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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B06150	Tarrugo unmasked, or an Answer to a late pamphlet intituled, Apollo mathematicus by George Hepburn, M.D., and member of the Colledge of Phisicians at Edinburgh ... To which is added by Doctor Pitcairne, The theory of the internal diseases of the eye demonstrated mathematically.	Hepburn, George.; Pitcairn, Archibald, 1652-1713. Theoria morborum oculi succincte demonstrate.	1695 (1695)	Wing T169; ESTC R219128	34,296	74

foundation for that they assert as the Doctor proves in the II page of his Oration what help can such precarious causes bring to a physician It is the principle of a great Sect in philosophy That all things are made up of a Meteria a forma Substantialis from which issued forth the four first qualities Heat Cold Moist and dry The Physicians generally em brac'd this opinion because it was almost conform to Hippocrat's who taught that all consisted of the four Elements whose natures were Hot. Cold Moist and Dry. Now these Philosophical Physicians without any sincere and exact observations laid it down as a Maxime that Opium is Cold and this according to them was the nature of Opium and the physical cause of all its Actions and effects on our Bodies For by telling it was Cold they by their principles pretended to have told its nature This being believed they were sure ro use Opium only in Hot Diseases for they as rashly determin'd about the nature of Diseases and distinguish'd them into Hot Cold c. and becauss a Feaver a Phrenzy c. were reckoned Hot therefore in these Opium was used to very bad purpose And because some Tumors were by them reckon'd Cold therefore the Cicuta which they reckon'd Cold without sincere and exact observation too was condemned as to its external use in such Tumors tho it be singularly useful in healing them This is all the advantagee Medicine has from investigating and determining the physical causes embracing a phylosophical Sect and neglecting to intimat the Astronomers Because Hippocrat had without any ground or Knowledge of Anatomy taught that our Life consisted in a calidum in natum and that this was our nature and the physical cause of all our acrions and had observed that a certain quantity of Opium had kill'd any Animal he and his followers inferr'd that the nature of Opium consisted in Cold And is it not fit to warn physicians of the insufficiency and hurtfulness of such a method For tho the humor of building Medicine on the Hypothesis of Hot and Cold c. be not every where predominant amongst the physicians as it was some years agoe yet the inclination disposition to build on the uncertain and precarious principles of a sect instead of making exact observations is predominant So that those who reject Aristotles philosophy as useless hurtful to Medicine admit Hippocrat's or Des. Carter's that is equally prejudical and uncertain Now that the Doctor is not the only person of this opinion is apparent from Mr. Newton's preface to his Book entitled The Mathematical principles of Natural philosophy where he has these words Multa me movent ut nonnihil suspi cer omnia naturae phaenomena ex viribus quibusdam pen dere quibus corporum particuloe per causas nondum cogni tas vel in se mutuo impelluntur secundum figuras regu lares cohaerent vel ab in invicem fugantur recedunt quibus viribus ignotis Philosophi hactenus naturam frustra tentarunt You see Mr. Newton thinks that physical causes are yet unknown and are like to remain unknown till wee use a Mathematical method for finding them This is evident from what he say in the end of the 11 Section lib 1. Princip In Mathesi investigandoe sunt virium quantitates rationes illae quae ex conditionthus quibuscunque positis consequentur deinde uhi in physicam descenditur confer endie sunt hae rationes cum phaenomenis ut innotescat quaenam virium conditiones singulis corporum generibus competant Et tuns demum de virium speciebus causis rationibus physicis tutius disputare licebit The Dr then had reason and authority for him when he advised the Phisicians in their reasonings to abstain from the Sectarian Philosophy and lay aside the Investigation of Physical Causes after the mannet hitherto used by the Sects Since these are altogethet unknown and are not to be fond till we first find out the virium rationes et quantitates which if we could find and wee can only find them by the help of Mathamaticks we should have Medicine made perfect before any Physical cause were known That which makes this Scribles so much concern'd for Physical Causes is because he has learn'd a little of Aristotles Philosophey which is no thing but a Metaphyfical discourse that is a quibling and speaking nonsense about physical Causes and this he would have pass for good reasoning in Medicine The difference then betwixt the Doctor and him is this The Dr when he applied himself to Medecine perceived that many things in it were handled a very unsatisfactory Method and therefore-resolved to try a method that he had learn'd in reading Mathamatical Writers this he found successul and coming to read Borelli and Bellini he found they had used that same method in medicinal affairs but with agreat deal of more success in as much as they are fat greater Mathamaticians than he is This our Scribler Tarrugo perceiving resolved that he also would make a Noise amongst the learn'd tho it were no better nor more melodious than that of a Culross gridiron or girdle amongst fine Violins He had no Mathematicks to carry him through but he had learn'd Logicks and Metaphysicks had a Natural stock of impudence and an acquir'd one of Stage Buffoonry as his Book shows and thus accontred he resolves to burlesque and rail at any thing he understood not and throw scraps of Logicks and Metaphysic's before his Reader which beingrealand downright Nonsense are harder to be understood than the Mathematicks and so Tarrugo must appear the profoundest Schollar of the two Thus you see every man for improving his Art brings the Talents he is endowed with And if by so doing he has any hopes of bringing himself into Reputation he 'll hide none of his qualities For the Dr has vented his Mathematicks and has inculcated the necessity of them in a professor of Medecine very often well knowing he had some knowledge of them Tarrugo on the other hand being no less greedy of reputation and imployment but ignorant of Mathamaticks pretends there is no use of that science in Medicine and in a Book of 12 sheets proves that Metaphysical Nonsense Impudence Lying and Calumniating Nestie and Scurrilous Ribaldry can doe as well Forby these Arts he has seen a Physician brough to Reputation 'T is true some Mathematical blades will not esteem him but these are Few But yee 'l ask me perhaps if any man be so mad as to think Medicine will be better'd by lying and Buffoonry for that is the question and improv'd more that way than by just and Mathematically exact reasoning Yes Tarrugo thinks it for he having seen some persons by such artifices brought to some reputation did by a very Metaphysical inference conclude that the method which betters and is advantagious to the Artist is also advantagious to the Art Here is the depth of Logicks and Metaphisicks and