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A01410	Certaine vvorkes of Galens, called Methodus medendi with a briefe declaration of the worthie art of medicine, the office of a chirurgion, and an epitome of the third booke of Galen, of naturall faculties: all translated into English, by Thomas Gale Maister in Chirurgerie.; On the therapeutic method. Book 3-6. English	Galen.; Gale, Thomas, 1507-1587.	1586 (1586)	STC 11531; ESTC S117692	202,970	290

many wayes friuolous and foolish For our bodies doe not consist of little bodies called Atomes and of little passages or pores but if this were true it should not be possible to shewe in what maner musterd might change or alter the state of the same pores if any of them should shew the truth yet we would not agrée vnto their sect because they promisse that they wil be content with their apparent communities therefore lette them not vse these names neither let them hinder vs no more in our matters For it is lawfull without the name Metasincrisis to say in other wordes the curation of inueterate vlcers as the Emperickes doe Also we haue declared in the second booke how they talke of this woord Atonias that is to say imbecilitie yet know not what it meaneth For if they vse this name as the Emperickes do then it should signifie nothing else but that the actions are not kept for if they say that certaine faculties doe gouerne liuing creatures which we all the auncient writers doe affirme but yet notwithstāding they repugne against the precepts of Asclepiades also they propound vncertaine things to the which the authors doe not agrée they touch the truth a little yet they commaund to eschew it But tell me true Thessalus what meaneth this worde Metasincrisis if thou saie that it betokeneth to change the pores thou art deceiued and supposest vncertaine thinges But if thou saist that it is a great matter to cure the particle grieued of the bodie as the man thou saist no more thā the Emperikes except the name For they doe knowe that men are made whole by medicines but they know not the cause or reason by what meanes the remedies restoreth health For none of the Emperikes can tell if the facultie of the medicaments chaungeth the pores or if it maketh a Simitrie or if it altereth the qualitie of the Patients particle that is grieued Howbeit the Emperikes are discréete men if they saie that they know onelie one thing that is to saie if they haue noted and obserued the times how vtilitie hath followed when the medicament of mustard hath ben ministred to such vlcers and in what time Neuerthelesse they speake not of method neither yet repugne against it neither be displeased with the notise thereof nor dispraise the ancient writers neither Hyppocrates but rather praise him and affirme that he hath said all thinges well But Thessalus doth not onlie despise Hyppocrates but all the other auncient Phisitions neither doth he vnderstand that he hath written all the precepts of rebellious vlcers without reason emperiklie For if he had written them well then it should haue bene counted a worke most profitable But it appeareth not that he hath done so séeing that he peruerteth the right order of remedies and vseth his remedies to the grieued part before he hath prepared the bodie For this is an argument of great ignorance séeing that almost it is a principle in Chirurgerie that all the bodie must be purged of the euill excrementes before anie strong medicine be applyed vnto the affected parte For who is he that will iudge either by reason or experience for there is no other third thing to iudge by in what art so euer it be nor in anie part of life he shal finde that it is agréeable to reason for a man to minister strong hot medicines to anie particle of the bodie before he hath purged the bodie of all anoiance prepared the same to health for the said medicine draweth the excrements and superfluities from all the bodie like as boxing or Ventosis doth it doth so fasten to the affected part that it may be scarcelie remoued Therefore it must be asked of these Thessalions frō whence this opinion cōmeth to Thessalus to write fables as cōcerning the curatiō of rebellious vlcers séeing that none of the Emperiks nor yet Rationals haue written so before this time For neither Thessalus himselfe neither anie other of his sect dare affirme that the order of such remedies either doth agrée with experience or reason For neither can they giue Indication of time neither yet of the affect of the disease Yet for all that Thessalus is not all together ignorant because he iudgeth that the cause the hindereth the ciccatrise must be considered and taken awaie because also that he iudgeth that this must be done not onelie in vlcers but also in all other diseases as the ancient writers do admonish But they answere nothing to the purpose for they saie alwaies that we do not vnderstand them as if they knew perfectly the thought of Hyppocrates and of all the ancients And they affirme the Thessalus hath a good opinion when he saith that there is a communitie of inueterate vlcers that Hyppocrates vnderstood it so in his booke of Vlcers which writeth in this maner It is profitable that the bloud doe flowe continually from the inueterate vlcer when so euer it séemeth néedfull It were not farre from my purpose if I should speak of the iudgement and opinion of Hyppocrates though I haue not promised that I would so do in this place But that which I will saie shall be of the interpretation of the wit knowledge of the auncient Phisitions the which truelie as yet haue giuen no sect but studying with simple pure minde to inuent some thing profitable to mans health It is well perceiued therfore that they haue found some thing by reason and some thing by vse and experience Then dyd they write their inuentions many times without giuing reason thereto and sometime they did and if they did giue anie reason it was to profit the readers For if they intended to be profitable to their successors and when as they knew reason of inuēting things then diligentlie they set it forth and where they thought it obscure they thought it superfluous to rehearse and therefore let it passe Now it is well knowen vnto all men though I hold my peace that the ancients haue loued no verbositie For that cause afore recited not only Hippocrates but also all the other ancient Phisitions sometime not making mention of the middlemost speaketh of the third thing For if the first be a signe of the second the third of necessitie must followe after the second And thus oftentimes omitting the first and second they spake of the third I haue oftentimes declared how the ancients and chieflie Hyppocrates haue written after this manner But he that will know and perfectlie vnderstand the maner of curing ought to be exercised in their stile and manner of interpreting For this I will intreate of that which I haue purposed The fift Chapter FOr those Vlcers which after medicines to them ministred be not cured those the Phisitions cal in Gréeke Cachoethae but we cal them maligne and rebellious to cure But we haue spoken in the booke aforesaid what the curation of vlcers is Therefore in these kindes of vlcers that be