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A66808	Pyrologia mimica, or, An answer to hydrologia chymica of William Sympson, phylo-chymico-medicus in defence of scarbrough-spaw : wherein the five mineral principles of the said spaw are defended against all his objections by plain reason and experiments, and further confirmed by a discovery of Mr. S. his frequent contradictions and manifest recantation : also a vindication of the rational method and practice of physick called galenical, and a reconciliation betwixt that and the chymical : likewise a further discourse about the original of springs / by Robert Wittie ...	Wittie, Robert, 1613?-1684.	1669 (1669)	Wing W3230; ESTC R1749	130,195	354

pretends so highly should respect his Credit no more but impose upon the Reader who perhaps not seeing my Book would be induced to give him Credit viz. Scarbrough Spaw Second Edition from P. 97. to 119. Besides that being pinched with an Argument of Demonstration which I deduce from Dr. Heylin in his Cosmography he calls in Question the Honour and Honesty of that Learned and Reverend Gentleman P. 301. In the mean time he establishes his own Opinion upon a meer naked Supposition P. 317. which he ought necessarily to have proved or else his Superstruction will fall to the ground for want of a Solid Foundation Yet in that Discourse all he has is from Kircherus in his Mundus Subterraneus Concerning his Ternary of Medicines which next to his opposing of me is the grand Design of his Book there is great cause to suspect he will fall short of his aim Those are his Scorbutick Pills for Purging his Cordial Elixir and his Diaphoretick Can any Rational Man think that all Diseases are so easily cured I am afraid these Pills may at length prove like his Lunar Pills which he mentions P. 120. sometimes as highly extolled by him and used as his Catholicon which upon trial some poor men probably smarted for for he declares them unsuccessful and advises against the further use of them being made up with Aqua fortial and other Corrosive and Poysonous Medicines As to the Elixir Proprietatis doubtless its a good Medicine being duly used Now there are several wayes of preparing it mentioned by Paracelsus Helmont Crollius Amynsicht and others all of them magnifying their own Preparations But it is a Medicine very hot whose Vehicle is the Tartarised Spirit of Wine and so not likely to sute as a Cordial in all Diseases notwithstanding there are some that use it till they are even come into a Proverb among the Vulgar Touching his Diaphoretick it is to be doubted he makes it of the Corr●sive Oyl of Antimony mentioned P. 180. which he tells P. 188. is a more desperate poyson than Mercury Sublimate it self which all men know will corrode Iron I suspect we shall shortly see his Bills upon the Posts of the City after the manner of Quacks proclaiming this Ternary as sometimes he did with his Amulet for the Plague unless he suspect I have marred his Market And lastly he concludes with an Epilogue wherein he most gallantly recants all that he had said in his Hydrologia concerning the Principles of the Spaw For whereas he denied Vitriol to be there and abused me for asserting it he confesses upon further trial that there it is in its Body to wit Terra Vitrioli P. 359. then he confesses Nitre P. 360. yea and P. 364. he yields it to be of all the Minerals the most predominant even as I had affirmed in my Book P. 13. And he is forced to come off with a woful excuse at the lower end of that P. 364. That he only meant that it s not the Nitre of the Shops which is vulgarly sold To say the truth he was forced to make this Recantation as I shall make out afterwards By this time I suppose the Candid and Judicious Reader discerns the folly of the young man whose wrath and envy against me have excited him to abuse the World with an ill premeditated piece of work Insipientis est dicere non putaram But what satisfaction have I now for the injuries he has offered me in his causless endeavour to blast my Reputation I most willingly submit all to the Ingenuity of the Judicious and Impartial Reader being ready to receive him when he shall make his Acknowledgment And now I suppose I might very well spare my self any further labour but I am not so minded let me beg thy patience a little Gentle Reader till I lay down the grounds of this mans quarrel against me and enlarge my Epistle with a few Notes upon his and then I le proceed to his Book About four or five years ago at the most Sir Simpson began to set up for himself in the Practice of Physick and about the same time another also whom he glances at somewhere in his Book These had a Project to overturn the Rational Practice of Physick in this City and County of York and reduce all to the Chymical Way In order to which in all Companies and more especially at the Coffee-Houses they were constantly declaming against the Medicines of the Shops which are prepared according to the Dispensatory established by the Law of the Land and magnifying their own Medicines by which they pretended to be able to do wonders How far this took with some of our Faculty I shall not now mention But there were not wanting others of my Learned Brethren who together with my self did judge it our duty Rem populi tractare and to stand up in defence both of the lives of our Friends and the Rational Method being yet no Enemies to the Chymical Way and such Medicines as therein we knew to be useful and safe Especially I my self did more frequently and publickly appear among the Ingenious Gentlemen that meet at the Coffee-Houses to countermine their design and did speed accordingly on which account they give out that I am a Discourager of Ingenuity which yet those that kn●w me will testifie to be false They to requite me call in further Assistance as I shall by and by make out and combined to fall upon me in reference to my Book of the Spaw where though they wanted just matter of Exception as I shall no doubt clearly evince yet they designed like Hannibal upon the Alps aut invenire viam aut facere ever and anon jerking at my words and wresting my sense pretending to understand the Water both in its Principles and Vertues whereas in truth they could nor have said any more than I had done in more compendious and intelligible words And to make the Book more taking among the Vulgar they have stufft it with Experiments fetcht from all Modern Writers that have treated of Experimental Philosophy very few of them being their own which they have confusedly drawn into this Farrago as Cacus did Hercules his Oxen inversed or reversed to amuse the Reader and on purpose to palliate their Theft In the mean time they were all of them bolting out several Expressions against me and my Book this year and an half which now are come to light through my sides aiming to wound the Rational Practice of Physick which even now they think they have effected in this City or at least they were lately in hope they had done it Another difference there happened betwixt Sir Simpson and my self One Robert Beford a very ingenious Lock-Smith about 3 or 4 years ago was my Patient in a Dropsie which I had managed about 10 dayes not without great hopes of a Cure In which Disease I thank God I have often performed many good Cures On the sudden he told me he would take no

more Physick saying he was weak and Physick would kill him I told him he must assuredly die of his Disease if there he left off At length I understood that Sir Simpson was called to him by a good wife who had put this whimsie in his head and promised a Cure within a Fortnight by his Chymical Medicines which he said were not Physick But the Patient grew every day worse I having a respect for such an ingenious Workman sent to Mr. Simpson whom I had not seen before desiring him to meet me at the Apothecaries Shop and demanded wherefore he had disparaged my Medicines having not seen my Bills which were extant in the Apothecaries Shop He said he did not disparage my Medicines but my Method to wit the Galenical Way in which it was not possible to cure a Dropsie I told him I had cured many a Dropsie in that Method before he knew what was Latine for the Word And withal I told him that if ever he intended to take any Degree in Physick in the University of Cambridge I expected he should visit me and then he should give an account of that unjust Calumniation I also told him that the man would assuredly die which came to pass within 3 weeks after his first Call complaining of a most horrible heat and corrosion in his Belly from the heat of his Medicines as the man himself did conceive especially from some Pills that he gave him bewailing the time that he had left me Some Reflections on Sir Simpson's Epistle The Design of this Author as he expresses in this Epistle is to examine the Principles of Scarbrough Spaw whether they be such as I have described them in my Book which if it had been really for the discovery of Truth he would have modestly carried on his Work without Personal Reflexions which are exceedingly ill becoming any man especially one so young who like a Cockerell but newly hatched out of his Shell begins to crow fiercely It is not Victory that I value but Truth that I serve which doth prompt me to stop his Carier I shall therefore take what liberty he has given me to examine his Book especially in those things that relate to my self and the common Cause of Physick in the Controversie as it is by him stated betwixt the Galenists and the Chymists not troubling my self with his other impertinent digressions further than what I have already glaunced at because I study brevity and would neither trifle away my own time nor the kind Readers with matters on the by What I see amiss in him I shall endeavour to prevent in my self and will therefore use plain and intelligible Language being desirous to be understood by all that know but their own Mother Tongue My Method shall be that of his for I 'l trace him in his steps He says If any Writings of his shall be found as equally naked and fenceless as mine are he will be content with the same measure he has meted to me To which I reply my Book was sent abroad in a plain and modest Dress according to the commendable Fashion of the Times for things of that Nature without gawdry being guarded with Reason and Verity which I expected would have been its sufficient security If its fortune in its passage was like that of the Samaritane to heal and clothe it though perhaps some body else may pay the Reckoning in the Conclusion As for his Writings they appear methink like the Crow that Horace tells of in his Epistles that was gawdily attired with the Feathers of other Birds which became a Laughing Stock when every Bird came for its own Movit Cornicula risum Furtivis nudata coloribus It s probable I may let him see he is at my mercy and not so well fenced as he imagines He brags much of the Chymical Way gaining ground in the World and that at length it will worm out the Galenical Method I am glad it is a Method I suspect he cannot so call the Chymical Practice Nothing does better conduce to duration than Method and Order This Galenical Method has stood these 1500 years ever since the Reign of the Emperour Antoninus the Philosopher whom Galen had the Honour to serve as his Physician and I see no Reason why it may not hold out 1500 years more since it does not grow to decay through Age but take deeper Root Let no man startle at this his Prognostick since it is not founded upon solid Indications I am certain it cannot be from any hints he can take from his own growth of Practice or Success His project is now like to be more frustrated as to the former by being more known and for the latter I appeal to the Inhabitants of this City of York As to his own Chymical Authors he says there are not many that he values and quarrels at such of them as extoll their petit preparations for Panacea's The truth is he would have all men modest but himself He will not allow Amynsient Crollius Beguinus or Libavius to cry up their Receits for fear his Market be marred when he comes by and by to magnifie his Ternary He abhors that fault in others of which himself has more guilt May not we have more reason to suspect his Ternary he magnifies so much for the Cure of all Diseases than he has those Authors whose eminent learning and labours made out in their Writings has gained them a good Reputation in the World especially when we come to discern by and by the property of the matter out of which they are made To say the truth he likes none of the Chymists well but Paracelsus and Helmont and Zwelfer and Himselt whom he accounts most able to judge of them all He commends Helmont for pulling down the Galenical Theory and says he rears up a better This is but in his judgement which is not very great Scilicet ante pilos rerum prudentia velox Methinks he might have staid till his beard had been grown before he had been so definitive He says Helmonts best Arcana's are but darkly set down and commen●s him for obscuring his Expressions How then does he know that he understan●s him aright Si non vult intelligi debet negligi The Galenists in their Writings are far more candid using such perspicuity of Expressions as if they would make the things they treat of to speak out themselves and certainly they that have a true value of the lives of men will speak plainly out to prevent all mistakes He most uncivilly throws dirt in the Faces of those Learned Gentlemen my Friends that have made Verses before my Book calling them Pedantick Rapsodists c. Is any thing more ordinary than Verses upon graver Subjects than that is Have not some of his own Authors five times as many Verses as there are Might it not have been sufficient that this young man had a design to wreak his wrath upon me but he must let flie at those Worthy