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Pharmacologia Anti-Empirica. OR A Rational Discourse OF REMEDIES, Both Chymical and Galenical, &c.
CHAP. I.
The Wars between Chymists, and Galenists, very fierce for some time; but end at last in a Peace. The Design opened. Hip∣pocrates, and Galen, wise, and excellent, but not infallible. A slavish Expression of a Venetian.
WHen Chymistry began to sound its Alarm, under the Banner of Paracelsus, and the noise be∣came so great, as to shake the Founda∣tions of Physick, divers eminent Physici∣ans took their Weapons in their hands, and with a learned Pen, did sufficiently