Μισοχυμίας Ἔλενχος: OR, A Check given to the insolent Garrulity OF HENRY STUBBE: IN VINDICATION OF My Lord BACON, and the AUTHOR; With an Assertion of EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: ALSO Some Practical Observations exhibited for the Credit of the true CHEMICAL SCIENCE.  
Lastly, A brief Contest between the Thomsons and the Merrets, who are the best PHYSICIANS.  
By George Thomson Dr. of Physic.  
Qui me commorit, melius non tangere clamo.  Horat. 
London, Printed for Nat. Crouch at the Cross Keys in Bishops-Gate-street near Leaden-Hall. 1671.   


VERA. EFFIGIES. GEORGY THOMSONI. M. D. Aetatis. Suae. 50. W Sherwin ad viu. faciebat    

A Vindication of the Lord BACON, and the AUTHOR; with an Assertion OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: Against The Obloquys of H. STUBBS.  
UPon the occasion of a visit given to a worthy Friend, a Learned Doctor of Physic, it came to my Ear that he read my Name in a Paper lately published, written by Henry Stubbs, where he conceived I was much vilified in my Credit. I no sooner heard this, but I hastened to get a view of what I found really true.: After a cursory perusal of this Learned piece of Ignorance, the Title Campanella seemed excellent well to suit with such a sounding vessel endued with a Brass-like Front. And however the Author pretends to be very zealous for the Protestant Religion, I am easily induced to believe upon sufficient Reasons that he either is a Prevaricator therein, or of none at all; which any having a discreet eye may apprehend ex fructibus: for indeed it is impossible that a Galenist, who being no whit conscientiously tender of the Life of Man, continuing an Active Deceiver for sinister or secular Respects, resolved not to be convinced by his Senses, Experimentally, should be any other than a ●lose Atheist, or Papist: being assure● (upon the account of the later) he shall receive a Pardon or an Indulgence from his Holiness (o horrid Blasphemy!) for his wilful Homicide in Physic. I shall omit to insist upon the Religious absurd Quarrels of this Stentor with the Virtuosos, also his sharp Taunts against the●r most commendable undertake, and hopeful procedures; accusing them of insufficiency, Ignorance, and gross Mistakes in their Experiments. I doubt not but they are able to stand up in defence of themselves touching Essays of their more nice Minute Curiosities ● 'tis enough for me to wipe off the dirt which this rash Wording Attemptor throws upon my s●lf, th● Lord Bacon, this most Essentially useful Art of Chemistry, and the Learned Professors thereof; also to indicate that the sole means to make an accomplished Physician, is by Pyrotechnical Trials, set upon with our own hands, often iterated, discreetly managed (all circumstances duly observed) to the depth of which a merely Sermocinal selfconceited Dogmatist, pluming himself with the gay outside of various Languages, acquaint huffing Terms, Rhetorical Expressions, Sophistical Disputations, Histories of Antiquity, etc. shall never attain.  
Now to make this good, I shall thus begin with this Hypocritical, Critical false Impeacher, who maliciously coupling me in pag. 21. of Campanella with Mr. Odowd, accuses me as a mere Empiric; and hopes the Physicians, i. e. the Dogmatical Collegiates would consult their common interest (that's the Devil that hinders them from subscribing to Physical Truths) in Opposition to the Thomsons and Odowdes. Marry that they have done to the utmost very slanderously, by means of their Pseudochymist johnson, one of such a kind of Genius as yourself; but 'twould not do: for in time of the Plagu● ● he and the Colleges Spiritus Antiloim●ides, an arrant Imposture, both vanished together in fumo; so may you perhaps ere long for all your Learning, if you do not repent of your obstinate Aristotelian Antithesis to the direct Cure of Man. So prevalent is Truth. He than proceeds; And act with that Moderation which became Wise men, which were tender of the Renown of their Faculty, which would suddenly devolve into the hands of Empirics. Moderation (say you?) is there such a superlative endowment existent amongst the Galenists? Certainly they can but arrogate it, not deserve it; this Qualification is to be appropriated to Virtuoso's indeed, not to a company of Vitioso's, who debauch the manners of the Nation with their Bleeding and Purging, who can do little else but dispute pro & con of imaginary Excellencies. The Candid Spagyro-S●phi●ts can chiefly observe this Canon, who by this means know best how to preserve the Sanity and Life of Man, which consists in Moderation. As for the Dogmatists they are still erring either on the right or left, because they are to seek in the true Constitutives of Health and Sickness.  
This advice of Moderation had been given very seasonably when our G●lenists were ●o transported with the ambitio●s desire o● engrossing all the Practice o● City and Country into th●ir own hands, when they transgressed all the bounds and limits of Moderation, Sobriety, Prudence, and Discretion. Had their subtle extravagant Stratagems, for the demolition of virtuous Actions in Physic then taken place, I should soon have bidden Adieu to my Country, not enduring to see it made a prey without control to the immoderate lusts of Anthrôpôlethri, those that delight in exhausting the Vital Blood, the Medium between Body and Soul● In this, as in several other instances, I dare firmly aver, they were neither Wi●e nor Pious men, to undertake a business of such moment, and to be so deservedly, yea, shamefully baffled by their Creatures Apothecary's: neither did the design savour of any fear of God be●ore their eyes, therefore they prospered accordingly. Had these Mysochymists intended faithful respect to the Renown o● their Faculty, they would never have taken such a cour●e to prostitute the Credit and Honour of so Divine a Science, by erecting a swarm of Apothecary's, ordained to foment their Laziness, Pride, and Covetousness, to be a covert for their Ignorance, to instruct th●m in Materia Medica, to contract with th●m, yea, to constrain th●m sometimes (if the poor men would get a competent living) to be Pimps, Bawds, and Panders to fetch in Practice, allowing th●m a considerable share of Gains, by accumulating not only non-n●cessary, but also a noxious quantity of Physic, to the great detriment of the Patient: was this for the Renown of the Faculty, to expose to the File in a public Shop, to promulgate and make cheap Arcana Apollinis, the Mysteries of our Science, in such a profane manner, that any Apothecary's boy might thereby take opportunity to transcribe and set to sale perhaps ●or a ●mall piece of silver your vulgar Recipes? Was this for the Renown of the Faculty, to compile a common Pharmacopaea, thereby to give advantage to one of your Ministers, to translate it into English, and make Comments thereon deservedly ridiculous on your behalf, whereby your gross absurdities in the preparation of your Medicaments were brought to light, to your grand disgrace, and the Conjuring up of innumerable Quacking-pretenders to the Art, such as you call Emp●ricks in the worse sense, amongst whom your m●st slander●is foul Tongue is pleased to reckon me one? That w● may the better deal with this Grandiloquous boasting Scribe, and show the World his vacuity in the true Therapeutic part of Physic, which ought to be the Summum bonum of an honest able undertaker therein; because 'tis Ens Reale v●rum, and should be the main scope and drift of all our great Endowments and Acquirements, in which if any be very deficient, all his Philology, Physiologie, Antiquary, Mathematical and Critical Knowledge is little significant or pertinent, Quatenus jatros, a Healer. We shall examine the Original derivation of the word Empirick, which arises from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 experior, vel exploro, to try, assay, or prove, to review or ●ind out any thing by diligent searching: so then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is but an Experimental Physician, one of a S●ct very well allowed of by the Ancients: Qui Medicina ab usu tantum & experimenntis norit, & tractat non ex causis naturalibus; who as Celsus delivers, hath acquired the knowledge of Physic only by Use and Experiments, so he t●e●ts of it, not able to give a Natural Cause thereof. Such an one was Quintus, Master to G●len your Master, whom ye so closely follow, as he did Quintus (according to his own confession) in most things pertaining to Physic. I wish ye would be so Ingenious as your Tutor, to confess the greatest knowledge ye have obtained in the jatrical part of late, hath been delivered to you by such Empirics as ye abusively nominate me: Then would you not be ●o horribly ungrateful, to malign, slight, and spitefully entreat (contrary to the Candid Morality of Galen) those who indefatigable in their Manual Labours ● have hazarded their lives to give you wholesomer advice, for the far better curing of infirm man, than that honest Heathen could instruct you: this Doctrine doubtless would soon hav● been embraced by you, if ye were not obstinate and stupendiously perverse, resolved (non persuad●ri, etiamsi quis persuaserit) not to be convinced, hating this Pyrotechnical Empirical way, tho●gh ye are plainly confuted it is true, because it doth not suit with your peculiar Interest, Laziness, Gain, and Grandeur. Hoccine Christiani? is this Henry Stubbs his Religion he makes a foul quoil about to no good candid ●nd? Then let me rath●r be a Charitable virtuous Ethnic, willing to be taught (as Galen) even by an Empirick, in what may conduce for the good of the Body and Soul of my infirm Brother, ut sit men's san● in corpore sano; than a malicious, vicious, cruel-hearted Physician, who like the Priest and L●●ite, either slightingly passes by, or runs quite away from the Sick without affectionate regard to the sad wretch wounded by a Pestilential Arrow; so that being wilfully ignorant (because he scorns to learn) he slubbers over the Medical business in haste perfunctorily, and being conscious to himself of his own defection, assigns the Cure over to the Apothecary, not caring what may be the ●vent, so that he can but escape the contagion himself.  
When in the mean time the poor Experimental Chemical Samaritan, carrying some Balsamical Remedy about him, poureth it in with his ●wn finger's, taking care of the Patient to purpose. S●ch an on● I profess myself, but yet not an Empyrick ●ccording to H. St. vilifying sense; for I am certain, I can give (in the presence of intelligent Inquisitors after truth) better Rational accounts of my Cures, and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of such Morbous Effects as they relate to their Gauses (be it spoken without Xenodoxie) more satisfactorily than you, or all the Aristotelian Physicians in Europe.  
If this be verity undoubtedly to be maintained by me, I know no Reason why I may not more really deserve the Title of an Authentic Doctor, than any of you all● sith it hath pleased the Omnipotent to water with the Dew of Heaven my honest endeavors● so far, that they are grown up to such successful an height, that if the Magistrate be pleased fairly to permit me, I can certify him that those languishing persons which you are not able to succour in the least, may receive benefit by me.  
As for Mr. Odowd (with whom you out of bas● Odium to Truth couple me, as if I had any design to destroy Literature, which the Eternal knows never yet entered into my thoughts, it being Diametrically repugnant to my concerns:) I confess I had a civil ●espect for the Gentleman, hoping that having th● King's Ear, in reference to the Chemical Process●s he might prevail with his Majesty so ●ar, that the garrulous Dogmatists Mouths might be stopped, when they should be for●ed to take a certain view of some Curative in●tances and practices produced by me, which I was then a●●ured they could never accomplish. Neither was Mr. Odowd such an impious hurtful Empirick for his time, that all such Successors should be opposed, as y●● 〈…〉 for if I am not mis-infor●●ed● 〈…〉 ●ome remarkable Cures above you or your Sociates Capacity for some Persons of Quality, which did so far ingratiate him with the King, that he encouraged him to proceed, and he would protect him against your inveterate Oppositions to his Empirical Cures, which you were never able, nor would study to perform yourselves.  
Herein your cross-grain Genius is lively deciphered by the Dog in the Manger, which neither would eat Hay himself, nor suffer the Horse. Had not the Contagion (in which for the safety of his Country he vent'red far, and therefore to be mentioned with more respect than the fugitive Galenists, that left the City of shi●t for themselves in greatest streits) cut off immaturely the thread of this Gentleman his life, I am fully persuaded that this contemptible Empirick (as you represent him) would have proved a thorn in the sides of your Associates (which your iterated Phlebotomy would never have cured) for as much as he had advantage equal to yours to insinuate himself into the favour of Great Personages, who had no small kindness for this Empirical Courtier, sensibly beneficial to them. Now rail, as I expect (because I utter truth in the behalf of this Empirick) thou Learned ignorant Aristotelian, who, as likewise the rest of thy Tribe, have been outdone in reference to Hygiasticks by several mere Empirics, whose ●ame in this Nation hath been every way equivocal with yours, and every whit as deserving as yours, accordding to the Vulgar sense, (whose applause ye principally aim at, therein resting yourselves satisfied right or wrong) y●a, some of those Practitioners might have attained great Estates proportionable to yours, and purchased Titular Honours, had they not less regarded such transitory things, been more generous freehearted, and Charitable than yourselves.  
Therefore in brief, If I may deliver my thoughts without interruption, under favour of more virtuous able Judgements; I conceive a laborious Empirick of an intelligible capacity, whose fortune (for want of friends or Money) disappointed him to be brought up in the Schools a Grammarian or a Logieian; who●e streams of affections run towards Experimental discoveries, with a sincere intent of Doxology to the highest, and the relief of Ad●m's sickly Posterity: I say, this ingenious Labourer, though no profound Clerk, having for a long time made multitudes of Observations and Essays (arising from his own Pharmacopaea or factures of Remedies) at length arrived at a competent knowledge of applying and appropriating Medicines, may deservedly weigh down, as to Real, Useful, Beneficial worth in his Employments (quatenus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Healing Man) the most Learned Academic in Europe, who studies Words more than Works, a Library more than a Laboratory; to get a vogue by a fair outside, rather than keep the inside clean; who for his ease and pleasure negotiates in the behalf of the Life of his Patient, with an extraneous Factor, a vendible Apothecary and his Boy.  
Upon this I am put in mind of the great Breach lately made between the Doctors and Apothecaries, which H. Stubbs strives to compose, that Fratres in malo may persevere to hold together hand in hand, whereby the Churchyards continuing to be made fertile by these Inhuman Inhumations, they may jointly persist to reap the sweet fruits of Riches, Ease, and Dignities. O sweet life! who would not love it? What an Incogitant man was I ●hus to be overseen, not to begin 23 years passed with this delightful Methodical way, which in a short time would have brought me to the possession of the Goods of Fortune? then might I, as learnedly Ignorant as any of them, been reputed some Body in the World; as for defects of Bona Animi, Real Worth, a Good Conscience, and Uprightness had I been of their mind) I might have easily got a DISPENSATION or an Indulgence; then needed I not to have moiled, toiled, and drudged like a Collier for the acquisition of salutiferous Remedies, when others dipping their pens in a vitriolate preparation, and scribbling a little therewith, could strait command a multitude of Medical Implements, which although they knew not what they were, Good or Bad, when, or how made, yet it was sufficient to do their Business, to make them famous Doctors, it matters not how deservedly.  
This beloved delicious life of some of the more Ignoble Galenists, who by this means have best feathered their nests, desiring to acquiesce therein, are very loath to part with (can you blame them?) although the most ingenious of the Nation decry i● as a most insufferable Cheat, and the greater, because it reflects dangerously upon the Lives and Souls of Patients: Wherefore these Merchants in Physic have solicited this Hector-like Stubbs to defend their Good Old Cause (as they would intrude upon the Credulous) and to plead most deceitfully, that its Antiquity may be deduced from the time of Hypocrates, i.e. two thousand years ago; whereas it is certain, this subtle device of practising by Apothecaries, is not much above one Century and half standing.  
To this end he falls foul in the general upon the Vi●tuos●'s, because they have intimated this praescribing fashion to be an abominable Imposture; for this he cavils and carp at their Experiments, accusing them absurdly, that they were upon a design of introducing Popery, whereby he might deter all upright Zeteticks of knowledge, from going upon any such truly Noble Philosophical Attempts; yea, he arrives to such an height of malice, that he bitterly inveighs against Experiments themselves, unless made by a Disciple of Aristotle, who I can assure shall never, as long as he closely adheres to his Master's Axioms, ever aspire to the Fundamental knowledge of physiology, for the benefit of diseased man: Yea, I aver that this cunning Disputant (whose Positions in this are contrary to this great Dictator's mind, who grants all knowledge of Natural things to be purchased by means of Senses) shall never without helmont's Experimental Doctrine be ever able to make any discovery tending to the most desired radical Cure of any great Disease.  
In particular this zealous Agnostick Peripatetic flies fiercely at the face of Doctor Merret, accusing him of intolerable Ignorance, for setting out the late Book against the Frauds and Abuses of the Apothecary's.  
I shall so far stand up in the behalf of Dr. Merret's Book (though no friend to me, quatenus an Enemy to Phlebotomy, which he and his Adherents do so frequently exercise, to the destruction of miserable Mortals) that I openly declare, it contains much true Practical Knowledge, but I could wish it had never been bought at so dear a rate; for questionless this Experimental Science of his (which he must pardon me, if I should be loath to have actually patronised) hath cost many thousands of Lives: It had been better for him if he had appeared only a sorrowful Spectator, as I have been, no● so jocund an Actor of such Tragical Histories, which did very much misbecome him: if he had consulted 20 years past, I could have told him according to the Prologue, what would certainly be the Epilogue of such direful Scenes, that nothing could be expected but a most deplorable Catastrophe of such unreasonable doings, to the great prejudice of this Divine Science, and the Professors thereof, who ought to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, created by God, whose Justice will never suffer such sandy foundations to stand long. I have heard that Dr. Merret at first was by fair pretences alured or wheedled into this Society, not without some regret or disgust on his part●; but afterward bewitched with the Syrenian Enticements of their carnal pleasures, he suffered himself to be plunged into many Essential Errors, deviating from th●m in Minutis, c●rtain Punctilios in Physick ● However, Nunqu●m sera est ad bonos mores via: he far surpasses tho●e who wittingly and willingly yet continue in the mire of these unclean ways. I hope this Proselyte a● length addicted to the Manufacture of Remedies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 (in which I have been versed about twenty odd years; therefore needs must I know, according to ●is own Positions more savingly than himself) will now suffer his eyes to be opened, that h● m●y s●e his Errors, and abhor his former indiscreet S●nguimission; which i● he please, I shall candidly visibly indicate to him as most pernicious to the whole Nation.  
Notwithstanding all this downright Truth I have delivered relating to D●. Merit, it will not at all countenance your Satirical disparagement of this Ingenious Learned Person, disreputing and falsely estimating his pa●ts, and taxing him as ignorant in the Rudiments of his Science, nor able to State a Case therein, because he is justly now fallen off from his wont illegitimate course of sending Bills abroad, in way of Traffic for men's lives, and fully resolved to make his own Medicines, also advising others to do the like; laying open to the World, as one best acquainted with them, the Frauds & Abuses of Apothecaries; wherein you and your Sociates being very much interested, and conscious to yourselves what unhandsome Actions ye have put your Substitutes upon, do most unreasonably and irreligiously take upon you to ●u●tifie.  
For without Controversy, ye first suggested and instituted this way for their livelihood, fomenting them as long as they pleased you; but after that becoming numerous, they were forced to take another course to live, not able to subsist in a competent manner by your Insufficient, Ridiculous, Aphilosophical Prescriptions, (which now many of the more serious perspicacious sort do set no better estimate upon, than to put to common use: so that should they so far condescend, as to lay aside their more sure Card of exerting that faculty of Practice, which their sedulity, Pharmacopaean Inspections, Officiousness to the Sick ● more frequent, and better Optical Trials of Effects of Medicines of their own Manual praeparation, than ye would study to attain to) have disciplined them in: Add moreover, their propensity first to embrace Chemical Remedies, which ye then renounced and openly detested against.  
Witness Mr. job Weal an Apothecary on Ludgate-Hill, whom the Galenists prosecuted with Vatinian hatred, as I have often heard him tell the Story, for preparing Lac Sulphuris, an effectual, and no whit perilous Medicine; which the Collegiates having entered his Shop, threw into the streets: (are not these rare Supervisors?) declaring against him as guilty of a most horrid crime, for making, and perhaps giving (what then should he not use that Talon ye wanted?) so dangerous (as ye falsely laid to his Charge) a Chemical Mineral Powder, for the succour of those Patients, when your Cacostomastick, drossy Compositions could not in the least relevate.  
Should, I say, Apothecaries, I mean, the best endowed Philo-Chymists, having through your supine voluptuous Folly got the better end of the Staff, resign it up again into your hands; I Question whether or no ye would be able to maintain them and their Families: so great an ha●red doth daily increase among the more cautious Scrutators of things against your lethiferous way of transmitting your formal Physical Bills to be made up by your Deputies, that I scruple not to declare openly, the complete Spagyric Philosopher will in a short time run you dow●●n despite of all your Davus-like Tricks, or Vulpones Sergeant Plots, to wit, the owning yourselves fictitiously among the Vulgar, to be the true Chemists, and boasting that no Salve safe for any Sore but what your Method shall secure; scribbling and promising great things, but not daring to stand to any equal Experiments, for the right determination of Medical Truth. Now your imperious Government drawing to an end (as appears by certain Signs) you catch at this or that poor beggarly shift, to keep it up for your lives; then what care you? let it fall, no whit troubled that your Names will stink worse than your Carcases in the Nostrils of all deserving Graceful Persons; for as much as ye would not through headstrong passions, and sordid affections, subscribe at this day, when the Truth of things appear more clearly, to a Legitimate powerful way of Healing.  
As this Hen. Stubbs hath slanderously abused Dr. Merret, for vindicating in equity the Confection of his own Remedies, and for not persevering in the former mortal beaten tract of Practice: Moreover, as he likewise disallows of any Apothecaries to Practise, though endowed with such gifts which may justly entitle them to a capacity to opitulate or relieve any woefully wounded wretch, by virtue of a Balsamical sulphurous Powder, which formerly they condemned to the Kennel, but now approve it; yet know not how to make it a right, or not duly to administer it: So this shameless, and no less unskilful Censurer, first debases, then rashly, but unjustly reproves that not easily to be matched Hero, the Honour of our Nation, the Lord Bacon, in that he gives so weak an account of the Sweeting Sickness; so that he esteems this brave Experimental Philosopher, worthy to be laughed to scorn by every understanding Physician; because the shallow Brain of this Medicaster, s●uffed full of superficial Traditions and Notions, was never yet able to dive into the Central Causes of Diseases.  
The Noble Indagator of Truth, pronounces these words, (as they are cited pag. 28. of Hen. Stubbs his Specimen) accurately describing the Sweating-Sickness thus:  
It was a Pestilent Fever, but not seated in the Veins and Humours, for that there followed no Carbuncle, no Purple, or livid Spots, or the like, the mass of Blood being not tainted, only a malign vapour flew to the heart and seized the Vital Spirits, which stirred Nature to strive to send it forth by an extreme sweat. Who but such a profound Searcher into Nature as my Lord Bacon, could at that time have given such an Essential Character of the Sweating-Sickness? which is reputed by this Putationer as a thing ridiculous.  
I shall with as much brevity as I can, examine every particular Phoenomenon belonging to the foresaid Disease, expounding the Genuine sense of his Lordship's words. The material Cause of this truculent Disease proposed by him is, a Malignant Vapour, i. e. Gas Sylvestre, an incoercible Spirit, which by reason of its subtlety resembling the Vital Spirits, could readily mix itself with them; forthwith infecting the same, especially those about the Heart; whereby the Plastic power of the Archaeus, as an efficient cause, the perfect Idea, or image of this specifique Disease is portrayed; part of the Vital Spirits, being as it were tinged by the intermixture of these Contagious particles, and part remaining in its integrity, being exasperated at the presence of such an hostile Intruder, stirs up Nature, i. e. musters up all the faculties, forces, or strength belonging to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, or Arc●eus, and withal summoning the Latex or Lympha to be assistant to the ablution and ablation of this fermenting malignant impurity, which is sent forth by an extreme sweat. The inward procuring occasional excitative cause was, a Pestilent Venom, a tabefying matter, immediately lodging in the degenerate Juices about the Stomach and Spleen, helmont's Duumvirate) not in the Veins or Fictitious Humours) which sending forth foetid putrefactive particles annoying the Archaeus, caused an indignation or fretting disposition at presence of that which is altogether exotic and incongruous with Nature: whereupon it thus put upon a stress, exerts all its powers and faculties to the expulsion of such a virulent Guest, performed most conveniently by large Sweats, before which there must necessarily precede a Fever, from the Collision, conglomeration, tumult, and confusion of the vital Spirits thus assaulted; as is frequently observed to fall out, when any thing extraneous to life getteth into the flesh, to wit, a thorn or splinter: so that the Fever is but a consequent of the fury and rage of the Archaeus, and a praecedent of the expulsion of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, the matter of the Disease.  
The Argument which this knowing Lord uses, that the Hyperidrotick or Sweating-Sickness was not primarily in the mass of Blood, i. e. the purest, called Sanguis; because there was no eruption of a Carbuncle, Purple, or Livid Spots, which shows, saith he, it was not tainted: which Reason did very well become him; for in reality, the effects of this Anomalous poison was most eminent in the Serum or Latex, a concomitant of the Blood, a great depraved quantity whereof was at that time collected in the Body, through the then unaccustomed ill natural texture of the Air, loathsome exhalations lurking in its magnale or porosities, arising from the influence of the Celestial Luminaries; unwholesome Esculents or Potulents; as likewise a peculiar idiosyncrasy, Disposition of the Body, capable to be at that time above others thus affected; not omitting, that certain exorbitant Passions might generally disturb the Vital Oeconomy of this Nation. Now by means of these Procatarlick Causes, an absolute Poison was hatched up by degrees in the Stomach and parts adjacent, whose Fermental Emanations polluted the Latex chiefly; making also a colliquation of the Chime or Cruor; to be rid of which, the stomachical Archaeus principally strains itself; the vital Spirits of the whole (as yet undefiled) co-adjuvating, being well fortified by Art, to throw out by large Sweats, the contaminated products of a specific Poison, centrally latitant, exceeding active at first by its spreading Odour, but in a short time becoming effete and languid, if all things w●re ordered aright. In which work, if nature were assisted by fitting Alexipharmacie, and the ambient Air intercepted, that the virulent Atoms might have free vent, all things succeeded well; if otherwise, it seldom fell out, but that the sweeting Person miscarried.  
As for the Opinion of Polydore Virgil, and Hollinshed, which H.S. citys with great applause, 'tis in real truth not only ridiculous, but also pernicious; to wit, That a Deadly burning Sweat so assailed their Bodies, and distempered their Blood with a most ardent heat, that scarce one of many hundred that sickened did escape with life. Let any good intelligent Person judge indifferently who comes nighest the very formal definition of the aforesaid Calamity, our Lord, or these Aristotelick, rarely qualified Humorists, who sound nothing else to us, as to a Cure, but Burning: Sweeting, Temperaments; very Hot, Hot: Death at first in the Pot, and Death at last; and so it was, and ever will be, as long as this wretchless credulous Age gives so much countenance to such wilfully ignorant Torturers and Executioners of Mankind, as I dare verify by fact, this Stubbs, and all his Copartners to be. I am sure I can assert from a thousand Experiments, that the forequoted Authors knew nothing of the Immediate Intrinsecal Cause of that Pestilential Malady; for what they describe, are Relollaea, mere Symptoms, Effects, Products, Outward Appearances. As for the prime Morbific Agent, which sets all on work, and the Nest where all the Mischief is brooded, that they leave altogether untouched. These men are like to Cure Diseases well, who are so egregiously to seek in their Fundamental Causes, and yet (forsooth) they go about boldly to affirm, that they are the only Philosophers, because they can Prate and Tongue it Rhetorically and Logically, hereby gulling silly Auditors, who are led by these Ignes fatui at length into the pit of Destruction.  
You cavil at our Lord, because he says, Nature did strive to send forth its virulency by an extreme Sweat: Whereas your beloved Authors tell you, all that recovered, were recovered by the continuance of a moderate Sweat. This (say you) Experience and Observation taught them; (but 't was but Galenical, and that may be certainly verified of you to be the Mistress of Fools:) for, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉: None but a Pyrotechnist can explore, as he ought healingly. I pray Sir, what but Nature should strive to send forth the virulency? Doth not Hypocrates tell us what is infallible, Naturae, i. e. Vitales Spiritus sunt Morborum Medicatrices; which you ought to imitate in Deed, and not as you Word it; then the Quarrel would quickly be at an end between us. But the Extreme Sweat (it seems) stumbles you: But why should that? An Extreme Disease must have an Extreme Remedy: this Hipp. doth also dictate, in extremis Morbis extrema exquisite Remedia sunt optima. Malo Nodo, malus Cuneus. But let us know a little strictly what is meant by an Extreme Sweat, and a Moderate, in relation to this truculent Plague: The extreme Sweat, i. e. very large, was according to the Story, Mortal; the Moderate, Salutary; which I deny, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, quatews mere Swea●s; for according to my observation this 23 years, all malignant pestilential Fevers, the Pest itself, and the Griping of the Guts, which holds a fair proportion with the Sudor Anglicus, did all receive a most certain and expedite Cure, b●st by extreme large Sweats, if the strength were kept up; otherwise no Sweat more or less is of any significant Benefit. Quiequid fit vir●ute, Naturae fit, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non autem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. Wha●so●v●r Evacuation is attempted by Nature robust, directly supported, is performed plentifully, impetuously, and incontinently, not driblingly by piece-meals.  
In this feral Calamity there was at the first onset a strong resisting Enormontick or impulsive Motion of Nature to eject with all speed that malignant Vapour couched about the Hypocondries (that flew at the heart, infecting the vital Spirits thereof; also those about the mouth of the Stomach, which the Ancients called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉; likewise sending a miasme to the aqueous Liquor; colliquating the Chime or Cruor) by extraordinary extreme Sweat, which became Mortal, because the vital Spirits were quickly tired for want of due support from without, and in that they were not fortified at first by lusty spirituous liquors, which those Humorists thought at first in those days to be too hot, & therefore enjoined Posset-drinks made perhaps after the mode of one of our Modern timorous Colleagues in time: of the Plague, with Ale and Water, or Barleywater, julebs of Rose-water, and Pippin-posset, thin Water-gruel, lest the Blood should be inflamed, and the party over-sweat himself: Whereas the Common people left in those days to themselves, being better Experimentator●, taught those Learned Doctors a more salutary Method of curing this Anomalous Plague, after the same sort as our Seamen of late years have instructed our Society of Physicians, if they would lea●n to any good purpose. For since they left those scurvy Qualities of Heat and Cold (as they were taught by those Aristotelian, Impertinent, Nonsensical Doctors) they have given with admirable success to the miserable Sick-Souls (afflicted with the Calentures and Scurvy) suffering intolerable thirst, and restlessness, Brandy, Rack by itself, or made into Punch, and other strong Liquors, whereby the weak Tone of the Stomach hath been confirmed, the Vitals elevated, and the Disease car●●ed off by Sweat and Urine; so that now having rid themselves in greatest part of this Deadly cooling Doctrine, they can make their Voyages losing few or no men: on the other side, before, as long as they walked according to your Destructive Rules, their men dropped away like rotten sheep, having scar● Mariners enough left alive to return their Sh●p home. Thus the plain People of those days being sadly cut off in great numbers by this Atrocious Mortality, upon this strait began to make some Rational Trials of their own, and found out at length that a draught of strong Ale, Aquavitae with Saffron, a little Sack, if they could get it, and some Confection or Cordial, as Mithridate, Treacle, etc. did, if they kept themselves covered, relieve and cure them, which these scrupulous, m●●r Opinat●rs, did in the beginning, either totally forbid, or gave (as they usually exhibit at this day other good Remedies) in too small a Quantity, left they should overheat their Blood, and further their extreme Mortal Sweats.  
Thus these congruous Remedies empowered the Animals to get the better of this peculiar Poison (the principal intrinsical occasion of all outward appearances) by hindering its Fermental Odour, taking away its tabefying colliquating properties, by repressing this Malign Vapour, or Mephitical exhalation (which had still recourse to the heart, aiming at the extinction of its Light) than by exterminating it, and the contaminated Latex first by extreme sweat, whereby the infected person being carefully kept from the Air, may soon be brought into a moderate sweat, that more leisurely discharged the relics of the polluted juices, and hereby effectually restored the Patient: the fountain of this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being stopped, the Accidental evacuation being altered to a Substantial, the Symptomatical to a Critical. Well then, the sum is, that the extreme sweats, either spontaneously happening, or procured by Art, were mortal, as you relate, because upon the fresh Access of this sudorifique misery, the whole burden rested upon the shoulder of Nature extremely overpowred: withal finding no redress by that Vain, Gross, Clogging, Weak, Miserable Opitulation or Assistance they pretended to give them, being worse than you now administer to poor Languid Souls at this day, which I am certain is bad ●nough. How then was it possible but that upon the first invasion of this cruel ●vil, those Sweats must needs prove fruitless, ineffectual, and extremely mortal; sith their very Dietetical prescriptions and Medicines could deserve no better Title, suffering Nature to be horribly worried by a domestic Enemy, till such time the Plebeian taught them better things? I could produce a multitude of Instances to make good what I have here published, but one belonging to myself shall serve for all; the whole story is set down at large in Loimotomia, out of which I shall only excerp what may be most apposite to my purpose:  
After the Dissection of a Pestilential Body, Anno 1665. out of a serious Inquisition, not a vain presumption, as Zoili tax me, I was smitten with a Pestilential Arrow, which entering through my hand, dabbling incogitantly in the Cadaverous gore, pierced to my Central parts, the Stomach and Spleen; where the Active Poison settled, ejaculating virulent black E●sluviums at my heart and head, causing a dizziness in the one, and a tedious oppression in the other. Finding myself struck, I was resolved while I was Compos mentis, to use the best of my Medicines, and that in large quantity, which I was certain by iterated trials were Safe and Effectual: I was experimentally instructed, as likewise sensible by no small number of radish Spots (one or two being livid forthwith appearing) that a great part of my Blood was coagulated in facto esse, the rest in fieri, if not suddenly prevented by the congelative power of ●his poison: I pursued to the atmost the taking of those Remedies which n●ver failed during the Contagion, to rest●re to health any one tractable and capable thereof. My greatest Design was to get a large sweat, such an one as you call extreme, which with much ado I attained in an hour or two, promoting it continually with a vast measure of Diaphoreticks, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, Medicines pregnant with particles of ●ighest affinity with the Vital 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Blas, which the Aristotelians or Galenists would have protested against as worse than the Plague, because in their Dogmatical Fancies, too Hot and Burning. In the space of two or three hours, after the first assault of the Pest, I attained a very great moisture all over my Body, which trickling continually down after an excessive manner, was for many hours, yea days, wiped off by those then present. In this condition of extreme sweats sliding down my skin for six days and nights, I remained well covered, not permitting myself to put my hand out of the B●d; upon the seventh day I arose, able to foot it (I believe a mile;) and the ninth I went down, walking lustily about the House. Thus did I act with several of my Patients at that fatal time, promising and performing the same.  
By the extract of this Transaction Hen. Stub. may understand, unless he be desperately perverse, that a man cannot sweat too much in any malignant Disease, supposed the vigour of the Stomach and Archaeus be sustained and repaired with what is lively. The same Matter, Means, Quantity, and Method I used often for the Cure of the Pest, with known happy success at that time. I also proposed the same Remedy before and after that exigence, proportionably to any whom a pestilential Fever had seized, according as the individual Patient, Magnitude of Sickness indicated. Neither do I find any difference at all in the happy fruits of my Medicaments, whether the Poison be more Congelative and Concretive as at that season a while past, or more Colliquative, turning the Juices, as it were, into a melting grease, and invading the thinnest Liquors, as doubtless was the effects of that Venom which reigned some score years past, being the main Reason why (as our Noble person says) there followed no Carbuncle, no Purple or Livid Spots, because the inquinated matter was disposed to be carried away by abundant of Sweats, without any residue of any puncticular curdled Inhesion or restagnation of Corrosive, putrefactive, filth in the skin. Therefore the Argument used by this great Pirastick, or Explorator of Natural Causes, is very Authentic, that it was not in the mass of Blood, or your Imaginary Humours, but only, i.e. Essentially, in the Vi●al Spirits, because there followed no Purple or Livid Spots, or the like. For had it been primarily in the blood, it could not have been otherwise but that the colliquative dissolutive Poison must needs have made a Synthesis, Coagulation, and Grumosity in the Blood; at the same time it caused a preternatural 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, or a corruptive rarefaction thereof: for according to an approved Philosophical Maxim, Omne solvens eadem opera qua solvit etiam coagulatur. Dissolving parts of every common Menstrum, are in that very Act coagulated: so that after this sense, had the tabid matter only possessed the Blood as its chief Subject for its residence, there would have been after this enormous Sweeting a Caput Mort, or some gross matter remaining behind, which would undoubtedly have caused before or after some eruption in the skin. Wherefore without Controversy, this most subtle Heteroclite Venom took up its chief Mansion in the Vital Spirits, especially in the Archaeus of the Stomach and Spleen (so do all Diseases, as I can both by Reason and practical fruits testify) where for some time it lay lurking in the bosom of Nature, not much heeding at first this grand Enemy of Life; then having conspurcated part of the Animal Spirits through a traitorous pretence of affinity with them, at length offering violence to them, put them quite besides the tract of salutary Imagination, upon the framing of deformed Ideas, suitable to the condition of the tabid Poison. Hereupon the regular Actions of Natural solutions, and moderate concretions requisite for sanguification performed by kindly Ferments, were quite changed into an extravagant Operation of tabefying and turning the Chime into a putrid, Olid, Loathsome Liquamen, or I●bor, by means of preternatural Ferments, receiving an Impress, a Commission or Power from the incensed raging Archaeus, to act according to that type and figure it had made in itself analogical to the intoxicating matter. The Consequent then is, that nought but the Vital Spirits, the only seat of this truculent Calamity, at the presence of which they were exceedingly disturbed, could by their inordinate Ferments produce such a profuse quantity of stinking Excrements, sending them packing through the skin, without any settling, curdling, or dregs left behind. Wherefore the Cr●●or, o● cruder part of Blood was but secundarily affected in this as in all other malignant Evils, which at one season is only colliquated, at another coagulated; sometimes both, according to the specifique energy of the Malignity, causing this or that peculiar form of a Disease in the Spirits. By this we assuredly conclude those prodigious filthy melting Sweats, accompanied for the most part with affliction in the Stomach, pain of the Head, and dark-Coloured, ill-savoured Urine; one while also an excretion of Blood through the Bladder; at another time, through the Nose, Eyes, and E●rs, all spr●ng from one fountain, the Stomachical and Visceral Archaeus, dislocated in its Functions, and through discontentent enervating, melting, and marring the fundamental matter of pure Blood. I deny not b●t this Sweeting Sickness was, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and its Venom unwonted, and of a peculiar Essence, different from others, because it was altogether Colliquative.  
For as touching what Hen. Stubbe expostulates, Whether it be necessary whensoever there is a Pestilential Fever, affecting the mass of Blood, that then there must be some Cutaneous Eruption by bo●h Carbuncle or Spots: I aver as I am informed by these 23 years and upward of my Practice, I never saw either a high Pestilential Fever, or the Pest firmly radicated in the Body ever cured of late years as it ought, but by the protrusion of some cutaneous Efflorescence, as Spots, Pustles, Blanes, Bubo's, Carbuncles, Erisypilus, or the like, except once when in the Plague of fresh memory, my Brother having imbibed the contagious Sickness, sweat it out twice; the first in the space of six days; the s●cond being a relapse during five days, without the least Germination of any congealed excretion throughout his whole Body; which if all Circumstances were duly considered by sober men, might be reckoned a rarity, especially if it did belong to our Learned Society. Touching the Natural Reason of this effect (lest you should call me Empirick, which handsome Title I am sure you will never deserve, as long as you degrade yourself, adhering contumaciously to your Master Aristotle) I shall thus satisfy you: (Suppose the Heathenish Doctrine hath not intoxicated you, that you are not able to receive truth) that my Brother conversant with me, beholding, and sensibly convinced of the happy fruits of my Remedies, withal having recourse to some of them at his pleasure, took so great a quantity thereof himself, besides what I tendered him, that although he going along with me oftentimes to visit my Patients, sucking in their virulent Breath, and upon this occasion was frequently tainted therewith, yet could not those deletery staining Corpuscles so far prevail, as greatly to coagulate or condense his Blood, because notwithstanding the Vital Spirits were apt to receive Ideas or Impresses of the Poison, yet were these by penetrating congruous volatile Salts, and luminous Sulphurs, either expunged in their Oval Lineaments, or Those so far advanced in their strength and courage, that they were able strait to take off and crush any exotic fermental Malignity, setting upon the curdling of the Blood, whereby the Venal and Arterial Current being maintained, there was an incontinent Aporhaea, and a liberal effusion of the contaminated Juices, without the least Cataract or stop in the skin.  
I hope I have not been too tedious in the Vindication of this Noble Virtuoso from the Crime falsely laid to his charge of teaching his said Disciples such absurd Doctrine in reference to the precious life of Man, that he should deserve Sarcasms, Taunts, or Scoffs, as this enviously ignorant person H. S. suggests. Believe it who will, if I can give any Judgement of the verity of things as they are really in themselves, there hath not lived in England many Centuries a greater Natural Philosopher than our Lord Bacon; for although his Secular Employments did much take him off that he could not attain to what his aspiring Genius lead him to, yet hath he given us such testimony of his endowments, and his indefatigable search i●●o the tr●e Fundamental Cause of these sublunary Essences, withal setting us in the right way, even indigitating the means how we may acquire knowledge so that we are obliged never to suffer his Name to be ill spoken of, or his works to be calumniated, unless we incur deservedly the sin of horrid Ingratitude.  
Moreover, I have amplified my thoughts the more upon this Subject because upon the right conception of the ●ormal definition which this Architector of physiology hath given, the fontal Cure of all Pestilential Fevers, y●a, the Pest itself depends; for I protest openly, 'tis not possible that that Man who is to seek in the right Sanation of the Pest, should ever plainly, securely and efficaciously eradicate any fixed Calamity. Let the Adversary clamour never so much against it: for all Diseases aim at the Destruction of the Vital Spirits, which stir them up to send out the Nosopaean Matter every way, especially by Sweat, the most appropriate sluice through which it is with greatest Benefit expelled. Now if the Vitals fail, all's ago: How solicitous then ought all honest Experimental Physicians to be in the chase of Zôticks, Parêgôricks and corroboratives, which may so animate the Spirits, that thereby they dare to cope with any intruding Enemy, and make a vigorous ejection thereof. How deficient Dogmatists are herein, any who hath the least capacious apprehension of things may discern, by their running away from, or slightly passing by their Brother, not long since wounded with a Pestilential Arrow: And however they make the credulous think they are able to Conquer by their Art our more Gentle Sporadical Malignant Fevers; yet can I verify optically by Practice, that these formerly cried up Galenists, are most insufficient as to the Technical Extirpation of any stubborn Fever; yea, that when they seem to bring to pass any Cure, it is rather Accidental than Substantial, more by hap, than any good cunning; like good old women.  
And indeed how can it be otherwise, sith (as that excellent Adeptus, and true Chemical Philosopher Doctor Acton in his Letter to a Myso-Chymist, aptly declares:) The Galenists are totally ignorant of Chymistry● or only acquainted with the Vulgar, such as that of Crollius, Hartman, Beguin: so rigid Opposers of the more● occult Philosophy, as Hermes, Raymund Lul, Basil, Valen, Paracelsus, Van Helmont, that they cannot but protest against all their Scholars and followers as Heterodox. Albeit it comes to pass that these men denominate themselves Chemists, making the world believe they are verily so as they seem, yet I can prove that an Ape may as well deserve the name of a man, as the Title of a real Philosophical Spagyrist ought to be appropriated to a Galenist.  
This I proceed to make good by their silly conjectures of the issue of any grief: for the right Prognôsis in what space any Infirmity may be cured, how and when it will terminate, whether there will be a Metastasis, or transmigration of it into another Disease, and whether they can promise to keep off, o● quickly to rid any secundary Calamities, is generally so mere a guessing business with them, that I even blush to hear how they titubate, blunder, and mistake therein, to the great disparagement of this Art, which is really Scientifick, but for want of judicious prescience (which principally depends upon a Legitimate Pharmacopaea) is at this day miserably dedecorated. For the confirmation of what I have delivered, I would beg but this one Boon of his Majesty for all my constant service and sufferings under his Royal Father, that these Mysochymists, who like Jugglers and Cheats, call themselves the true Chemists, may be brought to laudable just Experimental Discoveries, some whereof I have proposed in Galeno-pale: Others I shall start afresh, and accept the like from them if equal; then I doubt not but it will manifestly appear, whether these Opinative Pretenders to Chemistry, be not better Politicians than Physicians; more apt to Equivocate than Prognosticate; rather versed in Aristotle's Sophisms than Hipp. Aphorisms; whether they be not more foolishly Superstitious in their Physical attempts, than discreetly judicious: lastly, whether they do not generally palliate, rather than eradicate our Miseries. To this end I shall commit to the consideration of all truehearted, virtuous, intelligent Disciples of our Lord Bacon, some few Medical Observations or Animadversions (intending to publish them hereafter more at large) emerging from my Practice, confirmed by long faithful Experience; to the truth whereof I shall urge no man to adhere farther than I can demonstrate them.  
1. That the Enormon Archaeus or Vital Spirits are the Principal, Fundamental, Efficient cause of Health, of all Diseases and their Cures.  
2. A True son of Art looks strictly upon the Preservation and Augmentation of the Vital Spirits, as the most preheminent Indication which is to steer a●igh● all his intended Sanative Actions.  
3. A sincere Assistant of Nature is, to observe its Motion, likewise the Orgasm or Inclination of the degenerate Matter, whether to be discharged ●est through this or that Emunctory or Passage, still furthering the carrying off (as Hipp. dictates) the Nosopaean Matter, by no means disturbing the Ferments, or wholesome juices.  
4. The most certain Effectual and proper way to dismiss the Morbifique occasional cause of all Diseases, especially Fevers, is through the Universal Membrane, wherein consists no small Artifice of a Physician so to gratify the Praecordial Archaeus, that it may both ablegate Excrements toward the skin, also command by its Influence an apertion of the Pores, that they may give free passage for the Egress of the polluted Lutex likewise at the same time, to keep out the incursion of any Noxious Atoms in the Ambient Air.  
5. For the bringing to pass the aforesaid design, nothing more conduces then to free the Stomach and the parts circumjacent from those impurities which have encroached into the privy-Chamber of the sensitive Soul, which ought to be effected, not by their vulgar Vomits, but by such an one as I have deciphered in Haem●tiasis.  
6. Bleeding ordained for removing Infirmities upon the account of Evacuation as it relates to too great a Plenitude of Blood; likewise ●or the Reason of Revulsion, indicated from the confluxion of any Cachochymick matter, is either Insignificant, Palliative, accidentally Curing, or Destructive.  
7. Phlebotomy used out of an intent of Derivation of the Cruor, crude Blood, or any foul matter banished out of the Protection of Life, for as much as it immediately letteth out what is depraved, aught to b● approved; for this Reason the vigorous promotion of a deficient Excretion of Blood through the Hoemorrhoidal and Menstruous Vessels, is very salutiferous.  
8 As the Purging Compositions of the Shops to which the Dogmatists trust in the carrying off Impurities, are altogether uncorrected, containing more or less poisonous Properties in them, whereby the Tone of the Parts are discomposed, the Spirits depauperated, the Chime colliquated, and the Ferments damnified; so a perpetual succession of Morbific matter is often regenerated, in li●u of what was thereby evacuated. Whosoever receives benefit by these cathartics, is beholding to an Accidental or Contingent success, not to any direct praenotional judicious susception therein.  
9 The chief Cordials analeptics, or Corroborating juleps belonging to the Lo●don-Dispensatory come very short of that true validity they ought to have, and which Chemical Philosophers make with their own hands● for these are volatilised, and highly purified, b●ing v●ry active and sa●e; but those are in comparison terrestrial, flat, feculent, impertinent, and so dangerous.  
10. Physicians ought to make th●ir own Medicines, for thereby they ●hall prepare them with a satisfactory Elegance and Exactness improve them to the greater Advantage and Gradation; understand th●ir Virtues more clearly; administer th●m with the more discretion, and acquire a far greater confidence's of their success; th●n may he styled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, an Officious Physician indeed; otherwise he can deserve no other than a mere Trifler in his Function, acting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, carelessly, perfunctorily, and cruelly.  
11. The best Chemical Remedies contained in the Vulgar Pharmacopaea, are insufficient, dangerous; yea, sometimes pernicious, therefore to be rejected by an Helmontian, who is throughly acquainted with his own Manufacture of Remedies.  
12. Issues may be connived at in some, sith they rid in part some superfluity of crude Blood, which in ●very Lunar Revolution is prone to be generated through divers extrinsical and intrinsecal occasions: however they do but palliate or play the Parasite with a Disease, Eliquating or draining the Rivulets or Pro●d●cts, not touching the Fountain of a Disease.  
13. Vesica●or●es or Blistering by Cantharideses or the like Poisonous Materials, are to be rejected; for they cause an indignation in the Archaeus, whereby the good Juices ar● melted into a sharp Ichor or Tabum; the O●conomie of the Body put into a disorder, the cons●quents whereof are a great pain, inqui●tude● watching, and sometimes a stopping of the Urines ● therefore if a prosperous event b● attributed to these virulent Epistpasticks, it is a mee● Accident, and mistake of the Cau●e.  
14. I positively assert, and can prove, that the Dogmatists are ignorant in aetiology, Prognostication, and Therapie of Diseases, i. e. they are totally out of the way in the Cure of Man.  
15. If any desire to attain to be very excellent in the Therapeutic he must often take into his own body his new-minted Medicines, that thereby he may be expressly acquainted with their Operations, approving or disproving them as his own Stomach informs him●●or thus he shall express his tender affection he hath for his Patient's ● and arrive at the knowledge of greater Arcana than his Patients by themselves will ever direct him to. He that will not run the hazard of this, or cannot, ought to deplume his high thoughts, and demean himself the more humbly, observing his Station and Class, forbearing to carp enviously at another on whom this gift is bestowed.  
16. The Method of Curing which the Galenists have used above these ●ixteen hundred years, is most tedious and protracting; contrary to the Original of the word in the best sense; but in the worse, it is an absolute Imposture.  
17. The upright Philosophical Chemical way of Healing, is performed knowingly, manifestly, speedily, securely, pleasantly, and effectually.  
18. A sincere Artist always carries about him Polyacaea's, or Remedies of an ample endowment, which upon emergent occasions he forthwith exhibits to any suddenly surprised with sickness; or afflicted with violent Paroxysmes, refreshing the Patient long before an incongruous, invalid connexion of some pitiful stuff can be prescribed, made up by the Apothecary, & sent.  
19 He that cures Diseases by Contraries, takes a clean contrary way to cure them: so for that Reason to give Cooling things in a high Feav●r, as small Beer-Posset-drink● Barleywater, ●lat, dull juleps, is the direct way to cool the sick person into the Grave.  
20. The genuine means to stop all spontaneous excessive Evacuations, is by the ablation of the Cause, not by forcibly keeping in, or constraining its ill effects● fruits, or products; which is commonly acted by Cicatrizers, those that skin over Sores, being rotten at the bottom.  
21. Many long Diseases have in them a peculiar Poison as Scorbute, Lues Ven. closely couched in the Body, which depraves the Natural Ferments, and conspurcates the Latex; which Venom if it be not destroyed, the Ferments reduced to their integrity, and the Latex purified and sweetened, all the pumping, purging, and draining of Excrements is in vain.  
22. In the oblation of Medicines, singular care is to be had that Injury b● not offered to the Stomach ● for this N●ble part having an influence upon the whole Body, as it doth relish and accept of what is ingested; so favourably communicates the virtue of the same in●o all parts with a Passport or Impre●●, that it is efficacious to assist Nature, and resist the Disease: neither is it to be valued whether the Palate disgust it, abhorring it as too Hot, inflaming, strong, seemingly bli●tering● fretting, or corroding, as the Galenists (whose sensual judgements in Chemical Matters are as much vitiated, as their Patients tastes in Fevers) have falsely censured my Stomachical Essence, whose Virtues are faithfully described in Haematiasis; I say, it signifies nought what the trayteterous Palate suggests, supposed the Stomach ●mbraces it as a real Friend.  
23. Sale & Sole nihil utilius in Medicina, i. e. of Salt and Mineral Sulphurs are made the best Remedies both for preservation and sanation: Now that aught to be brought to a volatility adaequant with the Vital Spirits, with which it is strait Identified. This must be tightly purified and exalted, that it may illuminate and indulge the Animals with their comfortable Rays,  
24. Tho●e Medicines of nice Limits and narrow Latitude in th●ir dose may justly be suspected, which the Author o● th●m d●re not give in double, tr●b●e, quadruple, quintuple; y●a, sometimes a decuple Quantity with benefit: for I usually ae●timate that general curiosity of ponderating Mixtures to be an Argument that they are neither safe nor sufficient.  
25. When a Physician insists in long Diseases too busily upon Culinary preparations, and a very strict Diet● it plainly discovers such an one his weakness in the Art of Healing; for certainly that means will never conquer any great M●lady, which cannot dispense with petty ab●rrations in Drinking or Eating some food, ●●ough not to be praised comparatively, y●t earnestly desired of th● Stomach, still supposing the ferments of the Stomach be not extremely deficient, and Moderation rule the Roast.  
26. In all Malignant Fevers, I disallow of any Fl●sh, solid food, broth, Jellies, sm●ll B●er, Posset-drink made with fla● Liquors, Barleywater, etc. but I highly comm●nd good spirituous Liquors, well-brewed s●rong Beer and Al●, t●e best Spanish or French wine: th● Reason is plain● for th● former Cadaverate, turn into a putriligon●us stinking febrile matter, not easily to be discharged, subverting the Stomach more and more, whereby a double injury is offered to it from within and without. The later, i. e. strong Liquour, corrobor●tes this Noble Membrane, invigorates the Vital Spirits, whereby they are enabled to oppugn the Dis●ase, and to expedite the procuring Cause thereon through all convenient passages, no considerab●● clog of such a potable being left behind. Neither let any one be deferred from such Liquors, supposing th●y are too H●t, for this is b●t a Galenical childish Bugbear Opinion, suitable to the rest of their pernicious Doctrine, which I have elsewhere sufficiently re●uted.  
27. That Physician which is a Philosophical Operator cannot but attain great knowledge in Chirurgery, yea, and in difficult cases do that in reference to ●●stula's, Cancers, Herpes, Esthiomenes, Phagaedaenick and Cacoethick Sores, which no mere Chirurgeon in England shall perform.  
28. He that desires to keep himself in health, let him endeavour by all means so to volatilize and ratify his Blood, that it may be continually carried off sensibly or insensibly without any Caput-Mort, or foeculence left behind. To this purpose good Air, and well regulated Diet to exceedingly conduce.  
29. An Acide matter, the Evident Instrument of Digestion, is only proper to the Stomach; from which if it deviate, lodging in undecent places, multiplied and much perverted, than it becomes the irritating and fermenting cause of Fevers, and multitude of Calamities.  
30. The Philosophical Chemist dar● engage to cure a Pleurisy, judiciously, speedily, radically, and securely without fear of Relapse, a Succession o● other Calamities of a frequent incidence into the same Disease to which any one was formerly p●one; which I deny any Galenist in England can undertake and consummate Providently and experimentally.  
Let Hen. Stubbe and all his Confederates join their heads together in Opposition to these Practical Epilogisms or Annotations ●stablished Experimentally: but I shall urge them to oppose me according to equal Terms, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, i. e. to make the contrary of what I have here asserted appear so according to sound Reason, Operation, Judgement, and Experiment; otherwise I shall still conclude, as they have hitherto behaved themselves, that they still continue a company of Equivocators, Rixators, Sophisters, and Impostors in their Faculty: neither do I value it a rush that they are Helluones Librorum, reputed great Scholars, Travellers, complete Gentlemen; for these endowments, very commendable of themselves, pertain nothing to the Controversy in hand. All that I expostulate with them is this, that their Method of Curing is false; that thousands of Orphans and Widows are hereby made; that the thread of Prince's lives is often untimely cut off, under pretence of th●ir Learned, but false Documents; which they are resolved still to follow, so long as Gain, Ease, and Honour lead the Van.  
For this Reason they hate Ciniflo's, as they have abusively termed them, who labour to get noble Remedies for the preservation of Man; because it is against their COMMON INTEREST, which Hen. Stubbe hopes they will consult, it matters not for the Interest of the Commons: if so, I conceive the Advice in Campan. pag. 21. (most unjustly vilely given by this Miso-Chymist H. Stubbs) against the R. S. may lawfully be put in Execution against the Aristotelian Galenical Company: That it behoved all men to combine against them, the tendency of whose designs were so fatal and Malignant. All things considered, let any one capable judge who deserves to be opposed and combined against for their fatal and Malignant Designs, either the actually intelligent Virtuosos of the Royal Society, the Thomsons, or the Opinionative Galenists, Pseudo-Chymists of a College little significant as to Vital Benefit, and the Stubbs. Those are charged with scandalous, false, malicious, undeserving defamations, which can no ways be made good.  
To these nothing here Criminal is objected, but what I'll undertake to verify by frequent apparent Practic●, backed with solid Reasons: the one is accused as nocent ●pon frivolous jealousies and Suspicions; the other offered to be ●ound culpable upon Evidence and Demonstration. You bitterly inveigh against th● Royal S●ciety, as Insolent, Impertinent, Fools, C●xcombs● Iacendiaries● Plagiaries, poor Devils, Dete●●●ble, Ignorant, Unfaithful, guilty of Errors, and Chea●s, and all this is Gratis Dictum, without bringing things ●qually to t●st, by summoning in a Legal manner honesty Witness to prov● the Charge. What you hav● declared in an opprobrious style against the true Disciples of the Lord B●con, I protest as merely feigned without just cause, and am r●ady if occasion ●e●ve, to certify from facts and Ocular Testimonies, that those unhandsome Epithets and Obloquys may be better appropriated to yourself, or any Confederates who wi●● second you as their Champion. And sith sithso● as I ●ave vindicated the Lord Bacon and myself from your vilifying Language by Arguments sufficient to convince any upright knowing person; so I must come hom● to you, resolved never to desist till you and I put an ●nd to these Physical Controversies by active En●●rpris●s● and legitimate Experiments, obvious ●o be apprehended by any meanly Judicious. For otherwise we may both scribble and pr●●● till Doomsday; yea, sco●●d like Billingsgate women without any solid satisfaction or happy conclusion on 〈◊〉 side, if we do not, laying aside Animosity and inordinate Passions, come to the Touchstone of A●ting: 'Tis Works, not Words; Things, not Thin●ing; Pyr●technie, not philology; Operation ● no● m●●rly Speculation, must justify us Physicians●●o●b●●r ●h●n hereafter to be so wrongfully Satirical against our Noble Experimentators, who questionless are entered into the right way of detecting the Truth of things. Repress your scurrilous Terms against able Practitioners; wave your threats of attaching Medela Medicinae and Mainwaring, Authors, who deserve Titular Honour above yourself, although your Malignant Tongue dare call the former expressly Quack-salver, and the other so implicitly. If Learning, Philochymie, and ten years practical Exercise, which the Author of M. Med. can plead for, be not sufficient to make a man deserve a better Title than a Quack-s●lver; I pray then what meritorious Dignity can you, or the Collegiates assume to yourselves? I confess I did reprove him sharply in Loimotomia for his male-practice in that particular, not undeservedly: yet I wish your Miso-Chymical Brethren were but half so Guilty in the general in their Medical deportments, as it relates to the Life o● Man. As for Doctor Mainwairing, you deserve severely to be corrected for your poor mean regard of him, having passed through his Degre●s ex condigno, and highly to be praised in that he left your pernicious Method in the Infancy of his Practice many years since; continuing a great Defender of Spagyrical Truth against all your Aristotelian Opponents. I apprehend Doctor Mainwaring able to stand in Defiance against the attach of your Pen, having his Bail in readiness, or any Undertaking of yours to oppose him. And I hope he is so far from being induced to Retract any thing of Verity, that h● scorns to Apostati●e in the least.  
It is the unhappiness of this Noble Science of Chemistry to want a competent number of Learned Patrons to assert their Medical salutiferous Positions. For the pa●city of such gives no small Advantage to you still to keep up your destructive tract of Curing. Had it pleased the Omnipotent to have spared the life of that acute Pyrotechnical Philosopher Doctor Starkey, to whom England is infinitely beholden for his candid communication of Arcana's; yet was his good Genius a little too open to some such supplanters of the Art as yourself. Likewise had Doctor Dey survived the Pest, I rest assured we had so incontinently clawed away, and so closely pursued the Discovery of your Aristotelian, Galenical, and Galeno-Chymical Quirks, Juggles● and Tricks, that he must have been forced ere this to have laid down the Cudgels, cried for Quarter, humbly invited us into the College (as you formerly did Doctor Starkey) placing us above the Honorarii (without paying a sum of Money) silence only requested, and ●hat on Condition you would engage to comply with us in all things. However, let the state of affairs be never so cross, I am fully decreed for my part to extend all my Nerves, Membranes, and Fibres for the Vindication of those Physical Verities, which all the Powers of Darkness are not able to destroy. Neither doubt I, but I shall upon the account of this learned Conte●t, receive aid and supply from some Learned Men, who have openly declaimed against the fraudulent and truculent Designs of a Company of Selfseeking, Lazy, Tyrannical, Usurping, Erroneous Dogmatical Semi-Chymists: yea, I question not but some brave Philanders and Philalethean Spirits, (who as yet live obscure) will, if occasion serve, manifest their zeal for the subversion of these intolerable Miso-Chymist. Neither is there any fear that the Concernments of the Church of England, the two Universities, and all Artisans, as Hen. St. intimates, will hereby be damnified. For I look upo● 〈◊〉 presumptuously Ignorant Aristotelian Physicians who have these many hundreds of year's been passively guilty of the Blood of Myriad, through a supine subscription to their Master's Ordinances and Decrees without Experimental scrutiny into the same; and still persevere to be super-J●daically obstinate, in not retracting their transverse Essential Crimes in practice, respecting the very Life and Soul of Man; when ●air practical Demonstrations and evident Facts have been tendered to confute them. I say, I am fully persuaded, th●se desperately resolved Anthropoctoni are very scandalous to the Church of England, Men of Religion and good manners. For this Reason (the rest of their Moral Actions being suitable to their Physical Tenants, they are generally reputed no better than Atheists, whereby the most horrid evil example of these Learned Superiors do infinitely debauch and corrupt the manners of the people. Moreover, I affirm, being taught by multitude o● Observations, that these Dogmatical Galenists●, s●me whereof do now pretend to Chemistry, yet do persecute it with Vatinian hatred, which is a Paradox, have been no small cause that the Morality of a great part of the English comes much short of the Goodness of the Turks; and that we are more prone to diversity of Opinions in Religion than formerly, because they have exercised such frequent Sanguimissions, and putrified the good Juices by their deletery Purgations, since the Scurvy, Venereal Plague, small Pox, Meazels, and many malignant Fevers have reigned among us; for by this means the Vital Spirits being exhausted, the Tone of the Stomach enervated, the Ferments depraved, Indigestion increased, a Disparity in the strength of parts introduced, the foresaid Diseases get strength, becoming more difficult to cure, and a multitude of Calamities of Body and Mind hatched up; so that poor Mortals and their Posterity suffer a double mischief from the M●lady, and the pretended Remedy. Hereupon the Organs or Instruments of the Soul being thus spoiled and deprived of their Genuine use, 'tis impossible that regular Actions should be executed: thence the mind possessed with Melancholy, black, discontented thoughts, uncapable to receive truth, becomes froward, peevish, careless of virtuous Actions, desperately bend to follow for divertisement, a voluptuous sensual life, or to contrive Innovations, Heresies, Schisms, and factious Rebellions, and what not?  
All things rightly weighed, my Prospect plainly discovers the Nation wants good store of true Philosophical Physicians to purify the Blood, to invigorate the Archaeus, to corrobate the Stomach: then that exorbitancy in Religion and evil Manners, which an Indirect Method of Curing hath brought upon us, might sooner be rectified. For this Hen. St. is quite mistaken in his thoughts, that a Society of Experimentators should at all debauch the world, sith they can best detect the Fountain of those enormous evils which have been perpetrated in Church and State, through the misapprehension of crazy Brains, and dislocated fancies; which these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the I●trick Science have procured, by overthronging the sound constitution of Blood and Spirits, never to be reformed but by those Adepti, or the true Sons of Helmont.  
Neither are the two Universities like to be impaired in their splendour by this most satisfactory way of enquiring into the Cause of Natural things, unless they endeavour to k●ep us still hoodwinked, & by Paralogisms, subtle Arguments, deceitful Sophistry to dispute us out of Truth, persuading us out of our Senses; proceeding to in●use and season tender youth, easily to be seduced, with destructive Principles; which being radicated in them by Custom, Education, and Authority, are very difficultly afterwards unlearnt. In this case they may ●hank themselves if Omnipotent Veri●y Eclipse them. Assuredly thus much may be feared, if they do not cast out their Aristotelian Sophisms and Fallacies, and seasonably entertain the Helmontian most veriloquous Authentic Philosophy, that Tiro's or Novices may be better instructed and initiated in the fundamental Elements of physiology, that they may to a purpose improve th●ir Studies for the preservation of miserable Man. Some will scruple to send their Sons to the Academies so erroneously to be disciplined; whereas after they have acquired some co●petent knowledge of the Latin and Greek in the common Schools, they will think it better by far to k●●p them at home to the Reading of Helmont and some other sound Author, who can teach them Re●l Entities, not suffering th●m to spend their precious time about many useless Appearances which Univ●rsiti●s may put them upon. However, for my part, I shall n●v●r be wanting to keep up that high Repute and honourable Regard due to Universities, so ●ar as solid active truth will permit; and further (I hope) no Intelligent man will urge me.  
Lastly, How Artisans can any way suffer a detriment by the Genuine Disciples of the Lord Bacon, I do not at all understand, certainly they must rather be much advanced in their Mechanics, when many Technical Discoveries shall be made apparent or hinted to them, whereby the most ingenious will be highly pleased to see some Daedalian Artificer brought to light: for, Ars habet neminem inimicu● praeter ignorantem; neither need they question, bu● the more curious the Inventions are, and of greatest Novelty, the more Lucriferous they will be: Quaev●● Terra alit Artificem; the Handicraft shall reap the fruit of their Labours, which refined Wits will communicate, being not born to make a Trade thereof themselves for Lucre.  
Indeed I confess the College of Physicians are like to go by the Lee, as long as Pyrasticks flourish, because they will not bear a Chemical Test; therefore they find it best to acquiesce in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, slighting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. They are persuaded Experimentally the old way is the best, to sit in their Chair disputing, scribbling Medicines, while others are making them; this suits best with their Ease, Riches, and Grandeur● Away, say they, with these new-fangled-Devices of Questioning by Fact such famous men as we are; whether we kill or Cure; why we Bleed and Purge: 'tis enough we have tried again and again, it will bring in a Fee secundum Artem. But let me tell these Antipirasticks, 'tis a Black Art brought in by an evil Angel, which must ere long, do what they can, return to the place from whence it came: 'tis no wonder if many of those unsound, seemingly expert Dogmatists, who at first were compelled for their Credit-sake to mix themselves with the soundest of the Lord Bacon's Disciples, do now grow cold and indifferent whether they hold on, being conscious to themselves they are not Chemical proof. I wish heartily the Royal Society were totally rid of them; then perhaps the most truly virtuous Legitimate Sons of our Noble Philosopher would listen to those most essentially fructiferous Experiments of mine against the Misochymists or Pseudo-Chymists Method of Bleeding and Purging: then I should hope the voice of Haematiasis would be heard, and Doctor Willis should either be forced to answer me Logically and Practically, or his mouth for ever stopped from subtly pleading, and his Hands bound from wily writing in the behalf of such a lethiferous Operation as Phlebotomy, which according to the matter stated by me, I am ready by Works to testify before their faces, (without any nice, curious Optics to behold them) how it damnifies the Life of Man, either sensibly or insensibly, for the present or the Future. I do not a little admire that those who own themselves followers of our Noble Arch-Explorator, should be so backward in promoting this Experiment of Anti-Phlebotomy, of general benefit to Mankind, tending to the intimate, solid, profound Cure of Griefs: which Essay if seriously considered, and closely followed, is of such substantial use and excellent validity for the Melioration of Body and Soul, our Divinity and Morality, that I dare positively affirm it may truly be said to super-ponderate a thousand of affected, delicate Micrologies, or Periergies. He that puts his hand to the plough, ought not to look back, out of sinister respects of fear, or overtender kindness to any party interested therein; but to proceed in matters of greatest moment in Nature, with a Generous, Magnanimous Resolution, to indulge and assert the Truth fervently wheresoever it resides; although it should disoblige never so many Universities and Dogmatical Colleges of Physicians. I have reason to be persuaded that the Great Conditor of all things hath justly suffered this Hen. Stubbe to rail at you, to sugillate and sharply apprehend your more inconsiderable Experiments, because ye have been hitherto so cold in the pursuit of that practical Verity urged by me, so material, of such high Concernment, to wit, that the Galenical Bleeding is destructive to Nature, which I have offered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, to indicate ab Acts & Agendis, from what I have, or ●in achieve judiciously: It was unhappy ye ever entertained any Galenist or Pseudochymist into your Society; for I doubt not they have been the greatest Remora●s to the beginning and progress of your better intended Designs, without Prosopolepsie, mutually curing one the other, or sordid partiality. Assuredly it was never the main scope of that Illustrious Person who gave you the Prototype, that puny matters in Physic, which ought to be inquired into Parergôs at more leisurely Opportunities, should take place of Grand weighty Emoluments, for the safety of Humane Life; without the enjoyment of which, all rare Inventions and Discoveries● signify but little as to make a man happy. Imitate therefore the footsteps of your knowing Lord, who hath set you a copy instant in the detection of the Nature of the Sweating-Sickness, how we may acquire an infallible Diagnôs●s of the Materi●l, Efficient, and intrinsical Caus●s of all Disease's; that upon these Fundamental Notions, Physicians may directly and adequately begin and consummate their Cures: then will all pious, honesty ingenious, truehearted Philo-Chymists applaud you, and forthwith join with us for the proscription and abolition of this debilitating ●anguimission: colliquating delet●ry cathartics, their poor incongruous Cordials, and droslie mixtures. But if you sti●l postergate and procrastinate to endeavour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this most necessary Reformation of this pernicious practice of th● Galenists, for some peculiar interest of some reserved by-ends, you will give advantage to the Wellwishers of your Enterprises to suspect what Hen. St. intimates, That your Experimental Philosophy was never well modelled, discreetly managed● nor Questions of greatest concern rightly stated: yea, the most perspicacious will be re●dy to say, you deviate and degenerate from the intent and will of your Experimental Testator, who doubtless in his Essays h●d a charitable end in his ●ye, principally the relief of Distressed, sickly Mortals; then to Cure whom faithfully and properly nothing can b● more satisfactory and Divine. When y● have once established this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, by a congruous, commodious, judicious, speedy, sa●e, and ●ff●ctual Method suggested to you an●optical●y, that a man may be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his days exhi●era●ed and prolongated; Tum vacat exigü●s, than you may expatiate yourselves in the acq● i●tio● of the Experimental knowledge or those pertinents, Adjuncts, Accidents, extraneous Helps w●ich may conduce to the addition and advancement of his present Happiness of Health● Wherefore I conjure you as you are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if ye have any reverence of a Deity, believe your Souls Immortal, Honour his Majesty, seek aft●r Truth sincerely ● have any Bowels of compassion for your Country and Neighbour, bear any Cordial respect for your dictator: If you desire to prosper in all your und●rt●●ings● and in conclusion to receive a sweet Reward, as the ●ruit of a●l your Labours; Stand up then as it becomes Royal Zealots for the truth, virtuous indeed; behold with an indifferent Eye those Experimental Demonstrations I can produce against Phlebotomy and other indirect Courses of the Misochymists, and Pseudo-Chymists: listen not to those that halt between two Opinions, Lukewarm Physicians, Semi-Chymists intermingled with you, who strive if it be possible to divert you from being Spectators of those Instances and Operations which will force you to acknowledge that the means used of Healing is on the one side to be censured impostorious, and insufficient; and on the other to be approved upright, honest, judicious, effectual and Lawful.  
For the final decision of our Hypostatical Controversies in Physic, I shall try to the utmost whether Hen. St. hath any spark of true Religion in him as he pretends; whether he will make his Faith appear by his works of charity and humility; by declaring he thinketh not scorn to learn that his weak Brother may b● restored and confirmed in sanity.  
For this end I shall earnestly charge him to accept of those several equal Experimental Exercitations proposed in Galeno-pale and Hoemati: and if he scruple to accept, or cavil against those as unreasonable Trials put upon them, as he alleges in Campan. 22. let him offer to me any other, which just persons shall allow of as Reasonable and determinable by Facts; I shall forthwith entertain them, though it be with disadvantage on my side: yea, I will give great allowance to the Opponent for his encouragement, rather than such an eminent Enterprise (wherein th● lives of Princes, Nobles, and Plebeians are concerned) should fall to the ground. Let an equal division 〈◊〉 the miserable sick people of the Hospitals be made; the Phlebotomist shall have the privilege to take his choice of one partition which he pleaseth, leaving the other to me; let him exert his Method of Curing what possible, I shall do the like as to mine● then will it plainly appear upon repeated Explorations and Essays by w●y of this Mysocomie, who in right deserves the Title of Empiricke in a good or bad sense; that is, who kills, and who cures Experimentally, or on whom the opprobrious name of a Quack-salver may be more fitly ●astned, i. e. one who doth little else but scribble, prate, vaunt, and Quack, but seldom doth, unless by Accident (as many good women) exhibit any proper Salve for the Radical Cure of any dangerous malignant Sore. Hereby it will be made manifest who is the Agyrta, ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, one, which juggles and cousin's their silly credulous patients of their lives and Money, or ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, one who lures the people together into a Theatre by a pretty plausible Knack, thereby to get applause and practice.  
Moreover, I shall proceed, and plainly show Hen. S. or any of his Fraternity, that B●eeding according to the premises tends to the ruinating of Man's Health, Prosperity and Life; that I dare oppignorate or oppose twenty to ten of a large sum of Money, to cu●● without Bleeding a Pleurisy intrinsically to ●he 〈◊〉 in the space of twelve hours, with confidence that the party shall not fear to fall into a Relapse, any long debility, or have a proclivity as before, to be trou●l●● with a calamity of the same Species. I shall also demonstrate to him the vast difference between Chemical and Galenical, or Pseudochymical Cordials, Alexiteries, preservatives and restauratives of the Vitals, Eustomachicks and Cacostomachicks; the effects of those purging Medicines which purify the Blood electively with Euphorie, manifest ensuing ease and strength and those which tabefie the wholesome Juices, carrying off good and bad promiscuously, leaving the Body often in a worse condition, more debilitated than b●fore. Besides, I shall discover how the best Remedies the Galenists or Pseudo-Chymists enjoy, are borrowed from the Protopeirie, or Infantile exercitations of Spagyricks; withal how ignorantly and unjustly they measure and censure the learned Experimental Philosopher, according to those mean preparations of the lowest Class, which they principally depend upon; how absurdly, presumptuously they arrogate to themselves the Name of Chemists, yet oppose, detract, and abuse the Legitimate Sons of Hermes; likewise continue Bleeding, Purging, Blist●rings, cutting holes impertinenently insignificantly and cruelly in man's skin, quite contrary to the Original rules and stable Axioms of our veriloquous Science.  
Lastly, I shall declare the immediate, Primary, Efficient cause of all Diseases, Judicious prediction of their progress, transition, termination, and their direct Medullary sanation, hath hitherto lain hid from the Aristotelian Dogmatists; & that they are either passively or actively most notoriously ignorant herein. If 〈◊〉. St. pretends these matters of so great moment proffered to be demonstrated upon a penalty to be unreasonable Trials and Impertinencies suggested to them, I must urge him to tell me without the least Collusion or subterfuge, what may be termed a Rational Experiment which may come more home to the purpose. Assuredly I will kiss his hand if he will teach me better things actually; otherwise his importunate garrulity will not at all prevail with me, or any well versed in the Optics of Pyrotechny, that we would retract those Animadversions arising from our Senses (the organ, Medium, & object being duly modified) or that we should look upon our Medicaments as delusory, which have so many years upon thousands of Subjects proved so faithful: No certainly, it behoves those Guessers in Physic, whose Tongues consult not with the Intellect, regulated by the effects of their Hand, who are by Custom addicted to prescribe and subscribe right or wrong to the Delusion of infinit● numbers; such I aver aught to renounce, detest, abhor and retract th●ir former Delusory ways. To which if now they should at length 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, (hardly otherwise) condescend; there is no man in the world (would be) more ready than myself to promote them as to jatrical Verities for the succo●● of miserable Mortals. I confess it is to be lamented that some of excellent parts, rare endowments in o●ther things, should be thus deficient in t●● main 〈◊〉 salutiferous knowledge of what they profess. It 〈◊〉 a shame for any to be a Bungler and inexpert in a Tr●de or Mechanical Occupation he takes upon him, although perhaps he may boast to be endued with many brave Accompli●hments besides. How much more doth he eclipse and depreciate his Worth in other enterprises, who makes it a colour and a cloak to cover his gross inexperience in that Faculty which Princes have esteemed an Honour to own? and wer● not this a wilful Amathie, a perverse, stiff-necked ●gnorance it were in some measure to be connived or excuse: Ignorare malum est, sed pejus nolle Doceri.  
'Tis this which aggravates their Crime 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 making them uncapable of the least Apology, in that they m●y and will no● learn better things: they ar● inwardly persuaded with her in Plautus, Quae lo●ueris vera sunt, sed ignavia Avariti●, Libido, & Superbia cogunt sequi Pejora. They are as it were led Captive like so many slaves by their Lust and bewitching sensualities, that they choose spontaneously to make themselves Blind lest they should behold Experimental Truths; thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, they follow each other like to like with sweet content. Et mulus mulum scabit; soothe up one another in their resolved pleasing folly, not caring qua e●ndum, sed quâ itum ●st; what may now be learned in verity, but what hath been taught them by Antiquity. Well, 
Rode caper vitem, tamen hinc tu stabis ad Aras.   
There may come a day of reckoning which will pay for all. If you still persevere so refractory, either ●ot to be Ocular witnesses of that direct Chemical method of Curing, which may be represented to your Senses, or not to assign to our Rational Philosophical Aspersions ●gainst Phlebotomy; We shall Petition His Majesty that we may have right done us herein; that you may either be forced to admit of an Experimental Confutation, or to make an ingenious Confession and Recantation of your most dangerous Errors in Physick● and I hope His Majesty will be so soon pleased to listen to one who hath been a great Sufferer for that Incomparable Prince his Father, and studi●s the preservation and prolongation of his own Regal Life; as to those who formerly stood Neuters, to the effusion of Monarchical Blood; indifferent who was Victorious, supposed they might but keep up the Credit of their pernicious practice.   

Postscript.  
AFter a tedious delay of getting my Papers printed, I had no sooner corrected two Sheets, but there came to my view a Reply made by Doctor Merret to the Postscript of H. Stubbs, showing his many falsities in matter of Fact. Now this Fact being the Basis or Bottom on which true Chemical Philosophy is built, I greedily fell to reading it, expecting great matters● but Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus; instead thereof I found a great deal of wrangling against a Wrangler, but little delivered for the betterment of Man's Health and Life. It was my hopes once that this Declaimer against the Frauds and Abuses committed by Apothecaries, pretending that to be a Reason why he deserts them, would have become absolutely reform himself, made his public Recantation with contrition of Soul; abominated his former Actions with dejection of Spirit, that he should thus be bewitched to continue in so fraudulent a way for so many years contrary to the dictates of his own Reason, the secret checks of his own Conscience, the debasement and demolition of the Noble Science of Physic; to the overthrow and bane of thousands of Lives; sed quanta de spe deoidi, this Dr. Merret is not the man I took him for; for I perceive he is still led by Interest and Secular Respects; and so blinded with Honours, Rights, Privileges, Statutes and Votes of his Society, that he is no more able to behold the Truth with an intent sincere prospect, for the preservation o● miserable Man, than weak ●yes are able fixedly to behold the Sun in a clear day: I am a●raid it may be said of him, Qui semel est, semper sumitur esse ma●us.  
This supposed Reformer o● the Method of Physic thinks it enough to have lashed the Apothecaries to have proclaimed ●heir abuses to the World, as if this w●re enough to expiate his Crime, and the rest of his Ma●e-practical Br●thr●n● endeavouring to make ●ome silly people believe that they had not be●n chi●● Actors of those odious Misdemeanours: th●s he thinks to come off fairly, wiping his mouth w●●h t●e W●or● in th● Proverbs, saying, What have I done? laying all the fault and miscarriage in their Art upon their procured Servants: w●en in real truth, as Di●genes ●●r●ck the Father when the Son swore, ●●cause ●e taught him no better; So ought Doctor M●rret and all those Galenical, Pseudo-Chymistical Copartners of his, to do penance for making a ●rade of Man● Life, for perpetuating th●s long a fallacious, and no less pernicious mode or form of practice, never brought to light un●●l of late years, expressly to be condemned in itself. For I openly repeat, that 'tis impossible for any man to discharge his Duty in his Function aright, who makes not his own Medicines with his own finger's; yea, he ought also (if he can) to take them often into his own Body. Of this I ●hal hereafter speak more at large, if God spare my life, to put ●orth practical Observations in Latin, that the world may the better understand the verity of these things.  
Obsequium Amicos veritas odium parit.  
I took Mr. Stubbe for one of the greatest Enemies of Physical Truth but now I am persuaded you outvie him according to your own Confession, as appears by the words, pag. 11. of the Reply: I have acted also many y●ars together, for what he hopes ●or. In pag. 21. That Physicians would consider their Common Interest in opposition to the Thomsons.  
Now have I good grounds to believe that such a s●y stickler as yourself for the Good Old Cause, might be the Father of that Spurious Brat Agyrto-M●stix, which johnson your Pseudochymist did own, and publish against me, ●ull of Scur●ilities and falsities. I wonder with what face you can declare yourself a Chemist, an Experimentator, one of the Lord Bacon's Disciples, and thus oppose me so scornfully and unfaithfully; either you yourself giving me (less deserving than any of your College) this term of a Mountebank, Empirick, etc. or countenancing, ab●tting, wilfully conniving at, and encouraging any one who shall fasten such dirty Language upon me. It is impossible that you should be a candid Spagyrical Philosopher, and hate the ways of direct Healing, which I'll engage to indicate to you. Can you be one of the Legitimate Offspring of the Lord Bacon, and thus incontinently persist to let out the Vital Blood, d●p●●ving the Pati●nt of his strength, which alone can cure him? also magnifying Doctor Wil●is, against whose destructive Course of Sanguimission I have written; offering to make good the Ration thereof by Operation and Demonstration: for all this Petrus dormit securus, ye rest yourselves satisfied, soothing one another up in the delusory Event and favour of Great Ones, on whom ye impose by your Authority of Learning, most notorious untruths, to the loss of the lives of the most Illustrious in the Nation.  
Ye fraudulently and craftily make the World believe you slight or scorn to answer me, but re vera, you are not able to make any solid veridical Reply, that may be satisfactory to any sober, upright, scrupulous Inquirer into the Reason and Effects of Phlebotomy. You say in p. 31 of the Reply, Physicians daily do, and lawfully may speak in general, that such a man was killed by such an Apothecary by not letting him Blood. But I will prove it by Fact, that such a Physician wrongs the Apothecary, and unlawfully charges him with Homicide for omitting that which you putting in execution make yourselves guilty. Wherefore i● the Magistrate would be pleased to understand the sad products of this Bleed●ng, ye ought according to Law, if ye obstinately go on in your lethiferous courses, to be dis-enfranchised, & in stead of a superficial Phlebo●omical company of unlawful destroyer's of Mankind, a substantial, Philosophical, justly Chemical Society to be advanced. And it had ere this been brought to pass, had not some cra●ty Prevaricators belonging to you, and scandalous illiterate fellows intruding themselves among us, betrayed that enterprise; which I believe a Learned Helmon●ian Spagyrist will in despite of all your underground dealings attain, and make evident the Thomsons which you zealously and knowingly oppose (which heightens your iniquity) are able in their Art to do more than all the Merits in Europe. Neither do they fear your prosecution (as you proudly relate) although out of superlative malice you implicitly rank me among the Odowds and Triggs, the last whereof I have reason to believe did more positive good in one Month (for I desire to give the devil his due) than you and all your Phlebotomical fellows did in a whole year. Moreover, the Thomsons deride your boasting in Compounding Medicaments better than the whole Company of Apothecaries; sith you are very ignorant of the Ar●ana of Paracelsus & Helmont, as is manifest by your Actions; otherwise you are a most notorious counterfeit. As for your METHOD, which you say you understand; I am ready to make it appear tedious and impostorious, therefore not to be insisted upon. Touching the stating a Case in your Science, I know you are very expert therein, being a cunning Sophisters but we must tell you, your Fundamentals are rotten, and in this Case, uno absurdo dato, mille consequuntur. As for your Degrees and admission into the College twenty years ago; also their choosing you Censor to read public Anatomy with applause, are nothing significant, unless you w●re more sound in the Philosophical Principles, and could arrive to the degree of Curing without Bleeding, which is absolutely inconsistent with a Physician throughly acquainted with his Art. Now because you and your Copartners glory in the knowledge of Anatomy, I would that Ingenious men take noiice that I have Reason to speak something for myself, being as well versed therein as most of you; yea, I have performed one of the most remarkable Operations in Europe, i. e. Splenotomy: the complete Experiment of cutting the Spleen out of a Dog, whose life afterward was prolonged to above two years; then losing it by accident. Having accomplished this Anatomical Manufacture, I addressed myself to Doctor Harvey, who was exceedingly a●fected with the novelty of the Experiment; I also communicated the manner of the Dissection and Accidents coming upon it to a noted vapouring Anatomist among you, who at first admiring and commending the fact, putting me to the trouble to bring the Dog up to London, ploughed in the interim with my H●ifer, congregating some of the Surgeons (who, as I was told, would have laid an hundred pounds it could not be done) and working according to my directions, made an exection of the Spleen; so that before I returned to London (about a Month after the Relation) a Dog called Asplenos was running up and down his house. The Marquis of Dorchester, who sent to me to meet him in Greys-Inn-Garden, that he might confer with me about the matter, can testify that I was the first who made this Experimental Dissection to a purpose. To confirm it the more, Squire Boyl offered to give (as Doctor Currer told me) five pounds for the Dog; but was forthwith taken off by your Splenetic emulation. Doctor Tern likewise requested me that he might enjoy the use of my Asplenical Dog, and the two Colic stones (which Doctor Harvey ●eheld with admiration, urging me to repose them in his new built Fabric, that he might expose them to public view in the Anatomical Theatre: which I granted, on condition he would do me right; but this design was quickly laid aside and quashed, after he had consulted with his Colleagues, lest I should get too much Credit and Practice by this Agyrtising mode. I hope all this is sufficient to prove that I was the first Author of this Splenotomical Transaction; although like a Company of unworthy Plagiaries ye have usurped the Honour and Repute of this rare Experiment, endeavouring to rob me thereof. Well, seeing you brag and vaunt, I know not why I should not be a little vain: 'twas one of these Thomsons which you so lightly set by, who Dissected a Pestilential Body, with strict Inspection and Observation, having written a Treatise thereof for present and future benefit, when such an Hectoring person as yourself, and most of your Sociates, like so many Cowards ran away in times of greatest necessity; for which you ought to be animadverted: yea, those that tarried had as good have been absent, they did their business so negligently for fashions' sake, without any truehearted zeal for their Country. Indeed this was no more than what I predicted in Galeno-pale: certainly these and many more circumstances considered, they who have any insight into the Intrinsecal worth of things, cannot but judge the Thomsons capable to merit as well, if not better than ou● pragmatical selfconceited Merrets, who make a great noise, but act little to Noble ends.  
I understand by your words pag. 39 that you are one of the great promoters and Indulgers of some Papers written 1664. It is likely you might have a finger in the Pie, for you are a busybody, and praecipitate to condemn & vilify all that cross your own Interest; so that I cannot think but you prompted the Author sometimes, as in pag. 32. where ye most scurrilously and vilely inveigh against Geber, Lul, Paracelsus, Helmont, those brave Souls, to whom you deserve not to be laborers. In those papers, like Momes and Zoils, ye carp and cavil at the terms of those Philosophers, which your un-intelligent Heads, and un-experienced Hands were never yet capable to apprehend. But what pitiful Stories are those, how shamelessly absurd are ye, to rail at and impeach those Philosophers, quarrelling about their Words, and yet refuse Experimental Explanations of their meaning by Facts oftentimes tendered to you by their Disciples.  
To contract all to a period, sith you have undertaken to oppose the Thomsons, the Thomsons are resolved to oppose you and all your adherents; neither do they value you a rush, supposed they may have fair play: as for your Gun-powder-plots and secret undermining to blow us up, we shall be as wary of you as possible. However, other magnanimous Philosophers will presently succeed us by virtue of the powerful Magic of Omnipotent Truth.  
Pretend not then this or that poor beggarly shift or excuse, but accept of (as you profess yourself an Experimentator) what one of the Thompson's hath proposed to Hen. St. or Doctor Willis; otherwise offer him any equal Experiments tending to the determination of our Physical Controversies, for the upright Radical Cure of Man. And doubt not but I will forthwith embrace them. In the mean time I shall study to debar your backbiting, undervaluing, close slanders, detraction, and debasement of my Medicines, without suffering me to show the Innocence and efficacy thereof, as one of your Galenical Colleagues, a sly cunning Gamester at winning and undervaluing whom he pleases, did very lately put in execution against my Stomachical Essence, whom I may in good time take to task; as likewise a spruce Finical Gentleman of yours, whose skull being fairly● adorned without, is stuffed full within with Italian Stories, applause of his Travels, with a noise of his great Patients, his Chemical Notions, how he breaks Glasses; yet I will maintain he is not able to consolidate a Cut-finger as he ought, although me thinks he should have some knowledge herein jure Haereditario.  
Besides this, I may have leisure to examine the Impertinencies, scommas, falsities, and malignities of C. T. his Papers, when I am fully satisfied who the Author is, for therein lies couched a notable Story.  
Lastly, one of these Thompson's will have at your juncto, that Conclave where most of the Mischief against poor Innocent Philosophical Chemists are hatched. I must now desist, although my finger's itch to make a further Discovery of your frauds and abuses in Physic. But be assured there are those who are resolved to vindicate Paracelsian and Helmontian Chemistry from your bespattering Invectives: yet I shall give this Advertisement to our Opposers, if they become Converts, rejecting this Sanguimission, so Hostile to the Welfare of our Lives, as I shall demonstrate, withal forbear for the future to abuse or vilify Helmont and his Genuine Disciples, we shall be ready to comply with them in all Heroic Enterprises: If otherwise, let them take what follows.  
From my House in Dukes-place nigh Aldgate.