Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society : wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected, and rectified: whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi, and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject. Translated out of Italian. With a brief account of those passages of the authors life, which the virtuosi intended most to censure, and expatiate upon ... Together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c / By Henry Stubbe.

Henry Stubbe

Date:: 1670

Credit: Legends no histories, or, A specimen of some animadversions upon The history of the Royal Society : wherein, besides the several errors against common literature, sundry mistakes about the making of salt-petre and gun-powder are detected, and rectified: whereunto are added two discourses, one of Pietro Sardi, and another of Nicolas Tartaglia relating to that subject. Translated out of Italian. With a brief account of those passages of the authors life, which the virtuosi intended most to censure, and expatiate upon ... Together with the Plus ultra of Mr. Joseph Glanvill reduced to a non-plus, &c / By Henry Stubbe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Hift.ofthe K.S> Pag. 77. (30 that had Notches behind their Eares, under their Arme- pits, or in their Groine, upon the applying ofa vc-ficatory 11 in a convenient place3 and the botch being fuppurated, and fl ( the matter evacuated by the adjoyning veficatory, the I ‘ botches vaniihed without breaking, the malignity and mat- I < ter contained in the botch venting it felt by that other pafiage. In the latter Plague, although upon the applying of blitters, the tick amended, and the malignity feemed ex- I haufted , yet did .all the botches fuppurate and break, ] In the firfl Plague all Women that during their being fick In of the Plague, happened either orderly or accidentally to have ' I their Menfrua, and all that had the Plague,and did mifcarry 1 there, thefe generaj'y died: But in the fecond Plague', it was quite otherwife,many women recovered notwitfetfan- (I ding their abortion ; and moft women efcaped that had li< thole Menflrua, though it were Symptomatically* In the Ik Firfl Plague, all that had purple, livid, or black Spots dyed, .It almofi. But in the feconda many efcaped who had thofe flu Marks. This Henricus Florentius relates upon his own know 1.; ledg in his additaments to P.Paaiv* de pefle.c. 2.pag, 47. m and with this pafiage Hhallclofe up this Animadverfion, It referring all inquifitive perfons to Forreflus and Schenkius in A « their obfcrvations upon this difeafe 5 whofe Cure is fo layed 1 « down by them out of Cains,Tyengius, Vijfenacus and by Tho, Cogan, by Pareus, Sennertus,, Langius, Claudinus, Hollerius, I Langham in his Garden of health and others, that any one » that is Mafler of a General and diffufed method of Phjfick, ac¬ quainted mtb the generali rules and cautions and who by a variety of reading is acquainted with the Multiplicity of ma- lignant and Pestilential Feavers, and that infinite difcrepan- cy that is obferved in them, in their Types, Beginning, Pro- grefs. Event, and Cure , fhall not be at any Jofsin that difeafe, fhould it return again, otherwife then what hu¬ man imbecillity and the intricacyof the thing fubje&s him un¬ to.But his Method I doubt will not be almofl Infallible. But I what is all this to the Hiflorian ? u It was the fear of being circumvented, that made one 1 of our wifefi; Kings delay Columbus too long, when he came

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