The T R E FJCE. 



Encomiums on their Virtues and Excellencies, which 

 upon the ftri(fleft Examination, has proceeded more 

 from a fond Opinion he has had of them, than from 

 any real Virtues in them : Bcfides, that many of 

 them are focoftly, that in the Procefs of fome re- 

 gular Cures, they muil exceed the Price of any or- 

 dinary Horfe. 



Neither has he been able to obviate the Objeflions 

 which we find have been made to himfclf, for inferr- 

 ing fuch vaft Numbers of Remedies ; for what he al- 

 ledo-es concerning the Variety of Conftitutions, is ve^ 

 ry Httle to the Purpofe, fuch a Medicine of the fame 

 Intention Dced only be made ftronger or weaker in 

 the principal Ingredients; or if any Alteration be 

 .necefTary, that ought to depend upon a Change or 

 Complication of Symptoms •, all which fliould be 

 clearly explain'd by thofe who deliver Inftitutions of 

 Cure. And as for hisChymical Procefles, we look 

 upon many of them as unnccellary Implements, which 

 only help to fill up hisBook, and fhew more of Pomp 

 and Oftentation than any real Ufe ; efpecially fince 

 there are but few of them which vary much from 

 the common recciv'd Forms ; and if it was other- 

 wife, they could not cafily be comply 'd with by any 

 who are unacquainted with the Chymifl's Art, or 

 unprovided with the Inflruments that are proper to 

 make them. 



But if Solleyfelly who is dcfervedly reputed the heft 

 Author, was even faulty in thefe Refpeds, notwith- 

 ilanding all the Pains he had taken ; What can we 

 hope from thofc of lefs Learning and Ability, who 

 have only deliver'd things at fecond-hand ? Of thefe, 

 all Nations have produced fufHcienc Store, whofe 

 precepts have been as much, if not more, followed 

 than original Authors ; but none have been fo much 

 abus'd that way as ourfelves -, for altho' we have had 

 the Reputation of improving many Arts beyond what 

 .oihsrshavc dene:, and tho' that oiHorkmanrnip was 



even 



