Medicaster Medicatus, Or a Remedy for the ITCH OF SCRIBBLING.  
The First Part.  
Written by a Country Practitioner in a Letter to one of the Town, and by him prefaced, and published, for cure of John Brown; one of his late Majesty's Ordinary Surgeons, containing an account of that vain Plagiary, and Remarks on his several Writings.  
Wherein his many Thefts, Contradictions, Absurdities, Gross Errors, Ignorance, and Mistakes, are displayed, and divers Vulgar Errors in Chirurgery and Anatomy refuted.  
By James Young, Chirurgeon.  

Licenced  
Aug. 24th, 1685. Rob. Midgley.   
LONDON, Printed for Gabriel Kunholt, at the King's Head, at Charing Cross, over against the Muse: 1685.   

Ars non habet inimicos, praeter Ignorantes.  
A Rod for the Back of a Fool.  
IN every point of your Art, carry yourself wisely, unadvisedly to ERR therein, you will as readily be accounted amongst the number of FOOLS, of which sort of people I am afraid we have too many at this day in our Nation; Chirurgery is crept into acquaintance with such Strange Creatures, and owned in its profession by such mean spirits, among whom the name with the Art, is but small and little.  John Brown of Wounds, page 136. 
The truth is, such Ignorant Pretenders cures, may more properly be called corruptions, and their judgements, Ignorance plumed out, and set forth with the best advantage of impudence.  Idem ibidem, page 17.  

The Author's unavoidable absence's from the Press, may occasion som● Errors to pass uncorrected, which th● Reader is desired to amend with h●● Pen, as they occur to him.   

The Publishers Preface TO THE READER.  
Giving a brief account of Mr. B. and his three latter Books, of Glands, Struma's, and Muscles, together with an Apology for thus exposing them.  
THE Author of the following Animadversions, observing with great Regret, his Art abused, and its rules, and methods corruptly represented by the Impudent scribbling Medicasters' of the Age and Nation, whereby Tyroes and young men are traduced, and misled into ill Principles, and infected with erroneous Institutions; thought it his duty to take upon him, not only to expose the deceivers, but set things right, and rectify the abuses, in the same public manner they were made, and because none among the many blind guides, this age hath produced, seems so obnoxious, and proves so confident an imposer of false principles, or such a misguider of youth, into erroneous and defective methods of practice, as Mr Brown, he hath singled him out, as th● first example, and fittest subject for chastisement.  
Not provoked thereto by any partial cause, or biased by personal quarrel, for he doth solemnly aver, that he is utterly a stranger to the man, hath received no particular affront, or injury by him, that their abode, and places of business are very many Miles distant, that no competition, interference of practice, or other cause whatever, which makes men prejudiced, and quarrel, (except those of his Book,) hath incited his resentments; but for the sake of truth, the credit of his Art, the advantage of youth, and the refuting several vulgar errors revived or broached by him, and such other artless Writers he hath made it his province, to scourge them out of the Press.  
And if among other abuses he hath endeavoured to redress, he hath contributed any thing to the breaking that deceitful practice, of famous men's gild poisonous Books with imprimaturs, and staking their starling credit in vouch of base coin, and by prefixing their known names, set off, and make vendible rotten Books, he will account that he hath done the public good service, and baffled as great a cheat and imposture, as any the World endures, for such certainly is the humour of vouching at a venture, for the honesty and ingenuity of men, or Books, (which appear to be the present fashion,) whereby those of the greatest learning, and abilities, unawares contribute to the propagation of the most notorious follies, and errors, and such as they would disown, and be ashamed of, if they would but consider, and inspect before they praise. It's certainly a fatal compliment, and pernicious courtesy, to flatter fools into an opinion their works are complete, or publicly say of the most erroneous writings, what the best do not deserve.  
Even death gins to fear thy searching Art,  
Lest thou shouldst find a balm against his dart. 
T. W. his dog'rill comium, Preface Adenochoiradelogia.   
Is an hyporhole when said of any man, but amost extravagant clawing, when written (as it is) of one so wretchedly Ignorant, and erroneous, as the Author of Adenochoiradelogia.  
I am sorry and ashamed, men should be so regardless of their own credit, so negsgent in matters of public importance, so unjust to their friend, (if they are such whom they applaud,) and act ●o much like Mountebanks, by making large Encomiums, on notorious cheats, and praise to the People, what would mischief them if they use it.  
This is not said with any design to affront, but to reprove them, for that detestible custom, which sprang from a sort of People I am loath to name, and they would be ashamed to imitate, I beg pardon for having said thus much, it was necessary for me to remove the only thing that looks reputably in the writings of our imposture, and take off their varnish, the better to expose the rottenness it hides, were I sure they would excuse this just freedom, Mr. B. should be as certain of his Antagonists, of which however if he be very greedy, and desirous, undoubtedly his Encomiaster Mr. G G —y, by the help of the Stars, can inform him.  
Certainly this undertaking of my friend, though it be severe, is not ungenerous; It's every honest man's duty to be a Champion for truth, and rescue mankind from such mischievous errors, as those pernicious and anskilful institutions convey, for being like common Nuisances, the law alloweth every man a right to remove, and destroy them, at least to antidote such venomous positions, as being of daily use, may in tract of time destroy more lives, than disease, or battle. An error of this nature, is not like those in Geometry, Astronomy, or matters of mere speculation, wherein a man may err without hurt to himself, or others, but like poisoning of fountains, of infinite danger to the public, and therefore every good man's duty, and interest to suppress, and prevent from spreading.  
But althô I do approve, I could not presently prevail with myself, to be concerned in this undertaking, not that the man is any way terrible, but from an opinion I had, that it was as needless as its object was contemptible, his faults and follies, methought were so manifest, his thefts so obvious, his vaunts and pretences, so plainly precarious, that I could not think they would escape the observation, and censure of wisemen, and for others, I thought them too like him, to receive any impressions to his prejudice.  
I thought it also an unmanly quarrel, and a conquest that would deserve no glory, or triumph, to overcome a man unable to wield his sword, or manage his weapon; it's too much like killing a dead man, or a late Authors writing a Book, to confute a man he thought had no brains.  
Beside which, I was discouraged by the man himself, from being concerned in hi● refutation, by an observation he tell● us 
* Preface to his Book of Struma's.  he had ever made, that never yet any entered the lists with an Ignorant bugbear, but he lost much by the encounter. This perhaps was cunningly insinuated and (like a stumbling block,) laid in the way of Critics, to prevent, and discourage them from engaging against him, or looking too narrowly into his writings.  
I doubt also, lest instead of cooling the Opinion he (and only he truly) hath of his great performances, I might envigorate his conceit, that he would pride himself, and become more elevated to observe his Books regarded; and thought worth notice, and public opposition, a pleasure which some men by a strange Antiparistasis have conceived, and so vehemently thirsted after the glory of a public opponent, that they have entered the lists against themselves, I (mean not Richard; against Baxter, nor Titus, against Oats, such as have done it for want of a good memory, through heat, or inadvertency, but) designedly, with full intent to enhance their own reputation.  
I have known other both men and Books, contract credit from public censure, and acquire esteem, by being proscribed, and executed by Authority, of which its said the famous Author of Leviathan was very sensible, when he complacently said, the day his Book was burnt by the common hangman at Paris, that they had given it the greatest reputation it was capable of.  
But I considered the necessity of chastizing a wanton unskilful pretender, one whose insipid, spiritless writings, could not flame by opposition, or strengthen by recompass.  
But that consideration which most of all engaged my pen was sense of duty, to the young Tyroes, and studiers of our Art, whom I thought, I ought to disabuse, lest being tempted by the gayty of the Frontispeice, the recommendations of so many eminent men, and the reputation of being written by one of the King's Surgeons, they might too greedily suck in those many errors those Books contain, wherewith being once imbued servabent odorem testa diu.  
To which end, his Character being no way serviceable, nor yielding any light, and because I could not give an account of him, that would be to his credit; I lai● aside that part till I found he usurped 〈◊〉 intolerably, soared so high, and put on u● so audaciously a false ambitious history o● himself, than I grew impatient and angry could not forbear (though it may seem ungenerous,) showing the falsehood of his several pretences, and how in them, as in a● other things, he hath imposed upon us and is much inferior to the man he describes himself to be.  
Enough having been said in the remark on his two first Volumes, to discover the Ignorance, and disability of the man, and because the following three Books, are o● things not so strictly Chirurgical, and o● less danger in practice, I have not made my disquisitions on them, neither so particular or critical, (although they are altogether a● liable,) but by a succinct account of them▪ and some few specimen of their severa● faults, show that they are of a piece, an● the same make, that his hand is not mended, nor his head righter, but that the Topics of Ignorance, Plagiary, Errors, etc. comprehend the whole of them, and that he hath been here more insolent and usurping; bade he been less arrogant, I had spared him in the point of History, or Character, but he ought to be taught more modesty, and the World furnished with another instance, that great pretenders, and the confident men, are not always the ablest.  
Adenochoiradelogia, is the third Book in order of his writings; it pretends to treat of Glands, and Strumas, and the Author, that he is one of his Majesty's Surgeons in ordinary, which vain empty title, was procured him by a very near relation of his, who being of private use to some Courtiers, procured him that nudum nomen for her Brother. Of this little title, there were many men possessed in the late King's time, who (as our pretender) had neither salary, fee, board-wages, or stipend, were not obliged to any waiting, or attendance, had no manner of Privilege, or advantage thereby, not so much as Sanctuary from the Catchpoles AS HE WELL KNOWETH. And so far from being the least step to any preferment, that should all the late Kings actual Surgeons have died before him, this airy Character, would not have given them any better claim to succeed, than that of a mere stranger.  
And although their number was very many, not one of them to be found in the Roll of that Prince's Servants, as is evident in all the Editions of the Present State of England, and particularly th● 14 or last, part 1 page 179. where a● the King's Servants, and particularly hi● Surgeons (which are but three) ar● named, this being written by Dr. Chamberlain, who being very conversant a● Court, may be depended on as Authentic.  
The Patent prefixed to this Book, prohibiting any from selling it without the Author's licence, is as easy and insignificant a purchase, as that for his frothy title. In the jumbling Epistle Dedicatory, which he presumes to make to his grace the Duke of Ormond, he hath a delicate punning compliment, on the name of that Illustrious Person, which smelling rank of the Academy of Compliments, I will here insert, and as your grace's name doth carry in it the Golden World, so your puissant nature, doth bear the rich pearl of inestimable value.  
He prefaceth this learned treatise, with a pile of hard words, and abstruse notions, stolen partly from Helmont, Silvius, etc. but mostly from the Ch miasters of the age, and so confusedly jargoned, as if his brains had no more Symmetry, than the unlicked Cub of a Bear.  
Herein he asserts, heat is nature's principal AGENT in the World, the TWO ENGINES of natural motion that the Spirits are BOUNDLESS as to limits, spreading themselves into ●iquifaction, compares the solid parts to earth, and calls them the primum frigidum,— this DIAPHANIOUS body of man, being much 
* Bless us! what will he make of man before he leave comparing? See page 10. Of his Book of Tumours, and the remarks thereon, in the following disco r se.  like a looking glass, heat by the Rays of the Sun, and drawn up by its likeness,— urine, and sweat, he accounts among the excellent balsamic liquids of man's body,— phlegm is a crude humour, the crude part of the blood; but not an excrementitious humour.— This, with abundance more such wild, crude affirmations, rudely set down, compose his preface, wherein their occurring very little belonging to Chirurgery and Anatomy, (nor indeed to sense, or ingenuity,) I pass on to the tract of Glandules, wherein he asserts divers things, contrary not only to what he had delivered in his former Books, but even in the same, steals as notoriously, writes as erroneously, and ignorantly, and translates from his Authors, as falsely, as he is discovered to do in his first Books. I will give you a few instances, as I discover● them in once looking over that tract: for must confess I wanted patience to read oftener, his stile is so broken, his way of expression so confused, and his notion so sill stolen, and absurd, that it renders a Reade● passage through it, as uneasy, as travelling the Alps, and as dry and barren, 〈◊〉 the Arabian Deserts.  
His errors are too numerous to be r●counted, much less confuted in a preface that shall be the work of a second part o● this Book, except his future modesty suffe● this to suffice. In the interim, compare hi● with Wharton, Diomerbroeck, or an new Anatomist, and you will presently fin● by them, that he understands not the nature of the Glandules, (although it be the subject of which he treats, is very manifest from his fine and general accounts of them page 4, 7, etc. he calls them scavengers to suck up the excrementitious humours by which Sperm, Chyle, Milk, and the mos● refined elaborate liquors of the body, are a● once thrown to the dunghill, page 6. h● defines them (among other general qualities) to be Friable, yielding an OLEAGINOUS humour thence extilling, and do SELDOM leave the body, by whic● he discovers himself Ignorant of the commo● ●●stinction into friable, and tenacious; ●akes tears, and a thousand Lympid li●ors more Oily, and suggests as if the ●landules, do sometimes leave the ●dy.  
In the same page he affirms, Glandules, ●●d hair have one use, that the latter 〈◊〉 way result from, and discover the ●●rmer, that neither are to be met in ●●dry part of the body. So that he is ●ainly Ignorant of the Glandules of the ●●in, and argues as if the scalp were full: ●●ere, (excepting those poor ones mentioned 〈◊〉 Duhamel, Malpighius, Willis, etc.) ●ere is not one, nay he is so inconsiderately confident, against plain and common testimony, to affirm, that the Parrots (which page 50. he confesseth to be ●●der the ears,) are covered with ●air.  
Page 1, 2. He admires the advantage 〈◊〉 this age, and the defective knowledge 〈◊〉 the former in Anatomy, and yet not ●●ly pursues the absurd results of their short ●●ill, and sets up their exploded doctrines, 〈◊〉 his Theory of the evil, but Anatomy of ●●e Glandules, affirming that the Parotiss, suck in ALL the excrements which ●ome from the brain, the Axillary ●lands, those which come from the heart, and the inguenal they of th● Liver. Page 5. He makes all effects 〈◊〉 the Glands to be Struma, or Scrophula● which diseases he defines to be, a repletion from the Arteries, collected from a●● the parts of the body, so that the Brai● and Nerves accused by others, are by hi● excused. 
Willis de coreb. c. 20.   
Page 21. This Plexus arising from th● lower posterior parts of those ventricles, which the branch of the Caroti● Arteries do either ways enter, th● which do constitute the Retu mirab● for the Glandula Pituitaria, by th● Plexus is carried the Arterial blood for making of the Arterial Spirits, th● is a riddle to Oedipus. Page 66. H● saith, The Tonsils have four uses, allowed by Wharton, when in truth th●●● uses he mentions, are quoted by the Doctor to confute them, page 80. he saith, th● Salival Juice manifestly appears to proceed from the head, which is manifest● false, for it's strained from the Artery by those Glands, as Diemerbroeck, a●● Sylvias, could have told him, page 9▪ 97. he saith, the Lacteal Vessels covery the Milk to the Breasts, although t● promoters of that Hypothesis, viz. E●● Diemerbroeck, etc. do not make it cle●● de facto, and himself, page 155. of Tumours, saith the way is not yet found out. Page 120. He maketh Tumours to result from afflux of matter only, that in dead bodies we meet no such Tumours, because in them a Fluxion ceaseth. Thus ignorant is he that inflation, fermentation, restitution of spongy bodies, when the parts compressing them are loosened by corruption, or other cause, will make a Tumour, without an afflux of matter, as appears by the instance he gives to the contrary, viz. That of dead bodies, which often times swell, nay I have known an emaciat Corpse, bloat in 24 hours at a prodigious rate.  
Page 198. He calls the Testicles the mansion of a Gonorrhoea, by which he not only contradicts what he said in the same Chapter, viz. That the prostatae are the feat thereof, but discovers his wretched Ignorance of an hernia Humoralis, for he saith (to prove his assertion,) that the Tumour following a sudden stopping of Gonorrhoea, is of the stones, where as it's of the coats, and adjacent vessels, distended by the matter of a Gonorrhoea, which begets this Tumour, and that spewed out of the Arteries, for that disease seems to me (I speak with submission) to be a critical separation, and rejection of the blood, and other liquors, tainted with the venerea● Lues, insinuated in Coitù and thrown out a●● the place where it's received; thus I have sometimes seen that matter which usually issues through the Urethra; glees from between the Glans, and preputium, though no solution of unity were there to give it way, but as it was insinuate● per poros cutis, so it's in part extruded.  
The Gonorrhoea in women, page 199● he affirms to proceed from their testicles, which is a most egregious error, an● inexcusable in a man who hath seen ne● Authors of Anatomy, all which agree that their testicles are Ovary's, that i● coitù one of those Eggs is tumbled into th● womb, but no moisture; by this I perceiv● he is not so well acquainted with the Grae● as he pretends, page 131. he saith, non● of the Chyle is sent out of Guts, into the pancreas, but sent thence into the Guts. 140. the peristaltic motion of the Guts, drives the nourishment from the pylorus to the ductus pancreaticus, which is but four finger's breadth below it. 168. in the kidneys the serum mixeth itself with the blood. 122. th● cure of the Scrophula is for the mos● part by Topics. Page 17. The passages ●n man are narrower than in women. 18. scorbutic Rheumatic pains fall from the head. 26. the Saliva cometh from the brain, are all erroneous positions, which need no other refutation than barely to recite them; more of which you may find, Page 10, 12, 15, and 16. in his descriptions of the Tongue, which together with the Brain, Testicles, Liver, Spleen, Kidneys, etc. He impertinently reckons among Glandules.  
In many places a man cannot understand what he would mean; thus page 6. and here (as natures general maxim is) we shall find that the moist parts of the Body, do declare their chief abode,— for we ●hall find the hairs of the body, as readily taking up the moisture which is sent ●nto the Glands, and discharging it, which arrives at the exterior parts thereof, as the Glandules do take the same into them, when it once do arrive at them. Page 11. The intestines have also their due health given them, by meats and drinks, sent thither from the Stomach, after digested, and do receive a moisture under the Cuticula, by which it is also thence sucked up by the Glandules there planted. Page 16 Like People in a passion, do showe● down as a torrent, their ready wishes to their present humour.  
Page 17, 18. He gives a silly Character of women. Pago 103. BOTH hi● animal faculty, with the principle functions of the mind. 123. he wa● spent (as our English proverb hath it, to skin and bones. 200. a patiented recovered of his destiny. Many such instances of his skill in Sense, Syntax, Rhetoric, and Letters, you have mingle● in his writings. A man that designs t● contradict himself, and speak nonsense, ca● scarce contrive it so well, and in so fe● words, as he doth, page 121. where saying that Riclan doth place the Root of Struma● in the mesentry, he brings in Guido (wh● died before either of the Riolans' wer● hatched) as his follower, affirming (quot● he) that Strumas have no further affinity with the Glandules of the mesentry only allowed for a further preparation of the Chyle, neither can Struma's b● said to have any cause, or origination in the mesentry, when as every days use thereof, doth teach that most strumous People being sound in the body ●●ve suffered many troubles arising from ●s mesenterick disease.— If he can ●●ke Sense, Syntax, or Grammar of this, will put on his coat.  
I confess he is the less to be blamed for ●e errors he commits, because (good man) doth all that he can to avoid them, he is 〈◊〉 so wicked, or foolish, as unhappy; for ●ough there be but an even lay between ●●th and falsehood; yet he to be sure of being 〈◊〉 the right, often contradicts himself, ●●d affirms pro, and con, thus page 21, 〈◊〉 he owns the existence of the Retu mibile in man, and in the next page viz. 〈◊〉 fearing that should not be true, saith, ●ere is no such matter. So page 10. 62. ●c. He saith, the Tonsils in some mea●●re answer the shape of Almonds, and ●●rry a good resemblance of them, ●●d to be sure of truth, within ten lines, ●●ith, they no way carry in them the ●●eness, or figure of that Nut. So again ●●ge 77. he affirms the salivating vessels ●ere unknown to the Ancients, and ●●thin five lines, quotes Galen, and Avian, as giving an account of their use. So ●●ge 80. the Saliva proceeds from the ●●ad, and in the 82 page from the Arteries, page 67. the Tonsils are the primary organs of tasting, but in page the Tongue was the Instrument of 〈◊〉 sense. page 8.51. he sets down, that ●●ture planted the Parotis, to suck up the superfluous moisture of the Br●● but page 52. & 53. reasons against and by Dr. wharton's Arguments, plodes it, as impossible, for want o● ductus per quem. Page 17. The pages in man, are narrower than in ●●men, and yet in the same folio, he sa●● man hath the advantage, and can m●● readily discharge the superfluous ex●●ments, penned into the Glandules, wh● is not consistent with narrowness. P●● the 4th the Glandules are Scavang● suck up excrements, etc. But being a better humour, page 8. saith, they c●●mure the Blood, defend the Vess●● keep them warm, and generate Spe●● Milk, etc.  
But to evade being discovered, to w●● so opposite to himself, he hath contri●● that the hysteron shall be in one Book, 〈◊〉 the proteron in another. In this 
1 Preface.  B●● acids coagulate and thicken the Blo●● in that 
2 cap. 55.  of wounds, they attenua●● and dissolve it, here he speaks despi●bly of the skill of the Ancients, 
3 page. 1.  in A●●my, etc. saying they had but light pouches, and dead colours of it, ●ut there, he is wholly guided by them, ●nd recommends them as the best Pilots, 
4 Of Tumours page 55.  ●ere page 4. he speaks diminutively of Anatomy itself, that it doth not satisfy or reward a curious mind, there ●e makes Chirurgery nothing without it, calls it the 
* Of Tumours page 31.  Basis of our art, ●he foundation and treasury of it, ●here he saith, the 
5 cap. 35. of wounds.  brain is Glandulous, here page 20. that Hippocrates ●nd all else do err, that are of that opinion; here page 235. the Tongue is ●ade of proper flesh, Coat, Nerves, Veins, Arteries, Muscles and Ligaments, but there its a Muscle; here ●age 62. the Tonsils do not resemble Almonds, there they much resemble the figure, and shape of them, compare him, cap. 48. of Tumours with cap. 8. of Glands, and you will find very different accounts of those Glandules; here cap. 10. Milk is from Chyle, there cap. 51. of Tumours, ●ts from blood; here cap. 20. the Testicles are not Glandules, there page 322. of wounds, they are; thus the man forgets himself, or is so fickle in ●his Judgement, to be (as it's said of some men,) of the opinion of the last Bo●● he reads.  
He discovers himself to be the sam●● plagiary, he was when he wrote his t●● former complete treatises, for there's n●● a passage in this, that looks like sens● (be it in the tracts, or Epistles,) b●● is stolen, and most of that which is other wise, is no honester come by, for its b●● a disguised transcripts, or ill recitals 〈◊〉 other men's works.  
Quem recitas, meus est o Fidentine libellus.  
Sed male cum vecitas, incipit esse tuus.  (Martial epigr. 39 lib. 
His Theories, are for the most par● taken from Wharton and Dieme●broek, some few things of sten● de Graeff, etc. but by his way of managing, I find he understands neither 〈◊〉 them right, or perhaps ever saw the tw● latter, his works are like stolen plate, melt●● into another shape, here's a horse 〈◊〉 wharton's without ears, a calf 〈◊〉 Diemerbroeks without a tail; to 〈◊〉 short, like the storehouse of a commo●● Rook, or thief, you have all pillage, b●● so deformed, and dishappen, that the rig●● owner can hardly know his own.  
His Discourse of Tears, are sto●● from Diemerbroek Anat. lib. 3. c. 1.15 〈◊〉 chapter of the Tongue, is from wharton Aden. cap. 3. the story of ●●●r. W. Needham page 103. he stole ●●om Sergeant Wiseman, page 252. the ●●ree stories of his 15 chap. are stolen ●●om de Graeff, de sua pancr. cap. 7. ●●e many stories page 185. are stolen, ●●rtly from him, but mostly from his old magazine, Schenkius, obs. med. from ●hom I find him theiving for about 7. ●ories in ten, of those his Book relate, ●nd in above 50. which it contains, ●ere are but two (and those very trite ●●es,) his own.  
The two stories, page 31. (one of ●hich is falsely cited,) the observations, ●age 37.70. (falsely cited also) 71. ●3. 97.102.114.154.155.158. ●66. 167.170.171.177.178.200. ●01. 205. being in number 38. are all ●oln from Schenkius obs. med. page ●56. 199.290.294.260.492.389. ●90. 392.394.407.408.299.486. etc. And translated according to his ●ormer skill and sincerity, thus page ●65. the greasy matter in the story of Hildanus, is originally materia Gypsea, ●age 37. the span long, is in the original, senripalmaris longitudinis, page ●1. calculum gypseum excreavit, he translates from Langius, did here FRAME a kind of a limestone page 114. in the story of Vesalius, translates Vix librae, vel sesquilib●● pondus excederat, scarce weighe● pound, or half a pound. Page 97. In History of Vega, stolen from Schenki●● Page 290. He saith the Physician whom she was committed, did clear 〈◊〉 from the blame which was put upon 〈◊〉 by her Master, and excused her mode● by affirming, women might have M●● in their Breasts, without concepti●● this contrariwise is in the origin● Medicus vero cui res fuit commis●● (accusabatur enim ab hero) constante sime affirmabat ipsam gravidam e●● At the like rate he cripples things in m●ny other of his translations, particular page 60. from Dr. Wharton cap. 1● page 63. from the 22. Chapter of 〈◊〉 same Author, and page 68 where 〈◊〉 translates the Doctor's five uses of t●●● Tonsils, very oddly.  
Come we now to his Book of the Kin● Evil, which he calls an exact discourse in that modest plain dress,— tho●● God wots there's neither exactness, modesty, nor plainness, but the wilde● losest, most defective absurdest, a● unintelligible miscellany of words, a●● ●ost impudent affirmations, that ever ●●me from the press, and because his epistle to the Reader, contains much of ●●at kind, I will be a little particular on 〈◊〉 Since its the mode of the age, ●quoth he) to let no Book go without a Preface, it may well seem a wonder, that among the multitude ●f Books, so little hath hitherto ●een writ of his disease, it ●vermore having been of ancient ●anding, and so general concern ●ith men; especially since there's ●arce any kind of skill, but may be barnt by Art,— match me this paragraph, in any but his own Books, ●nd I will not say he is the Ignorant bugbear; in the next page, certainly none ●ut such would thus infer, and make it a ●onder, more is not writ of Scrophulae, because its a fashion to write prefaces, ●●r that's his logic, and like saying, ●nce my Mare hath stratted Colt, it ●ay well seem a wonder you don't ●o to Church  
I know there have not very many ●mple Theories been published of that dis●●ase, but he is of little acquaintance with ●ooks, if he thinks there hath been but ●●ttle, in general written thereof, I will undertake to name above an 
* Let him consult Schenkius, Gualterus, Moronus, and Bonettus, and see if he cannot find this number-  hundr●●● foreigners who have published either Observations, Remedies, Theorie●●● Methods, or Counsels, concerning 〈◊〉 and many of them such as he prete●●● to know, besides divers of our own Countrymen, as Primrose, Wharto●● Crook, Low, Bannister, Pem●●● Bruil, Clowes, Tookes, Bonha●● Cook, Digby, Barrough, Willi●● and beyond them all, Mr. Sarjea● Wiseman, who writ but eight years b●fore this novise, and yet is no where t●ken notice of by him, save in the 122. p●● his tract of Glands, and there only to co●fute him, as the Preacher did Bella●mine, with THOU LIEST.  
But to proceed in the examen of th● most absurd Paragraph, the Kin● Evil hath EVER MORE been a disease of ANCIENT standing, wh● always an old disease! is it infinit● never had a beginning! this certain was not spoken with that exactness the Title page promiseth, let's go on; an● of so general a concern with mankind, especially since there's scar● any skill but may be learned by A●●— This is just such an Impertinent Conclusion as the first, and an inference 〈◊〉 ●ore agreeable: If a man would be very Critical, here's work cut out in this one period, enough to prove, that none ●ut a very Ignorant, or a very careless writer, would deliver himself ●o very incoherently, and absurd.  
Passing by his silly Apology for suspicion of theft, we jump upon that for stepping aside from the opinion of the Ancients, of which, if any one accuse him, I will be his advocate, and prove him not guilty, that is to say, that he hath followed them as well as he could, and steered by their compass according to the best of his understanding. It's true, he varyeth now and then, a point or two, but that's nothing among friends, its plain he followeth none but their grey headed, and his own addle brained thoughts, notwithstanding he pretends the contrary, but that he hath raised a new pile of mat, er, for the generation of this disease is utterly false, unless nonsense, and absurd, unskilful rambles be it; for there is not a new, nor a sound notion concerning it in all the Book.  
From hence he makes a sudden transition, into his own History, where he modestly saith of himself; I EVER MORE 
1 Here's another infinite, in a determinate Sphere.  having been conversant i● Chirurgery, almost from my Cradle, being the sixth 
2 This pedigree must be from his Uncle Crop, a kind of bastardlike way of Geneology, as if he either had no Father, or were ashamed to own him.  Generation of my own Relations, all eminent Masters of our profession, some of the latter of which have been extraordinary well known, for their parts and skill, by many of the most worthy and knowing Masters: I came early into the practice 
* When he was Mr. Hollyers Cub.  thereof, in this great City, and have for above twenty four years seen the practic, as well as read the Theorical part thereof; and this not at while and and intervals, but I had the 
3 a usual trope with such Rhetoriclans.  eye of the Hospital, as my first and early glean, and since I could write man, the late wars had my skill shown on my 
4 which way  self, as well as many others who were committed to my charge.  
Since I have been blest by my dread Sovereign's command, to attend as one of his SURGEONS at all healings, (although 
5 The meanest healing, or the meanest Chirurgeon.  the meanest) and have seen several 
6 The beef eaters have out seen him in this particular.  thousands approach his Royal presence for ease, and cure; I thought it my duty, as 
7 will express.  well as my zeal, to search into the roads, and circuits of this evil,— I have herein therefore, kind Reader, presented thee, with a more plain discovery of this disease, 
The falsehood of these latter assertions, are very manifest.  than hither hath as yet appeared in the World, and this performed with that plain, and easy method and dress, that the meanest capacity may be allowed a sufficient judge, in the description thereof, by way of distinction, 
8 unriddle me his meaning h●re.  to prevent confusion.  
These boastings are enough to tempt a credulous man, into a great opinion of our pretender, that he is some mighty issue, of a whole race of Aesculapius', and Hippocrates', but alas it's otherwise, the Son, and Brother of poor Tailors, may as justly make the same pretence, one that was bound Apprentice to a Sea Chirurgeon, and never served him, but became a skillet carrier to Mr. Hollyer two years without lodging, or eating in his house, or being educated by, or turned over to him, may with equal truth affirm the same. It's true indeed, our modest exact man, was in a small employ 1666. and in one of the fights at Sea, an accidental splinter hurt his Arm, as he was in the hold, for which he claimed and had allowance out of the poor Scamens' Chest at Chatham, though it was not instituted for Officers of his rank.  
It's very true also, that in the absence of His Majesties three Surgeons some small time from Windsor, he did attend at two or three small healing● happening there, and this is all the colour he hath so impudently to boast, that he traced the evil in all its nooks, seen thousands approach the King and was by his command blest with attendance.  
This made him look big, and beyond his betters; affront and quarrel the whole fraternity, forgetting that he had been but a property to a cunning Fox, and spending his time, and money in an unprofitable attendance, while he who had the reward, was depluming Geese in another place, but such is this temper of base sordid minds, to be elevated with such accidents, as usually supple, and make more condescending, all generous▪ and ingenious natures.  
Upon renewing our Charter for the Surgeon's Company, he (who was 〈◊〉 freeman newly made,) aspired to be a● assistant, but he was most shamefully baffled, and scorned.  
But to finish my remarks on his Preface, he concludes with affirming, That the Pox, and the Scurvy are too great Clubbers towards this disease; I knew he borrowed, or stole this from medela medicina, who would persuade us, they have a share in all other Sicknesses, but if the King's Evil be so old a disease, as it's known to be, how comes two new diseases to compound it, or if they do, what makes him search for its causes, and among Authors that were dead, a thousand years before either Scurvy or Pox were heard off, such are most of those he coppyeth from, and some of them which in his Catalogue he saith are concerned in this Treatise, viz. Avicen, Aetius, P. Aeginetta, Celsus, Galen, Hippecrates, etc.  
In the Book itself, Page 12. He defines the King's Evil to be a cold, and moist preternatural intemperiety, generated IN the Glandules from a subsaline, and subacid juice, collated from the wheyish part of the Blood, hardening them, and converting the same, into a coagulate caseous substance; this is his exact and plain way of describing things, than which nothing can be more the contrary▪ He must certainly be a great stranger to Authors, and to the disease, that doth not know it's not always cold and moist, but often hot, and accompanied with great inflammation, and hath choler mixed with it, as he afterwards unawares confesseth, Page 84, and 85, 90. That it's generated in the Glandules, and always possesseth them, is no more true, for the seeds lie in the Blood, and nervous Liquor, which myasma falling into the glands, and meeting proper matter, beget alterations accordingly, not always hard; cheesy, curdling, as he would make us believe, but sometimes the sorts.  
That this pabalum is a subacid, and subsaline, is as unlikely, for it's held rather to be strongly acid and saline, ev'● to the height of corrosives, by learned men and appears to be so, by the common phaenomena, especially on Bones, which is frets asunder at a strange rate; what he means by the wheyish part of the Blood, 〈◊〉 know not, unless it be the serum; but h●errs in that too, the Nerve and Brain▪ being by divers good Authors, and a very learned Physician of our own, 
W llis de cereb. c. 20.  held t● have a great laud in it. But that it har● dens the glands, and maketh them cheezy (which is the meaning of his word caseous,) is to be confuted at an easy rate it being common to have those Tumours soft, and filled with different sorts of matter, 
Aden. cap. 40, 41.  all this Dr. Wharton (if he would not believe Mr. Wiseman) could have told him.  
It cannot be expected that I should criticise upon the whole Tract, I must beg my Reader to consider and peruse it, and then (he be ingenious) he cannot but find it ejusdem farinae, some scattered Tokens of his sense, skill, and learning, I will present him withal, as specimen.  
He saith. Page 4. That infirm Women, and those of an ill habit▪ and cacochymick, most readily bear Children. Page 10. Scrophulae is by Authors derived from Scrophae, or Swine, those Creatures being also very subject, and the subjects of this disease, this in them arising from their gulosity. Page 11. The strumas are found evermore, either in the Neck, Throat, Breast, Axillaries, or Inguens. This is contrary to his assertions elsewhere, for page 20. he makes it possess other parts, and page 82. mentions one that was all over so. Page 14. The Strumas disease may well enough be allowed a movable constitution, Page 22. That which shows the DIFFERENCE between a Glandula, and a struma, is this: they are generally made both of ONE, and the SAME matter, and lodge about the SAME places, viz. the glands page 24. nodes happen MOSTLY on the tendons, but CHIEF on the head, etc. page 25. The lachrymal gland hath passage to the Lip. Page 29. The Nerves send forth their EXCREMENTITIOUS juices into the glands of the inguen, etc. Page 30. the Increment of Botium doth proceed from a Phlegmatic Carnosity begot from a Rheum distilling from the Brain into the Throat, page 38. from the 42 year of a man's age to the sixtieth, neither struma, Stone, Gravel, or Renal pain are generated. Page 60. Young Children are most cold and moist, 62. A new, and adventitious disease, is that which is brought into the Country, ARISING from the faults of the Country. Abundance such uncouth, unintelligible passages are in his writings, which discover him a very illiterate, especially page 7, 12, 22, 43, 45, 52, 62, 69, 92, 109, and 88 In the last of which he delivers among his Prognostics, That all those who do attain to the consistence of this disease, do escape the danger thereof, being carefully examined, unless by chance some other disease be therewith adjoined, or does afterwards come after it, and disturb the Patient with a higher increase; and in the next Page, speaking of the struma, he saith wherever they happen without pain, they are not easily to be extirpated.  
Page 45. In treating of Hereditary diseases, he commits all the errors, an illiterate, insensate creature can he guilty of, saith, there are two differences, thereof, proper and improper, the one hath pre-existente in the Parents, THE OTHER HATH NOT, can a disease be Hereditary, and not in the Parent, that's like the Parson's seekers, of which he said there were three sorts, those who sought and found, those who sought and found not, and lastly those who neither sought nor found; but to proceed page 44. the Pox, and Scurvy, club for the evil, he affirms confidently, and yet page 89. makes many an if of it, and page 55. affirms its no contagious disease, Page 57 Surgeons (he saith) use no cold, or moist remedies to the disease, a sign how skilful he is in Medicines, and forgetful of his own advice, for he directeth mostly to things of that temperament, viz. Althaea, Lilies, sem. lini. fenugreci. Butter, Oil, Figgs, Yolks of Eggs, divers Fats, Mucilages, etc. As you may see, page 116, 117, etc.  
Page 67. He undertakes to prove the Pox, 
page 1. of this charisma, he reckons them among the diseases, newly crept in among us.  and Scurvy from Scripture to be old diseases, and faith both are made good, Levit. 21.20. The former he vainly presumes to be meant by the Scab, the latter our Translation nameth plainly enough, but upon what ground is uncertain, the Translators from the Septuagint, render the word scabies agrestis, St. Jerom, Scabiem, Junius and Tremellius, psora, and our old translation Scirfy, thence probably proceeds the mistake, some sort of Scabbynes being in old English called Scurf. But that the diseases there mentioned, were neither of those our Author suggests, no man of sense will deny, the other quotation from Scripture, is not to be fovad where he directs.  
Page 68 the French Pox, he defines to be a preternatural disposition, by which the body is sensibly hurt, in its operations, and disordered in its functions, which definition, will serve any disease. Page 83. he saith from Arnoldus (but tells us not which of them) that we may guests at the inward swell, by the number of the outer ones, a thing he denied to be true page 122. page 96. He forbids the use of strong purges, contrary to warrantable practice, and his own directions to medicine, 
page 108.  among which you will find Resin, Inlappa, dulcis, Euphorbeum, pill. cochiae troch. Alhaudi, etc. page 84. Aqua pendens saith Strumas, are not Strumas, and 103. dehorts from the use of vomits, contrary to reason, and successful experience, Dr. Willobij— who is famous for curing of the King's Evil, doth it by a drink which gently vomits, and begets constant pewking of matter from the Stomach, had I time to reason the case, I believe I could prove, that no evacuation is more agreeable to the rules of Art for the cure of that disease, than spitting, and vomiting.  
His skill in Physic he betrays to be but small, for he saith nothing of Salivation, Milk, Diets, Mineral-Waters, Paranychia, Rutac. fol. and a great many other arcana, against this malady, nor is he much better versed in the Chirurgical part, which though it ought have been most minded, is least meant oned; for he carelessly passeth over h● duty with slight directions, which cannot help or enable any one to perform th● part; caustics, extirpations, fontawel● scrofulous ulcers, and many other Chirurgical effects of this disease, and way of curing it, are wholly pretermitted.  
Page 106. Among his simple Remedies, are many compounds, and his collection of Medicines, exactly like an empirics, he hath neither chosen the best digested them into a method, adapt● them to the various circumstances, an● Rules of curing, nor diversified them according to constitutions. But as he foun● them among some Antidotaries, and ●ther collections, so he hath set them down●●  
Of his third part, I will say nothing, because time will fail me, only this I a● sure is truth, that be hath managed good Subject very ill, and weakly, an● in some particulars given a false accou●● of things, is not concerned in the stori●● he pretends to, nor in the account of t●● Persons healed, but begged them from him or them that delivers the Gold.  
His fourth Book, he calls a comple● Treatise of Muscles, & beside the Kin● and D. of Albemarl, he dedicates it by a Latin Epistle to the College, (written by Mr. Turner, Hospitler of St. Thomas, it being a language (notwithstanding his scraps, and pretences) he hath not skill enough in, to construe three lines,) in his Epistle to the Reader, he talks at his wont perplextrate, and is at his old Tropes of Rocks and shelves, and his mumprimus of maternal Bloods, milking our Muscles, etc. and in a barbarous confused manner, attempts to give us an account of stenoes Mathematical hypothesis of Muscles, and Musculary motion. The Table which he saith do give the names of the Muscles as they arise in dissection, is verbatim from Mr. W. Moline's Myotomia, as are all his descriptions throughout the Book, word for word. His Cutts are taken from Casserius Placentinus, and Spigelius (I know where he borrowed several of them, 
Syllabus added to Mr. Molins' Myotomia.  for the Gravers to work by.) His Table showing the Reduction of Muscles, each to their proper place, use and part, is a verbatim Transcript from Dr. Scarboroughs, and yet such is the ingratitude and dishonesty of this Thief, that he no where owns it, and doth not List the Doctor, nor Mr. Molines among the Authors, he saith were concerned in his Book. The errors I shall show you, by and by, compar● his account of Muscles in his tract of Wounds, and in this larger Book, and you will see in some places great difference, so that one or both, cease to be complete.  
This Book, he got Mr. Turner to put into Latin, and gave him several Volumes for his pains, he hath added one or two Icons, and set down the names of, the Muscles, upon each of them as they show themselves in the figure, which indeed looks pretty, and is an ease, and advantage to his Reader, but this is not new, nor his own, he stole this also from a muscular scheme, or schemes in Mr. Molines Parlour, drawn by the accurate Pencil of Mr. Fuller, so that there's not one thing, (errors excepted) in either of those his own, and the latter, (altho' he call it opera et study. I. B.) might have been as truly said the labour, etc. of Tom. Stiles. In his Title page, he calls it myagraphia nova, sive musculorum omnium (in corpore humano factenus respectorum) accuratissime descriptio— situque naturali in Aentis iconibus. etc. When in all his Book, their's no Icon for Anconaeus, Subclavius, Triangularis, etc. Nor description of the Glutaeus minimus, of which he gives the Image, in his 32 Table, and altho' he pretend to describe omnium hactenus repertorum, icones, usus, etc. and tho' he hath taken notice from both the syllabusis, of Dr. Scarborough to Dr. Crown, of the obliquus major cum Trochlea, et musculo Trochlari, yet he hath given no figure, description, nor use of the musculus Trochlearis, lately discovered, nor of the Quadratus Femoris, altho' that be in both the syllabusis, aforesaid, unless he intent the Quadrigeminus for it, which he ought to have explicated, however Quadratus, is the more modern word.  
He is so far from giving an accurate description, that he perplexeth, and confounds things, as in page 48. Teres minor, and page 49. nonus humeri Placentini: He makes them two distinct Muscles (as indeed they are,) but gives them one description, and the same use, as you may find by comparing leaf with leaf, for he makes them both depressors of the os humeri, and in his Synopsis, he maketh them one, and the same nonus Humeri Placentini sive Rotundus minor.  
Octavus Humeri Placentini, sive Coracho Brachialis (for so he writes it in his Synopsis,) are two distinct Muscles: corachobrachialis is the nonus humeri Placentini (but he is ignorant thereof,)— he maketh them one, though in both the syllabus, he might plainly see, they were two, and accordingly of two different uses, for the first is a depressor, and the last an adductor.  
He very disingeniously makes the octavus in both the syllabuses, to be an elevater, when as the learned Authors, in the original, and in their public exercises of Anatomy, always delivered that the octavus humeri was a depresser. This mistake I believe he was lead into by Mr. W. Molins, Myastomia, Page 38. so unable is he to be an Author, and unfit even for a Plagiary.  
Of the nonus Humeri Placentini, he saith Folio 49.— inseritur acuto Tendine in collum ossis humeri: But in the Sculpt. Tab. 20. He plainly showeth it, (rightly enough, for it is Placentinus his own cut,) in medio ossis Humeri. Of the octavus Casseri (i. e. Placentini) he saith Page 46. Per corpus ejus transit nervus quidam: Thus the Blind lead the Blind, Mr. W. M. Myotomia page 41. told him, that through the Body of this Muscle, doth pass a Nerve, but our ●uide in his Figures (not knowing, or forgetting that he had fixed it in the octavus ●umeri, when he accurately described ●hat Muscle,) showeth it in his Icon Tab. ●0. relating to the nonus humeri, which 〈◊〉 very true, for its Casserus Placenti●us's own Cut.  
I shall detain you no longer in the Preface, having much exceeded the common ●ounds, what remains to be said against ●im, shall be kept cold, only I must Apologise, that if in our endeavour to cure ●im of this Pruritus scribendi, or itch of scribbling: Which thus busieth his Fin●ers, and makes them scratch Paper, we ●ave acted smartly, himself must confess ●t S. A. And conformable to the method of ●uring that disease, i. e. By painful sharp Remedies, and folly being ever commixed, ye pursue the wisest man's advice, in using 〈◊〉 Rod. It's true, we have been severely plain, ●ut not rude, (as he hath been to many of ●is betters,) a very eminent Casuist of ●ur own, 
Bishop Taylor Grand Exemp. p. 247.  alloweth us to reprehend evil ●ersons in Language, properly expressive of the crime, which I think we have ●ot transgressed, by indecent reproofs, or un●uit able words. I know no name for a Spade, ●ut a Spade, nor any extraordinary courtesy due to a man, who bestows himself with so little truth, or modesty, or offer● that violence, and injury to mankind, i● things of that importance to them, as h● hath done by perverting, and corrupting the means, and methods of their recovery and preservation, from hurt, and those miserable distempers, to which they are so incident, and obnoxious, and the contrary t● which, viz. Health, is accounted by wise men, the greatest temporal happiness▪  
If where he playeth the Fool, an● shows himself an Impostor, Thievish Ignorant, etc. we tell him so in plai● English, I think he hath no wrong do●● him. If he can prove the contrary, th●● we have abused, or falsely accused him, l●● him make it out, and instead of a secon● part of Medicaster Medicasturs', 〈◊〉 shall have a retraction, and peccavi 〈◊〉 A FORM OF HIS OWN, which u● on occasion of the late hearing before 〈◊〉 Person of Honour, between himself a●● our Company, was publicly read befo●● his Face, and (as I am informed) 〈◊〉 therein acknowledgeth himself more vi●● and mean spirited than mine or any oth●● Pen can express.   

Medicaster Medicatus.  
The First Part. Containing Animadversions on Mr. Brown's Books, of Preternatural Tumours, and of Wounds, being a Letter from a Country Practitioner.  
SIR,  
THat extravagant Curiosity, which so strongly inclined me to the perusal of new Books, (especially of Natural Philosophy, and the Art of Healing,) and hath heretofore given you the trouble to procure, and me the cost to purchase, all that come forth, is very much cooled and abated, by the disappointment I have lately met in some of them; not that I so much regret being deceived in my expectations, or of my money and time; nor which is worse) the fruitless trouble in hath occasioned my Friend, as I resent the indignity, and disparagement, they have begotten to a noble and very useful Art, of whose reputation and interest I am very tender and zealous.  
I am moved with indignation to find, that while Ingenious, and Inquisitive men, are labouring to improve and advance it, and its esteem in the world, by their excellent Writings, laborious Experiments, and useful Discoveries; so many meddling Fops busily interpose, and not only amuse, disturb, and discourage them by the gagling of their Goose-quills, but disparage the growing credit of the faculty, by their follies and falsehoods, to see so many bold Ignorants thrust themselves through the Press, with swollen Titles, under their nauseous fantastical Pictures, with which (like Ballads) they front, and lead in their empty Books, which no more answer the pretence of their Title Pages, than the excrements of a few bad do the Marrow of many good Authors, and come so far short of what they would imitate, or oppose, as they who have attempted to Ape our inimitable Duty of Man, or adventured to confute our Immortal Harvey.  
Who that's Loyal, or hath a due veneration for his Prince, can without abhorrence behold, the Sacred name of the King debased, and profanely mixed, with that of every Quacksalver, that dares assume it to make himself a Title, to see the August Illustrious Character of Majesty trampled on, and laid at the feet of every Empirics Effigies, who is but Audacious enough to style himself, His Majesty's Physician, Chirurgeon, Operator, or Oculist; though perhaps the Coxcomb be not fit enough, for a Toad-eater to a Mountebank.  
To observe men of our profession write, as if they designed to engross to themselves the Character, which P. de Commines, and M o. Sorbier, generously bestowed on the whole Nation, what else meaneth the scurrilous Conclavist, the nonsensical Galenopale, the verbose Polyrhizos, the  Hilminthologer, the no-bone fashion Alamode man, the snarling Glow-worm, the churlish Topographer of B. and other clamorous Witlings, whose writings serve that odious end and design; men who discover their own ignorance and ill natures, in attempting to manifest it in others, as far above their reach, as the Moon from the barking Animals; such are Culpepper, and his Successor Doron, Synopsis, Sermon, and a world of Cacata Charta men, who I could name, beside the Astrological Medicasters', and Whimsical Chemists, (those fanatics in Physic, who throw dirt in the face of the Orthodox, fill the world with much noise to no purpose; men that puzzle mankind with mysterious nonsense, and are as unintelligible in Physic, and as Enthusiastical in Philosophy, as Jacob Behem, or the Rosie-crucians. These are men I say, who seem of this design or fate, strive to outvie● one another in Ignorance, as strenuously as if the prize of an Olympic Game were at stake, for the most obstreperous Blockhead, or clamorous Fool in p●int.  
Indeed we are not singular in such productions, all others have their Impertinents, their Trif●ers, their Plagiaryes, their Bathyllus', &c. the Press having in this Age of Mo●s●ers sp●●● Prodigies, and deformities in all kind● of writing, ●●●●ity 〈◊〉 been abused by wran●ling● 〈◊〉 ●●●ors perverse Expositors, and the damnable Doctrines of Traitors, Heretics, and Schismatics. The Scripture hath been made a Nose of Wax, to serve the turn, and justify the Opinions and Actions of the most adverse Parties in the World, hath been urged to justify Parricide, Murder, Sacrilege, Rebellion, and the worst of Villainies by our Fanatical Covenanters, and other Divines of the Faction, both in 
* See Edward's Gangrena, Dissenters Save. Long Parliament Sermons, etc.  England and 
† See Ravillack Redivivus, and the spirit of mouths of fanatics, etc.  Scotland.  
The Law hath been publicly, and in print mis-stated, and perversely urged in behalf of Treason and Sedition, by the Hunts-Postscripts, and Liberty of the Subjects; a Book whose Contents are no less a contradiction than its Title; for Statutes, made against Dissenters, are there most impudently avowed not to concern them, and the very Act of Uniformity alleged in behalf of Toleration and the Schism. Instances of this sort of prevarications are innumerable, witness the many Pamphlets that have lately swarmed from the Hive of  
Bull-faeed Ionas, who could Statutes draw,  
To mean Rebellion, and make Treason Law.  
History hath had its Johnson, who, in the Life of his Brother Apostate Julian, hath not blushed to affirm, contrary to known truth, (as the Learned and Reverend Dr. Hicks, Dean of Worcester, hath more clearly proved in his Jovian,) that the Roman Empire was Hereditary; and prevaricated notoriously, to form a Topick, for an execrable design against the Succession, and like a Minister of Peace, set us a cutting one another's Throats.  
Thus Truth hath suffered, in almost all ways of writing, by the folly and knavery of men, who like those named in our English Juvenal.  — in spite 
Of Nature, or their Stars will write. And almost all Arts contracted scandal, by the impotence, etc. of busy Scribblers.  
But among them all, none so deceived my expectations, or gave such a Rude stop to my longing fancy, and incautelous humour of buying new Books at a venture, as did two Tracts published by John Brown, the one of Preternatural Tumours, the other of Wounds, the Title the Author bore, the many Encomiums and Imprimaturs, (a new French mode,) from men of learning, discernment, and considerable figure, which preface and ushered them in tempted me to believe there was somewhat extraordinary in them, but I found it over the left shoulder, and the man (maugre their many Plaudits, by which he endeavoured to anticipate, and delude his Readers Judgement,) to be like his Pictures, all forehead and flourish, face and feathers; so I laid him by, in a dark hole of my Study, to hoot and catch Mice, the natural Employment of such Animals.  
This may seem a rude abusive Treatment, and bold Censure, to those who look no farther, than the sparkish Picture, and florid appearance of the man, and read not, beyond the wheedlings, precarious invitation of his Approvers, but let any Impartial Artist pursue him, and with an ordinary heed survey his writings, if he find he deserves better usage, or do not discover him wretchedly Thievish, and notoriously defective, and ignorant, that he hath equalled the most faulty Author, I will have that Imputation and Character, and suffer the chastisement due to him for abusing the world, and putting on them an indigested Fardel of other men's works, as his own.  
Had he treated us as an Artist ought, written with the becoming qualifications of a useful good Author, and given us somewhat new, as did Hypocrates, and the first Writers, and those who even in this Age, have found new subjects for their Pens, as Harvey, Malpighius, and many Columbus's in Physic, Chirurgery, or Anatomy; or had he corrected the errors, evinced the mistakes, explained the meaning, or supplied the defects of other Writers, as did Galen, and the many Commentators on Hypocrates, (beside divers Neoterick Authors,) had he abridged the copious, like Dr. Read, Blasius, or Dr. Gibson; had he collected the choice of many Authors, as did Schenkius, Moronus, Burnet, Bonetus, Gualterus, etc. had he strengthened the Principles, and confirmed the Methods of Art, by new Theories, Experiments or Remedies, like Sanctorius, Willis, Quercetan, Scultetus, Wiseman, Meckeren, Bartholine; etc. and many more; had he accommodated constant Methods to new discoveries, or revived some obsolete, and worn-out way of cure, etc. grown undeservedly out of use, as hath Sennertus, Blasius, Dr Harris, and the Answerers of Medela Medicinae, he had been praise worthy; and merited those Impertinent Encomiums, he prefixeth so fond to his Books.  
But, Sir, we see nothing like this, on the contrary his works are twice sodden Cabbage, nothing new, nothing his own, scarce a medicine, or an observation, or a notion but is echoed; nay he is so ridiculous a Plagiary, that he doth not represent fairly to us the things he steals, nor hath he for want of skill to choose taken the best to be had, among the Authors from whom he filched,) which is to me an argument of his low parts, and mean abilities; to steal the crudities, and corruptions of Books, argues that things of an ingenious nature, are not agreeable to him, and is like children's stealing Rattles and Baubles, from among Jewels and things of worth, secundum modum recipientis. Thus I say, our Author is so unfit to write Books, that he gives us nothing new, all from others, and that generally, either of itself Ill, or made so by his awkward way of representation, impertinently and lamely used, not at all to the purpose. In short, things old, stolen, and borrowed; things absurd, jejune, and nugatory, collected in a very rude (though he call it a new) method, or rather confusion, in a broken style and way full of Rambles, and strange Transitions, as if his wits were gathering Wool, is (with Tautologies, silly Metaphors, and unintelligible Phrases) the composition of his Book, and the man (notwithstanding the pretences, and opinion of himself and friends, an Ignorant Plagiary and most Ridiculous Scribbler,  
The Justice of this Censure, I will manifest to you very plainly without a rigid, or particular survey of all he hath written, and without squeezing or putting any thing to the Rack, and here I must profess copiousness of matter which is usually an advantage, is become to me an Impediment. I am choked with plenitude. He is so all over vanity, that I know not where to begin; his Follies are so perplexed, I know not how to unravel them, without being as Immethodical, and appearing as great a Bungler as himself. I will begin as he doth, and attack his Complete Treatise of Tumours, which being the first broaching of his Hog's Head, his fresh, and untired, Effort may be presumed most nervy and strong, and give us the greatest difficulty to encounter and subdue.  
This Book we find by the Author's Picture, was written in the 35th year of his age, which I suppose is pointed to us, that we may admire the profound Sagacity and great abilities of so young a man. His Title-Page calls it a Complete discourse of Tumours. Complete either to distinguish it from others who have written defectively on that Subject, or else a sly suggestion, as if he had said all that Subject was capable of, or perhaps because it hath discoursed of all the diseases, compellated under those Titles; how little it deserves that Character, on either of these accounts will be sufficiently demonstrated in the ensuing Pages, and that on the contrary its empty, defective, stolen for the most part from imperfect, erroneous, and obsolete Writings, abounding with vanities, errors, contradictions, nonsense, impertinences, and more faults, than any Book of its bigness, of a Subject so common and easy, and affording such plenitude of excellent precedents and guides.  
It's scarce credible, that any man should be so blockish, as this, to obtrude on the World under those Titles, things so little deserving them; nor less surprising is it, to see a Book so full of Palpable errors, and manifest evidences of a silly Illiterate Author, containing nothing Ingenious or valuable, full of the Scum, and Crudities of their Notions, Medicines, and Observations, who were long since exceeded, and exploded, to see such things proclaimed useful, commendable, ingenious, learned, elaborate, etc. by men that knew better, and from whose Sagacity, his egregious errors, manifest faults, and aberrations, could not escape, (had they perused what they praised) is to me matter of Astonishment, and should be to them occasion of shame, and repentance.  
We wanted one that could our griefs declare,  
And thank our happy Stars, we have him here,  
What's then thy due, who curest each malady.  
Yet thy great Skill is such,—  
— Thy work being perfect,—  
Were famed Hypocrates alive to write,  
He from thy work, would humbly borrow light.  
— For having this Learned Book, men need no more.—  John Gadbury, Student in Physic and Astrology. 
Its strange that neither the Stars, nor Skill in Physic, could undeceive this Hyberbolical, Poetical, Astrological, Physical, Applauder, and teach him better than to think, this dull, empty, Scrible, deserved the praise he gives it, or that Hypocrates could, or would borrow from one who stole from himself, and those that echoed his Doctrine.  
He dedicates this praiseworthy Peice to his Uncle, Crop, who (by what Authority, and good manners I know not,) he calls the chief Chirurgeon in Norfolk, to whom, and to his Readers, he makes rambling impertinent Epistles, using the same Tropes and vain glorious Ostentations, he hath over again in his Book of wounds,— Impudence plumed with various coloured Feathers, of Ignorance and Boldness,— this tract well deserves the study and practice of a young Chirurgeon, who ought to read it soberly, and practise it constantly,— I have here acted the part of a faithful Chirurgeon— This is a Subject indeed not to be touched with every COMMON Pen, every Slip whereof, in some cases, may dislocate the Discourse, and cause a solution of continuity, in the matter,— its leaves are not lined with froth, or Emperical Romance, but rather gathered, furnished, and delineated, with digested wholesome fruit, of LEARNING, example, history, most lively resembling the rose,— the Lading is well besiowed on our Vessel, having received your gentle Winds to blow on it, I question not its well sailing, and may be kept from the Shelves, and Rocks.—  
Now after so many Encomiums, from such men as the Precedent, and Censor of the College, from Sr. T. B. Mr. Sarjent K. Mr. Daniel and the starry Doctor. Strengthened and confirmed by the Authors own kind approbation and applause of himself, and the Minerva of his Mercurial Brain, who but would have raised expectations, and look Sharp for some great and transcendent performance, but alas! It's a birth of the mountains, great Cry and little Wool, nothing but the Husk or Shell of some seed, whose kernel by length of time is turned into Maggot, or other noxious Insect; and being here by our Novice, noysily cracked, is exposed to Sale, as wholesome, good, new, fruit.  
Although I am as great an admirer of the Antiquity, and usefulness of our Art, and would assert its Interest, and Reputation as much as any man; yet I am so much an Enemy to Arrogance, and a Friend to Truth, that I must expose him, when he reasons at so ridiculous a rate to illustrate it, and screws his pretences too high, as he doth, page 1. where he unreasonably asserts, The Art of Healing, came into the world, almost as soon as man. For soon after his Birth was this found out, as both Reason and History make good. Page 2. And here also may we Epitomise, that Healing and Medicine were invented before other Arts— Now all the Reason produced to make this good, is an uncertain supposition, that primitively they were subject to diseases, and consequently put upon inventing Remedies; and the History is from Genesis 50.2. where it is said, Joseph commanded the Physicians to Embalm Jacob.  
As to the first; How doth it appear, they had ANY diseases in the first Ages of the world, one would think otherwise by their longevity; and I think Mr. Burnet hath rendered it more than probable, 
In his Theory of the Earth, a Book of extraordinary thoughts, and uncommon ingenuity.  that before the Flood, they were very healthy, had a general Eucrasia, and temperamentum ad pondus. Dr. Brown in his Garden of Cyrus, page 1. gives an ingenious proof of the great Antiquity of Physic, because Adam had a Dormitive, when he slept, while God performed all the parts of Chirurgery, in making Woman out of his side; but that's too Poetical. The Tailors will tread on our heels, with the same way of reasoning, and pretend near it if not equal Antiquity for their Craft, by the sewing of the Fig-leaves, and making Aprons. Others imagine, that after the fate of Abel, men bethought of Remedies for the accidents to which they saw themselves liable, but we have not the least footsteps, or colour of any such matter in History, sacred or profane; we are told very early of Musicians, etc. but no where of Diseases, or Healing.  
As to his Instance from History; viz. the Physicians Embalming Jacob, it's not at all to his purpose, being 2000 years after the Creation, as were the Diseases said to be among the Egyptians; as to his opinion, that Healing was invented before other Arts, it's not only destitute of proof but probability, at least where he refers, viz the holy Scripture, where it's plain, that Agriculture, making Tents, Music, Artifice in Brass and Iron, were soon upon the Creation, as is recorded Gen. 11. but not one word of Diseases, Hurts, or Healers. Beside which, before the days of Hypocrates, it's probable there were only some Emperical Practisers, that all the skill lay in such hands, and methods, as our Quacks, old Women, etc. with whom our Author is too angry to allow them Artists.  
In all this, I do not detract from this modest Assertion, That Medicine is a very ancient Art and practised by considerable men who were afterward Deified, as Apollo, the two Aesculapiu's of Egypt, and Greece, as the most learned, Dr. Charleton discourseth in the Preface to his first Cutlerean Anatomical Prelection.  
Of such groundless Assertions, and Insignificant Harangues, pretending to show the Origine, Antiquity, or Splendour of Inventions, etc. Of the Art of healing, (in which all, that's like sense or truth, is stolen, and corruptly transcribed from Parey, Read, Woodal, etc. He composeth his Chirurgical Introduction to this Treatise, which equals, if not exceeds that which preface his Book of Wounds. Of which pray accept a few Instances.  
Page 10. He bestirs himself to show the similitude and semblance, the little World, Man, hath with the great one, pray observe the wit and Ingenuity of it, for I assure you, IT's VERY EXTRAORDINARY — his outward Wall resembles the Element of Earth, its next covering made of Spermatick fibers Imitates WATER, that fine Web, Spun by the Almighty hand, which covers the brain, paints out Air, 
Did you ever hear of Fountains, and Rivulets of Fire, before now?  the Body of the brain itself, represents fire, this fountain sends forth many Rivulets,— its outward Cap very prettily resembles a fair Wood, clustered with young. Trees. The SALT Tears which trickle from his eye's carry a LIVELY RESEMBLANCE of Dow; Vapours obscuring his sight resemble Clouds and Mists; the noise in the Ears, Winds and Storms; frothy Spittle carrieth the lively portraiture of Snow, as well as Coagulatedor Conglohated phlegm the representative of hail, a Coryza in the nose carries the similitude of Rain, sneezing resembles Thunder, and the redness of the eyes Lightning: is not the Sun seen in the native heat of the brain, as well as the Moon in its watery Element. Jupiter in its temper, as well as Saturn in its Melancholy, Mars in its choler as well as Venus in its phlegm; into what extravagant Absurdities, doth this liberty of comparison, plunge a man? Is there any agreeableness, or umbrage of it, in the things he parallels, at this rate he might have resembled a man to any thing in the World, his great toe to a wheel-barrow, his nose to a carthorse; it had been more Ingenious. to have pursued the similitude, and made pissing in Bed the overflowing of Nile or a Neitherland Inundation, claps the burning Islands of Stromboli, Vulcania, Aetna, Fuogo Sh.— his Breeches, the Sulphurous, evomitions of those mountains, might he not have made a more pertinent Comparison between Farting and Thunder, a string of shankers and the chain of mountains, which Kircherus saith binds, and hoops about the Earth or the Windmill, and Vertigo in his own head, and the Copernican System of the Earth's motion.  
But trifling a part; let us seek somewhat serious, Page 24. He comes to define Chirurgery and thus he doth it. A Parey telleth us, it is an Art which informeth with reason, how we may cure, prevent, and mitigat diseases, by help of the hand, but it's more proper and essential definition is taken from eradicating diseases by Art, and manual operation. Thus busily endeavouring to amend Pareys definition, he ridiculously gives you the same, in terms nearly alike, though less expressive.  
Page 28. He saith a disease is incurable three ways, first when its so in its own nature, as the Elephantaisis. 2dly, When the Patient useth no proper means. 3dly. When the CURING one distemper threatens another. As to the first, that the Leprosy is incurable, is notoriously false. 2dly. The neglect of means cannot properly be said to render a disease incurable, unless there be no difference between the power, and the will, which is as egregious nonsense, as to say, a man cannot do that which he will not; and thirdly the CURING of one disease threatening another, is direct nonsense, contradiction, and begging the question. For in the very Assertion its supposed curable.  
Page 31. He saith, a Chirurgeon ought to be well Skilled in Anatomy, for hinc discimus artem rectissime operandi & securitate inscidendi. It being as the chief Pillar, or Basis, on which Chirurgery planteth its foundation. Now I cannot but admire, why if Anatomy be so very necessary, the chief Basis of Chirurgery, and its greatest Magazine, he hath so overweening a conceit of the ancient way of practice, when Anatomy was in its Infancy, 
See the Catalogue of Authors, Page 55 56. Which he recommends as the best Pilots.  full of defects, and errors.  
At what a Wild rate doth he talk of humours, in his second Chapter, which consists of ridiculous Assertions nonsense, and errors, and discovers both the great Folly and Theft of the publisher. I will only name some of them, presuming no Reader can want capacity to apprehend them, nor sense to perceive, where their vanity lieth, Page. 35. He saith they are more properly called humours, which are Juices made by the liver in the Sanguinary mass, for its nutriment, and thinning of the blood all over the Body, all those are choler, phlegm, and Melancholy. Page. 36. As the four humours do, work man into a good humour, so this Choler) burneth him into a passion, Page 39 He saith Choler hath but few Spirits somewhat of Sulphur, most of Salt and Earth, bred out of the thinner part of the Chyles, Page 42. He makes three sorts of Sapor, in phlegm, and adds as a fourth, its Insipidness. Page 43. He reckons as a first Species of Melancholy, Bilis nigra and a second Black choler. Page 45. He gives a Schem of humours, stolen from Pareus Lib. 1. Cap. 6. (one of the Crudest, and most erroneous things in that large Volume,) and asserts, that phlegm serves the brain, the cold and moist parts, and in taste is either sweet, or Insipid. Is like Water, of a liquid consistence, and yet Choler attenuates it, Melancholy is painting Earth doth nourish the Spleen and prepares an acidness for PREVENTING the blood. I profess I know not what he means by these last Assertions.  
His general division of Tumours is not more rational and consistent. Page 47. He saith an Abscess oft followeth a Phlegmon, and yet cometh without an Inflammation premised. Page 51. He Computes malign Ulcers among Melancholy tumours, and Aneurisms among Schirrus'. He defines ●nchymomata, and Metasmata, to be painful and dangerous effects of the Arteries, happening by contusion of the Abdomen. Page 52. He lists Epiplocele, Entero-Epiplocle, etc. among Tumours bred out of humours. And defines a Polypus to be an excrescence growing out of the Nostrils, as if that were the only part, to which they were incident. Page 55. He defines a Tumour to be a preternatural disease, very difficult because it hindereth contraction, and for this quotes Fallopius, without telling where it's delivered. I find in that Author, a multitude of Definitions examined, and non like this, 
Tom. 1. cap. 3. de tumour praeternat.  that which he give as his own, is in these words. Definitis ergo vera tumoris erat ista: Tumour est morbus instrumentalis simplex, in magnitudine extensa constans. Why our Author calls it a disease preternatural, I know not, I think Morbus had never any such Distinction, nor are there any diseases that are natural. What he means by calling it difficult, because it hindereth contraction, I cannot Fathom.  
At this wise rate, he proceeds. And hence it may raise in us a diligent enquiry hereof, how this first happened, what may be the best and safest way to sail herein, what the best order to observe, but before we launch too deep into the main Ocean, let us take and purchase such Pilots, as may safely bring us of from the Shelves, and Rocks, of fears and distrusts— Then after this nauseous preamble, he recommends the sta●e writings as the best Guides. Hypocrates, Galen, Aegineta, Albucas, Rhasis, Haly Abbas, Avicen, etc.— In pursuing him, you will find him ploughing with Parey, Read, etc. and filching from their writings, but he so confounds and disguiseth them, and makes such a rude disfigured Copy, that it's not presently discerned, but if any thing be erroneous, and trifling in an Author, it's so agreeable to his Genius, that he is sure to have it, as I shall further demonstrate anon.  
His sixth Chapter is of Phlebotomy, (how pertinent here, I need not say.) Where he talks as if he had never heard of Circulation, or did not understand it, (perhaps the Author, he was dealing with, wrote before Harvey) many of his positions and directions being contrary to that Doctrine; among the veins usually opened, he mentions not the Jugulars— Page 82, he makes no difference between Digestion, and Discussion, and seems to understand neither, for he calls the Fire an Evacuation of a thin matter, gathered in a part, by insensible evaporation, and that Digestives are hot and dry in the third degree, and of thin Parts, and instanceth in Mallows, Camomile, Ammoniacum, Lilies, Fenugrick, Red-Roses, March-Mallows, Melilot, Meal of Beans, Barley, Lupins, Lin-Seed, Mucilage Plaster, Violets, Saffron, Goose-Fat, Butter, Milk, Nightshade, & cujus contrarium, it's scarce credible, a man could so grossly err from the most common Rules of his Art, and such as are known almost to every Apprentice, being one of the first things they are taught; its plain he understands not the true Chirurgical notion of Digestion, the way of procuring it, nor the temper of Ingredients in most Common use for that end, for though he had delivered; that it must be procured by things hot and dry, in the third degree, he directs to many things of different, and some of the Contrary qualities; all that I have picked out from him, being cold, moist, or temperate, and that this is no slip or oversight in him, but his firm and fixed opinion, consult Page 88 and 107. of this same Book.  
Page 95. He saith, we must not bleed far distant from the Part affected, by which I perceive he forgets or knows not that Phlebotomy is often made near the Ankles, and that leeching the Hemorrhoids is frequently and successfully used for pain, and other diseases, of the Head. Page 88 He blunders, and runs into strange absurdities, and contradictory affirmations, concerning that way of treating ripe Tumours, the signs of ripe suppuration he gives us in this distracted way— The Tumour offers it as a sign of its tending to suppuration, by its intenseness, and when pain, inflammation, etc. increase, then use NO Digestives, but maturative Medicines, and if therefore we may procure the Tumour for this suppuration, and produce good laudable matter, we are to increase the quantity of Native Heat, by such Medicines as be of a digesting faculty, the which ought to be of the Native Heat with the Part, these are to be applied from the beginning of its Augment to the end of its Vigour.— Certainly I should correct a Boy, who had seen a plaister-Box but two years, if he talked in no better sort, than he in this unintelligible ramble, wherein he so contradicts himself, and for want of a good memory, sense, understanding, and way of expression, doth run into the strangest and most absurd Directions, I have met.  
At no better rate doth he deliver himself, Chap. 19 Concerning Choler, of which he saith there are three sorts, Natural, Preternatural, and Unnatural, and talks so disagreeable, and contrary to what he had done out the same subject, Page 39 (though neither of them reconcileable to sense, or Philosophy;) as shows in him a very great disposition or strong fate to error, for he cannot hit right in either Part of a Contradiction. Page 40. Choler is excrementitious, unfit for Nutriment, an enemy to the radical moisture, and yet Page 45. It nourisheth Parts of its own temper, Page 18. It perfects nature's works, is a Vehicle for nourishment 41. It's proper use is to render the excrements Fluxil 45. Moveth the expulsive faculties. 109. He denyeth it to have any bitterness or sharpness, I mean (quoth he) that in the Bladder of Gall, for else it would soon fret the guts in pieces, and beside this, daily experience showeth, it is free from any acidity, for it daily passeth through the kidneys, into the bladder, and then maketh its exit. Page 39 It hath in it no great quantity of Sulphur. Page 109. That which his Preternatural, though it doth not nourish the Body, yet it doth not offer any mischief to it, this is both unprofitable, and unnatural, and Preternatural, always hurting the Body— at this most incongruous, senseless rate he confounds the things he treats of. I am very sorry to find a man pretending to be acquainted with Books, and to understand Art, should write so much like a stranger to both, as well as to Common sense, and letters.  
His Discourse of Phlegm in the Chapter of Oedema in every whit was as wild and extravagant, Page 123. In one place he saith, those Tumours never suppurate, in another that they do, here he affirms they always possess remote Parts, and then gives an instance (stolen from Pareus) the only one he hath) of one on the lower Jaw, Page 132. He saith, a Schirrus is the only brat of Melancholy. If he mean as the words lie, to wit, that Melancholy hath no other brat, he contradicts what he had said, Page 51. If (as I believe he intended,) a Schirrus be the effect of Melancholy only, (one of them it must be) he hath contradicted that also, Page 134. Where he delivers, that that Tumour may arise from Phlegm only.  
His Discourse concerning the Breasts, 
Page 154.  and production of Milk, is of the same sort, and for the most part contradicted, Page 297. In the one its made of Blood, in the other its pure chyle, and nervous Juice; 
Page 156.  so he discourseth of Cancers, which first he resembles to a Seacrab, like whose claws it sticketh, and adhereth to the part so close, as a Key to a Door, HAVING IN IT, by some REPORTED TO CARRY IN IT exalted veins,— and at last he confesseth, this is more fabulous than true, and justifies its non sense,— he tells us, Page. 159. We may never expect to cure a Cancer, we ought not to meddle with Vlcerat Cancers, because by Galen held to be altogether incurable, neither ought we to attempt the cure of any other, but by amputation, which carried with it great danger, & hazard as Celsus offereth, & yet immediately after all this positiveness, he not only spends many Pages in a Method for cure, but subjoins two stories, the one from Hildanus, the other from Schenckius, of two that were healed; from this last named Author, I find him very often stealing the Observations, he quotes, to back and confirm his several Chapters, he was a laborious Learned Germane Physician, lived at Friburg in Brisgow, above an hundred years since, and published a vast Collection of Observations, Physical and Chirurgical, taken from all the Authors of any note, then extant. I know our plagiary is stealing from other later Writers, as Hildanus, Mat Glandorp, and one or two more, but his greatest and vilest thefts are from Schenckius, though he seldom name him, but such Authors as he quotes from; This is manifest to me, because I find him take him errors and all, where he misnames the Author or Chapter, or falsely represents the story, (as he sometimes doth,) our plagiary swallows it Verbatim, as I shall have occasion to prove by many Instances. I desire also that you would observe, wherever I say he steals, that then he names not the Author, where he doth fairly Cite the Book, I shall give it a more suitable Character.  
Page 185. He saith an Herpes exedens not only erodes the skin, but depopulates the subject flesh, Page 187. He gives you the story of one, which corrupped the whole thigh so vehemently, that the Chirurgeon thought to have made Amputation.— I believe it was such a Chirurgeon as himself, for where would he amputate, if all the member were infected, or to what end or benefit would it prove. When he distinguisheth between a Gangreen and aSphacelus, Page 191. He saith, in the former the parts are alive, and that the later is a completion thereof.  
I cannot pass by a novelty which he gives us in this Chapter, to wit, the History of a cure he performed on a gangrened leg, (as he calls it,) which because its his own, (an unusual thing in his writings,) I will take a particular regard to it. He ushers it in with this preamble— For brevity's sake, because I do not desire to swell up my book with TAUTOLOGIES, or commit to your reading, any thing you shall ELSEWHERE FIND PARALLEL,— who would think this should drop from the noddle of a man that had been so guilty of numerous Tautologies, and Impertinence, or had vended so many insipid stolen stories, but let's see this wonderful thing— a virtuous Gentlewoman, after a long sickness, had a very large great Inflammation seized her foot, he which very speedily spread her Leg, & got into the Thigh, with pain, heat, discolouration, & fever, my never to be too much esteemed Uncle, (he keeps much ado about this Nuncle of his,) being sent for, could not go; when I came, I found all those Symptoms, and consulted with MYSELF, AND REASON (it seems they are two distinct things,) and with this method, I got her loosed from the fears, and perplexities that threatened a Gangrene. I pray you, Sir, observe the manner how he relates this History, and the pertinence of the case here, together with the method which Mr. Brown, and Mr. Reason, after consultation had determined. His expressions are so palpably  and weak, that I need not point to them, a prolix scribbler affects brevity, a loquacious one disclaims Tautology, and a most imparalleled Plagiary affirms that he desires not to commit to our reading, any thing elsewhere to be matched, is like a Rebels pretending to Loyalty, a whore to Chastity, or a Thief, and Rook to honesty. I do not deny the story to be unparallel, because it's his own, and scarce to be matched in any Author but himself, for impertinence, etc. What is there in it of a Gangreen, when only her fears THREATENED one It's much to be wondered his awkward method had not made it such, the part was inflamed, had Pain, etc. And he anointes it with Oils, which in Page 122. He had cautioned his Reader against, in such cases, by an instance, where a Phlegmon became a mortal Gangreen upon the use of them, now if a Gangreen was only threatened at he saith, and Oils be apt to turn hot Tumours into that malady, he did not think this such, and if so, where is the extraordinariness of this imparalleled history, or what doth it in this Chapter, and in a discourse on that subject. I confess considering his way of treating it, it was strange that accident had not betided the poor Patient, for, as he said, Oils add fuel to the flame, and an inflamed arm was gangreen'd on the use of them, and yet he not only directs them as a remedy, and used them in embrocation, but mixed some with his Gallymaufry Cataplasm, composed of Ingredients, cold and hot, dry and humecting, adstringent and relaxing, repercussive and attractive, which would have served any intention as well as this, what effects it produced, seem very plainly confessed, in the sequel of the story, and how much skill, the man and the reason that advised him had, is also manifest, by applying a repercussive Ointment, and Poultice, to the critical metastasis of a disease, which ought rather to have been evacuated by Scarification and bathing, and expelled by Cardiack, and Aleixpharmac all sweats, according to that common direction, ubi natura movet, ibi move. I pray you observe, that in most of my quotations from him, I give you his own words, (where I do otherwise, it's not to his prejudice,) and in many places leave them naked, without remark or animadversion, because they are obvious, and that I am unwilling to stretch my letter to an exorbitant length. Thus I believe its enough barely to tell you, That he compares the Brain to Fire and the Sun for Heat, Page 10. And yet in many other places, talks of it at a rate, as would i'll a man to hear him. 
Page 13.  So also, That the wheels and Instruments of our motions, from first to last, 
14.  are lodged in our middle Region. That the Mediastinum keeps up the heart from falling. 
16.  That the Pancreas is tied to the Guts, as a Pillow or Prop, to keep up the Veins, Arteries, and Nerves. 
26.  That cutting hare-lips belongs to the separative Part of Chirurgery, reducing Ruptures, and curing blindness, 
28.  to the supplying Part. That Album, or the Common white Ointment, doth Agglutinate, and Consloidate. That solution of continuity must be removed, 
34.  (as if it were a substance, and to be remedied by Ablatrix. 
39 ) That Choler, is bred out of the thin, hot parts of the Chyle, and hath no Spirits. That insipidness is tastable. 
42.  Page 51. That Aneurisms are Schirrus', and malignant Ulcers a Melancholy Tumour. That an Abscess is a substance converted into Pus, 
57  & that when white Pus is making, a fever and pain occur, Page 84. And yet achieved without inflammation. That HIPPOCRATES CHRISTIANNED all Tumours Oedema. 
Page 66.  That Phlegm is the proper Instrument of the joints. 
67.  That the great Artery is not descending until it be as low as the Navel. 
75.  That Rue and Scordium are cold Antidotes. 
119.  That a hot intemperiety of the Liver breeds a plentiful quantity of blood, and a flux of humours to the face, causing an Erysipelas there. 
178.  That there is a double humour in a Carbuncle, the one flowing, the other flowed. 
191.  That a Gangreen is a disease consequent to the effect, not the cause. That in an Unguis, 
251.  Paulus, adviseth to sprinkle a little salt in fine powder on it, mixed with the white of an egg, and so applied on Cotton or Lint. That a pair of cold nippers or forceps, 
256.  induce a Cicatrix. 
289.  That a humour appearing outwardly is a most certain sign of an Empyema. These and a great many, more which I pretermit, are wise say of ours kilful Author, and need only be cited, and exposed. Some more concise phrases, and modes of expression, are Familiar to him, as running soars calling in their leakage, depopulating the flesh, a heathen Christian a disease, etc. But I wave them, chap. 29. He flourisheth in his discourse of Amputations, at a rate, that would tempt an unwary Reader to believe, he hath been a man of extraordinary practice in war's, and experience in foreign Countries, beside a particular excellency in that operation, but when you come to inspect his Chapter, and compare it with other Authors, or the most Common and vulgar way, you will find it less considerable than the worst of them, and that they signify no more to instruct Youth, or direct an Artist, than the silly insignificant picture, which he saith doth give a lively portaicture of this operation, which its so far from being, that scarce any thing can be less descriptive, or more erroneous, for he paints the Chirurgeon sawing upon the undivided flesh of a leg, obliquely over the calf thereof, and instead of a griper, you have a fellow that looks (more than half scared,) in the operators face, and instead of gripping, leans upon the upper part of the patient's knee, he makes a ligature above the Elbow, as if he were going to bleed him, and passeth his knife as far below it, no dress, or Instrument in the whole scene, save a knife, and a saw with the teeth wrong set, no dish of Ashes, Rolers, Fire, Irons, or other necessaries common in that work, but the whole draught seems made by one possessed which the vulgar error, that Surgeons, in taking off the limb, saw through flesh and all, his nuncupative Directions are such as no less tempt me to believe him a a stranger to the expert way of Amputation, for he saith, you must make strict bandage by a Roler, below the knee, and below that, divide the flesh, (is any men the wiser for these Directions) he calls a catling a dividing knife, and adviseth therewith to separate the membrane, (it should be the flesh) between the bones, but not one word of the periosteum on them, no other than a corrosive dress to the ends of the bone, than he directs to unctuous, and slabby dresses, even to the end of the cure, which certainly can never cure the stump of a Leg, (of which he then discourseth,) for want of dryers and detergers, to suppress the fungus and exuberant flesh, and desiccate those stubborn difficult ulcers, which they always result into. Moreover a man would expect from one of practice or skill, a better Testimony, than the dismembering a Child above the Elbow, which is the only one he doth (or perhaps then could,) produce de proprio, as which that of a man's great Toe had been as considerable an instance.  
I find (him, as I have already hinted,) often mistaken in the Chirurgical notion of Digestion, and of the faculty of Digestive Medicine, viz. That they rarify and discharge matter per poros cutis, which is properly discussion, dissipation, or dispelling. Digestion is by all Artists known to mean suppuration or maturation, ripening or turning into Pus or quittor extravasate blood, lacerate fibres, or other matter cast out of the vessels This every Boy knows to be the first Intention in curing wounds, and he himself hath so said in the 69 Page of his Book of that Subject, how different it is from his sense thereof in this place, and elsewhere, and how fit he is to write Books, who hath so bad a memory, and so wrong a Judgement, I refer even to himself.  
An Hydrocephalus, he saith, 
Page 225.  is to be cured by insensible evacuation, as being that which he much better approves of than sensible; BECAUSE it's neither so safe, nor so secure— Jesus! He is so great an enemy to sense, that he will not endure it in his practice, how then can we expect it in his writings, I perceive now the reason for all the errors, nonsense, and falshhoods in his Books i. e. because things less safe, or secure, are with him most eligible; was there ever such a reason given before, or any thing preferred on such a principle? Well, dear Squire, next Edition of Baker's Chronicle, thou shalt be recorded for one of the men of note, in Charles the Seconds time; should he endeavour to excuse his perverse passage, by pretending it a slip of his pen, or that he meant that the sensible was the less safe way, how came he to overlook it, when he corrected the Errata of the Press, or what makes him speak so kindly of a Paracentesis in the same Chapter, which he concludes with five stories, all stolen from Schenckins, 
Obs. med. Page 9  and mostly represented his wont way, in that from Leonellus, puer, a young child. Scissurae apparebant apertae. You might see the sutures through the Scalp. Gausa jstius— propter obstetricem, vel propter nutricem quae quandoque in extractione foetus, vel in nutriendo, vel in fasciendo caput, stringunt ultra modum, The cause of which was occasioned by the Midwife, and the Nurse, the one in extracting the child from the womb while the other did second it by compressing its head, exprimitur humidit as illa, quae est in Cerebr●; ad exterior a cranii inter acutum, et cranium, & sic intumescit caput vehementer. The humidity itself, which was in the brain, came to the outward covering of the head, and thither pressed out its humidities, and this was th● occasion of this tumified head.  
After the same wise exact manne● he translates the fourth story, puerul●● nuper natus, a Child nutrici imperavimus, ut victus ratione exsiccante uteretur; Illamque saepius purgavimus cum Pil. Hiera. He commanded the Nurse that HE might have a drying Diet. It was often times purged with Pills of Hiera Picra.— Thus what was said by the Author to be given the Nurse, is by the plagiary said to be given to the Infant, which at once showeth his skill in Latin and Physic, for none but an Ignorant in both, could so mistake, & think that Pills, & such a Pill, 
P. Forest. obs. med. lib. 8. obs. 29.  could be swallowed by an Infant, for such in the Original Author, the patiented is said to be. The Fifth History of this Chapter, which our filcher quotes from Montanus de Infant. Page 8. is truly in Hieron. Montuus de Infant. Prag. Page 8. and thus translated. Vir qui furnariam exercebat. A Smith cum tenuissima victus ratione By keeping every kind of a thin Diet, but to put his Skill in Physic and Latin beyond all question; consider his Chapter of Cataracts Page 240. Where he affirms, that they arise from thick and sumid vapours arising from the Stomach, and so getting into the substance of the Brain, are from thence sent and diffused into the Eye, and at length do there contract its concretion; and as Platerus doth observe, it groweth in length of time to the thickness and hardness of an Excocted Egg, (so he renders tandem albuminis ovi excocti instar diuturnitate albescat & induretur. Which words are in Schenckins, who (as doth our Author) quotes them from Forestus, in whose works I can find nothing like it,) and among other remedies, Page 243 he directs to this Pill as a purgative. 
So the like Page 324.  ℞ Syrup. Pill. sine quibus, 1 sc. Pil. Cynoglo. half dr. ol. faeniculi. gr. iiij. Syrup. Beton q. s. F. Pil.— a Cataract in the Eye, as big and hard as a boiled Egg, generated by Fumes from the Stomach, carried through the Brain, and to be purged off by an Opiate Pill, (Narcotical enough to make a man sleep out his Eyes, rather than Purgative sufficient or proper to carry off a Cataract) are things which no Man of the least Skill, (if be he in his wits,) would assert, and too plainly disco●vers our Author doth not understand the things he writes of, nor the Author he writes from, although h● pretend to both. In the same Page where he gives you this admirable Pill, he presents you with a Collyrium, made of Juice of Ground jvy, Caelndine, Daizies, Rose-water, and white Sugar Candied. Which in the Margin he calls his own. I cannot judge it a proper Medicine, to dissolve a Cataract, nor to have the qualities he ascribes, viz. attenuating, and penetrating. I take the ground-Jvy to be very binding, and for that faculty celebrated in Dysenteries, Haemoptysis, internal Wounds and Ulcers, the Rose-Water and Sugar, cannot pretend to it, and the Celandine (be it which sort it will,) and daizies, have it too weak to perform such a cure, by dissolving a suffusion in the Eye, the Medicine is Common, and good in Ophthalmies, Epiphora, etc. And to be found in many Books; but by none that I know, commended in this case, wherefore I must leave the honour of that, to our skilful Author, he doth not show how to discover a mature Cataract, or one that's fit for the Instrument, not the true or intelligible way of couching, he calls this operation, the only piece to be admired of all Chirurgery, he gives an Impertinent story of the mischievous effects of a rotten Apple, and makes a false quotation from Riverius, as additional proofs of his skill and sincerity, and concludes with a silly uselless picture, page 245. Which he a lively portrait of the operation, with all the necessary Instruments belonging thereto. When there appears nothing, but one man poaching another between the Canthus of the left Eye, and the Temple, and not one Instrument delineated, nor the other Eye bound fast, nor any sign, that he who directed the Graver, understood the operation.  
Page 236, he sets down, as from Hercules Saxonia, a Story stolen from Skenckius, wherein (according to his wont way of nonsense) he delivers, that a Woman having the Disease called Tinea, by lotions recovered her health, but in the INTERIM, she endured continual pain and Fever, of which she died.— Recover of a Disease, and in th●● interim die of its effects! recove●● health, and in the interim endu●● continual, and deadly pain, Fever, & ●●. Is no more agreeable to sense, tha● it is to the original. Vide obs. 3. de Cute Capitis lib. 1.  
Page 256. Speaking of Polypus Forceps, he declares, that they perform 4 Intentions of which Cicatrizing is one. It's the first-time I ever knew, tha● done by a cold Instrument. But mark his Explanation, it apprehends, and draws forth like forceps, and thirdly separates the Polypus, from the Bone, and for the 4th or last, (which was inducing a Cicatrice) we throw up a Powder, and thus, quoth he, I have shown you all its 4 intentions. To this he adds a Figure of the Instrument, (no way like that of the Inventor 
† Tabula 3d.  Fab. ab. Aq. Pendente, (though Mr. Cook says he gives none,) nor that in 
* Tabula 9  Scultetus, which are the only two, I know, extant of that sort. How unfit for this work, I shall have occasion to show you by and by.  
That heap of foul errors Page 258. concerning Glandules, I forbear to expose, till I see how he mends the matter, in his adenography, and tract of strumas.  
Page 260. He tells us, a Woman had a Parotis, in which the matter was plainly prepared, but the tough Skin, kept it in longer than it should, at length it broke, the Patient falls into Swoonings, little or nothing comes from the Abscess, and she died: Hence may the Chirurgeon learn that they do not break Abscesses of the Emunctuaries, or their Neighbouring Parts, until they of their own accord do break— Bless me, what a Preachment is here! The Apostume break, nothing came out! The Skin, behind the Ears so thick, to suppress a Mature Abscess! And from all this to infer, that it's not good to break such Tumours by Art! When in all probability, the want thereof destroyed the Patient, is strange History, a very absurd reasoning. Thus again Page 261, advising how to cure an Epulis, or Fungus of the Gums, he saith, that which is not painful may be reveled, the manner of which may be this way acted and performed, by tying a double Thread about it, and bring the same every day straighter, until you have wholly eaten it away, the makes no difference between Revelling and Extirpation, nor Incision and Erosion.  
By his Chapter of Struma's and Scrophula, 
Page 265.  I foresee how fit he is to write an entire Volume on that Disease, he saith Scrophula is a Wen, and Struma the King's Evil, and immediately subjoins, Scrophula is soft, and Wens are hard. As if they were two, which just before he had made one, so Page 281. How their Tumours are Translated from one place to another, attribute chiefly to the Nerves in their Operations, these being most proper Messengers, to carry to and fro.— This is not said like one that understood the Nerves, nor is the Chapter written, as if he knew either the causes, or remedies of the disease it treats of, for he saith nothing of what was most suitable to a Chirurgical discourse thereof, viz. manual operation, designedly omitted perhaps, to make it a COMPLETE Treatise. I take the less notice of this Chapter, because I expect a greater occasion from his Treatise of that disease.  
Page 281. the second quotations here, are stolen from 
* Obs. med. Page 210.  Schenkius, 
† Pract. lib. 6. cap. 7.  or Riverius, that of Aetius falsely said to be the 5 cap. lib. 6. Instead of lib. 15. cap. 6. Truly I have sought in Aetius both in his Chapter de Angina, and where he relates the virtues of Agarick and can no where find what these men say, as from him. Agaricum occultos Abscessus absorbere, vel for as materiam evocare, which our plagiary thus renders, Agarick doth suck up hidden Abscesses, AND draw them outward; monuiquene Illam statim deglutiret. he was ordered not to swallow it, he other ways spoils the story, by adding water to the gargoyle, and divers omissions, that made it considerable.  
The Tonsils or Amigdals, 
Page 283.  he saith, are made, or framed, out of a cold concreted, oleaginous, and malleous substance, save only that its thicker, and more firm, and this he saith is allowed by Dr. Wharton, Adenographia, that he understood not (though he would Ape,) that excellent and Learned Author, pray consider his description of those Glands cap. 22. Substantia similaris tonsillarum friabilis, & quasi granulata est, instar 
* From hence he saith they are malleous.  mellis, aut olei frigore concreti, nisi quod firmius cohaereat, & veluti membranea connexione. Est similiter colori● subflavi, tactui mollis, coctione tamer induratur, quip dum cruda est, spongiosa, & porosa conspicitur, eam vero porositatem coctione amittit. This he proceeds to translate. They are of a yellow colour, soft in touch, but in being boiled hard, spongious, and porous.  
Page 289. He delivers as a most certain sign in a Empyema, that some humour appears outwardly, lodging betwixt the Ribs, and the exterior parts, or it's discerned by its Tumour, and after he hath very weakly treated of the disease, omitting the best through common Remedies, and exact way of apertion, he gives us a curtailed story from Riverius, in most parts of it falsely represented and abridged, it being no where in the Original, That the Patient was able only to walk upward, or that the Abscess after it did break inward, did also break outward.  
Page 294. He saith, Tumours of the Diaphragma are made of hot matters, and in the next Page saith, Phlebotomy is no way proper, because the Peccant matter is cold, in the end of the same Chapter, he saith, HE once saw in a Gentleman, a Tumour bred in the Diaphragm, out of crude and thin blood, in which pain and difficulty of breathing, a ●hard and small pulse, were present, the matter & humour was cold, & tough and crude.— This he relates, as if it were is own, when it's manifestly stolen from Schenkius Page 277, bating the contradiction and nonsense, viz. That the humour was thin and yet tough, the pulse hard and small, and that for the performance of this disease, there is required pain, difficulty of breathing, a hard, small pulse, little or nothing changing itself, his account of a Gonorrhoea, and its causes, is as full of absurdity, and mistake, as is that of Ruptures, 
Page 300.  viz. That they dwell in the Hypogastrick Region. 
Page 310. — Have their lively forms and shapes, in the Tumours of the Testicles— other humours have allowed them three Causes, as being bred out of an influx of humours, decumbency of parts, or congestion— the Testicles being the chief causes, and effects, of most of those Ruptures.— After many such wild assertions, he falls into that common error, concerning the Testicles, that they are Glandulous, and for it quotes Celsus, lib. 7. cap. 28. Where is no such thing, it's an unhappy quality, that (as in this case) where every Anatomist might have been cited as an evidence, he chooseth one, that comes not up to his case, and can give him no help; the place he meaneth, must be the 18th not 28 chap. for that only treateth de testiculorum natura, etc. And therein he hath these words. Igitur testiculi simile quiddam medullis habent, nam sanguinem non emittunt, & omni sensu carent. This is all the Description he gives of them, and no where he saith they are Glandules, or Glandulous, I know Dr. Wharton lately so describes them, as did Galen, Fallopius, Riolan, Spigelius, Veslingius, 
Adenogr. c. 28.  Highmore, etc. But A. D. 1667. Reynerus de Graef, an inquisitive Anatomist, of Delft in Holland, in his most Exact and Ingenious Treatise, De virorum Organis generationi inservientibus, as also in his defensio, and Letter to the. Royal Society, Philos. Transact. Numero, 52. (where you have the Experiments of Dr. King, confirming that of Mr. Graeff,) hath most unanswerably confuted that Opinion, proved it a mistake, and demonstrated, that the Testicles devested of the tunica Albuginea, are only a congeries of Vessels, and their Liquors, without any parenchymas— congeries minutissimorum vasculorum semen conficientium, quae siabsque Ruptione dissoluta sibi invicem adnecterentur, facile viginti ulnarum longitudinem excederent— illa enim, qui testas corpora Glandulosa pronunciant, vehementer errand, quando quidem in toto teste neminima quidem pars glandulae conspicicatur.  
How he swerves from the right notion of Hemorrhoidal Fluxes, and the Anatomy of that part, will be very plain to him that will compare it with the very just and ingenious account Mr. Wiseman gives thereof, page 212. And although our Spark impudently affirmeth, that Modern, as well as Ancient Anatomists, allow of his Description of their Origination, let him show one, since the Circulation, that doth so; or that saith, the Hemorrhoid Veins pour forth their blood, or that the blood which is there spewed out, cometh from the Porta to the Anus; and I will confess there hath been one beside him in the world, that hath talked at Random, and without Book, as he doth in this Chapter, p. 374. And therefore it is necessary, that the melancholy blood should this way be discussed; for by this passage only is Melancholy best discussed, and the Schirrus of the Spleen cured. So page 311. The Testicles have a VERNACULATIVE FACULTY, of attracting and educing the spermatick matter, from all parts of the body, page 315. If you perceive a soft Tumour in the Inguen, suspect a DILATION, being made by the Intestines; a Bubo in the beginning BEING hard, especially BEING venereal, it being a Rupture— page 324. he calls a decoction of Osmond Royal, Rupture-wort, Comfry-Roots, Bistort, Aniseed, flor. Hyperici, made in Red Wine (all which are Adstringent) sweetened with Syrup of Comfry, a PURGING APOZEM. Page 327. He directs to melt Olibanum, sang. Draconis, bolus Arm. Mastic, Aloes, Mummy, and Thus, over a gentle fire, into an Emplaster, which it will as soon do, as Brickbats. Page 329. He calls, Half an ounce of Syrup, mixed with nine onnces of a Liquor, an excellent Syrup; errors that an Apothecaries Boy of one years standing to the  and Mortar, would have more sense, than to be guilty of.  
Page 333. He directs to put the Patient to bed, with his head supinely or downward; his whole Chapter of Sarcocele, is defective and erroneous, both in the notion of the disease, its cause, remedy, etc. as also that of an Hernia Humoralis, page 258. so he contradicts and blunders, page 365. defining a pestilential Bubo, to be a tumour long, and movable, sharp, with a mucronated turbination , and deeply fixed in the Glandules, concomitant with a putrid Fever, wherefore bleeding is very requisite, and in purging be sure you mix, &c speaking of vesicating in the Plague, he saith, they may be used, if your Patiented lives to use them, but it's very rare, for they seldom are cured, they dying the first day. Page 384. Revulsive MEDICINES are hot and ATTRACTING, viz. Scarification, and Friction, and Nodes are bred from a hard Phlegmatic Phlegm. If the perusal of this sort of nonsense, be pleasant to you, the end of the 390 page, the beginning and middle of the 391. will afford you delight.  
I am already weary with raking in this heap or confused mass of error and absurdity, and almost tired with the unpleasant Employ of exposing and chastizing this wanton Ignorant. It's of no more credit than to correct a Boy, and not a whit more difficult than to castigate a Cripple, nor indeed more pleasant than to poor in a Dunghill; I will therefore end with this Book, after I have given you one or two remarks more, out of many under my Eye. Page 317. he saith, Women for the most part are troubled with a Bubonocele, because the Womb falleth down from the Vterus, and so doth produce an Hernia Vterina. What he meaneth by that nonsense, that the Womb falleth from the Womb, is to me, and perhaps to himself, unknown; but by it, and his way of reporting the Observation from Fabritius (tho' he says not which) of a prolapsed Vterus; it's manifest, he doth not understand the true History of that Disease, but with the Ancients, and many Moderns, thinks the Real Matrix appears in the pudenda, and is the esse of that protuberance, called (though very corruptly, and improper) procicidentia Vteri.  
There was scarce any oversight, or mistake the Ancients were guilty of, that is more strange, and to be admired than this, that so many intuitive men should see the number of Vessels, that terminate, and are fastened to the Womb, and must be unavoidably broken in its proper prolapsion, and consequently great extravasations of Lympha, Blood, etc. be thrown into the Abdomen, that men knowing the number and strength of the ligaments, etc. which fasten that bowel, and frequently seeing the utmost force of a man, used to extract a Child, mola, secondine, etc. without begetting the exitus; nay, (which is more strange,) that they should write not only that they have seen Women, cui uterus plurin●um prociderat, gerentem in utero, 
lib. 11. cap. 27.  as doth 
* Prax. lib. 15. cap. 14.  Trincavella, 
† Sennertus Platerus Zacutus Benevenius. Wierus Avenzoar vide de Graef mulier. org. cap. 10. Job. meckeren obs. chir. 54.  Riverius, etc. but that after part, sometimes the whole Womb, hath fallen out, and been extirpated, the Women have not only recovered, but conceived, (as is to be seen in some of their * Observations,) and yet be so blind, not to see the absurdity, or discover the mistake, is to me a very great wonder.  
Ambros Pary, a man intuitive, sagacious, learned and bold, a good Anatomist, and excellent Chirurgeon in his time, giveth the History of the Dissection of a Woman, from whom the whole Womb (as they thought,) had been extirpated; and finding unexpectedly in the Abdomen, a substance like it, (though indeed it was the same) he is content, and pleased with calling it the effect of natural Industry, to supply the want of that which they had cut away thus; (such is the power of Opinion, and force of Eduution, even over wise men,) by a slight piece of fancy, and groundless conceit, he conquered and solved the many difficulties, that attended those Phoenomena; particularly how the Testicles should appear in a Womb prolapsed, since the Vterus, if it fall out, must be inverted, and consequently all the Oviaryes, Fallopian Tuba, etc. be buried and lie hidden.  
But that after the mistake hath been long discovered, the truth for some years found out, and published by men of note; nay when Sckenchius (our Authors great Intimate) had published the History of a Woman, quae cum uteri procidentia laborans, concepisset, our Writer of complete Discourses, should be ignorant thereof, would be yet more strange, if such incorrigible Ignorance were not common to him, and took off the wonder. Procidentia Vteri, est Relaxatio tunicae internae Vaginae, qua per pudendum prolabitur, is the definition of 
1 lex, medicam.  Blancard, and the sense of 
2 obs. med. chir. 3.  Rhoonhuyse, 
3 Prax lib. 4 cap 10.  Barbet, 
4 mul. organ. cap. 10.  De Graeff, 
5 in vesling. anat. cap. 7.  Blasius, 
6 obs. chir. 54.  Meckeren, 
7 Spigel anat. o●s. 20.53.  Kirkringius, etc. which last save one, and Rhoonhuyse, have put the thing beyond dispute by divers Observations; particularly one of a Woman, from whom was cut off a prolapsion of a monstrous bigness, and a ligature left above the incision, the Woman dying in four days, divers, who saw the operation, were at the dissection, and though men of the erroneous opinion were convinced by seeing the entire Vterus, the Ovari's etc. remain in due place, and in the midst of the Vagina, the unhealed place of extirpation, with the ligature about it.  
The Women of Holland being generally of a large size, Phlegmatic and full of moisture, their bowels more lubricous, and slippery, and (according to Common Fame) their Vulva's higher, and lower than others, none may be presumed more incident, than they, to a prolapsion of the real Vterus, (if such could be) and consequently those Authors, being all of them of that Country, and eminent Practizers, could not be Ignorant thereof, or deceived into a wrong opinion. I once dissected a Woman, who died of an Ascitis, which had vexed her two years, and had for ten months a very large prolapsion, two Physicians were present, and saw the womb entire, and that the Tumour was a Sarcoma, or excrescence of the inner coat of the Vagina. I have been called to a Woman with Child, who hath had this accident very largely, and I know another, Mother of divers Children, that always since her first bringing forth, had a small prolapsion in her last month, after Conception.  
But to return to our Author. Page 378. Gins his Chapter of Aneurisms, in treating of which, he omits divers necessary things, and commits many extravagant ones, and that not only in the manner but matter of his discourse, which I shall have occasion more at large to canvas, when I come to consider his Notions thereof, Page 280. In his Book of wounds, there he tells us, that some allow inward Causes, and reckons as such CONTUSION, CONCUSSION, Intenseness, and Obstruction, these being accounted the chief inward Causes. An Absurdity and Tautology that would make a Schoolboy Blush— Contusion, Concussion, the chief inward Causes, and not one word of Erosion, Impetus, Plethora, etc. Which are common, and very considerable ones.— Some (quoth he) also add melancholy blood as a Cause, but the most usual sign of its Causes, is drawn from the Ignorant Surgeons pricking too deep— the two scopes of cure, are Pharmacy and Chirurgery, the first are convenient Ligature, (excellent Pharmacy) and Led, strictly bound over the part. If it be large, and in the INGUEN, expect no cure, Page 378. Large Aneurisms NOT happening in the GROIN, or head, are accounted mortal. 380. Ligature of the Artery in an Aneurism, is dangerous, troublesome, painful, and seldom brings any benefit to the patiented, I would rather have Amputation— at this perverse rate, he amuseth them that cannot understand him, and misguides those who think they do, and this not only by his pen, but his pencil; his pictures may please youths, profit them they cannot. Page 166. He pretends to show by Sculpture, the manner of Amputating a Cancerate Breast, but gives you nothing like it, save a Woman dressed very modish, sitting in a chair, and a man with a Pencil, as it were marking, or writing on her Breast, which is half covered with her , not in any posture, or is there any Instrument fit for the operation. Just so he gives a lively portraiture, (as he calls the picture Page 245.) of couching a Cataract, that looks nothing like it, but as if one were going to bleed another in the Temple; his lively picture expressing the manner of Amputating large Limbs, Page 205. I have already examined. Page 256. He shows himself as unable to draw after another's figure, or depaint pictures, or stories, (especially Latin ones,) this is manifest in that of Aqua Pendents Polypus Forceps, which are not at all like the Original, or that in Scultetus, nor his own Description, for the edge of the curved end, which should cut through the Pedunculus of a Polypus, and aught to be sharp for that purpose, is delineated thicker than the edge of a mill-crown.  
Thus, Sir, in defence of my censure, and Apology for my caution, in buying books at all adventures. I have freely imparted to you those observable faulty passages, which I found in Mr. Brown's first Book, that bawlkt me; There remains only that I show, how little it deserves the title of being Complete; what Impertinent, and superfluous Chapters it contains, and how far from having those many excellent, modern Observations, said, in the Title Page, to conclude most Chapters.  
It cannot be a complete Treatise of Tumours, because it treats not of all the diseases properly so called, and very defectively and erroneously of those it doth, the later I have sufficiently evinced; as to the former, he omits Priapismus, Polypus Cordis, Arthritis nodosa, Anchylops, and some Tumours about the eyes. Spina Ventosa, Variola, Hypersarcosis, Testudo, Phymosis, Paraphymosis, Gangleon, Thymi, Crystae, Condyloma, Exitus ani, Procidentia Vaginae & Vteri, gutta Rosacea, Elephantiasis, Impetigo, Ecchymosis, Varex, Pernio, Furuncle, Epynyctis, Terminthus, Tympany, Gibbosities of the joints in the Rickets and Gout, Tumours Symptomatical to wounds, and Contusions, Tumours of the Collumellae, or Wula, abscesses of the womb and vagina in Childbed, Warts, Corns, Scorbutic Tumours, intumescency of the Spleen, and many more, to be found in other Writers on this Subject.  
His Impertinent Chapters, treating of Subjects not properly comprehended among Tumours, are that of Phlebotomy, Vlcerate Cancers, Herpes exedens, Tinea, Cataract, Gangreen, and Spacelus, because they are often without swell, and use not to be computed among them.  
His Observations, are some of them quoted (though stolen at second hand) from Galen, Hypocrates, Paulus, Albucasis, Aetius, Celsus, Halyabbas, Rhasis, etc. and such as were very ancient; the rest are either from Vigo, Schenkius, Aqua pendente, Bauhinus, Benivenius, Fallopius, Hildan us, Forestus, Guido, Laurentius, Lusitanus, Placentinus, Tagaultius, Pareus, Vigierius. Who, (and their contemporaries,) he calls the Ancients. Page 216. of his Book of wounds, many of them wrote above 200, most of above one hundred years since, all of them before this age, there then remains, as truly modern, of all his Catalogue, only Bannister, Crook, Read, Wharton, and Barbet, the two former are accounted old, and long since dead, so is Dr. Wharton, and Dr. Read, but allowing them modern, and add Barbet, they have not yielded him one in ten of his Observations, and Schenckius more than altogether, so that contrary to his Mountebank Title-Page, instead of most of the observations being modern, they are almost all old, yea very Ancient.  
His Book of Wounds, we find written when he was a year older, tho' not a jot wiser, than when he hatched that of Tumours, one years' experience hath not strengthened his reason, added Nerves to his Judgement, or bettered his acquisitions; we find some alteration in his face by the picture, but not a whit in his abilities by the discourse, although with his wont vanity, he calls it also Complete. Indeed he runs his Chapters into as great a number, and the Treatise into as many divisions, as I have met in any Book, mincing them so, that he gives us one Chapter concerning wounds of Arteries and veins, and another for wounds of the veins and Arteries, 
viz. cap. 60.61.  and hath scarce avoided giving one for the cure of this thigh, another for that; one for the first, another for the second toe, of this or that foot. Who they are that divide the art, into so many parts, he tells them, Page 136. I know some others have been very nice and particular, I wish our Author had out-don them in other things, that he might justly claim the Epithet, he hath given his Book, surely we have had in our own age, and Mother-Tongue, Books of wounds, less incomplete, (unless unnecessary division, be a perfection,) and our presumptuous Ignorant, venturing to appear on the Stage (like a farce, following an excellent Comedy) after those, whom he was not able to imitate, much less excel, deserves to be hist off again.  
How fit he was to perform the promise of his Title-Page, and writ Books, he gives you an early demonstration, in that Farrago, which he gins with, and calls Chirurgical Institutions as touching wounds, than which perhaps there never was so confused and impertinent a thing; words jumbled together like lots, and thrown out by chance, would cohere as pertinently, and as much to the purpose, as this galley mawfry, a pretty teacher of young Surgeons, that had need be taught himself the first Principles of the Art, of which he undertakes to Write Complete Books.  
He weakly attempts to set forth the usefulness of Chirurgery, but doth it as slovenly, as when he undertook it in the beginning of his Book of Tumours: Ligature he makes to be of two sorts, 
See Galen, Fallopius, etc. and you will find near 100  † strait and slack, Incision and Cautery, he saith, must be so performed, that it bring NO pain to the patiented. Cupping-Glasses, he saith, are generally used for Revulsion, and yet draw from the remotest parts. He then only names three or four Instruments, most in use, to extract extraneous bodies, and in using them adviseth the young Chirurgeon not to be too hasty, because sometimes nature will lend her assisting hand to his work, an excellent reason, confirmed by three as Idle and Impertinent Experiments, two of which might have served any purpose as well as this for which he designs them, one is from Albucas, of a Woman shot into the Belly with an arrow, and recovered of the wound; another from Gilbertus Anglicus, of a man shot into the guts with an Arrow also, which was DRAWN FORTH with the excrements, can any mortal unriddle the use of these stories here, and make them any way pertinent, in a dehortation from a speedy extracting of Bullets, or extraneous body from out of a wound; the third from Alsaharavius, he quotes false Tract. 6. instead of the 16. and all of them (according to his wont sincerity) stolen from Schenkius.  
At the same rate he treats, of the difference of weapons, some (quoth he,) are taken from their figure, round, etc. having SHARP points.— Some from their habits, some of which are SHARP pointed,— is not this pure Logic, to make an Identity, a Diversity; he then only names the pocket-Instruments, and over again the great ones, together with the names, and a concise account of the natures of some Plasters, in which its pleasant to behold his skill, Empl. Mucilaginibus (quoth he,) partly mollifies, and partly digests, and in some measure doth suppurate, it is generally reckoned among the emollients and suppurative. Surely I need not tell you, where the Impertinence and Tautology of this passage lieth, I know I writ to an Artist, and a man of sense, to whom a bare representation of his faulty passages, without comment or remark, is sufficient.  
But if you will behold the most superlative Nonsense and Impertinence, that perhaps ever issued from the pen of any Writer, read that train of hard words, which he calls, the Appropriation of Medicine. I should undoubtedly believe them stolen from some Lexicon, or Physical Dictionary, if I had ever seen one so absurd, for here are Medical and Chirurgical Terms, and Remedies promiscuously, without respect to parts, or Alphabet, obtruded among Chyrurgical Institutions as touching wounds, and many of them so falsely explained as showeth the prodigious Ignorance of the Publisher. What in the name of dulness & nonsense, have Oreticks, hepatics, Spleneticks, Hystericks, Nephreticks, Arthriticks, Aperitives, Carminatives, Diaphoreticks, cathartics, Emetics, Diuretics, Sudorifiques (again) and Salivaticks, to do among Chirurgical Institutions of wounds, except to show the weakness, of the artless, unthinking, Illator, what can discover his unskilfulness more than his Impertinence, for beside his saying Cephalicks are Medicines APPLIED to the head, as if there were no internals; Oreticks, APPYED to the stomach, do by their delicate taste delight, and please it; as if a man's palate, or gusto were without him, anodynes by a gentle heat, ease pain, as if they were not, most of them, of the contrary temperament, Carminatives, expel wind by an anodine quality, as if they did not assuage pain, by expelling wind; Incarnatives, OR Epuloticks, as if there were no difference betwixt a Sarcotick, and Desiccative, he there (as if none of the abovementioned had been Internals) gins to reckon such, as are (quoth he,) inward Medicines, bringing sweaters, under the name of Sudorifiques, which he had accounted, under that of Diaphoreticks among his pretended externals! Go, dear scribbler, read Woodal, Lowe, Vade mecum, and such A. B. C. Authors, & consult Castellus, Blancard, or one of Culpeppers or Salmon's explanation of hard terms of Art, before you set up again for an Author or adventure to write more Books.  
He finisheth those his Institutions, (as he calls them) with old fulsome distinctions of wounds, (which he pretends he had from Galen, Avicen, Guido, etc. When in all probability, he went no further for them than Pary,) which shows him a stranger to the more concise and polite fashion of the age, which rejects all such impertinent and unnecessary distinctions, because they (for the most part) consist of accidental not essential differences, and are of themselves not really useful in cure, or enable an Artist a whit the better, to serve his Patient, but are the Inventions of Ancient Writers, in the compliance with the rules and niceties of their other studies and ways of erudition, this he might have found suggested by two of the latest, (and perhaps the best) Surgeons, that have written in these days. viz. Wiseman, and Barbet, the former in divers places, especially his Book of wounds, and diseases of the anus, the other in the Preface to his Chirurgical, Anatomical. works.  
At length after many hard words, he lets his Reader pass on to the Book itself, where he entertains us with a rant against such as you make no difference between a simple and compound wound, but tells us not where the man is to be found that hath been guilty of this foul error. I believe he never knew it asserted by any mortal, but suggests it. Here, perhaps to show his Reader betimes, how satirically he could Harangue, or bestow his own elegant Character on an umbrage, for I profess I know not where else to find the Quack he is so angry with, a man would suspect his own dear Worship to be the Ignorant plumed with impudence, that doth but consider the blunder of his first step, and at what an incoherent, though very confident, rate he talks in his first Chapters; but I intent no account of all his failures, and innumerable aberrations, that were to make a Book bigger than all his own, but resolve to point at some, the most considerable of them in series as they lie in his first Chapters, and digest the rest into Classes, for your more easy apprehending, and my succinct and methodical displaying of them.  
Page 21. Its (quoth he) the Chirurgeons greatest reason and prudence, not to undertake such wounds, as he hath no Authority or encouragement from Art to be concerned with, were these much practised, the art of Chirurgery would not fall to that low degree, as it appears none in.— A very odd advise the which if pursued will bar all future improvements of art; A Principle that hath done much mischief, and been the loss not only of innumerable lives, but ruined the credit of that Art, he saith is mischieved the other way. These noble courages, and bold Artisans, who have acted contrary to this pernicious admonition, have been Authors of the best inventions, the noblest discoveries, and bravest performances of Chirurgery. Where are those rules, that are so infallible, and on which a man may so rely, as to be assured of his prognostic. Look we to the Ancients, there's scarce a prediction among them, which this last age hath not found fallible; inquire of the Moderns, they will tell you. Nunquam derelinquatis aegros, semper sperate salutem. How many wounds, etc. which according to the rules of art, laid down by the Ancients, were mortal are now frequently cured, which had never been, had they regarded such an unreasonable direction, nor would there be any possibility of future increase of skill. Nay, so far is the consequence he suggests, from being true or reasonable, that art hath not been more elevated, or its reputation enhanced, by any thing comparable to the successful attempts of such brave ingenuities, where aphorisms and standing prognostics have discouraged them by contrary denouncements. I. de. Vigo, is the only Author I remember, to have matched our Idle scribbler, in this pernicious dehortation, non oportet desperatos attingere, but the contrary is directed, by almost all rational Writers, and the artist persuaded to pursue, by all likely methods, let the case seem never so desperate, & dicant antiqui & moderni medici, quicquid sibi placuerit, saith one, quos (Chyrurgos) adhortor, ne unquam de sanitate aegri, quantumvis morbus magnus fuerit ac prima fronte incurabilis videatur, desperent, saith another, and our own most agreeable inconsistent, scribbler forgetting what he had here and elsewhere written, doth in divers places of this same Book, Echo from the Authors before him, the contrary, as may be seen Page 100.163. etc.  
I pass by that nonsensical passage in the same Page; 
Page 21.  For in this doth the life of man very often consist, and depend, as a way of expression very peculiar to him, as is also that cunning prognostic, that large and great wounds bring of ten-times much danger with them, as if any man were so injudicious or Ignorant, not to know it before he wrote; or so incredulous, not to believe it, unless Galen were pedantically brought in for a voucher, as Aristotle is by one, to prove sheep were cloven footed. Apolloneus Tyaneus by another, that men commonly were greedy of Life; and a train of Fathers, and multitude of Texts, from Scripture, by a third, to evince that all men are mortal.  
At this rate he trifles in divers of his presages, and errs in most of the rest, having borrowed them from the first Writers, who were in the dust, long before the mistakes of their prognostics were discovered by the happy experimentators of after ages, or the admirable explorations of their posterity came into the World, nay that less exceptionable one concerning wounds of the heart, (which (allowing the faulty transcript) is to be found (the lively coal not excepted,) in 
* observ. chir. Page 449.  P. Forestus, hath been discovered to the fortunate practisers of their posterity, sometimes to fail, as the Authors 
* Skenki Glandor● etc.  to whom I find him mostly indebted, could have told him, and he himself confesseth Page 275. I know he had this prognostic from a wrirer before Circulation was discovered, by our Harvey, and because of the agreeableness in words, presume it Forestus, the whole train of blood (quoth he) makes its speedy address thither, from the veins, and ARTERIES, as SMALL RIVULETS, to the Ocean, 
Well said silly Corpusculum.  this could not be asserted by one that understood, or considered the noble exploration, the history of the Valves, or that the Arteries in all dead persons are empty.  
That he transcribes abruptly, and represents confusedly, see the firit paragraph. Page 24. That he trades in Old Authors, and steals obsolete notions, observe the second, where he calls the parenchymas of the liver grumous coagulated blood, and suggests, that the heart is nourisheth thereby, and Sangnification performed therein. Page 25. If any wounds of the lungs be cured (quoth he) they commonly do prove. so mischievous, as to turn into a fistula, and so in length of time, do spin a man's life out, by a Marasm, and do run him into a Consumption. These are is own elegant words, containing a position notoriously false, by almost all new Authors, and experienced 
* Hildan cent. 2. obs. 32. etc. Sennert pract. med. lib. 2. cap. 11. & lib. 5. p. 4. c 3. Forest. obs. chir. 4. lib. 6. Falop cap. 4. de vuln. gen. Skenkius, Page 253. Horstius obs. 11. lib. 6. Miscellan. Curios. Vol. 3. lib. 190. Vol. 2. decur. 2. obs. 37. who all speak of great wounds, (sometimts with loss of large pieces) of the lungs, cured.  practisers confuted. I myself have cured two shot through the Lungs, the one with Musket, the other a Pistol-Bullet, the former a man above fifty years old, who had not been dressed in nine days before he came into my hands, and but once upon his being wounded. I mention not the frequency of curing those wounds when made by rapiers, etc. But our Author is so destitute of skill, and experience in the profession he pretends to, so unacquainted with Neoterick writers and discoveries, and so stupidly guided by the Ancient, and imperfect Authors, that it's no wonder if he appear as ridiculous as a man discoursing of Geography, out of Pliny, or Strabo, in a dress that was in mode, when King James the first came into England.  
That recent wounds, are soon healed, was a saying among the Ancients, and revived by our artless Ape; as if it ceased not to be recent, beforre it was cured, or that the nearer a man were to his Journeys end, the farther he had to go. Page 28. He saith wounds do ONLY then inflame, when they do not suppurate, which is another proof of his skill, and reading, it being manifest in Books, and practice, (as himself Page 49. confesseth,) that as digestion is procured by things, more or less hot, so while Nature or Art are on that work, there occurreth heat, pain, pulsation, etc. dum pus conficitur, dolores ac febres magis accidunt, saith 
† Aph. 17. lib. 2.  Hypocrates, Pulsus, dolour, & colour aucti signant pus fieri, saith 
* instil. chir. lib. 1. c. 3.  Tagaultius; see Galen in his comment on the aforesaid Aphorism, and on Hypocrates Predict. lib. 1. c. 13. Dr. Read Lect. 5. Of Tumours. Mr. Woodal Page 141. with many more.  
As wisely doth he assert. Page 29. That the main spring of the blood is given the heart from the Arteries, which is quite contrary to truth, the spring of the blood being from the heart to them, all that comes into that noble entral being by the veins, especially the Cave, as every boy that understood the common notion of Harvey's discovery, can inform him, but he cannot forget the tone of his great Grandfather's, the Authors he trade's with, nor forbear that Shiboleth, by which he discovers from what magazine he furnisheth himself; thus he insinuates, as if the pulsifying wheels of the heart do give life and motion, which is a corrupt and exploded opinion of Aristotle so far from truth, that it's now discovered, 
Th. Barth. Anat. Reform lib. 2. cap. 6.  not only that all the Organs of motion, are from the brain, but that this inspontaneous one of the heart, is made by particular Nerves from the Cerebel, as Dr. Willis hath hath evinced, and that some palpitations, and all the unequal motions of that noble Bowel, (as in Malignant Fevers, etc.) are from the impediment of the Spirits conveyed, in those Nerves.  
His eight ways of restraining the Hemorrhagies of wounds are taken exactly from Dr. Read. lect. 3. of wounds, a little dishapen, and sullied by passing through his hands.  
Page 32. Gins his Chapter of removing extraneous bodies, which he affirms to be the next duty or Intention of a Chirurgeon, if he mean next in order of practice, he is wretchedly out, and makes work for Penelope's Loom, as experienced writers and rational practisers will tell him, I know some have led him into this way of writing, and he leads on as he is led, to use restrictives, while extraneous bodies are in a wound, (unless in very unusual, and extraordinary cases,) will by hardening the flesh, contracting the wound, and exasperating the sense of the part, make the extraction more difficult, and when achieved, leave a flux more impetuous, than what its intrusion provoked.  
The first, and second paragraph of this his sixth Chapter, is little other than a vain repetition of what he had faultily enough said, Page 6.21. His insignificant picture of a wounded Gladiator, the few (and not all the best) Instruments for extracting shot, etc. abundantly exceeded by Fab. ab. aq. pendente, Scultetus, Pareus, Clowes, Lowe, Woodal, etc. His absolute directions to purge in great wounds, and three insipid reasons for it, his irrespective dehorting from unctuous Medicines, and saying that they make wounds sordid and rotten, his affirming that Ichor issueth either from the veins, or wounded part, without mentioning the Nerves, Lymphducts, Arteries, Tendons, Muscular fibres, articulations, etc. his calling the skin, the Instrument of touching, (as Doctor Read doth,) together with other such phrases and positions in the seventh Chapter; are additional evidence of the skill of our Author, who concludes as he began, saying over again in his last Paragraph, what he had from Guido delivered concerning Sutures, in the end of the next proceeding Page.  
In his eighth Chapter, he delivereth, that sarcotics should be of a cold quality, giveth a Catalogue of them, very little varied from those in Pary, Barbet, etc. as is his lift of ep●loticks, he directeth to have TENTS, etc. armed with such medicines, as have an AGGLUTINATIVE quality in them, which can stop pain, assuage inflammation, and repel the humours, of which sort (saith he) may be reckoned this, ℞. terebinth. lot. in aq. plantag. one Ounce & a half mel. optim depurati one Ounce ung. Basilic two Ounces. Vitel. ovor. no. 2. M. ad. ignem fine addendo pulv. Myrrhae, Aloes, ana one Dram, croci, a scrup. M. pro linimento, or this ℞ ol. hyperic. c. 9 ol. Catellorum ana two Ounces, G. Etemni half an Ounce pulv. Veronicae, Salviae, Myrrhae, ana one Dram. tereb. ven. one Ounce and a half and these in the margin, are called Digestives of our Authors, a whole sheet of Paper cannot afford Room enough, to display the faults of this passage. Agglutinative, Anodine assuage inflammation, repel humours, and yet be a Digestive, is to assert a great contradiction, all Digestives heating, and so far from being agglutinative and repellent, that they perform the contrary by relaxing and attracting, and maturation when doing by unassisted nature, is always accompanied with pain, perturbation, etc. as I have shown.  
Page 43. Gins his ninth Chapter, of removing Symptoms and accidents, which he accounts to be pain, Inflammation, Hemorrhage (again) fainting, delirium, Fever, Palsy, and Convulsion, but to make his discourse complete, leaves out Erysipelas, Gangreen, ●nd some others reckoned by Fallopius, and divers Authentic writers.  
Pain he defines from Galen to be, a sad and heavy sense of change, following a disease, as a shadow doth a substance, so he interprets Tristis sensatio, and had as good have said pain is pain. Algema, sive dolour, aut tristis sensatio, a molest a nervosarum partium irritatione cerebro impressa, oritur ex continui solutione sensibili, vel insensibili, saith Blancard.— Fibras convellens & corrugans, Spiritus ab invicem distrabit ac dissipat, 
Anim. Brut. p. 1. c. 11.  saith Wallis.  
Inflammation, saith our Author Page 44. happening by a puncture of a nerve, divide it wholly, because its better let a member lose its use, than the whole body its life. He is in the right, were it an unavoidable dilemma, in such accidents, (though perhaps our novice never saw it,) there are innumerable instances of severer Symptoms than Inflammations, attending punctured Nerves, which yet have been cured without the ultimate, pernicious refuge of our skilless Author, who takes his measures from the first writer in this and most things else, so much hath Mr. Gadburies' Astrology mistaken, in affirming that if Hypocrates were alive, he would borrow from our Plagiary.  
With his usual Ingenuity in representing things from other hands, he defines from Galen a Syncope to be a principal lapse of all the Spirits, (for so he understands praeceps omnium virium lapsus, which are the words of that Author, 
* de morb. cur. lib. 12.  (as our Countryman Linacrus interprets them,) and for this quotes the 15th Book of Galens Methodus Medendi, which contains in all but 14.  
At the same rate he talks of a Delirium, which he affirms is nothing else, but a deprivation of motion, and an alienation of sense. (I doubt the man speaks feelingly) contained in the wounded brain, by essence or consent— and from deprivation of the principle faculties of motion, is this delivered like one that understood plain Latin? was it ever so mistaken by the most Ignorant and erroneous scribbler is not the man possessed with the disease that talks thus out of the way. 
* Delirium, is derived from the & lira, going crooked, or out of the way, & is commonly englished, doting or, talking beside one's self, as our Author now doth.  Let us compare it with other descriptions. Galen lib. 5. the sympt. causis, omne delirium depravatus est principis Facultatis motus, apravis succis, aut cerebri intemperie ortum habens, with this definition 
1 lib. b. obs. chir. 22.  Forestus 
2 Instit. Chyrurg. lib. 2. cap. 4.  Tagaultius, Fr. 
3 de delirio in vuln. lib. 2. cap. 28.  Peccettus and some others acquiesce, and without doubt our Ingenious Author aimed, and intended to express himself in this sort too, but wanting sense and Latin enough to do it, hath failed and most egregiously erred, not understanding the difference between deprivation, and depravation, and that depravatus est principis facultatis motus, is in plain English, a depraved motion of a principal faculty, not a deprivation of motion, as he saith in one place, or a deprivation of the principle faculty of motion, as he mistakes it in another, of this Chapter.  
Hypocrates calls it levem desipientiam, but 
* tetrah serm. 1. cap. 22.  Aetius gives a very strange Character thereof and fatuity, oriuntur ambae affectiones frigidorum cerebro facto— aliquando vero, modica pituita ad cerebrum illapsa Alex, Benedictus differs not much from him 
* lib. 1. cap. 28.  Avicen delirium est mentis alienation— est symptoma actionis animalis depravatae— with this 
1 P. M. cap. tract. 2.  B. Bauderon 
2 I. M. lib. 1. cap. 3.  F. Planterus, 
* canon 3.  and 
3 lib. 1. p. 11th cap. 6.  Sennertus sit down. As to other moderns 
4 ●. M. lib. 1. cap. ●1.  Riverius saith, per delirium Ratiocinationis errorem prcecipue intelligimus. 
5 cap. 15. lib 9  A. Pareus calls it a perturbation of the faculties, and functions of the mind from pain, feverishness, venomous myasma, or expense of Spirits. 
6 lib. 2. cap. 34.  Vigierus, Pary, Willis, and almost all Authors, although they writ of it in distinct Chapters, do carefully note that its a Symptom. 
7 Anim. Brutor.  Willis calls it a hurt of the animal function, such as ariseth in the paroxsms of fevers, drunkenness, hysterick, etc. making men speak, think, and do foolish and absurd things, for some time caused by an irritation, or confusion— verum in delirio spiritus simul omnes exiliunt, & sibi invicem tumultuose occursantes, aut se varie proripientes, velut choreas Bacchantium agunt: Agreeable to which, are the definitions of 
* nov. Idea. lib. 2. c. 14.15. etc.  Sltvius de Boe. 
† lexic. medicum.  Blancardus, etc. now consider how much our Author is beside the Cushion, not only in his most scandalous, notorious mistranslation of Galens definitions, and the Impertinent method he directs for deliriums arising from wounds, but the notion of the thing itself, which is no more like his, he would imitate, nor any other extant (that I know) than it is to sense, for inquietude, perturbation, garrulity, etc. are the common Smyptoms, and diagnosticks of the disease, which he quite contrarily calls nothing else but a deprivation of motion, and an alienation of sense, a description that hath no foundation in Authority, experience, or reason, if he can prove the contrary, he shall be to me a great Apollo, thus he delivers himself like a man that understood not what he was doing, and (although a most ridiculous Plagiary,) talks without Book, when he attempts to give us any thing his own, he bewrayeth his most scandalous inability, and even where he copyeth, either through misapprehension, or a vain endeavour to disguise what he steals, he not only murders and confounds the Subject, but most illiteratly altars the words so as they become unintelligible and nonsense, as are those two short and plain definitions from Galen, of a Syncope, and Delirium.  
A Sixth Symptom to which wounds are incident, he accounts a Fever, which he very civilly refers to the Physicians, as if most of the other accidents were not as much their province, but manger this great regard and deference, inevitable maggot will work, his humour of interloping is irresistible, he must in despite of fate, (or rather in obedience to it, for he was born under some strange ascendent) come in with some old musty definition, though as greyheaded as Avicen, whom he introduceth calling a Fever, an extraneous, adventitious, accensive heat in our heart, by which the veins and Arteries therewith sharing, it's conveyed through the circuit of our whole body, and hurteth its actions, certainly, absurdity is at natural to him as milk to a calf, he hath neither truly given you Avicens definition, (though he call it so,) nor is it like, either sense, or the novel sound description of that disease, Febris est inordinatus sanguinis motus, ejusque nimia effer vescentia.  
Page 47. He injudicially directs to Phlebotomy, if a fever arise from the biting of a venomous creature, his discourse of the causes, and remedies of Crudity, are stolen from Dr. Rea● Lect. 12. and treats of all those accidents, as if they were not Symptomatical, or dependent on wounds, but essential and primary diseases.  
Pags 48. The three causes of th● Palsy our Author borroweth from Dr. Willis omitting a fourth, not improperly added by Dr. Read, besides others intimated by Galen, Sennertus, Riverius, etc. his enquiring what humour causeth a Palsy, is very odd at this time of day, but his attributing it (especially here) to phlegm, is not only contrary to the opinion of the humorists themselves, but to Aetiology, and right reason, it most commonly proceeding from defect, sometimes redundancy, and violent explosion of the Spirits, distortion of the nerves, plethora, acidity, Spasmes, etc. But in the case before him, none other ought to have been considered, but that of Contusions, or wounds is method for cure is stolen from Dr. Willis, how he altars the words, and inverts the method, you may discern by comparing them together, as I here verbatim transcribe from both, to our your hand, as another pattern of his learning, sincerity, etc.  plurimum illius haec tria erunt genera, seu potius tres erunt medendi rationes, quarum modo haec, modo illa, vel altera, circa morbi hujus. Therapiam jniri debet, nimirum quatenus resolutio, (qualiscunque & quocunque in loco fuerit) vel primo ab externo accidenti, scil. plaga, casu ab alto, vulnere, frigoris excessu, aut similibus subito infertur, vel secundo, affectui cuidam alteri, sc. Apoplexiae, caro, colicae, aut febri diuturnae succedit, vel tertio illa primarius & per se morbus a procatarxi, sive apparatu praevio dependens, sensim excitatur.— And as there are generally allowed three kinds or sort hereof, so should there be proposed three kinds of cure, first for Resolution, this being the main agent, this is to be cured. Secondly, if it happen by a wound, incision, excessive cold, or fall from au high place, this also must have allowed, its way of cure. Thirdly, as it is a procatarcktick, or primary disease of itself.—  
What a kind of Trinity hath he made, the Doctor saith, Resolution (which is the esse of the disease,) is caused three ways, and the dunce in attempting to translate him reckons Resolution, which is a general, to be the first particular, and doth so unhappily express himself, as if he conspired to his own shame; first (quoth he) Resolution this being the main agent, is to be cured, resolution an agent! An agent is always a cause, resolution in the sense here illated, must be an effect.— But why do I criticise with so dull and inchoherent a Dorido, I ought rather to direct him for better understanding, (if it be possible to him,) of this matter, to Platerus, Piccettus, Vesalius, Mercuriales, Holerius, Heurnius, Silvius, Willis, etc. not Barrow, Bruel, &c,  
He gins and ends the Prognostics of this disease, with one, and the same presage, to wit, that a Palsy is hard to cure in aged People, the remedies he directs to, viz. pull. ad casum, and decoction, are stolen from Dr. Willis; only he was scared at the Antimony, and left it out, the pills are in Bauderon, Sennertus, and divers Antidotaries, as are the rest of his medicines: He recommends Coffee as a remedy for this disease, which by very many learned Physicians, is condemned as a cause.  
He concludes this Chapter with one only history, and that borrowed (I had almost said stolen, the quotation is so couched,) from Willis, 
An. Brut. cap. 9  I should commend his giving us a bit now and than, from a fresh Author, if he did not so harsh, and tincture them with the ill savour of the stolen ones, and dress them in the old modes; for in the few places where we have this rarity, it's so misshapen and deformed, that a man of no uncommon intuition would be apt to be imposed on. In the story before us, he shows himself scandalously impertinent, in treating of a Palsy proceeding from an outward accident, to serve us with an instance as wide from the purpose, as his translation is from the original. What relation hath a Palsy, Convulsion, delirium, etc. From Ebriety, to do what a Palsy Symptomatical to a wound, that his skill in Latin, is as little as in writing Books, so his translating this impertinent story. juvenis, a young Gentleman, post lautiorem coenam, & vini potum immoderatiorem, after eating a large supper, DID drink very plentifully of wine, ut chicotheca quam forte tenebat, in voluntary exciderit; So that the glove, which did COVER his hand, did involuntarily fall off, medico peritissimo, a worthy Physician, modo in delirium, modo in convulsiones, aliasque Spiritum Animalium distractiones subin●● incidens, falling into a delirium, an● AFTERWARD into a Convulsion▪ he was within a short while, force● to shut up his last minute, his Spirit● being dissolved. Capite Aperto, his dead CORPSE being opened, Corpus unu● Straitum Compriment, comprssing one straited body.  
Hss eleventh Chapter is of Convulsions, the two first Paragraphs of which are of the old leven, what there is like notion, or distinction, is stolen from the same Authors, only one from Celsus (but where, he doth not say,) is falsely delivered, at first by Doctor Read, and from him by our Plagiary, who doth bring him in for the ninth Convulsion, viz Spasmus Cynicus, whereas 
* lib. 4. cap. 3.  Celsus when he treats of those diseases, reckons only the three usual distinctions, viz. Emprosthotonos, Opisthotonos and Tetanoes. What he saith of Spasmus Cynicus is in another Chapter. I beg you to consider by comparing our scribblers quotation, and Celsus his discourse, how well he understands the Books he quotes, whether Read rather than Celsus, ought not to have been called the Author of the causes and method of cure, which he there sets ●own, the former being plainly also 〈◊〉 
* lib. 9 cap. 9  Pareus, and with the following Theory, confuted by our most excellent 
† morb. Convuls. cap. 1.  Willis.  
His discourse endeavouring to show, how Plethora begets Convulsions is very inartificial, and ridiculous, for he saith, the nervs being filled with purulent matter, or other excrements, generated either in the wounded part, or sent thither from others, and so sucked up by the nerves, as it happens.— I want patience to pursue this most absurd way of talk, it's certainly his own, for though the Ancients had very odd notions of those things, I never met any so void of sense as this. Fr. Silvius was enraged at the more agreeable reasoning of A. Pary, 
Nou. Idea. lib. 2. c. 3.  and cried out! quid hoc est dicere! itane! exsudatne expuncti nervi substantiâ humor serosus ac virnlentus, sed quis amabo● unquam serosum aut virulentum in nervorum substantiâ deprehendit humorem.— Surely he would be stark mad at those reasonings of our Ignorant, a man pretend to read the Neurologia of Willis and talk in this fashion! Old Snarl in the vertuoso would laugh at him for an old fashioned Idiot.  
The Prognostics he stole from Doctor Read, and his medicines from him, 
Page 63.  Pary, Riverius, Willis, etc. The first history he stole from Skenkius Page 49 Being of a man overfilled with wine, so that by a general opinion, he was reputed in toxicated, (pray mark the elegancy, and Tautology,) who lying on his back in a Coach, never spoke more, but died of a Convulsion. This story is originally in P. Forestus Scholar obs. chir. 27. lib. 9 but as much disfigured by the translation, as the Patient was by the disease, or death, and not less impertinent here.  
Discoursing of Convulsion by inanition, he sets down amethod stolen from Pareus and Read. His quotation from Dovinaetus of a man 50 years old, who falling into a Convulsion and SYNCOPE, occasioned by a GREAT EFFUSION OF BLOOD, was perfectly cured, by cupping Glasses and PHLEBOTOMY, is very strange, and (if truth) looks as little like it, as any story I have met with so positively affirmed, That from Platerus, of a Maid shot into the Backbone, (which I cannot find in the place the points to, 
* Obs. lib. 1. fol. 120.  nor any where else in that Book, though mine be of the best Edition,) having no Convulsive Symptom, but a plain Paresis, had been proper in the foregoing Chapter, is not at all so here, the others, to wit, from H. Saxonia, Fernelius, Camerarius, Jason, etc. He had from Skenkius, Page 118.113.120, commiting a mistake in the last, by naming Vesalius, instead of Vallesius, who was a learned Spaniard, wrote a Book de Sacra Philosophia, and large Comments on Hypocrates epidemics, and a Preface to Holerius, he quotes Hollerius to prove that men seldom die of a Convulsion by an Hemorrhage: But names not the Chapter nor Page, and I am sure talks without Book, for that Author de Morbis Internis 
* it's in the Scholia of that Chapter.  lib. 1. cap. 12. reckons a Convulsion to be deadly, when it followeth a large Flux of Blood, and no where speaks of it, as our Author feigns, it being contrary to the Doctrine of the most Famous Writers, 
* Read. Page 199. Hildanus de gangr. c. 26. Silvius de Boe, lib. 2. Cap. 23. Paragr. 64.  who reckon, as he doth, that Convulsions following a plenary loss of Blood are mortal, and always very dangerous, when from any other inanitions. He refers to an Observation of Hildanus concerning Spasmus Cynicus, fol. 37. cant. 5. whereas that Century gins fol. 379. And the case which I suppose he means, is in Observ. 9 fol. 392.  
Thus far, my worthy Friend, I have gone in order, and remarked, on some faults, as they lie in a Series I will ease myself, and relieve you by quitting this rigid and critical method, (though all that followeth be ejusdem farinae,) and digest the rest of the objectible or faulty passages of this Book, into the following Common-places, and refer you to the Pages wherein he discovers himself GROSSLY ERRONEOUS, AND MISTAKEN, ABSURD AND VOID OF SENSE, CONTRADICTORY AND INCONSISTENT WITH HIMSELF, PLAGIARY AND THIEVISH, ILLITERATE AND SILLY, IMPERTINENT AND TRIFLING, AND UNSKILFULLY IGNORANT AND UNEXPERIENCED. And then shall conclude this Letter, and refer it to the judgement of any man of common sense, whether he be not the man I say, culpable under all those Topiques, guilty of all that can be ill in an Author, and deserve as severer reprimand & Castigations, than I have inflicted on him.  
As to his errors and mistakes, they are innumerable, not a Page wherein he appears not so, he affirms in the 70th, that new Flesh in Wounds is generated of the Blood lodged in the Muscles, neither considering that Intention is often performed where no Muscles are, nor knowing that Blood is not the immediate nutritious juice. 
* Vide Dr. Charleton Exercit. 5. 〈◊〉 his nat. H●●●ory, an● 〈◊〉 his five Anat. Prelect.  Page 79 treating of Gunshot-wounds, he saith, he is wholly conducted by the hand of Hypocrates, Master of the Ceremony, so dull and incogitant doth this pedantic humour of quoting the Ancients make him, that he forgets his guide was dead, above a thousand year before Swarts, the inventor of Gunpowder and Cannon, was born. Page 98. he saith Nitre is made out of a fatty substance, forcing itself through the walls, of old, and cold Cellars, whereas Nitre doth not only sweat out of Walls and cold Cellars, but is on them and other places, where the air stagnats condensed from that Element, which is supposed greatly 
† Vid. P. Sardi. and our Dr. Mavow, de sal. Nitro. cap. 1.  replenished therewith, at is also the earth of vaults, subterraneous caverns, and places, where sheep, etc. have urined.  
Page 116. and 120 he affirms the sutures vent Fumes and excrements, not from the brain only, but the kichin of the whole body, which is an exploded opinion of some former Writers, Spigelius, Laurentius, etc. From whom he stole all the Anatomy of this chapter. The Doctrines of Fumes and Vapours, so much embraced in the former Ages, being rejected in this, render it needless to say any thing to him on that particular, but if he understand the imperviousness of those seams, I admire how he becomes guilty of so foul an error. Sculls, when dry, (when one would think the sutures should open,) are still tied and close, and will contain (without leaking,) Water, Oil, etc. Do we not see in Fractures of the Cranium, be they never so inconspicuous, that the serosities of the Blood, under it, doth glees through them, but not any appears from their natural seams Add to this, that the sutures are not only covered with a strong double Membrane Externally, (beside the opaque Calvaria) but the like Internally, and both glued as it were to the Bone, by which it seems impossible, that any steams or exudations should be that way discharged. He hath always talked of the Brain, as if it were made of Groenland Ice, how comes it now again to yield warm steams. 
* Dear Medica, lib. 8. cap. 1.  Celsus, a Writer of as great reputation and ability, as any of the Ancients, (Hypocrates excepted) affirms, that they who have no sutures are very healthy, live without pain of the Head, and that this was most observable in hot Countries, where certainly those supposed Vapours and Emanations must be most plentiful, and apt; but that the Smoke of the KITCHEN OF THE WHOLE BODY vents itself at this Chimney, is such a wild conceit, as peculiarly (for aught I know) belongs to our wise Author.  
He errs much in the Figures he gives us of Humane Sculls, as is easily discoverable, by comparing them with the Life, or those given us by Spigelius, Bauhinus, Laurentius, Veslingius, Riolanus, or Bartholine, from whom also he might have copied more useful, and greater variety than those he hath obliged us with, for we have neither the open Face, the Basis, Occiput, nor Vertex, so far is his Book from being complete.  
Page 129. Children being of a hot and moist Constitution, (he saith) are not so apt for the admittance of Putrefaction, which is not only contrary to common Observation in their Wounds, foetid Sores, Lice, etc. (to which they are so naturally incident,) and to what himself delivers in another place, but to Reason and Philosophy, Warmth, and Humidity most aptly occasioning Putrefaction, as is evident in Wounds, Cadavers, etc. When the Air is of that temperament.  
Page 32 and 131, he erroneously prefers (and quotes Hypocrates for it,) the Diagnostic part of Art to the Curative, or Therapeutic. Calling it the laudable part of Practice, certainly that which is a causa sine qua non is the most Eligible, let all the Authors in the World say the contrary, the most useful is the most necessary, and the Curative part, (to whichall the rest subserve and tend,) most laudable. In short, the best skill in Diagnosticks alone never can, and never did cure a Wound, but a very slender judgement in the Therapeuticks, without any at all in the other, hath done it a thousand times.  
Page 134 If the Cranium be fractured (quoth he) the parts above it must suffer a solution of Unity, except in contrafissure. To which Experience frequently gives the Lie. A Patient hath not been long out of my hands, who had a large Rima, reaching from the Sagital suture to the Squamosa, by a fall from a very high place, and the Skin not broken, nor any Tumour appeared.  
Page 157. He gives us another instance of his Falsehood, in a misrepresenting what he steals, or borrows from others, for altho' that be his Trade (his own Stock being beggarly and empty, affording nothing,) yet the constancy of the practice hath not made him a Proficient therein. the story is from A. Pary, 
* Lib. 10. c. 7.  who saith the os coronale was cut off the length and breadth of three Fingers. The Plagiary saith, the breadth only of three Fingers, in the original it is said, to be done by a sharp Sword, in the transcript, by along and a strong Sword, the Author doth not say, as the Bathyllus, that he fell with his Face to the ground, that the Dura matter was hurt, or out of its place, upon the cutis of his Face, that he was compelled by necessity to take away any of the pericranie, or Scull, used Tents, or Dossils', nor that the Body was stabbed through in divers places. Thus he shows himself so great a stranger to truth and sense, that he is no less able to copy them fairly, and truly relate them from others, than produce any of his own, to say the Dura matter fell on the cutis of a man's Face, was never spoke like a man of truth or Surgery.  
He fetcheth almost all his Prognostics from the Ancient Writers, who were Strangers to the cure of those Wounds and diseases that are now frequent, this is one cause why he falls into so many errors, when he comes to Presages, as I shall have occasion elsewhere to observe. At present I will single out only one, and that the most likely to be true, as having much reason, and agreeing with the common Phaenomna, the sense of former Ages, and opinion of most men in this, viz. That Wounds of the Heart are absolutely mortal, and incurable. This noble Intral seems the only part of the Body, which being hurt brings inevitable death, for reasons which our Author hath stolen from Fallopius, and Read; it's in his 60th Chapter, that he treats on this subject, and he doth it with his wont preface of Anatomy, and usual absurd, incoherent way of expression, the errors of the former are too manifest and obvious, the fantastical chimaeras and whimsies, which nor he or any other man can make intelligible, the false notions and descriptions are no less plain, having been long since refelled by many accurate Anatomists, the Position (how strong soever backed) which I shall refute, stands thus. Page 273 The Heart being once hurt brings present death. I will not take hurt in the largest sense, but strictly, as I believe he meant, viz. Wounded; the same Prognostic is almost in the same words and with the like assurance, delivered by Hypocrates, Aristotle, Pliny, Aegineta, and the many Ancient Writers both of Physic and Philosophy, Cor nullam fert continuitatis separationem. Or for the sake of a little Poetry take it in verse.  
Afferat ipse licet sacras Epidaurius herbas.  
Sanabit nullá vulnera cordis . Ovid. 1. de Pont. 4.  
Galen, Fallo●ius, Forestus, and some others express themselves less confidently, but divers do affirm, that People have survived such Wounds, (though large) many days, and some say such hearts have been cured.  
That Wounds of the Heart do not always bring sudden death. Many of the Commentators on Hippocrates' Aphorisms have reported. Galen. lib. 5. loc. Aff. cap. 1. and in other places, writeth, that Beasts have bellowed, cried and walked after their Hearts have been cut out, 
1 Hist. c●●t. ●. 1. obs. 77.  Tho. Bartholine saith a youth was deeply wounded in the Heart, with a Knife, that he walked alone afterward into the City, and lived five days; that he saw a Stagg shot through both Ventricles, and walked fifty paces before he fell 
2 Lib. 9 〈◊〉. 30. . Pareus reports, that one in a Duel was wounded so deeply, that his finger could lodge therein▪ and yet he not only fought afterward, but pursued his Enemy two hundred paces. M● 
3 Zodiac. Med. V●l. 2. pag. 97.132.  Nic. Blegny saith, he knew one so wounded, who lived five days, and another seven. 
4 Obs. 39 ●. cent. 2.  J. Rhodius faith, one wounded into the Cavity of the heart, lived nine days, and another six. N. 
1 Lib. 2. obs. 18.  Tulpius, of one who was wounded into the Liver, Stomach, Lungs, Midriff, Mediastinum and Heart, that lived two days, D. 
2 P. Med. lib. 5. part. 2. cap 3.  Sennertus, of one deeply wounded in the heart, who lived sixteen days. See more in the second Book, part 4. cap. 3. and the like in Schenkius, page. 254, 262. Bartholini Anat. Reform. Ed. ult. c. 6. Gualterus, Sylva Medica, page 406. Moronus Index, page 85. Amat. Lusitanus, cent. 6. obs. 38. Crook Anatom. page 420. Fennelius 
3 Observe. Chiro 38.  Meckeren, who knew one survive the wound of his heart six days. We have frequent Instance of hearts 
* Fab. Hildanus, cent. 2. observe. 27. saith, he found a heart prodigiously rotten.  rotten, ulcerate, aposthumate, tumified, having sordid sores, of long continuance 
† Theod. Kirkring▪ Spicil. Anatom. obs. 78, 3. , stones, excrescencies, tabid, torrified, and some have been found without any heart at all. Vide Tillesias rerum nat. lib. 5. cap. 28. Schenkius, and Bartholine, ubi supra 
4 Li b. 1. obs. 31. , Dominic. Panarolus, and Schenkius, from Jordan, writ of a Torrified heart 
5 Obs. Med. 87. . Riverius, of an Ulcer eroding a great part thereof, which was spit up, the Patient enduring it forty days 
6 Prax admire. b. 1. obs. 14. & lib. 20bs. 41. . Zacutus, of a Rotten heart, and another Schirrust. 
7 Obs. Chiro  Job Meckeren, of an Ulcer under one of the Auricles of long continuance. Sennertus ubi supra, writes of one who wanted the left Ventricle, another was indurated. And. 
1 Anat. q. 18 lib. 9  Laurentius, of one whose heart was half rotten away, of a Deer, in whose heart an old piece of a Dart was found, of many Stones, and Aposthumes in the heart of a Woman, and that a Florentine Ambassador at the Court of France, being dissected— inventum 
* You have the like in Theod. Kirkring, Spic. Anat. obs. 16. miscel. curios. vol. 1. obs. 70.  cor prodigii instar in eam molem excrevisse, ut Thoracem fere totum contineret, and that in its Ventricles was near four pounds of blood. See more Barthol. Hist. cent. obs. 32, 45, 54, 50.  
That wounds of the heart are curable, is the Opinion and dixit of Job Meckeren, cap. 36. Blogny Zod. Med. Vol. 2. page 139. Gualterus Sylva M. page 106. Caspar Schottus Physica Medica cur. lib. 3. mirab. Hom. cap. 34. Moronus, Index page 86. Beniven. cap. 65. Zacut. Lusitan. P. Mirand. obs. 9 fol. 251. saith, that Leeches stuck to the heart of a person, that survived it. Matth. Glandorp, Spec. Chirurg. cap. 33. relates that Rabbits lived many months after they were run through the heart. Page 254, 261. Sken●kius saith the like of a Stagg, and of one in whose heart a piece of an Arrow was found, that had long stuck there; that a Boy was cured, cui os pectoris excisum, & cor aliquandiu nudum apparuit, nam involucrum ejus computruerit; the History, page 254. which he calls a wound of the Tunicle of the heart, was undoubtedly (as his Author first thought) of the heart itself. Page 256. He reports, that some have been found without 
* Miscell. curios. Vol. 5. obs. 25.  hearts, as doth also Hildanus, cent. 4. obs. 51. Moronus, Index page 85. Tillesius rer. nat. ubi supra, my Lord Bacon. Mr. boil, vide Bart holin. 
† Lib. 2. cap. 6.  Anat. Reform. Editio ultima. Rhodius, obs. 39 cent. 2. relates the cure of a large wound of the Pericardium; he supposeth that wounds of the heart itself are incurable, and saith, there was a Stagg, who had a small piece of Dart sticking in his heart, sine vitae noxa, that a Boy was dissected without a Pericardium— But what need I say any more, when our most agreeable Scribbler, is his own Confuter; for after all his positive Prognostics, page 23, 273, etc. he very fairly confesseth, that superficial wounds here happening may be c●●red.  
I have taken unusual pains, and been very particular on this point, partly to refute our Confident, partly to show the incertainty and fallacy of many presages delivered by the first Writers, and the vanity of relying on them, but chiefly to persuade my Brethren of the Plaister-box, that no wound is incurable, and beat them out of the contrary discouraging and mischievous opinion.  
The vital flame in the heart, and the airs ingress then, and mixing its nitrous particle with the blood, are things much controverted among learned men, though positively affirmed by our Author, I will say only this, that I am sure he understands not that controversy, and that many very eminent Anatomists, are against the later Hypothesis, vide Dr. Harveys Proem to his book de Cord, & circulatione▪ Dr. Walter Needham, format. foetu. cap. 6. (where he declares it the Opinion of Dr. Highmore also,) Dr. Henshaw Aero chalinos, page 62. beside Demerbrook, Cornelius, etc.  
Page 281. He defines with most of the Ancients, an Aneurisma to be a breach of the inner coat of an Artery, the blood distending the outer, which I know hath been the common Opinion, but the absurdity thereof you will find well discovered by Van Horn, Microtecne sect. 1. paragr. 15. page 215. Wiseman, lib. 1. cap. 16. Pareus calls it the Rupture of an Artery, the Blood extravasating among the Muscles, and he himself varieth from his definition, in the Histories he gives, page 380. of his Book of Tumours, (where he hath a particular Chapter of this Disease,) which is of an Aneurism from a wound, and saith in that Chapter, that the common cause is puncturing an Artery.  
But to be short in this Topick, because in all the rest I shall have occasion to evince abundance of his Errors, take those brief Instances, which I shall but name, page 23, 29, 44, 45, 273: and many other places, he makes the heart the fountain of motion, page 309. he calls the stomach a cold Intral, and (in reckoning the coats) omits the crusta 
* See willis Pharm. Rat. part. 1. cap. 2. sect. 1.  villosa, page 287. & 297. he affirms, the meseraick Veins convey the Aliment to the gate of the Liver, and suck up the nourishment from the small guts, page 227. he reckons the ascent and descent of the Cava from the Liver, page 194. he suggests, that the Heart and Liver are not only the Original of the Veins and Arteries, but the Oceans from whence they fetch both their vital, and natural blood and spirits, page 179. that the Brain is made of sperm and maternal blood, that it's of a cold and moist temper, page 198. the chief seat of cold and glutinous moisture, that the Nerves are cold in nature, and cold in substance. Thus, as I have said, by his Ignorance in the improvement of our Art, and injudicious sucking the fallible Principles and Opinions of the Ancients, (men to whom we are infinitely indebted, and from whom it's no detraction to say, they knew not as much as is now known,) he runs himself into many gross errors and mistakes, chief in Anatomy, Prognostics and Dogmas, of which I shall superadd a few instances more, and conclude this Head.  
Page 316. He pronounceth Wounds of the Kidneys in general Mortal, and inevitably so, if the Pelvis be hurt, though Pareus relates the story of an Archer condemned to be hanged, and upon Solicitation by some great men, who had been troubled with the Stone, he submitted to have those Parts opened, survived the operation, was cured and pardoned. We have also a Tradition, that our Famous Harvey cut out a Stone from a man's Kidney. But his old Friend, and constant supplier, Schenkius tells him, Page 451. Three stories of Wounds of that Part cured, and himself, notwithstanding his Prognostic, subjoins to this Chapter, the History of another, stolen from Glandorp. See also P. Foresius obs. Chir. 5. lib. 6.  
He discovers many errors in his discourse Page 266. of the Lungs, and respiration, positively presumes to determine the dispute, as yet undecided among the best Philosophers, and 
* Thruston Diatribe. Mayow de respicar. Willis Phar. Ration. F. Burtis Epist. Barthol. Swammardam de Re spir. Malpighius. Casp. Barthoy Dinphr. struck. Dr. gibson's Epitome. Dr. Needham de foe tu, etc.  Anatomists of the Age, viz. What 〈◊〉 the cause, and use of Pulmonary respiration. He saith Page 255 from Gale● that matter heaped up in the Breast, pa●ing into the vena sine pari, is through t●● vena ava carried to the right Ventricle of the Heart, and passing thence DOWNWARD by the descending Trunk of the Cava to the Liver, [pr●mark how he contradicts, what 〈◊〉 said Page 277, that the ascent and descent of this Vein, was from the Liver.] It's carried to the Emulgents, Page 254. He delivers, that Wounds penetrating the Breast, are known by Wind, coming through the Orifice. Which is a fallible Diagnostic, especially when the Wound is made by a small Rapier, and the Body deflexed when it's received, so that upon returning to a right posture, the parts alter, and cover one another; in discoursing concerning Wounds of the Gullet, he commits many mistakes. Page 244, he saith, that Pipe marcheth on the right side of the Spondyls, that Deglutition is helped by the Muscles of the Larinx, 
* Willis Pharm. Rat. part 1. cap. 2.  attributes nothing thereof to the Gullet, (whose Anatomy he doth not understand,) and accounts the Muscles of the Phariax, among those of the Larinx. He directs to Nutritive Glisters. Page 246. Which I doubt do signify little, or nothing, since Bauhinus discovered the valve in the Colon, unless Dr. 
† Antidiatribe.  Ents, and Dr. 
* Anat. praelectio.  charlton's notions of Percolative Nutrition, help him.  
Page 240. Treating of Wounds of the Throat, he delivereth as signs, that the upper part of the Neck, loss of voice, and Air happen, (who knows what he means hereby,) and when it reaceth the Windpipe, its dangerous, because the Oesophagus hereupon tumifying, Deglutition is hindered. I never knew such a Tumour accompanying Wounds of the Trachea, altho' I have cured many very large ones, nor do I know where it's accounted among the Symptoms by any other Writer.  
But to our Second Topick, ABSURDITY AND NONSENSE, which are so common with him, as if they had got (as Hudibras saith of the Presbyterians) the advowson of his Conscience, of this I have already given you divers instances, and pretermitted a great many more, for indeed the whole strain of his Pen● and way of writing hath that Byasnay though he have a f●ir Copy befor● him, written in good sense, and coherent enough, it's against his nature t● represent it, without marring it i● the Transcript, and Tincturing it with his own absurdities. So that in the whole course of his writings, where he plays the Thief for Histories, (easy enough to transcribe,) he employ● this Talon, adding Forgery to Robbery, and making his Author say more or less than indeed he doth, by which a good Tale is often spoiled, of this you have had many instances already, I shall show you more in due place.  
Page 113. And as a Wound doth chief require drying Medicines, BLACK-WINE is for this purpose, a most excellent RECEIPT; for it drieth both of it SELF, and per accidens, and of its own natural quality doth dry up by repulsion. Perhaps there is not more absurdity and nonsense, in so few words in any Book extant. First, that Wounds chief require drying Medicines, is false in general, (all digestives and balms being moist) and of the Head, (his present Subject,) in particular, because Arcaus' Lineament, (the most celebrated Balm for those Wounds,) is of the same temperament also. Black-wine (a liquid) recommended as a dryer per se, a simple called a ℞ the repetition of dry; and per accidens of its own natural quality, is a Tantology or two expressions for the same thing. The odd Phrase, dry up by Repulsion, is absurd, and this is the Composition of this silly senseless passage, the like of which are plentiful, page 135 and 136. Oedipus is not able to unriddle what he means in his presages. 17, 18, and 19 It seems written near a full Moon, for none, but a Lunatic, could write at so distracted and confounded a rate; words dropped by chance, or the garrulity of a delirious Patient, are equal sense, and not less Rhetorical, than this Chaos of Syllables, excepting the Learned (or rather Pedantic,) bringing in Hypocrates, saying, that the name, with the name, is no false Heraldry, but this, like the rest, I suppose was said at Ra●dorn.  
Page 128. He most absurdly calls his twenty third Chapter general sig●● of wounds of the head; when in abo●● twenty Paragraphs that compose 〈◊〉 there are but three properly such, 〈◊〉 the rest being Prognostics, for t●● most part taken from Hypocrates, a●● repeated in the next Chapter, und 〈◊〉 the right denomination; and as 〈◊〉 fate, as nature, conspired to h●● shame, he gives several signs, as presages, and in the preceding Chapt●● delivers Prognostics, under the ti●● of signs. The whole second period, page 138. which takes up almost two pages, is a most extravagant and delirious fardel of nonsense, calling Symptoms sentences, reckons the ignorance and neglect of the Chirurgeon among the pernicious signs of wounds, reflects upon the narrow genius of some Artists, who, he saith, BY ordering their Patients thin Broths, Ptisans, and the like, DO give way for their Patients (again) to drink Wine, eat at pleasure, use Venery, etc. who can conjure up the meaning of this Paradox, or explain how by ORDERING a slender Diet, a Patient is PERMITTED to use excess, which is as rational as to say, by binding a man you let him lose, and by tying him neck and heels you suffer him to run away.  
Page 99 Speaking of the signs of gunshot wounds, he is no less in the clouds, and talks as if the wind of that shot, which contused and broke his arm in the foregoing page, had turned his brains upside down in this. I will transcribe all that he saith under that head, and pose you and all mankind, to fathom or reconcile it to sense and common understanding, the signs of these, (viz. gunshot) wounds are taken from their figure, or colour, for they are generally round, and of a livid colour; from the sense there inflicted, making or causing an obtuse sense in the part, or contusion, the part chief sufferan ECCHYMOSIS by reason of the Bullet; if these appear, they declare a gunshot wound. I give you his own elegant words, and pointings.  
Pago 146. Children and Infants, because of their weak heads, and legs, are often subject to fall from high places; but tells not how those Infants and weak legs got into those Altitudes. I pray you consider the rest of that Paragraph, and tell me if they be not of a piece. So page 150. speaking of Fissures, he saith, If any man neglect to raze them at first, although there seem to be no need of his dilatation, he may for a few days find the cure succeed according to expectation, but shall as readily meet, that to take heed and beware hereof, is the master event of fools; pray, Sir tell me what he means by this reflection.  
Page 156. The story from Fallopius, stolen from Sckenckius, page 32. is most falsely translated, and absurdly represented. I will tell you his words, those of the Original, you will find among the Examples of his wisdom and learning, the outward part being contused, this Contusion was communicated to the second Table; and whereas the outer could not fall into itself, nor the inward into itself, hereby it suffered this Fissure; can you understand the Philosophy hereof, and what there is in this story, agreeable to a Sedes, which was the subject of this Chapter?  
Page 200. Next indeed in respect of the nervous substance being cold and dry, we are authorized to use hot and dry Medicines; dry, that they may keep up and maintain the proper temper of the Nerves; & hot, that they may take off all cold from them. Although most of the nonsense in this passage be evident enough, I will presume to point at one singular ●nd most coherent piece of it. The Nerves, he saith, are cold and dry, and ●o preserve the later part of its ●emper, we have warrant to use dry Medicines; but why then hot things, to take off all the cold from them, which is also one part of their temper; how doth that which ruins it, preserve it? or how can the intention of preserving its temper, which is cold, be pursued by things hot, and taking away all cold? Oh preposterous Hysteron & Proteron! & punctured Nerves can endure the hottest Oils, which the finger cannot; whence I collect, that a Nerve hath not the most exquisite sense; thus you see, erranti nullus terminus.  
Page 273. The heart cannot long be corrupted with injuries, neither doth it spin out its grievous punishments 
* This absurd passage was stolen from Crook. Anat. page 419. where he saith of the heart, only this of all the bowels is not wearied with Diseases, neither endureth it the grievous punishments of this life. Crook was as great a Plagiary as this his Ape. and sometimes as unhappy at a Translation; this is a quotation from Pliny, in Laurentius, Anat. page 368. to which refer.  of life. Page 234. he bids his Reader take these one or two Histories, and then relates only one blind story, which he fathers on Glandorp, of a Scholar, who FALLING upon a Door 
† Perhaps it was a stone Door.  FELL upon a Stone, which broke two of his Teeth, which were afterward reduced. This mus● be a new and extraordinary Art to reduce broken teet● I hope when it is public● the Bone-setters will not usurp upon us, and claim i● as their Province. Page 270 he saith, Fallopius writes, that he hat● seen Inflations of the Lungs cured, an● others to have died of the same. This piece of nonsense Sckenkius led him to, by misquoting and misciting that Author, as I shall show anon, till when I reserve my reflections on this passage.  
For more concise and succinct Patterns of his absurdity and nonsense, see cap. 18. where he calls gunshot wounds WHOLLY the employ of the Sea-Chirurgion, and yet adviseth Milk in the first dresses, (perhaps he thought the Chirurgeon General allowed a barrel, or two among the necessaries.) Page 141. The headsaw is used to remove away the distance of the Cranium left after the use of a Trepan. Page 246. Vinegar wonderfully dissolves, and discusseth concrete Blood. 251. The heart is circumscribed by the Clavicles, Sternon, etc. 246. Boiling Honey makes it more rancid. 240. Cartilages of the Windpipe are in continual motion. 213. The Spleen ●s an Organical Bowel. 234. In Wounds of the Spinal Marrow, although all sense and motion is destroyed, yet Seed, Urine and Excrements, are VOLUNTARILY avoided. 216. Spigell. Laurentius, and Bauhine, although they wrote in this Century, he calls Ancient Writers; the Eye is framed of six Muscles. 214. The Eyelids are appointed as Draw-bridges, to lift the Eye up and down. 231. The Ears (he must mean the outward flap, for he professeth not to meddle with the inward Organ,) are created for understanding. If it were true, a great deal of that faculty would come to his share. 257. Blood in the Cavity of the Thorax must necessarily and speedily be suppurated, being consentaneous in a cut, where the great Veins or Arteries are untouched. 266. The Lungs are the Instruments of Voice, made as it were of frothy Blood. 271. The Pericardium is so much softer than a Bone, as it is softer than the Lungs. 274. The Heart, in its passive qualities, is more moist than the Cutis. 255. It distributes to, but receives not from, any part, giving MOTION to others, diffusing its proper virtues, as it pleaseth itself, disposing its sorrows as it thinks fit. 277. Is the Chapter of Wounds of the Arteries and Veins; and next page, Wounds of the Veins and Arteries. 278. A Wound of the great Artery is followed with a Fever, Inflammation, etc. [put out the fire, and the house will scorch.] 287. Wounds of the Abdomen may be seen to penetrate with, or without hurt. 290. An Incarnative Fomentation to expel Wind. 299. He directs to supplemental Noses, the Fantastical Ridiculous way of Taliacotus. These, and abundance more of self-evident pieces of nonsense & absurdity, you have scattered here and there in this Complete Book of Wounds; sometimes single passages, otherwhiles whole pages, often entire periods, that may justly come under this censure, which I will only point at, to save the trouble of numerous Recitals. See 2, 3, Paragraph of the 33th Chapter, p. 172. from the 18th to the 22th line, p. 176. the first seven lines; page 222. almost all the first Paragraph, especially the later end, concerning the excellency of the Skin of the Face; page 227. 1 Parag. See also f. 240, 251, 257, 266, 275, 277, 303, 308, etc. beside many absurd Phrases and Allusions, without sense, which are frequent in this Book, of a new Method, as steering by a Microscope, page 111. alluding a Caution, page 5. Instruments are Figures, page 143. and regulating non-naturals; Engines to work with; every thing that putrefieth is affected with a hot and moist humour; 72. storming by cathartics; 199. sailing on the Coast of Wounds; 210. steering a course on the Bloody Main; 349. dismantling the parts of the body; 285. swimming on the bottom of the Stomach; 293. small Rivulets, 23. with many more.  
As to his Contradictions and Inconsistencies, they are thicker than I have met in ten times the number of pages, demonstrating his Memory to be as shallow as his Judgement; for he often opposeth himself in the same page, sometimes in the same or next line; his Method and Observations frequently confute, and contradict his Prognostics; for what in the one he affirms to be absolutely mortal, and incurable, in the other he not only directs to a Method for Cure, but relates Proofs and Examples that they have been healed. I know little Contradictions, and small Inconsistencies may insensibly and unawares slip from the Pen of any man that write● much, but it's very unusual to have so many, so palpable, & obvious, so thick, and numerous, and opposite averments, so near one another, as they are in so small a Book as this before us.  
Page 77. He positively and without exception saith, an Ecchymosis must be suppurated, and soon after directs to a method for resolving them. Page 21, 169, 245, 304. and elsewhere, he dehorts the Chirurgeon from meddling with such cures, as he hath no Authority or encouragement from Art to be concerned with. But Page 100, 132, 138, 163, 305, etc. being in a better humour, adviseth to the contrary, and persuades him not to forsake any Patient, or be discouraged, in the most desperate cases. Page 113. He forbids the use of moist things to parts without the Scull. And soon upon it, directs to Wine, (which is actually such,) and Oil of St. john's Wort, Yolks of Eggs, which are both actually and potentially such. Page 129. Hot and moist Constitutions are not so apt for admittance of Putrefaction. Yet, Page 72, 73. he affirms, that those Medicines, which procure it, are all of that temper. Page 28. When the Skin is broken, he decryeth the use of Oils. And yet in many places directs the use of them in Wounds, so Page 36. He is at it again, dissuading from the use of unctuous Salves, especially where Consolidation is to be performed, because Page 40. Oils do hinder Agglutination. Yet in Page 42. He directs ℞. ol. Hyperic. catellor. ana ℥ ij. G. elemni. pulv. veronicae; salviae, ana ℥ i. Tereb. Venet. ℥ iss. as a Salve Agglutinative, and repelling humours. Page 28. He saith, wounds do only then inflame, when they do not suppurate, yet Page 49. He saith pain and heat do attend the part, while digestion is performing; and inflammation increaseth, while matter is making. Page 136. He reflects on those who divide the Art into many parts. When he himself is not only guilty of all the superfluous mincing extant, but exceeded them, in giving two Chapters for one subject, tho' the Title be somewhat diversified. See Chap. 60, 61. Page 134. He saith, if a Fever happen on Wounds of the Head, before the fourteenth day, it's a deadly sign. And in the very next period makes the like danger to attend such, to which a Fever supervenes after that time. Page 129. He saith, children's Heads wounded are not so apt for Putrefaction; and Page 137. A more speedy purulency of matter happens in them, than in Persons of age; and to strengthen the contradiction beyond all excuse, he gives the same reason for the one, that he doth for the other, viz. Heat and moisture, making it in the one the cause, why Putrefaction and digestion is tedious, and in the other, more speedy and quick. Page 160. His Doctrine, and advise in the first paragraph, is not only very inartificial and absurd, but contradicted in the next, and the subsequent story. Page 273, 275, etc. He calls the Heart, the principle of Life, the Prince of the Bowels, the chief Engine, and yet Page 178. He saith, that the Brain is the principal Part. Page 186. He absurdly affirms. That Putrefaction, and Sphacelus of the Brain are deadly Symptoms, not to be found out by the opening of the Scull, after the Party be dead, and immediately gainsaith it by an instance from Volch Coiterus, (stolen from Skenckius. Page 24,) of many dissections, where more than half the Brain was putrified, the Ventricles full of foetid green matter, and in the cerebellum, very putrid Aposthumes. Page 188. He forbids the use of cooling astringent things to the Head, in concussions of the Brain. Not only contrary to almost all Authors, but his immediate direction of a Cataplasm of that temper and quality, he saith, (the same Page) restringents are not to be used, because they hinder the exhalation of the fuliginous Vapours, through the sutures. And in the very Page, not only directs to the use of Repulsives, and to have them continued the first four days, but a Fomentation and a Plaster, (stolen from A Pary, lib. 10, cap. 22.) which are both of them binding or restrictive, as you may see by the Ingredients, Orris, Lalam. Aromaticus, Red-Roses, Frankincense, Mastic Red Wine, myrtles, Cypres-nuts. etc. Page 200. He Apologizeth for the use of Oil in wounds of the Nerves, because a moist Medicine. And immediately urgeth with the same Zeal and heat of Argument, that use of dry things for the same purpose. Page 254. He reckons (very erroneously) extrusion of the airthrough wounds of the Breast, as a constant sign of Penetration. And in the same Chapter, gives a story to the contrary. Page 256. He directs to the use of Vinegar to discuss and dissolve Blood, cast into the Breast from a Wound, so as it may be expectorated. And yet in the next Page saith, such Blood must necessarily and speedily be suppurated. Page 257, 258. After he had discoursed of three ways (completely omitting a 
* See Fallopius cap. 13. de vuln. pocul.  fourth, viz. Paracentesis,) to fetch off the Blood extravasate, in Wounds in the Breast, of which two were Expectoration, and pissung, he persists in the use of Tents, to discharge it that way. Page 25, 266, 267. He denounceth lingering death at least to Wounds of the Lungs. And yet not only directs to their cure, but reports two stories from Glandorp, and several stolen from Skenckius of prodigious Wounds there cured. Page 271. He makes Wounds of the Pericardium easily curable, and in the same Chapter, saith, that they generally bring Consumptions, hectic Fever, and death. Page 273. He Prognosticates present death to Wounds of the Heart. And confesseth in the same Chapter, not only that a man may survive such a Wound, two or three days, but that superficial ones may be cured. Page 278. The great Artery wounded, the Body grows i'll. Although in that very Chapter he delivers, that a Fever and Inflammation are symptoms of that Wound. He saith, page 279. The Veins carry Blood to the Heart; and page 275 he affirms, that it doth not receive from any part, that its disputable, whether the Veins have their Original from the Heart or Liver; and on the contrary affirms in divers places, that they have their Original in the Liver. Page 297. he saith, The Gut Jejunum is exsanguial, and in the same breath saith; page 298. they are full of Vessels, and that the plenitude of Meseraick Veins doth contradistinguish it from the great Guts. Pagr 304. He denounceth absolute death to large Wounds of the Liver; and in the same Chapter relates from Glandorp, the Cure of one, who lost great part thereof; and another from Forestus, of one who lost a less piece and was cured. Page 309. Death (quoth he) soon followeth if the Stomach be cut; although in the same Chapter he not only confesseth such Wounds are curable, but gives a borrowed story from Glandorp, and two stolen from Sckenkius, of most prodigious ones healed. Page 24. He represents the substance of the Liver, as grumous, coagulated Blood; and yet page 302. he saith once and again, that the same whole substance is a composition of Glandules and Ramifications. Again, in the same page he suggests (as he doth in many other places,) Sanguification is performed by the Liver, and again saith the contrary. Page 237. He saith, If the Tongue be wounded transversly, it's altogether incurable, and delivers in the same page, that it's to be accounted curable, if it be not wholly cut off; as he exemplifieth by a borrowed (though falsely quoted) story from Hildanus. Page 233. He relates the story of a Soldier shot through the middle of the Ear, but presently forgetting himself, saith, the Cartilege was not hurt. Page 140. He saith, Incision cannot, ought not, to be made through the temporal Muscle; and page 225. directs to it, as a thing necessary and feasible. To conclude this Topick, look into his 215 page, and you will find a sufficient proof of his skill, agreeableness, sense, etc. which I will give you verbatim. To CONCLUDE this Chapter, I shall END with THIS observable History; the FIRST whereof shall be of a young man, who looking upward had a small Stone fall down upon the upper Eyelid, the which did both hurt it, and its CARTILEGE— suture being made, and the parts enclosed by a Needle, the Cartilege remaining unhurt, etc. is not this a most excellent account? is not the man fit for a bauble, or a sucking-bottle, than to be an Author, that writes at this rate? Do not the senseless wretches in Bedlam talk more rational, and ageeeable? Do not men in their sleep, and in their drink, express themselves wiser, and more coherent, than this vainglorious Scribbler, although he had a Copy before him, which would have guided him to more sense?— To conclude, I shall end,— the first of one single History— the Cartilege of the Eyelid was hurt, and was not hurt— separate parts enclosed by a Needle. I have not patience to trace this vain naughty Scribblers doublings, contradictions, and perplexed notions; let us shift the Scene, and go in quest of his Thefts, with a Hue and Cry after Mr. Plagiary Brown.  
His Robberies, as to History, are mostly from Sckenkius; and to be thought of plenary and various Reading, he quotes not the Book whence he had them, but the quotations, as he finds them in the Collector. I know this were very uncertain to me, (because divers men may quote originally one and the same Author,) if I did not find all the Errors, miscitations, etc. that are in Schenkius, exactly transcribed by our Plagiary, of which hereafter you shall have several Instances. The greatest Part of that Anatomy which he gives us, is stolen from Laurentius, Bauhinus, Spigelius, Veslingus, Read, and (as great a Thief as himself,) Crook; this begets in him so many Errors, and Contradictions, his Medicines, and Notions are promiscuously collected from several Authors, though (as I have already said,) he had not the wit, and judgement to take the best of either. Parey, Read, Glandorp, and a few more, seem his Magazines for this sort of furniture.  
What is more wicked, absurd, dishonest, and vain, what more ridiculous and hateful to men of Sense and Letters, than this sort of Pickerooning? Sometimes he delivers his stolen Stories and Medicines, as if they were his own; sometimes names his Author plainly enough, out of a cunning crafty design, that those which are Anonymous may pass more probably as his; sometimes he coucheth his Author, and covertly quotes him, that an unwary Reader may think so, of them also; but frequently, and for the most part, (especially when he steals from Sckenkius,) he names those, which that Author quotes from. I shall take no notice of those he truly owns. My intention is to discover to you, whence he stole those which he thrusts upon us, without an honest confession where he had them; of which sort I have already in Series given you divers Instances, I will now show you many more in the following part of the Book.  
Perhaps he thinks to acquit himself from this imputation, by the List of Authors, he proudly Catalogues in the beginning, but that will not excuse him. Many of them being no where concerned in the Book, and divers in the Book not named in these; nor half of either of them ever known to him. So little doth he deserve the name of an Author, that wants skill to give us any new thing, wit to choose the best from others, ability to express them legibly, and deliver them truly, or ingenuity to produce any thing de proprio, for in the whole Book, I find not one Medicine truly so, and but two that he pretends to, the one of which is a digestive. Page 42. known almost to every Boy, the other a Cataplasm for concussions of the Brain. Page 189. The like of which are in many common 
* Vigierus, lib. 2. cap. 7. Sckenkius, page 34. Forest. obs-Chir. 43. l. 6. Scultetus, obs. 3. Wiseman, lib. 5. cap. 9 Aq. Peadent. lib. 2. cap. 20. Hildan. obs. 10. cent. 8.— obs. 5. cent. 2. A. à Cruse, lib. 1. cap. 14. Cook, Mel. Chir. cap. 13. sect. 3.  Writers, and the composition word for word, (excepting one ingredient) in John de Vigo. 3. lib. 1 Tract. chapt. 5.  
The Observations ending his thirteenth Chapter, are from Forestus obs. Chir. lib. 6. Which he concludes with a great falsehood, to wit, that the cure was performed by the method of that Chapter. The lineament he directs, he stole from old Mr. Clowes. obs. 2. Who had it from the Florentine Physicians, our plagiary sets down but half the composition, the first Inventors appointed Nitre, not Vitriol, and commended it chief against burning and scaldings, for which it was used by Mr. Clowes. His discourse chap. 14. of an Ecchymosis, is a lame Transcript from Guido, and Tagaultius etc. and his method of cure, tho' like Mr. Wiseman's, is much short thereof, the two stories concluding it are both stolen from Forestus, and falsely related; his theory of a wound by the bite of a mad Dog, chap. 15. is stolen almost verbatim from Dr. Read, who wrote defectively enough of the nature of Poisons, and their contagions; and to make it worse, our padder gives no Prognostic or uncommon Remedies; the first History in this Chapter is in 
* Morb. Con. tag. lib. 2. cap. 10.  Fra●castorus, the other three in Sckenkius, in transcribing which, he omits contradict. between Cardanus an● The first observation of his 16. cha● concerning Boccatius, and his Wi●●● is 
* Memorabil. cent. 1. de venenis.  in Mialdus, and Ramsey, though i● all likelihood stolen from Sckenki●● Page 834. His second is from 
† Cap. 24. de venen.  Pare●● but miserably butchered, as is also th● first, in his 1. chap. Which, though he pretend to have from Ctesias, was stolen from Sckenkius, where the story is related from Mercurialis.  
His discourse of Gunpowder is stolen from 
* Lib. 11.  Pareus, and 
† Sect. 15.  Dr. Read. This first story of his eighteenth chapter is stolen from 
* Obs. 4.  Clowes, but very ill transcribed. For he not only omits much of what the Author delivers, as to median, and manual operation, (which are most material) but adds what is not in the original, viz. That the Patient was much tormented with pain, and other evil accidents. Pray compare the two Relations, and observe the care, sincerity, and honesty of our complete Author All the stories. Page 107. Are stolen from Sckenkius. Page 697, 698. His Anatomical discourse of the Head, from Spigelius, Bauhine, Crook, etc. His 23, 24, 25. Chapters are most of them taken from Hypocrates de vul●er. cap. errors and all, without regard to the correction of Fallopius his Comments thereon, and delivered in so ●awkard and slovenly a manner, with mixture of silly metaphors, and odd phrases, that it's almost wholly disguised.  
In his twenty third Chapter, you may discover him in Dr. Read, although he doubles and inverts the method, omits many things, altars the way of writing out of a vain design to conceal his stealing, or a presumption that he could express it better than that learned man hath done; for what he calleth Prognostics, sect. 17 the Plagiary calls Signs, cap. 23. The Doctor saith, Wounds of the Heads of Children prove sometimes rebellious, partly because they are of a hot and moist constitution, which IS MOST APT to admit putrefaction; partly because the habit of their bodies is thin, and so ministereth occasion to the breathing out of the spirits.— in deadly Wounds of the Head, the Patiented lives longer in the Winter, than in the Summer, for in it the natural heat is not so easily raised as in th● Summer.— This I know was take● from Hypocrates by the Doctor, Parey and some others; but see now, ho●● our Bathyllus hath mangled an● grimaced it. Page 129. Wounds in th●● Heads of Children oftentimes prove un● happy, they being of a hot and moist comstitution, and this NOT SO APT▪ fo● the admittance of putrefaction— in Summer time, the Patient lives a shorter time than in the Winter, for in this time the unnatural heat is not procured for putrefaction.  
I know not a more absurd or unintelligible passage in all that learned man's Works, (excepting his Anatomy, which is nothing but Errors,) than in the 20th Lecture of Wounds, where speaking of the use of the Headsaw, he saith, It will serve to cut asunder the distance of the Cranium left after the application of the Trepan in divers parts. At this our Filcher would be nibbling, supposing there was some extraordinary meaning in it, (fools naturally admiring most, what they understand least,) and resolved to have it; but to make it more like his own, varieth it thus, page 141. used also to remove away the distance of the Cranium, left after the application of the Trepan.  
His whole discourse of Trepanning cap. 25. hath nothing in it, which is ●ott o be found more fully, methodically, and intelligibly expressed, in abundance of Authors, which I need not name. The two Stories ending them are from Hildanus, obs. 19, 21. cent. 1. in whom there is no mention of the Venereal act with a common Strumpet, which, our Author saith, was the occasion of that Relapse; so that here he adds to this Story, and omits a considerable part of the next, viz. an account of what was observable upon dissection, within the Skull of that unfortunate Lady. The Cataplasm which he gives, page 147. is stolen from Doctor Read, sect. 10. The Story, page 148. from Blotius concerning the Son of Philip King of Spain, (which our Author (for Alterations sake) falsely calls Nephew to Charles the Fifth, 
* So he translates Nepos, which in Classic Writers is used for Grandson, but perhaps it's not agreeable to our Author's way of Pedigree, nor skill in Latin, who finds it more credit to be accounted the Nephew of Mr. Cropp, Chief Chirurgeon of Norfolk, (as he calls him) than the Son of— Brown a Tailor in Norwic●.  is in Sckenkius, page 15. and Bonnetus, Index, page 95. but transcribed according to his wont exactness and integrity. The other Story of the same page, concerning a● Boy fifteen years old, i● stolen from Hildanus, wh● (saith he) fell into the Fe●ver the 14th day from th● hurt, and our exact Plagia●ry saith the 11th. The two Observations, page 162. are stolen from Scke●kius, Page 18. And placed here very unsuitably, the second, third, and fourth stories Page 170. are also stolen from Sckenkius. Page 31, 32. The first quotation quite spoiled in the Copy.  
The unguent Matrisylva. Page 174. is from Forestus, though he points not where it's to be found; the Author gives two Receipts thereof, the one simple, the other compound; 
Obs. chir. 42.44. lib. 6.  of the Mastic, and thus, the Author prescribes, an ounce, the plagiaryʒ i. the last ℞. Page 175. is stolen from Dr. Read, Page 137. The History of Dodoneus is a defaced transcript, from his usual Magaine Sckenkius, Page 27. And here most impertinently illated; the Chapter treating of Wounds, of the two meanings, and in the observation, not so much as the cranium broken, or hurted. Page 181, 182. The several Medicines there directed, are from A. a cruse, and to be found in Sckenkius, 23. Page. The Docoction. Page 182. is from Dr. Read. Page 141. The History 184. from Sckenkius. Page 19 The Decoction and Plaster. 188. from Pareus lib. 10. cap. 22.  
Page 189. He promiseth as a rarity, viz. Something HIS OWN, which he prepares our expectations to receive, as a great boon, giving it the Character Bromfield, and other Quacks, do their Pills, viz. A true and happy composition, of which I have with admirable success, had the advantage to speak the truth of it. (pray mark the Grammar and Elegancy,) This great Arcanum, in the margin he calls his own, and in the Column, Nuncle Crops. Now is he not a most despicable and odious plagiary, abandoned to impudence and ignorance, if it appear that he puts upon us, and that the invention of this (not extraordinary) Cataplasm was neither the ones, nor the others. I have already shown you where there are many like it, and in John de Vigo the very same, 
Lib. 3. tract. 1. cap. 5.  save only that Nuncle Cropp, or his wise Nephew, put in Motherwort, instead of Woodbine. Behold now the skill, the honesty of the confident Assumer, I find but this, and one more directly titled his own, and both of them as common, in many Books, as nonsense and impertinence are in his own, and the later on which he plumes, and brags, to have been invented before either of the pretenders to it were in their swaddling clouts.  
The fomentation and powder, Page 193. are stolen from Doctor Read, Page 14. and Cornarius observation, from Schenckius, Page 26. His method for one of punctured Nerves, Page 201. is stolen from Fallopius; so are his medicines viz. the two unguents, only where the original 
* de vulnerib. particul. Page 231. Ed. Francf.  saith common oil, the echo translates ol. of't. scrip. Page 189. The observation of Dodoneus was nothing at all to the purpose, and stolen from Schenkius, Page 27. as was that of the jvy leaves, Page 190. from Page 28. and impertinently here inserted. Page 204. he gives us an history from Forestus, which he saith is in obs. 20. fol. 183. but is in 38 obs. cent. 6.1. much wronged in the translation. That from Horatus Augenius, is Verbatim in Schenckius, Page 636. that of Amat. Lusitanus is in Forestus loc. cit. most impertinently placed in this Chapter, and the patiented, though a Countess, veryrudely called old Gentlewoman an Epithit most detestable to that Sex.  
The three stories Page 265. of Hollerius, and Alexand. Bened. are stolen from Schenckius. Page 280. So are those Page 270. of Gemma, and Fallopius. (see Schenckius Page 253.) The later containing an absurd assertion, not to be found in the Author, whence Schenckius borrowed, and our Author stole them. The Histories of Benivonius, Cardanus, P. Salius, are stolen from the same Book, as is also that of Cyriacus Lucius, for which he quotes de suis observat. when it was but a private Letter sent to Schenckius. Page 262. The Histories of Galen. Beniverius, etc. in the 285. page of our Scribbler, is stolen from the same hand. Page 270. That of Albucas. page 292. from him. page 367. Those of Jacotius, Hollerius, Pareus, etc. in his 300 Page, are in the of 368. if Schenckius.  
The Observations. Page 317. a●● stolen from Schenckius and Glandor● How he hath butchered the two last● I shall show anon. Those in his 312. page, from Fallopius and Oethaeus, (whom our heedless Transcriber calls Ortheus) are in the 332. page of the same Author. That in page 320. is in the 484. of Schenkius, so are the two stories of Dodoneus. page 313. From him also page 150. that of Arceus 223. is from the said hand. Page 177. That concerning the Prince of Orange. page 243. from him also, page 201. So that in all, he hath stolen in this single Treatise, from that one Book, above sixty Histories of observations.  
My next work was, to prove our Spark (notwithstanding his vain pretences to the contrary, by numerous quotations, much Greek, etc. pretence to learning) to be an Illiterate, and silly scribbler, and that even in the easiest, and most inferior parts of writing, this the whole tenor of his language, and strain of expressions, together with most of his translations, plainly enough demonstrates, as I have already exemplified, and shall further prove. He cannot excuse himself, by the common pretence, viz. That any of those faulty words or passages were the errors of the press, because he corrected them, and that I have not where fixed my reflections on any of them, nor have I taken any notice of little common slips of the pen, or faults in Orthography, such are Procataretick, Paracenthesis, Epolonticks, Raninae, etc. those being incident from the best Writers. But I shall attempt my point by substantial and inexcusable aberrations, and of them give you but a few (and those cogent) instances, it being needless as well as endless, to produce all this book affords.  
Page 94. treating of venomous wounds, he most impertinently brings in the famous story of Parysatis poisoning of Statira, for which he quotes Ctesias, (an Author never seen by him,) it's delivered to us by Plutarch in the life of Artaxerxes: From him Hieron Mercurialis had it (as I conjecture,) and from him Schenkius quotes it, Page 811 and thence ou● Illiterate, according to the best of him skill in Latin, translated it. Plutarch Mercurialis, and Schenckius agree i● the story thus. Ctesias Author antiquissimus, in libro de Rebus Persicis scribit, quandam mulierem Statyram vocatam, maxim semper timuisse venenum, & omni diligentia usam, ut illud evitaret; factum tamen, ut quaedam alia mulier eam hoc modo venenaret; Cultelli partem alteram tantum veneno infecit, & deinde coram Statyra, divisit aviculam parvam coctam, & qua parte avis tacta fuer at a veneno cultelli, oblata Statyrae, illico eam extinxit; cum interim qua parte avis non fuerat tacta a veneno, nullum detrimentum ipsi ministranti intulerit. This strange story (the truth of which is much questioned) is by our man of letters, 
* Sr. Tho. Brown pseuded. ep.  thus rendered into English. Page 94. Ctesias an old author in lib. de rebus persicis writes of a Woman, who through her whole life time dreaded poison, and made it her greatest care to escape it, she invited another Woman to Dinner, who seeing her Knife lie on the Table, that which for many years before, never parted from 
† I believe so he Tran slates, cultelli partem alteram tantum Venen● infecit etc.  her side, but at Dinner time, took up this Knife, and poisoned it at the end, she cutting her victuals therewith, was soon dispatched of her life, and the other parts of the meat, which were untouched with the Knife, were void of all Poison.—  
Page 148. He gives us a story of Blotius, but stolen out of Schenkius. Page 15. And by him thus delivered from the original. Carolus Philippi Hispaniarum Regis Filius, Caroli V Nepos, ex quartana aerem mutare jussus, in arce quadam nobilem puellam corollas nectentem intuitus, cum ludendi causa ad illam properaret: Illa vim metuens, in cubiculum fugit, pessulumque ostio obdidit, Juvenis eo magis irritatus, in cubiculum praeceps pergradus effracta violenter janua delapsus, gravissimum vulnus in capite accepit.— This we find thus translated by our artless Author,— Charles, Nephew to Charles the Fifth of Spain. Who after having been troubled with a quartan Ague, was by his Physicians directed to walk, and refresh himself in the Air, as he was going out of his Chamber-Door, and seeing a Maid of Honour making of Garlands, made haste to her; she hereupon being surprised, making haste away, fell against the Bar of her Chamber-Door, the young Gentleman being herewith vexed, that he should be the occasion of this mischief, in a fury, going to his Chamber, meets with an unhappy fall, which caused a Wound in his Head, coming from his Chamber.— This is neither agreeable with the original, or sense, going to his Chamber meets with a unhappy fall, coming from her Chamber.— Who can reconcile this contradiction, and nonsense.  
Page 156. He quotes Fallopius, expos. in lib. Hippoc de vulner. cap. 16. for a story that's in the 13. chap. and stolen from Schenckius. Page 32. Who thus delivereth it, verbatim from the Author.— Ratio autem est, quia pars exterior patitur contusionem, qua communicatur interiori laminae, quae durior est, et ideo superficies interna ejus vitrea dicitur, quare externa in eodem ictis potest cedere in seipsam, et interior cum non possit cedere in seipsam contrahit rimam.— Now observe the nonsense, and falsehood of the Translation Page 156. of our illiterate— The reason of his proceed, after this manner, was, the outer part being contused, the contusion was communicated to the second Table, and whereas the outward, could not fall into itself, nor the inward Table into itself, hereby it suffered this fissure.  
Once more he is at Fallopius, page 270. quoting him as the Author of this nonsensical passage, Pulmonibus vidi inflatos sanatos; inflatos etiam mortuos, quare vulnera pulmonis ex aequo se habent; by him thus translated, I have seen Inflations of the Lungs cured, and others to have died of the same, Fallop. de Vuln. cap. 12. that he stole this from Schenkius, is most certain, for there the words are thus falsely transcribed, and the reference mistaken, the place to which he points, (if he mean lib. de vuln. pecul.) doth indeed discourse of Wounds of the parts contained in the Breast, but hath not a syllable in it like this. But in the fourth Chapter of his Book the vuln. in gen. Tom. 2. He hath something like it, de pulmonibus autem hoc scio, quod vidi plurimos sanatos, imò infinitos, infinitos etiam mortuos, quare vulnera hujus partis ex aequo se habenct. It's excusable in Schenkius to mistake, because he did it but seldom, and among so many thousand Transcriptions, to err sometimes, is scarcely evitable, but for our Scribbler to take upon trust, and swallow nonsense, misquotation and all, and pretend he had it from the original, there remains no excuse, but an unanswerable proof, that he quotes at second hand, and understands not what he delivers to us, is unacquainted with Latin, and the Books he pretends to know and understand.  
If there be not enough to prove this part of my undertaking against him, I must refer you to cap. 10. And see how he comes off with Dr. Willis's notion, and History there delivered, to chap. 29. for the History from Pareus to his 16. chap. for another from the same Author, to his 25. chap. for the two stories from Hildanus, to his 33. chap. for the two stories from Nicholas Florentinus, (vide Schenkius p. 31.) to his 34th. chap. for a story from Hollerius, stolen from Schenkius page 27. to his 39th. chap. for an History from Peter Forestus, obs. chir. 38. lib. 6. (not the 20th as he misquotes) to his 14. chap. for a story from the same Author, to cap 44 for an observation from Solenander, Sect. 5. cons 15. which you will find to be the 32. story in that Consal, and all these with almost all the rest of the observations in his Book, translated after such sort, as shows plainly he doth not understand Latin, duorum canum magnorum from P. Forestus, two little Dogs, Page 78. in ditione, from Schenkius page 332. in the City Depravatus, page 46. Deprived; praeceps, Principle, depravatusmotus, deprivation of motion, tenebat, did cover, capita, dead Corpse, etc. Nay I undertake to assure you, that there is not one story in ten, of those his Books contain, but are falsely translated, and would have been more truly rendered by a Schoolboy, of a years standing.  
To conclude this Topick, take two Evidences more of this nature, they are both in his 317 page, and stolen from Schenkius Page 461. The first from Dodoneus, speaking of a Woman stabbed in one of her Kidneys, quem Vulneratum fuisse particula ejus è vulnere exempta ostendit, he wholly neglects the other from Fallopius, (whom by this and other citations, I find he never read, for he quotes him usually de vulneribus, not distinguishing (because not knowing,) whether it be his Book de vulner, capitis, an exposition on Hypocrates, in his first Tom. or that de vulneribus in genere, or that de vulneribus peculiaribus, both which are in his second Tom.) in the place before us he quotes him, lib. de Vuln. cap. 12. Schenkius saith, de vulneribus capitis, cap. 12. But there is no such matter in that place, nor is that sort of hurt mentioned any where, in those three Books of Wounds, save in his 22. chap. de vuln. pecul. and cap. de vuln. in genere, in the former there is no such passage, as this our Author mentions, in the later there is somewhat like it, viz. et ego vidi post ictum pugionis concrevisse carnem illam laxam et sanasse.— Schenkius thus renders it. Vidi renem sinistrum pugione vulneratum sanari: Quia parenchyma, scilicet sanguis ille crassus, concrevit in carnem.— And our unlettered plagiary, I have seen the left Kidney pricked and wounded, because the Parenchyma like thick Blood, concreted into Flesh.— O most egregious ignorant! With what Face canst thou appear in the Front of such impudent falsehoods, and heaps of nonsense, blush for shame, and do penance for this most Criminal way of abusing the World, and misguiding young Tiro's in an Art of so much use to Mankind, draw a Curtain before all thy Pictures, thy Faces (like the Brass that stamped them,) hid in some gloomy place, never to see light, till thou hast expiated the discredit thou hast done our Art, and learned more modesty, knowledge, etc. And then appear in print again, and Title thy Book the Retractation or Index expurgatorius of John Brown, who now sensible and ashamed of his own ignorance and vanity, doth make this public confession thereof to the World, whom he hath shamelessly abused, by his empty insignificant writings.  
Sir, I pray you pardon this little transport, and suffer me to make good my charge against him, by pointing to you a few passages out of an abundance wherein he expresseth himself as weakly, and silly, as any Writer you can have seen. page 137 he makes no differences between Symptoms and Sentences. page 187. Contusions of the brain proceed from some outward cause invading the brain, happening by a fall from an high place upon a hard part, being either stony or rocky. page 199. Puncture of Nerves is an accident that doth happen most COMMONLY, by the Ignorance of the Chirurgeon SOMETIMES. page 200. And here also as to the affected part, we are here to consider both the breadth and narrowness of the affected part, page 271. The pericardium is a membrane enwrapping the heart, swimming in it, (this to a man that knows Anatomy must seem such sense, as to say, the purse swims in the money,) abundance of the like instances of his wit, and learning in Orthography, Syntax, and other parts of common sense, and literature are intersperst in his writing, and cannot escape the intuition of any man, though but indifferently skilled in either.  
I must not pass by a very great example of his way of reasoning, etc. in his 185 page. where he wisely endeavours to prove, the possibility of an Abscess in the brain, by urging this Aphorism of Hypocrates. If matter, water or blood, issue from the Nostrils, Mouth or Ears, of any troubled with the head-ache, it doth discharge it, as if what thus floweth thence, must certainly be from an Abscess from within the meanings, and not rather extravasations, or congestions without them, as is usual, as wise, and as much to the purpose, is his calling on Galen, Avicen, Rhasis, to prove that nature found out (contrived had been better said,) these as proper Channels for that purpose, if a man would argue at this rate, and reason from such Topics, how easy is it to prove the Moon made of a green Cheese.  
I had almost forgot to entertain you, with some pleasant instance of his skill in Etymology, which he shows very often, and not seldom appears a ridiculous fop, whether it be more silly than illiterate thus to force derivations, as is commonly practised, we will not dispute page 211 Frons à ferendo, because it carrieth in it the LIVELY resemblance of heavyness, sadness, moroseness, etc. a very pretty comparison, the lively resemblance of dead, dullthings. I know by others its said so to be derived. Quod indicia animi prae se farat. But why not more likely from Frondis, the branch of a tree, because it lively resembles the invisible dilemmas, and divarications, some men's Wives place there Page 222. Vultus a voluntatis indicio, why not from volvendo, as some have derived it, or rather from Vulva, because of their lively resemblance, in mouth, beard, etc. Fancies, a faciendo because it maketh the difference between a man, and a beast I am sure that doth not always hold, for I have seen some men's faces not exceed a beautiful Baboons, and have constantly learned, and always understood, that Religion and reason, not complexion or countenance, had made this discrimination. The face (quoth he) sur●●sseth all other parts for beauty FOR in it may be easily seen, ●●e storms and tempests of anger 〈◊〉 passion, the attempts of death, sadness, melancholy, etc. Very beautiful objects indeed, an angry or melancholy countenance is without doubt as pleasant to behold, as the society of men in those passions, is to enjoy. page 231. auris ab hauriendo, the air being drawn in thereby. page 302. jecur quasi juxta cor. page 222. oculus ab occulendo, at this rate some men, force Etymons, from consonations, or semblance in sound as proper and pertinent, as to say Brown, a Brumosus, filthy, stinking, or a Brundus a fool.  
Although it be needless after all this, to say any more concerning this vain man, to demonstrate him a very naughty scribbler, I resolve while my hand is in, to pursue my blow, and prove more particularly that he is an IMPERTINENT TRIFLER, and that shall be the business of this head. His many mincings and divisions, (against which he himself rants. page 136.) unnecessary distinctions, insignificant particularities, justly deserve to be censured under those Characters, for to what end or advantage it's done, appears by the little or no difference, (except in needless words,) there is in the substance, and reality of the things, as I have once and again observed, and reflected on.  
Most of the observations are impertinent to the subject of those Chapters to which they are annexed, & might as properly serve any other, for instance what hath the story of one, poisoned by eating invenomed sage, or flesh, to do in a Chapter of wounds, made by the bite of poisonous animals, as little to the purpose, is his Theory and discourse of Palsies, Convulsions, etc. because they contain nothing in them ad rem, but are absolute, and general notions (erroneous enough) of those diseases, not as Symptomatical (which is the province of a Chirurgeon, but as primary and Independent, this I have again and again pointed to, in divers places. chap. 16: Discoursing of wounds made by the bitings of venomous beasts, he brings in that of a Toads ●s one, I know he is not the only impertinent of his kind, but that timal having no teeth (as Gesner, Johnson, Parey, etc. all Naturalists, could have told him,) cannot make a breach in the Continuum, and consequently (be the venom insinuated how it will,) its impertinent to reckon his bitings among poisoned wounds.  
His 18. chap. is an heap of impertinent, trifling, rambling fancies, without sense, coherence, or aught else like a man.— I will give you a taste.— Such Masters of Art, who have dwelled many years in the wars, and have hazarded their lives as well as fortunes, with their experience therein,— that they may make their speedy address to their entrance, form, and shape,— what can be the meaning of this Rhodomontado way of talk, and (to make short) referring us to an insignificant picture, page 37. as a most elegant representation, how a man may be wounded,) to supply the defects of his Theory, and bringing in head and ears, the story of his arm being contused, and broken by the wind of a Cannon-Bullet, what was i● to the purpose of that part of hi● Chapter, which was to explain how Eskars were produced in gunshot wounds, perhaps there might be some Ambition in it, and the occasion forced to show his Reader, that he had been Chirurgeon of one of His Majesty's 
* It was not the Kings, but a Merchant Ship, hired into his Majesty's service, which in time of war, is an employ of the least credit comparatively.  Ships. Though he wisely conceal her name and rank, as well knowing it would have then stamped no more real credit on him, among knowing men, than his late bare title, of one of his Majesty's Surgeons in ordinary.  
Can any man be the wiser for the Toyish Impertinent picture, page 104. that of a Carpenter boring an Auger-hole, would as well direct to the use of the Terebellum, or other extracting Instrument, what a ludicrous harangue and silly comparison doth he run upon, in the first period of his 19 chapter.— The head is such an admirable Syntax, etc. page III. being already assured of having our sails filled with the gentle gale of our friends, and all kind artists, we intent to STEER the Vessel of our present Discourse, by the MICROSCOPE of Anatomy— and then shall we arrive at the cranium itself. Chap. 26. discoursing of contusions, (most absurdly numbered among fractures,) he defines it to be an inward bent, or swelling of the Scull, and adds a story, no more pertinent to the discourse, than the discourse is to the subject of the book; his second history of the same Chapter is not less incongruous, being of a fracture with a wound, which was no way suitable to the occasion. page 151. He saith for rasping out chinks, and small fractures, the Trepan is not so fit or proper an Instrument as the Rasper, it's a most silly assertion, though as true, as if he had said a thimble is not so fit to cut cloth as a pair of shears. page 112. He gives us three heads worthy of note, the first and second of which tantamount, viz. If the membrane, covering the Scull, be broken or divided, the bone is to be suspected, saith he in one place, suffer detriment and be deraded, in another. page 159. he pedantickly quotes Hypocrates, for an observation he confesseth we daily see, viz. That hard things do rather break than bend, whereas soft things WE SEE do rather bend than break. So page 255. he quotes Galen, to prove that diuretics' work by urine, as silly and trifling, as going backto Euclid, to demonstrate, that three and two make five, or that two parallel lines are equidistant; away Trifler, study more sense, and cast off this Idle ostentatious way of naming Authors to no purpose, but to gratify an Itch, and show your own vanity.  
He is so affected with his new way of backing Chapters with observations, or experiments, that rathan let one go without it, he doth often produce stories, nothing to the purpose, thus those two in his 31 chap. of concameration (stolen from Schenkius) no way concern that case, and might serve any other fracture, or wound of the head, as pertinently. In his 32. cap. treating of Collision, he doth not (for compleatness sake) define it, nor is the story subjoined any way suitable. page 107. are eight impertinent useless pictures, which he calls figures of the several species of a broken Scull, for which one can be no more the wiser, than by his discourse, A. shows and indeed signifieth nothing. C. and F. differ not, nor doth B. E. and H. what doth H. demonstrate of a contusion. E. of depression. F. of cancameration. H. of contrafissure. They cannot possibly advantage the understanding, they may indeed make the Book vendible to Boys, but no way useful to them.  
His 36 Chap, is concerning Abscesses of the Brain, how fit to be place in a Treatise of Wounds, let the World judge, or what the stolen story of Arceus is to the purpose, he might have had more pertinent proof of the possibility of such Apostumations, and instances more suitable to the case in hand, than those he produceth, if he had consulted Sennertus, Zacutus, Tulpius, and divers others, who relate, that the whole Brain hath been rotten and become matter.  
Under the Imputation of this Topick, may be reckoned these darling words and phrases, which he so sillily affects, and impertinently drags in by the ears, such are, ALLOWED, AS TOUCHING, AND HERE ALSO, HERE MAY WE SEE PROPER ENGINES, LIVELY REPRESENTATIONS, CORREPTED, ABRADED, SHELVES AND ROCKS OF FEAR, etc. some of which he useth above ten times in a page. the Brain and its substance drieth of its self, and of its own natural quality drieth. page 287. A probe or wax-Candle going directly a great way into the Belly, in wounds thereof, is a sign the wound penetrates. Thus he trifles, and by Tautologies, and Impertinent Verbosity, spends his Pages, abuseth his Reader, and exposeth himself.  
To conclude, the later part of his Book (the Chapter of Jointwounds only excepted) is nothing but impertinence and trifling, giving superfluous Chapters, for Wounds of the Shoulders, Elbow, Wrists, Arms, Hands, Fingers, Thighs, Legs and Feet, I call them superfluous and needless, because that for Wounds of the Joints was enough for the first three, and where he discourseth of the rest, is constrained to repeat, or refer to the same Method and Medicaments he had directed before in general, and after all those many distinctions and divisions, beyond any I have met, he not only omits many more needful to be taken notice of, than some of which he hath written, such are Wounds of the Womb, Meseentry; Buttocks, Knees, Ankles, etc. And neglected some of the usual accidents of great Wounds, viz. Erisypelas, Gangrene, etc. But hath plainly shown himself, to be the Fool he rails at, for dividing the Art into more parts than God intended, and that his complete discourse of Wounds is not only erroneous, absurd, trifling and contradictory, but defective and incomplete, and written by a man of LITTLE EXPERIENCE or SKILL in the Art he pretends to, to evince which was the last part of my undertaking, and al● tho' it hath been abundantly manifested already, under the foregoing Topics, I will superadd a few mor● to make it a charge indisputably tru● and to prove that none but a ver● unskilful Person, could write as he doth in ANATOMY AND CHIRURGERY in general, and particularly of definitions, Diagnosticks, Prognostics, curatory method, and medicaments, observations, and some other things promiscuously occurring in this Book.  
That he is ignorant in the improved modern Anatomy, is manifest to every Boy, that hath read Blasius anatomia contracta. P. Barbet, or Dr. gibson's Epitome. The cause whereof is his taking upon trust, and for want of skill, blindly delivering what he hath stolen from Bauhinus, Crook, Read, and men that writ egregiously wrong, in most parts of that Art, in his discourse of Nerves, etc. though he hath mixed a little of Dr. Willis, and other Novel Authors, (perhaps as much as he could understand,) with the old notions and opinions, yet he citys few or none of them, but ●eems fond of calling on Galen, Hip●ocrates, Avicen, Aetius, AEginata, ●●verhois, and Albucasis. As if there ●ere some glory, or charm in the ●ames. Though he understands not, nor probably ever saw their Books but from Crook, and other common Plagiaries in English, furnisheth himself with those smattering he hath of their Doctrines. Hence is it that he falls into so many errors, and evidenceth so great weakness, and want of skill, he might as cheaply have furnished himself, and his Reader with the truest, and most accurate accounts, from Willis, Bartholine, Blasius, Diemerbrook, Malpighius, etc. With whom in some places, (especially in his Catalogue) he pretends acquaintance.  
Sometimes he writes as if he had never heard, or were unacquainted with the circulation, the Valves, etc. For he delivers (contrary to those Doctrines) from Galen. 
lib. 5. de loc. Affect.  That matte● lodged in the Thorax, is carried off b●Vrine, being first carried to the Branches of the Vena Azygos, thence into th● vena cava, 
Page 255.  to the right ventricle of th● Heart, passing thence DOWN WARD from the descending Trun●● of the cava, to the Liver to come 〈◊〉 the emulgents— again, page 275. Th● Heart is the Radix, or Ocean both 〈◊〉 Veins and Arteries, the best of all Bowels, distributing to, but not receiving from any part, giving life and motion unto others.—  
As ignorant doth he appear, in the Doctrine of Aliture, and the Lacteal Vessels, when he affirms page 297. and 287. that the Meseraick Veins, suck up the chyle, and convey the Alimentary Juice to the gate of the Liver, his ignorance in the true Anatomy of the Brain (which he calls a Glandules substance,) Heart, Liver, Lungs, Gullet, Stomach, Spleen, (which he calls an Organical Bowel,) will be very manifest to any man, that can compare his accounts of them with those of Malpighius, Glisson, Willis, Lower, Tilingius, and other modern Anatomists, as to smaller parts, he ●s not a whit wiser, when he affirms the Eye is made of six Muscles. Page 214. And that the Eyelids draw ●hem up and down, that the Piama●er, is made of the first scatter of the Sperm, and composed chief of Veins and Arteries. Page 174.  
Page 124. He giveth imperfect and false Figures of the Scull, the easiest part of Anatomy, and affirmeth Page 118. that the outer Lamina, is thicker and harder than the innermost Page 233. That the Ear was shot thorough in the middle, and the Cartilege not hurt. He seems ignorant of the valve in the Colon, by directing to Nutritious Glisters, and knows not the true Anatomy of the Oesephagus, when he gives that odd description thereof. Page 244. And attributes Diglution to the Muscles of the Larynx. He saith, Page 198 The Nerves are cold and dry, replenished with a thick and viscous humour, and altho' he hath written two large: Books of Muscles, I doubt he will come off as Lame and defectively there, as in other parts of Anatomy, unless he have learned better, than he hath here delivered, for cap 71. inreckoning the Muscles of the Scapula, he mentions not the Serratus major Anticus, cap. 72. in the Muscles of the Arm, which he accounts to be but eight, he leaves out the Coracoidens, and chap. 76. computes the gluteous minimus, among the extenders of the Thigh. Some other mistakes in Anatomy, arguing his ignorance therein, being too many to refute in this place, I pass over, only must tell you, that he calls the Stomach a cold Entral, Page. 309. and saith, that the Air is drawn in by the Ears.  
Instances of his great Skill in Chirurgery, are too obvious to need so much as to be pointed at, much less remarked on. In definitions he always follows the Ancients, or marrieth those of the Moderns, bewraying his ignorance in the improvements and discoveries of latter ingenuities, Indiagnosticks, which he accounts the chief part of Chirurgery, he is the same skilful man, affirming that a solution of continuity, must be over fractures of the Scull, only contrafissures excepted Page 274. That Wounds of the Heart, are made under the Breasts, that in penetrating Wounds, the Air rusheth out. 254. That wounds of the liver happen always on the right side, (page 304) and under the short Ribs, and that blood and purulent matter is voided by stool; that Wounds of the Stomach are made under the sternon. 309. without considering that those parts may be wounded other ways, as backward, upward, downward, from within, etc. So that a Chirurgeon confiding in those signs that he gives, may be many times deceived.  
In Prognostics, he not only errs most notoriously, but contradicts himself, and so confounds them, and signs together, as if he were as Ignorant in their distinctions, as he is of their natures. Page 55.266. He pronounceth wounds of the Lungs mortal, if not suddenly, or speedily, yet after a tedious marasm or Tabes, so he seems absolutely to presage of the liver page 304. Stomach. page 309. Heart, Bladder, Small-Guts, Diaphragma, etc. though examples to the contrary, are frequently annexed, and very common in the Authors he pretends to Write by, Fallopius Writes of 〈◊〉 Woman shot through the Stomach and cured, and that he hath see● abundance of the Lungs, of whic● Schenkius also page 253. giveth a prodigious 
* See miscel. curios. decur. 2. vol. 2. obs. 37. Idem, vol. 3. obs. 189. Horstius, obs. 11. lib. 3.  instance. So of the Liver there are many wonderful Histories from the same Author. page 397. Hildanus. page 108.109. Sennertus, pract. lib. 5. part. 4. cap. 3. And himself quotes a monstrous one, from P. Forestus, where he doubles the quantity of Rhubarb prescribed by that Author.  
Page 132. He repeats what he had delivered in the preceding Chapter, that wounds in the hinder part of the head, are less dangerous than those in the forepart; It's what Fallopius makes a very doubtful question, its true, the Temporal muscles are seated forward, and hurts of them are very dangerous, but within the Scull, the occiput hath no advantage, if it be true, as some affirm, that all merely natural actions, or motions, as that of the Heart, Lungs, etc. be performed by Nerves proceeding from the Cerebellum, and what Bapt. Hamel hath written, that upon dissecting living animals, he found the motion not to cease, upon cutting the brain, but as soon as he hurted the Cerebellum, all motion, and life, immediately vanished.  
Page 180. He avoweth Hypocrates to be his chiefest guide, and recommends him to his reader as the safest, a great argument of his little experience, even in the case then before him, for immediately he saith from him, that in wounds of the brain, there is a fever, vomiting of choler, loss of speech, foaming at the mouth, cloudiness in the sight, delirium, Convulsion, Fever, vomiting of choler, (twice) Palsy, and lastly, he correpted with an Apoplexy. Mr. S. Wiseman relates that sometimes in those wounds, the persons have remained long, free from any such Symptom. I had once a patiented that was wounded a considerable depth into the brain, and yet rowed above two Miles afterward in a Boat, and was divers days under cure, before any of those accidents did appear. But Sennertus gives an account of a Carpenter, that by a wound lost as much brain as a walnut shell would contain, and yet— Toto morbi decursu, nec de dolore capitis, nec de ullo Symptomate conquestus est, & ambulare sine ullo impedimento potuit, this is an aditional instance, of our Author's skill in Diagnosticks, as of his implicit, and blind adhering to the opinions, and Doctrines of the Ancients, and the mistakes they lead him into, as also of his being a stranger to this sort of practice. I do not wonder at either of those, but that he could not find this in any of the Authors he quotes, nor ever heard of it, is to me very strange, since this, and the like, are in several of the Books, listed in the beginning of his.  
Can he be supposed a man of skill, or experience, that in so large a Book, and a subject of such common practice, is not able to produce one medicine, or notion that's his own, or that's uncommon, nor the best or choice of those that are in every man's hand, neither an observation (putting aside that ridculous one of his arm, for which he was allowed from the Chest at Catham,) that he hath not stolen, or borrowed, his Judgement and skill, in Therapenticks, and application of remedies, you have already seen in his directing to an opiate pill for a purge, and to melt sanguis draconis, and other dry gums for a plaster; here he multiplieth instances of the like nature, directing to suppurate Ecchymosis speedily, Page 75. 77. and giving a strange fomentation for that purpose, made of Wormwood, Sage, Rhue, Scordium, Century, Hypericon, Scabios, Speedwell, Chammamel, Cummin, etc. Boiled in Wine, which are far from suppuratives, and hinder that intention, all of them resisting maturation, rarify and discuss the homor, or blood extravasate, which are faculties contrary to digestives, or suppuratives. Page 70. 103. And in many other places, he mixeth large quantities of Myrrh, Thus, (which resist maturation, sang. draconis, myrtils, and things which bind, with digestives for a Wound, page 73. he calls Chamamel Flowers, hot and moist, page 36. 101. he gives a very defective parcel of Instruments, as the needful to extract extraneous bodies, infinitely short, not only of the variety many former Authors had given, but are now used, and in the hand of every understanding Artist, page 112. the Scull being bare, must be scaled, or Raspt. 113. moist things must not be used to Wounds of the Scull.  
Page 142. He directs the teeth of the Trepan to be oiled when used, which I know where he stole, but I cannot omit to note it as a sign of his unskilfulness; for the Scull in living persons, is softer than they Imagine, and apt to make that disturbing noise, they would prevent thereby. Moreover oil is an enemy to the bones, especially where revently divided, begets caries, fungus, and the operation is made more tedious by rendering the teeth of the Instrument apt to slip over, and make less, and superficial Rasures of the Scull. In his discourse of opening the Calvaria, he makes no mention of excision, so much better than Cruciats, or any other manner, and become the common way of laying ●are, fractures of the Cranium.  
Page 147. He frequently directs Vormwood, in Fomentations, and Cataplasms for the head, as several have done before him, but it's no proper Cephalick, offending the head which way soever used thereto, or conveyed into the Stomach, page 26. he saith the Jugulars wounded, are seldom cured, but doth not say which Jugular; if he mean the external, every Farryer can confute him from daily experience, page 188. he forbids the use of cool repellent things to the head in concussions, contrary to constant and commonly approved practice, and to his own foregoing advise, and directs to Phlebotomy, under the Tongue, in the Arm, by Cups, etc. but saith nothing of the Jugulars, which in such cases, is better than they all; he directs irrespectively to the use of Tents, in penetrating Wounds of the Breast, being (I perceive) Ignorant, that many such are cured without them.  
In other matters not strictly Chirurgical, he appears the sam● man, his Ignorance in the Philosophy and nature of poisons, he bewrays in his 17 chap. calling the●● compound substances, not natural, etc. page 135. in giving the reason why Wounds of the temporal muscle, are so very dangerous, he omits the chiefest, his Ignorance in any of the new Hypothesis, of Generation of Animals is very notorious in those places, where he calls the brain a composition of sperm, and maternal blood, Page 173.179. that the Pia mater is made of the first scattering of the sperm, etc. but these things are echoed from him, out of the ancients, who like our novice, were strangers to those new, clear, and most agreeable opinions, the generatione animalium, first started by Fallopius, Harvey, and others, and since prodigiously improved, confirmed, and explained, by Theod. Kirkringius, Regn. de Graeff. Casp. Bartholin. Tho. Filius, and almost all modern Anatomists, and Philosophers to say nothing of the more subtle, and new sprang Hypothesis of Mr. Levenhooks Animalcula.—  
He seems not to know the Pia mater to be a thin, and almost imperceptible membrane, when he saith its placed for a defence of the brain, from injury by the dura mater, which membrane, though so called, is not on the inside, hard enough, to beget any such hurt as he Imagines, nor is the brain capable of it, because it hath no sense of feeling, the pia mater also being most exquisitely tender as well as very thin is altogether unfit for the use he assigns it, what followeth in this page 173. as from Plato (to whose writings our pretender is a stranger,) is another effort of his sense, which I need but repeat. And as Plato Writes, even as a medium between fire and earth; these being of a contrary quality, the Almighty hath interposed water, and air; even thus the brain, and the cranium, being of a different nature, mould, and substance, nature hath put these two membranes between. Oh! admirable sense, and most ingenious comparison!  
At length I have brought the man to his end, where he looks back on his mighty performance, and not a little elevated with a conceit of its excellency; he falls into this notable, whimsical encomium of himself, and his elaborate writings. Thus (quoth he) have I sailed through the bloody Ocean of Wounds, wherein I have like a faithful Pilot, shown how the young Chirurgeon may steer his course, in the wounded main, and how he may keep himself and the Ship of his Art, from the Rocks, and shelves of ignominy, and slander; my method is good, and capable enough, of teaching young Artists, how to procure health, to the wounded Patient.  
He is so ridiculously fond of marine allusion, and affected with comparisons from the Sea, and forceth them to Tally, with what is no way suitable. That I doubt the same Planet which rules that Element, guides and influenceth his head, how well he merits the praise he gives his doughty work, and what an excellent guide, he is to young Tyroes in Chirurgery and Anatomy, I have sufficiently demonstrated, and dare appeal to the censure of all rational men, Whether he be not a most unfit man for an Author, and his works the most erroneous extant, of this day. I avow that I have not exposed the fifth part of his faults particularly, but in general, do Challenge him, to produce that page, in these two Books, wherein I will not show him culpable▪ under one of those Topics, or heads of Censure, and reflection, which I have last proceeded with, there being not one Folio, scarce a period, and but few sentences, or lines but justly demerit it, and he above any man, in danger of coming under Squire Ketches Operations, if Ignorance and Impudence were High Treason.  
But I am not so much displeased, or deceived by his first sallies, as astonished at his renewed efforts, and the repeated instances he gives of his ignorance, and boldness. I know nothing more prolifique, and fruitful than Vermin and noxious Animals, accordingly it seems the Mountain hath again conceived, the long eared▪ Creature hath engendered anew by the wind, and teemed more Books, no less than Twins having at once their Birth, and thunderings, names, (able to cramp a man's mouth) proclaimed by the Mercury of the Press, Adenochoiradalogia, Myotomia, Myographia.  
What hath the man no more shame, or modesty, than wit or learning, or are the Fraternity as sunk in ignorance, or blindly mistaken, to encourage his Pen, by giving sale, and reputation to his writings, like him who lately listed him an Author of the best credit, to prove Wounds of the Brain curable, he might as well have produced a broken echo for a Compurgator, but I perceive the humour of ranking the vilest evidence, among the most Authentic, and those of the greatest probity, (when it will serve a cause,) is got among the Plaster box-men, as well as the whigs.  
I wonder some Friends (for some I will presume he hath) do not kill the Worm in his head, (a sign there's no Mercury in it) by representing to him how unskilful he manageth his Goose Quill, and dehort him from so profuse a dispensation of his little Talon, or that some of his Enemies (of which I hear he hath contracted great store,) do not expose the folly, and chastise the wickedness of his Pen, and by one of those ways, prevent him from troubling the World with his impertinencies. I am told one of the approvers of his last Books, is Doctor Allen of Bedlam, I believe a course of Physic from the same hand, would do him more service, for he appears not only troubled with the simples, but as distracted, and out of his wits as much as any Patient the Doctor hath, in that fine Hospital in morefield's, so indigested, and incoherent, so full of Absurd Transitions, Ridiculous Assertions, Silly Metaphors, and Allusions, Crude Notions, Notorious Thefts, Errors, and effects of Ignorance, so Whistling and Extravagant, so Immethodical, Trifling, Empty and Void of all Sense, so contrary to common literature, is all that's his own in his first two Books, (as I have evinced) that it manifests him cracked in the head, unsound in his intellect, wants Phlebotomy, Hellebor, a dark Room, and a Keeper, to which I wonder none of those many skilful Gentlemen, whose names (how obtained, I admire and wonder,) are prefixed, did not advise him, one I am told, from whom he begged an approbation to his Book of Wounds, having good regard to both their credits, refused to subscribe, and honestly exhorted him to learn to write English, before he set up for an Author.  
Tracts of Tumours, Wounds and Muscles, are innumerable, and even this age hath produced extraordinary discourses on those subjects, so that the path is well beaten and plain, the road full of guides, (among whom I find him playing) and yet since our scribbler hath wandered, and gone lame in so easy a way, what then can be hoped, if he Travel in one more intricate, and less trodden, as is that of the King's Evil, a growing disease, with new phaenomena, become almost Epidemical, and of which few have written large Theoryes: He is certainly a bold man, to venture at such a knotty and difficult subject, (I smile to think on the Ass chewing Thistles,) and a very ingenious one if he have exceeded Mr. Serjeant Wiseman, whose discourse, (composed by the owned assistance, of the most worthy and learned Dr. W. Needham,) on that Protean, Rampent Malady, I cannot forbore, to praise and celebrate, and to pay my grateful acknowledgements, to the memory of that judicious, and experienced Artist, who writ so much like a man, on many other subjects, to the great advantage of mankind in general, and we of the healing faculty in particular, I wish our Author could as justly claim the Bay's but ex quovis ligno.—  
Sir, the business of this Letter is not to tell you, how free you are like to be from future importunity for more Books, but to let you know your trouble will be enhanced, by the addition of a more tedious employment, for I must now beseech you, (who I know to be a very competent judge) to examine before you buy, and become both Censurer and Factor; particularly I desire from you, an account of this Author, and his other writings, whether they be of the same meal, or (which I can by no means persuade myself to hope,) hath acquitted himself better like an Arcist, than he hath done in the more facile, and presidented subjects of his former Books. A Physician is like a Friend in re incerta cernitur, (you see I am for a scrap now and then, as well as he, but my hopes hereof are discouraged not only by his 2 first Books, in general, but an unlucky passage in the 31 page of that concerning Tumours.— and as we seldom see a wiseman gain knowledge from a Fool, so is it as rare to gain a wise Medicine from an ignorant Block.— I would also know his Education, what esteem his Person, and Books have among the worthy Brotherhood in the Town, what right he had to be called one of his late Majesty's Surgeons in Ordinary, whether it were real, and he in salary, and attendance or it be only a Feather, obtained by the power of Guinia's, and become a Fashion for every emperical pretender, to wear in his Cap, formerly used by them of little money, to keep them from the men of Gath, now by them of little wit, and skill to delude the People into an opinion of their merit, on account of both your answer to those particulars, and what else you know of the like nature concerning this busy Squire, will gratify an impertinent curiosity, of your true Friend and Servant.  
Sutton Tuesday after Easter Week, 1685.  
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The Author of these Papers, (as became a Critic) used all possible care to have them very correct, that he might not be liable to recrimination, and seem guilty of such errors, as he reproved in the Books he undertook to censure: But in despite of all his caution, divers oversights and mistakes have happened at the Press, which his absence deprived him of ability, timely to correct; he hath therefore collected the most important of them, leaving those of less moment to the Readers Charity to amend, as his Skill discovers them, among which are many mispointings, and errors in the Margin.  
PAge 17. line 25. read gen. 4. p. 24. l. 4. & 19 r. construction, p. 25. l. 29. r. first, p. 27. l. 11. r. the way, l. 13. blot out Ripe, l. 19 r. that therefore, p. 29. l. 20. r. is every whit, as wild, p. 30. r. carrieth, p. 32. l. 7. r. corrupted, p. 34. l. 20. r. as he, p 36. l. 28. r. and that while pus, p. 42. l. 7. r. facando, l. 15. r. cutem, p. 44. l. 3. r. Platerus, l. 7. bot out Syrup, p. 48. l. 10. and very, l. 20. excission, l. 30. these Tumours, p. 49. l. 1. I attribute, l. 17. r. the two, p. 53. l. 25. testes, l. 29. conspeciatur, p. 54. l. 25. vernacuate, p. 58. l. 28, natures, p. 59 l. 1. education, l. 10. ova●yes, tube, in the margin, r. Spiceleg. Anat. p. 73. l. 11. blot out you, p. 78. margin, r. little corpusculum, l. 14. nourished, p. 80. l. 3. r. calor. p. 83. l. 8. his list of, l. 21. c. g. l. 22. Elemi, p. 84. l. 25. est tristis, p. 87. l. 12. alienatio, p. 88 l. 7. of Silvius, p. 90. l. 4. as not. p. 91. l. 8. his method, p. 94. l. 6. to do with l. 8. see his, l. 20. Spirituum, l. 27. compressing, p. 95. l. 8. the fourth, p. 101. l. 19 glect. p. 110. l. 20. curable, p. 118. l. 16. Random. p. 130. l. 18. calam, p. 138. l. 24. and 9 l. 27. miraldus, p. 139. l. 11. medicine. p. 145. l. 9 for cure of, p. 151. l. 3 from her, p. 152. l. 27. habent, p. 173. l. 12. marreth. p. 179. l. 12. ●ot apt, l. 15. ricently, p. 186. l. 27. for wonder, r. ignore, 〈◊〉. 187. l. 11. him padding, always. r. Hypocrates, Chi●urgery, Schenkius, etc.  
In the preface, p. 1. l. 14. seduced, p. 9 l. 12. blot ●ut him, p. 12. l. 20. his first, p. 13. l. 14. poros, p. 15. l. 8. fringy, p. 16. l. 5. gleet. p. 18. l. 13. rete. p. 21. l. 13. reci●●s, p. 22. l. 7. succo, p. 31. l. 13. other sorts, p. 38. l. 10, 11. ●umpsimus, making our, p. 39 l. 26. Hactenus repertoum, l. 28. Ae●eis, p. 43. l. 19 medicatus.