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A62437	Misochymias elenchos, or, A check given to the insolent garrulity of Henry Stubbe in vindication of my Lord Bacon and the author : with an assertion of experimental philosophy : also some practical observations exhibited for the credit of the true chymical science : by George Thomson ...	Thomson, George, 17th cent.	1671 (1671)	Wing T1028; ESTC R1275	36,015	74

betterment of Mans Health and Life It was my hopes once that this Declaimer against the Frauds and Abuses committed by Apothecaries pretending that to be a Reason why he deserts them would have become absolutely reformed himself made his publick Recantation with contrition of Soul abominated his former Actions with dejecti●n of Spirit that he should thus be bewitched to continue in so fraudulent a way for so many years contrary to the dictates of his own Reason the secret checks of his own Conscience the debasement and demolition of the Noble Science of Physick to the overthrow and bane of thousands of Lives sed quanta de spe deoidi this Dr. Merret is not the man I took him for for I perceive he is still led by Interest and Secular Respec●s and so blinded with Honours Rights Priviledges Statutes and Votes of his Soci●ty that he is no more able to behold the Truth with an intent sincere prospect for the preservation o● miserab●e Man than weak ●yes are ab●e fix●dly to behold the Sun in a clear day I am a●raid it may be said of him Qui semel est semper sumitur esse ma●us This supposed Re●ormer o● the Method of Physick thinks it enough to have lashed the Apothecaries to have proclaim●d ●heir abuses to the World as if this w●re enough to expiate his Crime and the rest of his Ma●e-practical Br●thr●n● endeavouring to make ●ome silly p●ople believe that they had not be●n chi●● Actors of those odious Misdemeanours th●s he thinks to come off fairly wiping his mouth w●●h t●e W●or● in th● Proverbs saying What have I done laying all the fault and miscarriage in their Art upon their p●ocur●d Servants w●en in real truth as Di●genes ●●r●ck the Father when the Son swore ●●cause ●e taught him no better So ought Doctor M●rret and all those Galenical Pseudo-Chymistical Co-partners of his to do penance for making a ●rade of Man● Life for p●rpetuating th●s long a fallacious and no less pernicious mode or form of practice never brought to light un●●l of late years expresly to be condemned in it self For I op●nly rep●at that 't is impossible for any man to di●charge his Duty in his Function aright w●o makes not his own Medicines with his own ●ingers yea he ought also if he can to take them often into his own Body Of this I ●hal hereafter speak more at large if God spare my life to put ●orth practical Observations in Latine that the world may the better understand the veritie of these things Obsequium Amicos veritas odium parit I took Mr. Stubbe for one of the greatest Enemies of Physical Truth but now I am perswaded you out-vie him according to your own Confession as appears by the words pag. 11. of the Reply I have acted also many y●ars together for what he hopes ●or In pag. 21. That Physitians would consider their Common Interest in opposition to the Thomsons Now have I good grounds to believe that such a s●y stickler as your self for the Good Old Cause might be the Father of that Spurious Brat Agyrto-M●stix which Iohnson your Pseudo-Chymist did own and publish against me ●ull of Scur●ilities and falsities I wond●r with what face you can declare your self a Chymi●t an Experimentator one of the Lord Bacons Disciples and thus oppose me so scornfully and unfaithfu●ly either you your self giving me less deserving than any of your Colledge this term of a Mountebanck Empirick c. or countenancing ab●tting wilfully conniving at and encouraging any one who shall fasten such dirty Language upon me It is i●possible that you should be a candid Spagyrical Philosopher and hate the ways of direct Healing which I 'll engage to indicate to you Can you be one of the Legitimate Off-spring of the Lord Bacon and thus incon●inently p●rsist to let out the Vital Blood d●p●●ving the Pati●nt of his strength which alone can cure him also magnifying Doctor Wil●is against whose destructive Course of Sanguimission I have written offering to make good the Ration thereof by Operation and Demonstration for all this Petrus dormit securus ye rest your selves satisfied soothing one another up in the delusory Event and favour of Great Ones on whom ye impose by your Authority of Learning most notorious untruths to the loss of the lives of the most Illustrious in the Nation Ye fraudulently and craftily make the World believe you slight or scorn to answer me but re vera you are not able to make any solid veridical Reply that may be satisfactory to any sober upright scrupulous Inquirer into the Reason and Effects of Phlebotomie You say in p. 31 of the Reply Physicians dayly do and lawfully may speak in general that such a man was killed by such an Apothecary by not letting him Blood But I will prove it by Fact that such a Physician wrongs the Apothecary and unlawfully charges him with Homicide for omitting that which you putting in ex●cution make your selves guilty Wherefore i● the Magistrate would be pleased to understand the sad products of this Bleed●ng ye ought according to Law if ye obstinately go on in your lethiferous courses to be dis-enfranchised in stead of a superficial Phlebo●omical company of unlawful de●troyers of Mankind a substantial Philosophical iustly Chymical Society to be advanced And it had ere this been brought to pass had not some cra●ty Prevaricators belonging to you and scandalous illiterate fellows intruding themselves among us betrayed that enterprize which I believe a Learned Helmon●ian Spagyrist will in despight of all your under-ground dealings attain and make evident the Thomsons which you zealously and knowingly oppose which heightens your iniquity are able in their Art to do more than all the Merr●ts in Europe Neither do they fear your prosecution as you proudly relate although out of superlative malice you implicitly rank me among the Odowds and Triggs the last whereof I have reason to believe did more positive good in one Month for I desire to give the devil his due than you and all your Phlebotomical fellows did in a whole year Moreover the Thomsons deride your boasting in Compounding Medicaments better than the whole Company of Apothecaries sith you are very ignorant of the Ar●ana of Paracelsus Helmont as is manifest by your Actions otherwise you are a most notorious counterfeit As for your METHOD which you say you understand I am ready to make it appear tedious and impostorious therefore not to be insisted upon To●ching the stating a Case in your Science I know you are very expert ther●in being a cunning Sophister● but we must tell you your Fundamentals are rotten and in this Case uno absurdo dato mille consequuntur As for your Degrees and admission into the Colledge twenty years ago also their chusing you Censor to read publick Anatomy with applause are nothing significant unless you w●re more sound in the Phi●osop●ical Principles and could arrive to the degree of Curing without Bleeding which is absolutely inconsistent with

some brave Philanders and Philalethean Spirits who as yet live obscure will if occasion serve manifest their zeal for the subversion of these intolerable Miso-Chymist Neither is there any fear that the Concernments of the Church of England the two Universities and all Artizans as Hen. St. intimates will hereby be damnified For I look upo● 〈◊〉 presumptuously Ignorant Aristotelian Physicians who have these many hundreds of ye●rs been passively guilty of the Blood of Myriads through a supine subscription to their Masters Ordinanc●s and D●crees without Experimental scrutiny into the same and still persevere to be super-J●daically obstinate in not retracting their transverse Essential Crimes in practice respecting the very Life and Soul of Man when ●air practical Demonstrations and evident Facts have been tendred to confute them I say I am fully perswaded th●se desperately resolved Anthropoctoni are very scandalous to the Church of England Men of Religion and good manners For this Reason the rest of their Moral Actions being sutable to their Physical Tenents they are generally reputed no better than Atheists whereby the most horrid evil example of these Learned Superiors do infinitely debauch and corrupt the manners of the people Moreover I a●firm being taught by multitude o● Observa●ions that these Dogmatical Galenists● s●me whereof do now pretend to Chymistry yet do persecute it with Vatinian hatred which is a Paradox have been no small cause that the Morality of a great part of the English comes much short of the Goodness of the Turks and that we are more prone to diversity of Opinions in Religion than formerly because they have exercised such frequent Sanguimissions and putrified the good Juyces by their deletery Purgations since the S●urvy Venereal Plague small Pox Meazels and many malignant Feavers have reigned among us for by this means the Vital Spirits being exhausted the Tone of the Stomach enervated the Ferments depraved Indigestion increased a Disparity in the strength of parts introduced the foresaid Diseases get strength becoming more difficult to cure and a multitude of Calamities of Body and Mind hatched up so that poor Mortals and their Posterity suffer a double mischief from the M●lady and the pretended Remedy Hereupon the Organs or Instruments of the Soul being thus spoiled and deprived of their Genuine use 't is impossible that regular Actions should be executed thence the mind possess●d with Melancholy black discontented thoughts uncapable to receive truth becom●s froward peevish careless of virtuous Actions desperately bent to follow for divertisement a voluptuous sensual life or to contrive Innovations Heresies Schisms and factious Rebellions and what not All things rightly weighed my Prospect plainly discovers the Nation wants good store of true Philosophical Physicians to purifie the Blood to invigorate the Archeus to corrobate the Stomach then that exorbitancie in Religion and evil Manners which an Indirect Method of Curing hath brought upon us might sooner be rectified For this Hen. St. is quite mistaken in his thoughts that a Society of Experimentators should at all debauch the world sith they can best detect the Fountain of those enormous evils which have been perpetrated in Church and State through the mis-apprehension of crasie Brains and dislocated fancies which these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the I●trick Science have procured by overthronging the sound constitution of Blood and Spirits never to be reform'd but by those Adepti or the true Sons of Helmont Neither are the two Vniversities like to be impaired in their splendor by this most satisfactory way of inquiring into the Cause of Natural things unless they ende●vor to k●ep us still hood-wink'd by Paralogisms subtil Arguments deceitful Sophistry to dispute us out of Truth perswading us out of our Senses proceeding to in●use and season tender youth easily to be seduced with d●structive Principles which being radicated in them by Custome Education and Authority are very difficultly afterwards unlearnt In this case they may ●hank themselves if Omnipot●nt Veri●y Eclipse them Assuredly thus much may be feared if they do not cast out their Aristotelian Sophismes and Fallacies and seasonably entertain the Helmontian most veriloqu●us Authentick Philosophy that Tiro's or Novices may be better instructed and initiated in the fund●mental Elements of Physiologie that they may to a purpose improve th●ir Studies for the preservation of miserable Man Some will scruple to send their Sons to the Academies so erroneously to be disciplined whereas after they have acquired some co●petent knowledge of the Latin and Greek in the common Schools they will think it better by far to k●●p them at home to the Reading of Helmont and some other sound Author who can teach them Re●l Entities not suffering th●m to spend their pr●tious time about many useless App●arances which Univ●rsiti●s may put them upon However for my part I shall n●v●r be wanting to keep up that high Repute and honourable Regard due to Universities so ●ar as solid active truth will permit and further I hope no Intelligent man will urge me Lastly How Artizans can any way suffer a detriment by the Genuine Disciples of the Lord Bacon I do not at all understand certainly they must rather be much advanced in their Mechanicks when many Technical Discoveries shall be made apparent or hinted to them whereby the most ingenious will be highly pleased to see some Daedalian Artifice● brought to light for Ars habet neminem inimicu● praeter ignorantem neither need they question bu● the more curious the Inventions are and of greates● Novelty the more Lucriferous they will be Quaev●● Terra alit Artificem the Handy-craft shall reap the fruit of their Labours which refined Wits will communicate being not born to make a Trade thereof themselves for Lucre. Indeed I confess the Colledge of Physitians are like to go by the Lee as long as Pyrasticks flourish because they will not bear a Chymical Test therefore they find it best to acquiesce in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 slighting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They are perswaded Experimentally the old way is the best to sit in their Chair disputing scribling Medicines while others are making them this sutes best with their Ease Riches and Grandeur● Away say they with these new-fangled-Devices of Questioning by Fact such famous men as we are whether we kill or Cure why we Bleed and Purge 't is enough we have tried again and again it will bring in a Fee secundum Artem. But let me tell these Antipirasticks 't is a Black Art brought in by an evil Angel which must ere long do what they can return to the place from whence it came 't is no wonder if many of those unsound seemingly expert Dogmatists who at first were compelled for their Credit-sake to mix themselves with the soundest of the Lord Bacons Disciples do now grow cold and indifferent whether they hold on being conscious to themselves they are not Chymical proof I wish heartily the Royal Society were totally rid of them then perhaps the most truly