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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42906	Various injuries & abuses in chymical and Galenical physick, committed both by physicians & apothecaries, detected for the benefit of such, who being conscientious and studious in physick, aim chiefly at the welfare of the sick, and of those patients, whether rich or poor, who are willing to preserve their lives & healths / by Robert Godfrey, Med. Londinensis.	Godfrey, Robert, Med. Londinensis.	1674 (1674)	Wing G927; ESTC R21846	100,532	224

Treasures 't is the best Yea such a Treasure that no one shall gain Who wicked lives and who his Soul doth stain With what corrupts whilst living such are Dead And cannot eat of Israel's daily Bread Besides 't is certain as the Sophi say Nose teipsum is the leading-way To Wisdoms gate whatever Fools do cant Who opened-Eyes and understanding want Neither doth the ignobleness of it office in that it concocts for and is as a Servant to the whole Body at all gain-say or hinder it or because it is alwayes full of Crude Meats as Bartholine objects those being no more arguments of ignobleness in the Stomach than it was in the High-Priest of the Jews for the good of the People to have plaid the Butcher in sacrificing Nor doth the seeming meanness of its office at all hinder that the Soul chiefly and the most Holy Spirit of God that refresheth it may not in the Regenerated reside there seeing that his waies are not as Man's waies nor his thoughts as Man's And that oftentimes that which is mostly in esteem with Men is disrespected by the almighty è contra Forasmuch therefore as the Stomach is the prime seat of the Soul and by consequence of the Life or if but as Bartholine saith in a large sence the Principle beginning or original of Life yet because its error is never mended or corrected in any of the subsequent Digestions it must needs be undeniably requisite to level our intentions in cure so as not to hurt it but rather to please and cherish it Especially in regard as I said before it corresponds with other noble Parts and Regions of the Body to wit the Brain Spleen Oesophagus mouth Liver Lungs Heart Mid-riff and in a word there is scarce any eminent part of the Body which converseth not with it through the mediation of Veins Arteries Nerves and Membranes Whereby it like a careful Patron is made sensible of any injury those corresponding parts sustein and not seldome shews it by Vomiting Nor is it only sensible of what injury other parts undergo but it likewise makes them feel and grow sensible of its own And even likeas when a good and careful Father is sick on whom alone depends the life and welfare of his Family his dependants and those who are nourisht by him are disconsolate or distressed so do the less Noble Ferments and depending functions of the Body pine away and languish when the Stomach the prime digester and preparer of nourishments is indispos'd and doth languish And on the contaary are prone and Subject to chearfulness if the Ventricle or Stomach beams forth healthy and pleasing raies yea though they are otherwise indispos'd and debilitated Which may be easily prov'd from the cure of the Iliaca Passio or griping of the guts Splenic affects Cephalalgia or Head-ach inveterate and stubborn Fevers c by Medicines truly Stomachical But now I shall proceed to answer an objection that will perhaps be offered to prove the seat of the Soul not in the Stomach but in the heart But doth not the Psalmist David say Create within me O Lord a New-heart c. And thou hast made my heart to rejoyce c by the word Heart the Psalmist meaning his Soul puting the containing for the contained I answer that though Holy David was undoubtedly a true Divine and did sufficiently experience the Almighty's merciful benignity and frequently enjoy the overflowings of the Spirit in his Soul yet might he nevertheless be so wholly unskilful in Anatomy as not to distinguish whether that Refreshment he felt was in his Stomach or Heart seeing that Galen who was after him above a thousand years is upbraided by several with a dissercion of Apes through a penury of humane Bodies But granting on the other hand that Holy David and all the Prophets were well skill'd in Anatomy as they might the contrary not being proveable yet doubtless was it a great error in the First Ages of the World to impose the Word HEART which is a Word of a very large signification on that one small part of the Body commonly called so when it sometimes signifies the affections of the Soul or Mind and sometimes the whole Soul it self which doubtless is not confin'd to any one part of the Body but inhabits in the Heart Stomach Head Liver Blood c. Though I am perswaded chiefly about the upper Orifice of the Stomach And therefore if by reason of its being an accustom'd Phrase amongst the Jews the Prophet David utters those sayings and our Blessed Saviour in speaking to the People useth the Word Heart frequently for the Soul yet 't is to be understood that Christ did speak to the People in their own phrases to the end they might understaud him which otherwise they could not and that the end of speech is to impress our meaning to the hearers Likewise we ought to consider that had either the Liver Spleen or Lungs through an accustom'd Error been used Rhetorically to signifie the Mind or Soul Christ in speaking and the Prophet in writing must have used their manner of phrasing and delivered themselves in words suiting the capacities of the People if they would have been understood by them and therefore cannot this deny the Souls not residence primely in the Stomach For if we grant the Life of the Body to be the Soul as 't is and that where the Soul chiefly resides must needs be the most sensible and necessary Bowel We shall easily prove it to be in the Stomach from its so great necessariness that no Animal lives without it and from its so great sensibility that it will not endure the pressure of a hand on its upper Orifice without grief nor a wound without sudden death Whereas Mullerus relates a story of a man wounded in his heart that surviv'd fifteen daies of which 't is said he hung up a Table at Grouingen And all the Anatomies or histories I ever could meet with never yet gave an account of any man that after a wound in the Stomach especially if towards the upper Orifice which lies just under the Pit of the Stomach liv'd one day But to prove the mistake of the Antients about the Heart le ts hear what Bartholine himself saies that objected against Helmont He speaking about the Orifices of the Stomach thus delivers himself Sinistrum vulgo superius dicitur alias os ventriculi simpliciter aliis Stomachus ob amplitudinem Veteribus cor quia ejus affectus animi deliquia alique sympt●mata Cardiacis similia gignunt tum ob exquisitissimu● sensum tum quia cor condolet per consensum vicinitatis nervorum ab eadem ramo Prodeuntium In English thus the left Orifice is called the upper otherwise singly the Mouth of the Stomach by some 't is called the Stomach because of its largeness By the Antients 't was called the Heart because the Diseases thereof causeth faintings Fits or soundings and other symotoms like to

and careless mind nothing but their Ease and Profit and by administring hurtful Remedies under the notion of Physick through meer ignorance and carelesness Kill not a few as likewise of such who under pretence of Healing are continually busied about Exhausting the strength and Vitals To give you a rehearsal of those cures in Pleuritical affects which this Chymical Physician did without Phlebotomy will be too tedious such narratives requiring more time and Paper than can I now spare However as a Taste and for example sake I will mention one which I cured after his manner in that interim whilst this Tract was penning A person who heard well concerning me and the safety of my Method sends for me to cure his Wife that was ill and had through the violence of her distemper lately sounded and sainted away I went and by that time I came to her she was pretty well reviv'd insomuch that she could answer to my Quaeries Only she had an almost intollerable pain in her left side and her Stomach was disordered I therefore judg'd 't was a Pleurisy and askt her what she lately had been eating of that disagreed with her Stomach She replied that last night she had too freely eaten of a thing she lov'd but it did not agree with her This confirm'd 't was a Pleurisy and that her Stomach not well digesting the last nights Supper had sent a Pleuritical sharpness into the Blood Wherefore as I had learnt from expert Helmont and my no little experienced Tutor I gave her a Medicine to fortifie her Stomach and make sure work there by slaying forreign Ferments and hinder a further procedure that way not doubting in the least as I had often known to expel the Acidity in the Pleura and put the Blood in good order again without borrowing the least aid of the Lancet To do which I appointed a Medicine that is an Enemy to sharpness to be applied to the place where the pain was having long since learnt ubi Dolor ibi Morbus that where the pain is there is the Disease and so I took my leave of them These so operated and beset the Spurious ferment on both sides that they proved a little too hot for it and banisht it so that when about six hours after I visited her again my Patient being perswaded to it by a Female acquaintance of hers was gone into the City I exceedingly admired at her rashness nor less at the suddenness of the Cure so that desiring they would take care at her coming home if she relapst to give her liberally of the first Medicine without fear I took my leave for that night and coming the next morning I found her very well but she told me she was at coming home illish that the pain return'd after her walk and that the first Medicine remov'd it again Thus to Cure a Pleurisy in a Day is somewhat unwonted but I had an advantage in taking it in its Bud Nor will I undertake to do the like again in so short a time However in four or five daies I have known a Pleurisy commonly cured by the sole aid of such-like Remedies without bleeding and will venture one more than an equal lay by Gods blessing to do it at any time if I have the Patient in due season Next it will not be amiss to discourse of the Stomachs Priority and the excellency of Stomachical Remedies Only take notice that I by such don't mean Syrups or such like Sugary Medicines which how pleasing soever they are to the healthy are clogging and hurtful to a weak Stomach But I by Stomachical Remedies mean such that though not very sweet are pleasing and friendly to Nature and no waies disgustful to the Stomach The Stomach's prae-eminence asserted and the necessariness of suiting Remedies to it NOr must we here forget to assert the Priority of the Stomach and consequently the needfulness of adapting Medicines that are to be taken into it to an agreeableness with it in regard 't is the most Vital bowel and prime Seat of the Soul as also doth nourish all other regions of the Body and correspond with them through an intercourse of Veins Arteries and Nerves That the Soul hath its prime residence in the Stomach the Acute Philosopher Van Helmont hath affirm'd Nor do I believe he spake by conjecture but what he experimentally knew having not only as he confesseth through a denial of self been admitted to that happiness to see his own nothingness but likewise I believe to be truly Regenerated Regenerated I say which ought above all things to be sought after seeing our Blessed Saviour has said there is no entring into the Kingdom of God without it Nor hath he affirm'd it only but prov'd it by arguments against which when the learned Anatomist Bartholinus hath raised some objections yet a little after confesseth Dici tamen lato modo potest vitae principium quia ibi sedes appetitus prima alimentorum apprehensio cujus vitium in sequentibus coctionibus nusquam mutatur in melius That it may in a large sense be called the principle or beginning of Life because there is the seat of Appetite and the first reception of nourishment and that its error is never mended in the following Digestions But to prove it and at present to omit the bringing a loss of Appetite on sudden frights or ill news with other like arguments to prove that the seat of the Soul is in the Stomach I shall refer you to those who have undegone a New-Birth or Regeneration and in whom Christs Spirit inhabiteth Who can tell you experimentally by pointing to the Pit of their Stomachs or a fingers breadth lower That the Spirit of Christ which is not an imaginary thing but real substance obtain'd through Tribulation by the goodness of God appearing to refresh and consolate the distressed and thirsty Soul glanceth forth its amiable and thrice welcome beams in the Stomach and that as oft a● he withdraws himself to wit the Spirit of God or Christ who are one a load and heavy burthen is there felt until the most gracious and merciful Father of Lights extends forth his bowels of compassion and removing that Load and Burthen causeth his most Holy Spirit that gentle Dove in his own time to appear and abound like over-flowiag streams to the unutterable consolation of the Soul Unto which alludes that most true saying of our Saviour he that believes in me that is confides and can deny Self in all appearances out of his Belly shall flow rivers of Living waters metaphorically intimating an abounding of the Holy Spirit to refresh such Souls as believe He happy is who from Experiment Knows where his Soul is fed and is content To leave his darling Sins that he may come To be Regenerated and brought home To know himself and with an humble mind Wait on our God till he his Spirit find O're flowing like a stream and bringing rest Unto his Soul of

are made of But what do Galenical Physitians who prescribe to Apothecaries make use of Chymical Medicines and yet nevertheless rail at Chymistry and its Professors Yes they do notwithstanding their railing which is but to blind the World and which is worse those Chymical Remedies they make use of are besides badly made oftentimes Sophisticated and Adulterated How Sophisticated and Adulterated 'T is so and all from this cursed thing Self and a desire of Gain For in the first place the Doctor cannot because he must mind his Fees and keep delicate white hands to feel the Pulse of his Patient And in the next place the Apothecary loves Money and won't because he can buy them of Mercenary Chymists much cheaper than he can make them But this cheapness sometimes costs the Patient dear to wit his Health if not his Life in regard the Remedies are Adulteraeted and Abused that they may be afforded so Though to cloak their own deceit if the Medicine does harm they like Politicians will say His time was come But why do the Mercenary Chymists thus abuse their Remedies That they may get a tolerable Subsistence and live For the Apothecary who like other Tradesmen buyes where he can buy cheapest offering low rates so low that the Medicine cannot be faithfully made for the Money doth thereby tempt the Mercenary Chymist to Adulterate and Sophisticate or else make the Medicine by halfs How destructive this is to many a poor Soul I shall leave others to determine Thus instead of Spirit of Salt Phlegm of Salt is sold and not only so but 't is sometimes Sophisticated and Oyl of Sulphur with other Remedies too tedious to be named adulterated c. I omit with what because I will not make Fools Knaves Nor are many of our Modern Writers silent concerning this for even Van Helmont seriously professeth That he was loth to speak plainly of any Medicine of Note Because almost all Chymical Remedies in the Shops being full of deceit and adulterated through desire of Gain gave him cause to think all would be serv'd so And truly I am of his Opinion But the ingenious and noble Robert Boyl Esquire having found it too true sayes That he so often met with Chymical Preparations unsincere that he dare scarce trust any in the Administration of Physick which either his own Furnaces did not afford him or was given him by some faithful skilful person he had a good opinion of The other day sayes he having occasion to use some Spirit of Salt whereof I was not then provided I sent for some to a Chymist who making it himself was the likelier to afford that which was well made But though I gave him his own rate for it at the first rectification in a Retort a single pound afforded us no less than six ounces of Phlegm and afterwards being further rectified in a high Body and gentle Heat the remaining Spirit parted with a scarce credible quantity of the like nauseons Liquor And after all these sequistrations of Phlegm 't was not pure enough to perform what we expected from it Of which complaining to an excellent Chymist of my acquaintance he sent for Spirit of Salt to a very eminent Distiller of it who gets much by his Profession and passeth for a very honest Man But this Spirit besides its weakness discovered it self to be Sophisticated with either Spirit of Nitre or Aqua Fortis Which betrayed it self by its peculiar and odious smell Whereas Spirit of Salt skilfully and sincerely drawn is commonly of a greenish Colour bordering upon yellow and hath usually a peculiar and not unpleasing smell I shall bring here no more Instances though I could produce many to the same effect seeing it would be but actum agere Only be pleased to take notice how well a Patient is likely to be recovered by such ill-made Medicines And what 's the cause the Galenists often prevail little more in a manner with their mercenary Chymical Remedies than they do with their own cloging drossy Galenical ones as also what is one cause they cry out against Chymical Medicines ☞ But why then do Galenists rail at and give reproachful Titles to Chymical Physicians and their Art There are many Causes one of which I desir'd you to take notice of lately but the most usual one is because they out-do them in Cures through faithful preparing their own Medicines And thereupon lest the People especially the Gentry should be inclin'd to make use of them they Buz into their Heads That Chymical Remedies either Kill or Cure quickly Who not perceiving the Doctors Design believe it till they are brought almost to Death's door and then when they perceive themselves as 't were incurable knowing they can but die a Chymical Physician perhaps shall be imployed and if they be not too far spent which sometimes they are before the Galenist will leave them by wholsom lively innocent Remedies they recover And by this means notwithstanding their Reproaches is Chymistry in repute with many I remember about four years since a worthy Gentlewoman falling into a Paralytick Lethargy several I think three Galenick Physicians were sent for They tryed various Wayes and Means and Medicine upon Medicine but all was in vain and after three days endeavour could not awaken her or cause her to move but were forced to leave her as they found her whilst the Disease seemed to laugh their lifeless and feeble Remedies to scorn Thus when she was yeelded incurable my ingenious Tutor was sent for who sending his Son because himself could not conveniently go recovered her by innocent yet valiant Remedies insomuch that she could move and open her eyes in few hours space and afterwards to the wonderment of many he made her well and sound One or two of the Doctors hearing this and seeing her within few dayes so much mended after their ineffectual attempts To save their Credits and salve their Bungling buz'd into the heads of the Women that he to wit the Chymical Doctor corresponded with the Devil or some bad Spirit adding he useth Astrology which the Vulgar call the Black Art though it borrows its name from Light Bodies but they mistook However this was not a little believed by not only the credulous Women but some Men insomuch that enquiery was made concerning it and that with diligence whereby they were better satisfied and plainly saw the Heathenish Christianism and deceit of the Doctors and we by this means came to hear on 't But what a piece of Villany was this to reward so good so charitable and so ingenious a Physician with so base and ignominious a reproach for all his Labour and Expences to find out better Medicines than they had Nor was this all for they used and tryed many wayes to depretiate and bring his Medicines into contempt onely because he could do more than they could and oftentimes cured where they were non-plust But this reproach was so blockish That surely had I