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<P>M^R CULPEPER'S GHOST, Giving Sea&s;onable ADVICE to the LOVERS OF HIS WRITINGS.</P>
<P>Before which is prefixed, Mris. Culpepers EPISTLE <HI>in</HI> Vindication <HI>of her Husband's</HI> Reputation.</P>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed for <HI>Peter Cole,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his Shop, at the &s;ign of the Printing-Pre&s;s in Corn-hil, neer the Royal Exchange. 1656.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Mris.</HI> Culpepers EPISTLE IN VINDICATION Of her Husbands REPUTATION.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Courteous Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_SO great are the Afflictions wherewith our <HI>Heavenly Father</HI> hath been plea&s;ed to exer|ci&s;e me his poor <HI>Hand-maid,</HI> that I have not only lived to &s;ee my <HI>dear Husband,</HI> (the <HI>Stay</HI> and <HI>Solace</HI> of my Life) taken from me: but it hath been my hard hap al&s;o to &s;ee his <HI>Re|putation,</HI> and <HI>Memory</HI> (which will be dear to all Po&s;terity, for the Works he hath written for the Common Good of this Nation) blemi&s;hed, and Eclip&s;ed, by the <HI>covetous</HI> and <HI>unju&s;t Forgeries</HI> of one, Who, though he calls him&s;elf <HI>Na|thaniel,</HI> is far from being <HI>an I&s;raelite in whom there is no guile;</HI> who was not content to publi&s;h a <HI>Hodg-podg</HI> of <HI>indige&s;ted Col|lections,</HI> and <HI>Ob&s;ervations</HI> of my dear Husband decea&s;ed, under the Title of <HI>Culpeper's la&s;t Legacy;</HI> but to make the Deceit more taking, he &s;teeled his Forehead &s;o far, and bra&s;ed it &s;o hard, as not to be a&s;hamed to forge <HI>two Epi&s;tles,</HI> one in mine, and the other in my Husbands Name; of the penning of which, he nor I never &s;o much as dream'd: And yet he <HI>impudently</HI> affirmeth in my Name, that my Husband <HI>Laid a &s;evere Injunction on me to publi&s;h them for the general Good, after his decea&s;e; and
<PB REF="3">that they are his la&s;t Experiences in Phy&s;ick and Chyrurgery.</HI> And in the Title of his Book, he &s;aith, <HI>They are the choyce&s;t, and mo&s;t profitable Secrets, re&s;olved never to be publi&s;hed till after his Death.</HI> All which Expre&s;&s;ions in the Title and Epi&s;tles, are as fal&s;e as the Father of Lyes; and every word in them, for|ged and feigned. And he knew well enough, that no di&s;creet, ho|ne&s;t man, that was a friend to my Husband, or me, would ever have agreed to &s;uch infamous and di&s;hone&s;t Practices; and therefore I de&s;ire all Courteous Readers of the Writings of my Husband, to take notice of this <HI>Deceit,</HI> and to a&s;&s;ure them&s;elves that it never entred into his head, to publi&s;h &s;uch an undige&s;ted <HI>Gallimoffery,</HI> under the promi&s;ing and &s;olemn Name of his <HI>La&s;t Legacy,</HI> and that <HI>whereby he gained his Reputation in the World,</HI> as the Impo&s;ter makes him &s;peak in his forged Epi&s;tle. And I de&s;ire any indifferent Reader, that hath ob&s;erved my Hus|bands lofty, and Ma&s;culine manner of expre&s;&s;ing him&s;elf in his Prefaces, and Epi&s;tles, Dedicatory, whether in ca&s;e he had been minded or di&s;po&s;ed to take &s;o &s;olemn a farewel of the world, as the <HI>Forger</HI> makes him to do; whether, <HI>I</HI> &s;ay, he would have done it in &s;uch a <HI>whining fa&s;hion,</HI> and &s;o in the Stile of a <HI>Ballade-maker,</HI> as to &s;ay, <HI>And now, if it plea&s;e Heaven to put a period to my Life, and Studies, that I mu&s;t bid all things under the Sun farewel: Farewel to my dear Wife and Child, &s;arewel Arts and Sciences, farewel all worldly Glories, adieu Readers.</HI> Cer|tainly my Husband would have been far more &s;erious, and materi|al, in &s;uch a ca&s;e, as any di&s;creet man will judg. Neither can it be thought, that in &s;uch a &s;olemn <HI>Valediction,</HI> he could po&s;&s;i|bly forget his wonted respects to the <HI>Colledg of Doctors,</HI> to whom he did &s;o frequently addre&s;s him&s;elf, in divers of his Wri|tings.</P>
<P><HI>Courteous Readers, I</HI> &s;hall &s;ay no more touching the abu&s;e of the Book-&s;eller, only to prevent (as much as concerns me) thy being abu&s;ed for the future, know, That my Husband left &s;even|ty-nine Books of his own making, or Tran&s;lating, in my hands, and "I have depo&s;ited them into the hands of his, and my much Honored Friend, Mr. <HI>Peter Cole,</HI> Book-&s;eller, at the <HI>Printing-Pre&s;s,</HI> neer the <HI>Royal Exchange</HI> (for the good of my Child) from whom thou maye&s;t expect to receive in Print, &s;uch of them as &s;hall be thought fit to &s;erve thee in due &s;ea&s;on, without any Di&s;gui&s;es or Forgeries, unto which <HI>I</HI> do hereby give my atte&s;ta|tion. Al&s;o my Husband left &s;eventeen Books compleatly perfected,
<PB REF="3">in the hands of the &s;aid Mr. <HI>Cole,</HI> for which he paid my Hus|band in his life-time: And Mr. <HI>Cole</HI> is ready and willing (on any good occa&s;ion) to &s;hew any of the &s;aid &s;eventy nine Books, or the &s;eventeen, to &s;uch as doubt thereof.</P>
<P>And if any Per&s;on &s;hall que&s;tion the Truth of any part of this Vindication, or Epi&s;tle; if they will take the pains to come to me, <HI>I</HI> will face to face, ju&s;tifie the truth of every word thereof, as <HI>I</HI> have &s;ub&s;cribed my Hand thereunto in the pre&s;ence of many Witne&s;&s;es.</P>
<P>I profe&s;s in the Pre&s;ence of the great God, the Searcher of all hearts, before whom Mr. <HI>Brooks</HI> and I mu&s;t one day give an ac|count of all our Actions; That <HI>I</HI> have not publi&s;hed this Epi&s;tle or Vindication, out of any di&s;-respect to Mr. <HI>Brooks</HI> (for <HI>I</HI> much re&s;pect the man, and would he glad to &s;erve him to my power) but only to cleer my Husband from the folly and weakne&s;s ca&s;t up|on him by the means above expre&s;&s;ed. And out of tenderne&s;s to Mr. <HI>Brooks, I</HI> fir&s;t tried other means of keeping, and afterwards of repairing my Husbands Credit, and then &s;tayed long to &s;ee if he would repair (in any mea&s;ure) the wrong done to my Hus|band, and my &s;elf. <HI>I</HI> de&s;ire to be</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Servant (in,<LB> and for the Truth)</HI><LB> Alice Culpeper.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>From my Hou&s;e,<LB> next door to the<LB> Red Lyon in<LB> Spittle-fields,</HI><LB>
<DATE>October, <HI>18.<LB> 1655.</HI></DATE></DATELINE>
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<P>Mris. <HI>Culpeper</HI> did the 18. of <HI>October,</HI> &s;ub&s;cribe this Epi&s;tle in Vindication of her Husband's <HI>Reputa|tion,</HI> before Ten Witne&s;&s;es, as &s;he had done ano|ther Epi&s;tle on the ninth of <HI>October,</HI> almo&s;t in the &s;ame words with this, except neer the Conclu&s;ion.</P>
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<HEAD>The Printer to the Reader.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Courteous Reader,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_THough that <HI>Ingenious</HI> and <HI>Active, Charitable</HI> Soul or <HI>Gho&s;t</HI> of <HI>Dr. Culpe|per,</HI> hath left this <HI>World;</HI> yet <HI>Care</HI> of his <HI>Friends,</HI> and &s;uch as have been, or are his <HI>Schollers,</HI> (for being <HI>dead,</HI> he <HI>Teacheth</HI> in the ne|ver-dying Monuments of his <HI>Learning, Wit, Indu&s;try,</HI> and <HI>Humanity;</HI> I mean his <HI>Writings</HI>) hath not left his <HI>Soul,</HI> as appears by this following Di&s;cour&s;e. Whe|ther any per&s;on brought it from the <HI>Ely&s;ian Fields</HI> (where it &s;eems by this Relation, his <HI>Gho&s;t</HI> at pre&s;ent is) or whether he delivered all this in an <HI>Apparition;</HI> or whether <HI>Spirits</HI> can write, and &s;o he wrote it to &s;ome Friend of his, that will not be known, for fear he &s;hould be counted a <HI>Con|jurer,</HI> and one that had familiarity with <HI>Spirits?</HI> I will not determine. Perhaps
<PB REF="4">his <HI>good Angel</HI> might receive it from him, and di&s;cover it to the <HI>Good Angel</HI> of his <HI>Wife,</HI> or <HI>Dr. Harrington,</HI> and the one or other of them, receiving it from their Tutelary <HI>Angel,</HI> might privately communi|cate the &s;ame to &s;ome Friends for fear of the ill Speeches of <HI>People.</HI> However, being it hath been my good hap to get a Copy (though it may be, not &s;o perfect as were to be wi&s;hed, for the Connexion &s;eems in &s;ome places faulty, and &s;omtimes the Gho&s;t &s;peaks as to one, and other whiles as to many; &s;omtimes as to a Me&s;&s;enger that &s;hould car|ry word to his Friends, and &s;omtimes as if him&s;elf were pre&s;ent, speaking to them) I could not be &s;o forgetful of my old Friend, and unfaithful to thee, whom I take to be his Friend, as to let it &s;leep in Oblivion, and mi&s;s of the good, <HI>that</HI> Charitable Soul in|tended thee by it. Such a Comportance would not at all have become that Man, who is, and profe&s;&s;eth him&s;elf to be</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thy Real Friend<LB> to his Power,<LB> PETER COLE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The Names of Mr. <HI>Culpepers</HI> eight &s;everal Books of Phy&s;ick, that thou art advi&s;ed in this Di&s;cour&s;e to buy.</HEAD>
<P N="1">1 The <HI>Practice of Phy&s;ick,</HI> containing &s;eventeen &s;everal Books. Wherein is plainly &s;et forth, The <HI>Nature, Cau&s;e, Dif|ferences,</HI> and Several Sorts of <HI>Signs;</HI> Together with the <HI>Cure</HI> of all Di&s;ea&s;es in the Body of Man. Being chiefly a Tran|&s;lation of the <HI>The Works</HI> of that Learned and Renowned Doctor, <HI>Lazarus Riverius,</HI> Now living; Councellor and Phy&s;itian to the pre&s;ent King of <HI>France.</HI> Above fifteen thou|&s;and of the &s;aid Books in Latin have been Sold in a very few Yeers, having been eight times printed, though al the former Impre&s;&s;ions wan|ted the <HI>Nature, Cau&s;es, Signs,</HI> and <HI>Differences</HI> of the Di&s;|ea&s;es, and had only the Me|dicines for the <HI>Cure</HI> of them; as plainly appears by the Au|thors Epi&s;tle.</P>
<P N="2">2 The <HI>Anatomy of the Body of Man,</HI> Wherein is exactly de&s;cribed, the &s;everal parts of the Body of Man, illu&s;trated with very many larger Bra&s;s Plates than ever was in Eng|li&s;h before.</P>
<P N="3">3 A Tran&s;lation of the <HI>New Dispen&s;atory,</HI> made by the Colledg of Phy&s;itians of <HI>Lon|don.</HI> Whereunto is added, The <HI>Key to</HI> Galen's <HI>Method of Phy&s;ick</HI></P>
<P N="4">4 The <HI>Engli&s;h Phy&s;itian Enlarged;</HI> being an <HI>A&s;trologo-Phy&s;ical</HI> Di&s;cour&s;e of the vul|gar Herbs of this Nation; wherein is &s;hewed how to cure a mans &s;elf of mo&s;t Di&s;ea&s;es incident to Mans Body, with &s;uch things as grow in <HI>Eng|land,</HI> and for three pence charge Al&s;o in the &s;ame Book is &s;hewed, The time of gather|ing al Herbs, both Vulgarly &amp; A&s;trologically. 2 The way of drying, and keeping them and their Juyces. 3 The way of making &amp; keeping al manner of u&s;eful Compounds, made of tho&s;e Herbs.</P>
<P N="5">5 A <HI>Directory for Mid|wives,</HI> or a <HI>Guide for Women.</HI> Newly enlarged by the Author in every &s;heet, and Illu&s;trated with divers new Plates.</P>
<P N="6">6 <HI>Galen's</HI> Art of <HI>Phy&s;ick,</HI> with a large Comment.</P>
<P N="7">7 A <HI>New Method</HI> both of &s;tu|dying and practi&s;ing Phy&s;ick.</P>
<P N="8">8 A Treati&s;e of the <HI>Rickets,</HI> being a Di&s;ea&s;e common to Children; wherein is &s;hewed, 1 The E&s;&s;ence, 2 The Cau&s;es, 3 The Signs, 4 The Reme|dies of the Di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
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<HEAD>M^R CULPEPER'S GHOST, Giving Sea&s;onable ADVICE to the LOVERS OF HIS WRITINGS.</HEAD>
<P>_I Do mo&s;t &s;eriou&s;ly and hear|tily Advi&s;e all my loving <HI>Friends,</HI> that accept kindly of my Labors and Endea|vors, and delight in the <HI>Stu|dies</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> in their <HI>Mo|ther</HI> Tongue, that they would <HI>make Hay while the Sun &s;hines,</HI> viz. Whiles the Liber|ties of a <HI>free Common-wealth</HI> la&s;t among them.
<PB N="2" REF="6">For let them a&s;&s;ure them&s;elves, That (if e|ver <HI>God,</HI> for their <HI>&V;nthankfulne&s;s,</HI> and <HI>&V;nwor|thy Walking</HI> under his <HI>Mercies</HI>) &s;hall ca&s;t again the <HI>Tyrannical Yoak</HI> of <HI>King-&s;hip</HI> upon the <HI>Neck</HI> of the <HI>Engli&s;h Nation,</HI> they will be de|prived of all tho&s;e <HI>ble&s;&s;ed Opportunities</HI> they now enjoy, to improve their Under&s;tan|dings in this <HI>Art.</HI> For <HI>King-&s;hip,</HI> (like the <HI>Devil</HI> ca&s;t out) will returning, bring SEVEN DEVILS wor&s;e than it &s;elf, and the <HI>Bon|dage</HI> of the Nation will be wor&s;e than ever, and ten-fold more <HI>Aegyptian.</HI> And as the <HI>Tyranny</HI> of <HI>King-&s;hip</HI> hath alwaies been, and ever will be, attended with a <HI>Luxurious</HI> and <HI>debauched Court;</HI> &s;o will the <HI>Debaucheries</HI> be encrea&s;ed <HI>&s;even fold</HI> by the In&s;tigation of tho&s;e <HI>&s;even</HI> other <HI>Devils.</HI> And then <HI>(Friends)</HI> the prime <HI>Factors</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;ick,</HI> of the <HI>Monopoli|zing up&s;tart London Colledg,</HI> will be called to &s;ecret <HI>Court-Mini&s;tries,</HI> and to be of the <HI>Ca|binet Council</HI> of &s;ome <HI>Court-Nimrods,</HI> &s;ick of &s;uch Di&s;ea&s;es that puni&s;h, as well by the <HI>&s;hame,</HI> as <HI>pain</HI> which attends them. Then will the <HI>Factors</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> &s;o employed, dare without much <HI>blu&s;hing</HI> to be&s;eech their <HI>De|bauched</HI> and <HI>Frenchified</HI> Lord&s;hips, to become earne&s;t Solicitors to the <HI>Kings mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;tie;</HI> that for the <HI>Profit</HI> of his Maje&s;ties Realms, undone by <HI>Knowledg,</HI> and to en|crea&s;e
<PB N="3" REF="6">the <HI>Gain</HI> of the <HI>Colledg Factors,</HI> that they may be able to attend the <HI>Court,</HI> when called, in a <HI>&s;plendid Equipage;</HI> and as a re|muneration of their <HI>Fidelity</HI> and &s;ecrecy in their <HI>Court Services;</HI> That all <HI>Books</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> in the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Tongue, may by expre&s;s and &s;peedy Order of his mo&s;t excellent Maje|&s;ty, be burnt by the Hand of the <HI>Hang-man</HI> at the u&s;ual places of &s;uch <HI>Martyrdoms,</HI> but e&s;pecially at the Royal Exchange, over a|gain&s;t <HI>Pe&s;tilent Peters</HI> own Shop; and that al Per&s;ons be enjoyned from City and Coun|try to bring in all their <HI>Phy&s;ick Books</HI> to the <HI>Colledg</HI> at <HI>Amen-Corner;</HI> and that all <HI>Chyrur|geons, Countrie Practitioners, Apothecaries, Gen|tlemen,</HI> and <HI>Ladies,</HI> may be &s;trictly enjoyned under a &s;evere Penalty to be expre&s;&s;ed, to blot out of their <HI>Remembrance</HI> all the Know|ledg of <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> gained from &s;uch Books, and never to think thereof, &s;o much as in a Dream; and that all &s;ick Per&s;ons may be enjoyned from all Parts of the Nation, and from aboord the Ships of the <HI>Common|wealth,</HI> to repair in Per&s;on, or by their A|gents, with their Waters, to the <HI>Colledg of London</HI> for Phy&s;ick, ju&s;t as they do to <HI>We&s;t|min&s;ter for Law</HI> (for if his Maje&s;ty plea&s;e, they may do one as well as the other) and that it may be a <HI>Star Chamber</HI> Ca&s;e, for any
<PB N="4" REF="7">man to print and publi&s;h &s;uch Books, or to read and inform them&s;elves thereby.</P>
<P>Now their <HI>Lord&s;hips</HI> mu&s;t be Judges in the <HI>Star-Chamber,</HI> and they will be zealous in this Cau&s;e &s;o neerly concerning their pri|vate Friends, the <HI>Colledg Factors,</HI> who had lately healed them from tho&s;e <HI>Brandmarks</HI> made with a BURNING-HOT-MISTRIS, which they received by Sentence given a|gain&s;t their <HI>Lord&s;hips</HI> in the Court of <HI>Sun-Chamber</HI> in Heaven; not upon their <HI>Cheeks, Foreheads,</HI> or <HI>Ears,</HI> where their Lord&s;hips were wont to brand men, but upon their PRIAPEIAN UTENSILES, for the &s;weet Sin of <HI>Lechery,</HI> the Fruit of their <HI>Tyrannical Pride</HI> and <HI>Luxurie.</HI> Think <HI>(Friends)</HI> how the poor Printers, and Publi&s;hers of <HI>Phy&s;ick Books</HI> in the <HI>Engli&s;h Tongue,</HI> wil be Sentenced by their <HI>Frenchified Lord&s;hips,</HI> a&s;&s;ure your &s;elves the Cen&s;ures of <HI>Laton, Prin, Ba&s;twick,</HI> and <HI>Burton,</HI> were but Fleabitings to the Penalties that &s;hal be decreed by that <HI>High Court,</HI> again&s;t &s;uch heinous offenders again&s;t the <HI>Crown</HI> and <HI>Dignity</HI> of the <HI>Colledg.</HI> A word to the wi&s;e is &s;ufficient, Buy the&s;e
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">The Names of the Books I advi&s;e you to buy, thou may|e&s;t find after the end of the Epi&s;tle to this Di&s;cour&s;e.</NOTE> <HI>Books</HI> while you can get them, &s;tudy them wel, and keep them warily when you
<PB N="5" REF="7">have them, and by this means you wil cau&s;e more to be publi&s;hed in this kind, and like|wi&s;e by great di&s;per&s;ion of <HI>Copies</HI> far &amp; wide tran&s;mit this knowledg to al your po&s;terity, <HI>Maugre</HI> the <HI>Beards</HI> of al future <HI>Tyrants,</HI> and their <HI>Factors</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;ick.</HI> And I would have my Country-men to be very thankful to <HI>Almighty God</HI> for the pre&s;ent <HI>Liberty</HI> of the <HI>Nation,</HI> and to pray continually for their <HI>Sober, Hone&s;t,</HI> and <HI>Generous Governors,</HI> that care not to oblige any <HI>Man</HI> or <HI>Fraternity</HI> of men, by <HI>unrighteous</HI> and <HI>wicked Acts,</HI> which highly di&s;oblige the <HI>Commonwealth.</HI> And (Freinds) if any of the <HI>Colledg</HI> cry down the <HI>Authors</HI> by me Publi&s;hed, and I hear &s;ome are &s;o impudent as to di&s;parage <HI>Rive|rius</HI> (which is al one, as if a <HI>Civilian</HI> &s;hould through dirt in the Face of <HI>Ju&s;tinian</HI>) Laugh at them and Pity them (for it is the la&s;t Game they have to play) but beleeve them not; know rather a&s;&s;uredly, that in the Books by me compo&s;ed or tran&s;lated, the principal of which is the renowned <HI>Riverius</HI> (&s;ince my unbodying, compleatly publi|&s;hed) there are the be&s;t <HI>Rules</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> in a <HI>Galenical</HI> way that are, or ever wil be ex|tant, for we know what tho&s;e <HI>Principles</HI> can produce. And as for <HI>Chymi&s;try,</HI> of which <HI>I</HI> had a mighty high opinion in my Life
<PB N="6" REF="8">time: I mu&s;t confe&s;s, though I &s;til acknow|ledg the Art to be very ingenious and u&s;e|ful, to &s;earch into the Mi&s;teries of Nature, and the be&s;t key of <HI>Natural Philo&s;ophy,</HI> &amp; that by help thereof &s;ome very u&s;eful Medica|ments are daily made, as my <HI>Aurum Potabi|le,</HI> of which I left a Treati&s;e; yet I do now much doubt whether a General &s;upply of Medicaments for al Ca&s;es obvious in Practice, can by <HI>Chymi&s;trie</HI> be afforded bet|ter than the often-approved and by experi|ence confirmed <HI>Galenical</HI> and <HI>Hyppocratical</HI> Remedies. The occa&s;ion that made me fir&s;t incline to this opinion, was thus. I met here in the <HI>Ely&s;ian Fields</HI> accidentally with <HI>Factor Wright junior,</HI> who fir&s;t lived with <HI>Doctor Flud</HI> in <HI>Fan-church &s;treet,</HI> being a Youth and gave out his Phy&s;ick (as his <HI>Hou&s;e-Apothecary</HI>) who told me that his Mr. <HI>Flud,</HI> though a <HI>Tri&s;megi&s;tian-Platonick-Ro&s;y-crucian Doctor,</HI> gave his Patients the &s;ame kind of <HI>Galenical Medicaments,</HI> which other Phy&s;itians in the Town ordinarily appointed, and when him&s;elf was &s;ick, he had no Chymical <HI>Elixars</HI> or <HI>Quinte&s;&s;ential Extracts</HI> to relie upon, but after he had cau|&s;ed him&s;elf to be let blood (an ordinary <HI>Ga|lenical</HI> Remedy) he &s;ent for <HI>Doctor Gul&s;tone,</HI> &amp; relied upon his advi&s;e for the Cure of his
<PB N="7" REF="8">di&s;ea&s;e, who was a <HI>pure Galeni&s;t.</HI> And I wel remember in one of his Folio Books treating of Pre&s;ervation of Health, his only Phy&s;ick he recommends, is a <HI>Ma&s;tich Pill,</HI> with a drop of <HI>Oyl of Time,</HI> than which the Apothecaries Shop knows no more common Medicine. And therefore he be|ing &s;o great, and &s;o &s;ublime a <HI>Doctor,</HI> as to have written many Volums in Folio, full of <HI>Mathematical, My&s;tagogical, Chymical-Ro&s;icruce|an Speculations,</HI> which Books are highly e&s;teemed by many beyond Seas, and by &s;ome at home: If all his Skill in <HI>Chymi&s;try</HI> (of which the <HI>Ro&s;ie-Crucian Seraphical illumi|nated Fraternity,</HI> are the chief Ma&s;ters) or other My&s;terious Arts, had furni&s;hed him with any more effectual Medicaments than the <HI>Galenical,</HI> &s;uch as are in the <HI>London Di&s;|pen&s;atory,</HI> I cannot doubt but he would have u&s;ed them, if not for Con&s;cience &s;ake, yet for to advance his Reputation, by the <HI>quickne&s;s, &s;afene&s;s,</HI> and <HI>plea&s;antne&s;s</HI> of the Cure, which is that the <HI>Chymi&s;ts</HI> boa&s;t of. After the fore&s;aid Relation of <HI>Factor Wright Junior,</HI> I happened to meet with <HI>Old Dr. Flud,</HI> walking very mu&s;efully, and communica|ting with the Gho&s;ts of <HI>Raimundus Lullius,</HI> and <HI>Van Helmont;</HI> I took old Dr. <HI>Flud</HI> a&s;ide, and asked him if the Relation of his Servant
<PB N="8" REF="9"><HI>Robert Wright</HI> were true. Hereupon the old man ingenuou&s;ly confe&s;&s;ed the thing, and &s;aid there were no better Medicaments in the whol world than the Galenical; and &s;o left me to return to his Company, they being (as I over heard) in a great Di&s;pute about the <HI>Weapon-Salve,</HI> and plotting toge|ther about a rare Invention, <HI>viz.</HI> How to invent an <HI>&V;niver&s;al Magnetick Medicine</HI> for Feavers, which being put into the <HI>&V;rine</HI> of a <HI>&s;ick Patient,</HI> the quantity of a few drops, &s;hould <HI>Sympathetically</HI> work the &s;ame Ope|ration in the Cure of the Feaver, as the <HI>Weapon-&s;alve</HI> being anointed upon the Wea|pon, does upon the wound. For Dr. <HI>Flud</HI> &s;aid, if the <HI>Spirits</HI> in the <HI>Blood</HI> &s;ticking up|on a Sword, when it is anointed, do by Sym|pathy fly unto the Body whence they came, and carry along with them the vertue of the Salve, as I have cleerly demon&s;trated in my Book again&s;t <HI>Hoplocri&s;ma-&s;pongos,</HI> or my <HI>Squeezing of Par&s;on</HI> Fo&s;ters <HI>Spunge:</HI> why may not the vertues of a <HI>Magnetick Medica|ment,</HI> dropped into the Patients Urine, e&s;pe|cially the Urine remaining warm, be carri|ed into the inmo&s;t Bowels of the Body, e&s;pecially the <HI>Liver, Spleen, Kidneys,</HI> and <HI>Bladder,</HI> by the Spirits of tho&s;e parts which came away in the <HI>&V;rine,</HI> and when the
<PB N="9" REF="9"><HI>&V;rine</HI> becomes cold, do retire into the Bo|dy whence they came, by a <HI>Vertual Attracti|on</HI> cau&s;ed by the <HI>Emanation</HI> of the <HI>invi&s;ible Atomes</HI> that come from tho&s;e parts in the &s;ick Body, through the air into the chamber-pot or Urinal, to vi&s;it their fellow Spirits there impri&s;oned. Truly (replyed <HI>Van Helmont</HI>) this may very well be done; for the <HI>Fer|mentative Odor</HI> of the <HI>Gas Aquae</HI> in conjuncti|on with the <HI>Blas Meteoron,</HI> impregnated with the <HI>Magnum Oportet,</HI> which lies ri|vetted in the <HI>Centre</HI> of the <HI>Magnetick Spirit,</HI> dropped into the Urine, may in a moment, and like Lightening, penetrate the <HI>&s;ick Pa|tient,</HI> and meeting with the <HI>Faber Archeus</HI> (who is now &s;o inraged, and blows his Bel|lows with &s;uch Bedlam fury, that al his &s;hop is afire about his Ears) &s;o charm and pacifie him, and pierce into the <HI>Individual punctu|ality of his Central E&s;&s;ence,</HI> &s;o tickle him (as men are wont to tickle the Trouts, and other Fi&s;h, when they intend with their hands to throw them out of the Water) that he &s;hall become as gentle as a Lamb, and recovering his wits, quench the fire he hath made, and put all in Tune again. This was the Di&s;cour&s;e of the&s;e three <HI>Chymical Grandees,</HI> but they could not well agree; for <HI>Raimundus Lullius,</HI> and Dr. <HI>Flud</HI> varied from <HI>Min Heere Van Helmont</HI> (who &s;aid they
<PB N="10" REF="10">were not <HI>Adepti</HI>) &s;o that they agreed to chu&s;e Arbitrators; <HI>Raimund</HI> and <HI>Robert</HI> cho&s;e <HI>Tri&s;megi&s;tus,</HI> and <HI>John Bapti&s;t</HI> cho&s;e <HI>Paracel&s;us:</HI> But what was the Conclu&s;ion of this Con&s;ult, I have not yet learned. And &s;o farewel. Hola! Doe&s;t thou hear Friend, I will tell thee a Tale before thou go, which will confirm what I formerly &s;aid. Word is newly come to the <HI>Ely&s;ian Fields,</HI> that a Learned <HI>Doctor</HI> and <HI>Factor of Phy&s;ick,</HI> independent upon the <HI>Colledg</HI> of <HI>London,</HI> was lately dealt with by a Pragma|tick <HI>Colledg Factor,</HI> who would needs per|&s;wade him to come into the <HI>Colledg.</HI> But the &s;aid <HI>Independent Factor,</HI> &s;aid to the <HI>Pre&s;|biterian,</HI> or <HI>Colledg Factor,</HI> That he knew no rea&s;on why he &s;hould de&s;ire to be of the <HI>Colledg,</HI> but divers again&s;t it, as lo&s;s of his <HI>Liberty</HI> in many re&s;pects, and being &s;ubje|cted and made inferior to tho&s;e that are his Inferiors in <HI>&s;tanding</HI> in the <HI>&V;niver&s;ity,</HI> and perhaps in all other things &s;ave <HI>Mounteban|kry,</HI> &amp;c. &s;ubjoyning, that to &s;eek a thing out of <HI>de&s;ign of advancing a Mans &s;elf,</HI> which will <HI>really deba&s;e</HI> him, is the greate&s;t <HI>Folly</HI> in the world. To which the <HI>Presbiterian,</HI> or <HI>Colledg Factor</HI> an&s;wered, You had be&s;t for al that joyn your &s;elf to the <HI>Colledg,</HI> becau&s;e YOU KNOW NOT WHAT TIMES
<PB N="11" REF="10">ARE COMING: Intimating that he the &s;aid <HI>Colledg Factor,</HI> hath hopes that <HI>King|ly Tyranny</HI> &s;hall be re&s;tored, and that the Il|legal and Tyrannical <HI>&V;&s;urpation</HI> of the <HI>Mono|polizing Colledg</HI> (who &s;ince the <HI>Common|wealth</HI> hath been e&s;tabli&s;hed in oppo&s;ition to <HI>King-&s;hip,</HI> have drawn in their <HI>Horns</HI>) &s;hall again flouri&s;h, and <HI>play Rex,</HI> as in daies of old, when they had the <HI>Impudence</HI> to afflict by <HI>Impri&s;onment,</HI> and other waies, men as <HI>well Educated,</HI> and as <HI>Learned</HI> as them&s;elves (contrary to their Charter, which gives them no power derogating from, and di&s;a|nulling the ancient Priviledg of <HI>Oxford,</HI> and <HI>Cambridg,</HI> and other Univer&s;ities, which Authorize men to Practice in all Chri&s;ten|dom) becau&s;e they would not bow the Knee to <HI>Haman</HI> that &s;ate in the Kings Gate, nor &s;ubmit them&s;elves and <HI>the Dignity of the &V;niver&s;ities</HI> to the <HI>Monopolizing Conventicle</HI> at <HI>Amen Corner,</HI> &s;o as to become their Subjects, and Va&s;&s;els to their U&s;urped Prerogative. And &s;ince <HI>that,</HI> a <HI>Reverend old Colledg Factor</HI> who by <HI>Practice</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;ick &amp;c.</HI> hath &s;craped together a BARONS <HI>E&s;tate,</HI> &amp; may likely be a <HI>Star-chamber Lord,</HI> when the <HI>Ty|ranny</HI> is re&s;tored, told one that brought an Engli&s;h Phy&s;ick Book to him to <HI>Licence,</HI> that he would neither <HI>Approve</HI> nor <HI>Licence</HI> it, but
<PB N="12" REF="11">THE TIME WAS COMING, THAT A COURSE SHOULD BE TAKEN A|GAINST AL SUCH BOOKS AS THOSE. Remember this &s;tory <HI>Country men,</HI> and pray for the Continuance of your <HI>Liberties</HI> and the <HI>ju&s;t Mannagers</HI> of the &s;ame, for with the revival and reduction of <HI>Kingly Tyranny,</HI> by a nece&s;&s;ary and Natural con&s;equence, <HI>Lords Tyranny, Bi&s;hops Tyranny, Star-chamber Tyranny, Courts of Honor</HI> and of <HI>Amen Corner &amp;c.</HI> wil revive and &s;hew them&s;elves as <HI>Brisk</HI> as <HI>Body-Lice.</HI> Farewel.</P>
<P>Hola! one word more. Good hone&s;t freind commend me heartily to the <HI>Author</HI> of that <HI>Epigram</HI> Printed with <HI>Riverius,</HI> at the end of his <HI>Epi&s;tle,</HI> and thank him for in|forming me what a <HI>Doctor</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> is <HI>indeed</HI> and <HI>intruth,</HI> and what a <HI>meer Factor</HI> of Phy|&s;ick. I confe&s;s I never con&s;idered how that FACERE MEDICINAM is to practice <HI>Phy&s;ick;</HI> and DOCTOR and QUI DOCET are <HI>Convertible</HI> terms of the &s;ame <HI>Synonymal</HI> import: and that a Man can be no more a <HI>Doctor</HI> without <HI>Di&s;ciples</HI> or <HI>Scholars</HI> then a <HI>Father</HI> without <HI>Children,</HI> a <HI>Ma&s;ter</HI> with|out <HI>Servants,</HI> or a <HI>Prince</HI> without <HI>Subjects.</HI> Whereas he that teaches any Art is a <HI>Doctor</HI> of that Art in &s;pight of al that al the <HI>Colledges</HI> in the world &s;hal be able &s;o &s;ay or do to the
<PB N="13" REF="11">daies of <HI>Eternity,</HI> unle&s;s they can bereave men of their <HI>under&s;tandings,</HI> and change the <HI>common Speech</HI> of <HI>Man-kind.</HI> So that a Man may be a <HI>Doctor</HI> or <HI>Teacher</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> and no <HI>Factor</HI> or Practi&s;er; or a <HI>Practi&s;er,</HI> or <HI>Factor</HI> (which is the true word) and no <HI>Teacher</HI> thereof; or he may be both a <HI>Teacher and Factor,</HI> as I was when <HI>I</HI> lived in the <HI>Body.</HI> And verily it is a mo&s;t ridiculous thing, that he which intends onely to Practi&s;e the <HI>Art</HI> of <HI>Healing,</HI> &s;hould not think him&s;elf quali|fied thereunto until with much <HI>Labor</HI> and <HI>expence</HI> he has purcha&s;ed the idle name of a <HI>Teacher</HI> of Phy&s;ick: as if a <HI>Barri&s;ter</HI> or <HI>Coun|celler</HI> at Law, &s;hould not think him&s;elf fitly qualified to plead at the <HI>Bar,</HI> unle&s;s he &s;hould with great travil and expence at <HI>Court</HI> procure him&s;elf the <HI>Empty name</HI> of a <HI>Judg,</HI> or a <HI>Doctor of the Laws of England.</HI> I con|fe&s;s <HI>I</HI> am fully inlightened and convinced in this point, and if I were to live again in your world, I would write my &s;elf <HI>Doctor of Phy&s;ick</HI> in&s;tead of <HI>Nich. Culpeper,</HI> Gent. For be&s;ides al the <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> in the world on my &s;ide (for I dare &s;ay <HI>I</HI> have been a greater <HI>Teacher</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;ick,</HI> and have had incomparably more <HI>Di&s;ciples</HI> in that <HI>Art,</HI> than al the <HI>Fellows</HI> of <HI>Amen Colledg</HI> &s;ince old King Harry gave them their Charter (which in al probability dropt
<PB N="14" REF="12">out of his great <HI>Codpiece</HI>) not fore&s;eeing what ill u&s;e they would make of it) <HI>I</HI> would ju&s;tifie my &s;elf by the Te&s;ti|mony of <HI>Doctor John Collins,</HI> the <HI>Kings Profe&s;&s;or</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> in <HI>Cam|bridg,</HI> who in his Commendato|ry Epigram to <HI>Mr. Ralph Winter|ton,</HI> who Ver&s;ified <HI>Hippocrates</HI> Aphori&s;mes in <HI>Greek Ver&s;es,</HI> thus
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">At the end of <HI>Hippocrates</HI> Aphori&s;ms in Greek and Latin Ver&s;e, printed at <HI>Cambridg.</HI></NOTE> &s;peaks.
<Q><L>Non <HI>Toga, Pileol&uacute;s</HI> ve, nec <HI>O&s;cula, Dactylius</HI> ve</L>
<L>Ver&egrave; <HI>Doctorem,</HI> n&eacute;ve <HI>Cathedra</HI> facit:</L>
<L><HI>Doct<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ris</HI> quamvis hec &s;int <HI>In&s;ignia</HI> facti.</L>
<L>His &s;ine, <HI>Doctorem</HI> te facit ip&s;e <HI>Liber.</HI></L></Q>
<Q><L><HI>Nor</HI> Gown, <HI>nor</HI> Cap, <HI>nor</HI> Ki&s;s, <HI>nor</HI> Golden Ring</L>
<L><HI>Nor</HI> Chair <HI>a</HI> Doctor <HI>makes, nor no &s;uch thing.</HI></L>
<L><HI>The&s;e may</HI> adorn, <HI>but can no</HI> Doctor <HI>make,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Without al which thou for thy</HI> Poems <HI>&s;ake</HI></L>
<L><HI>A</HI> Doctor <HI>art.</HI></L></Q></P>
<P>And if <HI>Ralph Winterton</HI> who then had no other univer&s;ity degree then of a <HI>Ma&s;ter</HI> of <HI>Arts</HI> was by the Kings <HI>profe&s;&s;or</HI> of Phy&s;ick pronounced a <HI>Doctor</HI> of Phy&s;ick, the &s;aid <HI>Profe&s;&s;or</HI> acknowledging that his <HI>Book</HI> had made him &s;o, which notwith&s;tanding was no more than an ingenious turning of <HI>Hip|pocrates
<PB REF="12">Aphori&s;ms</HI> into <HI>Greek</HI> ver&s;e, whereby the <HI>&s;ence</HI> indeed of the Author was <HI>illu&s;trated</HI> and made more intelligible: who &s;hal deny me to have been a <HI>Doctor</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;ick,</HI> that have not only <HI>tran&s;lated</HI> but <HI>compo&s;ed</HI> divers <HI>Books</HI> of my own, to <HI>teach</HI> the &s;aid <HI>Art.</HI> So that I could wi&s;h that <HI>Peter Cole</HI> would here|after Print me NICH. CULPEPER DO|CTOR OF PHYSICK and leave out GENT. For al the world mu&s;t needs of them&s;elves know that a <HI>Doctor</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;ick</HI> is a <HI>Gentleman</HI> in the <HI>Superlative</HI> Degree.</P>
<P>So farwel. Commendations to my <HI>Wife</HI> and my noble freind <HI>Factor Harrington,</HI> whom <HI>I</HI> de&s;ire to be good unto my <HI>Wife</HI> and to &s;upply my <HI>Ab&s;ence</HI> as much as he po&s;&s;ibly can. Commendations al&s;o to al freinds and hone&s;t <HI>Doctors</HI> and <HI>Factors</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;ick,</HI> and In|genious <HI>Book-&s;ellers,</HI> &s;aving him that abu&s;ed me by Printing my Notes (partly collected in the Infancy of my &s;tudies, but many of them with an intent to refute the &s;ame, &s;ome of which refutations I did Print) under the name of <HI>Culpepers la&s;t Legacie of rare &s;ecrets &amp;c.</HI> whereby he makes me contra|dict my &s;elf in my own writings (To the hazard of the Lives of many of the good people of this Nation) which is the highe&s;t Injurie can be done to a Man. If he leave
<PB REF="13">not off &s;uch <HI>tricks,</HI> I would advi&s;e him to pul down the &s;ign of the <HI>Angel</HI> and hang up the <HI>Devil,</HI> or the &s;ign of his <HI>Cloven foot,</HI> in|&s;tead thereof: that people may Gue&s;s by the &s;ign what <HI>Commodities</HI> he deals in, and Know where to have them, without &s;eek|ing any further about the Town. For when they &s;ee the <HI>Father</HI> of <HI>Lies</HI> and Impo|&s;tures, or his MITRED <HI>Foot</HI> hang up, <HI>they</HI> may be &s;ure that love <HI>Lies</HI> and <HI>Sophi&s;ticated Forgeries</HI> (as too many do) where to have their turn &s;erved. VALE.</P>
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