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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66808	Pyrologia mimica, or, An answer to hydrologia chymica of William Sympson, phylo-chymico-medicus in defence of scarbrough-spaw : wherein the five mineral principles of the said spaw are defended against all his objections by plain reason and experiments, and further confirmed by a discovery of Mr. S. his frequent contradictions and manifest recantation : also a vindication of the rational method and practice of physick called galenical, and a reconciliation betwixt that and the chymical : likewise a further discourse about the original of springs / by Robert Wittie ...	Wittie, Robert, 1613?-1684.	1669 (1669)	Wing W3230; ESTC R1749	130,195	354

Pyrologia Mimica OR AN ANSWER TO HYDROLOGIA CHYMICA of WILLIAM SYMPSON Phylo-Chymico-Medicus In DEFENCE of SCARBROVGH-SPAW WHEREIN The Five Mineral Principles of the said Spaw are defended against all his Objections by plain Reason and Experiments and further confirmed by a Discovery of Mr. S. his frequent Contradictions and manifest Recantation ALSO A Vindication of the Rational Method and Practice of Physick called Galenical and a Reconciliation betwixt that and the Chymical Likewise a further Discourse about the ORIGINAL of SPRINGS By ROBERT WITTIE Doctor in Physick LONDON Printed by T. N. for J. Martyn Printer to the R. Society at the Bell without Temple-Bar 1669. To the Right Honourable JAMES Earl of Suffolk and JOHN Lord Roos Son and Heir to the Earl of Rutland My Lords BEing necessarily engaged to appear again in Publick in Vindication of what I formerly writ upon the Subject of Scarbrough-Spaw and the asserting of the Mineral Principles thereof it reminds me of my Obligations to Your Lordships to whom of right belongs from me what ever Product that Spring affords What there I had said about the Principles of that Spring I have here further made good by convincing Arguments answering all Objections to the contrary My Lords Here is also a Defence of the Rational Method and Practice of Physick which a fierce Chymical Pretender has designed to blast to which I have added my Endeavors of a Reconciliation between the Galenists and Chymists in Reference to some Differences started up among them through the perversness of some late Upstarts The Honourable Testimony I have heard Both Your Lordships give of your sincere Affection to Your respective Physicians and the Art of Physick doth justly challenge this Acknowledgement and renders Your Lordships most fit Patrons of This that designs the Peace of the Faculty Be pleased to accept this as a Symbole of Thanks and Service due to Both from My Lords Your Lordships Most humble Servant R. Wittie York May 25. 1669. To the Judicious and Impartial READER WHen I published my Book of Scarbrough-Spaw I thought it was the most acceptable service I could do for my Countrey since I found it even in Twenty years experience to be eminently successful in the Cure of very many Diseases which had resisted all Rational Methods that had been used either by my self or others of my Faculty In that Book I treat of the Constituent Principles of that Water viz. Iron Vitriol Alome Nitre and Salt And then for Methods sake I discourse concerning the Original Cause of every sort of Water as Sea Rain Snow Lake Pond Fenne Spring and River Water and more at large I handle the Controversie among Philosophers both Ancient and Modern about the Original of Springs I then proceed to treat of Mineral Waters with the property of the Minerals which that Spring has imbibed and conclude with a Description of the Nature and Vertues of that Spaw and of the Cures done by the Water which I did recite upon my own Reputation in my First Edition And that being sold the Report of the Vertues of the Spaw I thought fit to confirm in the Second Impression by the Attestation of several Persons of Honour and Quality yet living on whom the like Cures were done in their several Cases who for Publique Good did willingly allow the mention of their Names not doubting but it would find acceptance among Ingenuous Persons and indeed so it did for I have had hearty thanks from many of the best Rank both Philosophers Physicians and Others But of late I have met with a Check in a Book called Hydrologia Chymica set forth by William Simpson Philo-Chymico-Medicus which I rather think merits the Title of PYROLOGIA MIMICA since his main business is to treat of Chymical Experiments prepared out of Fire which he borrows from Others besides that he spits Fire in every Page He pretends to deny the said Principles of the Spring though he asserts the Vertues thereof and engages in the Dispute about the Original of Springs All which if he had managed like a Scholar by dint of Argument for the discovery of Truth in each particular it might have been for his Credit and should never have been disgusted by me But instead of that He sets his Wits on the Rack on every account to bespatter me with rude and uncivil Language even without any Ground or Reason wherein I willingly submit to the Judgement of the Reader But who am I that I may not bear it when the most Famous Vniversities in the World and all the Learned Men in Europe do not escape a severe Censure concerning their Studies from the malevolent Pen of this bare Batchelour of Arts and all the Learned Physicians in the World and their Rational Method of Physick must be undervalued as trivial and successless meerly to make way for a few Chymical Medicines of his own I confess I have been advised by several Learned Gentlemen of my Friends to let him alone and not to honour him with an Answer who urged to me that Example of Scaliger who being told that a mean Fellow had writ saucily against him answered Relatum est mihi Scarabaeum quendam contra me scribere cui respondere nec dignitatis est nec Otii I have been told said he that a certain Scarabee has writ against me to whom it doth neither become me nor have I leisure to give Answer But I could not be so satisfied to let the young man go on in such a Carier without a Curb since I have writ nothing but what I am assured to be true and am well able to defend against all his Objections Although I confess I am not at very good leasure to do it in rega●d of my other Occasions especially since I am hereby interrupted in my Latine Copy upon the Subject of the Spaw which I thought should have seen the light this year Nor do I know of any one else that is so much concerned to undertake it I therefore took his Book into Consideration concerning which I must say as once Julian did upon a better thing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in which sunt bona sunt quaedam mediocria sunt mala plura Or as Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Besides his words which are his own stuft with bombaste I see nothing in it but what is vulgar Those indeed are such and so affected wherein I find him constantly incircled as if like Faustus he went about to conjure up Mephistophiles Or as if the Chymical Spirits were like the Infernal that they will not be raised without hard and big words His Experiments which are not a few are pillaged out of Kircher Helmont Zwelfer Sennertus Mr. Boyle Sendivogius and Dr. French his Book of Knaresbrough Spaw and several others though he is rarely so candid as to own them The Inferences which thence he deduces are most what upon mistaken grounds drawing general Conclusions from particular Premises His Philosophy is not at all to