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<P><HI>In speculo teip&s;um Contemplare Dr.</HI> BLACK. A Looking-Gla&s;s for the Black-Band of <HI>Doctors.</HI> VVherein may be &s;een the Igno|rance and Malice of the&s;e <HI>Phy&s;icians,</HI> who have Clubbed under the Name of Dr. <HI>BLACK,</HI> for &s;uppre&s;sing by their Scriblings, and other Calumnies, &s;o great a benefite to the World, as the new Cure of Fevers. Contained in a <HI>2d.</HI> Letter written by <HI>Philander</HI> to his Friend in the Countrey <HI>Philomathes.</HI> In Defence of <HI>Dr. BRO&V;N.</HI></P>
<P><HI>EDINB&V;RGH,</HI> Printed by the <HI>Heir</HI> of <HI>Andrew Ander&s;on,</HI> Printer to their mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;ties, 1692.</P>
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<HEAD>Dictum Biantis Prienen&s;is.</HEAD>
<Q><HI>In &s;peculo teip&s;um Contemplare, et &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> form<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;us apparebis, Age ca quae formam deceant, &s;in de|formis, qu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d in facie minus e&s;t, vel dee&s;t, id mor|um pulchritudine pen&s;ato: Audito multa, l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">quere pauca.</HI></Q>
<P>When every School-Boy knows this wi&s;e Pre|cept, <HI>Learned Club,</HI> you cannot be Ignorant of it: But &s;urely the Rea&s;on why you have &s;o much &s;lighted it, mu&s;t be, becau&s;e you have by the like Rapture of Learning, that you ex|pounded <HI>Philander,</HI> (making thereof <HI>fool An|dro</HI>) Taken <HI>Biantis</HI> for <HI>Banters,</HI> and <HI>Pirenen&s;is</HI> for <HI>pire non-&s;en&s;e.</HI></P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="publisher to the reader">
<PB N="3" REF="4">
<HEAD><HI>Advertisement by the Publi&s;her</HI> TO The READER.</HEAD>
<P>ALbeit the Clubs Dialogue written again&s;t Dr. <HI>Brown,</HI> contained as much Impertinency, as might ju&s;tly have moved any Man of moderat Mildne&s;s and Temper, to have Retorted it with the like. Yet Dr. <HI>Brown</HI> would &s;o fat &s;urmount the&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> fools, who had no rea&s;on to be pro|vocked, that he would not be provocked tho he had rea|&s;on, and &s;o there was in <HI>Philanders</HI> fir&s;t Letter, a di&s;creet, pertinent and &s;olide An&s;wer given them, wherein no man was touched. This Di&s;cretion, and Moderation, it &s;eems, &s;erved then to no other u&s;e, than it doth to all Bruti&s;h, and Degenerous Spirits, to highten their In&s;olence, as ap|peared by A <HI>2d.</HI> E&s;&s;ay, emitted by them, a great deal more Infamous and Scurrilous, than the Former. Which, albeit it appeared very Rediculous to all Wi&s;e Men, yet in regard, a great many of the weaker &s;ort of People, could not but be exceedingly amazed to &s;ee &s;o many Phy|&s;icians, that pretend to no &s;mall Figure in their Profe&s;&s;i|on, Redicule an Improvement about the Cure of Fevers, made &s;o Plau&s;ible by Dr. <HI>Brown</HI> and him&s;elf, Repre&s;ented a meer Ignorant, and Impo&s;tor; this, as it proved very &s;ur|prizing, and a&s;toni&s;hing, &s;o it makes it very nece&s;&s;ary, for &s;atisfying the Curious, that there &s;hould be yet &s;ome Con|&s;iderations offered, concerning the Buzle made about this very great Concern.</P>
<P>And <HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> It being plain, that although this Point of a mo&s;t effectual Method of Curing Fevers, be of great Im|port
<PB N="4" REF="5"> to all Men, yet there are very few able by pehetrat|ing into the My&s;tery of the Debate, to be Competent Judges thereof, the mo&s;t part do therefore, by Implicite Faith, acqu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ce in the Authority of the&s;e, they think &s;hould, and do know this matter thoroughly.</P>
<P>Yet as, <Q REND="inline"><HI>Delirant reges, plectuntur achivi,</HI></Q></P>
<P><HI>So</HI>
<Q><L>When Doctors rave</L>
<L>They fill the Grave.</L></Q></P>
<P>For oftimes <HI>Phy&s;icians</HI> by their a&s;cendant over thevul|gar, having patcht up an Authority, calculat only for &s;elf Intere&s;t, they do thereby mo&s;t Severely and Succes|fully Tyrannize over Improvements, and their advancers: In regard they are jealous, &s;uch Improvements come to Supplant them, and &s;teal away their Gods of Profit, and E&s;teem.</P>
<P>And next, &s;ince, in con&s;equence of this, there &s;eems to be no means left to Extrica<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> this Improvement out of the Pounces of &s;uch <HI>Cormorants</HI> and <HI>Harpyes;</HI> but to repre&s;ent them to the World, in their Natural and t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ue Shape, and de&s;poil them of their borrowed <HI>Plumes</HI> of un|merited <HI>E&s;teem,</HI> acquired through vulgar <HI>Ignorance,</HI> and <HI>Mi&s;take.</HI></P>
<P>It &s;eems ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary, for undeceiving the the World, and re&s;cuing the true Intere&s;t of Mankind, to give Exact <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aracters</HI> of the&s;e <HI>Blacks, Wolfs</HI> in <HI>Sheeps Clothing,</HI> and <HI>Enemies to Men,</HI> at lea&s;t in &s;o far as their <HI>Scriblings</HI> and <HI>Calumnies</HI> declare them.</P>
<P>And &s;o there being only here repre&s;ented a true Hi&s;to|ry of Dr. <HI>Black's Phenomena,</HI> and the&s;e plainly &s;olved, by laying down a &s;olid <HI>Hypothe&s;is</HI> of his <HI>Nature:</HI> I hope the <HI>Candid Reader</HI> will not Con&s;truct, that Dr. <HI>Broun</HI> is provocked, or that he intends Reviling for <HI>Reviling:</HI> but only that he de&s;igns, for the Publick Good, to give
<PB N="5" REF="5"> a true Repre&s;entation of the weak Foundation of that <HI>Tyrannical Authority,</HI> which in its being is Calculated, and Contrived, and in its u&s;e is mo&s;t advantageou&s;ly ex|erci&s;ed and imployed, for the Overthrow, and Suppre&s;|&s;ion of &s;o great Benefits, as Improvements in Medicine are; Their &s;afety and progre&s;s being indeed no wayes at|tainable, &s;o long as men that can &s;ecurely level at Self, and privat <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ntere&s;t, altho at the publick Coa&s;t, remain in Power and Credit with the World.</P>
<P><HI>Philander</HI> has not gone to beg pitiful &s;tories at the Common Strumpet <HI>Fame,</HI> to make up their Hi&s;tory with, where perhaps he might have made als good purcha&s;e of Reproachful Tales, as <HI>Black</HI> has done, (none of the <HI>Black Club</HI> being either &s;o Innocent in them&s;elves, or &s;uch Darlings of Fame) for</P>
<P><HI>Tam ficti pravi&abque; tenax quam nuncia veri.</HI></P>
<P>But he has only made u&s;e of &s;uch <HI>Documents,</HI> as are drawn from their Writings, and other Actings about this Affair, and when no body is Named, if they hit not right, there is no mi&s;s made, and no body can Complain. And becau&s;e <HI>Dr. Broun</HI> was unwilling to expo&s;e the&s;e Enemies of Truth, before he e&s;&s;ayed all means for their Reformation, and endeavoured to beg Peace at their hands, long before they were Printed, he gave in his whole Papers to them, to be Con&s;idered, with the fol|lowing Letter annexed thereto.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>To all</HI> Phy&s;icians <HI>that are</HI> Dr. Broun's <HI>Enemies, or the&s;e who have Calumniat him by Printing again&s;t him, or otherwi&s;e, A Cha|ritable Offer of Forgivene&s;s and Peace.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THat <HI>Scurrilous</HI> Dialogue, Printed and Di&s;per&s;ed, with de&s;ign to &s;uppre&s;s my hone&s;t Endeavours in Relation to the Advancement of Medicine, and wherein you have been concerned, as <HI>Contrivers, Authors, Publi&s;h|ers</HI> or <HI>Approvers,</HI> I &s;tudied a while to connive at, and to give it &s;o General an An&s;wer, as might not reflect par|ticularly on any of you, either directly, or by broad hints: Tho my Vindication in the Opinion of &s;ome, &s;eem|ed in &s;o far defective, that it &s;tood meerly on the Defen|&s;ive, and not paying you home in the &s;ame Coyn, wanted &s;ome Trapings of <HI>Rallery,</HI> to have made it more <HI>Fa&s;hion|able</HI> and <HI>Pa&s;&s;ing</HI> (that <HI>Rallery</HI> being always flat where no body is hit)</P>
<P>Untill your <HI>2d.</HI> E&s;&s;ay a great deal more Impertinent then the former, backed al&s;o with with your con&s;tant verbal Calumnies, obliged me &s;omething to change the former Mea&s;ures, and to give this An&s;wer, which (as intending to be more Generous, than at a &s;tollen Dint, to make any of you Ridiculous,) <HI>I</HI> have &s;ent you before it be Printed, to be peru&s;ed: And if there be any thing there|in you can evince Impertinent, either to my Vindcation or the Vindication of the Improvement, I endeavour to advance, or a more &s;evere <HI>Retaliation,</HI> than
<PB N="7" REF="6"> the Provocation Craved (your Scurilities and Calumnies indeed admitting of no other An&s;wer.) I am content (as being willing to do my Enemies all Ju&s;tice) it be in &s;o far Reformed.</P>
<P>There was never any mans Reputation de&s;igned to be <HI>Impeached</HI> by me, unle&s;s in &s;o far as it's Imployed to barr out Improvements; Some of your Reputations, I endea|voured to advance <HI>pari pa&s;su</HI> with this Improvement; But If any mans backwardne&s;s, becoming too plain, derogat from that Portion of Reputation he is in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of, he knows whom to blame for that. When Di&s;coveries, and Mens Reputation turn <HI>Antipods,</HI> and <HI>oppo&s;ite,</HI> the Di&s;coveries tending to the <HI>Zenith,</HI> their Reputation will down to <HI>Nadir.</HI> And the greater Pouther be made about Di&s;coveries, when they become Con&s;picuous, their de|fects will be the more Legible that make it: And as com|mon Prudence would oblige all that have common &s;ence, rather hover a While, than precipitantly condemn mat|ters of Experiment, which others have found, but they them&s;elves have never &s;een; So indeed I think a very &s;mal touch of the Con&s;cience of your Duty, as <HI>Phy&s;icians,</HI> would make you carefully watch all opportunities to ob|&s;erve whether or not this Practice hold to be as Succesful, as it is given forth, &amp; this (which is very &s;trange,) none of you has ever yet taken the pains to do: And &s;o how you can An&s;wer, either for this neglect, or for your other behavior in this matter, to God or Man, I truly do not under&s;tand. If I have wronged any of you, I am content of ju&s;t over|turs for further &s;atisfaction, than what already you have taken at your own hands, if further be due: And if you cannot make any wrong appear (which I think ye will not) I am content that being lea&s;t in the Tran&s;gre&s;sion, I have the honour to be fir&s;t in the de&s;iring a Ju&s;t Ac|commodation. It may be &s;ufficiently known to you,
<PB N="8" REF="7"> that I am &s;everal wayes (e&s;pecially in regard of the cau&s;e) &s;o advantageou&s;ly &s;tated, that <HI>I</HI> need not fear your attempt<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> any other ways, then that they may hurt your &s;elves, and prejudge a while the advancement of Medicine. It's therefore Peace and Charity to you, and love to the Publick Good, moves me to this Adverti&s;ement,</P>
<P>Since then I am content on very ea&s;ie terms to pa&s;s from any Retaliation, or expo&s;ing you, as here you &s;ee, as this <HI>I</HI> conceive, will be a con&s;iderable evidence to the World, of my Peaceable and Charitable Di&s;po&s;ition, &s;o it will be a pregnant Te&s;timony of my affection to the Art which by a Repre&s;entation of the Matter, or a ju&s;t Retaliation, may perhaps come to &s;uffer: And &s;how to all Men, that (like <HI>Solomons</HI> true Mother, that would by no means en|dure the dividing of the living Child) that I am &s;o ten|der of the Art, that I incline &s;carce at any rate to do ought that may tend to the expo&s;ing, or vilifying there|of; and further, the&s;e Con&s;iderations (as I humbly con|ceive) ought to invite you al&s;o to give the like Te&s;timo|ny of your peaceable Di&s;po&s;ition, and of your like ten|der affection to the Art, in rea&s;onably preventing, what may any further marr the Honour or Advance thereof.</P>
<P>If your return to this Letter, be any thing but Peace, and Accommodation, you may expect the World will be acquainted with it in Print,</P>
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<P>THe Clubs return to this, was in their old chat of re|proaches, &s;ome of them, e&s;pecially the <HI>Lame</HI> and the <HI>Maimed</HI> an&s;wered it in a new <HI>Cant</HI> to the Tune of <HI>Cud|gelling,</HI> and <HI>Ear-cropping.</HI> O <HI>brave</HI> Doctors, who, having long &s;ince Banquerouted your Learning and Rea&s;on, took fir&s;t refuge in <HI>Ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ter</HI> and <HI>Ribauldrie,</HI> and now being bang'd out of that, has no &s;helter left you, but to thuart nature &s;o far, as to give your &s;elves out for <HI>Hectors!</HI></P>
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<P>And &s;o Candid Reader, I crave pardon for detaining you &s;o long in prefacing to <HI>Philanders</HI> Letter, which will more &s;ully give you the accompt of the whole mat|ter, and &s;o bids you adieu.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your humble Servant, Philarchus.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="notice">
<HEAD>ADVERTISEMENT.</HEAD>
<P>LEarned and Witty <HI>Club,</HI> when I reflect, how Inge|nuou&s;ly you deciphered <HI>Philander,</HI> ju&s;t as a <HI>Mounti|bank</HI>'s Fool would have done, taking it for <HI>Fool Andro.</HI> I would earne&s;tly intreat, that ye do not Sore again &s;o high, with an <HI>Icarian</HI> flight in Learning, and take this <HI>Philarchus</HI> for your Fool <HI>Arche,</HI> that meer <HI>Pageant</HI> of Learning, who being on of the Authors of that Learned <HI>Dialogue,</HI> written again&s;t Dr. <HI>Broun,</HI> thought to e&s;cape his Reward, becau&s;e he was &s;heltered in a Chair; yet the <HI>Impudent Pretender Declaiming,</HI> or rather <HI>Bel&s;ching</HI> from the <HI>Chair</HI> his <HI>Foppry</HI> and <HI>Impertinency,</HI> has &s;o well cha&s;|tized him&s;elf, that no body needs to be further &s;olicitous to take any other Correction of him, than by Publi&s;hing to the World his <HI>Inaugural Oration,</HI> with &s;ome <HI>Natural</HI> and <HI>Pertinent</HI> remarks thereupon; <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Unto which, if there be added, a full <HI>plan</HI> and <HI>Hi&s;tory</HI> of the Means and Methods of his, mo&s;t de&s;erved Promo|tion; as thereby it will be clear, that the Air of our <HI>Climat</HI> is mo&s;t apt to blow up <HI>Bubles,</HI> letting more &s;olid things fall to the Bottom: So &s;uch a <HI>Hi&s;tory</HI> as this will not be little delghtful to the <HI>Curious,</HI> to under&s;tand
<PB N="10" REF="8"> plainly all the&s;e <HI>petty Arts,</HI> and <HI>&s;ham Tricks,</HI> by which this a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e of Learning managed his <HI>Intrigue</HI> of <HI>applau&s;e Catching,</HI> and <HI>fame for&s;talling.</HI></P>
<P><HI>If Hogen Mogen</HI> finding the plea&s;ant Effects of this <HI>Pretty Art,</HI> complain that they are gulled, and that for <HI>Juno</HI> they have embraced a cloud. I mu&s;t crave <HI>Myn|heer</HI> pardon, if <HI>I</HI> tell him, that he mu&s;t not think him|&s;elf abu&s;ed&punc; by the&s;e who gave the Man a brave recom|menoation, for the <HI>Scots Proverb,</HI> and <HI>Practi&s;e</HI> is, that the&s;e who are ill of their <HI>Harbour,</HI> a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e be&s;t of there away Ken; and indeed the ea&s;ie&s;t way to be ea&s;ily rid of a|trouble&s;ome <HI>Gue&s;t</HI> is always to <HI>ru&s;e</HI> him.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>A &s;econd Letter Written by</HI> Phil|ander, <HI>to his Freind in the Coun|try</HI> Philomathes <HI>in Vindication of</HI> Dr. Brown.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Dear <HI>Philomathes.</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Was not a little &s;urprized as well as your &s;elf, when my former Letter written to you, and Publi&s;hed to the World in Vindication of Dr. <HI>Broun</HI>'s Book, was An|&s;wered by his Oppo&s;ers, to whom it was not Directed: Ani|madver&s;ions, or Ob&s;ervations thereon, the <HI>Black</HI> Dr. might have Publi&s;hed, but his giving an An&s;wer of a Letter not directed to him, &s;eemed a non&s;en&s;ical piece of bu&s;ine&s;s, I ruminated long to &s;ee if this Bull of the <HI>Black Drs.</HI> could be any way excu&s;ed, at la&s;t I think I hit it, for le|ing how Learnedly Dr. <HI>Black</HI> had deciphered <HI>Philander,</HI>
<PB N="11" REF="8"> making it <HI>Fool Andr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. I</HI> clearly under&s;tood, that the <HI>Black Dr.</HI> after the &s;ame manner, had deciphered your Name <HI>Philomathes,</HI> taking it for Fool <HI>Matthew</HI> one of their So|ciety: this &s;urely has made them rather Ignorantly, than altogether Impertinently An&s;wer it, tho by as great a mi&s;take, as if one &s;hould take <HI>Dr. Black</HI> for a <HI>Candid Dr.</HI> or <HI>White</HI> for <HI>Black,</HI> there being as great a difference be|twixt <HI>Phiomathes</HI> and <HI>Fool Matthew,</HI> &s;o, as the <HI>Clinking</HI> of the Bell makes the Fool think, does, the gingling of Words make the&s;e wi&s;e <HI>Drs.</HI> rave. And now <HI>Philomathes,</HI> it were in vain to tell you how Infamou&s;ly the&s;e <HI>Drs.</HI> in their Scurrillous Libels, be&s;tow their Talent, and bewray their little Wit: every body that doth not, will fully &s;hut his Eyes, mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity &s;ee every Line of the&s;e reproach|full Stories again&s;t Dr. <HI>Brown,</HI> drawn in the black Cha|racters of Envy and Malice: and &s;urely, becau&s;e <HI>Dr. Brown</HI>'s Enemies could &s;ay little in the cau&s;e, and bring le&s;s a|gain&s;t his Ingenuity, and Sincerity, they endeavour to mi&s;-re|pre&s;ent his extrin&s;ick Qualifications, his Di&s;cretion, his Hu|mour, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> his Carriage, as if by making him Ridiculous in any of the&s;e, they can but abate Mens Reverence to him, their Confidence in him will not long hold out: For as on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ayes bare hone&s;ty, being lookt on as a Leafle&s;s Tree, no body will tru&s;t him&s;elf to it's &s;helter: Thus <HI>Socrates</HI> was treated by his Enemies, when they could no other|ways &s;uppre&s;s his Reputation, they hired <HI>Ari&s;tophanes</HI> the <HI>comick</HI> Poet, to Per&s;onat him <HI>in redicule</HI> on the Stage.</P>
<P>And indeed I think no wonder the&s;e Gentlemen, for all their Impudence, had never Confidence enough to owne to the World what they had done again&s;t Dr. <HI>Broun.</HI> all Crimes have had their Fauters and Abettors, but Lying, e&s;pecially reproachful Lying, is &s;o much the Dregs and Refu&s;e of Wickedne&s;s, that none has yet had Chimi&s;try enough to Sublime it unto Reputation, &s;o as any body will
<PB N="12" REF="9"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">enter to owne it: and among the &s;everal Aggravations, this Crime is capable of (be&s;ides the cau&s;e a Man &s;uffers reproach for) the putting of &s;uch reproachful lies in Print, &s;eems none of the lea&s;t: But let <HI>George Mo&s;man</HI> look to that.</P>
<P>I mu&s;t confe&s;s, we are got into a very Merry World, if Men will be &s;o fooli&s;h, as to &s;uffer them&s;elves at the ex|pence of their Health, the mo&s;t valuable concern of Life, to be laught and lied too, out of &s;o u&s;eful, and clear an Improvement to the Common Nature, as the Cure of Fe|vers. Dr, <HI>Broun</HI> has in his Schedule, given an <HI>Idea</HI> of: I am willing to believe, there are a great many &s;till, who have per&s;picacity enough to &s;ee thorow &s;uch &s;ort of Ad|dre&s;&s;es, So that the&s;e Merchants will lye under a nece&s;&s;ity to deal with the more Ignorant Chapmen, and with them their Counterfeit Wairs will go be&s;t off.</P>
<P>But pray let us take a &s;ober view of what the&s;e Fopps, and Enemies to Mankind will be at: Here then, good <HI>Drs:</HI> Let us carefully weigh the matter, and lay in one <HI>Scale,</HI> the deare&s;t concern under Heaven, the Health and Life of Men. and their neare&s;t Relations, frequently overturned by th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e continual Fevers, the danger and precipitant Inva&s;ion thereof; which by a &s;udden Eruption and Deva&s;tation, in a trice overturn our Hopes and Comforts, do therefore make the lo&s;s of Life more bitter: and which is yet very recent with many, your former and pre&s;ent un&s;uccesful|ne&s;s in the Cure of the&s;e Fevers.</P>
<P>And in the other <HI>Scale,</HI> let us lay the undoubted Obli|gation&punc; chargeable on the <HI>Adepts,</HI> and Sons of Art, to Ran&s;act and Mu&s;ter all the Supplies, Study, Indu&s;try and Ob&s;ervation can make up for the Re&s;i&s;tance of the &s;udden Ravage and Di&s;&s;olution made by the&s;e Fevers: together with the great, con&s;tant and dayly Succe&s;s, which to the great Comfort of Men, and their Relations, is ob&s;erved to follow this new Method of Curing Fevers.</P>
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<P>Now, my very good rever&s;t Friends, to which of the &s;ide does the <HI>Ballance</HI> incline to with you, and &s;ince you either clo&s;e your Eyes from the wonderful Effects of this new Method, or di&s;&s;emble, what you under&s;tand of it, are you not then in love with the&s;e many Ruins, and Di&s;tre&s;&s;es the&s;e Fevers bring along with them, and con|tent to let your Blood freeze within you, in the mid&s;t of &s;uch extream heat, when upon every trivial occa&s;ion, at other times, it's ready to break out in the &s;trange&s;t Ebuli|tion: Is not this to prove your &s;elves Fopps, your Art <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Trick, and Induce the World to cry out, you can do no|thing, when there is mo&s;t ado with you: <HI>Good Doctors,</HI> who appear to the vulgar &s;prightly Heroes in Medicine, I amal mo&s;tina fright, when <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> con&s;ider with all, what a <HI>rem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ra</HI> many &s;uch dead weights as you, really is in the way of true Practical Improvement in Medicine, to the great hurt of Mankind, and the &s;candal of all faithful <HI>Phy&s;icians,</HI> you are in truth, the dead Flees that Corrupt all their Perfums: For &s;hameimu&s;t hone&s;t Dr. <HI>Broun</HI> meet with &s;uch di&s;hone&s;t treatment from you, for his Charitable Endeavours, to deliver the World from the fetters of Prejudice&punc; and Igno|rance, &amp; wherein no Man is touched or wronged; it's not his own things he &s;eeks, it's the Intere&s;t of Humanity, in &s;o noble a Di&s;covery of a new and mo&s;t &s;uccesful method of Curing the&s;e formidable Fevers; So the mali<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e mu&s;t be &s;trange and more than humane, that pro&s;ecuts him.</P>
<P>Since then <HI>Philom.</HI> as every body knows, this fearful havock of our Deare&s;t Concerns made by the&s;e Fevers, of|ten falls out, under the <HI>Pre&s;idence</HI> and <HI>Government</HI> of the <HI>Phy&s;icians,</HI> and &s;eeing their Tru&s;t makes it nearly their con|cern, to enquire &s;eriou&s;ly, whether Negligence or Mi&s;taks may be Concuring to the Cour&s;e of &s;o &s;udden and formi|dable a Deva&s;tation: and al&s;o, Seing we perceive Men are always with great difficulty, drawn from their former
<PB N="14" REF="10"> <HI>Cu&s;toms</HI> and <HI>Practices:</HI> and with all Ranks and Stations of Men, Improvements are hardly entertained and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mbraced; but mo&s;t of all, with tho&s;e who&s;e E&s;teem, and Reputati|on can be pre&s;erved intire without their entertaining them, as in Medicine, I apprehend it's too ea&s;ie to do.</P>
<P>Upon the&s;e Con&s;iderations <HI>Philomath,</HI> I am not only clearly Induced to entertain &s;hrewd and har&s;h thoughts of tho&s;e that are offended at the Preliminaries of <HI>Dr. Broun</HI>'s Book; but I al&s;o think, he has made no Impertinent de|gre&s;&s;ion, but a very nece&s;&s;ary Preliminary, and Preface to his Work, where he has made a <HI>Towr</HI> to Summond up the whole Force of that Obligation, lying on <HI>Phi&s;icians,</HI> to Dilligence and Improvement, to conjure down negli|gence, and to areaign all vulgar Errors and Mi&s;takes ca|pable to &s;tiffle, or deprave Improvement in that Art, it be|ing indeed the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e that &s;eem like Mountains, to &s;tand in the way to Improvement; do they not then de&s;erve by &s;e|rious Con&s;ideration, to be Levelled and Removed.</P>
<P>Now <HI>Philom.</HI> Knowing you are a Curious Enquirer into the Cau&s;es of all the various <HI>Phenomena</HI> of the Civil, as well as the Natural World; and that the behaviour, and Nature of the&s;e <HI>Blacks,</HI> pretending to be <HI>Phy&s;icians,</HI> may appear very &s;trange, and un-accountable to your &s;elf, as well as others, and put many in hazard to think, that all which Dr. <HI>Broun</HI> has offered in this matter, is nothing but D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ion, and Foppry: I judge it not Impertinent to of|fer you my un-bya&s;&s;ed Sentiments, in Relation to a clear, and Rational Solution of the&s;e Mens Actions, and <HI>Pheno|mena;</HI> by giving a &s;olid <HI>Hypothe&s;is</HI> of their Nature, where|by, I hope it will be plain, that the Dignity and Excel|l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ncy of an Improvement in Medicine, may not only be very con&s;i&s;tent with &s;narlings and reproaches thrown, thereupon by <HI>Intere&s;ted</HI> and <HI>By-a&s;sed Phy&s;icians:</HI> but that all eminent Improvements are nece&s;&s;arily attended with
<PB N="15" REF="10"> that <HI>fate:</HI> &s;o <HI>Philom,</HI> I realy think the World is not a littl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> indebted to the Man, has the courage to make the venture to bring &s;uch to &s;ee the Light. For it is no more Plain, than it is Lamentable, that after the Laborious Penetrat|ing of the Judicious, who raking the Bowels of Nature, has digged and refined any Improvement in the Cure of the&s;e Fevers, (perhaps of more value then all the Gold of the <HI>Indies</HI>) out of it's Natural Min and Oar, where it was hid and Inacce&s;&s;able by the Block and Slug|gard, yet before it can become acceptable, and of general u&s;e, it's put to encounter various Skirmi&s;ies, with the &s;e|veral Intere&s;ts, Humors, yea <HI>Caprices</HI> of Men; and not on|ly every <HI>Dunce</HI> or <HI>Fop</HI> has an Itch to &s;tain and fully that vertue he could never imitate, yea, &s;carce comprehend: yet he (as &s;ufficiently qualified to encounterfit the <HI>Phy&s;ici|an</HI> with the vulgar) is in a great mea&s;ure capable to di&s;|grace it, but even the&s;e that &s;eem more Poli&s;he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, &amp; Refined, and have Engro&s;&s;ed any E&s;teem, finding a new Title of ap|plau&s;e in favours of the undertakers, nece&s;&s;arily follow &s;uch undertakings, &s;hrewdly &s;u&s;pect it, as topping and veighing with their Reputation, to be at their Coa&s;t, and they Endangered thereby to have their merit Eclip&s;ed: this rai&s;es &s;uch a Torrent of Heat and Envy again&s;t it, and its advancrs; that they are often made to &s;tagger under them: and where the thing is &s;o Con&s;picuou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, that they dare not meddle with it; and al&s;o finding it would be dan|gerous and fatal to them&s;elves, to make a quarrel of a mans vertue; they can, by means of their Art, and Authority, by a devili&s;h Chimi&s;try, Extract and Pick one out of the mo&s;t Innocent Deportment to b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;patter his Merit, and which will al&s;o &s;erve them as a Cloak for their envy, and malice to the boot.</P>
<P>Thus men to &s;ave the borrowed Lu&s;tre of their Skill, fully their Candor: which altho a &s;tain little Con&s;picuous
<PB N="16" REF="11"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s yet very dangerous; in <HI>Phy&s;icians</HI> for Ingenuity the comon &s;pur to Indu&s;try, the Parent of Skill, being <HI>languid</HI> in them; it mu&s;t only be by the favour of <HI>Artifice,</HI> and Popular Error, without any &s;olid worth, that &s;uch have thorow time (<HI>which vulgar opinion makes to ripen the mo&s;t in&s;ipid of them</HI>) &s;crambled up to any Eminency, and Enhaunced the Opinion of Experienced: But con&s;idering the fal&s;e bot+tomed Reputation of the&s;e <HI>Para&s;its</HI> to fame, is like fairie Money, which is brought in a night, and carried away the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ixt: no wonder if vulgar humor&punc; and applau&s;e that has &s;et them on the Tottering Pinacle of unmerited e&s;teem do as ea&s;ily, but far more ju&s;tly&punc; throw them down again. And indeed <HI>Philomath, I</HI> am tempted to tell you, that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hink true worth, as it &s;pares no Labour in acquiring, &s;o it &s;aves no Coa&s;t to welcome true Improvements: and is alwayes among the fir&s;t that &s;hakes hands with them. Whence it may be clear, that what ever <HI>benign a&s;pect</HI> &s;uch Di&s;coveries may carry to the World, yet if they bear in <HI>rever&s;e</HI> ought <HI>Malevolent</HI> to any Mans ill acquired E&s;teem, or private Intere&s;t, a cold welcome is to good, nay a very hot one they mu&s;t look for, from &s;uch Men: A clear evi|dence (among any others) of this, was the Quarrels, Contentions, &amp; Skirmi&s;hings, that aro&s;e about that meerly Theoretical Improvement the circulation of the Blood, And if it fare &s;o here, how will it go, if an u&s;eful and practical Improvement offer to &s;et up the Head, and the Devils Game, as well as Mans be marred or the&s;e Traps, or Snares that Precipitate Men into the Kingdom of Dark|ne&s;s, be in danger to be removed, by any Con&s;iderable Im|provement in the Cure of the&s;e Formidable Fevers: then well &s;ee, as Dr. <HI>Broun</HI> Intimats further in hi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Preface to his Book: <Q REND="inline">That the Serpentine Brood, which is &s;till big with Malice, and Envious of the good of Men, and and which was never more <HI>Dominant,</HI> than at this time,
<PB N="17" REF="11"> will ra&s;e all the Corners of the Infernal Pit, for Venom to be&s;patter &s;uch a Project, and its Advancers with.</Q> And &s;o the Intere&s;t both of Men and Devils being at the &s;take, and both being attack't by this Improvement in <HI>Medicine,</HI> no wonder (as the <HI>French</HI> King and <HI>Turk</HI> have done) That Men and Devils Confederat again&s;t their Common Enemie Practical Improvement in Medicine.</P>
<P>Now how far all this may be applyed to Dr. <HI>Broun</HI>'s oppo&s;ers, any that will be at the pains to con&s;ider both his and their Papers, may very ea&s;ily Judge: and if the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eby, they clearly under&s;tand, that in advancing one of the mo&s;t de&s;irable Concerns of Men, he is as pertinent and &s;olid in Rea&s;oning, than they to depre&s;s it, turning quite from the Subject, are pregnant in vile <HI>Railling</HI> and <HI>Cavel|ling,</HI> they will not hover long to give their Sentence.</P>
<P>After my former Letter emitted, and Publi&s;hed in his Vindication, and in An&s;wer to their Dialogue, and wherein the new Method was confirmed, by &s;everal Examples, it was thought Impertinency, was by &s;ound Rea&s;oning, &s;o da&s;hed out of Countenance, that it dur&s;t never appear any more on that Errand.</P>
<P>But&punc; <HI>2d.</HI> E&s;&s;ay, a great deal more Impertinent, and In|famous than the former, made all Spectators under&s;tand, that no Humane Rea&s;on can tame <HI>Devili&s;h In&s;olency,</HI> and that its as hard to check their &s;colding humors, as it was to Crub that br<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">zen <HI>Zantipes</HI> Vein, who&s;e unruly Member, after her Husband had &s;everal wayes (but all in vain) en|deavoured to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ame (&s;he &s;till calling him <HI>Lou&s;ie Rogue, Lou&s;ie Cuckold</HI>) at la&s;t he tryed her with ducking, but &s;he put|ting up both her hands, above the Water, and joyning the Nails of her Thumbs in a <HI>Crack-hou&s;e</HI> po&s;ture, &s;hewed how little &s;he was dantoned. Even &s;o the&s;e Men, when they are plunged over Head and E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rs, in the deri&s;ion of all &s;ober Men, &s;till attempt to give the mo&s;t ridiculous ven<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">
<PB N="18" REF="12"> to their Impertinent cha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t. And withall the mo&s;t favour|able Con&s;truction can be put upon their behavior &s;eems this: The&s;e <HI>Blacks</HI> being &s;uch a wa&s;pi&s;h venomous Kind o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Creatures, that when they are <HI>Irritate,</HI> (which is al|wayes upon the appearance of any good to the World) the Venome <HI>Ferments</HI> and <HI>Works</HI> &s;o within their Brea&s;ts, that it's ready to bur&s;t them, unle&s;s it break out with a <HI>Ratle</HI> at <HI>Railling Row:</HI> And notwith&s;tanding <HI>Philomathes</HI> of all the venemous Eructations, and Floods of Viper|&s;paun, di&s;gorged again&s;t Dr. <HI>Brown,</HI> by one of the&s;e <HI>Blacks,</HI> a bitter Viper: I heard &s;ay (which I think a very &s;trange <HI>Phinomenon,</HI> that the <HI>Paroxi&s;ms</HI> and fits u&s;e to be &s;o vio|lent in him &s;till, that he is forced to be keeped ela&s;ped in Iron Bands, for without the&s;e, his <HI>Fits,</HI> like <HI>Gunpou|der,</HI> would make &s;uch a &s;orrowful parting betwean poor Back and Brea&s;t, that the old &s;itten on Friends would ne|ver meet again, <HI>In &s;peculis contemplare teip&s;um, Sin de|formis id morum pen&s;ato pulchritudine: audito multa, &amp; loquere pauca.</HI></P>
<P>Mi&s;take me not <HI>Philomath,</HI> as if <HI>I</HI> intended, tran&s;gre&s;|&s;ing all humanity, to in&s;ult over any Mans Per&s;onal De|fects; no no, but being to &s;olve the <HI>Phenomena</HI> of his Wicked Actions, I am nece&s;&s;arily led to his Cur&s;ed Nature, which having undoubtedly depraved his Shape and Body that lodges it (a di&s;creet Gue&s;t indeed) no wonder it &s;pares nothing it falls in hands with; and inde<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d I am tempted to take the Liberty to tell you <HI>Philomath,</HI> as bodi|ly defects in my Opinion, lay a double Obligation on the Subject to Di&s;cretion and Vertue, and the vertue &s;uch, are endued with, not only gives a Proportionable Supply of their other Defects; but is al&s;o it &s;elf more Con&s;picuous, and renders the Per&s;on more Amiable, &s;o wicked <HI>Malice,</HI> making them ju&s;tly more <HI>Odious</HI> and <HI>Abominable;</HI> makes Rea&s;onably all their outward defects, more Remarkable,
<PB N="19" REF="12"> and that Common Saying, <HI>Cavendum ab his quos Deus &amp; natura notarunt,</HI> tho it may Ju&s;tly have &s;ometimes its ex|ceptions, yet I think without breach of Charity, I may be Confident this Subject is none of them; for that Viper, without any Provocation, but his Con&s;cience of hone&s;t Dr. <HI>Brown</HI>'s Ingenuity and Zeal for the Publick good (Which is <HI>I</HI> confe&s;s enough of Provocation to a malicious Brat) has by Printing, and all other wayes, imployed the utmo&s;t efforts of his Devili&s;h Malice again&s;t him; as may be &s;een thorow all the Clubs Papers, whereof the bit|tere&s;t and mo&s;t invective Pa&s;&s;ages are the <HI>Hi&s;&s;ings</HI> of this <HI>Viper,</HI> butekpecially may be &s;een in the account he gives of my <HI>Lord Crichtouns</HI> Ca&s;e, which like a venomous Serpent, in the pride of his Bunches, and Maje&s;ty of his Scales &s;et|ting up his bri&s;les, he fronts with this Malicious and Ve|nomous <HI>Hi&s;s.</HI> (the ba&s;ene&s;s of <HI>Dolphintouns</HI> temper) as if he intended the effect of his malice &s;hould not die with Dr. <HI>Brown</HI> him&s;elf, but &s;hould de&s;cend to his Heirs, who appearantly may have the De&s;ignation of <HI>Dolphinton</HI> after him: But as Dr. <HI>Brown</HI> may ju&s;tly glory in the Cau&s;e he &s;uffers for, &s;o may he do in the In&s;trument he &s;uffers by; and he will be highly unju&s;t both to his Cau&s;e and to Man|kind, if he do not acquaint the World, that their Calum|nies may have the le&s;s Impre&s;&s;ion, what kind of Crea|tures (Malice being indeed t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e highe&s;t degree of Ba&s;ene&s;s) the principal Adver&s;aries of his Cau&s;e only are.</P>
<P>But con&s;idering, that the Devil rages mo&s;t before he be ca&s;t out; this gives equally a pre&s;age of Dr. <HI>Brown</HI>'s &s;uc|ce&s;s, and makes the Efforts of his In&s;truments no wayes &s;trange, or unaccountable. And in &s;um Dr. <HI>Brown</HI> needs not grudge his Enemies &s;hould Commence the mo&s;tab&s;olute Ma&s;ters of <HI>Vile Railing,</HI> and <HI>Di&s;-ingenuous Cavelling,</HI> while he carries it in &s;olid Rea&s;oning, and &s;afe Curing Fe|vers, which hitherto have been &s;o di&s;mal to Mankind.
<PB N="20" REF="13"> But he may indeed Triumph, that all the&s;e <HI>Reproaches</HI> and <HI>Impertinencies</HI> ear &s;o clearly in rever&s;e his hardy attempt for the publick good, which the&s;e <HI>Black Doctors</HI> con&s;truct is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">, fir&s;t to <HI>Devils,</HI> and next to there Pettie, and private Intere&s;t. For any other grounds of their Calum|nio<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s Libells, he defies them to make appear,</P>
<P>Moreover to &s;how how &s;en&s;ible he is of the great bene|fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> this Enemies have done him, by their Printed and ver|bal Calumnies, who&s;e p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rver&s;ne&s;s, adding difficulty to his Enterprizes, rai&s;e the Honour of his Succe&s;s: and who&s;e Ignorance Characterizing their Authors his Oppo&s;ers, has for the mo&s;t part enclined the Judicious to his &s;ide: this favour, tho done far beyond their Inten&s;ion, he has mo&s;t gratefully remunerate, with another not a whit le&s;s be|neficial to them, but far more meritorious, as being de&s;ign|ed and Intentional, and that is, albeit they have named him with all the Names, and Nick-names they plea&s;ed, yet he has &s;till forborn to Name any of them, &s;ome thinks it's be|cau&s;e he is a&s;hamed of &s;uch antagoni&s;ts, but I rather think it's out of Pity; lea&s;t there &s;hould be a &s;tanding memori|al of their <HI>Rediculous Impertinencies</HI> and <HI>Folly,</HI> which would &s;o con&s;picuou&s;ly Blunder them, when their Embrac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|ing both his <HI>Theorie</HI> and <HI>Practice,</HI> becomes unavoidable, (as in all probability it &s;hortly will) that it might really <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ndanger them to hang them&s;elves.</P>
<P>But there is one of them that Iam truly &s;orry for, becau&s;e he ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> had the hard fate to prove &s;o Publick a <HI>Tool</HI> to ex|ecute the Malicious Contrivances of the more <HI>Politick</HI> pates of that <HI>Crew,</HI> that a Honourable retreat to him, is &s;carce Po&s;&s;ible: for that Man not being able to Con|tribute any of the lea&s;t pittance to that &s;tock of &s;orry will their <HI>Pamphlets</HI> are &s;tuffed with, was content for his part to Contribute his Pains to drudge at the Pre&s;s for the re&s;t: and al&s;o to do the Office, of the Coal-&s;te<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ller Bo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es, in
<PB N="21" REF="13"> di&s;per&s;ing their Malicious Papers: Alace, the <HI>Club</HI> has done with that <HI>poor &s;oul,</HI> as the willie <HI>Pug</HI> does with the <HI>Cat,</HI> with whole Feet he &s;capes his <HI>Che&s;nuts</HI> out of the Fire (and I believe the <HI>Monkey</HI> was handling the <HI>Cat</HI> of <HI>Sm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">|holm,</HI> &s;o when &s;he &s;pake wonders) and to Cool his burnt <HI>Paves,</HI> the Good-man of the <HI>Club,</HI> who had never any great Kindne&s;s for him before, (when he thought it not worth his pains to go him&s;elf, being in the mid&s;t of the Storm) &s;ent the <HI>Poor Singed Doctor</HI> a highland Journey for him, where he would get Snow-Water, but a <HI>Green Burn,</HI> like a <HI>Green Wound</HI> is half whole, behold the end, and that the <HI>Titling</HI> was not &s;ent along with the <HI>Go<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k,</HI> came from the Good|man's tender care of the poor <HI>Titling,</HI> who would have cer|tainly been lo&s;t in a wreath of Snow, if he had gone.</P>
<P>There is another effect their <HI>Pamphlets</HI> has had, which is very plea&s;ant, and it's this: The <HI>Apothecaries</HI> finding the <HI>Club</HI> had contrived their Papers &s;o abominably nau|&s;eous, that they would ea&s;ily turn many tender Stomachs begun to &s;u&s;pect the <HI>Club</HI> had a de&s;ign again&s;t their Trade, and that they might perhaps &s;erve their Patients with Vo|mitors, and Purges of &s;uch &s;tuff, giving them &s;o many Leaves out of one of their <HI>Pamphlets</HI> for a Do&s;e, according to their Con&s;titutions and De&s;ea&s;es. And this Jealou&s;ie was &s;o warm among the <HI>Apothecaries Boyes,</HI> that it had almo&s;t rai&s;ed them in a Tumult to have <HI>Rabled</HI> the <HI>Club.</HI></P>
<P>As on the one hand, the <HI>Black Drs. Scurilous Pamphlets does,</HI> in the Eyes of all Judicious Men, evince them the mo&s;t fooli&s;h and malicious of all Men, &s;o on the other other hand, when they come to any thing that's &s;erious, and offers to reach a hit at Dr. <HI>Brown</HI>'s new <HI>Theory</HI> or <HI>Practice,</HI> they di&s;cribe them&s;elves the mo&s;t Ignorant in the World: and therefore their la&s;t E&s;&s;ay was look't on as worthy of no other regard but Scorn and Contempt, yet becau&s;e the u&s;urped and fals bottomed <HI>Authority</HI> of a great
<PB N="22" REF="14"> many <HI>Senior Dunces,</HI> of that <HI>gang;</HI> who&s;e Credit lyes undoubtedly in Pand on this Plea, does amu&s;e the Igno|ant vulgar, who, perhaps making the far greate&s;t part of the World de&s;erve not a little to be Con&s;idered and Satis|fied, to the end that they may take better mea&s;ures where to repo&s;e the tru&s;t of &s;o great Concerns: Therefore it was not thought altogether Improper, to give a further and clearer Repre&s;entation of that <HI>Theory,</HI> and the piti|ful Rea&s;ons brought by the <HI>Learned Club</HI> again&s;t it.</P>
<P>How rediculous then are the&s;e Men by a few impertinent and incoherent A&s;&s;ertions, bearing in their Front only (it's certain) without any other proof, or evidence, and the&s;e &s;o mingled with bitter invictives that are able to quite choak the mo&s;t clear Rea&s;oning in the World. How ridiculous are they, I &s;ay, to attempt to overturn an <HI>Hypothe&s;is,</HI> not taken up <HI>gratis,</HI> but riveted and founded by a &s;olid Rea&s;oning on the mo&s;t part of the principal <HI>Phenomena</HI> occurring about the <HI>Aeconomie</HI> of Mans Bodie, and the&s;e &s;o clearly &s;olved thereby, and made &s;o nea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ly to quadrat therewith, as Dr. <HI>Brown's Theory</HI> of Fevers in his <HI>Schedule,</HI> &s;eems to have done; Indeed by their manner of Impugning it, they a&s;&s;ure the World, that they never under&s;tood it; for any that will be at the pains to Con&s;ider it clo&s;ely (what's in Debate being every mans near concern) will find it an <HI>Hypothe&s;is</HI> that's clear|ly demon&s;trat to include that <HI>Metaphy&s;ical</HI> Con&s;ideration, as being mo&s;t &s;uitable to the Perfection of the <HI>animal Aeco|nomie,</HI> and <HI>Mechani&s;m;</HI> and as &s;eeming exceedingly &s;uit|able to the de&s;ign of the <HI>Architeck,</HI> and an <HI>Hypothe&s;is,</HI> which has al&s;o its <HI>Parallel</HI> in other Actions of the <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">co|nomie,</HI> &s;uch as the contraction and delatation of the Pupil of the Eye, and in Actions from <HI>Irritation,</HI> commonly &s;o cled.</P>
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<P>An <HI>Hypothe&s;is</HI> that quadrats with the <HI>Compo&s;ition</HI> of the <HI>Blood,</HI> which is made up of many little <HI>G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">bules,</HI> who&s;e <HI>Number, Bulk</HI> or <HI>Figure</HI> may ea&s;ily be &s;uppo&s;ed to become vitiated.</P>
<P><HI>A Hypothe&s;is</HI> having the <HI>Concatnation</HI> of the <HI>Procatar|tick</HI> and <HI>external Cau&s;es</HI> of <HI>Fevers</HI> favouring it, &s;uch all wayes being apt to produce visco&s;ity and gro&s;ne&s;s in the <HI>Blood</HI> and <HI>Humors.</HI></P>
<P>An <HI>Hypothe&s;is</HI> that's founded in the Con&s;equences of that great, tho <HI>In&s;en&s;ible Evacuation</HI> of <HI>Per&s;piration</HI> l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ed, and in the <HI>Nature</HI> and <HI>Le&s;ion</HI> of <HI>Dige&s;tion</HI> of the Stomach; al&s;o both the frequent Cau&s;es of <HI>Vi&s;co&s;ity</HI> and <HI>Fevers.</HI></P>
<P>A <HI>Hypothe&s;is,</HI> by which are &s;olved clearly the natural <HI>Penomena</HI> in <HI>Fevers,</HI> &s;uch as <HI>Frequency</HI> of the <HI>Pul&s;ie, Heat, Inquietne&s;s, Pains, Anxieties, delirium,</HI> and <HI>Spots.</HI> Where, al&s;o the <HI>Phenomena</HI> of helpers in Fevers &s;tand clearly of its &s;ide, as fir&s;t Blooding, and the various <HI>Phenomena</HI> occuring about it, <HI>&s;olved conform thereto, and made to confirm it.</HI> As al&s;o that <HI>Magt&s;terial</HI> Remedy, of Purg|ing, Clearing and Confirming that <HI>Hypothe&s;is,</HI> with the u&s;e and benefit of the <HI>Paregorick,</HI> and <HI>quieting</HI> Medicine, <HI>Homologating</HI> the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Where al&s;o it is &s;hewed how the Benefit from <HI>volatile,</HI> and fixed Salts, and <HI>te&s;taceous Concrets,</HI> exceedingly <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">a|vours this <HI>Hypothe&s;is,</HI> and al&s;o how the benefit of <HI>Cup|ings Leiches</HI> and <HI>Frictions</HI> confirm it. A <HI>Hypothe&s;is</HI> which has cleared the hurt of the <HI>meer Diaphoretique method in Fevers,</HI> and where many other <HI>Phenomena</HI> of <HI>Hurters</HI> are fully &s;olved conform thereto.</P>
<P>Who&s;oever then &s;hall think that an <HI>Hypothe&s;is,</HI> more clearly founded than ever, I think any yet h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s been, in reference to that &s;ubject of Fevers, and which has never been Comprehended, or under&s;tood by them, far le&s;s Con|&s;idered or Expended &s;o, as to make them Capable to
<PB N="24" REF="15"> Impung it) &s;hould be overturned by the da&s;h of a few Impertinent I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> con&s;equential and Fal&s;e A&s;&s;ertions, con|cluding with all nothing, again&s;t the <HI>Hypothe&s;is,</HI> they may as well think <HI>Arthurs Seat</HI> will be overturned bya few Mol-hills ca&s;ten up therein, by the poor blind <HI>Moles,</HI> and this I think, will fall in nobodies head, but the&s;e that are fully as Ignorant, blind and <HI>Blocki&s;h,</HI> as the&s;e black <HI>Doctors.</HI> And now <HI>Phil.</HI> civility obliges me to u&s;her in what I am now to take up your time with, with a craving Par|don, knowing you can be&s;tow your minuts better than on &s;uch Tra&s;h: for no better Epithet can I give what they have &s;aid again&s;t Dr. <HI>Browns</HI> Theory, as you &s;hall ea&s;ily per|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eive, by and by, and is mentioned in the <HI>Page</HI> 13. and 14 of their An&s;wer.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> They &s;ay <HI>That every Part that is Contracted has an Inate faculty to perform that Action which is done, by the Influx of the Animal Spirits into the Fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">res.</HI> This will prove a direct Contradiction, an Action to depend on an <HI>Inate faculty</HI> of the Part, and yet to be done by the <HI>In|flux</HI> of the <HI>Animal Spirits,</HI> which are quite <HI>Extraneous</HI> thereto, and in a perpetual Flux, &s;eems clearly repugnant, and als ab&s;urd as to &s;ay, that a <HI>Miln-wheel</HI> hath an <HI>Inate Faculty</HI> to move about, which idon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e by the falling of the Water upon it.</P>
<P N="2">2. They &s;ay next, <HI>All Parts when delated do &s;uffer ever, violence from the Humors, and what els they contain,</HI> does the Dilatation of the Brain, or Brea&s;t come from vio|lence I pray, of what, yea does the heart it &s;elf &s;uffer vio|lence from the Blood. The&s;e Men are &s;o Giddy them&s;elves that they labour to turn all the Moderat and Benigne Mo|tions in Nature making Life, into reeling, violent, and Preter-natural ones, they are &s;o much in Love with Jar|ring, that they dream of nothing but Force and Di&s;cord.</P>
<P N="3">3. They &s;ay, <HI>That the ventri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">les of the heart are of the
<PB N="25" REF="15"> &s;ame &s;ubstance with the Inner coates of the Arteries and Veins</HI> (which is &s;carce &s;ence) <HI>and that they are &s;en&s;ible of Irritation, that the Dilatation of the Heart, the weight, the di&s;tention through e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">erve&s;cence of the Blood, doth Ir|ritate it:</HI> To &s;ay the Truth, this Principal of Irritation, which they mo&s;t fooli&s;hly make the Cau&s;e of the <HI>natural motion</HI> of the Heart, mu&s;t have its ri&s;e from that Irrita|tion rai&s;ed in them&s;elves, upon the appearance of Truth and Light, whereby, like men that have the <HI>Yellow Jan|dice,</HI> who think all things yellow, they think every thing Ir|ritate, when they are &s;o them&s;elves. And there is no doubt, if ye will ask them, ye will likewi&s;e find they fancy, that the Sun, Moon and Stars, and all other motions <HI>in the univer&s;e</HI> move from Irritation, yea, <HI>bark</HI> and <HI>Irr</HI> too when their <HI>Chimerical Hypothe&s;is</HI> is Impugned, and that the <HI>Harmony</HI> of the <HI>Spheres</HI> mu&s;t turn <HI>Jargon</HI> as well as the Heart for Company:</P>
<P>Now how Rediculous is this to any Per&s;on, but a little ac|quainted with <HI>Speculation,</HI> it being plain that the <HI>Contraction</HI> of the <HI>Mu&s;cles,</HI> is the more natural of the two Motions: For the Re&s;olution of the opo&s;ite <HI>Mu&s;cle</HI> is &s;till followed with the Contraction of the other, and the Heart being a <HI>Mu&s;cle,</HI> the <HI>Contraction</HI> thereof, rather than the <HI>Dilata|tion</HI> is a Natural Motion, and therefore does depend on no <HI>Irritation,</HI> but is the perpetual Law of the <HI>Aeconomy</HI> &s;ub|&s;ervient to the great end of Di&s;tribution of the nouri&s;h|ment to the whole: and is no more from <HI>Irritation</HI> than the like Conveyance of the Nutrition in <HI>Vegetables</HI> is. Would it not be brave <HI>Philo&s;ophy</HI> to &s;ay, the Sap goes from the Root of the Plant to the Branches by <HI>Irritation.</HI></P>
<P>And further the quanrity of Blood &s;quized into the Heart, &s;uppo&s;e a <HI>dram</HI> is as far from Irritating it, as a conveni|ent Portion of Meat received into the <HI>Stomack,</HI> which is not &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t out till after <HI>Dige&s;tion,</HI> but then by no Irritation.</P>
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<P>As al&s;o the <HI>Efferve&s;cence</HI> of the Blood either in a Natu|ral or preter-natural &s;tate is a &s;tale Error, rea&s;onably Exploded by Dr. <HI>Brown,</HI> according to the be&s;tnew Authors, as <HI>Blancard, Bohn, Brounerus, Charleton.</HI> And <HI>E&s;&s;er|vecence</HI> being an <HI>Inte&s;tine Commotion</HI> of the minute Parts of Bodies, which mo&s;t frequently, happens by <HI>Hetero|geneous mixtures.</HI> It can never be rea&s;onably &s;aid to be, but where the Sen&s;es di&s;cover it: pray with which of the Sen&s;es did e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">er the&s;e acute Drs. di&s;cover the &s;ame in the Blood: if all the World mu&s;t believe again&s;t their Sences with the&s;e &s;ubtile <HI>Doctors,</HI> pray let them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;her in <HI>Tran&s;ub&s;tantiation</HI> next, for they have broken the great But that kept it out.</P>
<P><HI>4ly,</HI> They &s;ay, <HI>This Irritation makes the Heart con|tract it &s;elf, without re&s;pect to a final Cau&s;e.</HI> This is a clear Repugnancy for all <HI>Irritations</HI> in the Parts, when they are, are <HI>Preter-natural</HI> Motions, from <HI>Preter-natural</HI> Cau&s;es, and are rai&s;ed to rid the Partes offended of the <HI>Irritating</HI> Marter, and here Nature may be &s;aid not very Improperly to Act for an end, yea, and if &s;uch an <HI>Irritation,</HI> as this were Competent to the Heart, in its Natural Mo|tion, it clearly implayes the like acting for an end, the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ne end quite di&s;tinct from that Implyed in Dr. <HI>Brown's Vin|dicatorie &s;chedule:</HI> for indeed their <HI>Hypothe&s;is</HI> obliges the Heart to throw out the Blood to be rid of it, as a <HI>Griev|ance,</HI> which is no &s;ooner done, than like <HI>Sy&s;iphus</HI> Labour maliciou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Nature &s;ends in another <HI>Da&s;h</HI> or <HI>Squirt</HI> to vex it, and this being perpetua<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> puts the Heart in a Continual <HI>Chaff</HI> at the poor <HI>Blood,</HI> which comes no &s;ooner into the <HI>Heart,</HI> but as a trouble&s;ome <HI>Gue&s;t,</HI> is immediatly thrown out into the <HI>Arteries, Irritating</HI> them likewi&s;e, which pre|&s;ently &s;ends it a packing into the <HI>Veins,</HI> which having als little Kindne&s;s for it are at <HI>Continual</HI> toil to &s;end it back again to the <HI>Heart,</HI> Where it gets als little re&s;t; One would
<PB N="27" REF="16"> think the <HI>poor Blood</HI> is followed with <HI>Hue</HI> and <HI>Cry,</HI> and that Nature is at a <HI>Fox hunting</HI> with it from <HI>Hill</HI> to <HI>Dail, back</HI> and <HI>forward,</HI> and at Death the <HI>Blood,</HI> having lo&s;t its <HI>Legs,</HI> is Catched: and &s;o the <HI>Game</HI> ends.</P>
<Q>Ri&s;um teneatis amici.</Q>
<P>But to be &s;erious about their <HI>Irritation</HI> and <HI>Vi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">lnce,</HI> there two principles of <HI>Natural</HI> Motion, <HI>I</HI> pray you <HI>Wit|ty Club,</HI> what violents the Heart to <HI>Dilatation</HI> and <HI>I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ri|tats</HI> it to <HI>Contraction,</HI> when it beats, being out of the Body of &s;ome <HI>Animals,</HI> without any Blood, coming in, or going out. This one In&s;tance, if they had read Dr. <HI>Brown</HI>'s Book with any more Attention than the Parats &s;peaks Words, would never have &s;uffered them to &s;lipt &s;o fouly. There offering to An&s;wer the Book being an A&s;&s;ir|mation that they have read it, I will not offer to Contradict it, as being loath to call them both Fools and Liars, but one of them they mu&s;t &s;urely be.</P>
<P>Next they &s;ay, <HI>That the Pul&s;e that &s;trickes the Finger, is nothing but the Dilatation of the Arteries, occa&s;ioned by the Contraction of the heart</HI> which is granted, <HI>Then they add, for</HI> Dr. Brown <HI>to &s;ay, that in a Fever, the Pul&s;es are more frequent, and yet to &s;ay the Circuit Mo|tion of the Blood is more &s;l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">w is great non-&s;en&s;e.</HI> O bruti&s;h Ignorance, for fir&s;t, this la&s;t A&s;&s;ertion is no wayes con&s;equen|tiall to the former, tho they bring it in Con&s;equence there|of; and next, any that con&s;iders the matter will find, the la&s;t A&s;&s;ertion a plain fal&s;hood for to &s;ay in a F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">, the Circuit Motions of the Blood is m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re &s;low, and yet the Pul&s;e more frequent, is al<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> good Sen&s;e, as to &s;ay, that the <HI>&s;troakes</HI> of a <HI>Pump</HI> may be doubled, and yet the Water come out more &s;lowly than at other times it does by &s;ingle <HI>&s;troaks.</HI></P>
<P>And this <HI>Phenomenon</HI> in the Pump is obvious to the Sen&s;es, with its Cau&s;e, for if either the Liquor <HI>Pumpe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> be
<PB N="28" REF="17"> more <HI>vi&s;cuous,</HI> or if the <HI>Top-hole</HI> be not clear, the fre|quent agitation of the <HI>Pump</HI> will pour out le&s;s Liquor than the moderat working thereof, when the Liquor is &s;uffici|ently tenuious and thin, and the Top-hole clear. As al&s;o the &s;hort and thick &s;troaks of a <HI>Pump</HI> pours out le&s;s Wat|er then long and rare &s;troaks do; even &s;o the Pul&s;e of the Heart and Arteries, altho more than u&s;ual frequent, may convey le&s;s Blood into the Veins, when the Blood it &s;elf is more gro&s;s, or the Pa&s;&s;ages betwixt them ob&s;tructed, or not &s;ufficiently Patent: then a le&s;&s;er frequency of the Pul&s;e does, when the Blood, or Pa&s;&s;ages are not under the&s;e Faults. And it's clear that the <HI>Pul&s;e</HI> is le&s;s frequent in health, becau&s;e, after the <HI>Arteries</HI> by their Dilatation have beat the touch they are <HI>Contracted</HI> very near their Centre, and do expel into the Veins almo&s;t all the Contained Blood, &s;o, in the &s;ub&s;equent <HI>Dilatation,</HI> as moving more &s;pace, <HI>viz.</HI> From the <HI>Centre</HI> to the <HI>Circum<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erence,</HI> they mo&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity take more time to Dilate, and Con&s;equently &s;eldomer beat the touch, than in the Ca&s;e where the Blood is with difficulty admitted from the <HI>Arteries,</HI> into the <HI>Veins,</HI> becau&s;e then they Contract Le&s;s, much of the Contained Blood remaining, hinders their Coats from com|ing &s;o near their Centre, as in the former Ca&s;e, and &s;o their Terms or Bounds of Contraction and Dilatation be|ing near, they are moved from the Bound of their Contrac|tion, unto the bound of their <HI>Dilatation,</HI> &amp; &s;trick the Touch &s;ooner, and in le&s;s time, &amp; &s;o the &s;pace betwixt every Pul&s;e is Commen&s;urat by, and proportionat to the greater or le&s;ser Contraction, a great <HI>Contraction</HI> making &s;till a rare <HI>Pul&s;e,</HI> and a le&s;&s;er, a frequent one: And a clear re&s;em|blance of this is &s;een in <HI>Re&s;piration,</HI> which in the Natural mode is more &s;low, and more Aire received into the Lungs, and more expelled at every turn of Re&s;piration, and then the Brea&s;t al&s;o Dilated and Contracted more, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n in fre|quent
<PB N="29" REF="17"> and &s;hort <HI>Re&s;piration,</HI> where le&s;s Air is received, and le&s;s expelled at every turn, and the Brea&s;t al&s;o le&s;s Di|lated and Cnntracted: much like the former <HI>Phenomenon,</HI> in the <HI>Pump,</HI> where &s;hort &amp; thick &s;trokes poureth out le&s;s Wa|ter, than long and rare ones do. And in the Motion of the Blood, the <HI>Heart</HI> furni&s;hes the quantity to the <HI>Ar|teries,</HI> in proportion only, as the <HI>Arteries</HI> are Emptied into the Veins, which in the Natural State, when the Circuit Motion is perfotmed <HI>Vegetly,</HI> may be a <HI>Dram</HI> or more, but when that Motion is <HI>Torpid</HI> and <HI>Lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tering,</HI> and the Blood with difficulty pa&s;&s;es from the <HI>Arteries</HI> into the <HI>Veins,</HI> the Heart at every <HI>Pul&s;e</HI> conveyes &s;o much Blood into the <HI>Arteries</HI> only, as they by emptying them&s;elves in|to the Veins have made room for, which may &s;ometimes be very little; for in <HI>Agonizing</HI> or <HI>Expiring</HI> Per&s;ons, where the <HI>Pul&s;e</HI> beats the Touch with the greate&s;t frequency imaginable, it's becau&s;e the <HI>Contraction</HI> is &s;o little and <HI>con|&s;equently</HI> the blood &s;quized out of the <HI>Arteries,</HI> &s;o very little, that the <HI>Dilatation</HI> is again immediately felt on the Touch: and this is &s;o frequent, that it is rather called a <HI>Tremulous</HI> Motion of the <HI>Arteries,</HI> than a di&s;tinct <HI>Pul&s;e</HI> con&s;i&s;ting of &s;en&s;ible <HI>Contraction</HI> and <HI>Dilatation,</HI> But ac|cording to the <HI>Hypothe&s;is</HI> of the <HI>Grand Club,</HI> the Blood &s;hould then <HI>Circulat</HI> more <HI>rapidly,</HI> than which there can be no thing invented more <HI>Ridiculous.</HI></P>
<P>In Con&s;equence of all, by the leave of that <HI>Learned Crew</HI> of <HI>Ignorant Black Doctors,</HI> it's very good Sen&s;e, and Rea&s;on both to &s;ay&punc; that the frequenter the Pul&s;e beats, the Circuit Motion of the Blood may not only be more &s;low, but al&s;o, by the multitude of the <HI>Phenomena</HI> before men|tioned, &s;olved by Dr. <HI>Brown,</HI> confirming this <HI>Hypothe&s;is,</HI> is proven actually to be more &s;low&punc; And al&s;o by the &s;ame Leave, it may not be impertinent to alledge, &s;ince Nature does not accelerat Motion in Vain, That, that <HI>Frequency,</HI>
<PB N="30" REF="18"> be&s;ide what is illu&s;trat before, is excited al&s;o, to overcome the &s;lowne&s;s and re&s;i&s;tance betwixt the <HI>Arteries</HI> and <HI>Veins,</HI> as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> at more length held forth by Dr <HI>Brown</HI> in <HI>his Sch<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">dule.</HI> And how the <HI>Progre&s;s</HI> and <HI>Circulation</HI> of the blood is made thorow all he <HI>Meanders</HI> and <HI>Narrow windings,</HI> be|twixt the <HI>Arteries</HI> and <HI>Veins,</HI> and that in &s;o &s;hort a time as Nature requires it in the <HI>Natural State</HI> to <HI>Circle</HI> about (which according to Dr. <HI>Lower,</HI> is le&s;s than the 6th part of an hour) is very wonderful and <HI>difficult</HI> to conceive; and without very much <HI>Elevating</HI> and Ab&s;tracting our thoughts we can &s;carce have any Satisfaction of it: and therfore the Circulation of the blood was oppo&s;ed by many, becau&s;e they thought it impo&s;&s;ible; but to &s;upperadd to that <HI>&s;tu|penduous</HI> Motion, &s;o inconceivable a <HI>Propertie,</HI> or <HI>accident,</HI> as an <HI>Augmentation</HI> or <HI>Increa&s;e,</HI> the mind mu&s;t &s;uffer &s;trange <HI>Torture</HI> and <HI>Rack,</HI> to Comprehend it: but how ea&s;ily may that Motion be conceived to be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">mini&s;hed.</P>
<P>It was indeed the Inconceivablene&s;s of the <HI>Rapidity</HI> of the Suns motion by the common <HI>Hypothe&s;is,</HI> which made <HI>Copernicus</HI> fix the Sun and &s;end the <HI>Earth</HI> a <HI>Rambling</HI> about it: By which all the <HI>Phenomena</HI> were als-wel &s;olved, and a more comprehen&s;ible and &s;atisfieing <HI>Notion</HI> of the Motion e&s;tabli&s;hed to the boot: But the&s;e blacks make &s;o much Noi&s;e with their Bable, of Rapidity, Violence, and <HI>Irritation,</HI> that cert<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">inly they will fright <HI>Phaetions</HI> Hor&s;es whom <HI>Copernicus</HI> had quietly &s;tabled up, and &s;end them a <HI>packing</HI> again about the World, and then they mu&s;t fetch <HI>Vul|can</HI> to nail down the Earth to its fixed Centure again, for if the <HI>Sun</HI> and <HI>Earth</HI> come to &s;houlder others in their <HI>Orbs,</HI> they may give a <HI>terrible Jolt.</HI> And if the <HI>Rapidity</HI> of the <HI>Suns</HI> motion be inconceiveable &s;till let the Sun look to that, as well as the Blood.</P>
<P>And with all &s;uch a <HI>Fals Notion</HI> as this of the <HI>Circula|tion</HI> of the <HI>Blood</HI> augmented does not &s;tay heer as being a
<PB N="31" REF="18"> meer <HI>Theoretical Error</HI> and of no further purport: But <HI>Alace</HI> it puts the <HI>Artie&s;t</HI> in his practice upon the mo&s;t dangerous mea&s;ures, and <HI>Precipitates</HI> him into the mo&s;t Fatal Errors, as impelling him to put <HI>Clogs</HI> and <HI>Barrs</HI> on that motion, wherein con&s;i&s;ts Life, often already too much <HI>Loittering</HI> and <HI>Fetterred.</HI> And is as <HI>pernicious</HI> as it would be <HI>Rediculous</HI> to &s;ee the&s;e witty <HI>Doctors</HI> load a Hor&s;e that can &s;carce go Empty, for fear of his running away.</P>
<P>Moreover, as Dr. <HI>Broun</HI> has ob&s;erved in the Preface to his Book, this Circulation of the Blood did &s;trangely lie in the dark for many Ages, and was long oppo&s;ed, becau&s;e it was thought impo&s;&s;ible, (what then would the&s;e oppo&s;ers have &s;aid to hear its augmented now) and al&s;o it was oppo&s;ed by others, becau&s;e altho it &s;eemed to Illu&s;trate the <HI>Theorie</HI> of <HI>Medecine,</HI> yet it made no improvement in the practice thereof.</P>
<P>But now by this <HI>Theorie</HI> of Dr. <HI>Brouns,</HI> that noble di&s;|coverie is not only <HI>Confirmed,</HI> and not everted (as the&s;e men throgh the Gro&s;&s;e&s;t mi&s;take ignorantly a&s;&s;ert) but al&s;o is delivered from that reproach of <HI>u&s;ele&s;s.</HI> For he clearly does evince this motion of the Blood <HI>Dimini&s;hed,</HI> and its &s;lowne&s;s depending upon the <HI>Gro&s;ne&s;s,</HI> to be the neare&s;t Cau&s;e, if not of mo&s;t di&s;ea&s;es, yet <HI>of Continual Fevers:</HI> And further &s;ince he has &s;howen by what <HI>Complication</HI> and <HI>Concatenation</HI> of other Cau&s;es, this neare&s;t Cau&s;e by <HI>O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|der</HI> or <HI>Congre&s;s</HI> is fomented: How many &s;olid and fruitful <HI>Indications,</HI> altogether for merly lying in the Dark, may there be drawn from thence: E&s;pecially &s;eing we may be furni&s;hed with &s;ufficient means to &s;atisfie the&s;e <HI>Indica|tions:</HI> And that either by <HI>Correcting; Intercepting,</HI> or <HI>Eradicating the&s;e Cau&s;es,</HI> being de&s;tinctly known. And &s;o this <HI>Theorie</HI> &s;eemes not only to be clear in it &s;elf, but al&s;o leads to the <HI>Practical Improvement</HI> of the <HI>Circulation</HI> of the <HI>Blood:</HI> And notwith&s;tanding all the applau&s;e the <HI>Circulation of</HI> the <HI>Blood,</HI> has de&s;ervedly met with in the
<PB N="32" REF="19"> World, this <HI>Theorie</HI> is as much preferable to it, as the be&s;t <HI>Practical Improvement</HI> is preferable to a meer <HI>Theore|tical</HI> one, and in con&s;equence every mans <HI>Demerit</HI> In rela|tion to the <HI>Advancing and Oppo&s;ing</HI> this mo&s;t <HI>Plau&s;ible</HI> and <HI>&V;&s;eful Theorie</HI> of Dr. <HI>Brouns,</HI> mu&s;t be <HI>Commen&s;urable</HI> according to the value, it will really be found to be of.</P>
<P>As for the re&s;t of their <HI>A&s;&s;ertions,</HI> viz, That <HI>it's alwayes a received Opinion that heat in Fevers is the effect of rapid motion of the Blood.</HI> Many of the be&s;t Authors, as <HI>Silvius, Willes Paracelsus</HI> and <HI>Helmont,</HI> &amp;c. Attribute it to other cau&s;es, and albeit it had been a Commonly received Opinion, does that hinder but that it may be a <HI>Vulgar Er|ror,</HI> and as they do not attaque, one of Dr. <HI>Broun</HI>'s rea|&s;ons again&s;t it, &s;o they do not bring one for it: Then they make a digre&s;&s;ion into the cau&s;e of hea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> in an <HI>Inflammation,</HI> In handling of which they fir&s;t &s;ay, <HI>that the Blood is then Extrava&s;ated,</HI> and immediatly they &s;ay, <HI>that the Ateries are di&s;tended therewith,</HI> pray let them reconcile the&s;e. And next they &s;ay, <HI>The quantity of Blood is the cau&s;e of heat in an Inflamation,</HI> then which there can be nothing more fal&s;e, for in an, <HI>Anewri&s;ma,</HI> which is a bag of <HI>Arterial, Blood</HI> with a continual <HI>Pul&s;ation,</HI> and the part has far more Blood then an <HI>Inflammation</HI> or an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Aeri&s;ipelas,</HI> but far le&s;s heat: Yea none at all beyond the re&s;t of the Skin.</P>
<P>And in fine their whole Chat for rea&s;oning I cannot call it is &s;o <HI>pitiful</HI> and impertinent and nothing conclu&s;ive, that it appears they not only want the &s;ence to lay down any plau&s;ible <HI>Hipothe&s;is</HI> of their own, but that they never have Con&s;idered, Traced, nor Expended Dr. <HI>Broun</HI>'s Con|clu&s;ions: Far le&s;s can it be expected they will confute them: Which, albeit they had been fal&s;e, could not have been di|&s;tinctly done but in a Book at lea&s;t three times as big as his, yet this curtaleing Club pretends to do it in le&s;s than one Leafe.</P>
<PB N="33" REF="19">
<P>As to what the <HI>Black Drs,</HI> alledge <HI>there is nothing an|&s;wered to the&s;e matters of Fact, wherewith Dr&punc;</HI> Broun <HI>&s;tands Branded in their Dialogue I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI>'s an&s;wered fir&s;t, that the <HI>Black Mouth'd</HI> Dis. Tongues are no <HI>Slander:</HI> Next it &s;eems the heat of <HI>Black</HI>'s Furie has drained his <HI>Common &s;en&s;e</HI> and Rea&s;on, for did not my former Letter tell him that their <HI>Dialogue</HI> contained nothing but <HI>Lies, Cavells</HI> and <HI>Calumnies:</HI> How come they now to ask what an&s;wer can be given to them. It &s;eems the&s;e <HI>Black</HI>'s has as little Skill in <HI>Common &s;ence,</HI> as in <HI>Phy&s;ick.</HI> For &s;ince the&s;e Slan|ders were denyed, they &s;hould in the <HI>2d,</HI> P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mphlet have brought their proof and witne&s;s, &s;ince <HI>Philander</HI>'s denyal is a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> good as either Fool <HI>Sanders,</HI> or Fool <HI>Mathews</HI> Affirmation.</P>
<P>That where the Black &s;ayes, &s;ince Dr, <HI>Brown &s;ubjected his Book to the con&s;ideration of all Ingenuous and Faithful Phy&s;icians, now he has got the Sentiments of &s;ome of them little to his Satisfaction.</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, who gives <HI>Black</HI> this Te&s;timony but him&s;elf, and dare &s;uch Rogues Arrogate that name that dare not appear but in Ma&s;querade. The&s;e Cen&s;urers for all their di&s;gui&s;e will be found out by their &s;ent to be no better than &s;ome piece of flat, <HI>Corum Bobus</HI> or viper riden Fopp, and &s;ome ill natur'd <HI>Brate,</HI> whom God and Nature has not made &s;o <HI>Ridiculous</HI> as his <HI>Serpentine Viperi&s;h</HI> Humor has made <HI>Ignominious:</HI> And their Opinions of it is &s;o much to Dr. <HI>Browns</HI> &s;atisfaction, that he would never have been well &s;atisfied with his Book&punc; if the&s;e &s;illy and ill hewen peces had not been mad at it. But ask what te&s;ti|mony Dr. <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> and Dr, <HI>B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e</HI> gave of the Book, to many famous witne&s;&s;es, who yet can bea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Te&s;timony of it, and who&s;e Names <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> cou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d ea&s;ily mention; but I &s;uppo&s;e the&s;e Phy&s;icians will minch yet nothing of what was their Sentiments of it. Not that <HI>I</HI> mention this to <HI>E&s;tabli&s;h</HI> any more Reputation
<PB N="34" REF="20"> to Dr, <HI>Browns</HI> Book, then every reader &s;hall be convinced is due to it, none having the power to <HI>Monopolize</HI> all mens Judgments, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o great a Fool is <HI>Black</HI> to attempt it.</P>
<P>As for the&s;e pa&s;&s;ages mentioned in their Dialogue and taken out of Dr, <HI>Browns</HI> Schedule, and called either non|&s;ence or Contradiction; It's an&s;wered Dr, <HI>Black</HI> has here proven very hone&s;t, and appears in his true Jugling Nature for any that will be at the pains to compare the&s;e pa&s;&s;ages with Dr, <HI>Brouns</HI> Book will find, that the mo&s;t part of them are wrong <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> down or Courtailled, all of them, the threed and Cohe-rence of the di&s;cour&s;e br<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ken and interrupted.</P>
<P>And for that one &s;entence concerning acutene&s;s, which is taxed of non&s;ence Dr. <HI>Brown</HI> has his end, when they break their Shines on it, for when he is &s;peaking of acutne&s;s nece&s;&s;ary in a Phy&s;ician, he thought fit to wrap up the mat|ter in a littly ob&s;curity to be a <HI>Touch&s;tone for a &s;ufficient acu|men,</HI> and &s;o tho&s;e Blocks having de&s;ervedly &s;tumbled on it, is a clear conce&s;&s;ion they are <HI>Incapable</HI> to penetrate far greater my&s;teries, and with<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l there are &s;uch manife&s;t Con|tradictions in their Dialogue, that he that runs may read (for indeed few will &s;tay long to read it) This one I &s;hall among many others name, fir&s;t they repre&s;ent Dr. <HI>Brown</HI> &s;uch a &s;tranger to learning, that he has never piped beyond the Title pages of Books, and a little after, they repre&s;ent him to have &s;tollen his Book out of ten or twelve of the be&s;t <HI>Phi&s;iological Authors</HI> in Phy&s;ick.&mdash;. Dialogue page.</P>
<P>As to what the <HI>Black Dr&punc;</HI> &s;ayes <HI>that his old method approved by thou&s;ands for many hundreds of years, &s;hould not be overturned to e&s;tabli&s;h a new one with &s;uch manife&s;t Contradiction.</HI> Now <HI>Black</HI> &s;peaks like him&s;elf, a down right <HI>&s;itten on brate</HI> in Medicine that will allow no <HI>advance</HI> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Improvement</HI> therein for hundreds of years, But, how ever long his method has been u&s;ed, it has been &s;urely very little &s;ucce<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ful, e&s;pecially &s;ince I was any thing
<PB N="35" REF="20"> capable to make ob&s;ervation about things, and about three years agoe as I remember there was a <HI>Phy&s;ician</HI> in town Con|fe&s;&s;ed that of 30 Patients he had that year of <HI>Fevers,</HI> only two of them recovered. And if <HI>Black</HI> deny this, there will be a li&s;t of their Names gotten and publ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;hed, and at that &s;ame time fevers treated by the new method were all happily Cured.</P>
<P>And tho <HI>Fevers</HI> be not now &s;o frequent as then, per|haps many of them being frighted away or <HI>Metamorpho&s;ed</HI> into other &s;hapes, becau&s;e of this Civil war among Phy&s;icians, yet it, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> very plain, that to di&s;ea&s;es formerly called <HI>Fevers,</HI> our Phy&s;icians now give the n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of <HI>Surfeits, Colds, Rheu|m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tismes,</HI> Feveri&s;h fitts, and I do not know what But what effect this is like to have ye may judge by this &s;tory, ane <HI>Apothecary</HI> came to a <HI>Dr,</HI> with a great complaint, &s;aying their Trade would be all ruined, for their Patients and Friends, &s;aid they could take no thing the <HI>Phy&s;ician</HI> had pre|&s;cribed him, for they told the <HI>Phy&s;ician</HI> mi&s;took their Di&s;ea&s;e, becau&s;e when they were &s;ure it was a Fever he called it they do not know what.</P>
<P>And indeed <HI>Philom</HI> all ordinary Fevers are als well known, and their Intention and remi&s;&s;ion, to any intelli|gent <HI>Patient</HI> or by &s;tander as to a <HI>Phy&s;ician:</HI> And that by their &s;en&s;ible &s;ymptoms, &s;uch <HI>as Heat, Drought, Pain</HI> of the <HI>Back,</HI> or <HI>Head,</HI> a Frequent pul&s;e, and <HI>mo&s;t part</HI> &s;udden in|va&s;ion of the De&s;ea&s;e, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Tho in &s;ome <HI>Fevers</HI> that are called <HI>Malignant,</HI> the ordinary &s;ymptoms are <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i|ther mild or ab&s;ent, or bears no proportion, here the <HI>Phy&s;ician</HI> has only the priveledge to be <HI>&V;mpire</HI> and &s;ole arbitrator: But where ever he u&s;urp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> over Peoples &s;en&s;es and rea&s;on, all he gain<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> is to become him&s;elf redi|culous. Yea &s;ome Phy&s;icians lately in Town, profe&s;t Enemies to this Method, having cured Fevers by the &s;ame, but un|der the name of another De&s;ea&s;e, when the Patient after he was recovered, heard what the Drs. called his Di&s;ea&s;e,
<PB N="36" REF="21"> he was almo&s;t frighted into the Fever again. thinking what a danger he had been in, when his <HI>Phy&s;ician</HI> mi&s;-tooke his Di&s;ea&s;e, but at length the <HI>Apothicary</HI> came, and Cured him, by telling him the <HI>Knack</HI> how after this manner they concealed the new Cure of Fevers.</P>
<P>Where the <HI>Black Dr.</HI> &s;ayes, <HI>there are only</HI> 2 or 3. <HI>Young Phy&s;icians that follow, or favour that new Practic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f Curing Fevers.</HI> It may be An&s;wer<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d, that there are more that favour it, than follow it, perchance hindered by a too &s;er|vil Veneration to Elder <HI>Phy&s;icians,</HI> (that is more for fear of their ill than any hope of their good,) who perhaps may get that wo, like the Phari&s;ees, for neither following it them&s;elves, nor &s;uffering others, and the&s;e that now owne it, having done it, before ever they knew Dr. <HI>Brown,</HI> did equally manife&s;t their accompl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ht <HI>Sagacity,</HI> in their being among the fir&s;t that perceived, and de&s;cryed <HI>Improve|ments,</HI> and their <HI>Ingenuity,</HI> that for no <HI>Ba&s;e</HI> and <HI>By-ends,</HI> nor <HI>Slavi&s;h Veneration</HI> can be brought to pa&s;s over, or ne|glect them, and further the&s;e, tho young in Years are capable to give good proof both by this, and their other Know|ledge, that they are <HI>Mature</HI> in accomp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;hments, far be|yond the&s;e <HI>Duarf &s;hits,</HI> and <HI>&s;itten</HI> on Brats in Medi|cine, who have made no advancement therein, in Propor|tion to their Age; And that Dr. <HI>Brown</HI>'s Enemies mu&s;t be &s;uch a <HI>Fry,</HI> appears by their ill natur'd Papers, <HI>Dwarfs</HI> and <HI>Elfs</HI> being &s;till the mo&s;t Cur&s;ed Creatures in the World.</P>
<P>The <HI>Black</HI> Dr. Moreover &s;ayes, that <HI>it's not rea&s;onable to believe all the&s;e Per&s;ons In&s;tanced by me in my former Letter had Fevers, &s;ince Dr.</HI> Brown <HI>had the Impudence to call that a Fever, which two of the mo&s;t eminent Phy&s;icians in</HI> Edinburgh <HI>&s;aid was none; what will he then &s;ay, where he is &s;ole Phi&s;ician.</HI></P>
<P>It's An&s;wered, if by <HI>Eminent,</HI> they mean &s;uch as carry
<PB N="37" REF="21"> that re&s;pect to other <HI>Phy&s;icians,</HI> that the <HI>Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">klofts</HI> and <HI>Garrets</HI> do to Hou&s;es which a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e alwayes wor&s;t furni&s;ht, or which (like the Weather-Cock above the Churches) &s;erve only to tell how the Winds of fame <HI>Blow.</HI> It's ea&s;ily gran<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ed, that &s;uch <HI>Eminencies</HI> may &s;ta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e them&s;elves in that Oppo|&s;ition to him, either ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of <HI>De&s;ign, M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lice,</HI> or <HI>Ignorance.</HI></P>
<P>But &s;ince there is no Per&s;ons, or Ca&s;e named, Dr. <HI>Brown</HI> is not concerned to do it: but if any other will do it. I hope there may, for the good of the World, be given &s;uch a clear Repre&s;entation of the matter, as giv<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ng every man his due, will lend &s;uch a <HI>blow</HI> to their <HI>Eminencie,</HI> that b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ying their <HI>hone&s;tie</HI> in its <HI>ruine,</HI> there will &s;ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ce be left them als much a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to &s;wear by.</P>
<P>And withall the <HI>Black Doctor</HI> &s;ayes, <HI>he could, were it not for fear to give Offence to their Relations, name a Counter|li&s;t of the&s;e that have died under Dr. Brown's new method.</HI></P>
<P>Thanks to Dr. <HI>Black</HI> for his tenderne&s;s, after he has <HI>Glutted</HI> him&s;elf with all <HI>Malicious</HI> and vile <HI>Calumnies,</HI> and <HI>Reproaches,</HI> wherein Per&s;ons of Honour and good Credit were concerned and named. It &s;eems now he has &s;ome remor&s;e, and is in a fit of Tenderne&s;s, and &s;tands at Offence, he that &s;o frankly ju&s;t now dealt about Inju<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ies; and which is more a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Offence from a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> unknown hand: when the Devil. (Oh, I mean the Fox) begins to preach, have a care of the Lambs: <HI>Black</HI> is not &s;o de&s;peratly wicked, but he can put on a vi&s;age of Tenderne&s;s to &s;erve a greater De|&s;ign: but I think it were greater Tenderne&s;s, and more Dr. <HI>Black</HI>'s Intere&s;t too, by &s;uch a Counter-li&s;t to have alayed the grief rai&s;ed in the&s;e, who have had their Friends dead under his Methods, upon their &s;eing &s;o much probability, they might have been Cu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ed, if they h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d been treated by Dr. <HI>Brown's</HI> new Method, and that at a far greater Co&s;t, than &s;uch a <HI>Ridiculous</HI> and <HI>Chimerical</HI> Tenderne&s;s: but the Truth is, any &s;uch Li&s;t being not only Impo&s;&s;ible to be
<PB N="38" REF="22"> but there being fines, &s;everal that can be added to the Li&s;t of the&s;e Cured, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fter the New Method, they are for|ced to Palliat &amp; &s;mother the matter after this Ridiculous <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">anner, and if it could be given, as the giving of it in this Ca&s;e, could not ea&s;ily offend any Man, &s;o it would be a con&s;iderable Service to the World, and prove a mo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e Solid and Convincing Evidence for the <HI>Club,</HI> than all they have either &s;aid&punc; or can &s;ay: there pretended <HI>Chimerical</HI> Tenderne&s;s then, is not only Cruelty to the whole World, but, which none but the highe&s;t degree of Fools can be guilty of, Cruelty to them&s;elves: and therefore whether they be not in this pretence, either Lyars, or Fools, or both, let the World Judge.</P>
<P>It's here to be Con&s;idered, that altho this Method of Curing Fevers has proven as yet &s;o exceeding &s;uccesful, that prai&s;e to the <HI>Author</HI> of all Gifts and Di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">coveries, Dr. <HI>Brown,</HI> and others has for &s;everal ye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rs practi&s;ed it &s;o &s;uc|cesfully, that there has &s;carce any died under it: yet it can|not be thought Infallible, or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o &s;ure that it will never mi&s;|carry, for there may be &s;uch Compl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cation of other Di&s;|tempers with the Fever, that &s;ometimes may evacuat the Effect: yet I think we may <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ay of it, as <HI>Donkers</HI> in the <HI>ob&s;.</HI> 32, of his Book <HI>de febre Petechiali</HI> &s;ayes of a Method very like this, which he u&s;ed &s;o very &s;uccesfully, that &s;carce any died under it, he thinks it will a|gree to <HI>all Fevers,</HI> whether <HI>Epidemical</HI> or <HI>Malignant,</HI> which <HI>Te&s;timony</HI> of his was mo&s;t <HI>Learnedly</HI> Confuted by <HI>one</HI> of the <HI>Eminencies</HI> of the <HI>Club,</HI> who, upon hearing of it <HI>Magi&s;terially</HI> &s;aid, he did not much regard the <HI>En|gli&s;h Phy&s;icians,</HI> who were one thing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o day, and another to Morrow: while in the mean time this <HI>Donkers</HI> is a <HI>German,</HI> and a <HI>Phy&s;ician</HI> a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Cologne&punc;</HI></P>
<P>And albeit the <HI>Cardinal Point</HI> of this Method of Dr. <HI>Sydenhams</HI> be Purging, yet its folly to think, but there
<PB N="39" REF="22"> is great Art, and Dexteri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y to be u&s;ed in the management thereof, the Q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">antity, Quality, the Ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e, and Repe|tition of the Purgative, which being u&s;ed either within, or without the due bounds, and mea&s;ure, proves alwayus u&s;ele&s;s or noxious:</P>
<P>So that the <HI>Objection</HI> of the <HI>Grand Club,</HI> that every <HI>Apothecaries B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">y</HI> knows to do it, is <HI>Frivolous</HI> and <HI>Ignorant:</HI> yea, and if <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uch a Method could be found out, that every <HI>Apothecary's Boy</HI> could u&s;e, it were a rich di&s;covery: and therefore their Argument tells likewi&s;e, they are no ways of <HI>Generous</HI> or <HI>Publick Spirits,</HI> but <HI>Mean, Ba&s;e</HI> and &s;el|fi&s;h <HI>Per&s;ons.</HI></P>
<P>And now <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hilom,</HI> I think, I have run over the greate&s;t part of their <HI>Learned</HI> mi&s;taken <HI>An&s;wer</HI> to my fir&s;t Letter, (pa&s;&s;ing by the P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">le of di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">orged Viper Spa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n and fopred, for rakeing therein might rai&s;e &s;teem<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> very noxious to you) and &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">wn that they have brought nothing again&s;t Dr. <HI>Brown,</HI> but plain <HI>Cavils. Calumnies,</HI> and <HI>Foppries,</HI> and indeed that which they O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ject in the la&s;t place conce<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ning his Education, &s;avours rank of their <HI>Innate Ignorance:</HI> for they &s;uppo&s;e no Man can be toll<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ra|bly qualified, in <HI>Medicine,</HI> unle&s;s he be Bred at a forraign <HI>&V;n ver&s;ity.</HI> I pray you <HI>Club,</HI> what Univer&s;ities were <HI>Hypocrates, Galen, Cel&s;us,</HI> and many of the Antients bred at: and do you not know, that &s;everal of the mo&s;t accom|pli&s;ht <HI>Phy&s;icians</HI> in <HI>England</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ere never out of their own Country, &s;uch as <HI>Sydenham, Willes,</HI> &amp;c. And that &s;everal of the mo&s;t expert Lawyers in our own Nation &s;tudi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d at home. Pray, did you ever read <HI>Hypocrates</HI> his <HI>Lex,</HI> where he tells&punc; that there are <HI>Nomine multi, re ver&ograve; pauci medici:</HI> and he makes the chief condition, and means of I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;titution, to be Indu&s;try and Education from a Child in the Practice. And indeed Dr. <HI>Brown</HI> being Educat in that Studie, and Practice from his Child-hood near 30
<PB N="40" REF="23"> <HI>Years</HI> time, there is no body will doubt, but this <HI>c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">teri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> paribus</HI> might he a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s good a mean for his acompli&s;hment i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> a practice &s;uitable to the <HI>genius</HI> of the <HI>Countrey,</HI> as any breeding at a foraign <HI>univer&s;ity,</HI> for a &s;hort time would be&punc;</P>
<P>A. to what they object in further per&s;uance of their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> concerning Dr. <HI>Brown</HI>'s receiving Degrees at <HI>Aber|deen</HI></P>
<P>It's An&s;wered, fir&s;t, the receiving Degrees, in Me|dicine in any place, is very far from being a Te&s;timo|ny, or proof, of any Mans accompli&s;hment: and is always given abroad <HI>periculo peten<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">s,</HI> to the greate&s;t <HI>Dunces</HI> that w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">l pay for it: And to prove this, can there be greater <HI>Blocks</HI> in the World than the <HI>Black Club</HI> (as their Pa|pers do bear Witne&s;s) who are all Foraign <HI>Graduat Doc|tors:</HI> and has learned no thing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">broad, but to Parat it to the Vulgar, after their r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">turn, in the <HI>Gibbri&s;h</HI> of <HI>Ju&s;ti|tutions, D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;s<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ctions, Cour&s;es</HI> of <HI>Chimi&s;try, Colledges</HI> of <HI>Medicine</HI> they learned abroad, and yet they never con|ned the A, B, C. of true and &s;olid Knowledge.</P>
<P>N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">xt it's the greate&s;t Impertinency Imaginable to di&s;|parage Dr. <HI>Brown</HI> with receiving his Degrees at <HI>Aberdeen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> where there is a <HI>Prof<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">r</HI> of <HI>Medicine,</HI> for, be&s;ides that &s;e|veral of the con&s;iderable Members of the Colledge of <HI>Phy|&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">ns</HI> at <HI>London</HI> have received their Degrees there, can any <HI>Scots</HI> man doubt but the dignitie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> or Honours flowing from the Soveraign<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">y of our own Nation, are much prefer|ab<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e to the&s;e Conferred by a <HI>Forraign,</HI> as is clear in <HI>Knight <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">od, N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bility,</HI> and who ever d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iparaged a <HI>Doctor</HI> of <HI>Divinity,</HI> becau&s;e he was Graduat within the Nation.</P>
<P>But with all (a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;eem the <HI>Black,</HI> do not know &s;o much, albeit they be mo&s;t of them Members of this Col|ledge) the Sover<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">gnity of this Nation ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> by the Patent given to the <HI>Colledge</HI> of <HI>Phy&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ians</HI> at <HI>Edinburgh,</HI> annex+ed a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rivilege to the&s;e Graduat within the Countrey be|yond
<PB N="41" REF="23"> any <HI>Graduat</HI> abroad; and that is, they are <HI>ip&s;o facto</HI> free, and licentiat in the <HI>Colledge,</HI> without any <HI>Tryal</HI> or <HI>Compo&s;ition;</HI> to all which the&s;e Graduat abroad art lyable, and what is this, but to hire us to be wi&s;e, and to incour|age dome&s;tick projects of Vertue, and Improvement, which the&s;e <HI>Blacks,</HI> as Enemies to Mankind in general, and to our National Improvement in Particular attempt to di&s;courage and as the <HI>State</HI> has mo&s;t ju&s;tly given in|couragement to <HI>Dome&s;tick</HI> Graduation; So it were in my Opinion, the great happine&s;s of the Nation, becau&s;e, great|ly tending to the Improvement of Medicine here, that Convenient Incouragement were given for the &s;tudy, and In&s;titution of <HI>Medicine</HI> within the Kingdom al&s;o; for thereby there would not only be &s;aved a great deal of Mo|ney that is Yearly &s;pent in the Breeding of <HI>Phy&s;icians</HI> a|broad; but al&s;o Students would be thereby better <HI>acom|pli&s;ht</HI> and <HI>Educat</HI> in the <HI>Practi&s;e</HI> &s;uitable to the <HI>Complexi|on</HI> of the Nation, and <HI>Temper</HI> of the <HI>Climat;</HI> and the De&s;ea&s;es, and Cures proper to the <HI>Genius</HI> of the Coun|try would become &s;ooner familiar to them: for young <HI>Phy&s;icians</HI> bred abroad, return often very raw in <HI>Medi|cine,</HI> and alwayes quite &s;trangers to the <HI>Genuine</HI> Practi&s;e of this Country.</P>
<P>And &s;o <HI>Philom.</HI> every thinking Man may ea&s;ily Collect, that the only proper expedient to redeem the Nation from the&s;e Inconveniencies, and to promote the Advantages above-mentioned, were to Erect within the <HI>Kingdom</HI> a Profe&s;&s;ion of <HI>Medicine,</HI> with <HI>Ho&s;pitals</HI> for the Sick, &s;ub|&s;ervient thereto.</P>
<P>And as Dr. <HI>Brown</HI> has done all in him lay to rai&s;e Do|me&s;tick Improvement and Vertue by his <HI>Graduation</HI> at home, &s;o he has given a farther evidence of a publick <HI>Temper,</HI> by his being very Zealous to project that other National benefit of <HI>Dome&s;tick Improvement,</HI> the &s;tudy in
<PB N="42" REF="24"> Medicine al&s;o at home: for he did not only prudently choice &s;uch a Patron to his Book, who (him&s;elf, and his Son having a con&s;iderabl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> po&s;t in the State) &s;eemed qua|lified to lend the Project a Lift: and to whom, as <HI>Patron</HI> he might have more freedom, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd acce&s;s <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">o repre&s;ent, or negotiat it: but al&s;o he gave in to his Lo. a &s;cheme of the Project in Writ, mentioning withal the retrival of (as Dr. <HI>Brown</HI> judges) Ane appo&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> Fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">d to &s;u&s;tain the Charge thereof; and as his very generous <HI>Maecenas</HI> at that time was plea&s;ed to look upon the O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erture, as not altogether contemptible: &s;o it's not to be doubted, but after more ma|ture deliberation, his Lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> will in that affair di&s;charge the Office of a true <HI>Patriot</HI> of his <HI>Countrey.</HI> And this Pa&s;&s;age <HI>I</HI> mention <HI>Philomath,</HI> not only as directly falling in my way, but more e&s;pecially, becau&s;e Dr. <HI>Brwn</HI>'s Enemies have been &s;o Impudent, as to traduce his Temper, and de|&s;igns, and Mi&s;. repre&s;ent him &s;trangely, al&s;o in the&s;e; But now <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oeal to all the World, if ever any <HI>Phy&s;ician</HI> in the Nation, (not to &s;peak of that Degenerous and Malicious Crew his Enemies,) gave &s;uch Te&s;timony of Publick|&s;piritedne&s;s, as this one pa&s;&s;age (not to mention any more) clearly Imports he has done.</P>
<P>To return to our Purpo&s;e <HI>Philom.</HI> and to touch the <HI>De|finition</HI> of a <HI>Fever,</HI> which the <HI>Black Club</HI> de&s;iderat in Dr. <HI>Brown</HI>'s Book: They e&s;&s;ay to give none them&s;elves, as be|ing like Ignorant <HI>bunglers,</HI> far better in throwing down other Mens Work than building them&s;elves; but how <HI>nonlen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">efi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">al</HI> a doubt is this: ju&s;t as one that had read both the <HI>Black Doctors <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">amphlets</HI> &s;hould ask for a Di&s;cription of the <HI>Black D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ctor,</HI> for as he is therein drawn to the Life, an Ignorant F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">. and malicious Br<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">te: So almo&s;t all Dr. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 words"> Book is &s;pent in explaining the <HI>Nature</HI> and, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> of Fevers, who&s;e varietie being <HI>Indefi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">te,</HI> accord|ing to the various <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition</HI> of the <HI>Impellent</HI> and <HI>Princi|ple
<PB N="43" REF="24"> of the Motion,</HI> the various <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition</HI> of the <HI>moveable Matter,</HI> w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ither <HI>Solid</HI> or <HI>Fluid,</HI> and of the <HI>Pa&s;&s;ages</HI> throw which the <HI>Motion</HI> is made: that variety, <HI>I</HI> &s;ay, cannot al|low us to have a <HI>clear Idea</HI> of them, be brought under &s;uch narrow bounds as <HI>a Definition:</HI> but is rather the Subject mater of a <HI>Scheme:</HI> which Dr. <HI>Brown</HI> has e&s;&s;ayed to draw in his Book.</P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 words"> <HI>Sign</HI> of a <HI>Fever</HI> commonly called <HI>Pathognomick</HI> be the <HI>frequency</HI> of the <HI>Pul&s;e.</HI> yet in &s;ome that are un|que&s;tionably <HI>Fevers,</HI> the <HI>Pul&s;e</HI> is not frequent, which <HI>I</HI> &s;u&s;pect may be &s;olved thus. Albeit the <HI>Blood circulat</HI> as &s;lowly in the&s;e as it does where the <HI>Pul&s;e</HI> is more <HI>fre|quent&punc;</HI> and <HI>con&s;equently</HI> the <HI>Contraction</HI> and <HI>Dilatation</HI> of the <HI>Arteries,</HI> are but of the &s;ame <HI>Extent,</HI> as when the <HI>Pul&s;e</HI> is <HI>frequent,</HI> yet becau&s;e the <HI>Velocitie</HI> and &s;wiftne&s;s of the <HI>Contraction,</HI> and <HI>Dilatotion</HI> is al&s;o le&s;ed; and they become <HI>Langui&s;hing</HI> and <HI>&s;low;</HI> there may be als much time &s;pent in that le&s;&s;er <HI>Contraction</HI> and <HI>Dilatation,</HI> and in <HI>Con|&s;equence,</HI> the <HI>Pul&s;e</HI> beat a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">om on the Touch, as it does in health, where it moves with it's due <HI>velocitie,</HI> and &s;o here the <HI>Velocity</HI> of the <HI>Contraction</HI> and <HI>Dilatation</HI> &s;eems le&s;ed, as well as the <HI>extent,</HI> of them, In Con&s;equence, I think this <HI>Di&s;cription</HI> of a <HI>Fever</HI> not Improper.</P>
<P>A <HI>Fever is an univer&s;al d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">fficult Circulation of the blood and Humors, throw their gro&s;ne&s;s, and ob&s;truction of the Pa&s;&s;ages, having &s;everal</HI> Phenomena, <HI>as immediate effects, and others mediat from the efforts of the Impellent or fir&s;t mover for redintegration of their motion, which is excited by the Impre&s;&s;ions the&s;e Immediat effects make on the Im|pellent, as frequency of the Pul&s;e and other orga&s;mes.</HI></P>
<P>A <HI>Fever</HI> has no <HI>Pathognomick Sign omni,</HI> it has a <HI>Pa|the gnomick Sign &s;oli,</HI> that's a frequent <HI>Pul&s;e:</HI> and where that is wanting, the pre&s;ent &s;tate of the <HI>Bloods Circulation</HI> is Collected from a <HI>Syndrome,</HI> or <HI>Concur&s;e</HI> of Cau&s;es <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word">
<PB N="44" REF="25"> to produce that gro&s;ne&s;s of the Blood; the Cau&s;e of def|ficult <HI>Circulation;</HI> and from the pre&s;ence of the u&s;ual <HI>Con|comitants</HI> of &s;uch a <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition,</HI> and from the other <HI>Phe|nomena</HI> that as <HI>Irrdiations</HI> and <HI>Beams</HI> are darted from &s;uch a <HI>Di&s;po&s;ition:</HI> all which are more largely held forth by Dr. <HI>Brown</HI> in his Book.</P>
<P>Now if any would be &s;atisfied to have a de&s;cription of <HI>Dr, Blacks</HI> Nature from his <HI>Phenomena,</HI> if <HI>Ho|race</HI> who certainly was no wayes prejudicated his <HI>De&s;crip|tion</HI> of the man may be tru&s;ted, take it as he gives it <HI>Lib; 1, Saty, 4, Line,</HI> 81.</P>
<Q><L>&mdash;<HI>Ab&s;entemqui rodit amicum,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Qui non defendit Alio Culpante: &s;olutos</HI></L>
<L><HI>Qui captat ri&s;us hominum Famam&abque; dicacis</HI></L>
<L><HI>Fingere qui non vi&s;a pote&s;t: Commi&s;&s;a tacere</HI></L>
<L><HI>Qui nequit: hic niger e&s;t, hunc tu Romane Caveto</HI></L></Q>
<P>Engli&s;hed becau&s;e perhaps the <HI>Blacks</HI> under&s;tand Latine als little as they doe Greek.</P>
<Q><L><HI>Who hone&s;t men reviles behind their Backs,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And ne're defends them, he dots on &s;en&s;elels Knacks</HI></L>
<L><HI>A publick Railer; loves to break a Je&s;t;</HI></L>
<L><HI>And to be merry-andro at a Fea&s;t.</HI></L>
<L><HI>Tells all he hears, and adds a great deal more</HI></L>
<L><HI>Which ne'r were &s;een or ev'r heard before,</HI></L>
<L><HI>My Countrey men beware of</HI> Dr, <HI>Black</HI></L>
<L><HI>A Bruti&s;h crew, an Ignorant Devili&s;h pack,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Ther &s;narling Barking tells they'r Black mouth'd Dogs,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Their Cavelling quirking tells they'r Ignorant Rogues.</HI></L></Q>
<P>who ever de&s;ires a &s;hort and ea&s;y way, that the meane&s;t Capacity may know a <HI>Black</HI> by; take this.</P>
<L><HI>Would you a Black clearly di&s;cern</HI></L>
<L><HI>If Dr,</HI> Brown <HI>but meet him,</HI></L>
<L>Black <HI>looks on him &s;o cruel &s;tern</HI></L>
<L><HI>As truely he would eat him.</HI></L>
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<P>And to confirm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> all take al&s;o <HI>Hipocrates</HI> the mo&s;t wi&s;e of all <HI>Phi&s;icians</HI> his Sentiments, in his Book <HI>De Arte,</HI> Where he &s;ayes who&s;oever endeavours with <HI>Artifice</HI> of <HI>Indi&s;creet</HI> and <HI>Di&s;hone&s;t</HI> words to di&s;grace and abu&s;e the <HI>Di&s;coveries</HI> and <HI>Inventions</HI> of others, neither Endeavors to amend them, but traduces them before the <HI>&V;nlearned,</HI> He &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ms incapable to be e&s;teemed <HI>prudent,</HI> and betrayes his <HI>Malicions Nature</HI> and <HI>Ignorance.</HI></P>
<P>But lea&s;t I be thought to leave this <HI>Malice riden Crew</HI> in Wrath, (their number as well as their Condition de&s;erve|ing pitty) I think it better to take a charitable farewel, and to leave them with a whole&s;ome and &s;ound advice, provid|ing they be capable to follow it; and its a pre&s;cription of which if they can but get the right Ingredients, and make right up, it will quickly Cure their <HI>Di&s;tempers</HI> and mi|&s;eries e&s;pecially their <HI>Ignorance.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Take of Limpid and &s;marte&s;t Men&s;truum of</HI> Natural Acutene&s;s, <HI>as much as ye can get the more the better</HI> <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>That which cannot very ea&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ly penetrate the prelumina|ries of Dr,</HI> Brouns <HI>Schedule, e&s;pecially that paragraph in the fir&s;t Section concerning Acute|ne&s;s, is quite dull and naught. * Not the volal<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ie for that is naught, this Salt mu&s;t be made after the manner pre&s;crived in the fir&s;t Sects of Dr,</HI> Browns <HI>Schedule. * The&s;e mu&s;t be gathered and prepared after the manner in the 2d,</HI> Sect, <HI>of Dr,</HI> Browns <HI>Schedule.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Impregnat this</HI> Men&s;truum <HI>with a &s;ufficient quantity of</HI> the fix|ed &s;alt <HI>of true &s;ence of the Phy&s;icians duty and</HI> obligation <HI>lying on</HI> him to accomplishment * <HI>theu add unto this</HI> Men&s;truum, <HI>thus impregnat als much as will be proportionat to the quantity of the</HI> Men&s;truum <HI>of</HI> &s;erious Indu&s;trie <HI>con&s;tant Labour and in|qui&s;itive &s;earch,</HI> * then &s;eal the ve&s;&s;el with the Hermetical Seal of the Phi&s;icians &s;eque<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ration from other <HI>Imployes</HI> or <HI>Diver&s;ions&punc;</HI> And &s;et it in the <HI>Balneo</HI> of <HI>Speculation,</HI> let the <HI>Balneum</HI> be &s;till keeped warm with the <HI>Con&s;tant</HI> heat of &s;erious and <HI>Intent</HI> Application of the mind till the <HI>Men&s;truum Extract</HI> a <HI>Tincture</HI> that looks <HI>Brown,</HI> if it
<PB N="46" REF="26"> look <HI>Black</HI> all is &s;poilled, it will be of a <HI>Corro&s;ive Poi&s;onous</HI> Nature: then <HI>Filter</HI> the <HI>Tinctur</HI> throw the <HI>Filter</HI> of dili|gent Ob&s;ervation and &s;o ye will have an <HI>Excellent Elixir Philo&s;ophorum</HI> called <HI>Medicinal Prudence,</HI> which ye may <HI>Aromatize pro renata</HI> when ye come to u&s;e it with &s;ome <HI>Guttes</HI> or <HI>Graines</HI> of Per&s;onal <HI>Prudence</HI> to make it more <HI>Palatable</HI> and <HI>Pa&s;&s;ing.</HI></P>
<P>The vertues of the <HI>Elixir Prudentioe medicoe.</HI></P>
<P>It Cures all <HI>Reeling meg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">m&punc; Giddine&s;s</HI> in <HI>Phy&s;icians,</HI> all <HI>Deliriums,</HI> and <HI>Ravings,</HI> yea <HI>Madne&s;s</HI> it &s;elf, if it be not natural, or from bad <HI>Conformation</HI> of the Parts.</P>
<P>Its excellent to clear their <HI>&s;ight,</HI> helping all fauits of the eyes, e&s;pecially <HI>Suffu&s;ions;</HI> yea, it Cures Infallibly that mo&s;t dangerous and <HI>Epidemical</HI> Di&s;ea&s;e in <HI>Phy&s;icians,</HI> the <HI>Gutta Serena,</HI> where the Orgains &s;eem <HI>Intainted</HI> and <HI>Sound</HI> to the Spectators, yet there is nothing but <HI>Darkne&s;s</HI> and <HI>Blindne&s;s</HI> within.</P>
<P>It's good in all de&s;ea&s;es from <HI>Venome</HI> and <HI>Viper &s;paun,</HI> and <HI>Malignant</HI> Humors, e&s;pecially again&s;t their <HI>Parox<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;ms</HI> and <HI>Fermentations,</HI> when being &s;tirsed up, they cau&s;e ex|ce&s;ive bel&s;hing out of poy&s;onous Eructations, not with|&s;tanding whereof, they are in hazard to bur&s;t the Body of the <HI>Patient,</HI> and obliges him &s;till to be Cla&s;ped in <HI>Ir<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">n-Bands</HI> and <HI>Fetters,</HI> like a <HI>Malefactor.</HI></P>
<P>It's good again&s;t all <HI>Stupidity</HI> and <HI>Fopi&s;hne&s;s in phi|&s;icans,</HI> cutting all <HI>Snotty vi&s;cuous humors,</HI> purge&punc; out all Fopred that dulls their Brains.</P>
<P>It's good for all <HI>Rickityne&s;s, Dwar&s;ing</HI> and <HI>Sitting</HI> on in <HI>Phy&s;icians,</HI> making them advance more in on year then they would otherwi&s;e do in Twenty, or Thirty.</P>
<P>It's good for overflowing of the <HI>Gall</HI> and <HI>Heart-burn|ing,</HI> for all <HI>Chollerick De&s;ea&s;es,</HI> the <HI>Black</HI> and <HI>Yellow Jaundice,</HI> which make all things appear wrong to th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">m.</P>
<P>It's good al&s;o for the <HI>Apetitus Caninus</HI> in <HI>Phy&s;icians,</HI> which makes them d<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">or<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ix times a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s much Imployment
<PB N="47" REF="26"> as they are able to disge&s;t or dispatch, which is a di&s;ea&s;e ordina<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ly incident to the&s;e that are <HI>Duarft,</HI> and <HI>&s;itten</HI> one in Medecine.</P>
<P>I &s;hould have al&s;o given them a cure for ther Malice and wickedne&s;s: but that &s;eems to be a Devil that cannot be ca&s;t out wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hout Fa&s;ting and Prayer, therefore I mu&s;t leave it to the Church-men.</P>
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<HEAD>The Publi&s;hers Adverti&s;ement to the <HI>Reader.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Whereas the <HI>Black Doctor</HI> &s;ayes he will An&s;wer Dr. <HI>Brown</HI> no more which if he doe not, and be als good as his Word, I'l &s;wear that it's the fir&s;t time that a <HI>Skitti&s;h</HI> Jade after being &s;o touched in the Quick, did not both Fling and F&mdash;t. too.</P>
<P>If Dr, <HI>Black</HI>'s back be <HI>Galled</HI> with whipping and Smart I have an extraordinary <HI>Anodine Bal&s;ome</HI> of <HI>Con&s;olation</HI> to give him and its this.</P>
<Q>De&s;ine Flere niger nondum pro viribus egit.</Q>
<P>Dr. <HI>Brown,</HI></P>
<L><HI>solace</HI> thy &s;elf, weep not <HI>Poor Sorry Black;</HI></L>
<L>For <HI>Brown</HI> has not yet open'd half his <HI>Pack.</HI></L>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<ITEM>P 13. l. 2. for &s;ide, 1. &s;ides 16. d. to.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Ibid.</HI> l. 13. &amp; 14. f. Iamalmo&s;tina 1. <HI>I</HI> am almo&s;t in a</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>ibid</HI> l. 19. for &s;hameimu&s;t 1. &s;hame mu&s;t</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>p.</HI> 15. l, 16. f. encounterfit 1. counterfit</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>ibid.</HI> l. 25. for advaners 1. advancers</ITEM>
<ITEM>p. 16. l. g. f. fair 1, farie</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>ibid.</HI> l. 23. for any 1. many</ITEM>
<ITEM>p. 17. l. 1. f. rac 1. rake</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>ibid.</HI> l. 13. f. than 1. as</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>ibid.</HI> l. 31. f. Crackhou&s;e 1. Crack-lou&s;e</ITEM>
<ITEM>P. 19. l. 12. f. but e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;pecially 1. e&s;pecially</ITEM>
<ITEM>P. 20. l. 31. f. will 1. wit</ITEM>
<ITEM>P. 21. l. 3. f. &s;capes 1. Scrapes</ITEM>
<ITEM>P. 22. l. ult for cled. 1. Called</ITEM>
<ITEM>P. 23. l. 5. for Concatnation 1. Concatenation</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>ibid.</HI> l. 15. f. Penomena. 1. Phenomena</ITEM>
<ITEM>P. 24. l. 23. f. idone 1. is done</ITEM>
<ITEM>P. 26. l. 13. for bur 1. bar.</ITEM>
<ITEM>P. 27: l. 6. f. violne 1. violence</ITEM>
<ITEM>P. 30. l. 25. f. Phaetoins 1. Phaetons</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>ibid.</HI> l. 28. f. Centure 1. Centres</ITEM>
<ITEM>P. 33. l. 22. f. &s;ent. 1. Scent.</ITEM>
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