Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society : wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected, and rectified: whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi, and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject. Translated out of Italian. With a brief account of those passages of the authors life, which the virtuosi intended most to censure, and expatiate upon ... Together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c / By Henry Stubbe.

  • Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.
Date:
1670
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Credit: Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society : wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected, and rectified: whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi, and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject. Translated out of Italian. With a brief account of those passages of the authors life, which the virtuosi intended most to censure, and expatiate upon ... Together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c / By Henry Stubbe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    W-v- and Ari fot le to their Alexandrine, Grecian y Sarracenical 3 and chrifian Phy fitians through fo many 4^, revolutions5 and dif¬ ferent climates ) is moft conformable to the SubjeCl about which his Faculty is employed) the explanation of DifeafeS)their Nature^ their Symptoms i their tendency, and Cure l Not only the Chirurgica!) but Medicinal part of Phyfick hath been carri¬ ed on and fated upon thofe general grounds , and that with fucb ayfurance, that where any learned and [olid practitioner of that way fhall happen to be at alofs, thofe which are enemies to it, the admirers of the rtrtuofi and of Odowdey have not been able to make any confiderable advantage thereby. Moft that the Novellifs have done 3 is to find out new reafons for an antient practice , and tofhew how the old Medicaments wrought to their ejfefts in another way than was fuppofed : but they have neither difcredited the Medicinesy nor Method with any under¬ standing men t Whatever Superlative difcoveries have been made of late, a fhort time and tryal hath convinced u$ of the inutility of the moft famed inventions and Theorems ; and the tedious) cofly y new Medicaments have fcarce continued to be vine days wonder. I fpeak not this out of contradiction I carry to thefe F'irtuof ; it is the refult of my thoughts after twelve years of deliberation) after obfervations accurately made in my own pra3ice3 and in that of other antient men : and as it is known how I never defired any thing fo much as the benefit of my Pa¬ tients ; fo I hope I may be believed when I proteft that my Ambition and Interef both fuggefted unto me a delire of atchie- ving Miracles in Phyfick, if it bad been poffible, But3 fince what¬ ever repute I have required I owe it to that Phyfick which hath defeended down unto this age by the means of fuch as have been of the Arifiotelian and Galenical way , I am but jufi unto thofe worthies in thus declaring againft their puny Adverfaries, who deferve all that contempt wherewith we depreciate the il¬ literate and fools) when they tell us that the Antient Method Mt'dimtin will not qualifie us to worky or enable us TO CURE A llltra CUT FINGER, may lefs difeover .the nature, and courfe Mr .Sprat, pag. of Difeafes, the operation of Druggs, and the right compounding mi, and 317. of them for the benefit of the fick9 Although