I was looking up phlogiston and found this

But censure is perhaps inevitable: for some are so ignorant, that they grow sullen and silent, and are chilled with horror at the sight of anything that nears the semblance of learning, in whatever shape it may appear; and should the spectre appear in the shape of woman, the pangs which they suffer are truly dismal.

-- Elizabeth Fulhame, An essay on combustion, with a view to a new art of dying and painting: wherein the phlogistic and antiphlogistic hypotheses are proved erroneous.