Pharmacologia anti-empirica, or, A rational discourse of remedies both chymical and Galenical wherein chymistry is impartially represented, the goodness of natural remedies vincidated, and the most celebrated preparation of art proved uncapable of curing diseases without a judicious and methodical administration : together with some remarks on the causes and cure of the gout, the universal use of the Cortex, or Jesuits powder, and the most notorious impostures of divers empiricks and mountebanks / by Walter Harris ...

THE INDEX.

A

• ACID Spirits, p. 75. Dismal effects from them, 76. Those Spirits dulcified, 78.
• Agues whither not Cured by Physicians before the knowledge of the Cortex, 167. How Ideots could Cure them before that time, 172. How many of them are often Cured more safely than by the Cortex, 176, 177. How they are sometimes Cured by divers silly things, 299. Galen's way of Curing Quartans, 180. That one and the same Remedy cannot be a proper Cure to all sorts of Intermittents, 181.
• Alkali Salts, 85. Natural Alkalis recommended, 86.
• Aloes censured, 295.
• Antimony over-commended by whom, 112. Ʋnder∣valued by others, 113. Those Physicians, who at first did so, vindicated, 114. Physick though in∣debted to it, and Mercury, yet considering all things, might have done better without them, 115. Crude Antimony its virtue, 119. Improperly called Crude, 120. Its Emeticks, 121, 122. Its safer Preparations, 123. That Antimonium Diapho∣reticum, and its other Diaphoreticks, do in time turn Emetick, or Cathartick, 122.
• ...

• ...Aurum Fulminans, 47.
• Aurum Potabile, what place it ought to have in Phy∣sick, 39.

B

• BEzoar how a Cordial, 313.

C

• CHalybeats, 146. Preparation of the body before the use of them how necessary, 153. How people come to be prejudised against them, 154. Sal Chalybis, and Chalybeate Syrups, 157, 158. Dr. Willis's Preparation of Steel described, 150. How used, 153. Another excel∣lent Preparation of Steel, 155. Preparation of it without Acids better to some, than with them. ibid. whither Purging ought to be omitted during a whole Chalybeate Course, 162.
• Characters and Charms, how they come to Cure Diseases, 298, 302, 307. A remarkable Obser∣vation concerning their effect among the Moors, 305.
• Chymistry defined, 30. Its Inventors, 8.
• Cholick, an excellent Remedy in it, 208.
• Compound Remedies, why necessary, 284.
• Conjuraton, its Art why to be esteemed a meer Im∣posture, 308.
• Correctives with Purgers, their benefit strongly urged, 290.
• Cortex now the greatest Panacea, 165. The Prince of Plants, 168. In what Agues it is admirable, 169, 177. And in what Agues an improper Re∣medy,

• ... 181. Why other Methods ought in prudence to be sought, 178. Ill accidents from its over-liberal use, 182. Not like to last for ever in the same Reputation, 186. In what Diseases it has been tried, 187. Its virtue how promoted, 188. A Distinctive Sign to know the true Cortex from Adulterates, 189. Best given in substance, 191.
• ...Crocus Metallorum, 121.
• Curiosities to be avoided, 220.

D

• DIstillation, 60. Distilled Waters, 62. What things yield not their virtues in Distillation, 66. Distillations in a Reverberatory, whither they urge forth the true and natural virtue of things, 68.

E

• ...ELeosacchara, 81.
• Emeticks, what difference between the strong Vegetable, and the strong Mineral Emeticks, 116. Why so good a Remedy, 251.
• Empiricks their best qualification, 317. The Polo∣nian Empirick, 329.

F

• FEbrifuges of divers sorts mentioned, 180. That of Riverius spoken to, 174, 175.
• Fernelius not the best Practicer, though one of the best Galenists, 34.
• ...

• Fire how far useful in the preparation of Remedies, 72. The Reverberatory Fire described, 73. That Fire can add to the weight of some Medicines, 81.

G

• GOLD whither a Cordial or not, 41.
• Gout, 227. Imprudently left to the course of nature, 228, 233, 234. The Author's vindication of himself in this Particular Disease, 228, 229, 230. The Gout, and a Fit of the Gout, distin∣guished, and described, 231. The Cure of both to be different, 232. In the Fit what to be first done, ibid. Why men are prejudiced against out∣ward Applications, 235. Repellents and Nar∣coticks their danger urged, 235, 236. that Repellents and Astringents are not good in any kind of Gout, nor even Cold things ever safe, 237, 238. Parts how weakned, 239. Narcoticks most Dangerous, 240. Empirical Oyls considered, 241. Their Waters, 242. And their Plaisters, 243. Proper Topicks of what kind they ought to be, 244. Catharticks when to be used, 245. And when not, 246. Bayrus, the supposed Author of the Ca∣ryocostinum, his case considered, 246, 248. Ve∣nesection in the Gout, to whom sometimes Ʋseful, and to whom always Dangerous, 249, 250. Eme∣ticks why so good a Remedy, 251. Sudorificks, 252. That the Proper Cure of the Gout is only Prophylactick, 253, 254. What to be thought of Nervous Medicines, 255. The Cure by Evacua∣tions, why preferred, 257. Whither Bacchus and Venus be the common Causes of it, 258, 265.

• Three Aphorisms of Hippocrates hereunto relating, commented upon, 259. The Cure by Diet consi∣der'd, 267, 273. Relations in favour of Diet, 268. Answered, 275. That those who are trou∣bled with the Gout, are seldom men of common understandings, 270, &c. Over-thoughtfulness a general cause of it, ibid. Of the Milk-Diet, 278.

H

• HElmont, 24. A conclusive passage of his against Mineral Preparations, as not conducing to long life, 26.
• Hiera's their kinds, 294.
• Hiera Diacolocynthidos, its excellency recommended, 294.
• Hippocrates how honoured, 316. His judgment of Vehement Remedies, 125.

I

• JEsuits Powder, vid. Cortex.
• Idiosyncrasia's to be observed, 210.
• Imagination, its force in Curing Diseases, 301, 312. Its force in causing them, 310. Address in Curing them, 311, 313.
• Iron preferred before Steel in Physick, 146. The Mineral Iron no bad Remedy, 148. That Iron, and its Rust, have no Venomous quality, 158. Its use, 161. Why it Mystically has signified Wis∣dom, 161.

K

• HƲmane Knowledge how really little, 223.

L

• LItharge commended, 147.

M

• SIR Theodore Mayern recommended for a Chy∣mist, 27. An excellent custom of his worth our imitation, 28.
• Mercury, 89. Whither a Poyson or not, 94, & 105. Whither the Pox may be Cured without it, 95. In what Diseases it is used, 96. The unprepared recommended both in Infusion and Substance, 102. Its Mineral Vapour how injurious to the Nerves, 103. It preferred before Mercurius dulcis, 107.
• Mercurius Dulcis sometimes counterfeited with Ar∣senick, and the consequences of it, 91. No Pa∣nacea, 109. To what bodies it agrees, or disagrees most, 110.
• Metals more Innocent in themselves, than after Pre∣paration, 44.
• Milk-diet in the Gout, 278.
• Milk-waters improperly distilled, 64.
• Minerals never divested of their primitive nature, 177. That we cannot be too cautious in their use, 118.
• Mineral-waters natural Blessings, 134.
• Mithridate, 291. How little it and Venice-Treacle are used in France, 293.
• ...

• Mithridates how excellent a Prince, 291.
• Mountebanks, their mean condition abroad, 317.

O

• OPium, why thought by some to be a Cordial, 192. Advise of Sir John Micklethwaite con∣cerning Opium and Venaesection, 193. Why esteemed Cold, or Hot, and why both, 195. Whither a Poyson or not, 196, 202. That it actually destroys the Spirits, 197. The Turks use of it no vindication of its Innocency, 199. What ill effects it has, and how even upon them, 201. Whither the Crude ought to be preferred before the Prepared, 203. A good Succedaneum to our Laudanum sometimes, 205. the Torre∣faction of Opium commended, ibid. In what cases Opiats may be useful, 206. Their abuse, 207. Septalius his good counsel about them, 212. And Galen's decision about Anodynes, ibid.
• Oyls Distilled, 67, 78. Their danger, 79.

P

• PAracelsus, a short account of his atchievements in Physick, 15. His Remedy to make a man Immortal, 107.
• Philosophy, how far useful to Physick, 36.
• Philosophers Stone, whither possible to attain, 52. whither Rational to seek after it, 56. Penotus an instance of its Folly, 59.
• ...

• Physicians applying themselves to one Disease, a Custom heretofore, 216. How far followed by the Author, 225. The Custom descanted upon, 217, &c. How happy 'twould be for men, if they followed their true Genius, 222. Difference between a Phy∣sician and a Quack, 69.
• Physick, its excellency, 315.
• Pilulae Pacificae, a good Preparation, described, 204.
• Pontaeus, how his man did take Aqua Fortis, 319. and how he wash'd his hands in scalding Lead, 322. The consequence of such Imposturs, ibid.
• Preparations why called Benedicta, or Blessed, 121.

Q.

• QUercetan a good Chymist, 29.

R

• RAbell's drops, 140.
• Regulus of Antimony, from which the Cup and Pill so famous heretofore, 120.
• Remedies, how they come to succeed one another in point of Reputation, 166. That meer Remedies cannot properly be said to Cure Diseases, 185. Though they be never so Powerful, 210. Of Sim∣ple and Compound Remedies, 281. Six Great Remedies too much magnified in Physick, 97. The Natural preferred before the Artificial, 156, 157. The Providence of God, in those that are Natural, urged from a remarkable Story concerning Manna, 135. Diseases to be Cured by Remedies, not by Eloquence, 33.

S

• SAffron, an excellent Cordial, 159. Whither much of it will Kill, 160.
• Sigills, and Magical Images considered, 303. How they may contribute to the doing great things, 304. Paracelsus his Sigills, 306.
• Simples, why to be esteemed the more proper subject of Medicine, than Metals and Minerals, 12.
• Sleep, the difference between Natural, and the Arti∣ficial, procured by Opiats, 198.
• Snail-waters not well Distilled, 63.
• Solomon had the true Philosophers Stone, 11.
• Sublimate Corrosive how it has been given inwardly, 71. & 108.
• Superstition its prevalency, and its inconvenience, 309.
• Sympathetick Powder, both Simple and Compound, described, and how used, 141, 143.

T

• TArtar, the present state of its Cream or Crystals, 150. Why more prudent to prescribe the Crude, than the Crystals, 152.
• Theriaca Andromachi, or Venice Treacle, 285. Its excellency, 286. That it may be administred in greater quantities, than usual, in other cases besides Poyson, 288. Galen's way of distinguishing the true sort from the false, 289.

V

• VEnaesection, how lightly used in France, 193.
• Vitriol, its Praise, 127. A great mistake about its Crudity and Depuration, 129. The Crudest Vitriol we have, no bad Vomit, 131. How given, 138. It virtue, 140. The Mineral waters a good commendation of Native Vitriol, 133. That it is no Poyson, 137. Its Spirit no Panacaea, 139. The infusion of Green Vitriol, 143.
• Volatile Spirits, 82. Of the fixing Volatile Salts, and Volatilizing Fixt Salts, 83.
• Urine, the common Divinations by them exposed, 325, 329. In what sense the inspection of Ʋrines is to be allowed, 328. The same confirmed by our Colledge, ibid.
• Ʋseful things better known than many things, 224.

FINIS.