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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 61., Deo. 20. '56,, 



2. Thomas Wilms, M.D.— Samuel Pordage 

 ttanslated " all the Medical Works of that Re- 

 nowned Ph;j'8ician," and published them under the 

 title> Practice of Phj/si&, Lond. 1681, folio. 

 Pordage also translated his De Ardma Brutorum, 

 Oxon.°1672, 4to., — Two Discourses concerning 

 the Soul of Brutes^ which is that of the Vital and 

 Sensitive of Man, ^c, 1683, folio.* 



I shall be glad to get any particulars respecting 

 Dr. Willis, and the title of any other philosophical 

 or miscellaneous work by him. I see that Dr. 

 Greenhili, the editor of that excellent series of 

 Medical Ethics and Biography issued from Ox- 

 ford, contemplates a life of Willis, and is desirous 

 of information on the subject. 



3. Thomas Trton, M.D,— Tryon, like Cheyne, 

 was distinguished by his love of dietetics and 

 mystical writers ; like Cheyne, too, he was very 

 fond of appearing original, and disliked quoting 

 or referring to the source of his eccentric flijjhts. 

 Both writers were well read in Bohme and Poiret, 

 and neither acknowledge their obligations ; both 

 were more or less Pythagoreans in doctrine. 

 Tryon affected an uncouth and cumbrous phraseo- 

 logy, and was tinctured with that chemical theology 

 which disfigured Bijhme. In his chief work 

 (Knowledge of a Man's Self) the three ideas he is 

 always harping on are, 1. The Seven Fountain 

 Spirits (which he stole from Bohme, as Cheyne 

 did the Doctrine of the Three Principles) ; 2. An 

 insane notion that the gist of philosophy and self- 

 culture lies in diet, or what We eat and drink ; 

 3. The power, blessedness, and glory of silence, 

 which he enlarges on in a way that would delight 

 (or, perhaps, has often delighted) the heart of Mr. 

 Carlyle. 



Tryon was a voluminous writer, and it is not 

 worth while giving a list of his writings, of which 

 I have a tolerably complete collection. 



I shall feel much obliged to any one who will 

 Bell or lend me Memoirs of Thomas Tryon, Lond. 

 1705, 18mo., or give me a sketch of his life ; es- 

 pecially as Tryon is not included in Dr. Green- 

 hill's list of proposed biographies. 



4. Thomas Beomley, a member of Pordage's 

 Philadelphian Society, was born at Upton-upon- 

 Severn in Worcestershire, and — 



"became a member of All-Souls College in Oxford, 

 whea Grod wa« pleased to reveal His Son ia him, and 

 to make great and glorious discoveries of Himself unto 

 him, such as it may be, should they be here related, some 

 would scarce be able to understand or bear. And from 

 that time ... he became a true minister of the Gospel, 

 not of the letter but of the Spirit." 



He died in 1691. This scanty notice is gleaned 

 in part from the publisher's preface to — 



* I have seen the Theophisical Alchemy, Lond. 1616, 

 Svo., of a namesake, attributed to Dr. Willis ; but erro- 

 neously, as he was not born until 1622. What is known 

 of the other Thomas Willis ? 



« The Way to the Sabbath of Rest : or the Soul's Pro- 

 gress in the Work of the New Birth. To which are now 

 added. Two Discourses of the Author never before printed, 

 viz. The Journeys of the Children of Israel, as in their 

 Names and Historical Passages they comprise the great 

 and gradual Work of Regeneration. And A Treatise of 

 Extraordinary Divine Dispensations, under the Jewish 

 and Gospel Admihistrations ; with the Various Ways of 

 God's manifesting Himself to Man. By Mr. Thomas 

 Bromley. London: 1761, pp. 252,, sm. 8vo." 



The Sabbath of Rest had been printed before, 

 Lond. 1710, Svo., and Lond. 1730, 12mo. 



The publisher of the three treatises which ap- 

 peared in 1761 informs the reader — 



" that the Author has left several other excellent Spiritual 

 Discourses behind him, which, if this be well received, are 

 intended to be made public for the use of the Church in 

 her present wilderness condition." 



Have any of them been published ? *■ 

 5. Author or " Memoirs of a Deist," &c. 

 — Who wrote the remarkable work thus enti- 

 aed? — 



" Memoirs of a Deist, written first a.d. 1793-4 ; being 

 a Narrative of the Life and Opinions of the Writer, until 

 the period of his Conversion to the Faith of Jesus Christ, 

 which took place in the course of the Developments of an 

 Essay written by the Deist, to prove that pure Deism was 

 the only true Religion. (Luke, viii. 16.; Ps. Ixvi.) 

 London. Hatchards, 1824, pp. 227, 8vo." 



The preface contains a letter from the well-known 

 John Newton to the author, dated Nov. 1796 ; and 

 it appears that by his advice the Memoir was cut 

 down to half the original size. The writer was 

 born in the year 1736 or 1757, and weht out to 

 India as a cadet in the Company's service in 1776. 

 The Memoirs evince a strong predilection for 

 mathematical science, united with an extraor- 

 dinary aptitude for idealism and analogy. 



In 1826 or 1827 our anonymous author pub- 

 lished the first of a series of Essays on Universal 

 Analogy between the Natural and the Spiritual 

 Worlds, — "flssay I. Sect. 1., Parallel between 

 the Soul and Body of Man." I have advertised 

 for this work, but have not yet succeeded in 

 getting a copy of it, which I am very anxious for. 

 The second section of Essay I. was published in 

 1828, with this title: 



" Essays on the Universal Analogy bet\veen the Na- 

 tural and the Spiritual Worlds, as applicable to the Pa- 

 rallels of the following Subjects : 

 Essay I. Sect. 1. — Parallel between the Soul and Body 



of Man. — Sect. 2. Parallel between the Terraqueous 



Globe, including its Atmosphere, and the Soul and 



Body of Man. 

 Essay II. — Parallel between America North and South, 



Natural and Spiritual. 

 Essay III.— Parallel between Mexico and Peru, Natural 



ancl Spiritual. 



* I am not within reach at present of any bibliogra- 

 phical works or books of reference. In Mr. Barry's forth- 

 coming work on Thi Engiish Myotics, I trust Thomas 

 Bromley may find due consideration. Cf. " N. & Q.," 2'^^ 

 S. i. 93. 



