A letter in answer to certain quaeries and objections made by a learned Galenist, against the theorie and practice of chymical physick. Wherein the right method of curing of diseases is demonstrated; the possibility of an universal medicine evinced; and chymical physick vindicated ... / [George Acton].

  • Acton, George
Date:
1670
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Credit: A letter in answer to certain quaeries and objections made by a learned Galenist, against the theorie and practice of chymical physick. Wherein the right method of curing of diseases is demonstrated; the possibility of an universal medicine evinced; and chymical physick vindicated ... / [George Acton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the fame humours putrefying tn the Hem, may he all cured by one Medicine ? In anfwer to this 5 Firft, We deny your Humours, asm©® repugnant to reafon, that under one a6t'oi Sanguification, and in the fame V die Is, four different H'umoftrs flieuld be produc d, and that naturally in found and healthful Codies thefe Humours ihould be the efficient caufes of future Difeafes ^ For this were tofuppofe Nature always to errc, et'umin fuisfinibtu.. -Senfe likewife allures us, that although there be a Liquor fwimming upon Blood, emitted and cold, of a yellow colour, yet that it is not therefore yellow Bile; for that it is not bitter to the tafte: And though the Yellow Jaundies ftaining the whole Body with a yellow colour, and the Urine with a deep tindlure of Red, feem (prima facie) to prove your Hypothefis of Humours; yet upon an exad Spagyrical examination, you Ifiall find the contrary ; for if this tindfure of Urine were a flava bile, theremufl be found In it by Diftillation at leaR fome bitternefs, either in the Liquor that comes over, or in the Hy poflafis, or Caput mortmm • but there is found none, nor could a final 1 quantity of yellow Liquor tinge a large quantity of Urine with a colour deeper than its own. So that we fay, Nullus in natura Humor nofier, niji Cruor, Latex, dr Secundarius. Now fometimes this iW*, fometi-raes the Chyle, from the Errour and contagion of degenerated fer¬ ments, and pre-difpofition of the matter, receives various tin- dfures, and puts on the difguife of your fuppofed Humours. But granting you a Quaternary of Humours, yet we deny them to be * truly the efficient caufes of Difeafes, for manente cauf a non toditur Effetfw; but very many Difeafes we fee daily cured by Amulets, Plaiflers, Laudanums, Anodynes, Magnetickj,&c, without any evacuation of Humours at all • fo then the truly Efficient and conjunct Caufe is Spiritual, and fuch a Medicine as can quiet the.Archem, and reduce it to its natural Rate, ffiall eafily cure all theft Piftempers, without any regard had to the Purgation, or carrying away-.of Peccant Humours ; for the Julitous, Spirit be- ingitrensthened, and.the local Ferments reffored to their proper Energy,