more and conclude this Head Page 316. He pronounceth Wounds of the Kidneys in general Mortal and inevitably so if the Pelvis be hurt though Pareus relates the story of an Archer condemned to be hanged and upon Solicitation by some great men who had been troubled with the Stone he submitted to have those Parts opened survived the operation was cured and pardoned We have also a Tradition that our Famous Harvey cut out a Stone from a mans Kidney But his old Friend and constant supplier Schenkius tells him Page 451. Three stories of Wounds of that Part cured and himself notwithstanding his Prognostick subjoins to this Chapter the History of another stoln from Glandorp See also P. Foresius obs Chir. 5. lib. 6. He discovers many errors in his discourse Page 266. of the Lungs and respiration positively presumes to determine the dispute as yet undecided among the best Philosophers and * Thruston Diatribe Mayow de respicar Willis Phar. Ration F. Burtis Epist Barthol Swammardam de Re spir Malpighius Casp Barthoy Dinphr struct Dr. Gibsons Epitom Dr. Needham de foe tu c. Anatomists of the Age viz. What 〈◊〉 the cause and use of Pulmonary respir●tion He saith Page 255 from Gale● that matter heaped up in the Breast pa●ing into the vena sine pari is through t●● vena ava carryed to the right Ventricl● of the Heart and passing thence DOWNWARD by the descending Trunk of the Cava to the Liver pr●mark how he contradicts what 〈◊〉 said Page 277 that the ascent and descent of this Vein was from the Liver It s carryed to the Emulgents Page 254. He delivers that Wounds penetrating the Breast are known by Wind coming through the Orifice Which is a fallible Diagnostick especially when the Wound is made by a small Rapier and the Body deflexed when it s received so that upon returning to a right posture the parts alter and cover one another in discoursing concerning Wounds of the Gullet he commits many mistakes Page 244 he saith that Pipe marcheth on the right side of the Spondyls that Deglutition is helped by the Muscles of the Larinx * Willis Pharm Rat. part 1. cap. 2. attributes nothing thereof to the Gullet whose Anatomy he doth not understand and accounts the Muscles of the Phariax among those of the Larinx He directs to Nutritive Glisters Page 246. Which I doubt do signifie little

pass over only must tell you that he calls the Stomach a cold Entral Page 309. and saith that the Air is drawn in by the Ears Instances of his great Skill in Chirurgery are too obvious to need so much as to be pointed at much less remarked on In definitions he alway follows the Antients or marrieth those of the Moderns bewraying his ignorance in the improvements and discoveries of latter ingenuities Indiagnosticks which he accounts the chief part of Chirurgery he is the same skilful man affirming that a solution of continuity must be over fractures of the Scull only contrafissures excepted Page 274. That Wounds of the Heart are made under the Breasts that in penetrating Wounds the Air rusheth out 254. That wounds of the liver happen alway on the right side page 304 and under the short Ribs and that blood and purulent matter is voided by stool that Wounds of the Stomach are made under the sternon 309. without considering that those parts may be wounded other waies as backward upward downward from within c. So that a Chirurgion confiding in those signs that he gives may be many times deceived In Prognosticks he not only errs most notoriously but contradicts himself and so confounds them and signs together as if he were as Ignorant in their distinctions as he is of their natures Page 55.266 He pronounceth wounds of the Lungs mortal if not suddenly or speedily yet after a tedious marasm or Tabes so he seems absolutely to presage of the liver page 304. Stomach page 309. Heart Bladder Small-Guts Diaphragma c. though examples to the contrary are frequently annexed and very common in the Authors he pretends to Write by Fallopius Writes of 〈◊〉 Woman shot through the Stomac● and cured and that he hath see● abundance of the Lungs of whic● Schenkius also page 253. giveth a prodigious * See miscel curios decur 2. vol. 2. obs 37. Idem vol. 3. obs 189. Horstius obs 11. lib. 3. instance So of the Liver there are many wonderful Histories from the same Author page 397. Hildanus page 108.109 Sennertus pract lib. 5. part 4. cap. 3. And himself quotes a monstrous one from P. Forestus where he doubles the quantity of Rhubarb prescribed by that Author Page 132. He repeats what he had delivered in the preceding Chapter that wounds in the hinder part of the head are less dangerous than those in the forepart It s what Fallopius makes a very doubtful question its true the Temporal muscles are seated forward and hurts of them are very dangerous but within the Scull the occiput hath no advantage if it be true as some affirm that all meerly natural actions or motions as that of the Heart Lungs c. be performed by Nerves proceeding from the Cerebellum and what Bapt. Hamel hath written that upon dissecting living animals he found the motion not to cease upon cutting the brain but as soon as he hurted the Cerebellum all motion and life immediately vanished Page 180. He avoweth Hippocrates to be his cheifest guide and recommends him to his reader as the safest a great argument of his little experience ev'n in the case then before him for immediately he saith from him that in wounds of the brain there is a fever vomiting of choler loss of speech foaming at the mouth cloudiness in the sight delirium Convulsion Feaver vomiting of choler twice Palsey and lastly he correpted with an Apoplexy Mr. S. Wiseman relates that sometimes in those wounds the persons have remained long free from any such Symptom I had once a patient that was wounded a considerable depth into the brain and yet rowed above two Miles afterward in a Boat and was divers daies under cure before any of those accidents did appear But Sennertus gives an account of a Carpenter that by a wound lost as much brain as a walnut shell would contain and yet Toto morbi decursu nec de dolore capitis nec de ullo Symptomate conquestus est ambulare sine ullo impedimento potuit this is an aditional instance of our Authors skill in Diagnosticks as of his implicit and blind adhering to the opinions and Doctrines of the Ancients and the mistakes they lead him into as also of his being a stranger to this sort of practice I do not wonder at either of those but that he could not find this in any of the Authors he quotes nor ever heard of it is to me very strange since this and the like are in several of the Books listed in the beginning of his Can he be supposed a man of skill or experience that in so large a Book and a subject of such common practice is not able to produce one medicine or notion that 's his own or that 's uncommon nor the best or choice of those that are in every mans hand neither an observation putting aside that ridculous one of his arm for which he was allowed from the Chest at Catham that he hath not stoln or borrowed his Judgment and skill in Therapenticks and application of remedies you have already seen in his directing to an opiate pill for a purge and to melt sanguis draconis and other dry gumes for a plaister here he multiplyeth instances of the like nature directing to suppurate Ecchymosis speedily Page 75. 77. and giving a strange fomentation for that purpose made of Wormwood Sage Rhue Scordium Century Hypericon Scabios Speedwell Chammamel Cummin c. Boyled in Wine which are far from suppuratives and hinder that intention all of them resisting maturation rarify and discuss the homor or bloud extravasate which are faculties contrary to digestives or suppuratives Page 70. 103. And in many other places he mixeth large quantities of Myrrh Thus which resist maturation sang draconis myrtils and things which bind with digestives for a Wound page 73. he calls Chamamel Flowers hot and moist page 36. 101. he gives a very defective parcel of Instruments as the needful to extract extraneous bodies infinitely short not only of the variety many former Authors had given but are now used and in the hand of every understanding Artist page 112. the Scull being bare must be scaled or Raspt 113. moist things must not be used to Wounds of the Scull Page 142. He directs the teeth of the Trepan to be oyled when used which I know where he stole but I cannot omit to note it as a sign of his unskilfulness for the Scull in living persons is softer than they Imagine and apt to make that disturbing noise they would prevent thereby Moreover oyl is an enemy to the bones especially where revently divided begets caries fungus and the operation is made more tedious by rendring the teeth of the Instrument apt to slip over and make less and superficial Rasures of the Scull In his discourse of opening the Calvaria he makes no mention of excision so much better than Cruciats or any other manner and become the common way of laying ●are fractures of