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<P><HI>Novum Lumen Chirurgicum Extinctum;</HI> OR, <HI>Med.</HI> COLBATCH<HI>'s New Light of Chirurgery</HI> Put out.</P>
<P>WHEREIN The dangerous and uncertain <HI>Wound-Curing</HI> of the Pretending <HI>Med.</HI> and the Ba&s;e Impo&s;ture of his <HI>Quack Me|dicines,</HI> are impartially examin'd, de|&s;crib'd, and evidently confuted: And the Method and Medicines formerly receiv'd, and &s;ucce&s;sfully practis'd, are rationally vindicated from the Calum|nies of his ignorant and malicious A&s;per&s;ions.</P>
<P>His <HI>Experiments</HI> which he mentions, con|victed of Fal&s;hood; and others what their Mi&s;|carriages are, annex'd; which he had craftily and knowingly &s;uppre&s;s'd.</P>
<P>By <HI>W. W.</HI> Surgeon.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed, and &s;old by <HI>Andrew Bell</HI> at the Cro&s;s-Keys in the <HI>Poultrey,</HI> 1695.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
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<HEAD>To the Hon^b^l^e <HI>WILLIAM BLATHWAYT</HI> E&s;q Secre|tary of War, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Honoured Sir,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WERE Might and Power the in&s;epara|ble Companions of <HI>Truth,</HI> the&s;e follow|ing Sheets need fear no Injury; but &s;ince by the Self-intere&s;t of &s;ome, and Ignorance of others, they are like to meet with &s;o many Enemies in the World, I &s;hall thankfully own Pro|vidence in my happy Choice of, and readily recommend <HI>Truth</HI> unto your Zealous and Powerful Protection.</P>
<P>The Detecting of Impo&s;ture, which (conceal'd) wou'd render <HI>our</HI> Age ridiculous to all &s;ucceeding; and
<PB REF="4">Vindicating of <HI>Truth,</HI> from the ma|licious and unrea&s;onable Calumnies of up&s;tart Pretenders, is my real De|&s;ign, and I do verily believe the pow|erfulle&s;t Motive to per&s;wade your Acceptance.</P>
<P>I &s;hall mention Flattery and Pro|lixity (the two Di&s;ea&s;es of Dedicati|on) with no other de&s;ign than to a|void them both; the one being as in|jurious to your known Ingenuity and Mode&s;ty, as the other wou'd be im|pertinent in interrupting your more &s;erious and fruitful Thoughts, &s;o a&s;|&s;iduou&s;ly and &s;ucce&s;sfully employed for the Honour and Advantage of your Prince and Country: With who&s;e joint Affections that you may ever continue to be ble&s;s'd, &s;hall al|ways be the hearty Prayer of,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>Honoured Sir,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Yours in all humble Duty, and &s;incere Inclination, <HI>W. W.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="encomium">
<PB N="i" REF="4">
<HEAD>In Amicum ver&eacute; doctum, Authorem <HI>Luminis Chirurgici extincti,</HI> qui novaturientis de nomine Medici parum ju&s;t&eacute; gloriantis, in&s;olen|tiam, &amp; in&s;citiam, mode&s;te redar|guit, &amp; nervo&s;e refutavit.</HEAD>
<L>C&V;m Sciolus, nimium jactans captator avarus,</L>
<L>Se quaerens, populo verba dolo&s;a daret.</L>
<L>Qui &s;ibi cum &s;oli &s;aperet, nova dogmata ponens,</L>
<L>Sanandi innocuos improbat i&s;te modos.</L>
<L>Contemp&s;it veterum curas, quas non capiebat,</L>
<L>Dignus qui canibus pharmaca &s;ola paret.</L>
<L>En praeclarus ade&s;t Autor, qui fal&s;a refellens</L>
<L>Mendacis calami mon&s;tra maligna fugans.</L>
<L>Accinctus veri clypeo &s;imul at&abque; &s;teti&s;&s;et,</L>
<L>Mergitur in tenebris <HI>Lumen</HI> inane &s;uis.</L>
<L>Jurgia vanne&s;cunt; chymic&eacute; medicina pro|batur,</L>
<L>Pharmaca&abque; ignari pulverulenta cadunt.</L>
<L>Celementi nimium debet canicida patrono,</L>
<L>Nec tamen imprudens de&s;init e&s;&s;e petax.</L>
<L>Haec nimium lenis, doctu&s;&abque; retexuit Autor,</L>
<L>Quod contr&aacute; blateret nil medica&s;ter habet.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>G. A.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="ii" REF="5">
<HEAD>In Amicum doctum, <HI>G. W.</HI> Autorem Luminis Chirurgici extincti.</HEAD>
<L>SIccine Decoctor &s;tat Pharmacopaeus in armis,</L>
<L>Indicens medico bella cruenta Choro.</L>
<L>Nec pudet hunc, futilem Regi &s;acrare li|bellum,</L>
<L>Cui nec ine&s;t veri mica minuta &s;alis.</L>
<L>Autor ade&s;t, flatu nova lumina di&s;&s;ipat: ip&s;e</L>
<L>Accen&s;or fugiens territa terga dedit.</L>
<L>Et tua quam jactas medicina &s;oluta face&s;|&s;it,</L>
<L>Scommata&abque; Exemplum corruit omne tuum.</L>
<L>Macte potens vindex, vigeas docti&s;&s;ime victor,</L>
<L>Comprecor ut foelix progrediare, vale.</L>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>I. A.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="iii" REF="5">
<HEAD>TO THE READER.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>READER,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THIS is not de&s;igned for thy hand before the Peru&s;al of a little Book, with a great Name, viz. <HI>Novum Lumen Chi|rurgicum:</HI> I &s;hall not much quarrel a|bout the Name, nor u&s;e any &s;ini&s;ter En|deavours to obnubilate this pretended Luminary, other than by an impartial Examen with how much Ju&s;tice it's in|titled to &s;uch a Name, or the Author to &s;uch large and &s;pecious Preten&s;ions equally famous for nothing el&s;e: But I am willing to believe the Name was gi|ven
<PB N="iv" REF="6">at the Bookseller's Reque&s;t, for a Set-of to the Merchandize, there being little hopes of a Second Impre&s;&s;ion. How|ever, he gives thee a large Account of the <HI>hearty</HI> and <HI>vigorous Pro&s;ecution</HI> of his Studies, for no le&s;s than &s;even Years, in order to his Attainment of this famous Nothing, and I hope will give us leave to &s;ay, <HI>Parturiunt mon|tes, na&s;cetur ridiculus mus.</HI></P>
<P>Neverthele&s;s, if the Pretence of a good Intention be meritorious to the Ju&s;tification of a World of &V;ntruths, here is one of a thou&s;and; viz. <HI>the Relief of tho&s;e Worthies who from a Principle of Love and Bravery, are daily expo&s;ing their Lives for the Service of their King and Coun|try;</HI> who before the finding out of his Medicines (though but &s;cratch'd with the Point of a Bodkin) were always irrecoverably lo&s;t.</P>
<PB N="v" REF="6">
<P>His fir&s;t Experiments were upon Dogs, and &s;uch like; and I do verily believe it had been a &s;ingular Kindne&s;s done the World never to have rai&s;ed them higher, tho&s;e Animals being but too too good Subjects for &s;uch an Ope|rator. He &s;ays he had above an hundred of them, and <HI>wounded them all de|&s;perately.</HI> I am fully &s;atisfied they all died &s;ave one, who had his Leg cut off.</P>
<P>As for tho&s;e three Experiments made before my Lord <HI>Cutts,</HI> I &s;hall give thee the Relation of Matter of Fact from a Per&s;on of both undoubted Honour and Ingenuity, <HI>viz.</HI> Lieutenant Colonel <HI>Newton,</HI> then Lieutenant Colonel to my Lord: With whom I being in Com|pany one day in <HI>Southwark,</HI> &s;ome few days after the Trial of the&s;e Experi|ments, I de&s;ired him to give me &s;uch Account of that Matter as I might de|pend
<PB N="vi" REF="7">upon: He told me <HI>him&s;elf had been pre&s;ent at them, and that two of the three were already dead; but that the Doctor</HI> (as he called him) <HI>told him the third was alive, though run away; however,</HI> he believed him to have accompanied the re&s;t, and like|wi&s;e told the <HI>Doctor</HI> that <HI>it was like to prove a fatal Campagne for Brutes,</HI> but <HI>hoped it would be a better for Mankind.</HI> He withal told me, that my <HI>Lord</HI> was &s;ufficiently weary of his Ex|periments, and believed he would take no farther notice of him: As for the Souldier, all that knew his Condition, believed his greate&s;t Danger to con&s;i&s;t in that of his having fallen into &s;uch Hands, whatever Excu&s;e he is able to coin to the contrary.</P>
<P>I believe he &s;peaks true in &s;aying, <HI>that his Failing in his Preten&s;ions was the Cau&s;e why his Maje&s;ty did not
<PB N="vii" REF="7">then imploy him.</HI> I am &s;ure if he be right informed, he hath the &s;ame or more &s;till.</P>
<P>He &s;ays <HI>of all the Patients he had in</HI> Flanders, <HI>there was but one died.</HI> And truly that was no great Wonder, con&s;idering the Smalne&s;s of their Num|ber: however, perhaps it may be found to be a Mi&s;take by and by.</P>
<P>I am &s;o far from doubting the Truth of Mr. <HI>Cowper</HI>'s Di&s;covering his Ex|ternal Medicine to be a con&s;iderable Cau&s;tick, that I am able to demon&s;trate it again&s;t all Oppo&s;ition; for until by its frequent Application there be a <HI>Cru&s;t</HI> or <HI>E&s;chare</HI> induced upon the Part, his Patients never fail to complain of intolerable gnawing Pains: By which he fearing his Medicine's falling into Di&s;grace, was generally obliged to allay its Sharpne&s;s by a little Smart-Money, as we &s;hall hear by and by.</P>
<PB N="viii" REF="8">
<P>In his next Paragraph he &s;ays, <HI>his Medicines cure all Wounds without Suppuration; but Suppuration once begun, they are incomparable Di|ge&s;tives.</HI> But this is no more than one of his accu&s;tomed Contradictions, in &s;aying, that a thing is the mo&s;t improper, and yet the mo&s;t proper for producing the &s;ame effect.</P>
<P>As for his treating of Gun-&s;hot Wounds where the Bones are &s;hattered, he &s;ays, by his Method, the bringing a|way of the Splinters is neither hazar|dous nor trouble&s;om. By which I un|der&s;tand he is changeable in his Opi|nion; for my &s;elf, and &s;everal others not long &s;ince, have heard him affirm, that <HI>there was no Occa&s;ion for the Re|moval of any &s;uch Splinters; for that by Virtue of his Medicine, he could bring them to a Reunion in a very
<PB N="ix" REF="8">&s;mall time.</HI> But his ninth Experi|ment &s;eems to have taught him more Wit: He &s;ays <HI>he might have enlar|ged the Number of his Experiments:</HI> And truly &s;o he might, with the &s;ame Ju&s;tice he hath u&s;ed them, as we &s;hall &s;ee hereafter. As for his Stopping great Fluxes of Blood, we &s;hall refer him to his <HI>thirteeenth Experiment.</HI></P>
<P>But as for <HI>his being poi&s;oned,</HI> I could never find even his be&s;t Friends inclinable to give any Credit to it, fur|ther than believing him (by a Mi&s;take) to have upon a certain time taken &s;ome of his own Tincture, for the trial of an Experiment; and it's very probable that his two Friends might be as ignorant as him&s;elf: however, it is certain that it is capable to produce all tho&s;e Symp|toms of Poi&s;oning, which either him&s;elf or his Friends pretended to have. Nor was it at all likely that any Per&s;on
<PB N="x" REF="9">(how wicked &s;oever) &s;hould either trou|ble or hazard them&s;elves by &s;uch an Action, con&s;idering that any one (though never &s;o &s;hort-&s;ighted) mu&s;t needs di&s;|cover the Period of his already expiring Preten&s;ions: Neverthele&s;s, him&s;elf cannot di&s;own his having very ill de|&s;erved of &s;everal, or almo&s;t all Per&s;ons of that Profe&s;&s;ion. For in&s;tance; A Souldier in the Engli&s;h Guards having received a con&s;iderable Wound in the Brea&s;t, his Officer &s;ent for Mr. <HI>Col|batch:</HI> But in the interim, Mr. <HI>Harris,</HI> Chirurgion to the Regiment, came and dre&s;&s;ed the Patient after the u&s;ual Me|thod. Soon after Mr. <HI>Colbatch</HI> came; who without any regard to the former Dre&s;&s;ing, was going to make his Ap|plication. But not being &s;uffered by Mr. <HI>Harris,</HI> he went away and maliciou&s;ly reported to many Per&s;ons in the Camp, that the Man was dead for want of his Application: Be&s;ides others, he repor|ted
<PB N="xi" REF="9">this to the Major and two Captains of the Fu&s;ileers; who &s;ending next Morning to inform them&s;elves of the Truth, were &s;atisfied to his no &s;mall Di&s;grace, that the Souldier had not only e&s;caped all Danger of Death, but even that of his Hands: But this is but one of many.</P>
<P>The Rea&s;on, as he &s;aith, why he hath u&s;ed &s;o few Terms of Art, is, becau&s;e he de&s;igns Plainne&s;s; but I &s;ay it is, be|cau&s;e he had none, except he hath very lately got them. In my Opinion he is very excu&s;able in not mentioning what his Medicines are, becau&s;e the Know|ledg of them would not only derogate from their Reputation, which is princi|pally &s;upported by this Secrecy, but al&s;o impede their Vending, which is the Au|thor's chief De&s;ign.</P>
<PB N="xii" REF="10">
<P>Now at la&s;t he is de&s;igned to give the World an extraordinary Ta&s;te of his Mode&s;ty and Civility, in vouch&s;afing to rank him&s;elf amongst &s;uch Per&s;ons as <HI>Helmont, Willis, Needham;</HI> and does tell us, that his Authority is no le&s;s &s;ufficient to recommend a Medicine (though unknown to the World, and even him&s;elf too) than any of theirs was.</P>
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<PB N="13" REF="10">
<HEAD>Novum Lumen Chirurgi|cum extinctum.</HEAD>
<P>THE far greater Part of this Treati&s;e (which I am now about to make &s;ome Re|marks upon) &s;eems rather de&s;igned for the Amu&s;ement of the unthinking Reader, and &s;welling of the Book to &s;uch a convenient Bulk, as may in &s;ome mea&s;ure conceal the Defect and Barrenne&s;s of its Author's Inventions, than either the &s;upport of an old, or the laying down of any new <HI>Hypothe&s;is;</HI> which though he rea|dily promi&s;es, he no where performs that which he pretends to, being no more than an incoherent, incon|&s;i&s;tent, mangled, nay even murdred
<PB N="14" REF="11">Parcel of Collections, and many of tho&s;e neither from the fir&s;t nor be&s;t hands.</P>
<P>After &s;ome, as &s;illy as impertinent Reflections upon Surgeons and their Methods, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> he &s;ays, that his pre&s;ent Undertaking will be altogether mai|med and imperfect, without giving us fir&s;t &s;ome Account of <HI>Nutrition;</HI> and truly I may &s;ay &s;o it is with it.</P>
<P>At fir&s;t glance I expected he would begin with the Nutrition of a <HI>Foetus</HI> in the Womb; but I doubt he was afraid of an Abortion, which hath made him change his Subject into that of an <HI>Adult.</HI></P>
<P>in his <HI>3d</HI> and <HI>5th Pages</HI> he goes on with this Account, without the lea&s;t mentioning any of tho&s;e Authors Names from whom he &s;tole it.</P>
<P>In his <HI>6th</HI> and <HI>7th Pages,</HI> he talks confu&s;edly of Fire in the Blood, and &s;eems to incline &s;omewhat to the Be|lief of it; but not daring to allow it
<PB N="15" REF="11" MS="y">either <HI>Wood, Turff,</HI> or <HI>Sea-Coal,</HI> is not a little troubled to find a <HI>Pabulum</HI> for it.</P>
<P>In his <HI>8th</HI> and <HI>9th Pages,</HI> he hath ta|ken too much pains in making and an&s;wering an Objection, which mu&s;t by and by fall together. For if by <HI>Mat|ter</HI> he means that which is &s;uppurated from Wounds, the Objection is alto|gether fal&s;e; for &s;o &s;oon as a Wound begins to matter, the Fever for the mo&s;t pa&s;t remits. If this be not his Meaning, I doubt neither of us know it. He &s;eems likewi&s;e at no &s;mall lo&s;s about the Rea&s;ons of &s;o great and &s;udden Wa&s;te made upon fat Per&s;ons by violent Fevers, if there be no Flame in the Blood: but that pro|ceeds from his Ignorance of the <HI>Ani|mal Oeconomy,</HI> together with his For|getfulne&s;s of <HI>Sanctorius</HI>'s Experiment, which him&s;elf is to mention by and by.</P>
<P>In the <HI>10th</HI> he goes on with his Story, more confu&s;ed than the Liquor he is there plea&s;ed to term &s;o.</P>
<PB N="16" REF="12">
<P>But I cannot omit taking notice of his Civility to <HI>Sanctorius</HI> in his <HI>11th Page,</HI> in allowing him the Honour of his own Ob&s;ervation, becau&s;e it is more than he hath done to any other Per&s;on hitherto in all his Account, ei|ther of Sanguification or Nutrition, though it be all at be&s;t but borrowed, and much of it at &s;econd hand.</P>
<P>In his <HI>12th</HI> he carries on his Con|jecture of Nutrition by the <HI>Serum;</HI> but hath borrowed &s;o much Mode&s;ty as to own his Ignorance of Nature's adapting the Pores and Particles to each other for that Purpo&s;e; by which Means he hath &s;aved me the labour of doing it for him.</P>
<P>His <HI>13th, 14th</HI> and <HI>15th,</HI> are taken up with Three Experiments, which he brings for the Proof of all Vegeta|bles being nouri&s;hed by Water only: the fir&s;t &s;eems to be from &s;ome <HI>Hone&s;t Gardiner,</HI> the &s;econd is <HI>Helmont's,</HI> and the third the <HI>Famous Boyle</HI>'s.</P>
<PB N="17" REF="12">
<P>I am fully &s;atisfied they are the tru|e&s;t and be&s;t part of his Book; and therefore &s;hall neither repeat nor quarrel at them, they being already &s;ufficiently injured by coming thro' his hands.</P>
<P>In his <HI>16th,</HI> when the danger is al|mo&s;t over, he is fallen into an inextri|cable Difficulty; which &s;ince him&s;elf pretends no where to remove, I hope will have the Patience to &s;ee the total Subver&s;ion and utter Ruine of his ill built, and wor&s;e &s;upported Hypothe&s;is.</P>
<P>The Difficulty is this; That not|with&s;tanding all Vegetables have their Nutrition and Increa&s;e from Water only, do neverthele&s;s afford us &s;uch Sub&s;tances as are neither ea&s;ily mixed with, nor indeed obtainable from Water.</P>
<P>In his <HI>17th Page</HI> he &s;ays, that <HI>he thinks</HI> there is no Difference, only <HI>&s;e|cundum Majus &amp; Minus,</HI> between tho&s;e Wa&s;tes made by in&s;en&s;ible Tran|&s;piration
<PB N="18" REF="13">which are natural, and a Wound made by Force which is pre|ternatural. Had he not &s;aid <HI>he thought,</HI> I &s;hould have thought he &s;poke <HI>ironi|cally,</HI> meaning all the Difference in the World: I am &s;ure I think &s;o, for</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, There is a <HI>material</HI> Diffe|rence; that which we wa&s;te by in&s;en|&s;ible Tran&s;piration being thin, volatile and excrementitious; but this which Nature doth &s;upply for the re-union of a divided Sub&s;tance, a Juice <HI>Bal|&s;amick fixed,</HI> and nece&s;&s;ary.</P>
<P>Secondly, There is a <HI>formal</HI> Dif|ference: for,</P>
<P>In in&s;en&s;ible Tran&s;piration the <HI>Ef|fluvia</HI> can make no Digre&s;&s;ion in their Pa&s;&s;age along the <HI>Fibres,</HI> until they e&s;cape by the Pores of the Cuti|cle; but in a Wound the mentioned Juice drilling along the <HI>Fibres</HI> after its accu&s;tomed manner, until it comes to the Divi&s;ion, where it immediately drops down, without &s;ome previous
<PB N="19" REF="13">Information from his Almighty Pou|der.</P>
<P>But now he &s;eems to de&s;ign &s;ome faint Approaches to the Matter: he &s;uppo&s;es a Wound to be made, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>But here are &s;o many &s;uppo&s;itions, that they require to be &s;ummed up together:</P>
<P>In the <HI>17th, When there is a Divi|&s;ion made.</HI></P>
<P>In the <HI>18th, Suppo&s;e a Divi&s;ion to be made, and it's no matter where.</HI></P>
<P>In the &s;ame <HI>Page, Now let a Wound be made where it will, and how, it mat|ters not.</HI></P>
<P>Now in the <HI>20th,</HI> we are come to the fourth, and I hope la&s;t Suppo|&s;ition: for the other three have been very u&s;ele&s;s and impertinent.</P>
<P>He &s;ays, <HI>Let a Divi&s;ion be made in any of the Parts of the Body, which we call a Wound; and how it's made it matters not,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<PB N="20" REF="14">
<P><HI>The nutritious Juice is immediately brought to the Ends of the wounded Ve&s;&s;els:</HI> For their Reparation and Reunion, which (as he &s;ays) would &s;oon be effected were not <HI>Nature op|pre&s;&s;ed, and her regular Operations im|peded,</HI> by the common Methods and Medicines of Chirurgions.</P>
<P>Now although almo&s;t every Page be larded with &s;uch groundle&s;s A&s;|per&s;ions upon Chirurgions and their Medicines, I &s;hall this once for all, a little weigh and con&s;ider the Rea&s;ons which he hath brought again&s;t the common Methods and Medicines; as al&s;o tho&s;e which may be brought a|gain&s;t his particular Method and Medicine.</P>
<P>And fir&s;t he &s;ays, <HI>the common are of that Nature that they greatly relax the divided Fibres; &s;o that they cannot contain the nutritive Matter brought to them, but let it pa&s;s into the Wound:
<PB N="21" REF="14">where it is by the &s;ame Medicines, cor|rupted and turned into Matter.</HI></P>
<P>I an&s;wer; If by relaxing, he means mollifying, re&s;toring, and reducing the Ends of the&s;e Fibres; who being irritated by the Sen&s;e of &s;ome exter|nal Injury, had convul&s;ed and retired them&s;elves from their proper Situati|on and Offices; we &s;hall make no great Difficulty to acknowledg it both the Effect, and &s;ome part of the De&s;ign of our common Medicine.</P>
<P>But if by relaxing, he means the en|larging of the Fibres to a more than ordinary or convenient Widene&s;s: I an&s;wer; They have but little Ten|dency &s;o to do, becau&s;e the mo&s;t part of our dige&s;tive Medicines con&s;i&s;t of con&s;iderably Re&s;tringent, Anodyne and Empla&s;tick Parts: and therefore (except very well malaxed) are not capable of in&s;inuating them&s;elves into the Fibres to that degree which is e|ven convenient for the Exclu&s;ion of
<PB N="22" REF="15">the &s;harper part of the Air, the Ad|mi&s;&s;ion of which is often-times the Cau&s;e of a total Ob&s;truction.</P>
<P>But next, <HI>when the Matter is pa&s;&s;ed into the Wound,</HI> let us &s;ee what Power the afore&s;aid Medicine hath to bring it to Corruption; which him&s;elf &s;ays, <HI>cannot be brought to pa&s;s without a Fer|mentation.</HI></P>
<P>We &s;hall &s;uppo&s;e our common Me|dicine to be <HI>Turpentine,</HI> and the <HI>Yolk of an Egg:</HI> Now every one knows that neither of the&s;e apart, nor both of them together, have the lea&s;t Ten|dency to the producing of any of the five Sorts of Fermentation; nay, (as was hinted before) they con&s;i&s;ting of &s;uch Parts, are &s;o far from being the Cau&s;e of, that they naturally and powerfully oppo&s;e them&s;elves unto, the very lea&s;t Appearance sof it, even in the nutritive Juice it &s;elf &s;ome|times di&s;po&s;ed that way.</P>
<PB N="23" REF="15">
<P>Nor is there any thing more rea|&s;onable, con&s;idering that the Branches of the Sulphur are at all times ready to engage, &s;heath and detain the &s;harp|pointed Acids; by which there nece&s;|&s;arily follows a <HI>Coagulation,</HI> the mo&s;t oppo&s;ite Act in Nature to <HI>Fermenta|tion.</HI></P>
<P>I have one thing more to add con|cerning our common Medicine; and it is, that neither Tincture, Solution, nor Pouder, nor any other thing of a different Body, is either able to &s;up|ply its Place, or an&s;wer its Intention in any Fle&s;h-Wound, where there is con&s;iderable lo&s;s of Sub&s;tance.</P>
<P>For by its <HI>analogous</HI> Sub&s;tance and Conveniency of Body, it in &s;ome mea|&s;ure &s;upplies the lo&s;s of Sub&s;tance by giving a Conveniency to the Fibres to enlarge them&s;elves betwixt the Branches of its Body; and by this means not only cheri&s;heth them by its natural Warmth, but &s;upports
<PB N="24" REF="16">their (as yet young and tender) Tex|ture, until the Reunion be wholly perfected. An In&s;tance of which is plainly to be &s;een where the Appli|cation of our Medicine is continued (though never &s;o &s;hort while) be|yond its due time, in encouraging In|carnation to a more than convenient degree.</P>
<P>Now &s;ince I have (as I hope) more than &s;ufficiently vindicated our Medi|cine, both by Experience and Rea&s;on, from tho&s;e unju&s;t A&s;per&s;ions which our <HI>Antagoni&s;t</HI> hath ca&s;t upon it without either, it may not be impro|per to take a View of the Effects of his Medicine al&s;o in this place.</P>
<P>In the fir&s;t place I &s;hall readily di&s;|charge it from the fir&s;t Particular which our Meidcine is charged with, viz. <HI>Relaxing of the Fibres,</HI> and &s;hall make appear it only corrodes them.</P>
<P>Let us know, &s;econdly, whether it <HI>corrupts the nutritive Juice by cau&s;ing a Fermentation.</HI></P>
<PB N="25" REF="16">
<P>I am &s;ure if a corro&s;ive Acid, that's ready to quarrel with even Metals them&s;elves, can contribute, it is not wanting: But if once it enter into the Ma&s;s of Blood, in&s;tead of dividing its Texture, it will go near to petri|fy it; and after that, there is no fear of a Fever either intermitting or con|tinual.</P>
<P>I &s;hall &s;um up its Effects in a few words; being applied to a recent Wound, the Acid Particles imme|diately fix them&s;elves into the mo&s;t &s;en&s;ible Parts, cau&s;ing them to retire by way of Convul&s;ion as far as it is po&s;&s;ible for them, and forcing them to excern all they contain in or about their Orifices: if the fir&s;t fails, a &s;e|cond Application induces an <HI>E&s;|char,</HI> except it be diluted with an extraordinary quantity of Water; and then it only keeps the Place raw, and as him&s;elf &s;ays, <HI>without any good Dige&s;tion;</HI> but if applied to a Bone,
<PB N="26" REF="17">it is infallibly condemned to a perpe|tual Exfoliation, as you may &s;ee in his <HI>9th Experiment.</HI></P>
<P>I have &s;carce any room or time now to take notice of his Complai|&s;ance to the <HI>Gentleman who writ that late Learned Treati&s;e of Intermitting Fevers,</HI> &s;ince he ab&s;olutely pretends to be the only competent Judg; I &s;hall only &s;ay that <HI>he</HI> who hath the Honour of his good Opinion, is not &s;o much obliged to him for it, as <HI>tho&s;e</HI> who have formerly treated of that Subject, are unmannerly and igno|rantly cen&s;ured by him.</P>
<P>He goes on in his <HI>23d and 24th Pages</HI> with a deal of fal&s;e Suppo&s;iti|ons, without the lea&s;t Pretence to ei|ther Ju&s;tice or Rea&s;on, and therefore &s;hall receive no An&s;wer.</P>
<P>But now he comes to another &s;illy &s;uppo&s;ition; the Ground of which wehave already removed, and it <HI>is this:</HI></P>
<PB N="27" REF="17">
<P><HI>And if tho&s;e Hazards attend the Cure of external Fle&s;h-Wounds, what is to be expected in Wounds within the Cavity of the Body, where the Lungs, Liver,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>are wounded?</HI></P>
<P>I an&s;wer; I look upon them at lea&s;t to be mortal if they meet with no other Treatment than what either he or his <HI>Medicine</HI> is able to afford them.</P>
<P>He likewi&s;e &s;ays, that if any &s;uch Accident come to be cured, the <HI>Sur|geon</HI> looks upon it as a Miracle, and in no re&s;pect to be attributed either to his own Intention or Judgment.</P>
<P>I an&s;wer; His Mi&s;take proceeds from his little Reading, and le&s;s Con|ver&s;e with Men of Sen&s;e and Experi|ence in that Profe&s;&s;ion; any one of them being able to give him more In|&s;tances of Cures of that Nature, and Rea&s;ons for them, than ever he &s;aw Wounds.</P>
<P><HI>But to bring a Wound in the Lungs, Liver or Guts,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>to Suppuration,</HI> he &s;ays, <HI>brings certain Death.</HI></P>
<PB N="28" REF="18">
<P>If the poor Man knew what <HI>Suppu|ration</HI> were, he would never harp &s;o much upon that &s;tring, it being no more than what him&s;elf hath fre|quently owned, though under ano|ther Name, <HI>viz.</HI> the bringing of the nutritious Juice to the Ends of the divided Fibres, or the ouzing out of &s;ome little Blood, or other Liquor, from their proper Ve&s;&s;els.</P>
<P>But perhaps he will object, That it is not the bringing of it to the Ex|tremities, but its pa&s;&s;ing into the Wound which he quarrels at.</P>
<P>I an&s;wer; To &s;uppo&s;e that Juice or other Liquor to have been natu|rally accu&s;tomed to drill along the Fibres before their Divi&s;ion, and now to &s;top exactly at the Divi&s;ion, and go no further, were to allow it a greater &s;hare of Sen&s;e, nay Rea&s;on, than him&s;elf can pretend to.</P>
<P>The re&s;t of the <HI>Page</HI> is not worth reading, further than to let one know
<PB N="29" REF="18">that it is &s;o. But here comes the Dif|ficulty in the <HI>twenty 6th Page,</HI> how to &s;top the Blood when a large Blood-Ve&s;&s;el is wounded.</P>
<P>I an&s;wer; It mu&s;t be by other means than his Pouder; for although it be a con&s;iderable Cau&s;tick, it is not &s;ufficient for that purpo&s;e, as we &s;hall &s;ee in the <HI>13th Experiment,</HI> and el&s;e|where.</P>
<P>He is much mi&s;taken when he &s;ays, that upon the <HI>&s;lighte&s;t Occa&s;ion we al|ways confine our Patients to a low Diet, and let them blood:</HI> For we never do either, without apparent Rea&s;ons.</P>
<P>In his <HI>twenty 7th</HI> he hath a notable Di&s;h of <HI>Billing&s;gate,</HI> and ought to have had Oi&s;ter-Sauce e're it had been pre&s;ented the King's Table.</P>
<P>He omits <HI>Bandages</HI> as being alto|gether unnece&s;&s;ary;a nd truly &s;o they are to his Intention, except it were one to hang him&s;elf withal &s;o &s;oon as he is a little more fully di&s;co|vered to the World.</P>
<PB N="30" REF="19">
<P>In his <HI>twenty 9th Page</HI> he gives an Account of his <HI>Method of Cure.</HI> Which hath &s;everal Pieces of Rarity in it.</P>
<P>For Fir&s;t, It never was nor will be made u&s;e of by any other Per&s;on be|&s;ides him&s;elf.</P>
<P>Secondly, He &s;titches clo&s;e up all Wounds without di&s;tinction, even <HI>Gun-&s;hot Wounds</HI> them&s;elves.</P>
<P>The re&s;t of his Book (for want of better Stuff) is filled up with a par|cel of as fal&s;e as unrea&s;onable A&s;&s;er|tions, prai&s;ing his own, and condem|ning of our Medicines; but of tho&s;e enough already.</P>
<P>I &s;hall only touch a few of them as we go along, by retorting &s;ome, and laughing at others.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> His external Medicine cau|&s;es exce&s;&s;ive Pain when fir&s;t applied.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> There is always a con&s;i|derable deal of Pain afterwards, and the Parts &s;o &s;tiff and &s;ore, as if they never would be well.</P>
<PB N="31" REF="19">
<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> If there hath been no Pain at all before, it never fails in a few Moments after the Application to bring a troop of ill Symptoms up|on the Part; &s;uch as Swellings, In|flammodons, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> which (by the way) is a &s;ure Argument that it is a &s;harp Medicine, and a Cau&s;tick, though he deny it.</P>
<P><HI>Fourthly,</HI> His Medicine hath al|ways a Fever for its Companion: for &s;everal People who have been woun|ded, and by our Medicine brought to a fair way of Recovery, have in a very &s;mall time by the u&s;e of his Me|dicine been thrown into Fevers, ac|companied with violent Pains in the Parts.</P>
<P>And again; The &s;ame Per&s;ons by quitting of his Method and Medicine, and u&s;ing of ours, have been as &s;ud|denly recovered: As may be &s;een in our <HI>15th</HI> Remark. The fifth being only a Repetition, I &s;hall take no no|tice of it.</P>
<PB N="32" REF="20">
<P>In his <HI>thirty 4th Page</HI> he makes and an&s;wers a terrible Objection, <HI>viz.</HI> How it's po&s;&s;ible for him, without bringing a Wound to Suppuration, to obtain the Di&s;charge of extraneous Bodies; &s;uch as Bullets, Clothes, Splinters, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;hall &s;oon an&s;wer that for him: He hath in his <HI>Method of Cure</HI> &s;titched them all hard up long ago, for fear they &s;hould have been kept open by tenting. Pa&s;&s;ing his other Repeti|tions, we come to his In&s;tance in the <HI>thirty 6th Page</HI> of two Officers of the Fu&s;ileers; the Matter of Fact to my certain Knowledg was thus:</P>
<P>Lieutenant <HI>Fletcher,</HI> the Subject of hsi <HI>4th Experiment,</HI> being one of them, we &s;hall refer him to the <HI>Re|mark</HI> upon that <HI>Experiment;</HI> the o|ther was wounded with a hollow Blade, the Point entred a little above the <HI>Carpus,</HI> or Wri&s;t, on the under and in&s;ide; &s;o pa&s;&s;ing under the Ar|tery,
<PB N="33" REF="20">and rubbing upon &s;everal of the Tendons and Radius, came out about five or &s;ix Inches upwards from its Entrance.</P>
<P>The&s;e two Gentlemen were woun|ded at one time; and although the Doctor is plea&s;ed to &s;hew his Judg|ment in &s;aying the latter was &s;lightly wounded, he will neverthele&s;s to any unprejudiced Per&s;on plainly appear to have been more dangerou&s;ly wounded than the other: He was dre&s;&s;ed by the <HI>Surgeon</HI> to the Regi|ment; and although about the <HI>four|teenth</HI> Day there came a Swelling, and &s;ome Inflammation upon the Part, and that by the <HI>Gentleman's</HI> owned Neglect, yet that was in le&s;s than <HI>twenty four Hours</HI> removed, and the Gentleman (whatever the Doctor fal&s;ly and maliciou&s;ly reports to the contrary) was in le&s;s than <HI>three Weeks</HI> perfectly well.</P>
<PB N="34" REF="21">
<P>He goes on in the <HI>thirty 7th and thirty 8th Pages</HI> with the already thread-bare Encomiums of his Medi|cine; and after a needle&s;s Caution, forbidding us to believe that he can work Miracles, he refers us for the Proof of all to the fourteen follow|ing <HI>SExperiments;</HI> which are to him like <HI>Samp&s;on</HI>'s Locks: but I &s;uppo&s;e with this Difference, that if once they be cut off, they are never like to grow again.</P>
<P>Although &s;ome part of the follow|ing Experiments have been hitherto Stranger to my Ears, (though al|ways upon the Place where they pre|tend to have been acted) I &s;hall not therefore conclude that there never were &s;uch Per&s;on in being as the Subjects of them: neverthele&s;s, I may (I hope) without breach of ei|ther Mode&s;ty or Charity, be bold to affirm, (and that uupon good Grounds) that the Matter of Fact in all of them
<PB N="35" REF="21">is very much different from that Re|lation the Learned <HI>Author</HI> is here plea&s;ed to make us: For,</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, Such of his <HI>Experiments</HI> which either my own Eyes, or tho&s;e of my unque&s;tionable Evidences have been Witne&s;&s;es to, are as far from be|ing true as rea&s;onable; as we &s;hall &s;ee in their proper place.</P>
<P>Secondly, The <HI>Names</HI> of, and his <HI>Experiments</HI> upon all Per&s;ons who have mi&s;carried under his hand, (e|&s;pecially &s;uch as every one may ea&s;ily inform them&s;elves of the Truth of) are by him utterly &s;uppre&s;s'd and con|ceal'd.</P>
<P>Thirdly, The Improbability, nay Impo&s;&s;ibility, which attends the grea|te&s;t part of his Relations mu&s;t needs be no &s;mall Impediment to their Cre|dit, with any con&s;iderate and judici|ous Per&s;on.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;s, I &s;hall not any where in my Remarks upon his following
<PB N="36" REF="22">Experiments, contradict his pretended Matter of Fact, excepting &s;uch as I am able to bring undoubted Proof to the contrary.</P>
<P>For the re&s;t, I &s;hall only <HI>(en pa&s;|&s;ant)</HI> ob&s;erve &s;ome few of his many as well Improbabilities as Incon&s;i&s;ten|cies.</P>
<DIV2 N="1" TYPE="experiment">
<HEAD>Remarks upon his Fir&s;t Experiement.</HEAD>
<P>THis Experiment tells us of a Per|&s;on run through the Left-arm, and into the Lungs: The Per&s;on &s;ays he <HI>found the Sword pa&s;s into the very inmo&s;t part of his Brea&s;t;</HI> and I am &s;ure the Doctor was obliged to take his word, &s;ince he will not allow Sounding by Probe. By its entring <HI>betwixt the &s;econd and third Rib,</HI> I hope he reckons upwards; and then in|&s;tead of the Lungs, the Guts lay next to hand: But &s;uppo&s;e the wor&s;t; <HI>he
<PB N="37" REF="22">walked that very Day &s;ix Miles</HI> (I hope he means Flemi&s;h) <HI>on foot with the Army, without being in the lea&s;t di&s;|ordred;</HI> Si credere fas &s;it.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="experiment">
<HEAD>Remarks upon his Second Experiment.</HEAD>
<P>HEre is a Relation which I have heard far otherwi&s;t from &s;eve|ral Gentlemen of that Regiment; but &s;uppo&s;e the Matter of Fact true, I do not find it any the lea&s;t of kin to a Miracle.</P>
<P>The Per&s;on was, as he &s;ays, <HI>run in|to the Belly about two Inches above the Navel on the right-&s;ide; the Sword, as him&s;elf, and other Spectators &s;ay, entred at lea&s;t &s;even or eight Inches.</HI></P>
<P>I mu&s;t needs &s;ay, that both the Per&s;on him&s;elf, and the Spectators too, had either a deal of pre&s;ence of Mind, or good Mathematical Eyes; otherwi&s;e the Per&s;on who made the Thru&s;t was &s;o deliberate in the Acti|on,
<PB N="38" REF="23">as would ea&s;ily have proved pre|meditated Malice, had he been tried at the <HI>Old Bailey.</HI></P>
<P>He &s;ays he <HI>believes the Symptoms that attended him, do plainly demon|&s;trate that both Liver and Inte&s;tines were wounded:</HI> But for my part, I do not.</P>
<P>For neither Vomiting, nor Pain in his Belly, nor Re&s;tle&s;ne&s;s, nor e|ven the Stooling of bloody Excre|ment, (which are all the Symptoms him&s;elf gives) are &s;ufficient to de|mon&s;trate the Inte&s;tines to be woun|ded; the la&s;t oftner proceeding from Brui&s;s, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> than any thing el&s;e. How|ever, by the U&s;e of the Pouder and Tiucture, he was pre&s;ently well; and <HI>indeed who would not work a little Mi|racle when their whole Reputation lies at &s;take?</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="experiment">
<PB N="39" REF="23">
<HEAD>Remarks upon his Third Experiment.</HEAD>
<P>WE are now come to that Ex|periment which gave ri&s;e (though under&s;ervedly) to all its <HI>Au|thor's</HI> Reputation, and that more by the Ignorance, or at lea&s;t Inadverten|cy of &s;ome other <HI>Surgeons,</HI> than ei|ther his own Ingenuity or Conduct.</P>
<P>The Matter of Fact is; The Per&s;on of the &s;ame <HI>Name</HI> and <HI>Regiment</HI> which he relates, was run into the Brea&s;t: the Surgeon to the Regi|ment &s;ounding of the Wound with his Probe, and being alarmed with the rebutting of it by the <HI>Sy&s;tole</HI> and <HI>Dia&s;tole</HI> of the Heart, did thence ra&s;h|ly and incon&s;iderately conclude that the Wound mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily pene|trate into the Cavity; never con&s;i|dering that even the laying of a <HI>Probe</HI> (or the like) upon the Region of the Heart (though without the Skin)
<PB N="40" REF="24">will give it a con&s;iderable Motion; but much more if thru&s;t into, or pre&s;&s;ed upon its more contiguous Mu&s;|cles. The <HI>Surgeon</HI> (as is &s;aid) being &s;urprized, gave the Standers-by but little hopes of his Life; whereupon our <HI>Doctor</HI> was &s;ent for, and I do be|lieve cured him, thugh not in &s;o &s;hort time as he relates.</P>
<P>For I am very well a&s;&s;ured by two credible Per&s;ons, that the Cure was no le&s;s than &s;ix Weeks long; which is more than thrice the time it need|ed, con&s;idering it neither pentrated, nor was accompained with any con|&s;iderable Hemorogy of Blood: As for <HI>&s;uch a Number of Surgeons coming and pulling off his Dre&s;&s;ings,</HI> the Per|&s;on him&s;elf will not own.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="experiment">
<PB N="41" REF="24">
<HEAD>Remarks upon his Fourth Experiment.</HEAD>
<P>IT &s;eems the <HI>Author</HI> was afraid of coming &s;hort in the Number of his Experiments, otherwi&s;e he would never have in&s;erted this among&s;t his Miracles, being no more than a Wound with a Sword in the fle&s;hy part of the Thigh; and although I have &s;poke with &s;everal Per&s;ons that &s;aw it, I can|not find it to have been half &s;o large as he reports: But &s;uppo&s;e it were, that could but little retard the Cure, &s;ince neither <HI>Blood-Ve&s;&s;el</HI> nor <HI>Tendon</HI> was wounded. He does well in a&s;&s;ig|ning no definite time for the Cure; becau&s;e the Gentleman at that time was obliged to go to the Gari&s;on e're that was effected, and (as I can make appear) was not fit to come to Camp for &s;everal Months after.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="experiment">
<PB N="42" REF="25">
<HEAD>Remarks upon his Fifth Experiment.</HEAD>
<P>THis Experiment gives account of a Per&s;on <HI>wounded in the Stomach</HI> with a Sword; but his Medi|cines being u&s;ed according to the u&s;u|al Method, immediately removed all the Symptoms; and among&s;t others his <HI>Convul&s;ions,</HI> which were very great, were, <HI>ictu oculi,</HI> by the U&s;e of his Tin|cture, taken away; which (by the way) is no &s;mall Wonder: For to my certain Knowledg that very <HI>Tin|cture</HI> hath at other times brought Convul&s;ions even unto Death, upon Per&s;ons who otherwi&s;e had no Ten|dency that way; as we &s;hall &s;ee in the Ca&s;e of Capt. <HI>Rogers,</HI> &amp;c. never|thele&s;s it cured him, and &s;o we leave him.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="experiment">
<PB N="43" REF="25">
<HEAD>Remarks upon his Sixth Experiment.</HEAD>
<P>HEre we are told of a Per&s;on who had his <HI>Sternum,</HI> or Brea&s;t|bone <HI>divided with a Sword;</HI> but whi|ther according to its Length or Breadth, we have no Account: How|ever, the <HI>Sword pa&s;&s;ed on into the Lungs</HI> (as he &s;ays); but it &s;eems 'twas <HI>lent</HI> with Mr. <HI>Chomley,</HI> for <HI>he was not &s;trong enough to keep on the Dre&s;&s;ings a|gain&s;t &s;uch violent Eruptions of Blood and Air.</HI> Here is a new Mode of Stitch|ing, the which is hardly reconcilable; and more than that, here is a &s;mall Mi&s;take in the Relation of Matter of Fa&s;t: For,</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, The <HI>Lungs</HI> were not touch'd, nor could we find any certain Sign that ever the Wound had penetrated.</P>
<P>And, Secondly, he was &s;o far from being recovered when he come to the Ho&s;pital, that had he not thet with
<PB N="44" REF="26">better Treatment there than he did from him, he had never recovered.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="experiment">
<HEAD>Remarks upon his Seventh Experiment.</HEAD>
<P>HEre is another Per&s;on <HI>wounded in the Lungs,</HI> and given over for dead by &s;everal Surgeons; <HI>his Wound had been a Fortnight received, and he in a very bad Condition: never|thele&s;s by twice applying his Pouder, he was cured.</HI> By which, I perceive that his Pouder mends upon his hand; for formerly it u&s;ed to work no Won|ders, except it were fir&s;t applied: However, (to the be&s;t of my Remem|brance) I was told of this Accident by the <HI>Surgeon to the Regiment,</HI> that not with &s;tanding his U&s;e of both <HI>Pou|der</HI> and <HI>Tincture,</HI> and even that of more effectual Medicines, the Per&s;on was never like to be well.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="experiment">
<PB N="45" REF="26">
<HEAD>Remarks upon his Eighth Experiment.</HEAD>
<P>WE are here told of a <HI>forth Per|&s;on</HI> wounded in the Lungs; which in my Opinion is not a little &s;trange, that among&s;t fourteen Acci|dents four of them &s;hould be upon the Lungs; though I can affirm that I have &s;een five hundred at one time wounded, and not &s;o many among them all: But perhaps the&s;e have been &s;ent by <HI>&s;ome &s;pecial piece of Providence</HI> for the trial of his Experiments, al|though I am apter to believe that with him all Wounds in the Brea&s;t are judged to be in the Lungs; and indeed he is in &s;ome mea&s;ure excu&s;a|ble, &s;ince he works by gue&s;s, and finds it again&s;t his Con&s;cience to allow of Sounding: nor is there here any cleare Symptoms of this Per&s;on's being wounded in the Lungs; his &s;pitting of Blood and Shortne&s;s of Breath be|ing
<PB N="46" REF="27">more applicable to his former <HI>Cough</HI> than his pre&s;ent Wound. But he is pretty mode&s;t here in a&s;&s;igning him no determinate time for his Cure.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="experiment">
<HEAD>Remarks upon his Ninth Experiment.</HEAD>
<P>WE come now to the Wonder of the whole Book: A Per&s;on &s;hot with a Bullet through the <HI>back part of his Hand, and the Bones of the Metacarp all &s;hattered, and Tendons much torn; and yet by &s;ome few Appli|cations of his Pouder, he was &s;oon cured.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;hould be unpardonable if I &s;uf|fered the World to be impo&s;ed upon in this and the following Experiment, having been Eye-witne&s;s to the whole Matter of Fact in both: this pre&s;ent was thus: One <HI>John Wyles</HI> in the Regiment of the Honourable Lord <HI>George Hamilton,</HI> in the Company of Capt. <HI>Hay</HI>'s, was upon the <HI>twenty fir&s;t</HI> of <HI>July</HI> Old Stile, &s;her in the Back of
<PB N="47" REF="27">the Hand; the Bullet entred betwixt that Bone of the <HI>Metacarp</HI> which &s;u|&s;tains the Middle and that which &s;u|&s;tains the Ring-finger, gra&s;ing upon the latter as it entred, broke the for|mer, and in coming out rubb'd upon that which &s;u&s;tains the Fore-finger. I went with one of his Officers to &s;ee him next Morning; and he told me he had been dre&s;&s;ed, but complained of intolerable Pain: Three days af|ter I made him another vi&s;it, but he had not then been dre&s;&s;ed a &s;econd time. However, the fir&s;t had &s;o ting'd the Bandage, and every thing el&s;e a|bout it, that it was no hard matter to conclude it a Vitriolike Medicine. I &s;aw it &s;everal times after wards, but al|ways the &s;ame colour, and a perpetu|al Flux of crude undige&s;ted Matter coming from it: When I &s;aw it about a Fortnight after, both Orifices were much contracted, and &s;ome little &s;pungy Excre&s;cences in the Form of
<PB N="48" REF="28">&s;mall Bramble-berries, &s;hewing them|&s;elves about its Circumference, with &s;till the &s;ame quantity and &s;ort of Matter; and the Patient always com|plaining of intolerable Pains after dre&s;&s;ing, which had then been per|formed <HI>four times;</HI> and then the Hand began to &s;well con&s;iderably.</P>
<P>I vi&s;ited him again the <HI>Twentieth</HI> of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> with the Chaplain to the Regiment and &s;everal others: I then found his Hand prodigiou&s;ly &s;welled &s;o, that he could not &s;o much as move one of his Fingers. I asked him how he found it? He an&s;wered me <HI>very well,</HI> to my no &s;mall Admi|ration: But looking about, and &s;ee|ing &s;ome of his Tent-mates, I asked them if he was not di&s;tracted? But they <HI>(laughing)</HI> told me, <HI>that e're I came the Doctor had been there, and given him two Shillings upon Condition he &s;hould make that An&s;wer to any one who &s;hould ask him how he did.</HI> The
<PB N="49" REF="28"><HI>Per&s;on</HI> him&s;elf being taxed with it, could not deny it; but this he did al&s;o to his <HI>Comerade</HI> in the next Ex|periment, and &s;everal others.</P>
<P>This was at the Camp at <HI>Wining|ham,</HI> and after <HI>the long March</HI> which he mentions; neither had it at that time di&s;charged any of that va&s;t number of Bones which him&s;elf &s;ays it di&s;charged afterwards, nor do I believe 'tis well to this day.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="experiment">
<HEAD>Remarks upon his Tenth Experiment.</HEAD>
<P><HI>ANdrew Chri&s;ty,</HI> in the &s;ame Re|giment and Company, was wounded at the &s;ame time with the former. For the mo&s;t part I vi&s;ited them both together: He was &s;hot with a Brace of Bullets; one of them grazed, but very &s;uperficially, be|twixt two of his Ribs; the other af|ter having grazed a little way lodg|ed, but very &s;uperficially al&s;o. This,
<PB N="50" REF="29">as the other always, complained of exce&s;&s;ive Pain. After Dre&s;&s;ing (as him&s;elf &s;ays) they always di&s;charged a great quantity of &s;erous Matter. I vi&s;ited him the Fourth of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> Old Stile, and took al&s;o &s;everal o|thers along with me; when he not only complained of exce&s;&s;ive Pains in that Side, but likewi&s;e over all the re&s;t of his Body; was very feveri&s;h: and I am fully &s;atisfied (although the <HI>Doctor</HI> &s;ays he was but three Weeks under Cure) that he was above a Month from that time.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="11, 12, 14" TYPE="experiment">
<HEAD>Remarks upon his Eleventh, Twelfth, and Fourteenth Experiments.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e <HI>three Experiments</HI> I con|fe&s;s I am altogether a Stran|ger to; but if there be either any &s;uch Per&s;ons or matter of Fact, I &s;hall in a very little time be able to give a full and unque&s;tionable Account of
<PB N="51" REF="29">them, and they &s;hall be publi&s;hed by way of Adverti&s;ements, either in the Gazette or el&s;ewhere: However, &s;uppo&s;e his own Relation to be in all Points true, (which I do believe is more than any rea&s;onable Per&s;on will do, con&s;idering the re&s;t have been generally fal&s;e) I have known far greater Cures done with le&s;s than half the noi&s;e.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="13" TYPE="experiment">
<HEAD>Remarks upon his Thirteenth Expe|riment.</HEAD>
<P>THe Maker has got as little Re|putation by this Experiment, as he hath u&s;ed Truth in the Rela|tion of it.</P>
<P>The <HI>Gentlemans</HI> Name was <HI>Lor|ring,</HI> in the Honourable Brigadeer <HI>Lumley</HI>'s Regiment: He &s;ays he <HI>re|ceived a &s;light Wound under the right Arm-pit, the Axillary Artery being al|&s;o prick'd, upon which en&s;ued a large Flux of Blood.</HI></P>
<PB N="52" REF="30">
<P>A notable piece of Incon&s;i&s;tency; <HI>a &s;light Wound, and yet the Axillary Artery pricked.</HI></P>
<P>He &s;ays the Blood was &s;oon &s;top'd, or <HI>rather pent in by Mr.</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>Surgeon to the Regiment;</HI> however, it was more than he could do after|wards, by all his big Preten&s;ions.</P>
<P>'Tis true, that after &s;ome time there happened a fre&s;h Flux of Blood, which was the Occa&s;ion that <HI>he</HI> was called, but (at lea&s;t) mi&s;takes when he &s;ays they u&s;ed red hot irons to &s;top it; though I do believe they had better done it, than tru&s;ted to his Pouder, as they did to the (at lea&s;t) anticipating their Patient's De|&s;truction.</P>
<P>His Arm was but little &s;well'd, and not at all mortified; nor did he lo&s;t (before that time) one &s;ixth part of the Blood which he mentions. When he came fir&s;t to the Patient, he was asked by Mr. <HI>Hall,</HI> whether
<PB N="53" REF="30">any thing that had been formerly ap|plied might hinder the Effect of his Medicine? He readily an&s;wered, <HI>Not at all;</HI> and, immediately proceeded to his Application, which he repea|ted once and again with the &s;ame Suc|ce&s;s, and then gave him a Do&s;e of his Tincture, which did not fail of its wonted Effect, in convul&s;ing the Pa|tient to that degree, that he was not relieved without the utmo&s;t Care and Indu&s;try of the <HI>Surgeons,</HI> and other <HI>Gentlemen</HI> there pre&s;ent.</P>
<P>However, his repeating his Appli|cations &s;o many times, and as often &s;lacking the Turneke to &s;ee whether it had taken effect, cau&s;e &s;uch an ad|ditional Expence of Blood and Pain, that in about three hours after he died in the Doctor's own Pre&s;ence; who had the Mortification to &s;ee not only his own, but all the Spectators Hopes eluded: being never in the lea&s;t able &s;o much as to check the Hemorogy
<PB N="54" REF="31">without the U&s;e of the Turneke. This is Matter of Fact, and certified by &s;o many Witne&s;&s;es that there is not the lea&s;t Ground of Su&s;picion left.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="15" TYPE="experiment">
<HEAD>Remarks upon his <HI>15th</HI> Experiment.</HEAD>
<P>THere are &s;everal other Experi|ments no le&s;s con&s;iderable than the former; which the Doctor's ei|ther Mode&s;ty or Memory hath not &s;erved him to in&s;ert: I &s;hall do him that Service, and &s;ubjoin them to the re&s;t, le&s;t his Treati&s;e &s;hould want &s;o much of being compleat.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t of them is an Experiment made upon a Man in St. <HI>Bartholomew's Ho&s;pital;</HI> who&s;e di&s;ea&s;ed Arm was amputated above the Elbow: but for above a quarter of an Hour's time ma|ny &s;ucce&s;le&s;s Applications of his Stip|tick were made, and at length a &s;mall Tent dipp'd in the Pouder it &s;elf in|&s;erted into the Extremity of the bleed|ing
<PB N="55" REF="31">Artery, before the Flux of Blood would admit the Application of Ban|dage.</P>
<P>A few hours after, a fre&s;h Flux of Blood appeared; which obliged them to have recour&s;e to their ordinary Method upon &s;uch Occa&s;ions.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="16" TYPE="experiment">
<HEAD>Remarks upon his <HI>16th</HI> Experiment.</HEAD>
<P>THat &s;ame Morning and Place the above-mentioned <HI>Amputa|tion</HI> was made, a Boy about 12 Years of Age had his Leg taken off below the Knee; who had many and re|peated &s;ucce&s;le&s;s Applications of this pretended Stiptick made to his bleed|ing Stump, before it could be got bound up; and in le&s;s than an Hour after, a fre&s;h Flux of Blood was to be &s;een, and not to be re&s;trained without &s;ome more effectual Methods.</P>
<P>Some few Hours after the Operati|ons, both the&s;e Patients &s;uffered exce&s;|&s;ive Pains.</P>
<PB N="56" REF="32">
<P>Three Days after, when the Appli|cations were taken off, had any Per|&s;on, a Stranger to what had been done, &s;een the Stumps, he would have &s;up|po&s;ed that nothing le&s;s than the Ap|plication of an actual Cautery could have cau&s;ed &s;uch large E&s;chars and horrid Appearances; which did &s;uf|ficiently demon&s;trate this <HI>his Anodyne Pouder</HI> (as he calls it) to be a violent Cau&s;tick.</P>
<P>The Doctor can here make no Ob|jection; for his Pouder was applied with all imaginable Fairne&s;s, in his own Pre&s;ence: nor hath he any Rea|&s;on to believe that tho&s;e <HI>Surgeons</HI> who u&s;ed it in the <HI>Ho&s;pital,</HI> had the lea&s;t de&s;ign to hinder its Succe&s;s, &s;ince it's well known they were rather preju|diced in its favour than to the con|trary.</P>
<P>This Account was printed in the <HI>Philo&s;ophical Tran&s;actions</HI> for <HI>Feb.</HI> 1693/4. and atte&s;ted by &s;o many Per&s;ons then
<PB N="57" REF="32">pre&s;ent, that 'tis beyond the Power or Malice of Man to render it &s;u&s;pected.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="17" TYPE="experiment">
<HEAD>Remarks upon his <HI>17th</HI> Experiment.</HEAD>
<P>CApt. <HI>Rogers,</HI> in my Lord <HI>Ca&s;tle|ton</HI>'s Regiment, upon the <HI>18th</HI> of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> Old Stile, Twelve at Night, being near the King's Quarters at <HI>Wi|ningham</HI> in a Coffee-Tent, in a Ren|counter received a &s;light Thru&s;t into the Belly, a little below the Navel. Among&s;t other Gentlemen, Col. <HI>Tid|comb</HI> was there pre&s;ent; who having &s;ome of Mr. <HI>Colbatch</HI>'s Pouder about him, cau&s;ed it immediately to be ap|plied by one of the Gentlemen there pre&s;ent, according to the Directions he had received with it; and immedi|ately &s;ent for Mr. <HI>Colbatch</HI> him&s;elf, who &s;ent his <HI>Friend</HI> who had formerly done all his Bu&s;ine&s;s. He gave him &s;ome of his Tincture in a Gla&s;s of Sack, as u|&s;ual; which being &s;everal times re|peated
<PB N="58" REF="33">in &s;ome few hours, brought the Gentleman into a raging Fever, and &s;oon after into &s;uch violent Convul|&s;ions as co&s;t him his Life.</P>
<P>He died the next Morning; and al|though the Wound was made by an indifferent broad Sword, yet it was not to be traced into the Cavity of the <HI>Abdomen</HI> by the fine&s;t <HI>'Probe.</HI></P>
<P>It was unanimou&s;ly concluded by all there pre&s;ent, that the Tincture, together with the large quantit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> of Wine which he received it in, was the only Cau&s;e of his Death; and in my Judgment very rea&s;onably, con&s;ider|ing that it is next to impo&s;&s;ible that any &s;uch Wound in that Place, &s;hould have done it (if at all) in a good many days. I was pre&s;ent my &s;elf, and took this Account in my Pocket-Book, and could in&s;ert the Names of many very worthy Gentlemen; but &s;hall be &s;o mannerly at pre&s;ent to forbear, and do think I have given the Inqui&s;itive
<PB N="59" REF="33">already light enough to find out the Matter.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="18" TYPE="experiment">
<HEAD>Remarks upon his <HI>18th</HI> Experiment.</HEAD>
<P>ONe Mr. <HI>Edward Dunn,</HI> belong|ing to the <HI>Cock-pit,</HI> being woun|ded in the Hand by a <HI>Cock's Spur;</HI> and being drawn to Mr. <HI>Colbatch</HI> by the loud Report of his famous Pouder, promi&s;ed him&s;elf a more than ordinary &s;afe and &s;peedy Cure: The <HI>Doctor</HI> did no le&s;s; and having applied his Pouder, promi&s;ed him there &s;hould be no occa&s;ion for a &s;econd Application; and truly he had like to have played the Prophet: for (to u&s;e the Patient's own Words) in&s;tead of a Cure, he was forced to go to Mr. <HI>John&s;on</HI> a Sur|geon in <HI>Sheer-lane</HI> to take care of it, otherwi&s;e he mu&s;t have lo&s;t his Hand; for that Application &s;o &s;welled and inflamed his Hand, that the Pain of it threw him into a Fever. I have u&s;ed
<PB N="60" REF="34">his own Words, in a Certificate to me under his own Hand.</P>
<P>I have mentioned this, and &s;ome of the foregoing Ob&s;ervations, becau&s;e they are at the door, and every one may ea&s;ily inform them&s;elves of the Truth of them: But <HI>this</HI> in parti|cular, becau&s;e being a &s;light Wound, and the Per&s;on of a good habit of Body, that were not his Medicine the very bane of Nature, it could never produce &s;uch horrible Effects.</P>
<P>I could add &s;everal other Ob&s;erva|tions as little for his Reputation as the former; but do believe the&s;e e|nough for both the Satisfaction and Information of any con&s;iderate and unprejudiced Per&s;on.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="61" REF="34">
<HEAD>The De&s;cription of his <HI>Pouder</HI> and <HI>Tincture.</HI></HEAD>
<P>'TIS a hard matter peremptorily to a&s;&s;ert what Ingredients, and in what Proportion almo&s;t any Compo&s;ition con&s;i&s;ts of; but accord|ing to the &s;everal Experiments made upon this Pouder both by my &s;elf, and <HI>&s;everal other Per&s;ons, (who&s;e Judgments are not a little to be reverenced, who&s;e pro|per Profe&s;&s;ion it is to be conver&s;ant in chymical Matters)</HI> the Pouder con&s;i&s;ts of a Vitriol of Copper, and that either <HI>Roman,</HI> which is purely &s;o; or <HI>Dant|zick,</HI> which hath a &s;mall Mixture of Iron. By its Sweetne&s;s it &s;eems to have &s;ome <HI>Sugar of Lead</HI> in it, rather for its di&s;gui&s;ing than bettering. As for its Preparation, take which <HI>Vitriol</HI> you plea&s;e; and expo&s;e it to a hot and dry Air, free from Du&s;t, (having fir&s;t gro&s;|ly
<PB N="62" REF="35" MS="y">brui&s;ed it) and 'twill turn in a &s;mall time to a whiti&s;h impalpable Pouder. As for its Incarnate Glo&s;s, that may ea|&s;ily be given it by either <HI>Sanguis dra|conis,</HI> or any other red Body. Any Per|&s;on will ea&s;ily be convinced of the Truth of what I &s;ay, if he will but take a piece of poli&s;h'd Iron, and wetting it with his Spittle, and rub a little of his Pouder upon it, 'twill immediate|ly turn to a copperi&s;h Colour; or if he precipitates a Solution of it by &s;ome few Drops of <HI>Spiritus &s;alis Armo|niaci,</HI> or the like, he will find the <HI>Vitri|ol</HI> immediately fall to bottom; leaving that other body, with<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="3 letters"> which 'twas ting'd &s;wimming on the top of the Water, or adhering to the &s;ides.</P>
<P>I am neverthele&s;s apter to believe the Vitriol rather to be a <HI>Dantzick</HI> than a <HI>Roman,</HI> becau&s;e the former is cheaper than the latter, though one would think the exorbitant Rate of his Medicine might be able to reach
<PB N="63" REF="35">the deare&s;t of them. By what hath been &s;aid in the De&s;cription of it, I &s;uppo&s;e the be&s;t Way of applying of it will ea&s;ily appear to be to throw it into &s;ome na&s;ty Puddle of Water; which by its Filth, is excu&s;ed from the u&s;e of Man and Bea&s;t.</P>
<P>As for the <HI>Tincture,</HI> if we had no o|ther, him&s;elf hath given us &s;ome Light into the Matter; for he &s;ays, in a Sheet publi&s;hed by him la&s;t Year, that it's of the &s;ame family with the Pouder, (to &s;ay Truth, it's pity two &s;hould be troubled with them).</P>
<P>It certainly con&s;i&s;ts of a Mixture of Oil of Vitriol, and Spirit of Wine; as may ea&s;ily be di&s;covered both by its Smell and Ta&s;te. 'Tis an Acid, becau&s;e of its Efferve&s;cence with Volatile Salts. That it hath a Mixture of Spirit of Wine, appears by dipping your Finger in it, and touching it with the Flame of a Candle; for it immediately conceives Flame, which continues to the Con|&s;umption
<PB N="64" REF="36">of the Spirit, and leaves your Finger only wet with the Flagme.</P>
<P>But 'tis &s;ometimes no more than a Solution of his Pouder, and then one may ea&s;ily precipitate the Vitriol from it. As for its Colour, that may be given it &s;o many ways, and is &s;o little e&s;&s;ential to the Medicine, that 'tis not worth Inquiry.</P>
<P>Though the Tincture be of the &s;ame family, yet it's not &s;o antient as the Pouder; for it was not &s;o much as heard of at the&s;e Experiments in St. <HI>Bartholomew's Ho&s;pital,</HI> tho' its Author had never more need of it: But I do ve|rily believe Nece&s;&s;ity was the Mother of that Invention; for his Pouder be|ing there &s;o publickly di&s;graced, he was obliged to trump up another Me|dicine to &s;upply its Defect, and make up the Pair.</P>
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