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Remarks on Mr. Richard Bolton's piece, concerning the heat of the blood
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Leigh, Charles, 1662-1701?
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1698
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REMARKS ON Mr. Richard Bolton's PIECE CONCERNING The Heat of the BLOOD An Mercurium Congelasti An quid aliud vanitatis nunc maxime à proposito longe es semper rebus aliquid defuerit dolis nihil At si quoties te isia fefellerint recogitas Si de hác re vicinos interrogas nisi tu vel ultro te fallis facile deprehendes quorsum his praestigiis credendum sit LONDON Printed and sold by John Shelmerdine Bookseller in Manchester 1698. REMARKS c. I Have perused Sir your wonderful Discoveries about the Heat of the Blood and find you think Fire is not actually hot in it self but only as it affects the Sensory and by this way of arguing I may as well argue there is not one Scholar in the University of Oxford and for the self-same Reason you assign to wit because I see 'em not And truly Sir were they all composed of such nitro-sulphureous elastick Particles as your self the Assertion would prove true But I hope the old Element still retains its connate Quality and the most famous University a genuine Off-spring By the wonderful Discoveries you have been able to make you have made it a Demonstration à priori that a Pig â—â— not an Elephant nor a Mouse a Cheesemonger tho' she lives by him nor your self a Professor of the Chair tho' you have the Effrontery to dictate like one But Sir since your Genius leads you to such immature Discoveries be pleased to solve these following Phoenomena 'T is observed that Irish Men are most of 'em Fools and the Reason assigned is That the Pressure of the Circumambient Atmosphere makes their Brains fly out at their Nostri1s Your Friend Gideon Harvey took a great deal of pains to shew why a Dog loves to lick the Pudenda of a Salt Bitch and if you can but solve this wonderful Phaenomenon why a Bull upon the like Occasion purses up his Nostrils it will entitle you to more Learning than yet you have manifested you are master of and will oblige the World and your Brother Pantagruel who made such wonderful Discoveries in Rabelais's Memoirs I have one thing more to remind you and that is That our Cooks dish up well Scotch Collops and if you can but inform 'em how to lard the animal Spirits which you assert are a sweet oily Mucilage 't will further demonstrate you have beyond Mankind a Crassa Minerva or if you please a fat Head or an oily-nitro-salino-aereal-sulphureous Cockloft But were they as you assert how comes it to pass that a Nerve will not swell above the straitest Ligature or any of this Mucilage distil from it upon section or cannot by pressure be squeezed from it it being of a clammy Consistence If such a Mucilage did circulate through the Nerves no doubt but some of these would happen Your wonderful categorial Head without the least shew of Proof has endeavour'd to convince the World that the Brain that Metropolis in the Microcosm by the influence of the animal Spirits heats the Blood by the Glandules those emunctories of the Body and I may with as much reason affirm that Whitehall the noblest part in that vast City to wit London was lately burned by the Effluvia of a Bog-house Sir there is not one Notion in your Book barring the little Nova Atlanta of your own Head but what is taken either from Dr. Gibson Dr. Willis Mr. Boyle Dr. Mayow Dr. Connor Monsieur le Grand or the Exercitationes quinque lately printed at Oxford and therefore I was amazed to see such an Imprimatur to so notorious a Plagiary but presume the Criple wanted a Pass to travel by One great Mystery you have discover'd why Flame naturally ascends to wit because as you alledge 't is for the most part the nature of it to do so which is as much as to say Mr. Bolton for the most part naturally talks like a Child because it is not in his nature to do otherwise You have likewise explain'd how it may be said naturally to descend to wit when it cannot get upwards which amounts to no more than if you had informed the World That had the Confederate Army only made use of Duck Shot they had ne'er been masters of the Castle of Namur And in that wonderful Discovery you have found out the Rationale how an expert School-Boy with a good Ball and a hard Flag can sometimes count to 300 Rebounds Your next Advance I suppose will be about Cob-nuts and Marbles In one place you assert Fire is not actually hot but as it affects the Sensory in another place you say the motion of the vital Spirits cause not the Heat of the Blood but produce a Sensation of Heat Good Sir be pleased to reconcile these Contradictions and if you can divide betwixt the North and North-West side of a Hair for any thing you have yet offer'd Diemerbrook may be still in the right of it Nor have you fully replied to Dr. Henshaw for I think you are the first Man that ever discovered cold Chyle in the Body of a living Animal which I suppose is the greatest Discovery in Anatomy you are able to pretend to Sir whether you Name be any of those you mention to wit Thomas Robert or William it concerns not me but I am pretty well satisfied all the Names in Europe cannot give you the constituent Parts of a Philosopher You assert the Heat of the Blood proceeds from a swift intestine motion of its Particles Now I believe you will be as hard set to explain intestine Motion as a Quaker to explain what he means by the Spirit within him You likewise assert Attrition to be the Cause of Fermentation and Fermentation the Cause of Attrition which is as much as to say you are the Son of your Father and your Father Son to you but I rather fear an Author about the Growth of a Mushroom Your metaphorical Glands are properly so called for I am very well satisfied there are not any such things really in rerum Natura the animal Spirits you assert to be in the form of a Mucilage and you may as well affirm a Rose to be in the Surface of a Cow-Turd and the one I believe as truly as the other You likewise assert they are oily and sulphureous because the Brain by being exposed to the Air will soon grow foetid I doubt not Sir but you know what else will but hope you will not ransack each Close-stool to demonstrate the Existence of animal Spirits You have likewise told us of the way of grinding animal Spirits into smaller parts so that in your next I suppose we may be informed how Diego with his Spanish Geese went to the World of the Moon or how a Spanish Genet may be made pregnant by a Hurricane P. 99. you say you have explained an Account of the Heat of the Blood without any manner of Proof and in that you say true P. 105. Spirit of Wine and Oil of Turpentine
will turn to an actual Flame by being mixt together Here the Plagiary has mistaken the Mixture for it ought to be Spirit of Nitre and Oil of Turpentine see the late Exercitationes quinque Printed at Oxford But he that ventures at all things and is master of few is certain to be catched and it had been much better for him to have sate still than rise up and fall But let not this Absurdity be published from Oxford or from the Presidents and Censors those Representatives of the College since 't is certain a Mixture of these two to wit Spirit of Wine and Oil of Turpentine neither grow hot nor turn to an actual Flame but to a white Liquor not unlike Milk or Chyle which may remind the Youth before he write again to wipe his Mother's Milk off his Chin. But this Mistake might easily slip the Vicechancellor his Talent I presume not leading him to Experimental Learning besides his great Affairs not permitting and I would hope the President and Censors never perused the Copy And as for his Patron Dr. Angel of Chester they best know how matters were betwixt ' em P. 117. your next Discovery to suppress Heat in Fevers is either to take down the animal Spirits by withdrawing the Pabulum or by Acids or by cooling and fixing the predominant Spirits and evacuating other accessory Causes which amounts to no more than this that if a Man have a Fever we must use some means to recover him but which to take I am afraid the Youth knows not but perhaps knows as well how to fix the animal Spirits as the wise Men of Gotham did to hedge in the Cuckow P. 126. The sulphureous volatile parts of the animal Spirits are I suppose Sir beyond your Apprehension But good Sir how do you make out the Composition of the Spirits No more for ought I can see than a Country Piper that plays all the Notes of Roger a Coverley all the mechanical Blasts of the Aspera Arteria P. 127. I would gladly know what you mean by Acidity joining with Acrimony and how you will make out that in Fevers the Blood is too much exalted with Sulphur when in malignant Fevers 't is evident the Pulse is most commonly depressed and languid which doubtless would not be were the Blood too much exalted with Sulphur P. 135. Where the Blood ferments there the Fermentation is caused but demonstrate the place and do not assert all things and prove nothing P. 139. He gives an Account of the Expansion of the Spirits but that was before alledged by Dr. Morton and in answer to that I refer him to the Exercitationes quinque Printed at Oxford where he may see in what manner they can be most properly said to expand ' emselves Lastly Sir your repeated Word Grand demonstrates to the World you had a Windmill not an Aristotle in your Head P. 192. Air would hinder Circulation and disturb the Blood wherefore it mixeth not with it What are the Bladders of the Lungs impleted with And if so how come some Airs to be Pestilential others Scorbutick 'T is plain this would not be if the Particles of Air mixed not with the Blood Yet this we see confirmed by daily Experience But in what you have informed us concerning the use of the Lungs if we peruse the Authors that have writ before it is not so much as that of the Satyr that with the same Breath could warm his Fingers and cool his Broth. Wherefore good Sir be pleased to stay till you are Master of Smiglecius and then if not for an Author you may set up for a Nego Minorem FINIS