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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    to avoid contention, let common Experience determine this dip ference between us. For my own particular, lean faithfully aflure you, that by Chymical Phyiick 1 have cured my felf of the Vertigo, and Gout, both in great extremity • it is now 4 years lince, and 1 have not (1 blefs God) to this day relaps’d again into either, .nor hive I found any harm, but on the contrary, many benefits to my health by fuch Medicines, tending in all pro¬ bability to the prolongation of my life • and if I hadmot groun¬ ded my efteem of Chymical Phyiick upon good reafon and fuf- ficient experience, you might think me mad, to make defperate pra&ices upon my own Life. My Lungs are naturally fo tender and weak, that had it not been for Chymical Medicines, I can¬ not think I could have liv’d to fee this day. But inform your felf further, and you lhall find that thofe that have been long accu- flomed to Chymical Phyfick, have preferv’d their Lives and Health much longer, and more comfortably, than thofe acquain¬ ted only with your Druggs; for confider impartially, how few efcape death in contumacious Difeafes by means of (j alemcal Medicines, loathfome, tedious, and for the mofl part ineffectual; and thofe that do, how (lowly do they recover their colour, ap¬ petite, and ftrength, remaining long in continual fear and danger of relapfe? fuch large quantities of Phyfick as your flow Method requires, fo depauperates the vital Spirit, and opprefles Nature, that it may be known many times a year after, from what Method they receiv’d their Cure : whereas we in the fame Difeafes per¬ fect the Cure quickly, with little Phyfick, and in fmall Dofes, fuch as can hardly be naufeous to the niceft and mofl delicate Sto¬ machs ; and in our whole fcope, our Method directs us not to enervate (as you do) but to ereCt deficient Nature, not to exte¬ nuate, but reintegrate the languishing Spirit: and is it then likely that Chymical Medicines taken from the hands or a skilful Chy- raicalPhyfician, appeafing.and (frengtkningthe ^Archeas, re¬ flating the Ferments, which alone in their intire vigour, are able to overcome all'Difeafes, as being the undoubted Authors of rranfmutaricn, friendly and comfortable to Nature, ’ihould ne- verthelefs fhorten Life? betides the evidence of Reafon, lean teftify