Ortho-methodoz itro-chymikē: or the direct method of curing chymically Wherein is conteined [sic] the original matter, and principal agent of all natural bodies. Also the efficient and material cause of diseases in general. Their therapeutick way and means. I. Diætetical, by rectifying eating, drinking, &c. II. Pharmaceutick. 1. By encreasing and supporting the vital spirits. 2. By pacifying and indulging them. 3. By defacing or blotting out the idea of diseases by proper specificks. Lastly, by removing the extimulating or occasional cause of maladies. To which is added, The art of midwifery chymically asserted. The character of an ortho-cymist, and pseudochymist. A description of the sanative virtues of our stomach-essence. Also, giawo-mempsiz: or a just complaint of the method of the Galenists. By George Thomson, M.D.

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Ortho-methodoz itro-chymikē: or the direct method of curing chymically Wherein is conteined [sic] the original matter, and principal agent of all natural bodies. Also the efficient and material cause of diseases in general. Their therapeutick way and means. I. Diætetical, by rectifying eating, drinking, &c. II. Pharmaceutick. 1. By encreasing and supporting the vital spirits. 2. By pacifying and indulging them. 3. By defacing or blotting out the idea of diseases by proper specificks. Lastly, by removing the extimulating or occasional cause of maladies. To which is added, The art of midwifery chymically asserted. The character of an ortho-cymist, and pseudochymist. A description of the sanative virtues of our stomach-essence. Also, giawo-mempsiz: or a just complaint of the method of the Galenists. By George Thomson, M.D.

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Thomson, George, 17th cent.

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London :: printed for B. Billingsley at the Printing-press in Cornhill, & S. Crouch at the upper end of Popes-Head-Alley,

1675.

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Diseases -- Causes and theories of causation -- Early works to 1800.

Medicine -- Early works to 1800.

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"Ortho-methodoz itro-chymikē: or the direct method of curing chymically Wherein is conteined [sic] the original matter, and principal agent of all natural bodies. Also the efficient and material cause of diseases in general. Their therapeutick way and means. I. Diætetical, by rectifying eating, drinking, &c. II. Pharmaceutick. 1. By encreasing and supporting the vital spirits. 2. By pacifying and indulging them. 3. By defacing or blotting out the idea of diseases by proper specificks. Lastly, by removing the extimulating or occasional cause of maladies. To which is added, The art of midwifery chymically asserted. The character of an ortho-cymist, and pseudochymist. A description of the sanative virtues of our stomach-essence. Also, giawo-mempsiz: or a just complaint of the method of the Galenists. By George Thomson, M.D." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62438.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 13, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• The Epistle Dedicatory
• THE EPISTLE TO THE READER.
• An Explanation of Some Terms of Art.
• ERRATA
• THE DIRECT METHOD OF CURING Chymically.
  • CHAP. I. A Brief Examination of the Original Matter of Natural Bodies, with their Dissolution.
  • CHAP. II. Of the Efficient Cause, or Primary Agent of all Sublunary Bodies.
  • CHAP. III. Concerning the Aitiologie, Efficient, Imme∣diate and Material Cause of all Diseases.
  • CHAP IV. Of the Therapeutick, or Healing Method.
  • CHAP. V.
  • CHAP. VI.
  • CHAP. VII.
  • CHAP. VIII.
  • CAAP. IX.
  • CHAP. X. The Pharmaceutick, or upright Method of Cu∣ring Diseases by Medicines in general.
  • CHAP. XI.
  • CHAP. XII.
  • CHAP. XIII.
  • CHAP. XIV.
  • CHAP. XV.
  • CHAP. XVI. The next Class of those things which make are Vegetables, as follow.
  • CHAP. XVII. Lastly, Mineral and Marine Substances Act upon the Idea's of Diseases, by defacing, or expunging them.
  • CHAP. XVIII.
• Syrma Ortho Chymicum. THE ART of MIDWIFERY Chymically Asserted.
• The Character of a Legitimate Ortho-Chymist.
• A Character of the Pseudo-chy∣mist or Counterfeit.
• A Short Description, or Explana∣tion of the Happy Efficacy, and Sa∣native Virtue of Our STOMACK ESSENCE.
• : OR A just Complaint of the Deceitful, Dangerous and Pernicious Method or Way of Curing, obstinately insisted upon by the Galenists at this day, when a far better means is found out by the Philosophical Chymists: Also the Advantage or Benefit arising from a Legitimate Learned Colledge established by Authority: Moreover, an Invitation to the Gale∣nists to become Ortho-Chymists.
• The POST-SCRIPT.