Parr.z.Sect.4• Simple .lf!terA(ives. Memb.r.Subf.j. ' limples well prepared and under~i>od,~~e better then f?ch an help o~ non- ~ fenfe-confufed compounds, wh1ch are m Apothecane~ ihops ordmanly -- fo!d.Inwhich many vaine,Juperfluous,corrnpt,exolete thmgs Olit ofd'ate are t1 be haJ (faith~ Cornaritts)a company ofbarbarous namesgwen to syrops,Iulips,an tmneeeffory GOmpany •fmixt. ttwliciJ!es; mdu indigejJa* motes. Manytimes (as .lfgrippa taxeth)thcre 15by this meanes P more danger from tke p Multo plur medicine then fr~m_ the difeafe,whcn they put together ta~y know not what,~1~:;~~;ror Ieaveit to an !lhterate Apothecary to be made,they caufe de~th and hor- quam <i morh• ror for health. Thofe old Phyfitians bad no fu'h mixtures! a fimple potion &-c• . . ' of HeUeborin Hippocratestim~,wastheorqinary purge,and at thisday,faith fi!."f/;~:' :.",: r Md .Riccius ,in that llourHhmg Common-wealth of chma,Thetr Phrfit•- 'Precepta ,_., ans giveprecepts lfjflite oppo{ite to ours, not unhappy in their P hyfick: they ufe•dici d4nr~o- , •!together roots, hmbs,andJimples in their.medicines,4ndall their phyfick in f:::j~;'f:• · "manwer i4 cof/llpre!.ended in an herbaU: no fcience, no fchoolc,no art, no de- non infelicer, gree,but like • trade,every rn_•n in pri"!ate is inftruflu/ ~f huM•fter. t Card•n ~i:;:;:r.:;;,_ cracks that he can cure all d1f~afes wuh water alone, asH tpp.cratu of old cihur Herbi,, did moft infi~mities withone medicine. Let the beft of our rationall Phy- rad!cibus !fr. litians demonftrate ancd gi~e a fuflicientreafon for thofe intricate mixruresj ~:;~,,~:'':,. why juft fo many fimplcs m Ntlhridote or Treacle,why fuch & futh quan- ftr£ ltcrbari• tity1may th_ey not be reduced to halfe~or aquarter! F~Hflra .~t per p~Nra (as r,:,c:t,'~~~;:; the faymg !s}qllod jim pote~ per pauctora,300 limplesm a JUhp, ponoo, or luJus h~ius a litle pill, towhat end orpurpofe? I know what sA/kind ~a, C~pivaccim, .,,;.,qui~ <M ontagn•,and.Simow Eitwer, the bell: of themall, and moft rationall haveP'i't~u• ,; faid in this kinde;but neither he,they,nor any one of them,gives his reader,~~. ~~:0':: to my judgement,that fatisfaetion wbich he ought;wily fuch,fo many lim- tar. ples~Rog.Eacon bath taxed manycrrorsinhis tract de gradHati~nibm,ex- t~:·frAJ:"" plainea! lomethings but not cleared• . M emtrialu in his book Je comp•{it. oo/. ' medicln. gives inftance inH•muh,and Phi!Dnittm R•manr~m, which Hamtth csu!til :•P· an Ar•bian,and Philoniur a Roman long fince compofed, but crafe as the: Jc {cwmu. reft, If they be fo exaCl, as by him it feemes they were, and thofe mixtures fo perfect,why cloth F erneliru alter the one, and why is the other obfolete! 'Cardantaxeth qaten for prefuming out of his ambitionrocor~ct Theriacht<m Anlr•machi,& we as juftly may carpe at all the reft.G.,/ens medicines arc now exploded and rejected, what Nicholt~~ <Muipfo, Mefve, ce/[114, ScribAni114,Afiturim,&e. wrirofoldaremoll: part c.:>ntemned. MeUichim, CDrdU4,Weci<er,f2!!.er;eran,fl.henolem, the Yenetian, Fl1rt11tine ftates have their feverall receipts,and Magiftralls:They of N~rem~erge have theirs and .Augu/l•n•Pharmocop••,peculiarmedicines to the meridian of the City: Londonhers,everycitty,towne, almoftcvery priv.1te man hatbhisownc mixrures,compofitions,receipts,magiftralls,precepts,as if he fcorned antiquity,and all others in refpea- ofhimfelfe. But each man muft correct and u "'"""'••· alter tO ~ew his ~kil~, everyopinative fellow muft maintain his own para-pb7n:macop. doxe,be1t what 1t w!li;Deltr&nt reges,ptetluntur Achivi:rhey dote and in reft"'f:~:it:; the mean time the poore patients pay for their new experiments, tbc Corn- ;;.N=,:i:~:~ monalty rueit. in.enrr. foraThus others obje.ft, th11s I 111ay.conreiveout ofthe weaknclfe ofmy ap- :'Q::;: ."f~. prehenlion;butt? fay truth,there ts no fuch faulc,ao fuch ambition,no no- yentum e:>- v~lty ,or ofientauon, as fome fuppofe, but as" oneanfwers, thi$ of corn• •ntroloffu,, • , ·--- · pound
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