Author: Castle, George.
Title: THE CHYMICAL GALENIST: A Treatise, Wherein The Practise of the Ancients is reconcil'd to the new Discoveries in the Theory of Physick; Shewing, That many of their Rules, Methods, and Medicins, are useful for the Curing of Diseases in this Age, and in the Northern parts of the World. In which are some Reflections upon a Book, Intituled, Medela Medicinæ.
Description: London: Printed by Sarah Griffith for Henry Twyford in Vine Court ..., 1667. 1st Ed. Sm. 8vo. [16] + 196pp. + [x] Contents. [Lacking last leaf of contents and advertisement leaf.]. Pp.9-10 of contents with large blank repair along fore-edge affecting text, age toning, early sheep boards, some surface wear, minor loss to corners, rebacked in morocco with amateurish lettering to spine. ¶ Wing C1233; ESTC No: R21752; George Castle (1634/5–1673), physician. ODNB ‘... His sole publication, [the above] (1667), assails contemporary iatrochemists who rejected anatomy and all of classical medicine in favour of the Paracelsian and Helmontian systems. His argument was directed specifically and sharply against the Medela medicinae (1665) of Marchamont Nedham (Needham). Castle (in his preface) says that Nedham 'flings dirt upon the learnedst Society of Physicians in the World, and libels the Universities' and then refers to Nedham as a 'bold and impertinent invader of Physick, and a plausible vender of very popular non-sense'. Castle defends the College of Physicians (of which he was not a member) and argues for a middle course in regard to medical philosophy, wherein the errors of ancient Galenic and Hippocratic medicine are to be corrected with new discoveries in natural philosophy and anatomy, yet their still-valuable 'Rules, Methods, and Medicins', which were gained by long experience, are to be preserved ...’

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