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<P>&PSgr;&Ogr;&Ngr; &THgr; &Ogr;&Ngr; &PHgr; &Agr;&Ngr;&khgr;&Iacugr;&Agr;&punc; OR, A Quintuple Ro&s;ie-crucian SCOURGE For the due Correction of that P&s;eudo|chymi&s;t and Scurrilous Emperick, <HI>Geo. Thom&s;on.</HI></P>
<P>Being in part a Vindication of the Learned Society of Phy&s;itians.</P>
<P>By <HI>J. Heydon</HI> Gent. <Q LANG="grc">&phgr;&igr;&lgr;&ogr;&ngr;&ogr;&mgr;&ogragr;&sgr;</Q>, A Servant of God, and Secreta|ry of Nature.</P>
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<BIBL>Menand. Cyril. adv. Julian. lib. 7.</BIBL></Q>
<Q LANG="lat">Dura nimis e&s;t ingenuae cum meretrice conte&s;tatio.</Q>
<Q><L>For Fools that Rave and Rage, not knowing why;</L>
<L>A <HI>SCOURGE</HI> is far more fit, then a <HI>REPLY!</HI></L></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI> Printed <HI>Anno Domini,</HI> 1665.</P>
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<HEAD>&PSgr;&Ogr;&Ngr; &THgr; &Ogr;&Ngr; &PHgr; &Agr;&Ngr;&khgr;&Iacugr;&Agr;&punc; OR, A Quintuple Ro&s;ie-crucian Scourge, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>WIthout either Preface, Proeme or Exordium, my bu&s;ine&s;s at the pre&s;ent is to deal with one <HI>G. Thom&s;on,</HI> a grand Empyrick and P&s;eudo-Chymi&s;t; and although I was not ea&s;ily inclined to match my hate &s;o low, and therefore have pa&s;&s;ed by his provoca|tions in his former inveterate and malicious Pamphlets, yet le&s;t it &s;hould be &s;aid that no man dur&s;t become the Colledges Champion, and take this wild Boar by the Tusks, I was at length re&s;olv'd (with Gods a&s;&s;i&s;tance) to cha&s;ti&s;e and correct his impudent and in&s;olent attempts upon the Honour of that Learned Society, and other Learned Galeni&s;ts and Chymi&s;ts, of which venerable and va&s;t number, I mu&s;t acknowledge my &s;elf <HI>minimus.</HI></P>
<P>And indeed when I con&s;ider'd that this Son of the fifth of <HI>November,</HI> hath done no<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hing but made Squibs and Crackers, and great Noi&s;es; thereby taking occa&s;ion to ventilate his Spleen and Gall, he having no other way (it &s;eems) left him to di&s;po&s;e of that black and helli&s;h Furniture of his <HI>Hibernian</HI> Soul; (his feminine &s;ufferer being long &s;ince departed, that principally u&s;ed to &s;hare therein) I began to que&s;tion &s;ome|times with my &s;elf, whether there were any need to acquaint the world with the impudence and folly of &s;o worthle&s;s a fellow. But &s;ince he hath been plea&s;ed not only to &s;peak proud words, and make great Brags; but to fall upon me al&s;o, by the final letter of my Chri&s;tian name, and initiall of my Sirname; and having fir&s;t abu&s;ed me otherwi&s;e in his unju&s;t pretence to Chy|mi&s;try, <HI>viz.</HI> in pilfering what he glories in from my &s;everal works extant, and re-baptizing my Medicines into other names, and thence adopting them his own Bratts: whereas his dull brains never travell'd with &s;uch admirable and u&s;eful
<PB N="2" REF="3">di&s;coveries; I having for many years la&s;t pa&s;t been an In&s;tru|cter of many Nobles and Peers not only of this, but other Na|tions, in the my&s;teries of Chymi&s;try and the Hermetique Philo|&s;ophy; of which the world, and my many elaborate Pieces pub|li&s;hed, are eminent and con&s;picuous Evidences. The&s;e things (I &s;ay) con&s;idered, I hold my &s;elf in point of Honour concern|ed to become my own Compurgator; although it be by the full anatomizing of this bold Brute in good manners, and Mo&s;s|trooper in true Chymi&s;try.</P>
<P>Now whereas he pretends him&s;elf a Doctor in Phy&s;ick, he mu&s;t give me leave to deny it: and my Negation I will fortifie by the &s;everal Rea&s;ons and Arguments following.
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<ITEM>1. By his own acknowledgment he was but a Chyrurgions Prentice at the fir&s;t; by which opportunity he conveniently became acquainted with a few conjuring terms, and hard words, which ignorant people believe can proceed from none but a Doctor! but I mu&s;t tell them, every loud noi&s;e is not Thun|der; nor is a Chyrurgion a Doctor, although many (in favour of the Art, and for its dependency upon, and neer relation to, Learning) have given that re&s;pective Epithete to &s;ome of his Profe&s;&s;ion; neither did ever any ingenious Arti&s;t accept of that Title as his own merit, but as the re&s;pect of his Friend that af|forded it him, though Mr. <HI>Th.</HI> wi&s;er then the wi&s;e&s;t of them, arrogantly writes him&s;elf Doctor.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. If he be a Doctor, he mu&s;t proceed &s;o, either of Merit, or Grace; of Merit it cannot be, becau&s;e he never was of proper &s;tanding for it, in an Univer&s;ity; and if it was of Grace, let him tell us where it was? and when? and who it was that pre|&s;ented him? and for what? and then we &s;hall be able to judge of the matter better.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. It &s;eems improbable, that he &s;hould receive &s;uch honour from any Univer&s;ity; becau&s;e they commonly prefer Per&s;ons meritorious; and &s;weat them to ob&s;erve and pre&s;erve the ho|nour of Learning, and Learned men: But this man in&s;tead of that, makes it his main bu&s;ine&s;s to &s;trike at the root of the one, and ruine of the other. <HI>Ergo,</HI> no true qualified Doctor.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. If he be a Doctor (as it appears he hath a months mind to be, by his writings) certainly he had &s;uch a creation, as an impudent Vintue: (who pretended him&s;elf a Preacher) had Or|dination;
<PB N="3" REF="3"><HI>viz.</HI> from a Captain of a Ship: who being a year or two accu&s;tomed to the profaning of the Pulpit, refu&s;ed at la&s;t to take to his Profe&s;&s;ion again; deeming the &s;aid Captains Ordi|nation good enough; as without doubt it was, for &s;o un&s;ancti|fied a fellow. Indeed many &s;uch Hedge-Doctors and Helli&s;h Preachers we have now adays; the fir&s;t &s;erving to glut the Grave with murthered carca&s;es, the other to &s;end Souls to Perdition.</ITEM>
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<P>But to pa&s;s by his Doctor&s;hip (for if he will needs be a Doctor, let him be one: I'll not trouble his Title, if he let but Me, and my Friends e&s;cape his Pills) I come in the next place to con&s;ider his late idle Pamphlet.</P>
<P N="1">1. Whereas he boldly vaunts of his <HI>Loimologia;</HI> I a&s;&s;ert there is nothing in it (I mean worthy) that is not taken out of my <HI>Theomagia,</HI> or <HI>Temple of Wi&s;dom,</HI> in the &s;econd and fourth p<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rts thereof, as any that plea&s;e may read: but I have not (I confe&s;s) taught him to throw dirt in the face of Phy&s;icians, ei|ther there or any where el&s;e; that mu&s;t therefore be an impu|dent Addition of his own. And whereas he entitles that Pam|phlet of Plagiari&s;m, <HI>Loimologia;</HI> and Engli&s;hes it, a Con&s;olato|ry Advice, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> [which is right Bear-garden tran&s;lation:] He might more truely have called it, &Asmogr;&pgr;&tgr;&agr;&lgr;&ogr;&ggr;&aacugr;, or a delu&s;ory de|vice; his impudent aim therein, being onely to pick up a few beggarly pence out of the Pockets of poor people, by per&s;wa|ding them that he is more knowing then a grave and long conti|nued Society of Learned and experienced men in the Art of Me|dicine: never all this while con&s;idering how impo&s;&s;ible it is in rea&s;on, for a pittiful Dwarf to throw off a Giants Cap.</P>
<P N="2">2. For his commending of his own Antidotes and Pre&s;erva|tives, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> I would fain know of him, if there be &s;o much vertue and power in them, and this by him under&s;tood; What is the rea|&s;on that him&s;elf did not prove the truth thereof, in the fortify|ing of his own Phlegmatique body, before he adventured to di&s;&s;ect the Corps of a Patient (that as I heat, <HI>non ob&s;tante</HI> his quacking skill, dyed under his Butcherly hands) but was forc'd (like other ignorants) from that undertaking, to fall a Sacrifice to &s;ickne&s;s, and to his own confidence and &s;hame together?&mdash;If he knew the preparation of my <HI>Tinctura Polycaea</HI> truely, I grant he might perform admirable Cures thereby; but I deny
<PB N="4" REF="4">that he under&s;tandeth it; for had he &s;o done, him&s;elf &s;hould ne|ver have yeilded to &s;ickne&s;s no more then I, though he had been di&s;&s;ecting Pe&s;tilential bodies a year together.</P>
<P>The true <HI>Tinctura Polycaea,</HI> I have largely treated of in my <HI>Holy Guide,</HI> parts the &s;econd and third; and therein have given &s;uch real demon&s;trations of its true but incredible effects, that the like Medicine is not in the world as yet di&s;covered, it going beyond the be&s;t preparation of my <HI>Ro&s;ie Crucian Pantarva;</HI> with which I have renewed the Youth of per&s;ons Aged, and brought a &s;pring into the bones of &s;uch per&s;ons, that have been totally fro&s;t-bitten with age. But what do I mention the&s;e things to him, that under&s;tands no<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Venus</HI> from a Hogg, one who is lit|tle better then a Thief of the &s;econd head, that will be twatling and pratling of <HI>Robin hood,</HI> though he yet never &s;hot in his Bow?</P>
<P N="3">3. Whereas this Po&s;teriors of a true Phy&s;itian is grieved, that &s;ome of the Colledge left the City in this Pe&s;tilential time; I &s;hall tell him, that they did no more now then in other Sum|mers they were wont; they being per&s;ons of eminent Fortune, as well as Learning. And without doubt this Paltry Fellow would have done &s;o too, had he had any abiding place to have flown unto; but having none, was forced to tarry in his Garret neer <HI>Aldgate,</HI> cracking of Nuts in his two-penny Crucible, and venting his malice again&s;t tho&s;e worthy per&s;ons, many of which would &s;corn to accept him for their Groom: perhaps his abode there was one main rea&s;on that the Bills of that Pari&s;h increa&s;ed to &s;o va&s;t numbers. And yet this brain-&s;ick Fellow cannot be quiet, but like the tail-le&s;s Fox, is angry that tho&s;e Learned Phy|&s;itians are not as bare and beggarly as him&s;elf.</P>
<P N="4">4. For his boa&s;ting profanely of <HI>Helmonts</HI> name, I mu&s;t tell him, that <HI>Helmont</HI> may be &s;omewhat to eat for ought he know|eth of him. <HI>Helmont</HI> was a worthy Learned Per&s;on, and of the fir&s;t Order of the <HI>Ro&s;ie-crucians,</HI> and not a pitiful Quack like <HI>Thom&s;on.</HI> But &s;ee more of <HI>Helmont</HI> in my <HI>Harmony of the World,</HI> my <HI>Ro&s;ie-crucian Axiomata,</HI> and the &s;econd part of my <HI>Wi&s;emans Crown.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. For his impudent challenge to the <HI>Galenists,</HI> to take a por|tion of the corruption of a Plague-&s;ore inwardly: I an&s;wer, That it is beneath a General of an Army to play at Cudgels; or el&s;e
<PB N="5" REF="4">his impudence might be an&s;wered. But what is there in his challenge more, then if an impudent Attorney &s;hould challenge a Lord Chief Ju&s;tice to moot with him? or a Junior Sophi|&s;ter to go about to mate a Governour of a Ca&s;tle or City in the <HI>Politiques?</HI> would not the one de&s;erve the Fleet, and the other the Stocks? &s;urely yes.&mdash;But to pa&s;s this, I would advi&s;e <HI>G.T.</HI> to propo&s;e his impudent de&s;ires to &s;ome of his Brethren the Common Mountebanks; with whom <HI>(&s;ine dubio)</HI> his motion may finde acceptance: but he had be&s;t be~ certain of his Anti|dote, le&s;t the tryal prove as dangerous to him, as did his pre|&s;umptuous di&s;&s;ecting of the Corps of his dead Patient.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides, I mu&s;t tell him that the matter he moulds into a challenge, hath nothing of wonder or danger in it at all, except|ing the unlucky ingredient of his own frontle&s;s impudence: For who knoweth not that the Ichorous Venome he mentioneth is of humane E&s;&s;ence? how then can it be dangerous? Ful&s;ome we allow it, but not Fatal; nor any more hurtful, then Maggots in Nuts, or Mites in Chee&s;e. Nay, I am ap<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> to believe <HI>G.T.</HI> is of the &s;ame opinion al&s;o, and probably makes it a principal part of his Dyet; and that may be one rea&s;on he is &s;o &s;ubject to the Glanders, as is plain by his &s;o re&s;olute &s;linging about his filth, that he careth not into who&s;e face it lighteth: But every man knowes, that he which is impudent, mu&s;t needs be a Here|tique in good manners. I will not charge <HI>G.T.</HI> as guilty of &s;o much knowledge in Chymi&s;try, as to under&s;tand what <HI>Helmonts Archaeus</HI> means, or what my <HI>Gamahe</HI>'s &s;ignifie: if he have a minde to inform his judgement herein, let him read my <HI>Elhava|reuna.</HI>&mdash;In the interim, I &s;hall make this Anti-challenge to him, <HI>viz.</HI>&mdash;to take ten drops of <HI>Aqua Heydoniana,</HI> and my &s;elf will take double the quantity; and let him take his Anti|dote, and I will take none at all: (for he is no true Chymi&s;t, who&s;e body is not always prepared) and then let the World judge who comes neere&s;t the Elixar, a Quack, or a true Chymi&s;t! <HI>Thom&s;on</HI> or <HI>Heydon!</HI></P>
<P N="6">6. For his abu&s;ing the late Lord Mayor, becau&s;e he did not employ his Quack-&s;hip; I &s;ee not but &s;o gro&s;s a piece of impu|dence and daring ought to be requited by the Beadle of <HI>Bride|well;</HI> who&s;e cha&s;tizing hand might &s;oon let out that corrupt hu|mour, that irritates his Frenzy to &s;o great a height, that not on|ly
<PB N="6" REF="5">a Learn'd Colledge, but Magi&s;tracy it &s;elf mu&s;t be confronted by it.</P>
<P N="7">7. For his enumerating &s;everal di&s;graceful epithets together, as Wizard, Figure-ca&s;ter, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;ince he makes no particular ap|plication of them, I &s;hall not pre&s;ume to dive into his m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">licious thoughts about them: Howbeit, I mu&s;t tell him he hath done but churl-like, in inviting Gue&s;ts, and making only a Fea&s;t for him&s;elf. And for that particular Predicter he idly hints at, if he mean thereby any one that &s;tudies A&s;trology; I tell him, the Stars &s;hall &s;hine, and their Studies be honoured, while &s;uch Vermine as <HI>Thom&s;on</HI> &s;hall be &s;corn'd both of God and man. But why do I intere&s;t my &s;elf in anothers quarrel? that Pre|dicter (whoever he be) if at lea&s;t he de&s;erves that appellation) is certainly able to vindicate him&s;elf from this malicous Fellows <HI>Scomma</HI>'s, and will &s;o without doubt, if the thoughts of an <HI>im|par congre&s;&s;us</HI> prevent not.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, For the Conjunction of <HI>Mercury</HI> with <HI>Sol</HI> and <HI>Luna,</HI> as he &s;imply mentioneth, I mu&s;t be content to gue&s;s at what he intends, as him&s;elf doth at the Di&s;tempers of his deluded Pati|ents. He mu&s;t thereby mean either a real, or Metaphorical Con|junction; if a real one, let him &s;hew it us in his Ephemerides, if he can; there having been hardly &s;uch a Conjunction (perhaps) &s;ince he fir&s;t &s;aw the <HI>Expan&s;ium</HI> of light: but we will allow him capable of coyning crotchers and conceits in A&s;tronomy, as well as in Chymi&s;try. But if he mean a Metaphorical Conjunction, and thereby allude to the late Villanous Theft committed upon the Trea&s;ury of the Colledge; may it not rea&s;onably be pre|&s;umed, that him&s;elf had a hand in the Robbery? I am &s;ure &s;uch an impudent boa&s;ting may well &s;ugge&s;t to tho&s;e Learned loo&s;ers a jealou&s;ie thereof; from whence they might (upon &s;u&s;pition at lea&s;t) make him an&s;wer their Indictment at a Bar of Ju&s;tice, a|mong&s;t his Fellow impudents, and perhaps <HI>Quondam</HI> Com|panions.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>From our Virgin Palace in <HI>Hermeupolis,</HI> <DATE><HI>Die &Mars; Nov.</HI> 21.10 h. P.M. 1665.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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