Selected quad for the lemma: virtue_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
virtue_n	draw_v	iron_n	loadstone_n	1,525	5	13.0457	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64060	Medicina veterum vindicata, or, An answer to a book, entitled Medela medicinæ in which the ancient method and rules are defended ... / by John Twysden ...	Twysden, John, 1607-1688.	1666 (1666)	Wing T3547; ESTC R20872	69,388	234

if they be not ad rem and are urged by me to let him see how fallacious that way of Argumentation is which is drawn from the application of Reason from one thing to another contrary to Experience 'T were a strange way of arguing the Loadstone which is a black heavy stone of such a bigness and weight will take up a pound of Iron therefore every Loadstone of that bigness will have the same virtue contrary to Truth and Experience Just so 't is with him the Plague c. is infectious and the Contagion passeth from one body to another without any immediate contact therefore every Disease that is infections as the Pox and Scurvy are must do so too Nay he has the boldness to improve this Notion so high as to tell us Pag 130. no man never so innocent can be secure that he is sound A Doctrine every way pernicious and unsafe for the innocent it makes them upon every light occasion doubtful and suspicious of themselves the guilty bolder and more impudent being fitted with this lie in their mouth However I am now tainted 't is not by my own fault but the fault of my Parents Nurse or any other I have seen or conversed withall endeavouring by this cheat to vindicate their own Credits in the world And thus this miserable flagellum scortatorum is made an Arrow to wound the innocent and excuse the guilty who will be always ready to cast their disease upon that fine way of communication M. Pag. 97 N. hath taught them which suits not with the conceit of a brain that measures every thing by the gross Philosophy which Aristotle ties men to in the Schools who teach men that Infection may be by Incorporeal qualities insinuating themselves with the Air whereas in truth they are infected by invisible indivisible Atoms corporeal effluxes as he saith Dr. Flud in his Mosaick Philosophy and Sir Kenelm Digby in his Discourse at Montpellier have made manifest with some others How far these Examples will warrant the efflux of Corporeal Atoms or whether the same effects may not follow from the impacting incorporeal qualities and the dulness of Aristotles Philosophy I shall have fitter opportunity to discourse of hereafter and I doubt not to shew that this anciently-confuted and now lately-revived Philosophy of making Atoms the beginning of all Bodies and their flying up and down in vacuo not to be without great difficulties and probably not true This that hath been said I conceive abundantly sufficient to clear that part of his discourse concerning the Propagation of the Lues Venerea and Scorbute by accidental Contagion Hereditary Propagation and Lactation by all which ways I admit those diseases may be transferred from one to another but deny that either of them are so general as he would infer or that they are transferred by such an infection at distance as the Plague Malignant Fevers and some others but must be got by Contact or very near and frequent Conversation There rest now onely to examine his second cause to wit their Propagation by the ill-curing of them both For my part I shall never rise up a Champion to defend the ill-curing of any disease much less either of them named onely I would have him remember that of the Poet Carpere vel noli nostra vel ede tua He justly condemns the going for cure to any Pretender Pag. 76. amongst which number I reckon all Mountebanks or such as take upon them the Practice of Physick without lawful Warrant thereunto and then runs over the ordinary Methods first of Issues where by the way he should do well to observe his inadvertency in calling this age by exprobration an issuing age for if the Pox be so general and this be one kind of cure though it be but the Poor-Whores cure certainly he ought not to blame the Age for taking any course to cure their Maladies Then comes Mercurial Vnguent Mercurial Cinabar fume by Salivation and inveighs against them all notwithstanding he cannot but know they have been all succesfully used by skilful men and in unskilful mens hands the best Remedies will not succeed Moreover he forgets the Method used by Fernelius and most others by Sudorifick Potions made with Lignum sanctum Sarsaparill China c. He touches not upon Quercetans Method in his Consilium pro Lue Venerea Whether he approve these ways better than any by Mercury I know not or whether he hath any better of his own 'T is much to condemn all the Physicians in the world and then leave us in the dark Out with it Man tell the World if you know any better than others do till then give us leave to think this onely an artifice to cry up your selves to the defamation of others this is usual with the rest of your Gang Manwairing Odowd and others who pretend great things but conceal what they are In the Scurvy likewise he inveighs against Bleeding Specificks and that ordinary way by which we find by daily experience that disease cured if Judicious men deal with them He blames the use of Pills Infusions Powders Electuaries reputed Classical and tells you in all the Pharmacopoeus he cannot pick out one Composition proper to purge Scorbutical Humours in so gentle and effectual manner as they ought to be What if there be not Doth not he know that every Physician is able to be his own Pharmacopoeist and that those Books are rather made for the use of Apothecaries and Surgeons than them But let us see what thinks he of the Pilulae macri of the Tartareae Quercetani of the Sal Cochleariae Absinthii and the rest Cannot a Mass be made out of these proper enough to purge Scorbutick Humours Pray Sir bless us with something of your own that we may judge of your Abilities and owe our Knowledge to you I have thus done with the Argumentative part of his book and have shewed his fallacious ways of Argumentation throughout First I have shewed that the nature of Man Beasts Plants Herbs Fruits and all things conducing to the nourishment of Man are of the same nature and therefore Diseases at least those that were known to the Ancients are not altered in their nature nor the Method in the curing of them altered That the discovery of new Remedies if any have been do not take away the virtue of those that were known and practised before but both may be good and stand together and that my Lord Bacon and those other Worthy persons that have encouraged men to make further search into the things of Nature and those Noble persons that have written and still labour in Experimental Philosophy do not do it to disparage the Ancients but search into the Reasons of the works of Nature and discover new Truths and establish the old by new Confirmations I have in the second place shewed that the Pox and Scurvy which this Author much insists upon were not new diseases in themselves though