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A62438	Ortho-methodoz itro-chymikē: or the direct method of curing chymically Wherein is conteined [sic] the original matter, and principal agent of all natural bodies. Also the efficient and material cause of diseases in general. Their therapeutick way and means. I. Diætetical, by rectifying eating, drinking, &c. II. Pharmaceutick. 1. By encreasing and supporting the vital spirits. 2. By pacifying and indulging them. 3. By defacing or blotting out the idea of diseases by proper specificks. Lastly, by removing the extimulating or occasional cause of maladies. To which is added, The art of midwifery chymically asserted. The character of an ortho-cymist, and pseudochymist. A description of the sanative virtues of our stomach-essence. Also, giawo-mempsiz: or a just complaint of the method of the Galenists. By George Thomson, M.D.	Thomson, George, 17th cent.	1675 (1675)	Wing T1029; ESTC R222195	87,128	216

is saturated with abundant Exhalations Let him beware to eat unless his Appetite invites him then not till he be glutted Commedat non quidem ad repletionem cavitatis Stomachi nec ad voluptatis sive gustus dictamen 'T is the misery of many to have better Appetites than Nigestions which is the frequent cause that many raw Juices are contracted the Body becoming more clogged ponderous and indisposed to stir for if no more Food be taken in than can be throughly altered Excrementitious Superfluitie● being sent packing insensibly one will continue the same weight or little different many mornings togehter if otherwise any Caput Mort or Dreggy substance remain behind indigested the Spirits become Dull Cloudy and Obscure and the whole Mass Lumpish and Heavy Mastication an exact chewing of what we eat doth exceedingly avail to a happy Digestion for he that hastily gobleth in his Food had need to have a Cormorants or an Ostritch's Dissolvent in his Stomach Variety of Dishes is a Lure to make us Eat more than ordinary and a means to pester the Stomach with more than it can Digest to make a confusion in the separation so that which is raw being blended with what is duly changed both are thrown off without Distinction The plainest simple Home-bred Food is generally to be preferred for holsomness before the fine pampering curiously-dressed far-fetched Dainties Beef Mutton rightly prepared before Partridges Pheasants c. Brown Bread Leavened before White That Tyrannical Severe Overbusie Precepts the Galenists enjoyn their Patients is to be rejected for misere vivit qui medice vivit To be rigidly kept from what is Lawful and Useful for want of fitting Remedies is little better than a Turkish Slavery Celsus his Rule Not to be much solicitous or curious in Diet supposed some measure be observed is to be embraced by every man who enjoys a competent Health Yea sith they who are oppressed with any great Sickness Nature becoming prostrate subject to the Dominion of the Enemy can never be cured by the strictest Government in their Food Therefore even those when the Maladie shall meet with Remedies able to over power it ought to take liberty to gratifie their Appetite and sometimes to indulge their Genius more liberally than ordinary with what it is greatly affected For how often hath it been known the thing the Physitian hath sternly forbidden upon pain of Death that the same being either secretly stoln by the Patient or privately offered by the Nurse or some Friends hath proved the unexpected Means to make Nature Mistress of the Disease the Vital Spirits hereby highly exalted at the presence of that which doth so match their Inclination and vehement Longing in so much that they have taken Courage and scattered those black clouds of mischievous Idea's entertaining instead thereof clear bright Images tending to health It is no small prudence in a Physitian to examine to what Diet the sick person hath accustomed bimself for saith Hippo. Quarum rerum inveteravit Consuetudo quamvis deteriores sint illae minus tamen insuetis male afficiunt Aphor. 5. lib. 2. In this case we ought sometimes not so punctually to stand upon what is Holsome as what is Customary nor is this any Argument to allow of Poison Chaulk Tobacco Tiles or Coles which some to Admiration have frequently devoured in great quantity without a mortal Event But the question is what Indifferent Food may be commended dispensed and afforded to the Infirm in relation to custome and a strong desire with a capacity of digesting it for these Considerations laid aside it were by no means to be granted In Conclusion I advise that Curiosity Severity Nicety in Diet be laid aside that the Physitian as well as the Patient insist upon what the Importunity of the Appetite dict●tes the Custome of any Food doth urge ●nd the largness of Digestion may permit ●or what is earnestly desired doth conduce to ● better Alteration what is well Altered doth encrease the Vitals otherwise it doth ●ut strengthen the Disease weaken Nature It is as possible that flesh thrown into the ●ennel should not corrupt lying there long ●s that food taken into a stomach deprived in greatest part of its Dissolvent or Ferment ●hould not Cadaverate or Putrifie whereupon the former Calamity is augmented by ano●her Not how much we eat but what is accu●ately prepared in this Vital Kitchen is chief●y to be considered Veins Arteries Nerves Ligaments Gristles Bones are all beholding ●he Blood and Spirits for their happy subsist●nce and those to the Stomach Wherefore 〈◊〉 any aim at a comfortable life ut sit mens sa●a in corpore sano let him avoid excess in ●o●d and liquid Diet but especially the first ●et him endeavour so far to understand him●elf or be governed by those who are know●ng her in that no more ought to be put in●o this Membranous Body than what it 's able ●o convert into a laudable substance for the ●ood of the whole Neither let any one ●hink to be rightly instructed by the Galenists sith they prescribe a Diet according to false Suppositions of Heat and Cold Recollae● nowhere active of themselves in the producing any vital Ens But let the upright Philosophical Chymist be heard who gives Counsel according as the Spirits and their Instruments shall dictate Hereby no considerable Eerror can be committed in the Superstructure as long as the Foundation is so strong CHAP. V. THe next thing Diaetetical to be considered tending to the bene esse or Wellfare of mans life is Evacuation of what is Superfluous or Excrementitious and the Retention of a Salubrious and Friendly Matter for the Sustentation of a commodious prosperous Health That all Foulness in no wise to be taken into the custody of the Vitals may be discharged Secretion or Separation is to be made of Good from Bad of Pure from Impure by the Active Separator the Archeus for when any thing rejectaneous is thrown off promiscuously with any laudable Sudstance fitting to be conserved many inconveniencies follow as is frequently observed by the more acute Physitians in Haemorrhagies or Fluxes both natural and Artificial for what can be more absurd than ●o cast away the Wheat with Chaff the Spirit of Wine with the stinking dreggy Sulphur Now Superfluities the more they are rarefied and volatilized by kindly Ferments the ●ooner they are difflated or sent packing by Respiration and Transpiration through the habit of the Body without the least remainder of a gross Dregg in which if it fail there forthwith follows a declination from Integri●y a brisk sound constitution of body becoming according to Statica Medicina a little more dull and ponderous if then a considerable quantity of this filthy setling be accumu●ated the occasional cause of a disease is hatching which if not timely prevented breaks forth actually disturbing the Oeconomy of ●his admirable Frame Wherefore due caution is to be taken that we ingest not any thing not capable to be digested

times Stigma's of their Malignity be●ind so that no Adeptus but will conclude The greatest part of them ought to be ex●unged with a supply made of better things ●nd what remains to be more discreetly ordered in their Manufacture How do the Galenists impose upon us first ●o Cry down most Satyrically even to the Persecution of certain Honest Ingenuous Friends to this Art those Meaner sort of Pa●acelsian Remedies now to make use of them ●o the detriment of many a Patient as well ●s to the keeping up the Credit of their Tot●ering Dogmatical Structure which must of ●ecessity have fallen ere this to the ground ●ad they not closely foisted in upon a pinch ●ome Spagyrical active Preparations stolen ●rom us at that time when their most Dull Mixtures would take no place then boast●ng they tell the Credulous that their own gross Compositions had the greatest share in ●he Cure whereas in reality they did no o●her than hinder it Upon this account how subtilly do some pretend to be Chymists stealing Theorem● and Chymical Notions out of Van Helm di●●guising putting them into an Elegant dress concealing the Authors Name Thus 〈◊〉 these Plagiaries own that filched from him whom in publick discourse they eithe● condemn or slight were they any whit candid they would blush to do so This Crime may justly be imputed to the Author De Fermentat De Febri and others who make a great noise about Lac Sulphur Spir. C. C. Spir. Vitri Ens Vene c. enough they think to make them cryed up for rare Chymists whereas were these Men with their Prescriptions brought to the Test of Practice they would easily be discovered to be but smatterers in this Philosophical Science then would their egregious Defects be obvious to any knowing Person Hereby the Safety Innocence and Vital Preservation of Manufactures would appear as much transcending theirs in excellent Endowments as a Torch in its Bright Beams surpassing a small Tallow Candle Moreover we are able not only to justifie our Operations beyond theirs as free from hazard or dangerous Consequences but we dare maintain what we give to the Sick conduces to their future Welfare and lengthning out their Life according as Divine ●●ovidence is pleased to allow of the means 〈◊〉 that end Having thus by solid Reasons offered to be ●●nfirmed by the true Touchstone of Expe●●ence acquitted our Chymical Pharmacy from 〈◊〉 Slanders of our Enemies viz. that our ●ateria Medica is so ill handled that it is ●o Hot Burning Dangerous c. I shall ●ow describe the direct Method of Curing ●ifficult Diseases by help of a sincere Chymi●●l Legitimate Learned Art The chief Indication or Scope which the Well-instructed Physitian ought continually 〈◊〉 have an eye upon is to keep in vigour ●lso to pacifie indulge gratifie the Archeus 〈◊〉 Vital Spirit the Achitectonical contriver ●f our first Being the constant Conservator ●f our Well-being the Author of our Health ●nd Sickness Weal and Woe This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Hippocr by its Impulse ●ets all the Wheels going If a Dysphonie happen in the Sphere of this Vital Aire there a●iseth forthwith a jarring in the Inferiour Orbs of the Microcosm The Second Principal Indication is the Ab●●tion of the Inward Efficient Cause and the Outward Occasional Irritating Matter which ●isturbs the Archeus putting it into Enor●ous Passions and Perturbations These are the two Leggs by which Therapeutick or Healing Faculty is moved 〈◊〉 that is wanting in one of these is certainl● Maimed Whatsoever encreaseth the Eutonie o● Strength of the Vital Spirit ought to have Similitude of Nature and Symbolize wi●● the same Spirit seeing Like doth readily ●●nite with Like embracing each other in●●●mately That we may find out a Compe● with the Archeus the Essential knowle●● thereof is to be enquired after The Vital Spirit is a most thin Aehere Breathing arising from the Blood perpet●●ally circulated in the Veins and Arteries ill●minated framed by Virtue of a Vital Fe●ment in the left Ventricle of the Heart of a Saline Balsamical Constitution by means o● whose Bright Beams all Spirits generated a new diffused through the whole body receive their Light and Vivacity The Original of this Ruddy Juice where the Spirits first begin to flash and glister is from the Stomach where every thing ingested is dissolved by power of a Ferment partly ingenite partly derived from the Spleen or Arteries into a Whitish Acide Chyle This passing through the Pylorus or Neather Orifice of the Ventricle into the Guts called Duodenum Iejunum Ileon is there converted by a Lixiviate like property of the Gaul mixed with the Acid into a saline Texture denominated Chyme The more refined part of this Juice is conveighed through invisible Pores of the Guts into the Venae Lactae or Milky Vessels both trained by them and likewise impelled by the Peristaltick Motion of the Guts These Venae Lacteae carry the Milky Juice into the Liver Pancreas cava through whose Channels it runs Rubified into the right Ventricle of the heart thence it is driven out into Arteria Pulmon divaricated into the Lungs by means of the Centraction of the Heart then taken up by the Vena Pulmonica it falls into the left Ventricle where it is Flavefied by the Vital Ferment of the Heart by the force of whose Systole this Spirituous Liqor springs into all parts designed for Nutrition Procreation Sense and Motion Sith then 't is plain that the first Foundation of the Blood is laid in the Stomach according to whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon whose good and bad action future digestions depends so that if the Chyle be once depraved in the first shop the Chyme and Milky Juice cannot be made in every respect approved in the second or third Laboratories Consequently very laudable Blood and Spirits can never be Fabricated For as the Chyle is such is the Chyme Lacteous Liquor Latex or Lympha Cruor Sanguis and Spirits Sith then there is such a Concatenation Connexion continued File of the Albified Mass in the Stomach to the rubified Balsome in the Heart and so to the extreme parts every knowing upright Physitian ought to be sollicitous about the discreet Oeconomy or Order of this Noble part that defaecated Blood and Spirits may be created Wherefore that thing ought not to be taken into the Body which is any way offensive to the Archeal Ferment of the Stomach or the weakening of its Tone Whatsoever is Dull Flat Dreggy Fretting Rank Corrosive or Virulent must be avoided Things Active well purified 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a just proportion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exquisitely mixed endued with an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fragrant smell Sympathizing with the Constitution of this Membrane Benevolent and Antidotal are to be assumed that Clean Bright Spirits may be multiplyed springing from this Vital Balsame Well-rectified Spirits of Strong Liquors I have always found to perform much tending to that end before proposed For

he would turn all into dross To advance his base enterprize the more he hath in readiness his Emissaries whom he hires or Bribes to trumpet out magnifie and extol his rare Cures he endeavours to prostitute this Chast Art to make it a very Whore to his Lusts Pimp or Pander to compass his vile Ends. He is Impudent beyond expression and because Stupid and Ignorant a most sworn Enemy to Learning yet will admire Van Helm although he never read him nor is in least able to understand him though Translated into his Mother Tongue He boasts of his Specious Furnaces but seldome handles a retort himself yet will tell you what Herculean Labours he hath undergone what he hath atchieved making comparisons with the Best He and the Galenist are herein well met for Subtlety for like Apes they know how to take Nuts out of the fire with the Paw of the Cat. This Foul Bird such as the Poet speaks of contactu omnia foedans hath a strang faculty by the enchanting melodious Tune of his Long Bill setting out his wonderful Cures to draw one into his Net hiding the rest of his ugly body till he hath picked your Pocket wronged your Health or mortally wounded you He Counterfeits the true Chymist as the Hyaena a Mans voice tempting unwary people to come unto him and then worries them He and the Chymical Galenist like Davus confound the whole World so that few know how to chuse the Right and leave the Wrong Way of Curing He is still sowing his Pseudochymical Tares so thick that Orthochymical Wheat is in danger to be strangled thereby Although he be really of no Religion yet sometimes he as well as the Galenist will profess to be of some Congregational Church or of some Fanatical Conventicle to the end being changed into an Angel of Light he may set a specious gloss of Piety upon his fraudulent ways hereby gaining more reputation amongst the Brethren he may cozen his Patients more plausibly At his first entrance upon Pseudochymical Devices he pretends to be a great Astrologer thereby to determine whether the Sick shall live or die yea to make him more notoriously famous he undertakes to tell Fortunes to instruct the people how they may come by their stolen Goods again whether Mariners shall make prosperous Voyages whether men shall meet with good or bad success in Marriage Women with the like c. But afterward having pretty well feather'd his Nest by plucking those Credulous Gulls who have stooped to his Call also now his Art of casting Figures becoming more and more suspected likewise conscious to himself the Heavens will not suffer any longer his Impostures he begins to lay aside Ouranoscopie thinking it best non altum sapere sith quae supra nos nihil ad nos and betakes himself to Ouroscopie where he fixes pretending to be a notable Pispot Prophet to tell by bare inspection of the Urine without farther enquiry what 's the Disease whether the Party may recover and how long c. To this Hocus Pocus Women of all Sorts and Degrees flock to know whether they be with Child yea supposed Maidens to be resolved whether their Tympany be Intestineal or Uterine how they may be rid of the last with privacy whose expectations he says upon good Terms he is ready to satisfie to all intents and purposes by means of a secret knack he hath attained I could acquaint my Countreymen if I had leisure with multitude of Gins Traps and Snares this Bastard Chymist lays to catch the simple harmless man that he make a Prey of his Body and Purse In short he is a most Pestilent Animal no more fitting to be tolerated by the Magistrate than Wolves and Foxes amongst Sheep A Short Description or Explanation of the Happy Efficacy and Sanative Virtue of Our STOMACK ESSENCE THE Grand Opposers of the Ortho-Chymical way did put me hard to it at first by reason of the Implicite belief most Men have Supinely and in a blind manner of Obedience without further Scrutinie yielded to their Authority and Antiquity to preserve this most Useful Florid Splendid Remedy Ess. Stom from being blasted or extinguished by their malignant Breath more mischievous to the Truth of Direct Healing than any Mephitical damp to the Life of Man However 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 crescit sub pondere Virtus the more they have endeavoured to suppress it by fastning false weights of Defamation to it viz. that it was too hot inflaming burning too strong violent consuming the Radical moisture shortning the Life withal under-valuing it that it was no better than Pepper drops and that it might be made in half a dozen hours which Dr. Merret unworthily Reported behind my back who when I came to face him offering to give it under my Hand presently to be bound to reward him with a Hundred pounds the next Morning if he would teach me to make it in twenty four hours replyed by way of Collusion that he could counterfeit it in that time I say the more these Chymicophants have laboured to sink down this Noble Remedy the more it hath sprung up and flourished to their grand shame Yea I dare averr upon Reasonable Experimental grounds this Polyacea will be esteemed by Posterity one of the best Medicines for it's general Utility to the Life of Mortals Innocent Nature Pleasant Gust and easie purchase that ever yet came to light He that will may read the just Vindication of it Published formerly none of my Adversaries daring to oppose it openly unless a tergo sneakingly below a Generous Man What Excellency I have here Attributed to it rather comes short than transcends it's desert This Medicine is not with little Labour Fabricated being brought over in Glasses above twenty several times and digested many days It consisteth of three pure Volatiles United fetched out of the Store-House of Animal Vegetable and Marine Substances which produce these Salutary Effects following It exceedingly strengthens the Stomack helps it's Digestion encreaseth and maketh Active the Vital Spirits and their Instruments by which they work called Ferments rectifies the Spleen scatters and expels Wind Vapours or any wandring wild Spirit which flies in a moment from one place to another vexing the parts It sweetens in some measure the sharpness of the thin Liquors in the Body which often-times causes pains Feavers c. It subtilly enters the Veins and Arteries being carried about with the Blood which it very much cleanses It carries off to the out-side whatsoever is impure causing a kindly breathing in the Skin It also causeth Urine conveying Gravel from the Kidneys hindring that it may not be engendred and fixed It is helpful in difficulty and pain of making Water coming forth sometimes by drops 'T is of great Service against pains of the side the Colick Griping of the Guts It is a very great Cordial preserving from fainting and restoring those who are surprized with loss of Vital Spirits It is very effectual to