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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50436	Inquiries into the general catalogue of diseases shewing the errrors and contradictions of that establishment with a new scheme representing more truly, and essentially, the various diseased state of humane nature / by E.M. Med D.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1691 (1691)	Wing M1496; ESTC R5399	10,560	8

INQUIRIES Into the General Catalogue of Diseases SHEWING The Errors and Contradictions of that Establishment With a new Scheme Representing more Truly and Essentially the various Diseased State of Humane Nature By E. M. Med. D. IN the last Sheet Practice of Physick duly Regulated having there shewed the Safety and Great Prudence of the Professors in the management of the Ancient Practice being guarded by the Physicians personal labour in and custody of Medicines Thereby not only securing the Art from Invasion by Aliens and Patients from Casualties but also Enriching the Professors with such a stock of most requisite Knowledge in Pharmaceutic Preparations as enables them to design and provide the most hopeful curing Medicines that Art and Experience can acquire Also I there set forth the vanity and hazards attending the genteel new Mode of prescribing to the Shops a late Invention this Practice appearing ignorant and delinquent in many respects as proved by nine distinct Arguments differently pointing at several great failings and convicting the folly of that unreasonable Innovation which draws a long Tail of unavoidable Injuries the chiefest remora to the Progress and performance of this Art Having thus determined upon the two Modes of Practice Ancient and Modern and also upon our tripple division of Medicines relating thereto respecting Latitude and Adaptation I proceed forwards to the matter of Practice and as the basis thereof I shall first Examine the Catalogue of Diseases appearing to me over-grown and out of due form 'T is worth remarking from whence or how this Register of Diseases did increase so greatly when as their number much better and truer might have been cast up with fewer figures and the Practice of Physick more easie and intelligible for the number of Diseases unnecessarily multiplied and falsly denominated must needs produce diversity of ill Methods and great variety of injurious Medicines which renders this Art so perplext and difficult as scarcely to be comprehended by Humane Understanding and the attempts of Healing so often frustraneous For this great List of Diseases being hundreds must require a vast number of Medicines thousands to answer the Practice thereof as you manage the Matter For Indications being various and different in every Sick Man's Case therefore all of them you say requiring different Medicines adapt to those cases by Appropriate new mixtures thus the number of Medicines are become numberless and the Practice of Physick incomprehensible and no man is able to be Master of this Art in your way if he were to live a 1000 years but must alwaies be devising ghessing ex tempore and venturing at uncertain unproved Medicines thus practising fortuitously with doubt and hazard all the days of his life The Number of Diseases must needs be unnecessarily and falsly multiplied when Symptoms Causes and Products bear the names of Diseases which ought otherwise to be distinguished by their proper names then failure in curing may reasonably be expected when the Physician aims at the wrong mark not rightly discerning one from the other But if Diseases were reduced to their true number in Scheme they would sooner be found out in Practice and their Cures more safely and frequently performed But as they stand regimented with other preternatural effects erroneously supposed to be Diseases and prosecuted as such Hereby Diseases truly denominated are much obscured often overseen and something else aimed at tyring the Patient with improper and frustraneous means To illustrate and prove these Assertions I shall give you some eminent Examples in their due place After various Opinions controverted by the Learned of this Faculty in determining upon Diseases as to the Notion Denomination Number and Division of them I find the result thereof by the Majority and better Judgments of the Galenists to rest in this Establishment following received and approved by the Professors of this present time The which I shall now lay before you and then make my Exceptions The General Catalogue of Diseases is set forth and comprised under these three Divisions thus distinguished Similar Organical and Common Morbus Similaris est morbus ex inconvenienti qualitatum contemporatione resultans Similar Diseases are such as arise from the inconvenient contemporation or disproportion of qualities First Second or Occult. The first qualities are four Hot Cold Moist Dry either of these in Excess make a Disease Simple and any two of these qualities exceeding make a Disease Compound so that there are four Similar Simple and four Similar Compound Diseases Both these Simple and Compound admit of another division In temperature with Matter and without Matter and each of these divisions cum sine materia make four Diseases more distinct from the former There is yet another subdivision equal and unequal Intemperies qualibet sive simplex fuerit sive composita materiamque conjunctam habuerit sive non duplex est aequalis vel inaequalis the words of one of your best Authors From these Qualities were Temperaments denominated and distinguished as also Diseases called Distempers The second qualities being Objects of the five External Senses are these Odours Colours Sounds Sapors Tactils when Preternatural these also are Similar Diseases and they are accounted many Occult qualities inconveniently mixed make Similar Diseases likewise called also Morbi totius substantiae These qualities when preternatural to make a Disease they will have them to be seated in the Similar parts of the Body therefore called Similar Diseases as Bone Ligament Tendon Nerve Veine Artery c. contradistinct to Organical Diseases that affect Organical and Dissimilar Parts as Heart Ventricle Muscle Eyes Ears Nose c. Here are Similar Diseases set forth very speciously amply and nicely much pains bestowed to little purpose all this will come to nothing in the sequel of our Discourse Now Gentlemen of this Robe I must direct some of my discourse to you who know this to be a short and true account of the first division of the general Triplicity and before I go farther I must remark upon what hath been said shewing the Incongruities Errors and Contradictions thereof When I was a Prescriber to the Shops many years ago I was a zealous observer of this Doctrine because I knew no better being led by Books and probably I was guilty of doing hurt thereby but I did it through ignorance as many do now following that Road which mitigates the guilt à tanto But 30 years Practice since in another thinking and working way and proving of Medicines hath informed me better things I perceive now and am well satisfied that Writers too much follow the general current of Opinions who take them up and set them down again for truth without a strict and serious perpension and I doubt Practisers are drawn into the like snare by being too credulous of Authors when the greatest safety in Practice does depend upon the security and certainty of Medicines of their own design Manufacture Melioration and Probation The design of this Art being to find out