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. Skenâ—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 câ—â—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 respirâ—tion He saith Page 255 from Galeâ— that matter heaped up in the Breast paâ—ing into the vena sine pari is through tâ—â— vena ava carryed to the right Ventriclâ— of the Heart and passing thence DOWNWARD by the descending Trunk of the Cava to the Liver prâ—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
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
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.
so many thousand Transcriptions to err sometimes is scarcely evitable but for our Scribler to take upon trust and swallow nonsense misquotation and all and pretend he had it from the original there remains no excuse but an unanswerable proof that he quotes at second hand and understands not what he delivers to us is unacquainted with Latin and the Books he pretends to know and understand If there be not enough to prove this part of my undertaking against him I must refer you to cap. 10. And see how he comes off with Dr. Willis's notion and History there delivered to chap. 29. for the History from Pareus to his 16. chap. for another from the same Author to his 25. chap. for the two stories from Hildanus to his 33. chap. for the two stories from Nicholas Florentinus vide Schenkius p. 31. to his 34th chap. for a story from Hollerius stoln from Schenkius page 27. to his 39th chap. for an History from Peter Forestus obs chir 38. lib. 6. not the 20th as he misquotes to his 14. chap. for a story from the same Author to cap 44 for an observation from Solenander Sect. 5. cons 15. which you will find to be the 32. story in that Consal and all these with almost all the rest of the observations in his Book translated after such sort as shews plainly he doth not understand Latine duorum canum magnorum from P. Forestus two little Dogs Page 78. in ditione from Schenkius page 332. in the City Depravatus page 46. Deprived praeceps Principle depravatusmotus deprivation of motion tenebat did cover capita dead Corps c. Nay I undertake to assure you that there is not one story in ten of those his Books contain but are falsly translated and would have been more truly rendred by a School-Boy of a years standing To conclude this Topick take two Evidences more of this nature they are both in his 317 page and stoln from Schenkius Page 461. The first from Dodoneus speaking of a Woman stab'd in one of her Kidneys quem Vulneratum fuisse particula ejus è vulnere exempta ostendit he wholly neglects the other from Fallopius whom by this and other citations I find he never read for he quotes him usually de vulneribus not distinguishing because not knowing whether it be his Book de vulner capitis an exposition on Hippocrates in his first Tom. or that de vulneribus in genere or that de vulneribus peculiaribus both which are in his second Tom. in the place before us he quotes him lib. de Vuln. cap. 12. Schenkius saith de vulneribus capitis cap. 12. But there is no such matter in that place nor is that sort of hurt mentioned any where in those three Books of Wounds save in his 22. chap. de vuln pecul and cap. de vuln in genere in the former there is no such passage as this our Author mentions in the later there is somewhat like it viz. et ego vidi post ictum pugionis concrevisse carnem illam laxam et sanasse Schenkius thus renders it Vidi renem sinistrum pugione vulneratum sanari Quia parenchyma scilicet sanguis ille crassus concrevit in carnem And our unletter'd plagiary I have seen the left Kidney pricked and wounded because the Parenchyma like thick Blood concreted into Flesh O most egregious ignorant With what Face canst thou appear in the Front of such impudent falshoods and heaps of nonsense blush for shame and do penance for this most Criminal way of abusing the World and misguiding young Tiro's in an Art of so much use to Mankind draw a Curtain before all thy Pictures thy Faces like the Brass that stampt them hide in some gloomy place never to see light till thou hast expiated the discredit thou hast done our Art and learnt more modesty knowledge c. And then appear in print again and Title thy Book the Retractation or Index expurgatorius of John Brown who now sensible and ashamed of his own ignorance and vanity doth make this publique confession thereof to the World whom he hath shamelesly abused by his empty insignificant writings Sir I pray you pardon this little transport and suffer me to make good my charge against him by pointing to you a few passages out of an abundance wherein he expresseth himself as weakly and silly as any Writer you can have seen page 137 he makes no differences between Symptomes and Sentences page 187. Contusions of the brain proceed from some outward cause invading the brain hapning by a fall from an high place upon a hard part being either stony or rocky page 199. Puncture of Nerves is an accident that doth happen most COMMONLY by the Ignorance of the Chirurgion SOMETIMES page 200. And here also as to the affected part we are here to consider both the breadth and narrowness of the affected part page 271. The pericardium is a membrane enwrapping the heart swimming in it this to a man that knows Anatomy must seem such sense as to say the purse swims in the mony abundance of the like instances of his wit and learning in Orthography Syntax and other parts of common sense and literature are intersperst in his writing and cannot escape the intuition of any man tho but indifferently skill'd in either I must not pass by a very great example of his way of reasoning c. in his 185 page where he wisely endeavours to prove the possibility of an Abscess in the brain by urging this Aphorism of Hippocrates If matter water or bloud issue from the Nostrils Mouth or Ears of any troubled with the head-ache it doth discharge it as if what thus floweth thence must certainly be from an Abscess from within the meninges and not rather extravasations or congestions without them as is usual as wise and as much to the purpose is his calling on Galen Avicen Rhasis to prove that nature found out contrived had been better said these as proper Chanels for that purpose if a man would argue at this rate and reason from such Topicks how easy is it to prove the Moon made of a green Cheese I had almost forgot to entertain you with some pleasant instance of his skill in Etymologie which he shews very often and not seldome appears a ridiculous fop whether it be more silly than illiterate thus to force derivations as is commonly practiced we will not dispute page 211 Frons à ferendo because it carryeth in it the LIVELY resemblance of heavyness sadness moroseness c. a very pretty comparison the lively resemblance of dead dullthings I know by others its said so to be derived Quod indicia animi prae se farat But why not more likely from Frondis the branch of a tree because it lively resembles the invisible dilemma's and divarications some mens Wives place there Page 222. Vultus a voluntatis indicio why not from volvendo as some have derived it or rather from Vulva because of their lively
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 Stomacâ— and cured and that he hath seeâ— abundance of the Lungs of whicâ— 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 â—are fractures of