chymically 경화의 직접적인 방법- THE ART of MIDWIFERY Chymically Asserted

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Ortho-methodoz itro-chymikē : 또는 chymically 경화의 직접적인 방법 여기서 원래의 물질과 모든 자연체의 주요 대리인이 conteined [sic] . 또한 일반적으로 질병의 효율적이고 물질적인 원인입니다. 그들의 치료 방법과 수단. I. Diætetical, 먹고 마시는 것을 바로잡음으로써, &c. II. 약국. 1. 생명 영을 증가시키고 지원함으로써. 2. 그들을 달래고 탐닉함으로써. 3. 질병에 대한 개념을 적절한 구체적 특성으로 훼손하거나 흐리게 함으로써. 마지막으로, 소멸시키거나 간헐적으로 생기는 질병의 원인을 제거함으로써. 여기에 덧붙여진 말로, 산파술의 예술은 키미컬하게 주장되었다. ortho-cymist와 pseudochymist의 특성. 우리 위장 정수의 사모니즘에 대한 설명. 또한, giawo-mempsiz: 또는 Galenists의 방법에 대한 정당한 불만. 조지 톰슨(George Thomson, M.D.)

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페이지 1Chymically 경화의 직접적인 방법.

Ortho-methodoz itro-chymikē: or the direct method of curing chymically Wherein is conteined [sic] the original matter, and pri

제1장 자연체의 본래 물질과 그 해체에 대한 간략한 검토.

나는 먼저 우리의 철학자에 따라 자연이 무엇인지 선언할 것이다. 즉. 창조주 안에 심어진 힘으로, 창조주의 뜻에 따라 자신이 가장 잘 알고 있는 목적을 위해 그러한 방식으로 그리고 정확하게 행동할 수 있다. 에 적합한 효과를 생성하는 과정과 순서페이지 2첫 번째 정액적 원인은, 중간에 끼어드는 교차하는 우연에 의해, 또는 모든 본질의 으뜸가는 원동력이신 그분에 의해 그것에 의해 정지되지 않는 한, 일정하다. 나는 아리스토텔레스의 마테리아 프리마(Materia Prima)를 불가능한, 단순한 키메라(Meer Chimaera)로 본다. 갈렌과 그의 종파들은 네 가지 원소, 즉 흙, 물, 공기, 불, 만물의 물질적 원인, 즉 (그들이 말하듯이) 능동적 형상의 힘에 의해 다양하게 혼합되고 결합되어 서로 다른 모양과 종류의 몸체를 낳는다는 것을 전달하는 데 많은 잘못을 저지르고 있다.

후기 키미컬 철학자들은 전자의 견해를 거부하고, 불에 의해 모든 종류의 몸들을 여는 것에 자주 정통하고(그들은 결코 원소가 되는 것을 허용하지 않을 것이다), 소금, 유황, 수성과 자주 만나면서, 이것들은 만질 수 있는 모든 것의 시작 물질이라고 자신 있게 가르쳤다. 다른 사람들은 두 개를 더 추가합니다. 즉, 물과 흙 : (주장 된 바와 같이) 그들이 원하는 대로 시연 할 수있는 모든 것, 또는 분리를 할 때 볼 수 있도록 열어 놓을 수있는 모든 것.

불에 의한 이 발견은 실로 훨씬 더 그럴듯해 보이며, 이전의 자만심보다 모든 신체의 근원과 원리에 유리해 보인다. 그러나 엄중한 조사에서는 사실이 아닙니다. 내가 출판 한 것처럼페이지 3헤마티에서. 헬몬트 독트린(Helmonts Doctrine)에 의해 지시된 이것들은, 그들이 원리들이라고 부르는 것들은, 불에 의해 만들어지며, 화합물체(Compound Body)에서는 이전에 실제로 존재하지 않았다: 소금, 유황, 수은은 다루기 쉬운 모든 것들로부터 어떤 예술에 의해서도 추출될 수 없다. 더욱이∣ 더욱이, 그것들의 확고부동함은 그것들이 원칙이 아니라는 것을 증명하는데, 왜냐하면 그것들은 사물의 시작이어야 할 것의 본성에 반하여 쉽게 서로 바뀌기 때문이다. 어디에∣ 윌리스 박사의 교리는 Be∣ned에서 가져왔습니다. 발렌트. 또는 파라켈수스(Paracelsus)는 그가 질병의 치료를 위해 전달한 바에 따르면, 첫 번째 지시 사항에서 거짓일 뿐만 아니라, 그가 질병의 치료를 위해 전달한 것에 따르면, 사용한다면 위험하고 파괴적이기 때문에 거부되어야 한다.

Acidum의 Helmonts 발견을 배웠습니다. 날카롭고, 결합력이 있는 거친 상태의, 그리고 휘발성 또는 고정된, 샅샅이 뒤지거나 느슨하게 할 성질을 가진 액화처럼 매끄러운 자연의 알칼리는 Tachenius에 의해 만들어졌고, 일부 우수한 철학자들은 최고의 감각인으로 소유되었습니다. 그럼으로써 우리는 가장 경험적으로∣정신적으로, 그리고 효과적으로, 육체적 존재를 부여받은 모든 것들의 가장 가까운 기원을 이끌어 낼 수 있다: 그 안에 산성(Acidum)과 알칼리(Alkali), 예술이 동일한 것을 되돌려 놓을 수 있다. Physick의 이 두 발광체 외에도 af∣ford의 치료를 위한 가장 명확한 방향페이지 4최악의 질병; 올곧은 물리학자가 자신을 내놓아야 하는 유일한 으뜸가는 목적: 그럼에도 불구하고 (얼마나 그럴듯한 원칙들이 평판이 좋은지) 실제로는 그렇지 않다. 왜냐하면, 전자와 마찬가지로 그들도 물로 환원될 수 있기 때문인데, 그것은 A∣cute Van Helmont의 권위에 의해, 그리고 어느 정도 나 자신의 증명에 의해, 나는 모든 원소체의 원리이자 궁극적인 물질, 시작과 끝으로 정했다.

왜냐하면, 발효의 다양성, 정액의 영의 활동, 그리고 그것에 의해 묘사되는 특이한 형상에 따라, 이 액체 물질은 다양한 종류의 피조물들의 무한한 숫자로 빚어지기 때문이다. 이것은 심연, 또는 신의 영이 처음에 움직였던 깊은 곳, 이제는 연속적으로 세상의 영이며, 이 결코 실패하지 않는 물의 보물로부터, 우리 센세스에게 명백한 것들의 무수한 종류의 틀을 짜고 있다: 이제 모든 유형의 본질 중에서, 물보다 합금과 혼합물에서 더 비슷하거나 더 자유로운 것은 없다. 이보다 더 임프레스할 수 있는 것도 없고, 정액의 영을 받을 수 있는 것도 없으며, 그래서 이런저런 형상으로 쉽게 옮겨질 수 있다.

그러므로 모든 육체적 존재의 생산에 있어서 이 물질적 주체, 즉 물보다 더 필요한 것은 없다: 그리고 효율적인 원인, 즉 영의 씨앗이 작용하는 것(Fer∣ments에 의해,페이지 5또는 어떤 휘발성, 퍼짐, 부풀어 오르는, 마찰 냄새) 그것이 짜맞추는 대로 저것에 따라 이데아, 또는 그것이 완전에 정도에 의하여 가져오려고 하는 것의 그림: 어느 시간까지, 시작했던 동일한 대리인 (어떤 사고에 의해 impe∣ded 하지 않는 경우에)는 계속적인 진보를, 전체가∣끝날 때까지∣ed, 그것을 가장 높은 국가에 가져온다; 언제부터인가 조금씩 쇠퇴하다가, 마침내 그것이 첫 번째 존재를 취했던 그곳으로 돌아간다.

내가 여기에 전달한 것, 동물, 식물 및 광물의 분별력 있는 씨앗은 모두 물에 쉽게 들어갈 수 있는 젤리 같은 서브 자세로 구성되어 있기 때문입니다.

모든 동물의 물질적 씨앗은 점액질이나 달걀의 흰자와 같다: 모든 채소의 씨앗은 소화에 의해 같은 일관성으로 바뀔 수 있다.

광물에 관해서는, 광물에 대한 최고의 탐구자들은 지구의 특이한 장소에 흐르는 어떤 녹색의 끈적끈적하고 끈적끈적한 물이 그들에게 첫 번째 탄생을 준다고 단언합니다.

그래서 유능한 키미컬 철학자는 헬몬트가 내려놓은 것을 의심할 이유가 없다. 모든 몸은 물에서 시작된다는 것을 재치있게 말하십시오. 그는 그의 술 알카헤스트(Alkahest)를 통해 그들을 다시 같은 곳으로 돌아가게 할 수 있었다.

이것은 변경되는 프로테우스입니다페이지 6정액 물질 또는 그것이 머무는 장소에 특유하게 내재하는 냄새나는 발효에 의해, (그것이 할 수 있는 대로) 유니버셜 정신의 그러한 부분을 초대하여, 처음에 놓인 판(Plat) 형태에 비례하는 그러한 종(種) 또는 개별적 존재(individual Being)로 그것을 조금씩 빚어낸다. (모든 외적 Conve∣niencies 동의) 콘크리트나 몸이 VVater로부터 생성되는 것처럼, 그들도 마찬가지로 주로 그로 인하여 영양을 공급받는다: 왜냐하면 우리 철학자의 실험은 그것을 이렇게 확증하기 때문이다.

그는 흙그릇을 가져다가 오븐에서 말린 흙 200 무게로 채우고, 빗물에 적셔 5 파운드 무게의 VVillow의 줄기를 설정했습니다. 이것은 5 년 동안 irri∣gated, 필요에 따라 비 또는 di∣stilled 물로만 영양을 공급했습니다 (용기는 외부에서 먼지가 떨어지지 않도록 구멍으로 가득 찬 주석 판으로 덮여 있음) 5 년 성장 후 식물은 저울에 넣었고 무게는 169 파운드였습니다. 나뭇잎의 양 외에 4 년 전야 ∣ 리 가을은 빠졌다. 그러고 나서 마침내 그는 앞서 말한 지구의 무게를 달아 말렸고, 그것은 이전의 무게가 2온스를 넘지 않기를 원했다: 이 때문에 VVater에서만 164파운드의 VVood, Bark, Root가 솟아났다. Van Helm의 이 실험은 훌륭했습니다.페이지 7자연을 탐구하는 사람, 베이컨 경은 관목의 encrease에 의해 VVater에서 con∣siderable 시간을 유지했습니다. 동일한 VVater는 한 침대에서 자라는 40 개의 별개의 식물을 먹입니다.

또한 잠수부 동물들은 명백히 물 같은 물질로부터 생겨난다: 그들은 마찬가지로 주로 그것과 함께 보존된다. 연어의 뱃속에서는 어떤 고체도 거의 발견되지 않는다: 또한 철갑상어는 영양분을 얻기 위해 어떤 심한 물질도 스토마흐 안으로 가져갈 수 없으며, 거기에 속하는 통로는 너무나 작아서 VVater 외에는 어떤 것도 들어갈 수 없다.

일부 남성과 VVomen은 여러 날 동안 VVater와 단둘이 살도록 재배치되었습니다.

Pretious 및 Viler Stones가 VVater에 의해 생성되고 동일한 것으로 증가한다는 것은 Van Helmont의 Tryal에 따르면 명백합니다. 키미스트들이 원리들이라고 부르는 그 실존자들을 건드리면, 그것들은 실제로 그런 것이 아니다; 왜냐하면 그것들은 VVater로부터 솟아올랐고, 특정될 수 있기 때문이다, 그렇다, 비록 그것들이 단수인 것처럼 보일지라도, 그것들은 부분들의 다양성으로 단절될 수 있다. E. G. 유황, 눈에 하나의 프레임의 모두인 것처럼 보이는, 날카로운 부식∣ding 술로 주어질 수 있습니다: 동일한 것은 또한 액체 Balsome, 또는 Earthy Pou∣der로 주어질 수 있습니다. Sallad Oyl에서 부식성 주류를 만들 수 있습니다. 게다가, 그것은 무엇이든 없이 할 수 있습니다페이지 8난이도는 VVater로 변경됩니다. 소금은 Oyly 물질로 바뀔 수 있으며, 그 후 무미건조하게 될 수 있습니다 : 수은은 (Van Hel∣mont와 경험이 증언하는 것처럼) 두 개의 유황으로 구성됩니다. 이것은 예술▪에 의해 그것으로부터 분리될 수 있는 존재이다

제2장. 효율적인 원인, 또는 모든 월하체의 주요 행위자.

최고의 철학은 우리에게 가르쳐주는데, 알• 구성자들은 VVater로부터 그들의 물질적 Be∣ginning을 갖는다. 이 술이 어떻게 무수한 종류의 물질로 다양화되는지는 더 궁금합니다.

이 유체체의 첫 번째 변화는 유황 발효에 의해 이루어지며, 호고를 부여하고, 이에 의해 정령이 방출되어 물질을 처리하고 그 형상 또는 유형 i•에 적합한 형태로 성형합니다.

VVater의 발효를 주로 계기로 하고 모피를 입히는 것은 어떤 비밀스런 산(Acide) 또는 날카로움(Sharpness)이 아이레(Aire)에서 나오는 것이다. 이 암시적인 밀접한∣ly는 VVater의 알칼리와 결합하여 교반 또는 VVorking이 발생합니다페이지 9이 둘이 함께 만날 때 일반적으로 관찰된다: 결과적으로 물 같은 입자는 극도로 희화화되어, 어떤 특이한 향기를 획득하고, 그것들을 가지고 다니며, 그들이 거주하는 미사 전체를 감염시킨다: 이리하여 아르∣케우스 또는 생명의 영이 행위로 분출되고, 그 안에 참된 정액적 이데아, 또는 그 형상을 받아들일 수 있는 것의 그림이 담겨 있다. 그리고 완벽함.

제3장. 모든 질병의 병리학(同議制)에 관하여, 효율적(公國), 임(富)∣diate, 물질적 원인(大議地)에 관하여.

일반적으로 Antients, 그리고 오늘날 어떤 사람들은 Con∣junct, 또는 질병의 직접적인 원인이라고 부르는데, 나는 (Helmont를 가장 잘 알고 있는) Occasional, Provoking, 또는 Incensing으로 지정하겠습니다. 왜냐하면, 사물의 본성을 올바로 탐구하고자 하는 사람은 누구든지, 그것을 그렇게 만든 것과 관련된, 바로 그 존재에 관하여 알려야 하기 때문이다.

이제 어떤 질병도 생계, 저택 또는 숙박 장소를 가질 수 없지만 생명 영으로 견뎌낸 몸 안에 있습니다.페이지 10갈렌주의자들의 사대(四正)와 키미스트(大明)들의 삼원칙(三法)은 죽어라.) 이러한 이유로 아르케우스 또는 스피릿은 필연적으로 모든 질병 중에서 가장 재미없는 시작임에 틀림없다. 우리의 건강이 이 살아 있는 영에 달려 있기 때문에, 그 영이 모든 면에서 합당하게 구성될 때, 그 안에 어떤 큰 결함도 없기 때문이다. 그러므로 병은 동일한 힘의 보존자가 그 안에 있어야 할 명료함, 균형, 규칙성으로부터 타락하거나 멀어질 때 발생한다. 그 타락한, 또는 놈의 즙 engen∣dered 다양한 오류들 여섯 가지 소화, 특히 첫 번째 소화는 살아 있는 영혼을 교란, 번민, 그리고 지나친 운동에 빠뜨리는 수단일 뿐이며, 그로 인해 그것은 말썽꾸러기, 학대하는 침입 손님의 상태에 따라 악의 형상을 구성한다: 요컨대, 이것의 씨앗, 또는 저것의 씨앗, 그것이 어떻게 행동해야 하는가∣ed라는 절대적인 패턴과 함께, 전체 Fabrick의 이 첫 번째 창시자 안에 심어진다: 슬픔은 생명 그 자체로서 생명 정신과 분리될 수 없다. 그렇다, 그것은 심지어 그것의 가장 중간 지점에 집중되거나 자리잡고 있으며, 이 병든 형상이 그려져 있는 알맹이가 소멸될 때까지, 그리고 완전히 폐지될 때까지 결코 그것으로부터 분리되지 않을 것이다.

페이지 11이 교리는 우리의 심오한 철학자의 저술에 익숙하지 않은 사람들에게는 이상하게 보일 수 있습니다. 그 진리가 아무리 위대하다 할지라도, 이 단단한 지식으로 잘 훈련되지 않는 한, 어떤 사람도 어떤 목적을 위해 질병을 예방하거나 치료하는 것은 불가능하다. 그러므로 O∣pinionative 의사들은 뿌리 깊은 병을 치료하는 데 있어서 너무나 자주 실수와 실수를 저지르고 있다. 왜냐하면, 그들은 그들의 네 가지 아리스토텔레스적 요소들과 유머들, 그들에게는 아날로∣고우스, 즉 촐러(Choler), 가래(Phlym), 멜랑콜리(Melancho∣ly), 피(血)와 같은 논어(血語)를 고집하거나, 아니면 어떤 이들은 질병의 다음 원인이 되어야 할 키미스트들에게서 빌려온 원리들(내가 전에 언급했던)로부터 그들의 거짓된 치유의 척도를 취하기 때문이다. 반면에 그들은 현존하고 있으면서, 오직 벡스, 갈리아만이 열정, 아르케우스를 여러 가지로 가져오는데, 그 결과 전에는 몸 안에서 필요한 모든 것을 점잖고 질서 있게 수행했던 것이 이제는 소란스러워지고, 불편하고 터무니없는 방식으로 행동하고 있다. 이렇게 하여 위장의 발효 또는 용해는 많은 생즙, 초조한 술을 생산하여 피를 응고시키거나 녹여 더러운 물질로 만든 다음 배설물을 억류하거나 선과 악을 슬기롭게 토해냅니다. 또한 Specifick Poison은 다음과 비례하여 생성됩니다.페이지 12없는 자들: 따라서 슬픈 Sym∣ptoms의 군중이 나타납니다. 그러므로 내가 거듭 말하건대, 갈레니스트들이 그들의 치유에 그토록 성공하지 못한 가장 큰 원인은, 그들이 후∣마네 재앙들의 수반물들, 부수적, 산물들, 그리고 결과들 사이의 도발적이고, 간헐적이고, 본질적인 분리할 수 없는 원인들을 진정으로 구별하지 못했기 때문이다.

왜냐하면, 그들은 페버가 주로 열이라고 결론을 내리면서도, 그로 인해 그들은 그 고통으로부터 몸을 해방시키기 위해 거짓 지시 또는 지시를 취했기 때문이다. 병의 형상을 지우고, 성난 바이탈을 달래고, 성가시고, 가시가 많고, 타락하고, 죽은 주이세스를 제거하고, 자연을 손상시키지 않고, 위장을 해치지 않고, 소화를 위해 정해진 가게에 폭력을 가하지 않는 것을 소홀히 한다. 그들은 괴혈병을 치료하기 위해 사지에서 많은 양의 피를 뿜어내는 촐러와 우울(그들은 악의 결합 원인이라고 생각하는)을 정화하기 위한 헛된 수고를 (비열한 이득이 그들을 눈멀게 하지 않았다면) 명백히 인식할 수 있을 것이다. 그리고 그의 악은 종종 이로써 더욱 확증되었다. 분명 그들은 자연을 그녀의 다리 위에 세웠을 것이다∣그녀가 어떤 재앙 아래서 앉아 있거나 엎드려 있을 때, 그녀는페이지 13곧 그녀를 복종시킨 적을 정복하십시오. 그들이 히포크라테스를 따를 수만 있다면, 그들은 자연이 Morborum Medicatrices를 낳는다고 가르쳤을 때, 그들은 출혈과 연약하고 해로운 연옥을 속히 포기하고, 추방하는 힘이 부추겨 독으로 내쫓는 더러운 물질의 요소들을 속히 포기할 것이다: 그래서 실제로 정화의 일반적인 방법은 단지 펌핑과 같을 뿐이다. 누출을 막지 않고. 하마가 전하는 것처럼, 그것은 얼마나 많은 것이 아니라, 깨끗하게 된 것이 선을 이루느니라. Oc∣casional, Exciting, Peccant, Fermenting Matter는 부피에 비해 매우 작은 경우가 많습니다.

인간적인 질병은 다른 모든 것들과 마찬가지로 영적 시작∣, 진보, 상태, 그리고 적위를 가지고 있으며, 씨앗에서 ሣ일어난다. 거기에∣그러므로, 그들은 효율적이고 물질적인 원인으로 구성된 실재적 실체를 가지고 있으며, 둘 다 생명의 영에 앉아 있으며, 그 자체의 파멸을 고안하는 데 능동적이면서도 수동적이며, 언제든지 어떤 외적인 사고로 인하여 교란될 수 있다. 자연에 매우 해로운 어떤 것이 외부로부터 접근하거나 우리 몸 안에 ∣젠더화되어 있을 때, 아르케우스 또는 바이탈 아이레는 그것을 알아차리고, 그 안에 ∣센스화되어 있기 때문에, 그것은 그 자체로 어떤 불리한 어두운 이미지를 프레이밍한다. 이 모형 또는 비율에 따르면페이지 14그것은 행동하며, 그 자신의 활동에 의해 만들어진 질병의 사본 또는 초안을 결코 따르기를 멈추지 않으며, 그 자체의 어떤 결정적인 양으로, 심지어 그 자체의 큰 손상과 파괴에 이르기까지, Di∣sease의 성격이 지워지거나 Archeus가 진정되지 않는 한; 그리고 어떤 기분 좋은 물건에 의해 전환되거나 외부 성가신 경우가 제거되었습니다.

생명으로부터 분리된, 결코 그것에 이끌리지 말아야 할 그 소멸된 배설물들, 또는 초월적인 것들은 생명의 영들에게 가장 지루하고 시끄러운 것들이다: 그러므로 그들은 그토록 반갑지 않은 손님들을 맞이하는 것에 분노하고, 초조해하고, 억울해한다. 그리하여 그들은 발효(Ferments) 또는 인스트루멘(Instrumen∣tal) 변형기(Transfigurators)를 휘젓고 무질서하게 만들고, 때로는 혼란, 소란, 끓어오르고, 즙을 휘젓는 것을 일으킨다. 때로는 피의 응고를 일으키고, 다른 때는 날카로운 술로 바꾸어 많은 긴 재앙을 일으킵니다.

이제 우리 몸에 머무는 더러움이나 찌꺼기는 질병 그 자체가 아니라 아르케우스를 선동하여 우리가 할 수 있는 악을 창조하기 위해 부추깁니다. 이것들은 우리 질병의 선행 원인입니다. 또는 그것들은 Pro∣ducts, 그리고 Conscon∣dary 재앙을 일으키고 다양한 증상, 사고, 성향 및페이지 15변경. 더욱이, 우리 육신의 불행은 때때로 눈에 보이지 않는 비물질적인 기회에서 시작되어, 우리의 Phansies에 질병의 생생한 성격을 각인시키며, 그것은 좋은 주스를 나쁜 것으로 바꾸고, 둘 다 현재의 악을 조장하며, 또한 생명에 이식된 씨앗의 전염을 통해 더 많은 악을 낳도록 Vitals를 자극합니다.

Phansie가 Non Ens, 또는 Nothing에서 Hoc Aliquid, 또는 이런저런 종의 어떤 것을 구성할 수 있다는 것은 열매를 간절히 갈망하는 여인들, &c. 또는 어떤 갑작스런 Ter∣rour에 따라, 그들이 몹시 탐내거나 그들의 영 안에서 두려워하는 것에 대한 관념 또는 형상을 만드는 것에서 명백하다. 자궁에 소집된 것은 아기의 그 부분에서 절대적으로 일치하며, 그 순간에 여자가 만졌던 장소, 그녀가 그토록 열정적으로 영향을 받았을 때 응답합니다. 피부에 그려진 이 식물 또는 생명체는 일년 중 특정 시기에 실제 유형 또는 형성된 것의 예가 종속되는 모든 현저한 알테레이션, 이탈, 활력 및 마투라를 표현해야 합니다.

따라서 영들이 어떤 주목할 만한 열정을 통해 ex∣alted, 흥분 또는 격렬한 Mo∣tion에 투입될 수 있다는 것은 명백합니다.페이지 16(피부의 표면에 있는 눈에 보이는 빛으로 가져옴) 전에 그 안에 숨어 있던 것.

그러므로 나는 콩을 나누어 내는 식물의 강령처럼 영 속의 모든 질병에 대한 시그나투리가 있다는 것을 의심하지 않는다. 근본적인 차이점은 하나는 더 많은 Spi∣ritual이고 다른 하나는 육체적이라는 것입니다.

생명의 영 안에서 만들어진 모든 질병의 정액적 형상은 그 존재의 유일하고 유효하고 능동적인 원인이다.

마찬가지로 성령의 어떤 타락한 부분도 있는데, 여기서 Calamitie는 (그 온전함에 있어서 다시 ∣mains인 것으로부터 분리된) 찍힌 그대로의 것의 물질적 주체가 된다.

온갖 악을 잉태하고 낳는 생명의 폭발이 가장 분명한데, 어떤 시체도 병에 걸릴 수 없다는 것을 알 수 있다. 이것이 주어져야 할 참된 유일한 이유이며, 그것의 주요 고안자, 즉 아르케우스 또는 생명의 영이 원하고 있다는 것입니다.

아담이 그의 위장에 취한 금단의 열매는 정욕을 자극하는 능력, 즉 탐욕(전능하신 분께서 인간에게 참견하지 말라고 광고하시는 이유)을 그 안에 삽입하는 것이 전유되었다. 그리고 수단에 의해 적용된다페이지 17불멸의 혼에 대한 동물의 영; 그리하여 그것은 곧 더러운 질병의 형상을 세우고, 즉시 모든 짐승에게 공통적인 감각적 영혼을 즐겁게 한다. 그 당시에는 오늘날까지 모든 재앙의 근본적인 원인이 되고 있습니다.

나는 단언한다. 뱃속에 있는 사람의 살아 있는 영의 불규칙한 상상, 주로 뇌, 그리고 그 밖의 모든 부분들이 먼저 우리를 사로잡는 모든 연약함을 작동시킨다. 얼핏 보면 대수롭지 않게 보이지만, 그 과정에서 첫 번째 발동기의 끊임없는 움직임을 통해, 그것은 질병의 실체적 존재로부터 정확히 분리될 수 있는 여러 가지 슬픈 심심(心)과 사고(信行)와 산물(合行)에 의해 나타나는 바와 같이 악성의 극치에 도달한다.

예를 들어, 신장, 방광, 또는 다른 곳에 있는 결석, 마찬가지로 응고된 물질이나 구멍이 뚫린 것은 질병이 아니라 그 산물, 효과 또는 열매입니다. 아르케우스 안에 밀접하게 자리 잡은 석화(石化)하는 상상의 씨앗(Imaginary Seed)은 돌의 기초를 처음 놓았던 것인데, 그것이 시작되었을 때와 마찬가지로 완전한 성장에 이르렀다: 그래서 그 돌이 신장 밖으로 다시 옮겨진다 할지라도, 그 돌을 만드는 씨앗, 또는 보이지 않는 존재가 남아 있는 한, 이 단단한 콘크리트를 제거하기 전의 사람, 오래 걸릴 수 있습니다(아이디어,페이지 18응고의 원리는 절대적으로 소멸되거나 지워지지 않는다) 다시 그와 같은 해체된 물질로 괴롭히거나, 고문당하거나, 십자가에 못 박히지 말아야 한다.

아르케우스가 다이어트의 어떤 이질적인 존재들을 통해 그러한 혼란이나 수난에 빠지게 된다는 것, &c. 자신의 창자 안에 그토록 끔찍하고 보기 흉한 하위(Sub∣stance)를 짜 넣는 것은 슬픈 일이지만, 돌의 반(半)-nal 성격은 우리가 성장함에 따라 우리와 함께 태어나 깊은 뿌리를 내리고 고안되어야 한다. 훨씬 더 비참하다.

왜냐하면, 매트릭스에서 파생된 병든 정액적 관념들은 거의 파괴될 수 없기 때문이다: 그것들은 우리의 구성자들과 너무나 통합되어, 이 작은 세계의 무대에서 그들의 역할을 획일적인 방식으로, 그리고 복장으로 행동하는 것에 큰 특권을 부여한다. 비록 타락했을지라도, 자연은 그 온전함 안에서 완전한 형상들에 의해 지시되고, 모든 것을 질서 있게 수행하며, 공정한 비율과 증명된 온전함의 법칙에 따라 수행한다.

바로 그 때, 수석 저자가 완전한 형태를 만들 수 있는 것의 그림자 같은 모습을 담고 있는 씨앗을 빚을 때, 동일한 장인이 여러 해 후에 몸과 마음에 일어나는 다양한 장난의 붓기를 그립니다. 너무나 고정되어 있다 이단∣tary 불행, 비록 전체 미사페이지 19신체의 모든 수(數)의 부분(敎地)은 거듭거듭 변하지만, 선천병(月病生)의 근본적인 팅크(Tincture)나 염료(脫行)는 그대로 남아 있으면서, 그것을 스스로 내놓고, 여러 가지와 열매로 퍼져나가며, 그것을 휘젓는 외적인 원인과 만나는 완전한 때가 올 때이다.

이것은 통풍, 돌, 소비, 광기, 천연두, &c. 그들의 이미지는 몇 년 동안 잠들어 있다가 어떤 도발적인 경우를 통해 깨어날 때까지 누워 있습니다.

우리가 자궁에서 나왔을 때 아르케우스가 고안해낸 악의 이데아가 하늘을 날고 있는 것은 쉽게 흐려질 수 있고, 스트론게르 형상에 의해 지워질 수 있다: 이것들은 종종 각각의 o∣ther에 끼어들고, 마침내 서로 충돌하고, 둘 다 소멸된다.

무한히 많은 이데아(Idea)나 재(Re∣)발표의 수는 무한한데, 그 중 어떤 것들은 틀이 잡히자마자 사라지고, 비엔티아(Non Entia)가 된다: 왜냐하면 그것들은 순간적이고, 다음 계승자에 의해 쉽게 밀려나기 때문이다. 그러나 어떤 물건이 종종 우리에게 맛있고 심각하게 영향을 미칠 때; 그런 다음 동일한 표현은 정신에 깊은 뿌리를 내리고 혈액, 라텍스 또는 림프의 질감을 변경합니다. 그래서 Immoderate의 종에 따라페이지 20열정, 그리고 타고난 아르케우스에 그려진 열정의 그림, 또는 지속적으로 수리되는 것, 다른 사고, 증상, 징후 및 효과가 발생합니다.

모든 질병은 유형, 사본 또는 예의 집합을 가지고 있으며, (그것에 따라 그것을 처음 빚어낸 Ar∣cheus가 행동한다) 그것들에 속하는 균일성, 규칙적인 운동, 분리할 수 없는 출현 또는 징후에 의해 결합될 수 있으며, 그로부터 그것들은 그들의 본성에 적합한 이름을 받는다: 그것들은 우리에게 질병이 어떤 종류인지를 말해 주는데, 그래서 Ju∣dicious Physitian은 또한 di∣stinction을 만들 수 있다. 한 Maladie와 ano∣ther 사이, Pippin과 Pearmain 사이; 아몬드와 체스넛; 마찬가지로 여러 종류, 클래스, 양식, 학위로 분류합니다. 다른 모든 하위 달과 마찬가지로 효율적이고 물질적인 원인에 따라 어떤 슬픔의 판솜을 깔아놓은 어떤 감독, 정보원, o• 퍼스트 무버가 없다면 결코 할 수 없는 일입니다.

다시 말하지만, 아르케우스는 먼저 자신 안에 악의 초안을 만들고, 그 후에 자신의 상처 또는 파괴에 따라 ∣ 방향으로 일한다는 것은 Intermissi∣on, Silence, 우리는 Feavers, Falling-sick∣ness, Gout, Stone, Convulsions Tissick, &c. 그것은 얼마 동안 잠을 자다가 깨어나서 이전의 비극을 반복하는 것에서 발견됩니다페이지 21정확하게 행동하십시오. 분명 엄격한 규칙에 의해 인도되는 요원이 없다면, 질병의 시작, 진행, 높이, 감소, 결정에서 그러한 일정한 방식과 방법을 관찰할 수 없을 것이다.

간단히 말하자면, 모든 질병의 물질적 원인에 대한 참된 효능은 초보적인 성질의 어떤 불온함도 아니고, 네 가지 원소에서 파생된 것으로 추정되는 네 가지 체액 중 어떤 것도 아니며, 소금, 유황, 수은, &c. 어떤 것도, 배설물, 성가신 것, 주위적인 것이 아니라, 생명의 영이 분노, 두려움, &c. 어떤 혐오스럽고 지루한 물체에 의해, 미리 보내진 것: 그 위에 바로 그 모양을 만들고, 그 에테르 폭발의 어떤 부분에 질병의 씨앗을 심고, 고결함 속의 그것과 분리된다: 그 위에 물질은, 환자로서, 정액의 이상적 대리인이 작용하여 그 다양한 열매 또는 질병의 Ap∣pearances를 쏘아 올린다.

페이지 22챕터 IV. 치료(therapeutick) 또는 치유 방법.1. 일반적으로 식생활에 관하여, 인간의 전(前)과 위생(全法)을 존중한다.

모든 질병의 의심할 여지가 없는 즉각적 원인이 드러나면, 그 치료법은 더 쉽고, 목적에 부합하고, 빠르고, 덜 위험하고, 혐오스러워질 것이다.

두 개의 자본 주요 Indica∣tions, Ends 또는 Marks가 있으며, 이는 Pharmacy뿐만 아니라 Diet 순서를 정해야 합니다.

1. 힘 또는 생명 영의 지원.

2. 쇠퇴하는 것, 또는 자연의 적인 것을 피하는 것, 그것은 자연을 부추기고 그것을 지나친 열정에 빠뜨린다.

칭찬할 만한 다이어트는 Vi∣tals를 지원하고, 증가시키고, 또한 명확히하고, 평화롭고, 상처를 입히는 이미지를 만들지 않도록 전환합니다. 예, 어떤 비율로 Duls, Defaces, Eclipses는 이미 짜여진 사람들입니다.

이제 다이어트에 의해 필요한 모든 지원, 요구 사항 또는 Conco∣mitants를 이해합니다.페이지 23그것 없이는 사람의 생명이 존속할 수 없다. 즉

1. 섭취하거나 우리 몸에 섭취하는 것, 영양 또는 영양이 되는 모든 것.

2. 우리의 음식에서 발생하는 과잉 물질의 배출 또는 배출, 그리고 우리의 본성에 맞는 것의 재보유.

3. 에어의 수정.

4. 적절한 측정과 시간에 따라 차례로 휴식과 운동의 올바른 순서.

5. 수면과 시청의 정당한 허용.

최근에 정욕의 절제, 또는 조절은 마음의 동요를 일으킨다.

우선, 영을 끌어올리고, 증가시키고, 맑고, 밝고, 불합리하고, 병약하고, 격동적이고, 우울한 관념 또는 인상으로부터 자유롭게 유지하는 직접적인 방법은 샘을 특별히 돌보는 것입니다. 이 고귀한 부분은 다른 어떤 것보다도 신중하고 부드러움으로 재평가되어야 한다: 이 목적을 위해 질적으로나 양적으로나 그것을 거스르는 어떤 것도 취해서는 안 된다. 또한 어떤 영양 가능한 것의 하위 자세와 품질도 우리가 관찰해야 할 정당한 양(quaanti∣ty)만큼 많이 주장되어서는 안 된다: 왜냐하면 위(胃)가 일반적으로 평판이 좋은 것을 간절히 원한다면,페이지 24소화가 어렵거나 나쁜 Ali∣ment를 감당할 수 있습니다. 설령 같은 것에 대한 욕구가 있다 하더라도, 이 고귀한 부분은 그러한 경우에 탐닉되거나 호의를 베풀어야 한다. 더 적은 수량만 허용합니다. 의심할 여지 없이, 절묘한 돌풍의 이 가장 분별력 있는 막은 대부분의 경우 전체의 선을 위한 것이 무엇인지를 가장 잘 촉구한다: 그래서 격렬한 식욕에 혐오감이나 견제를 주고, 먹을 수 있거나 마실 수 있는 것을 쫓아다니면서, 우리는 종종 생명의 영들 안에 흐림, 둔함, 음침함, 그리고 어둠을 일으킨다. 그들을 그러한 불온한 불온한 존재로 몰아넣어서, 그들은 많은 더럽고 검은 형상들을 만들어내는데, 만일 이 저명한 Ven∣tricle의 아르케우스가 만족을 얻고 유머를 느낀다면, 그것이 극도로 원하는 바에 있어서, 정령들 안에 은밀함과 광채가 있을 것이며, 그 다음에는 더 많은 힘으로 행동들을 실행할 것이다.

환자들이 식욕이 극도로 중독된 음식을 먹지 못하게 하는 일부 물리학자들의 가혹함은 적지 않은 불이익을 초래했다. 또한 그들은 어떤 규칙들에 따라, 더위와 추위의 벌거벗은 성질들에서 가장 적합하고 데리베드(deri∣ved)를 파악하기 때문에, 그들에게 그러한 식이요법을 엄격하게 강요하는 자들을 덜 불쾌하게 하지 않는다페이지 25그의 돌풍이 가장 잘 맛보는 것에 가장 자연스럽게 기울어지고 익숙해져서, 그 설명에 순응하여 그가 열렬히 탐내는 것의 작은 몫을 그에게 주는데, 보통은 딱딱한 음식, 나쁜 주스, 나쁜 질, 또는 매우 뜨거운 음식으로 간주된다. 왜냐하면, 식욕을 만족시키는 데 이보다 더 적절한 식욕을 더 잘 표현할 수 있는 사람은 아무도 없기 때문이다.

나는 포셋 드링크(Posset-drink)를 알고 있는데, 어떤 의사들, 유머리스트들에 의해 시원해지기 위해, (그것에 대한 반감에 대한 더 이상의 고찰 없이) 심지어 악의적이고 병든 열병들에게까지 생명을 내뿜는 것까지 처방했다. 그러한 어둠이 즉시 그들의 영혼을 사로잡았고, 그러한 혐오스러운 형상들이 거기서 묘사되었다.∣ 그들은 죽음의 그림자에 접근했고, 의심할 여지 없이 소멸되었지만, 널리 퍼진 예술은 그 기형적인 형상들을 재빨리 지워버리지 않았다. 자연이 가장 공감하는 것을 가지고 있거나, 근친교배가 낳은 것을 제공하는 것은 너무나 위험하다. 이것은 확실히 Mans 자신의 경험에 의해 알려져야 합니다., 그가 꿀, 달걀, 사이더, 향신료, &c.

페이지 26이러한 이유 때문에 (나는) 치안법관이 되려고 하는 자들, 그리고 이 문제를 물리학자들보다 더 잘 판단할 수 있는 식도(Diet)의 지배적인 사람들, 즉 주제넘게 이온, 토마스, 윌리엄, 동일한 음식, 질서, 계절, 그리고 척도를 즐기고, 그것을 똑같이 취하는 것, 자궁 속의 영들에게 찍힌 어떤 개인이나 도장에 대한 존경심 없이, Qot Homines, Tot Diaetae observendae: 세상에 있는 사람의 수만큼이나 많은 사람들이 이것 저것 먹고 마시는 선택에 관해서는 분리할 수 없는 많은 속성들이 탐닉되어야 한다.

만일 우리의 갈레니즘 물리학자들(슬픔의 치료에 있어서 열과 냉기의 벌거벗은 성질에 그토록 많이 의존하고 있으며, 모순의 법칙에 따라, 그들이 말하는 대로 그들을 지시하지만, 거짓된 근거에 근거하여, 하나씩 소멸시키도록 지시하고 있다)이 오히려 우리와 함께 태어난 이 비뚤어지고, 기형적이고, 비뚤어진 인상들이나 인물들을 상쇄하고 지워버리는 것을 목표로 삼았다면, 그리고 정복할 수 없는 높이까지 자라는 과정에서, 필멸자들은 확실히 더 건전한 몸과 마음을 즐기고, 우울함에서 자유로워지고, 훨씬 더 맑은 정신을 즐길 것이다.

나는 그 위, 누구의페이지 27소화가 제대로 이루어지지 않으면 피버(Feaver) 또는 긴 어리석음(Imbecillity)에 의해 완전히 소외되며, 강한 애정에 의해 채찍질되면 송아지 고기, 닭고기, 육수, 젤리 또는 그러한 인위적인 요리보다 Red-her∣ring, 굴, 바닷가재, &c. 더 나은 것을 바꿀 수 있습니다. 그러므로 병자에게 볶은 것을 탐할 때 흠 두른 것을 먹으라고 권하는 것이니라. 또는 액체는 그가 고체를 요구할 때, 자연을 가로지르는 것이며, 어느 쪽이든 영양을 공급하기에 적합하게 만들 수 있다고 가정합니다.

내가 ∣확고한 사람의 위장이 음식의 공식적인 변화를 만들 수 없다는 것을 발견하는 모든 상태에서, 친절한 발효 또는 용해(예를 들어, 모든 Feavers와 신체의 매우 나쁜 습관에서)가 부족하기 때문에 거기에서 나는 일반적으로 좋은 술, 좋은 영으로 ሣ∣ 바운딩, 쉽게 Vitals에 al∣tered될 수 있는 최고의 술을 injoyn, 사려 깊은 더러움이나 찌꺼기를 남기지 않고 (소변과 땀에 의해 만나는 일부 불필요한 것을 운반하는 혈관으로 들어가는 watrish 부분) 그래서 내 수행은 하마가 무엇을 전달했는지 여러 해 동안 가르쳐 주었습니다. Fa∣cilius est refici potu quum cibo. 생명의 증기는 육체나 그 즙에 의해서보다 더 빠른 속도로 상쾌해지고, 더 오래 유지되는데, 이 주요한 조리실에 필요한 살아 있는 용매가 부족하기 때문에, 타락하고, 죽고, 악취가 난다. 그 위에 Feaver가 추가됩니다.페이지 28아르케우스는 그 분노로 커지면서 노인의 진실, Siquis in febre cibum de de∣rit, valenti Robur Aegrotanti Morbus에 따라 나약함, De∣spair, 혼란의 이데아를 만듭니다. 그러나 Malepracti∣cants의 관습과 권위는 너무나 강력하여, 병자는 그가 약해져야 한다고 생각하니, 만일 그가 고기, Caudels, 물죽 등을 먹지 않는다면, 그 식욕장수들이 정당화한 것들은 영양분으로 변할 것이고, 그로 인해 위장은 더욱 약해지고, 배설물은 풍성하게 생겨났고, 아르케우스의 분노는 미스티를 일으켰다. 우울한 표상들은, 생명의 태양을 가리고, 아르케우스 안에 있는 더러운 안개처럼 솟아오르며, 그래서 그것은 자신의 잘못된 관념을 바로잡는 방법을 볼 수 없게 하고, 그것들을 더욱 고정되게 한다.

갈레니즘 속의 시원한 술의 갈레니즘 교리는 Feavers, 즉 그들의 Maukish, 영혼 없는, 둔한, 납작한 Posset-drink, Small-beer, Barly-water, 시원한 조잡한 약초의 혐오스러운 달인 양액, Pippin 주류 등이며, 그것들은 생명력을 굶주리게 하고, 그것에 무감각을 가져와서, 그것의 적을 추방하기 위해 어떤 일도 효과적으로 할 수 없다: 그들은 마찬가지로 병든 주스에 쐐기를 박는다. 그래서 자연은 완전히 억압되어 운명에 굴복하거나 포로로 인도됩니다페이지 29긴 질병에 의해, 그들의 Mortiferous 방법의 일반적인 사건.

누구든지 페버나 다른 재앙에 빠지게 된다면, 나는 그에게 (여러 해에 걸친 근본적인 시련을 통해) 앞서 말한 불쌍한 굶주린 술을 ሣ무효로 삼고, 아르케우스가 적에게 강하게 저항할 수 있게 하고, 건강에 도움이 되는 온화하고 맑고 가벼운 상상을 꾸미고, 혐오스러운 더러운 물질을 제압할 수 있도록 하는 데 전념할 것을 조언합니다. 땀, 소변, 침 뱉기, 구토, 대변 등으로 생명과 교제하지 못하되, 그럼에도 불구하고 모(母)가 모든 것의 지침이 되게 하라, 왜냐하면 가장 칭찬할 만한 것들이 남용될 수 있기 때문이다, 내가 이따금 높은 페아베르에 자루 한 잔을 마시도록 허락한 사람들을 목격하라.

나는 목마름을 해소하기 위해, 위장과 기운을 강하게 하기 위해 좋은 독주를 결코 금하지 않듯이 나는 모든 사람에게 절제를 사용하라고 권고한다: 나는 다른 어떤 이유로 브로스, 콜리스, 달걀을 금지하지 않으며, 다만 그것들이 위에서 부패하여 발효가 영양가 있는 주스로 바꿀 수 없게 한다.

얻기 위해 과정을 밟을 사람 Iu∣벤투템페이지 30Senectute에서, 늙었을 때 젊고 신중해야 하며, Iuventute의 Senectutem을 존중해야 하며, 일부 노인이 그렇듯이 Tem∣perate, 냉정하고 신중해야 합니다.

우리는 우리의 탐욕스러운 식욕을 지배하기 위해, 라틴어가 아닌 알파벳으로 된 이 〈의 발효가 정복할 수 있는 것보다 더 많이 삼키지 않을 수 있도록, 우리의 자아를 올바로 알 수만 있다면, 우리는 상식을 좌절시켜야 한다. Plu∣res Gula quam Gladius: 몸과 마음의 수많은 악을 예방하고 치료할 수 있습니다.

For sith Natura paucis contenta est; 먹고 마시는 것이 평범함의 황금률을 이쪽에서 지키는 것이 그 너머를 벗어나는 것보다 훨씬 낫다.

특유의 견고한 헌법; 우리가 따르는 삶의 과정; 우리가 사용하는 운동; 우리가 거주하는 지역 또는 장소 우리가 폐로 빨아들이는 공기; 민첩성 또는 둔감함; 기민함(無性心) 또는 무성(無性)은 앞의 날들 다음날 아침에 먹고, 어떤 양, 어떤 질, 그리고 어느 시간에 먹어야 하는지를 지시한다: 따라서 우리는 잘못된 것을 규제하고 개혁해야 한다.

열심히 일하고, 산이 많고, 맑고, 온화한 곳에 사는 운동선수 중 한 명페이지 31Aire, 또는 바다에 정통하고, 활기차고, 바람이 잘 통하고, 잠든 후 활기가 넘치는, 약하고, 울퉁불퉁하고, 드루시 습관에 중독되어 있고, 앉아서 공부하는 생활에 중독되어 있고, 인구가 많은 도시에서, 또는 바다▪에서 멀리 떨어진 Fenny Foggy Countrey보다 더 많은 영양분에 정당하게 도전할 수 있습니다. 넵∣튠의 격화(運有)에 의한 몸의 동요(有有)는 공기(Aire)의 최근(公地), 그 풍부한 휘발성 산(山江)과 알칼리(Alkali)의 풍부한 휘발성 입자(共本動)는 소화제(共期)의 발효(河河)를 확증하고, 어떤 응고(野貴) 또는 드레기(Dreggy) 침전(金星)도 남기지 않고, 많은 사람들이 바다에서 그 부분을 디스∣상품(Dis∣commodity) 다섯 쌍둥이 없이 먹을 수 있도록, a∣bove 육지에서.

큰 아침 드래프트는 대부분 매우 해롭고, 마찬가지로 빈번합니다. 음식의 친절한 해체는 그로 인하여 지체되고, 위의 섬유는 정도에 의하여 이완되고, 음색은 쇠약해진다. 하루에 한 끼 식사는 신중히 절제하고, 한두 번의 짧은 스냅을 곁들여 〈라틴어가 아닌 알파벳으로〉 대부분의 남자들은 아주 잘 먹고, 부드러운 동작을 사용하며, 에어가 풍부한 날숨으로 가득 찬 곳에서 산다.

페이지 32그의 식욕이 그를 초대하지 않는 한, 그가 배불리 먹을 때까지 먹지 않도록 조심하라. Com∣medat non quidem ad repletionem cavitatis Stomachi▪ nec ad voluptatis sive gustus dicta∣men. '많은 사람들이 니게스티온보다 더 나은 식욕을 갖는 것은 많은 사람들의 불행이며, 이는 많은 생즙이 뭉쳐지고, 몸이 더 막히고, 숙고하고, 휘젓지 않는 빈번한 원인입니다. 왜냐하면, 만일 더 이상 음식을 섭취하지 않는다면, (배설적인 과잉 물질• 무분별하게 포장되어 보내진다), 같은 무게, 또는 조금씩 다른 무게를 함께 여러 아침에 함께 먹게 될 것이기 때문이다: 만일 어떤 카푸트 모트나 드레기 물질이 소화되지 않은 채로 남아 있다면, 영들은 둔해지고, 흐리고, 모호해지고, 덩어리 전체가 울퉁불퉁하고 무거워진다.

저작(文神)은 우리가 먹는 것을 정확히 씹는 것인데, 이는 행복한 디게스션(Di∣gestion)에 매우 유용하니, 서둘러 음식을 먹어치우는 자는 그의 위장에 가마우지나 오스트리치의 용매(Ostritch's Dissolvent)가 있어야 하기 때문이다.

다양한 요리는 우리로 하여금 평소보다 더 많이 먹게 하는 미끼이며, 소화할 수 있는 것보다 더 많이 위장을 괴롭히는 수단이며, 분리에 혼란을 일으키는 수단이다: 그래서 날것의 것이 정당하게 변화된 것과 섞여서, 둘 다 구별 없이 버려진다. 가장 평범하고 단순한, Home∣bred페이지 33음식은 일반적으로 고급스럽고 애지중지하며 호기심 많고 억지스러운 미인보다 홀솜을 선호합니다. 쇠고기, 양고기는 Partrid∣ges, Pheasants, &c. 갈색 빵 흰 빵 앞에 누룩이 들어간 빵.

그 폭군적이고 가혹합니다. 갈레니스트들이 그들의 환자들을 즐기는 Overbusie Pre∣cepts는 misere vivit qui medice vivit를 위해 거부되어야 한다. 법∣충실하고 유용한 것(Reme∣dies에 적합하기 때문에)을 엄격하게 지키는 것은 터키 노예 제도보다 나을 것이 거의 없습니다.

켈수스(Celsus)의 규칙은, 다이어트에 있어서 많은 것을 구하거나 호기심을 갖지 말라는 것(어떤 조치가 지켜져야 한다고 가정한다)은 유능한 건강을 누리는 모든 사람들에 의해 받아들여져야 한다: 그렇다, 어떤 큰 질병(자연이 엎드려 적의 지배에 종속됨)으로 억압받는 자들은 그들의 음식에 있어서 가장 엄격한 정부에 의해 결코 치유될 수 없다: 그러므로 그것들조차도(병이 그것을 제압할 수 있는 치료법을 만나게 될 때, 그들의 식욕을 만족시키기 위해 자유를 취해야 하며, 때로는 그들의 천재성을 평범한∣nary보다 더 관대하게 받아들여야 한다. 그것은 물리학자가 죽음의 고통에 대해 엄격하게 금지한 것을 얼마나 자주 알려졌는가? 같은 존재가 환자에 의해 비밀리에 밟히거나 은밀하게∣fered페이지 34간호원이나 몇몇 친구들에 의해, 질병의 여주인을 만들 수 있는 예상치 못한 수단을 증명했고, 이로써 생명의 영들은 그들의 성향과 격렬한 갈망에 너무나 잘 어울리는 것의 현존을 높이 평가하여, 그들이 용기를 내고, 장난스러운 이데아의 검은 구름을 흩뿌리고, 그 대신 들어갔다. 건강에 도움이 되는 선명하고 밝은 이미지. 아픈 사람이 어떤 식생활에 익숙해졌는지를 조사하는 것은 물리학자에게는 작은 신중함이 아니다. Quarum rerum inveteravit Consuetu∣do, quamvis deteriores sint illae, minus tamen insuetis male afficiunt. 아포어. 5. 라이브러리. 2.

이 경우에 우리는 때때로 관습적인 것만큼이나 홀소한 것에 대해 시간을 엄수해서는 안 된다: 또한 이것은 어떤 사람들이 감탄할 정도로 많은 양의 독약, 천박, 담배, 타일 또는 콜을 허용하기 위한 어떤 논쟁도 아니다. 그러나 문제는 어떤 무관심한 음식이 관습과 그것을 소화할 수 있는 강한 욕망과 관련되어 병약자에게 칭찬되고, 분배되고, 제공될 수 있는가 하는 것이다: 이러한 배려를 제쳐 놓았기 때문에, 그것은 결코 허락될 수 없었다.

결론적으로 나는 다이어트의 호기심, 신중함, 친절함을 제쳐 놓을 것을 조언합니다. 그페이지 35환자뿐만 아니라 물리학자도 식욕의 중요성이 주장하는 것∣•tes, 모든 음식의 관습이 촉구하는 것, •소화의 광대함이 허용할 수 있는 것: •또는 간절히 원하는 것, • 더 나은 변경에 기여합니다. 잘 바뀐 것은 생명력을 증가시키고, 그렇지 않으면 질병을 강화하고 자연을 약화시킨다.

•엔넬에 던져진 고기는 거기에 오래 누워 썩지 않아야 하며, •위 속으로 들어간 음식은 용해나 발효의 대부분이 결핍되어 있어야 하며, •사체나 푸트리피가 없어야 합니다. 여기서 ∣ 이전의 재앙은 ano∣•her에 의해 증강됩니다. 우리가 얼마나 많이 먹느냐가 아니라, 이 중요한 부엌에서 무엇을 정확하게 준비하느냐가 고려해야 할 주요 ∣•y입니다. 정맥, 동맥, 신경, 인대, 강모, 뼈는 모두 행복한 생존을 위해 피와 영혼을 바라보고 있으며, 위장으로 가는 것을 보고 있습니다. 그러므로, 〈◊〉 안락한 삶을 목표로 삼고, ut sit mens sa∣•a in corpore sano, 그는 •o∣•d와 액체 다이어트, 특히 첫 번째에서 과잉을 피하자. •그는 지금까지 그를∣•엘프를 이해하려고 노력하거나, 그녀를▪ 아는 사람들∣•ng의 지배를 받으려고 노력하여∣•o 이 막의 몸 안에 더 이상 집어넣어서는 안 되며, 그것이 할 수 있는 것 보다는∣•o 전체의 •ood를 위한 칭찬할 만한 물질로 변환되어야 한다. 어느 누구도 갈렌주의자들의 올바른 가르침을 받지 못하게 하라.페이지 36그들은 더위와 추위에 대한 거짓 가정에 따라 식단을 처방하고, Recollae• 어떤 중요한 Ens도 생산에서 활동하지 않습니다: 그러나 정령과 그들의 영감이 지시하는 대로 Coun∣sel을 주는 올바른 철학자 Chymist의 말을 들어야 합니다. 이로써 재단이 그토록 강하다면 Superstruct∣ure에서 상당한 Eerror를 저지를 수 없다.

제5장

다음으로 고려해야 할 것은 인간의 삶의 베네 에세(bene esse) 또는 잘 지내는 것(well∣fare)을 돌보는 것인데, 그것은 불필요하거나 배설적인 것을 비우는 것이며, 풍요로운 건강을 유지하기 위해 유익하고 친근한 매트를 유지하는 것이다. 모든 더러움(결코 생명의 보호에 맡겨서는 안 된다)이 배출될 수 있도록, 분비나 분리는 선과 악, 순수와 불순의 분리로 이루어지며, 능동적인 분리자인 아르케우스에 의해 이루어져야 한다: 왜냐하면 어떤 거부된 것∣아네우스가 보존되어야 할 어떤 칭찬할 만한 비눗물과 함께 난잡하게 던져질 때, 출혈(Haemorrhagies) 또는 플럭스(Fluxes)에서 더 예리한 물리학자들이 자주 관찰하는 것처럼 많은 불편함이 뒤따른다.페이지 37인공의; 쭉정이와 함께 밀을 버리고, 악취가 나는 유황과 함께 포도주를 버리는 것보다 더 터무니없는 일이 어디 있겠는가.

이제 그것들은 희귀할수록∣fied, 그리고 친절하게 발효에 의해 휘발되고, •ooner 그것들은 호흡에 의해 확산되거나 포장되어 보내지고, 몸의 습관을 통한 증산, 조금도 남지 않는∣ 총체적인 드레그의 잔여물, 만약 그것이 실패하면, 즉시 적분∣•y로부터의 적위, 활발하고 건전한 몸의 구성, Statica Medicina에 따르면 ∣ 조금 더 둔하고 사려 깊다. 이 더러운 침전물이 상당량 축적된다면∣•이 질병의 원인은 이따금씩 부화(沢舞)인데, 제때 예방하지 않으면 실제로 발병하여 •그의 감탄할 만한 골격(有會)의 오이코노미(元有)를 어지럽힌다. 그러므로 우리는 소화될 수 없는 어떤 것도 섭취하지 말아야 하며, 배설물은 대변에 의해 엄격하게 제거되거나 배설되어야 한다 (ventris torpor omnium confusio) 소변, 기대, 때로는 쉬운 구토 또는 단일간 피부 호흡: 자연이 분산되어 있는 곳에서는 예술이 공급해야 한다. 수용성 뱃살과 쉽게 증산할 수 있는 피부는 건강한 삶에 많은 도움이 됩니다. 원하는 것을 위해, Pil. Poly∣chrest 및 Tinctur. Polychrest는 때때로 Glysters와 Bathing을 생략하지 않고 많은 일을합니다페이지 38돕다. 여성에 있어서는 월간용어가 정당한 과정을 거쳐야 한다: 만약 그들이 부족하다면, 엘릭스. 프로프리. 황. 3월 철학적으로 준비된 것은 많은 소용이 있습니다. 또한 치핵 또는 말뚝이 열린 치질은 탐닉되어야 한다: 이것들을 드리우기 위해, 기초가 열려 있을 때, 풀뭉치로 이리저리 움직인다. 나는 이것을 각자의 짐을 덜어주는 가장 고귀한 선언으로 여긴다. 또한 씨앗의 supurfluity는 특이한 몸에 너무 오래 보관되어서는 안되며, 특히 신장, 비장, 머리의 성가심에 악취를 맡을 위험이 있는 경우, 고환을 보는 것은 그들의 우연을 돌보는 부분에 적지 않은 영향을 미치기 때문입니다.∣p., 만약 그들이 올바른 음색에 있다면, 확실히 순서가 어긋나면 그들이 불을 붙이는 기관의 눈에 띄는 손상에 해로운 광선을 쏜다. 여기서 너무 많이 범법하는 것을 조심하라, 왜냐하면 그것은 모든 것을 혼란스럽게 하기 때문이다.

그런데 내가 촉구해야 할 한 가지는, 물리학자들은 수렴제나 아편제에 의한 퇴화되고 악성적인 불순물을 어떻게 보존할 것인가, 원인을 제거하지 않고, 그것들이 흘러나오는 곳으로부터 어떻게 유지되는지에 대해 특별한 주의를 기울여야 한다는 것이다. 이것을 올바르게 수행하는 유일한 방법은 Arci••s를 진정시키고 exor∣bitancy를 수정하는 것입니다.페이지 39발효의, Na∣ture를 강화하기 위하여 Vitals를 de∣bilitating에 어떤 시정도 없이 작은 부분으로, drib∣ling 방식으로, 이전에 떨어져 온 성공하는 용이성을 가진 더 많은 양에서 동시에 그것을 실행하기 위하여. 그러면 의심할 여지 없이 위장의 Fi∣bers와 다른 부분들이 확증될 것이다(그들의 약점이 격리되는 Morbisick의 경우).

매일 아침 린넨 코스로 사타구니, 겨드랑이, 목 등 세 가지 주목할 만한 음절의 영혼을 씻어내는 것은 질병을 예방하는 데 어느 정도 도움이 됩니다. 금식하는 혀를 긁어내고, 끈적끈적한 불순물에서 혀를 제거하는 것은 스퀸시로부터 지키는 데 도움이 될 뿐만 아니라 다른 불편한 것들도 유익하다.

아몬드 케이크 포우드레드 양의 5-6배에 섞은 소성 포타재의 소금을 입 안을 문지르고, 물을 서너 숟가락∣ 가득 섞어 손가락으로 문지르면 입안을 문지른다. 주의: 날카로운 술은 이빨에게 불쾌감을 주지만, 알칼리는 이빨에게 우호적입니다.

챕터 VI.

셋째 행복한 삶을 지탱하는 데 필요한 후원자이자 회복자페이지 40손상될 때, 좋은 Aire는 폐에 con∣gruous 경우에 그것에 환영된다, 어떤 음식이 옳게 처분된 위장에 것과 같이. 유명한 치료법이 미네랄 물과 함께 어떤 결과를 가져왔는지는 갈레니스트들이 탈분리(de∣sparate)로 남겨둔 사람들에게 잘 알려져 있다: 왜냐하면 그들은 처음에는 공기가 주로 심장을 식히고 과도한 열에서 발생하는 미질성 입자의 폭발에 기여한다는 잘못된 가정에 근거하여, 어떤 열병이 환자를 침범한 것처럼 어느 정도 냉각의 징후를 취했다(그러나 모두 헛된 것이다. 병자의 힘과 지갑을 모두 소진하여) 그리하여 종말을 놓친 그들은 마침내 어떤 순수한 아이레를 찾기 위해 연구하고, 종종 치료하기에는 너무 늦었지만, 환자를 맡긴다) 그러나 그 진정한 원인에 대해 무지한 그는 (심지어 놀랍게도) 기대 이상으로 소생한다. 그들을 위해 응고, 혈액에 있는 dreggy grosness (오히려 augmen∣ted 보다는 faeculent 의약 위장에 적)는 subtil에 의하여 이다 주위 녹고, 희박한, 휘발되고 어떤 더러운 침전도 남겨둔 없이 포장을 보내졌다. 이로써 위(胃)는 그 디게션(Di∣gestion)을 회복하고, 혈액은 프로∣퍼 채널(pro∣per Channels)에서 자유롭게 흐르므로, 발효물이 있는 공기는 매우 강력하여 과즙을 정제하고, 감쇠(attenuat∣ing)한다페이지 41그들 안에 거하거나 비장이나 위장 주위에 숨어 있는 모든 끈질긴 물질은 주변이 얇거나 두껍거나, 비장이 제거되거나 드레기(drefecated) 또는 드레기(dreggy)에 따라 식욕과 소화가 훨씬 더 진행되거나 우울합니다. 이 위대한 수분 분리기는 어떤 곳에서는 사람의 몸의 단단한 영양분을 매우 희박하게 소비하기 때문에, 비록 그가 풍성하게 먹는다 할지라도, 어떤 지역에서는 그가 하는 것의 4배가 된다 하더라도, 그는 몇 주 전에 가졌던 것과 같은 몸의 무게를 얻고, 완전한 건강을 유지할 것이다: (발견되기 위해 무감각하게 흩어진 것들에 비하면 눈에 보이는 배설물은 거의 없다.)

이것은 미묘하고, 신선하고, 잘 명료하고, 자주 바뀌고, 차갑고, 꿰뚫는 에어의 행복한 효과이며, 폐에 감사한다: 다른 한편으로는, 이 앰비언트가 징그럽고, 정체되어 있고, 더러운 덩어리로 가득 차 있고, 갇혀 있고, 안개가 자욱하고, 안개가 자욱하고, 건강의 많은 혼란이 뒤따르고, 식욕이 둔하고, 소화가 잘되고, 피의 오염이 있다. 정령의 무거움, 발효의 타락, 질병의 군대가 우리를 침략합니다.

대기가 잘 갖추어지고 구성되는 곳에서, 사람들은 날의 길이를 즐길 뿐만 아니라, 현재 건전한 몸을 즐기는데, 그렇지 않으면 생명의 실이 짧아진다.

페이지 42일반적으로 땅에서 시끄러운 숨을 내쉬지 못하고 하늘의 자비로운 영향력을 견뎌내는 Aire는 Lungs에 유익합니다. 특히, 그 공기는 주로 질병으로부터의 보존과 온전함의 회복에 관한 것인데, 이는 개인과 가장 잘 일치하며, 그 승인은 경험에서 비롯된다. 왜냐하면, 어떤 사람들의 폐 속에는 이런저런 공기를 다른 공기보다 더 많이 받아들이는 자연적인 식욕이 있기 때문인데, 이는 위장에서 어떤 특이한 종류의 고기에 영향을 받는 것이 나쁘기 때문이다.

아이레가 잘못을 저지를 수 있는 경우, 예술은 자연을 모방하고, 정체될 때 환기시키고, 춥거나 역겨울 때 좋은 불로 가열하고 미묘하게 만들고, 수용 가능한 좋은 냄새의 확산에 의해 악취 나는 입자를 소비하거나 비행하게 함으로써 이루어져야 합니다. 공기가 과도하게 산성, 또는 더러운 질소 황 원자로 풍부하다면 가장 많은 재정제 Askali의 호흡과 잘 부식된 유황의 증기로 바로잡을 것입니다. 이 방법으로 많은 디세아를 예방할 수 있고, 어떤 식으로든 치료할 수 있다.

챕터 VII.

THe fourth Assistanting to a Comfortable Life, is Exercise and Rest, which ought Page  43 to succeed each other by turns, Quod caret alterna requie durabile non est. Now Motion is previous to Rest, for the first Symptoms of Life arise from a Loeo Motive Faculty.

We shall not here examine Aristotles Defi∣nition of Nature, i. e. The Principle of Mo∣tion and Rest; but rather insist upon the Modification or Regulation of Motion, as it tends to the Health of Man. Of so great use is Motion or Exercise, that the Wise Creator ordained Respiration, and Pulsation to con∣tinue constantly for our Vital pre•ervati∣on through the whole course of our Life; so that we Live no longer, when the Heart and Lungs do quite give over the faculty of Mo∣ving. Every one then ought to take singular care that Circulation of the Blood may be in no wise intercepted, nor free Breathing be intermitted: for that purpose the Exercise of the Muscles of the Limbs, gentle and sweet Recreation of the Mind do avail.

Moderate Equal Diaphoretick, Alterative and duly Excitative Labor joyned with plea∣sant, variable, admirable, rare and desirable Objects doth Expand and Dilate the Lungs and Arteries, whereby the Breast becomes 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the Arteries Emicant.

Nothing promotes these Actions better than cheerfulness or temparate Joy, constant love of what is truly amiable, never to be repent∣ed Page  44 of, A probable hope of some good not long to be deferred, at length a sweet enjoy∣ment of that which is durable, and capable to usher in better things: For I am of a very brave Man's Opinion; The Comfort of our whole Life depends upon expectation of bet∣ter things. Also Magnanimity or Courage founded upon Virtuous Enterprizes, aspiring to Noble Designs, for a Publick as well as Pri∣vate Interest, do sweetly enlarge the Spirits, quickning the Ferments, causing an expulsi∣on of Superfluities: Yea just Indignation, kept within its due Limits, facilitates Respi∣ration, Transpiration and Pulsation.

On the contrary, Fear, Sorrow, Melancho∣ly, Hatred, Jealousie, Envy contract the Di∣aphragme, and the Muscles of the Breast, hindering legitimate breathing, occasioning an Immature Importunate Systole, or a Su∣pine Connivence in the Arteries.

It is not amiss sometimes to be transported beyond the common bounds of Moderation; to be agitated with some Extraordinary passi∣on of the mind, and to sustain tedious Labor, that the sweeter composition of Mind, and most delightful rest of Body may follow; sith one constant strict tenor pertaining to Diet is hardly to be obtained, without greater damage, whensoever we offend, not to be avoided by any Man, who hath a Pub∣lick Page  45 Employment, or a secular Interest to look after: so that it is better to be accustomed to any Exercise or labour of Bo∣dy and mind voluntarily, least we be surpriz'd unawares unwillingly to our notable hurt.

I advise those parts should undergo most gentle Exercise, which are weakest; to walk oftner upon the lower Limbs when they are somewhat feeble; to move rather the Arms and Hands when incident to a debility, lest the stronger by motion defraud the weaker, and so Alogotrophia or disproportion in the nourishment of parts follow.

I approve Frication of all parts, especially three noted Emunctories; the Groin, Arm∣pits, and Neck with a course Cloath, with∣out curious superstition of rigtht oblique or transverse Directions.

Combing the Head every Morning is an exercise profitable for the Brain and upper Limbs encreasing their vigour and opening the Pores for the emission of Excrements en∣gendred in the sixt Digestion, which is not a little depraved by a superfluous covering, so that the Brain through too much Heat be∣comes Effeminate, Soft and Imprudent.

Let every man make choice of that Exer∣cise or Recreation he is most inclined, most agreeable to his Constitution, whereby he is most relieved.

Page  49CHAP. VIII.

THe fifth inseparable Companion of our Life neerly related to Exercise and Mo∣tion is Sleeping and Waking. These make almost a Divident of the Life of this Mi∣crocosm: And happy it is for Man, that the first was Instituted, sith great are the Cares of miserable Mortals, that he hath reason to bless his Creator that he can fall into a sweet Lethean Sleep, which, like a short Death, de∣prives him of Sorrow and Anguish of Spirit. Pax Animi quem cura fugit. Albeit great is the comfort of a moderate Sleep, as to the re∣freshment of Body and Mind, whereby they are enabled to execute their Faculties and Offices more vigorously awake; yet no small are the Discommodities brought upon us by excess therein, as an Indisposition to follow Ingenious Arts or Sciences, a Stupidity to comprehend the Truth of things, Forgetful∣ness, Supinity, or Indifferences what be∣comes of our future State, leaving Affairs in a confused condition, Indigested and Despe∣rate. It heaps up Crudities, flats the Arche∣us, hinders the Expulsion of Superfluities, makes the Body Woman-like, Delicate, Ten∣der, Wanton, unfit for any Noble Enter∣prize, accumulates Excrements, yielding a∣bundant Page  47 Matter for all sorts of Diseases, &c. Excess also in Waking is accompanied with multitude of ill Consequents, Impovrish∣ment and Distraction of the Spirits, Absurd Idea's, Indigestion, an Augmentation of A-aids Hypochondriack Fits, Melancholy and Madness.

CAAP. IX.

THe last Inseparable Concomitant of Life to be Insisted upon, whereby our con∣dition is made better or worse, according as we govern them well or ill, is our Passions; which, if they move regularly, produce a sweet Tranquility in the Mind, and a Salu∣brity in the Body: but if extravagant, flying out beyond their bounds, they confound the whole Oeconomy of this Admirable Frame. The Stoicks seem to endeavour to deprive themselves of a Sensitive Life, when they would have a man to be 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. This is all one as not to take notice of any thing ad∣verse to Nature: for it is impossible for a Man Apprehensible and Imaginable, not to be moved by the Object, he apprehends or Ima∣gines; as it is pleasing or distastful, so he de∣sires it, or abhors it, the Affections hereby set on work, great reluctancy, effervescence Page  48 perturbation arise in the Spirits which some∣times strangly alter the Texture and Crasis of the Blood. The Idea's or Images of Sorow, Fear, Anger, Joy, Jealousie, Hatred, Emula∣tion are sometimes so fixed in the Animals, that they become indeleble: hence vain Ima∣ginations of the whole Man, Dotage, Melan∣choly and Furie are Emicant: neither do the absurd Conceptions, and vain Imaginatiors of the whole Man only cause disturbance in the Stomack or Brain, Storms or Tempests in the Universal Archeus, but likewise the Spi∣rit of every part frameth particular Images of Indignation, Fear, &c.

Any Spinous, acculeating, or pricking Matter in any particular part, presently puts the Vital Spirit there into a passion, the Ar∣cheus of the Eye is forthwith put into an in∣dignation, when an Extimulating Fretting Liquor is either injected into it, or engen∣dred in it, through a fault in its peculiar De∣gestion: whereupon the Lympha, Latex, or the Wheyish Humour is lured or summoned for the Ablution of this Blot, or Defect, which when it cannot perform, the Ocular Water, as well as the Nourishment thereof, is depraved, through the ringing Attrition of the Sensitive Spirit, which ought by all means to be pacified. The like Perturbation is observed to be raised in the Archeus of the Page  49 Ear, Nose, Windpipe, &c. when any trou∣blesome cause ariseth there. 'Tis certainly true, Omne Vivens Mortui impatiens esse so∣let. Whatsoever is alienated from Life, en∣gendred either within, assumed or injected from without, brings, sometimes sooner or sometimes latter, the Custos of the Whole or Part into an Inquietude. For this reason Cantharides applyed, raise Blisters in the Skin of a Living Body: from the same cause do vi∣rulent Animals, Vegetables or Minerals, ta∣ken inwardly, Purge violently; for as much as the Sensitive Spirit falls into an indigna∣tion at the presence of that it abhors, so makes a confusion of the holsome Juices by Colliquating, and Putrefying them. Hereup∣on so little benefit arises from things meerly loosening the Body: the Principal Agent be∣ing exasperated by what is contrary to its Texture and Nature. After this rate did I be∣gin my Practice, being taught no better, than to give many Stools or Vomits, with∣out indulging or pleasing this great Presi∣dent, which, as I have often proved, is the Supreme cause of Sanity and Infirmity. But afterward instructed by a far more able Tu∣tor, than the Schools, I began to correct my former Traditional Error, following the sure Thread of repeated Experiments; so that at length I never gave any Solutive not fitting Page  50 to Corroborate the Stomach, not friendly to the Ferments and Vitals. Before I took this course, all frequent Laxatives were fruitless, because they did anger and enrage the Ar∣cheus, stirring up Storms and Tempest in the Microcosm, instead of a sweet Tranquili∣ty. By this means the Idea's of the Phantasie ingeneral were rectified and clarified, after that the Spirits in particular places were com∣posed aright. He that desires to be free from absurd Melancholy thoughts, furious passi∣ons and perturbations, let him take Eustoma∣chical Benign, Benevolent Remedies, suffici∣ent always to cleanse away Impurities, with∣out causing Hatred, Frowardness or high Displeasure in Nature, whose genuine course is to be observed without putting her to any violent stress, or compulsion.

CHAP. X. The Pharmaceutick, or upright Method of Cu∣ring Diseases by Medicines in general.

HOw the Galenists have been mistaken concerning the Four Elements, their Mixture for the Composition of Bodies, their Contrarieties, Qualities, Complexions, de∣duced from thence, how falsly they have de∣livered Page  51 them to be Principles of Natural Ex∣istences, and the Causes of Sickness and Health, hath been perspicuously detected by our Philosophical Pyrotechnist: upon this foresaid rotten Foundation have they raised their Stately and Pompous Fabrick of Cu∣ring, Obstinately endeavouring still to keep it up.

The Rule of Contraries derived from Ima∣ginary Supposition of the Hostility and Re∣luctancy of the the Four Elements (whence they say all Concretes have their Original by which they chiefly act, for the end to debel∣late Mans Infirmities, hath been the bane of many Myriads. Where they find any notable heat in a Feaver, they presently take Indi∣cation to cool the Body, in a degree propor∣tionable to its Antagonist, in hopes thereby to reduce the Body to an Eucrasie. but still with unlucky success: For neglecting the Radical Cause, and aiming at the Abolitions of Accidents, Products or Symptoms, how can it be otherwise, but that they must needs miss the Mark, unless they hit it by casualty? A Faithful Knowing Physitian is uncon∣cern'd and indifferent whether the Patient be Hot, Cold, or Temperate (as to the touch) in a Feaver; whether Thirsty or no. For as∣much as he understands the same Agent that sends forth a hot Blas, doth also send some∣times Page  52 a Cold from the same Matter. He also frequently observes a Cold dead Splinter or Thorn doth Vex, Gaul, Fret the Archeus of the Finger in such a manner, that the Pulse becomes above measure Magnified, the Co∣lour Rubified, the Blood incensed, the Heat Exalted: All which arise from the Material cause of the Thorn impacted: Likewise the Eye waters, smarts, abhors the Light, looks red or inflamed, from a mote or a small frag∣ment of Glass, &c. Cold things; by reason of the Passion of the Ingenite Spirit, much provoked at the presence of the Guest so un∣welcomed to life.

Moreover, a spark of fire, Essentially Hot, lighting upon the hand or elswhere causes a sudden shivering Coldness all over the Body. What is more frequent than to sustain a grie∣vous Rigour or Coldness, even to chattering of the Teeth, from the abundance of a sup∣posed humor called Choller, analogous to Fire (as they will have it) Hot and Dry. On the other side, how Hot and Dry have I known some Phlegmatick Bodies in Feavers, even beyond Cholerick? In this Case, how, without contradiction to their Theorems, can they without lethiferous Mistakes, give cooling things, for the encrease of Phlegm, and Hot for the advancement of Choller: were not this to augment the cause of the Page  53 Disease? Is not this rather the very strait course to relieve the misaffected, to exempt the Thorn or Splinter out of the Finger? the Mote & Fragment of Class out of the Eye by proper Instruments? also to attenuate, rarifie Phlegm, to mitigate, Edulcorate, Retund and alter Choller, by what is adaequated opera∣tive, for the ablution, abstersion, and carry∣ing away both. Sospite Stomachi ac Naturae robore, through all the most requisite Sluces of the Body. This done (like a true Philo∣sophical Artist) a sweet Tranquility appears in the Vitals, all evil Symptoms of Heat, Cold, &c. forthwith or in a very short time vanish. Neither in this case is it of Moment, whether the Remedies bringing this to pass be Hot or Cold, sith as substracting the Fuel from the Fire it will quickly be extinguished; so removing the occasional Matter of Heat, this is soon annihilated.

Did the Schools rightly comprehend, how Fire may be procured by the Rapid Collisi∣on of two cold incombustible solid Bodies, as Stone and Steel, or by the long attrition of an accensible Matter, no whit hot to the touch, or by the Fermentation, Agitation, Conglomeration or Compression of Acids and Alkali's: also by Concentration of Light into a Cone, or Minute Compass, they would be better acquainted with the Cause Page  54 of the Aestuation, Effervescence, and Accen∣sion of the Vital Spirits in Feavers; hereby suitable Remedies might be provided.

When at any time the Genuine, Domestick Spirits of the Microcosm, and a Wild Exo∣tick Gas meeting together do strike or grate one upon another in a confused whirled man∣ner: there strait breaks forth a preternatural heat, to be corrected by Pacifying the Vitals enraged, and enabling them to profligate or subjugate this hardly tameable, both subtil Wild Spirit, and the matter from whence it emerges; which is never to be accomplish∣ed by Cooling Prescriptions, but by that which pleases the Archeus, indulging it ex∣ceedingly.

If degenerate Salts, Acid or Alkali couch∣ed in a rotten Matter, create Thirst, or exces∣sive Heat by framing a Tumult in the Ani∣mals, whatsoever doth correct the same is to be embraced indifferently whether hot or cold. 'Tis enough if I can attain my Grand Intention, the ablation of the Nocuous Ther∣mopoietick Matter, the Substance on which all Qualities, Accidents depend. If I can compass this Fundamentally, why do the Galenists wilfully blind, cavil and rail at my Elaborate Preparations, as violently Hot, Burning, Drying, Inflaming, when they can∣not but be informed that I, spurning at their Page  55 Silly, Insignificant Qualities of Heat and Cold (as to Essential Cures) I Extirpate all Feavers by amotion, and abandoning the O∣riginal Exciter thereof: But in this state I renounce all Dreggy, Drossy, Indigested, Extimulating, Fretting Saline, Unclean, Malignant, Virulent Medicaments which frequently given by them, certainly do often positively disturb the Stomach, procu∣ring unkindly Heat.

'Tis not that seeming to be Hot (because it penetrates, rarefies, and affects the parts by its glowing, Spirituous Particles, as if something fiery were applied) is rashly so to be censured in Effect: But what is Im∣pure, Corrosive, or Venemous, is to be Condemned, as Burdensome caco-stoma∣chical, Clogging, Fretting, Vexatious, Spinous, absolutely Hostile to our Princi∣ples, Putrefactive, and so Consequently, Thermopoietick.

It Argues great Incogitancy in any, to Judge of the Inward Energie of an Elabo∣rate Pharmacon by the Taste, or outward apposition before the Ingredients be right∣ly understood; and the exquisite Manufact∣ure discovered: Some things either taste not at all, or pleasantly, yet procreate Dyscrasies, deadly Intoxicating Consequents; there is also that whose Sapour, harsh, nauseating of an Page  56 Excelling Gust, notwithstanding Vivi∣fick, Alexitery, Salutary, Eucrate in Ope∣ration.

'Tis the Calamity of our Art, that the World knows not how to distinguish be∣tween the Adulterate and Legitimate Tra∣ctation of Chymical Works. Hereby Oppor∣tunity is given to the Enemies thereof, ly∣ing in Ambush, to Sally out opportunely, and Charge it fiercely, with those Crimes that their own and Vulgar Pseudochymi∣cal Medicaments are guilty of. Because the Officinal mixtures are inexpertly entred upon, ill-contrived, slubbered over, indis∣creetly fabricated, for that respect are too Hot, Violent, hurtful to the Stomach, leav∣ing sad Impressions behind of an Inflaming, Colliquating, Tabefying Condition; ought upon this Score, our Philosophical Polyacea's acquired by Sweat, long Experience, and true Sophy of Pyrotechnie, be Sentenced as Vile, and Pernicious? Certainly, the best Sack is not ere the less to be Reckoned a Noble Cordial, because some Vintners sell Sophisticated, depraved Liquor. What is more Common at this day, than to coun∣terfeit the best in its kind, through Idleness, Self-love, Avarice, and wilful Inexperi∣ence?

If the Galenists would take pains them∣selves, Page  57 not fearing the choaking fumes of Charcoal, nor the Arsenical Spirits of Mi∣nerals, taking the Fruits of their Labour in∣to their own Bodies, before they tendered them to their Patients: Would they spare no Cost to the purchasing the best Materials; or be willing to learn of those who are able to Instruct them, then would they soon be convinced of their Folly, that what I offer the Diseased, is neither too Hot, Dange∣rous or Injurious to Nature, though taken in a Quintuple Dose. Assuredly were not the Galenists most disingenuous beyond Expres∣sion, they would never discover their active Ignorance thus perpetually, to contradict, oppose, and malign the Method which they cannot but be Canscious, is the Down-right, Clear, Safe, Concise way of Healing by Sup∣pressing, Taming, and Profligating what is really the Occasional Matter of the Disease, according to Hippocrates, Acide, Austere, Bitter, Pontick, not Cold or Hot. Those be∣ing altered and discarded by means of pow∣erful, effectual, Arcana, an Eutaxie, Eucrasie, and Symetrie in the Microcosm follows.

The Good Old Man also tells us of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in Diseases, which I find common to all great Feavers containing a venemous Nature more or less, acting in an Extraordinary Irregular manner, different from meer degenerate Page  58 Matter, as Acid, Bitter, &c. This sometimes if not maturely prevented, stabs the Heart a• it were with a Cryptick Dagger, no manifes• Reason derived from the Elements to be al∣ledged. So Spiritual, graduated Poison is hatched in our Bodies, that it pessundates, or knocks down Animals in the twinckling of an eye.

Dares any Humourist undertake by means of Heat or Cold to overcome Arsenical, R•∣algar, Aconital, Opiate, Sardonian, Taxea•, Cicutarie, Viperine, Scorpionian, Tarantula like Poisons forged by the continually mo∣ving Archeus, and specified according to its Fancy?

What a Childish Conceit is it to wave the oblation of what hath an Antidotal Virtue implanted in it sufficient to mortifie the fore∣said Properties, least they be too heating? What grand Do•age, yea Madness even to Homicide, not to permit a Cure for the scru∣ple of an Idle, Vain Qualitie.?

Doth any but a Dolt fear to give Aqua-Vitae, or any Spirituous Liquors to a Lipothy∣mical Person whose Vitals Wanze and Wain, imagining it may heat too much. Were our Lukewarm Physitians but as well experien∣ced as Sea Chirurgeons, yea even as some of the more knowing Mariners, they would ex∣tirpate Feavers here, as Calentures at Sea, by Page  59•ubtil Spirits, corrected with better Judg∣ment than their Punch. For I know no solid •eason why our Seamen should so frequent∣•y miscarry in their long Voyages heretofore ••so that hardly a competent number were •eft to bring home the Ship) unless this, that •hey take and give in Causons or Burning Feavors, apply likewise to Inflammations, Spiritous Liquors, a thousand times to be preferr'd before their Flat, Dull, Vapid, Mor∣•iferous, Cold Juleps, and other Insipids. If these Spirits too Hot (as they will have them) do good beyond their 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Spi∣ritless Prescriptions, what will they perform in the hand of an Adeptus, who knows how to correct and free from Impurity, Acrimony, Tenacity, too much Famelick Praedatory fa∣culty (the Real Cause oftentimes of the in∣dignation, consequently the excessive Heat of the Archeus) the best of their Spirituous Preparations. This demonstrated ex facto without frivolous Controversies or Cavils, one would think should take these Humorists or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 from their Jejune, Cold, Torpid, Barren Opinions, that this or that is too hot, because it seems so to their Ple∣beian Rustick Taft: whereas in very deed it is only endued with a highly defecated Spi∣rit, rectified beyond their vulgar Art, not a∣ble to free from a Cacostomachick dross, or Page  60 Fretting, Coagulating, Spinous, Salt and Malignant, Venemous Sulphur, the occasio∣nal Causes of all Praeternatural Heat in the Body.

Let these Philosophical reasons suffice for the confutation of their Accidental Way of Curing, by Heat and Cold, and that Calum∣niating Objection that the best Chymical Re∣medies are too Hot.

Now shall I proceed in short, to detect how Maliciously as well as ignorantly, they im∣peach our Salutary Manufactures of Danger of Evil Consequence, of sad Impressions left behind, causing 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Antedating the Life, and bringing it to an Immature Period.

I confess what they make the World be∣lieve in relation to our Instruments of Heal∣ing, may be fitly applyed to the Medica∣ments of their Dispensatory: for they are either clogged with Nauseating, Dirty, Foe∣culencies, abound with Impure, Acrimoni∣ous, Corrosive Salts and Sulphurs, or endued with some Deletery 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Ill-conditioned, Intoxicating Concretes, very adverse to Na∣ture.

The Chymical Preparations which they formerly inveighed against as 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Le∣thiferous, or dangerous, the Galenists have of late entertained into their Ill-compiled, Worse-managed Exemplar.

Page  61This Rhapsodie of Chymical Pharmacy tran∣•cribed out of the more Trivial Authors, is 〈◊〉 Rude, Indigested, so slightly handled, more fitting the Laick, than any Sophical Clark, so uncertain, yea perilous in their •ffects. Some whereof are Virulent, leaving many times Stigma's of their Malignity be∣•ind, so that no Adeptus but will conclude: The greatest part of them ought to be ex∣•unged, with a supply made of better things, •nd what remains to be more discreetly or∣dered in their Manufacture.

How do the Galenists impose upon us, first •o Cry down most Satyrically, even to the Persecution of certain Honest Ingenuous Friends to this Art, those Meaner sort of Pa∣•acelsian Remedies, now to make use of them •o the detriment of many a Patient, as well •s to the keeping up the Credit of their Tot∣•ering Dogmatical Structure, which must of •ecessity have fallen ere this to the ground, •ad they not closely foisted in upon a pinch •ome Spagyrical active Preparations stolen •rom us, at that time, when their most Dull Mixtures would take no place: then boast∣•ng they tell the Credulous that their own gross Compositions had the greatest share in •he Cure, whereas in reality, they did no o∣•her than hinder it.

Upon this account how subtilly do some Page  62 pretend to be Chymists, stealing Theorem• and Chymical Notions out of Van Helm. di••guising, putting them into an Elegant dress concealing the Authors Name. Thus 〈◊〉 these Plagiaries own that filched from him, whom in publick discourse they eithe• condemn or slight: were they any whit can∣did, they would blush to do so. This Crime may justly be imputed to the Author De Fer∣mentat. De Febri. and others, who make a great noise about Lac Sulphur. Spir. C. C. Spir. Vitri. Ens Vene. &c. enough (they think) to make them cryed up for rare Chymists; whereas were these Men, with their Prescrip∣tions, brought to the Test of Practice, they would easily be discovered to be but smatter∣ers in this Philosophical Science: then would their egregious Defects be obvious to any knowing Person. Hereby the Safety, Inno∣cence and Vital Preservation of Manufact∣ures would appear, as much transcending theirs in excellent Endowments, as a Torch in its Bright Beams surpassing a small Tallow Candle.

Moreover, we are able not only to justifie our Operations beyond theirs; as free from hazard or dangerous Consequences: but we dare maintain what we give to the Sick, con∣duces to their future Welfare, and length∣ning out their Life, according as Divine Page  63••ovidence is pleased to allow of the means 〈◊〉 that end.

Having thus by solid Reasons offered to be ••nfirmed by the true Touchstone of Expe∣••ence, acquitted our Chymical Pharmacy from 〈◊〉 Slanders of our Enemies, viz. that our •ateria Medica is so ill handled, that it is •o Hot, Burning, Dangerous, &c. I shall •ow describe the direct Method of Curing •ifficult Diseases by help of a sincere Chymi∣••l Legitimate Learned Art.

The chief Indication or Scope, which the Well-instructed Physitian ought continually 〈◊〉 have an eye upon is, to keep in vigour, •lso to pacifie, indulge, gratifie the Archeus 〈◊〉 Vital Spirit, the Achitectonical contriver •f our first Being, the constant Conservator •f our Well-being, the Author of our Health •nd Sickness, Weal and Woe.

This 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 of Hippocr. by its Impulse •ets all the Wheels going. If a Dysphonie hap∣pen in the Sphere of this Vital Aire there a∣•iseth forthwith a jarring in the Inferiour Orbs of the Microcosm.

The Second Principal Indication is the Ab∣••tion of the Inward Efficient Cause, and the Outward Occasional Irritating Matter which •isturbs the Archeus putting it into Enor∣•ous Passions and Perturbations.

These are the two Leggs, by which The∣rapeutick Page  64 or Healing Faculty is moved. 〈◊〉 that is wanting in one of these is certainl• Maimed.

Whatsoever encreaseth the Eutonie o• Strength of the Vital Spirit, ought to have Similitude of Nature, and Symbolize wi•• the same Spirit, seeing Like doth readily ••nite with Like, embracing each other in•••mately. That we may find out a Compe• with the Archeus, the Essential knowle•• thereof is to be enquired after.

The Vital Spirit is a most thin Aehere▪ Breathing, arising from the Blood, perpet••ally circulated in the Veins and Arteries ill•∣minated, framed by Virtue of a Vital Fe•∣ment in the left Ventricle of the Heart, of a Saline, Balsamical Constitution, by means o• whose Bright Beams all Spirits generated a new, diffused through the whole body re∣ceive their Light and Vivacity.

The Original of this Ruddy Juice where the Spirits first begin to flash and glister is from the Stomach, where every thing in∣gested is dissolved (by power of a Ferment, partly ingenite, partly derived from the Spleen or Arteries) into a Whitish Acide Chyle; This passing through the Pylorus or Neather Orifice of the Ventricle into the Guts called Duodenum, Iejunum, Ileon is there converted (by a Lixiviate like, property of Page  65 the Gaul, mixed with the Acid into a saline Texture denominated Chyme. The more refined part of this Juice is conveighed through invisible Pores of the Guts into the Venae Lactae or Milky Vessels, both trained by them, and likewise impelled by the Peristal∣tick Motion of the Guts. These Venae Lacteae carry the Milky Juice into the Liver Pancreas cava, through whose Channels it runs Ru∣bified into the right Ventricle of the heart, thence it is driven out into Arteria Pulmon, divaricated into the Lungs, by means of the Centraction of the Heart, then taken up by the Vena Pulmonica, it falls into the left Ven∣tricle, where it is Flavefied by the Vital Ferment of the Heart: by the force of whose Systole, this Spirituous Liqor springs into all parts designed for Nutrition, Procreation, Sense and Motion.

Sith then 'tis plain that the first Foundati∣on of the Blood is laid in the Stomach accor∣ding to whose 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, upon whose good and bad action future digestions depends: so that if the Chyle be once depra∣ved in the first shop the Chyme and Milky Juice cannot be made in every respect appro∣ved in the second or third Laboratories: Consequently very laudable Blood and Spi∣rits can never be Fabricated. For as the Chyle is, such is the Chyme, Lacteous Li∣quor, Page  66Latex, or Lympha, Cruor, Sanguis and Spirits. Sith then there is such a Concate∣nation, Connexion, continued File of the Albified Mass in the Stomach, to the rubifi∣ed Balsome in the Heart, and so to the ex∣treme parts: every, knowing upright Phy∣sitian ought to be sollicitous about the di∣screet Oeconomy or Order of this Noble part▪ that defaecated Blood and Spirits may be crea∣ted. Wherefore that thing ought not to be taken into the Body, which is any way offen∣sive to the Archeal Ferment of the Stomach, or the weakening of its Tone. Whatsoever is Dull, Flat, Dreggy, Fretting, Rank, Cor∣rosive, or Virulent must be avoided. Things Active well purified 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in a just propor∣tion 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 exquisitely mixed, endued with an 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 fragrant smell, Sympathizing with the Constitution of this Membrane, Be∣nevolent, and Antidotal are to be assumed, that Clean, Bright Spirits may be multiply∣ed springing from this Vital Balsame.

Well-rectified Spirits of Strong Liquors I have always found to perform much tend∣ing to that end before proposed. For no soon∣er are they received into the Stomach, but part of them are rapt into the Vessels, being suddenly carried into the Heart and Brain, whereby the whole Body is invigorated, the Vital Spirits in a Moment encreased and illu∣minated: Page  67 hereupon the Peccant Matter di∣sturbed is profligated by Sneezing, Expecto∣ration, Sweating, or Transpiration: by some Effloresence or Eruption in the Skin, as Pim∣ples, Spots, Botches, &c. by Stool or Urine. The Truth of this, as I said before, is con∣firmed by those who making long and dan∣gerous Voyages, recover of grievous Mala∣dies, as Calentures, Scurvie, &c. by force of a quickning Drink called Punch, made of Rack or Brandy: whereas formerly they were turned off as fast as rotten Sheep, through that Nonsensical Method of Healing, which the Doting Galenists taught the Credulous World, by Cooling, and Moistning Juleps. In such sort hath the Authority of these Dog∣matists Domineered over Mankind for many Ages past; yea doth yet endeavour to up∣hold the same amongst us, that Millions have perished by this Absurd Doctrine of Heating in Cold Diseases, as likewise Cooling in Hot. However many Intelligent Subtil Wits do discover the Falacy of their Corrupt Theo∣rems, or Axioms in Physick, casting away their Slibbersauces, do rather chuse to trust to Holsome, Well-made Strong Liquors in Feavers, than their Ill-contrived Insalutife∣rous Weak, Drossie Mixtures or Compositi∣ons. I heard a Learned Gentleman of Note declare, that he was Cured of a Malignant Page  68 Feaver by means of Brandy Wine well con∣strued taken in a large quantity, when the Methodical Doctor of the Colledge, threat∣ning his Ruine thereby, caused him to desist, but for one day, and take his more Tempe∣rate Prescriptions, which had like to have cost him his Life, if he had not fallen to his for∣mer Spirituous Liquor again.

For my part I am of this Judgment, that 'tis better (for the most part) to Cure Fea∣vers after the Maritine Mode, than to walk in the Customary Road of Exhibiting Medi∣cines according to the supposed Qualities de∣scribed in the London Dispensatory.

Ile maintain Hippocr.〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, constant, moderate sumption of Strong Liquors (omit∣ting Broath, Gellies, Water-Gruel, Spiritless Pos•et-crink, &c.) shall be more preval‎ent to rid away Feavers in general, than that 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Hodg Podg of Supernumerary Ingre∣dients jumbled together without Discretion, or serious consideration of the congruity of each one with another, without seperating the precious from the vile by a Pyrotectni∣cal Analysis of every Concrete, whereby the violent Ferine powers of some things are mi∣tigated, cicurated, and made Friendly to our Constitution: also the singular Medical Dowrie of other Concretes are explicated, exalted, graduated, the clog of their Terre∣strial Page  69 Impurities discharged, hindering their Activity.

Who that is experimentally Intelligent, would not in a sudden Lipothymie or Defecti∣on of the Spirits, rather confide in the Ana∣leptical or Refocillating Efficacie of good Wine, or well Distilled Brandy, than in Dia∣scordium, Venice Treacle, London Treacle, or any of their Confections Elect. or divers of their Potions?

I cannot otherwise believe but that the Benign Creator, pitying the sad Condi∣tion of Man, made worse by the Doct∣rine of Galen (who never saw Aqua Vitae; therefore delivered to Posterity, this Gross, Fulsome, Fruitless Means of Curing) hath in this later Decrepit, Infirm Age of the World, detected by the mouth of Mariners and Rusticks, the use of those excellently well Distilled Spirits, which these Thermolo∣gists, and Psychrologists (a company of Deli∣rous Disputants about Hot and Cold Disea∣seases, requiring, as they say, Instruments of a contrary quality thereto to be applyed, neg∣lecting the Essential Nature, and Radical Cure of Diseases) have Suppressed, to the Infinite Detriment of Mortals, for many Centuries of years.

Now can the Indigent Sick-man without fear of over-heating his Blood, threatned by Page  68 these Thermologists, confidently swallow a due Portion of vegetable Spirit potent to augment sometimes to admiration the pau∣city of the Animals, enabling them to ex∣clude some part of the Spurious Juice offending the Body like a Thorn in the side Now both Country-Men, as well as Sea Men, take these Spiritouus Liquors, withou• scruple that they may quench their thirst asswage Burning Feavers, keep off a fixe• Delirium, and procure rest, to the confusi•on of the rotten Precepts of these Ignorantly Learned Galenists. Away then with these idle fopperies of taking directions of curing from Heat and Cold: hereby fancying ap•plications contrary to those Accidents wil• prevail; seeing it is perspicuous, all those endeavours come to nought, unless the vital Spirit be animated to exterminate the occasional extimulating cause of Heat and Cold.

It being then demonstrable, that Spirits are best multiplied vigorously by Spirits, with which they symbolize; we ought to be solicitous concerning their preparation with a proportion to be allowed to the Archeus.

I find it frequent among the vulgar Chymists to boast, how they can make vinous Spirits, that in a considerable quan∣tity will all burn away to the accension of Page  69 Gunpowder in the bottome. Having at∣tained thus far in this process, they think, there remains nothing more in our Philo∣sophy▪ For all this, if any study earnestly to 〈◊〉 as an able Physitian, those Spirits made according to the common tract, seem∣ing to be re•ned contain in them an occult Impurity• some clandestine discommodity with some di•gustful tang, sensible by the tast of our Vitals. Although it be hard for the Plebeian to distinguish one from the other, yet an expert Distiller knows the difference, and happy effect, of that which is really mundified, above what seems to be so. That Spirit of vegetables may be hand∣led knowingly, it behoveth the Natural∣ist to anatomize it pyrotechnicoôs, that he may understand of what parts it consists, and how useful it is.

According to our Philosophy, an Aqua∣vitae may be extracted out of all Herbaccous Plants, i. e. Grass, Blade, Leaf, Weed, &c. which contains an Alkali; a Sulphur and some particles of an occult sub-acid Salt, easily to be converted into Vineagar, when it floats with a Tartareous Matter. The vinous Alkali and Sulphur together exalted, become a Balsamical Spirit of great force to preserve things from corruption. Taken in∣to our Bodies it is immediately changed part∣ly Page  72 into a vital Spirit, suddainly conveighed by the Vessels to the Head and Heart, part becomes Acid in the Stomach, for the recreation, or emendation of the Innate Ferment; as likewise for a previous Dis∣position, in order to a future alteration in the Intestines into a volatile Alkali, by the eliquating, or scouring facultie of the Gaul• afterward transmitted to the Kidneys, it is turned into a Urinous Salt, by a peculiar Ferment there implanted. Lastly some portion runs into an Insipid Liquor, called Latex or Lympha. Thus is Salt and Sul∣phur of Plants, which make up one Spirit pliable, subactil, or mutable (above other ingested things) into this or that form, according as the Ferments of every shop of digestion please. Moreover the Spirit of Plants, if dextrously exercised, is capable to be assimilated into all parts Continent and Conteining, leaving little or no excrement behind: cherishing, yea., in some measure, reducing aright exorbitant Ferments. The Digestive Fermenting Accid, in the Sto∣mach, as well as the Alkali in other parts, (the Instruments of formal Transmutation) are exceedingly meliroated, and the Spirits forthwith augmented by the access of this seemingly Homogeneous Liquor.

That this compleatly purified Liquor so Page  73 acceptable to the Vitals may be obtained, the prudent Artist is to make itirated Ablu∣tions with what is of a saponary condition that the viscous clammy gummous mat∣ter may be purged away. Secondly, he is frequently to Distill it with a convenient heat: Addition being made of those things, which in the bottome of the Glass de∣tain ungrateful 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, inebriating, noxious Sulphur, letting out what is plea∣sing to Nature, Innocent, strengthening the Head, Membranes, and Sinews. There is also to be injected that which may retund, or dulifie any Secret, unkindly Acid, lurk∣ing in the Spirit, can lenifie, or introvert, any fretting quality latitant in the Alkali, tame the Gas Sylvestre, entangle or fetter it, that it may not too nimbly aspire: to laevigate, as it were Polish, any roughness in it. Whosoever hath acquired this Spi∣rit, can tread under his Feet, all those slan∣ders, back-bitings, malicious reports of the Galenists, that the Spirits of vegetables are too Hot, Inflaming, Consuming the Radi∣cal moisture, causing Delirium, shortning the life; all which I am sure is verified, concerning some of their rude preparations of Aquavitae.

Poor Ignorant Souls (though Learned Men) that should be unacquainted with the Page  72 right Manufacture of a Liquor so vulgarly known to be useful, sold in trivial shops, &c. How is it likely these vain Thermologists, i. e. Busibodies about Heat and Cold, shoull Judge of the Effects or Operations o• Chymical Enterprizes, sith they ar• unwitting of the due tractation of Spirit o• Wine. I appeal to any intelligent Philale•thes whether they are like to fabricate, o• hammer out the remedies of a Superiou• Class, who are thus egregiously to seek i• those of an Inferiour. 'Tis no wonder they are so timorous, in the offering to the Sick any thing of thin parts, Pungitive, Penetra∣ting, or Exciting the natural faculties, for fear they should be overheated: for as much as they give the foul with the fair, the Real∣ger with the Mineral, the poysonous Sting with the Hony; whereas a faithful well grounded Physiologer Sequesters, the Evil, reserving the Good; which he can securely tender the Infirm (without curious obser∣vation of measure, or weight) from one to ten or more. The greatest misery I know accrewing to Man worse than the Plague, Sword, Fire, &c. is from these Galenists running upon false suppositions, to wit that their Galeno Chymical Pharmacy is suf∣ficiently instructed with all endowments be∣coming compleat Medicines.

Page  73This they rather wilfully than unwitting∣•y suggest to the World, most abominably •mposing upon the credulous, even For∣•unes Favorites (by whom they are too zealously imprudently protected to the dam∣mage of Mortals) that they are the most ex∣pert Chymists, vilifying all others, be they never so Legitimate Sons of Art. These are the Spurious Chymists, who I will main∣tain are overwhelmed in Clouds of Dark∣ness arising from their Covetousness, Am∣bition, Malic•, Laziness, Self-love, &c. that they cannot see the right way of ma∣king a compleat vegetable Spirit.

Having purchased according to the best Rules of our Pyrotechnical Philosophy, a compleat Aquavitae: the next care, is to dispense it aright, to minister such a measure thereof proportionable to the Individual Crasis, Custome, and Course of Life, of the sick Body, the defection of Vitals, magni∣tude, and duration of the Disease, the good or bad, condition thereof: Here by the way, I am bound to reprehend the Busie∣bodies about Heat and Cold severely, who miserably titubate and express extream weakness in the just quantity of their own Remedies: For a president of the Galenists did not heretofore dare to prescribe above five Grains of Antimonium Diapho, in a Fea∣ver: Page  76 another of the same Society was doubt∣ful whether he might with safety give four or five Grains of Bezoar. Orient. or above ten Grains of Coccus Baphic. Cochin. above two drops, of Spirit of Harts-horn, for fea• of overheating, &c. What is the reason of all this supercilious Nicety, but meer Igno•rance of the true principles of Nature mistakes in the causes of our Calamities, in discreet manufacture of Materia Medica▪ fitting to subdue them. Did they tak• pains with their own Fingers, they would quickly learn the amplitude of the Por•tion of a well adorned remedy, that one small quantity of proper analepticks, or re•stauratives will do good, yet the same mul∣tiplied to five six, or seven, to twelve parts▪ or rates, will really do no harm, but make a far greater improvement of natural vigour. For if they would be taught: These Male∣volents would not so unworthily, rashly censure my Stomach Essence, my Elixir Balsamick Tinctur. Polyacea &c. to be pre∣ternaturally Hot, &c.

Thus it evidently appears that none but an Adeptus, one that as his undoubted Right can say 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉i. e. I have found it out, can define and adaptate a just scantling, weight and Measure of meet Remedies to the lan∣guishing Spirits, enabling them to destroy the Strong-holds of a Disease.

Page  77Wherefore a Patient having an Aversati∣•n to Vinous Liquors, ought to be more •ndulged, to be suffered to imbibe the less, •nd that mixed and disguised with somthing •ore grateful. He that hath accustomed •imself to smaller drinks, ought not to be ur∣•ed to assume so much, as one used to fre∣•uent compotation of Wine, &c. Above all, •et the Physitian give liberally these Vegeta∣•le, Active Particles to the sick, whose spi∣•its are weak, and the Maladie strong, very malignant, &c.

Five or ten times the portion of a reviving Medicine is but sufficient in some cases, when in another state, a single exhibition •oth help Nature to throw its Enemy spee∣•ily out of doors. Long fixed evils are to be •ollowed close with large quantities, often •epeated; likewise the Plague, Pestilential Feavers, whatsoever grief hath in it, much of the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 of Hippo. i. e. a poisonous condition. In all respects 'tis better to pro∣pose more copiously, than niggardly, when •he Instruments we work withal are safe, ad∣mitting an extension not easily culpable. Or∣•inary strong spirits are not to be taken without notable caution plentifully, and that well corrected by some Adjuncts, as sugar, •nd with grateful Acids, for they contain much intoxicating stinking Sulpur, mixt Page  76 with a fretting Salt injurious to the Stomach Nerves and Membranes, producing preter¦natural Heat: so that in conclusion, 'tis no the pure, well corrected Spirits of Plants that causes those great discommodities, as ex∣cessive Heat, Inflaming, &c. which these Thermologists lay to their charge; but their heedless Preparation by A philosophical Ide∣ots in our Art, as likewise the rash pouri•g into the Ventricle, much more than is fitting.

From Vegetables there may be Extracted; besides an Aqua-Vitae, certain Essential Salts holding close concordance with the Vitals, some of which harbour Specifik Gifts for the Cure of certain kinds of Griefs. In gene∣ral, these Salts absterg glutinous Excre∣ments, attenuating Viscosites, sweeten pre∣ternatural Acidity, animate the Archeus, help Digestion, and strengthen all parts; causing Urine, Sweat, Expectoration. Now these ought to be accurately framed for Me∣dical use, otherwise they will come short of what we expect. I find it the most Compen∣dious Effectual way to Separate the Sulphu∣rious or Oily part from the Concrete, than to change it into a pure volatile Alkali: This is done by Ablution, Digestion, repeated Di∣stillation.

Thus much concerning the Iatrical Virtue of Spirits and Salts fetched from Vegetables, Page  77•s they have Affinity with our Vital Princi∣ples: now I shall proceed to shew what pro∣•inquity there is between the Vital Spirits •nd Alkali's obtained from Animals.

I find, according to Pyrotechnical Trials, •hat all parts of Man, even his Excrements, •bound with Urinous Alkali's, especially the Bones, Blood and Urine. Each of which afford in Stilling an Alkali or Urinous Salt much alike, yet different in their Effects: for according to Van Helm. Spirit of Blood avails against the Epilepsie. The Spirit of Urine is of no force thereto. Likewise I find Spirit or Salt of Bones to Operate that which the other two fail in: yet may they all be so prepared, that neither Taste, Smell, Colour •hall distinguish them.

I have for many years much toiled with my Head and Hands, to find out what might directly match the Principal Agent in our Body, the only 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, Contriver of both Health and Sickness. After often and serious Contemplation, with strict Examination of divers Concrets by optical Analysis, I find nothing more like to do my business, than those subtil saline particles, drawn out of the Horny, Bony or Dental Concretions of cer∣tain Animals, or got out of the Dung of some Creatures, abounding with Volatile Salts: But above all I found at length Vola∣tile Page  80 Salts or Spirits, allured out of divers Po•∣tions of Mans Body, were most to be prefe•∣red; for the Augmentation, Vigour of th• Archeus, to this I was induced by the u•∣doubted Authority of the Maxime in Phio•sophy, Simile simili gaudet, also Iisdo• nutrimur quibus constamus. Besides, my p••∣pose was confirmed by the Essential Consi•tution of the Vital Spirit; viz. Saline a•∣cording to our Philosopher: Est ipse Spirit• Vitae de Natura Salis volatilis & Salst. v.• 136. Sextup. Digest. The Vital Spirit is of 〈◊〉 nature of a Volatile Alkali. Moreover, 〈◊〉Blas Humanum, p. 113. Per motum nempe 〈◊〉 Sanguinis non quidem Acidi sed Salsi exte nu∣tio, neque ideo in pinguedinem sive Butyru• vertitur, sed in Spiritum Vitalem de salis ad•∣oque de Balsami natura. Certainly by Motio• the Blood is rarefied into a Saline not Aci• Spirit: neither is it changed into a Fatty Bu•tynous Substance, but into a Vital Spirit o• the nature of a Sal, for that reason it is Bal∣samical. Also Pa. 443. AuraVitae. Estque ide• Spiritus Vitalis Salsus, viciniorque Spiritui lo•tij quam Sali-petrae. The Vital Spirit is a Salt of nigher affinity to the Spirit of Urine than Salt-peter. Membro semel stupefacto, si sensus redierit, id sane cum sensibilibus stimulis & punctionibus fit quae & verae salsedinis sunt in∣dicia. If at any time a member benummed, Page  81 recovers its perfect sense, there is felt prick∣ings, and thorny shootings, which are infalli∣ble signs of a salt matter.

From the consideration of the saline Tex∣ture of the Vital spirit, I laboured about the Alkali's of this Microcosm: divers parts whereof I Dissected, fetching out by Pyro∣technie their Volatiles, which I studied to nobilitate by frequent scouring, iterated di∣stillations, even to ten or eleven courses, ad∣ding every turn a fitting Mundifier, keeping them in digestion three weeks or a Month: I then proceeded to correct any harsh, Acid quality lurking in them by that which blunts, lenefies, or mollifies the same by feeding their hungry appetite with a pleasing Nutri∣ment, that they may not so eagerly prey up∣on the Body, to entangle and clip their Wings, that they may not ascend too high, or fly away too nimbly to exalt them, and ad∣vance them to a more lofty virtue, by the in∣termixture of some small portion of Salt of Tart. volatile, united with a pure vegeta∣ble Spirit.

Having thus prepared the highest clarified Liquor, I have found it to carry an admirable conformity with the Vitals, to symbolize with our Constitutes, so that the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 taking it up greedily, forthwith strengthned, musters greater Forces for the expulsion of Page  82 the Enemy that hath Invaded its Teritories. This is really a Polyacea: if further gradu∣ated it may come nigh a Panacea. No sooner do the most defaecated Atoms in this active, fluid Body, arrive in the Stomach, but some portion is strait absorpt, or lickt up by the Archeus for its own Corroboration▪ Part is made use by the natural Archiater fo• the banishment of those burdensome, aculeat∣ing, strange Apostate Juices, absolute enemie• to Life, through all the cleansing passages con∣venient Quo natura vergit, whether she pleases by the Kidneys, Intestines, through Mouth, Ears, Nose, through the Pores of the Skin, o• by a vigorous extermination of some malig∣nant cadaverous Excrements lodging in the Center, to the utmost bounds of the Body. Add to this the Archeus enabled makes use of this symbolizing Alkali, as an Instrument to edulcorate what is Acid, to make slick any roughness, to mitigate any biting, or fretting Liquor, to suppress, reduce to re∣gularity or explode exorbitant wild Spirits, to correct the defects, or obliquities of the Ferments, that they may not continually engender the like vitiosity, to deobstruct the Vessels stuffed with any congealed Blood or viscous, calculous concrete, or Phlegm, by attenuating, dissolving, scouring away the same: lastly to polish and confirm‎ the Tone of every part.

Page  83Thus can Nature Act rare feats, when it is animated by a Second, when it meets with that which is of the same Pedigree with it self: i. e. those saline particles first fra∣med in the Stomach, and Intestines afterward more refined are destinated for diversity of uses in this mass of flesh. Now 'tis not the common Alkali's used by the Galeno-Chym∣ists, that are sufficient to satisfie an able Chymist for the attaining the foresaid end. Although I acknowledge the best reme∣dies they possess are volatile Spirits, drawn out of Harts-horn, Armoni. Ivory, &c. Yet I must tell them withall, if they would desire to be instructed in the Art as it is Sci∣entifick indeed: I can demonstrate that their Spirit of Harts-horn and Sal. Armoni. are neither rightly Corrected nor Clarified as they ought: for that reason not so well em∣braced by the Vitals. It is not without cause then that some pronounce it to be o∣verheating, &c. Therefore to be given Scrupulously, seldom above a Scruple at a time: whereas if it be prepared by the hand of a Legitimate Chymist, it hath no ill pro∣perty, but is fitting to be administred without the least danger in a large quanti∣ty, to the debilitating strong, Acute, and Long Diseases.

For the confirmation of what I deliver, Page  84 if Doctor Willis, who trusts much to this volatile, or any other, would please to be so Ingenuous to make the experiment there∣of, I shall order Spir. C. C. so Technically, that without measuring or weighing it, I will undertake to cure Languid Person with more speed, security, and pleasin• gust, wholly trusting to this Alkali (al•though I have for many Years laid it aside Remedies of more excellent Form coming to my Possession) than they with their ow• unpolished, imperfect, Distilled Spirit o• the same kind.

The Alkali out of Mans Bones, I mus• commend as an admirable Medicine, usefu• both for Inward and Outward griefs of th• Body, if construed by a Philosophica• hand. Yet I have rarely met with any so compleatly regulated according to those Rules before described, but brought to the Test, it hath not been altogether so safe in∣sisting upon an Ample Quantity, nor so ef∣ectual respecting the Quality, or singular A∣naleptick property, with which such vola∣tiles ought to be endued.

Spirit of Sal. Armoniack, if elegantly pre∣pared, that it move in the middle Sphere, not soaring wantonly too high; if its hungry Appetite be in some measure allayed, if freed from any impurity, if married intimately Page  85 to a Vegitable Spirit, with which it hath similitude, abounding with an abstersive Salt, may challenge no small priviledge in strengthning and encreasing the Vitals. That Volatile Alkali's do match the Tex∣ture of the Animal Spirits above any besides is certain. However Acid Spirits, if hand∣somly framed, want not their eminent use in refreshing the Archeus; wherefore their keen corosive particles, are to be made blunt supple, their foul Sulphur cleansed, their fair extraverted, what is gross in them to be rarefied, whatsoever is extraneous savor∣ing of an unkindly, Mineral condition, ought to be rejected, their ill odour to be amend∣ed, all dross to be separated from them; and lastly, to be copulated by frequent Di∣stillation with a defecated Alkali.

Such an Acid avails much in healing, for it is grateful to the Stomach raising a kind∣ly Appetite: it reforms a preternatural Ferment, cherishing what is genuine; By it, rotten, stinking, spurious saline matter in the Stomach, producing extream thirst is tamed, altered, and cleansed away. The Vitals having Allured to themselves the Al∣kali Atomes the Acid Corpuscles are stam∣ped into another Form in the second digesti∣on, where they become by the transmut∣ing faculty of the Gaul injected on them, Page  86 another Juice, loosing their Acidity, withall assuming an abstersive Salt, which easily passing through the Kidneys puts on an Urinous Nature, producing plenty of Urine In other shops they purifie the Blood and L••tex, penetrating deep, carry off superfluitie through the whole skin.

I admire the Galenists who proclaim them•selves Chymists should dare to give suc• Ill-prepared Acids in their Juleps or othe• Mixtures, such as are so far estranged from the constitution of the parts continent an• contained, that they carry no concordanc• with them. Of this sort are Oil of Vitriol Sulphur, or what they nominate 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Spirits of the same: for those are fretting gnawing, biting mortifying: Thes• meerly acetous, rough, harsh, stiptick, un•pleasant, flat, dull, unprofitable Liquors▪ plainly detecting, that they were never made by a knowing Philochymist, as intended fo• that use which our Dogmatical Scribes put them to: For hereby they think to take of• Heat and Thirst in Feavers upon the account of their supposed cooling quality, attributed to them by these Thermologists: not consider∣ing, that those effects of a few drops; eat∣ting a Woollen or Linnen Cloath quite through in a very short time, cannot possibly arise from a cold Temperature, or any other Page  87 primary quality; but from the abundance or conglobation of acute saline ponderous Par∣ticles as it were connexed in a Cone, which thus concenterated tear, and rend in pieces any subject capable: wherefore as long as these Salts continue in this position or Tex∣ture, I cannot allow them fitting to be exhi∣bited by an able Healer: for being Salts col∣liquated or melted, then forced over by a strong fire, they retain much of their pristine Original, easily prone to be reduced into Salt of a nauseous unpleasant taste.

He that desires to procure a Spirit of Vitri∣ol or Sulphur of a grateful smell and taste, welcome to the Ferment of the Stomach, ca∣pable without difficulty to be altered into an Alkali, apt to discharge •mpurities through all convenient sluces, must extravert the Sulphur, so then by a strong fire dilate their fiery beams, that they may become Lumi∣nous, not burning; must farther take off their sharp edge, by intervening particles readily closing in with them, whereby their heavy corpuscles are allevated, their opacous consistence made nitid: hereby our Spirits comprehend them with joy.

Moreover, the Spirit of Salt so much dis∣scoursed of, also applauded by some as made so Artificially, I find very deficient, scarse deserving the name of Spirit: for that vul∣gar Page  88 Liquor abounds with Phlegm, little Sa∣line Matter, and that far from a genuine Spi∣rit, sith it may by evaporation be brought to a corpulent Sal. What is really a Spirit is so volatile that it flyeth away (unless very closly stopped) incontinently: Distilled i• leaveth no gross residue, it is delectable to the taste, of the Stomach alike as to the Pa∣late: hence it is very Medicinable. This re∣quires labour with discreet Analysis of the Body of the Salt by a Golden Sulphur and an Alkali.

I shall here opportunely reprehend our Galeno-chymists, who affuse Oil of Sulphur to those three Species the matter of Elix. Propri. supposing hereby both to open their Body, correct any ill property, and advance their virtue, whereas they make by this means the excellent dowry contained in them more concluse, hardly to be communi∣cated to their very homely Menstruum, they encrease the biting acride fretting quality of the Aloe or Myrrhe whereupon follows a Dyscrasie in the parts, geld or mutilate the Species, instead of raising them to be more masculine and compleat.

If we contemplate this rude Manufacture of Elix. Propr. 'tis no wonder those botching Chymists mist of their drift in curing by such imperfect Instruments. 'Tis no wonder they Page  89 complain they are too Hot, unsafe, causing Cephalalgie, &c. Thus taking measure by their own deformed Practice, the Reason is plain why such Contumelies and disrespect is daily offered to this Salutary way by these Chymicophants, continually buzzing Falsities in the years of the Rich as well as the Poorer sort, unstable, credulous, admiring the Au∣thority of a company of Outsides, who have nothing to plead for their Errors but Anti∣quity. They have Impudently, Fictitiously suggested that the best Chymical Remedies, although fabricated by a most accurate Vul∣can, are dangerous, excessively Hot, leaving a Sting behing, not to be prescribed but by the most precise Rules of their Method, ex∣actly weighing or measuring them. Thus these Praevaricators impose upon the Simple, perswading them that they possess well-pre∣pared Medicines above others: when in truth I can prove them to be but meer Phi∣losophasters in our Sophy: that they are mi∣serably involved in Darkness, not only to the handy work of the best Innocent means, but also in what belongs to the Oblation of them to the Patient, in a just quantity & time. These Chymicophants certainly (did they ra∣ther chuse to be, than seem) would uncessant∣ly make a severe Scrutiny by Protechny into the Essence and quiddity of Concretes, that Page  90 having extracted their pure parts, they migh• advance them by adjuncts agreeable to Na•ture, avoiding all hurtful Acids, circumci•sing or empairing their Goodness. Where•fore the Mass of Aloe, Myrrhe, Saffron being recluded by a proper Alkalizate Liquor, wil• by digestion freely communicate its more re•fined particles, to a Spirit symbolizing with ours, of great efficacy in curing Dangerous Maladies if given proportionably to their de∣gree of Malignity.

Note some Acids, wherein certain con∣cretes pulverized very fine are infused, seem to dissolve them radically, to draw out high Tinctures in so much the Loborator is much affected therewith supposing he hath obtain∣ed his wished desire: when at length upon a stricter test, it is really only a disguise in the Liquor arising from the piercing Salt of the Dissolvent, obsorbing the tenuious Corpus∣cles of the Dissolutum, which closely combi∣ned, produce this colour. These Salts keep∣ing in a FIux, the particles of the Matter in∣fused hide them that they are not discerned: till the activity of the Salts be somewhat ex∣hausted or grown languid through Expirati∣on, or a matter injected, suddenly embra∣cing the Dissolvent, makes forthwith a se∣paration of it and the Dissolutum, whereby a palpable Pouder is precipitated to the bot∣tome, Page  91 and the colour of the Liquor reduced to what it was before.

This I made trial of in Zwelfer his Spirit, of Venus pouered upon Crabs eyes, seem∣ing to be brought into a Mucilage, their pri∣mum Ens, till upon the coalition of an Alka∣li they returned to their former shape of a Powder. The same deception may be disco∣vered in Spirit of Bread affused to red Coral, as likewise in several other Acid Dissolvents.

This may suffice to shew that vulgar Acids do neither candidly deal with us, in dissolving Concretes radically, neither do they prefer them to higher dignities of efficacy in Heal∣ing.

Van Helmont's advice is therefore strictly to be observed to endeavour to make the fix∣ed Alkali of Tartar volatile, for the separati∣on, and improvement of the better part of Bodies. Doubtless that great Segregatour of all Concretes into Salt, Sulphur, Mercury, that the pretious may be separated from the vile, and yet it self kept in its integrity with∣out any diminution of its virtue, hath its o∣riginal from an Alkali combined with pure Mercury: It behoveth then every Physitian to make a daily inspection into these Salts, both friendly to the Nature of Man, and so preval‎ent in the unlocking Materia Medica, that so we may carry away what is sanative, and leave the destructive.

Page  92CHAP. XI.

AS the Vital Spirits are to be multiplyed by their like, that they may be lusty to conquer their Enemy: so are they likewise to be pacified, lulled asleep, diverted, treat∣ed gently, to be gratified with harmless Ano∣dives, Sedatives, delightful Speculatives, the most lucid Objects, and most beautiful Idea's.

This Renowned Design is to be accom∣plished by Vegetable Animal and Mineral Sulphurs. Nothing in this kind acts better than Mineral Sulphurs brought to an height of Entelechie; for no sooner are they taken into the Stomach, but the Vitals are refocilla∣ted by their bright Rays, a sweet composure follows, their fury and rage taken off, black deformed Images of Mortality defaced, bright lovely Idea's of Health taking place.

Vegetable Sulphurs afford us excellent vir∣tue in Healing, if freed from an Empyreuma∣tick Tang, elaborated from an unkind Acid lurking in them, either to be altered to a sweetness by what is apposite, or abstracted from them by curious Art. Add to this, if they abound with store of volatile Alkali's, and of good odour: otherwise they put the Ferment of the Stomack to difficult labour, Page  93•n removing their unctuosity, that they may become fitting for sanguification.

Those volatile Salts which harbour a stink∣ing Oleous Odour can never be grateful to the Vitals. Odores Oleosi abstracti a suis Con∣cretis, inquinando potius afficiunt quam mate∣rialiter in Arterias subeant. Helm. de F•br. p. 90. Wherefore I admire how some of our Learned Chymicophants can pretend to be so knowing in our Sophy, yet know not how to rectifie, or to give a better Odour to Spirits of Harts-horn, Soot, &c. that they may be more acceptable to the Animals. As long as any relique of faetid Oil lies couched in the saline Particles, it must needs contaminate the more elegant Crasis: Although some alledge the Medicine is robbed of part of its Medical endowment if this unpleasant hogo be sequestred: yet dispensing with the frequent employment of about some Graveolents, as likewise, what may be requisite in Histori∣cal Affects without Controversies 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉Bene Olents are most agreeable to the Syn∣thesis or Constitution of the Vitals: wit∣ness the Essential Oils of Cinamon, Clove, Mace, Nutmegs, &c. which being odorous plentifully imbued with Saline Particles, im∣mediately Refocillate, Illuminate and Com∣pose Nature.

All caution therefore ought to be used, Page  94 that the Fire may not give Vegetables or A∣nimals an ill odorous Impress, scarce som∣times to be expunged: also to exercise 〈◊〉 manner of industry that the foul Sulph•• may not rise with the clean Spirits or Sal• or if it so happen, it may by digestion and ma•nifold distillation with proper Adjuncts 〈◊〉 divorced, at least much diminished.

There are several Sulphurs, Balsams o•Oyls extracted out of Vegetables, of good con•cernment in Healing, as Aromatick and ma•ny fragrant Plants: Oyl of Aniseed, Fennel• Marjoram, Rosemary, Thyme, Lavender, Sas∣safras, Lemons, &c. are to be commended as they are if nitide and throughly polite (by reason of the auspicious benevolent aspect on the Archeus) yet if they shall be converted into benign Spirits or Salts, they far tran∣scend the former, working strange Cures.

Oyl of Terebinth spiritualized by a right Spagyrical hand will get a Physitian credit by its splendid effluviums, but Oyl of Am∣ber made serene will do better things: also Balsam Peruvian, and Balsam Capiviae, Ar∣bor. Vit. rarefied, or set at liberty from their grosser matter, then changed into a sublime, Aethereal substance, will send forth some bright beams for the enlightning this mi∣crocosm.

Oyl of Guaicum and Box Distilled without Page  95•aetid, unsavory, fiery smell, or tast, after∣ward exalted to a highly volatile Spirit are delightful to the Archeus, and far to be approved before any Diet-drink bochet, &c. offered by the Galenists for the cure of the Lues Venerea, or other stubborn Disea∣ses. Note, that we ought to be very studi∣ous in the hebetating, or withdrawing the Acid latitant in most Oils, whereby their virtues may become more explicated, as likewise more capable to embrace Mineral Sulphurs, and fixed Alkali's, for their more easie transmutation into a spirituous Liquor. what a happy Comodity arises from the en∣joyment of Oil Olive separated from its Acid is known to most.

The Sulphur of Wine changed into a saline nature serves for multitude of excellent uses, both as preparative and sanative. Oyl of Tartar Distilled dexterously that it may not be so graveolent, next altered into a volatile Saline Liquor, affords prosperous effects in grievous Calamities.

The essential Oil of Myrrh, Aloe, Saffran intimately united with a pure volatile Alkali deserves worthy applause in curing a Quar∣tane, and other tedious Griefs▪ for it rarely Composes the disorders of the Archeus.

Observe that Oils or Sulphurs so gradu∣ated, that they harbour good store of a Page  96 kindly well Clarified Salt colliquated i• them, are more profitable for all intention of curing outward Affects then being so•litary. Hereby great Dolors are allaied pains mitigated, Aciditie in the part edu••corated, Asperities levigated, Contracti•ons exporrected, Tumours discussed, o• maturated, Inflammations qualified, Node and Schirrous concretions dissolved, Cor∣ruption and Malignity in Ulcers mortified▪ but above all: the Archeus exceedingly de∣lighted with the application.

Certain sulphureous Juices coagulated, as Aloe Opium Scam. Ixia, &c. artificial∣ly handled, and duly corrected, that their Poisons may be destroyed, solace the Ar∣cheus, enabling it to profligate the desea∣sed matter, according as an orgasmus there∣of directs. Gums and Resins used as To∣picks afford great comfort to the part aflict∣ed: yea some hung about the Neck emit a splendid virtue for the recreation of the Vitals.

CHAP. XII.

NExt to Vegetables, let us contemplate the efficacy of Animal Sulphurs, as they please indulge, and compose the Page  97 Spirits; These are acquired from the parts of Living Creatures inward or outward con∣tained within the verge of Vitality, or ex∣communicated therefrom.

A great part of our Aliment is taken from the Sulphurious Juices of Animals, best main∣taining Man in vigour, affording a very Ro∣bust Nutriment for Augmentation and Pro∣creation. I find generally the most able Bo∣dies, Magnanimous Souls, and the stoutest Souldiers to be Sarcophagi: and the nigher of Consanguinity the Sulphurious Food is to the Crasis and Constitution of our Bo∣dies, the more effectually it Corroborates. For this reason Swines Flesh doth copiously nourish, encreasing the strength of those in Health, and quickly restoring those who are emaciated, if the Ferment of the Stomach be by proper means rectified. The Broath of Pork, as I am informed, hath done notable things for the reparation of the decayed Strength of some, who have suffered an A∣trophy for many Months. Doubtless were it by the Authority of Diaeteticks brought in∣to more frequent practice, many would be better cured of Consumptions by help here∣of, than by those Gummous, Clogging Gel∣lies, and Lacteous Excrementitious Prescrip∣tions of the Galenists. Anthropophagi or Can∣nibals earnestly covet Mans flesh, esteeming Page  98 it most delicate Food, pittying us as Ioh. Le•rius the Burgandian declares, that we in thi• part of the world are unacquainted with suc• dainty meat, for as much as they find thi•Humanum Sulphur so nigh kin to their ow• to be earnestly coveted by the Appetite, de•lectable to Nature: therefore easily convert•ed into their own substance. Hereby Sanity and longaevity are advanced.

Creatures of a Musculous Robust Consti∣tution, though (more than others) remote from our Nature, yet through custome, and seminal participation become familiar, and most grateful: so that the Sulphur of the Flesh and Blood of Horses, yield strong Ali∣ment to the Tartars whereby they are made more Fierce, Hardy and Valiant.

In general, the Sulphur of the Inward parts of Living Creatures are prized more for nourishment than Physick: yet some are not wanting to do us great service, as those taken from the Gaul, whose singular gifts in healing are often recorded. The Sul∣phur of the Liver and Gaul of an Adder or Eel expedite a slow Birth. The Gaul of some Fishes clarifie the Eye-sight, remove a Fistu∣la, Pin, or Web off the Eye: It killeth Worms, it openeth, cleanseth, attenuates gross matter. The Sulphur of the Blood of a Cat profits in the Rickets; of a Goat, in a Page  99 Pleurisie; of a Mouse in the suffocative Cough.

The exactly purified Sulphur of the bones of certain Animals, are conducible for divers Diseases: did not their foetour annoy us, we should by often taking them find them far more profitable.

The Dung of Creatures, although proscri∣led from having a share of Vitality, yet do their Sulphur afford us great relief in sickness: Horse dung against a Pleurisie whose acute dolour is asswaged thereby: Peacocks Ex∣crement against an Epilepsie: Goose dung against the Jaundices, &c.

The Sulphur of the Outward parts of Ani∣mals, as the horns, hair, skin, hoofs, nails, teeth, testicles, also various superfluous ex∣crescences of Living Bodies is to be had in estimation for Physical use. All these if they be so ordered that no igneous stinking taste offend, nor any clammy viscous impurity re∣main in them, if withal their seminal virtues be preserved, are of notable force to allay in some measure the tempest of the Archeus.

CHAP. XIII.

ABove all, the Sulphur of Metals and Mi∣nerals challenge the greatest regard Page  100 from us for their singular endowment i• Healing.

Mettaline Sulphurs are Solar, Lunar Mercurial, Saturnal, Iovial, Venereal, an•Martial.

What the Sulphur of Gold can act in diffi•cult cases is well known to all Legitimat• Philosophers. But hic labor hoc opus est: how t• fetch it out aright; not every Aurum potabile which some so boast of, ought to be repute• the Anima of this glorious Mettal. For tho i• may, after the example of Van Hel. be brought into the minutest Atoms by grinding it fine with Cinnaber, and Salt, afterwards by often distilling it with Sal Armoni. Stib. & Mercu• Subli. be turned into a red Oyl. Notwith∣standing the tearing of this solid, ponderous most fixed body into the smallest particles possible, yet may it be easily reduced again to Gold, the same in every respect as before.

'Tis no wonder then that we are so fre∣quently disappointed of the happy effect, which this Solar Sulphur might afford us, seeing so few are able to attain a Key fitting to unlock the Cabinet, wherein this preti∣ous Jewel is contained.

By reason of ignorance herein, those at first great applauders of Van Helmont, for his profound knowledg in Metallurgie, have Apostatiz'd from his sincere Doctrine of Cu∣ring Page  101 the most Contumacious Maladies, by those compact Sulphureous Bodies, vaunting that they were furnished with Vegetable and Animal Preparations every way able to con∣quer the most Monstrous Diseases in Nature with as much certainty activity, as the best instituted Metaline, or Mineral Sulphurs. This the Author of Vita Sana & Longa (I heard) asserted to the great disparagement of this Science, and to the discovery of his evident weakness in Pyrotechnie.

We dare Practically affirm for the defence of our Philosophy, that the exalted Sulphurs, derived from these most solid Concretes, do generally far transcend in Iatrical excellency, either Vegetable or Animal, whensoever a∣ny fixed Disease comes to be eradicated, able to elude the best parts extracted out of Plants or living Creatures: yea I aver (challeng∣ing any one of a contrary mind to the test thereof) that the Provision we make for the Cure of our Griefs, by means of this Ma∣teria Subterranea, is every jot as safe, but of far more generous Issue than any desumed from the superficies of the Earth.

Well then, if this be true, let us in espe∣cial manner put out our selves in the indaga∣tion of that pretious Pharmacy which Na∣ture hath with great care shut up in these close solid Bodies. Qui vult nucleum nucem frangat.

Page  102This Solar Sulphur no vulgar Aqua Regi• will reach, neither will the milder and corro∣sive touch. They may make momentany Se∣paration and rarefaction of the massie, close hard, firm Constitution of Gold taking into their bosome, and there obsconding from the eye, those small Pulviscles: yet for as much as no real dissolution is made, the dissolvent upon the contact of what is more desired, leaves the lacerated particles of Gold to it self, easily capable without the loss or dimi∣nution of its Substance, to be reduced to the same ponderous solid constant matter it had before. Now the reason why it is so diffi∣cult to separate a pure Tincture from Gold, arises from the Ignorance of destroying it; quod, qui novit Aurum destruere, noverit itidem construere, saith Van Helmont.

All these alterations it undergoes by usual Corrosives, moist, or dry, are but disgui∣ses put upon this Solar Concrete. 'Tis not a harsh, boisterous, precipitate course, can make it yield a Tincture, but a calm, mild, mollifying, indulging, familiar means, car∣rying a parity with it's Nature, will so work upon this Solar Genius, that it is prone to expire it's Soul or Sulphur.

The Menstruum to be made choice of, must be of a Sulphureous Nature, upon which Gold hath a Friendly aspect. This Page  103 Liquor can insinuate into the close Compage of this Metal sweetly Elicitating a splendid Tincture.

I have always found well Mundified ☿ and Gold to Embrace each other intimately, which hath prompted me to Marry them, and keep them in a warm Bed together till a most Noble Issue hath come from them, of Excellent use to Compose the disorders in this Microcosm, and to heal its grievous Sores. The way of reserating the Body of Gold by long Triturtion, that the Acid Air may insinuate into it, and dissolve, is a rare Invention.

In the same manner I have dealt with Lu∣na, though Inferior to the former (yet be∣cause more tractable) hath recompenced my Labours with Medicines Polycrest, whereby the Tempest of the Archeus is al∣layed.

Of Mercury, that fluent Metal, made nitide, I acquire by frequent sublimations, a Sulphureous Powder altogether fixed, ser∣ving upon all Occasions to rally the Spirits, when brought into a Confusion, by the As∣saults of Morbifick Enemies, whereby Ad∣vantage is given to Nature to dis-possess them of their strong holds.

Of all the Manufactures belonging to Mercury, I could never yet see the like, being Page  104 so admirably grateful to the Vitals, and s• safe in its Happy Operation. Three or fou• Grains of this Ruddy Pouder strengthens the Stomach, pacifies inward uproars, Causes sweet Rest, attenuates gross Matter, opens Obstructions, sweetens Acidity, mundi∣fies the Blood, by profligating the Hostile Matter every way according to the im∣pulse, Inclination of the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and the Commodity of the passages. This it Exe∣cutes without leaving the least evil impress behind.

There are several laudable Preparations of Mercury, as Spirit of Mercury; Vigo's Powder in some measure to be made fixed. Although our Philosopher detests the praeci∣pitations, Vitrifications, of Mercury: Yet for want of that which is truly fixed, the use of some of them handled dextrously, may be admitted. But I by no means allow of Ordinary Praecipitates and Sublimates of the shops, sith they are generally made meerly for Lucre, not for Cure. I admire our Galenists (otherwise very scrupulous and over-cautious in prescribing any thing, but what is very safe, as they pretend, en∣deavouring upon that account to bring an Odium upon all Remedies in general Chy∣mically framed, unless Instituted accor∣ding to their Method, dare give Scamony, Page  105 Colocynth, Elaterium, &c. very Poysons: Yea, offer to Children, for the Worms, in a large Portion, Mercur▪ dulcis, than which they know nothing better against the Lues Venerea, exhibited by them seldom with Happy event of totally Conquering the Malady, but often, with manifest Misery to the Patient. Would these Chymicophants contemplate how carelessly, rudely, this sweet Sublimate is forged, what mischie∣vous mistakes have happened thereby; how at the best it is none of the most Generous Remedies, known to true Pyrotechnists; how easily it is remeable into running Mer∣cury, they would lay aside this, and other of their In-sufficient, dangerous Chymical Medicaments, leaving them to Quacks, and Mountebanks, and entertaining the safe, preval‎ent, spagyrick Instruments wor∣thy of a True Philosopher.

For my part, I have for many Years ago ablegated those Plebeian Workman-ships of Mercury, being conscious to my self how they did delude me, and my Patients, al∣though I had then, yea, now possess some of the better sort, as Mercury Praecipitatus per se, cum Auro, cum Argento.

The Splendour, Purity, Homogeneity, Fugacity of Mercury, Unity, or Amity, Gravity, Duration, Indestructibility, Mul∣tifarious Page  106 Variety; yet a facile Retrogadati∣on to the very same Numerical thing indu•ces us to believe, that there are Transcen∣dent Iatrical Excellencies in it.

I am fully perswaded that great Dissol∣vent, the Liquor Alkahest, is Fabricated by means of Mercury bereaved of its outward Sulphur, whereby it becomes Immortal, no• afterward to be laid hold of Radically, by any Sulphur. Reperitur namque Mercurius postquam est Spoliatus isto Sulphure nullo igne mutabilis, saith Van Hel.

The most Simple, pure, nitid, indivisi∣ble, Primo Enti Metallico similis, embryo∣nated Mercury, is that which is drawn out of Metals, according to our great Philoso∣pher. E Metallo eductus ita simplex & in∣divisibilis ut sit impossibile ex eo seperare sa∣lem & Sulphur.

Of ☿ are made those singular Arcanaes of so general Use, as ☿ Diaphor. vel Aurum Horizont ☿ Corallat; which I ingeniously confess, I imitate, but not exactly match: every Atom of those Mercurial Polyacea's, send forth Lively Illustrious Beams wonder∣fully affecting the Archeus, being infinitely delighted with the intuition of them, so that it layeth aside all morosity, Melancho∣ly, Exhorbitant Passions, and the Entertain∣ment of deformed Ideas: Then re-collect∣ing Page  107 strength, it putteth to flight whatsoever doth annoy the Life.

The Spirit, Oyl, or Sulphur of Saturn made Philosophically, applyed outwardly, or taken inwardly, gives much content to the Vitals.

Iupiter, or Tin, contains a double Sul∣phur, the Cause why it is lighter than any other Metal: The one is Oyly, the other Harbours in it's bosom an odd kind of Salt, enclining it to be Coagulated. The Apo∣rhaea, or Effluvium of which entring any Metal (except Lead) makes it frangible and friable. The Sulphur of ♃ tinges a Dia∣mond, saith our Philosopher.

If so, doubtless the Beams coming from such a Sulphur must needs exhilarate the Vital Spirits in an extraordinary manner.

Out of Venus is got a Glorious Sulphur, Called Ens Veneris: I mean not the Plebe∣ian Sublimation of Salt {sal armoniac}, and the Caput Mort of Vitriol, but the Philosophical adep∣tion of a Golden Sulphur out of Venus by means of a benign dissolvent, and a Men∣struum Sympathizing with it's Solar Na∣rure.

But of Venus, floating in it's proper Cor∣rosive, I extract by means of an Alkali, a sweet Sulphur, most acceptable to the Ar∣cheus.

Page  108Mars affords an Illustrious clarified Sulphur which doth not only please the Animals by illuminating them, purifying the Blood, sweetning Acidities, but it also prepares ma∣ny good Remedies: for those, not to be used of themselves with safety & efficacy, it nobi∣litates; so that they may be assumed in larg• quantity with happy success. This Sulphur takes off the corrosive properties of Con∣cretes, mortifies their poisonous condition, extraverts their benevolent Sulphur, that they become 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Catharticks, without offering violence to the Vitals.

Amongst Minerals, none is to be had in greater estimation than Antimony, for yield∣ing a bright Sulphur: either meerly Dia∣phor. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 altering, illuminating the Microcosm 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a pacifier of the fury of the Archeus. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a destroyer of morbifick Idea's, according as you handle it that it may be made very sweet, nitid, splendid, free from cacoethie, any malig∣nant property; or only gently purging 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉&〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 what's digested, sepa∣rated, Orgastick, and Hormetick, quo max∣ime natura viam affectat, which way Na∣ture pleaseth 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 through commodious Conveyances: otherwise it de∣sists, acting in another pleasing manner, o∣pening the passages obstructed, digesting, Page  109 attenuating, crude, gross matter, carrying off Peccant Atoms, profligating evil Spirits in∣sensibly, without the least offence to the Fer∣ments or Vitals.

The Cordial Diaphor. Sulphur of ♁ which doth difflate, scatter, alter bad Juices, cast∣ing a lustre upon the Spirits is extracted out of it by Calcination, Distillation, Sublima∣tion, By Calcination is made ♁ Diaphoret. which although an ordinary Medicine, I wish it were Fabricated technically, for it is either inperfectly fixed, crude, harbouring some portion of a foul Sulphur, or some exo∣tick matter: otherwise it is not throughly exempted from the Peter, perhaps contain∣ing many impurities in it self, so left behind in the Antimony: If these or the like Errors were corrected, it would appear one of the best Chymical Manufactures, the Galenists possess in their shops; and would perform great things for the Cure of Malignant Di∣seases, Acute and Chronic, supposed they would be perswaded to give it in a large quantity, which they might do to a quintu∣ple portion if made aright. The best in this kind, is that made by praecipitating the mat∣ter calcined, although more difficult to be acquired, yet much to be preferred before the other.

Out of the Oar of ♁ is expedited by Cal∣cination, Page  110 and praecipitation, a Sulphureo•• Pouder, of an Orange, or red Colour. Th•• digested a considerable time in a Spirituo•• Liquor, then combined with the Sulphur 〈◊〉 ♀ become a bright Body, wherein the A•cheus takes pleasure to reflect it self. It clea••seth the blood powerfully.

Antimonie turned by Calcination into 〈◊〉 Glass, of a Purple colour, according to B••silius Valentinus's Directions, affords a fit Su••phurious matter for distilled Vineger to wor• upon, that a Splendid deep coloured Tinct•ure may be communicated to a genuine Me••struum for exhilarating and quieting the Sp••rits. The dry Calcination of by ♁ the beam• of the Sun makes it disposed to yield an A∣nodyne Sulphur for the setling the disorde• of the Archeus.

A Regulus made out of ♁, especially signed with a Star, by means of a dry Calci∣nation is previous to the extraction of a very clean Sulphur, which brought to a Diapho∣retick Pouder, or an Elegant Tincture de∣lights the Vitals exceedingly.

A Regulus of ♁ and ♂ exceed the former▪ But the Electrum, i. e. ♁ conflated with ♂ ♃ and other Mettals is to be chiefly valued, as matter most fitting for the Elicitation of a cleer Sulphur, much vivifying the Animals.

By the power of a moist Calcination with Page  111 Praecipitation, is made Bezoard Mineral, •olar, Lunar, Iovial, Sulphureous Reme∣•ies, which accurately handled, compose •he Archeus, animating it to the Extermi∣•f stubborn Maladies.

In a Humid way the Sulphur of ♁ is ex∣•racted by penetrative Corpuscles of divers Corrosive Liquors, whereby it is made ca∣pable to impart its most defaecated portion to • Menstruum grateful to Nature.

The Flowers of ♁ prepared by a plain •imple Sublimation, are a Subject on which • good Artist working, is able to draw out •n approved Tincture, for the sufflaminating •he 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 when it is precipately hurried by immoderate Passions. It also expunges •oxious Imaginations.

Cinnabar of ♁ concreted in the neck of the Retort in distillation of the Butyrum, con∣tains a Sulphur, whose finer Particles Enu∣cleated by an amicable humid Substance, doth eminently clarifie the vital exhalation of the Blood.

These Flowers having imbibed a sublime Alkali elixerated, afterward united with the undefiled Sulphur of ♂, cleanse the Body by Spitting, Urine, Sweat, causing the Spirits at the same time to Triumph.

Out of ♁ is separated by Sublimation a Sulphur, not unlike to the Common, only Page  112 hath somewhat a greenish cast. This exqu••sitly refined, maturated, then radically dis•solued, gives an odorous, pleasant, glorious high-coloured Tincture to an Alkali imbue• with Salt of Tartar volatile. This Remedy seldome deceives my Expectation in curing truculent Diseases. It sweetly condenses the Spirits, entertained by them with great de∣light, finding thereby repast, after many toil∣some hours: It helps Nature to dissipate pec∣cant Matter, to thrust it out vigorously every way, it resists Poison, abates Inflammations, breaks Abscesses, healeth them, alters bad Juices to the better. It leaveth no place un∣rigged or unransak'd, sweeping every cor∣ners, making the whole Body polite and trim.

By the Art of Distillation, a Sulphureous Oyl of ♁ is forced over of excellent use in Topical Applications, to asswage the dolours of the Archeus, to mortifie the Corruptor in an Ulcer, to dissolve coagulated Matter, to discuss Tumours in the beginning. The same liquid Sulphur graduated may be taken in∣wardly with good success.

From ♁ united with ☿ ♎ distilled is brought to light a Gummous Liquor, called Butyr. Antim. a commodious Matter in the hands of a Philosophical Pyrotechnist for Processes, leading to noble Remedies, favou∣rable to Nature, bearing discord with the Morbifick Excrements.

Page  113There are multifarious Manufactures of Antim. besides what are set down, upon which the Archeus doth smile, whereby it is quickned to take heart, to subjugate Potent, Malignant Griefs. But what I have men∣tioned here may suffice to justifie a Physiti∣ans Diploma, if he be Industriously capable, likewise gratifie the Patient, if he be obedient.

Cinabaris Nativa, called of Paracelsus Metallus Primus sive Masculus comprehends, a most Radiant Solar Sulphur. This brought into a red Oyl, afterwards into a Mercurial Juice, named Vinum vitae, or dissolved in some Aromatick Oyl, Circulated with an Alkali in Spirit of Wine, doth not onely cleanse away, banishing what is hurtful in the Body, but also renovates the Strength, •mpaired in the whole, reducing the Tone and Vigour of every part to a just proporti∣on and Equal Action. Hence it is deserved∣ly conducible for the protelation of Life.

The Sulphureous Particles of Lapis Hae∣matites extraverted by Sublimation, send forth a most fragrant smell like Saffron. These Flowers immerged in a Benevolent Menstru∣uum, digested, often Distilled, give a Tin∣cture no whit different to a dissolution of Gold. Great is the Power hereof to please the Vitals, to Illuminate the dark Corners of the Microcosm.

Page  114Out of Bismuth. Zink, Talk, Ludus Pa∣racel. and divers other Marchasites are ex∣torted good Sulphurs, which Elaborately Refined, United with Symbolizing Liquors, afford Remedies fitting to allay the pertur∣bations of the Archeus.

There are also certain Precious Stones; as the Emeral'd Saphire, Granat, &c. whose rutilating Sulphurs, although they are fast locked up, yet may be recluded by means of penetrating Dissolvents, whereby (their shining Dowries being diffused in a Friendly Diaphanous Bath) the Rigour of the Ar∣cheus may be made supple, compliant, and enlightned, when at any time it is obnubi∣lated. For if Precious Stones be repu∣ted to have a Happy Influence upon the Vi∣tals, by those bright Beams darted outward∣ly: Certainly they will perform it much better, when that Light imprisoned shall be set at Liberty from the grosser part, being United, as it were, in a Cone, shall be received into a fluid serene Matter, so taken inwardly.

Those Luminous Concretions Nature seems to have taken extraordinary pains a∣bout, to free from Heterogene•ty or Alloy, namely, Unions, or Pearls, indigitate to us by their Clarified Signature, that such▪ shi∣ning Sulphureous Remedies may be fabrica∣ted by Analysis of them, which the Archeus Page  115 may esteem as Vitae Deliciae, Feasting upon •hem with admirable delight. Now, this Dainty Morsel for the Archeus to Banquet on, is not to be acquired by a trivial affusion of Vinegar, (which doth onely imposie up∣on our Eyes, representing them as truly dis∣solved, whereas indeed they are no other∣wise than Masked, no better than pulveri∣zed: Moreover doth likewise fleece them, castrating these splendid Concretions of their real eminent Lustre they had before; but by means of such a dissolvent, able to make them retire to their Ens primum. This is verily a great Cordial sweetly imbibed by Nature, worthy to be called Elementum sive lac Margaritarum, because it is a great Re∣storer of what is impaired, a disperser of those black Meteors darkning the Spirits.

Thus I have, I hope, pro modulo, confir∣med one Leg of this spacious Body of Therapeutick Physick, viz. the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 or Indication dedueed from the Necessary support, Augmentation, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Placa∣tion, Moderation, Applause, Photism of the Vital Spirits.

CHAP. XIV.

THE other Leg to be insisted upon, or principal immediate Indication to be Page  116 Considered, is the ablation of the Inwar• Efficient Cause of a Disease, and the Ou••ward Occasional, Irritative, Morbifick Matte•▪

That the Archeus is the Prime Author 〈◊〉 all Sickness, is an undoubted Truth. Ne∣ther can any Malady Seat it self any where▪ but in the Life, as it's proper Subject; fo• the Body once extinct, all Diseases vanish.

Now, this Ens morbosum, as all othe• things, arises from a Seminal Principle, th• Quiddity, or Activity of which necessaril• depends upon an Idea impressed upon th• Spirit.

As soon as this Idea is formed by the Ar•cheus, invested therewith, it forthwith falls to Action, uncessantly Labouring to pollute part of the Vitals; hereupon an un∣kindly Forreign Ferment emerges, which the Archeal Idea makes use of, to alienate the Life more and more from it's Integrity.

Thus from an Invisible Beginning a Real Morbous Ens, is Created, defined by our Philosopher, Vitalis Potestatis Actus Idealis, Efficiens, induens sibi Vestem ex Ideali mate∣ria; atque a•quirens formam Vitalem & sub∣stantialem, juxta differentiam Tarditatis & Celeritatis seminum Ide alum.

That this depraved Efficient Act of the Vitals may be hindred, frustrated, and de∣prived of Ideal Matter to clad it self; so be Page  117 disappointed from arriving to, or continuing in a Vital Formality; the Ideal Seed is to be defaced, blurred, and extinct by all means possible.

To bring this Intention home to a purpose Immediately, and speedily, requires the best of Van Helmont's Arcana: Yet I doubt not but some of those Medical Instruments, I have before proposed, will by Degrees in some reasonable space, at least Cancel, if not totally deface those black Preternatural Ideas, that the Archeus (disturbed with ir∣regular Passions) hath delineated in the ve∣ry Essence of Life.

Certainly when a supreamly clarified Salt and Sulp. shall be taken into the Body, then Conducted into the very Bed-Chamber of Life, shewing the Archeus, as in a Looking-Glass, the ugly shape of the Disease Pour∣trayed; it cannot but after some Re-collecti∣on Repent of Former Errors, exceed∣ingly contented at the presence of so beau∣tiful an Object offered to the view, whose salutiferous Idea causes a Composure in the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 whereupon it falls to razing out the deformed Image of Mortality, instead thereof limns though rudely at first, the Picture of future Sanctity.

Pulv. noster Bezoard. vel Pestifugus. Tinct. Bals. Solar. Polya. Sulp. ♂ & ♀, most Page  118 defaecated, destroy in some sort, Diseased Ideas, producing luminous instead of Ca∣liginous Images.

I question not but there are Remedies to be purchased, as Active in framing Health•ful Characters on the Spirits, as there ar• things noxious framing (with admirabl• Agility) deadly Impresses.

Did we not too much acquiesce upo• Traditional Notions, prone to be rathe• Credulous through Idleness, than to make a narrow Indagation into the formal Essen•tial Virtues given to Concretes, we should without Question, be better Instructed con∣cerning the specifick Properties of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals: we should more directly understand what is to be adapted adequately immediately, for the abolition of contumacious, long Maladies: whose dif∣ficulty of Curing consists in fixed Ideas, the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 of which would quickly make a Cure. 'Tis, I say, for want of the know∣ledge of the seminal Endowments of Crea∣tures, able to wash away the foul Tinctures, or black Ideas of Evils, and in lieu to ting the Body with a Vital Balsom, Creating good Images in the Spirits, that our Cala∣mities are so Grievous, and long.

How Vainly then, Foolishly, Obstinate∣ly, yea, deceitfully, do the Galenists ob∣trude Page  119 upon their m•serable Patients: Faint Cordials, Insignificant Juleps, Destructive Bleeding, Pernicious Solutives, together with outward Butcheries, as Vesicatories, &c. for the Conquering those Radicated Maladies, whose Essence principally depends upon a Spiritual Morbifick Idea, which once expunged, salutiferous Images come in place, Nature flourisheth, it's Enemy short∣ly withers.

I grant the Dogmatists own the use of Specificks, affirming that they substantially, and formally resist the Evils of Life: For all that, 'tis well known to the Faithful Philo∣sopher, how little they trust to them, being conscious to themselves how ieiune, and barren they are therein, never profoundly to a purpose examining this Ideal Doctrine, or putting it to the Test of Solid, Learned, repeated Experiments, as they ought, but rather trusting to what Good-wives have Taught them (who Happily deprived of their false Methods, slighting their Hodg podg, Bolmong Non-sensical jumbling to∣gether of multitude of Ingredients, looking Ninety nine ways at once, but in no wise at the right Mark) led by their own Genius put to some difficulties, moved to pity their Neighbours Languors, simply looked upon by them with a sincere Eye of Healing, Page  120 without that chief Sordid, Mercenary End, our Galenical Hucksturs or Ingrossers drive at) have been by Divine Providence con∣ducted to the knowledge of those Specificks, that have beyond expectation made a Meta∣morphosis of the Infirmity into Sanity. To the Rude contingent Essays of the Plain, Candid, Immethodical People, are our Fine-finger'd, Disingenuous Methodical Galenists beholding, hardly affording a Mantissa of their own Experimental Discoveries, to the weight of Direct Immediate Scheme of Curing.

This is the Reason we have so few Pat∣terns of Antidotes in this kind, sufficient to annihilate those Venemous Characters, made by multitude of dayly Occurrent Oc∣casional Causes: such is the Laziness of these Antichymists, that they will neither labour themselves, nor encourage Industrious men. Their Main study is to disguise themselves, that they may rather seem, than be truly Philosophical; wherefore like the worst of Thieves, stealing Pretious Truths out of Van Helm. or his Legitimate Disciples, they con∣ceal them by dressing them in a strang Habit, thus bring them upon the Stage of the world to be Admired, as the Off-spring of their own Head and Hand: whereas indeed they are but meerly Surreptitious, for which they Page  121 ought severely to be animadv•rted, especially for Cavilling, and Carping at this Noble Philosopher, to whom they owe what Or∣thodox Knowledge they have. Of this Crime I know some, cryed up by the Ignorant for great Spagyrists: who (as I can expressly shew) hath pillaged our Philosopher of Sub∣stantial Physical Verities, changed their Name, cut out their Mark, put on a larg fine Coat of Rhetorick, to make them look more gaudy, so exposed them to Sale at the Phantastical Fairs of this Foolishly Affecting, willingly to be deceived World.

Now let us find out (if possible) some Rare Gifts Instilled into the Creatures by the Conditor of all things.

These are fitly to be divided into three Monarchies or Republicks, each one bound to act according to that Power they are sub∣ject to, viz. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, to which is added Marine.

CHAP. XV.

AMong the Tribe of Animals with their Parts, the Spirit of the blood of Man blots out the Idea of the Falling-sickness, which the Spirit of Urine (in every respect besides equal with the former) cannot effect.

Page  122The Pouder of the Skul of a Man strang∣led, is reputed a Specifick in the Epilepsie. The Spirit of the Brain is valued after the same rate.

To drink his own Urine preserveth from the Image of the Pest.

The repeated Potation of Urine, cures the Tertian, and makes the Seminal Character to fade away.

The Uterine Blood of a Child-bed Wo∣man drank, hath an excellent faculty to stop immoderate Fluxes of the Womb, arising from a furious Idea.

The Blood flowing from the Nose, stops excessive Haemorrhagies, Menstruum Virgi∣nis extinguisheth Erysipelas.

Blood Extravsated or quitture hath a Sympathetical Sense, diffusing Beams at a great Distance towards the Vital Blood, cau∣sing Idea's Sanative or Corruptive in Wounds or Ulcers, according as Moderate or Violent Impresses are made upon the Mat∣ter removed from the Body.

The Gaul of Man correcteth Deafness.

The Mumy of Mans Body duly prepared, acts strangly upon the Innate Spirits, Ferments and Idea's, for, saith our Philoso∣pher: Nec etenim tutum est satis Mumiarum ad invicem connexum & concordantiam expri∣mere: inde nempe tota dimanavit Necroman∣tia Page  123 veterum. A man may presume to dive too far into this abstruse Philosophy to his own prejudice, imitating the Necromancy of the Antients. Without Controversie, the true Mumy operates notably upon the Morbifick Seal, enabling the Spirits to abolish it, to make salutiferous Images in place of the for∣mer. But it is not to be purchased sincere at this day, nor a succedaneum thereto: for that liquor as it is described, was of a thick Mellaginous consistence, of good Odour, of singular Efficacy, proceeding from the Bal∣some of Myrrhe, Aloe, Cinamon, with which they seasoned Mans Body. Ours at this day is of a different form to the right: Being only a Cadaverous Liquamen, or a piece of Flesh Condited, and dryed, very little signi∣ficant for the cure of any great Disease.

The Fat of Man wants not its worth as a Topick, in removing weak, troublesome, tor∣menting Marks made on certain parts of the Body. The Fat of Man enters into the Wea∣pon Salve for the advancement thereof.

To what Nefarious, Impious uses, Witch∣es put the parts of Mans Body, for the exe∣cution of their horrid Enterprizes, is known to those who have enquired into Natural Magical Causes of things.

The same parts of Man differently hand∣led, may destroy their wicked villanous, Be∣witching Page  124 Idea's, by introducing Good Moral Divine Religious Representations.

'Tis vulgarly known how Fasting-spittle doth take off some Griefs, not so much by power of a volatile Salt in it, as by a gift conferred of spoiling the Stigma in the part affected. Ear-wax cometh not short thereof in Energie.

The Spirit of Hair applyed, causeth Hair to grow.

Man's Dung is reported to be an Adae∣quate Antidote for mortifying the terrible Idea of some Poysons.

The great Tooth of a Dead Body placed upon an aking Tooth, causeth it to fall out by bare contact.

Van. Hel. affirms, Morientium sudor miri∣ficas vires mortificandi Haemorrhoides & ex∣crescentias possidet. p. 233. The Sweat of a Dying Man destroys the form of the swell∣ing of the outward Piles, and other Excre∣scenscies. A Dead-mans hand caused to stroke the same, acts in like manner.

Lice swallowed alive diminisheth (as is confirmed by some experimentally) the Tincture of the Jaundice, and sometimes to∣tally removes the steps thereof.

Intestinal Worms dried, poudered, taken inwardly, destroy the Figure of living Worms. Lice are said to rid away Lice.

Page  125Some declare the Stone of the Kidneys and Bladder, prudently Ordered by an Ex∣pert Pyrosophist, marreth the fashion of the Duelech, loosening the Compage there∣of, making it become Retrograde to the Principle of it's first Concretion.

There are some who have such an Idio∣syncrasie, or peculiar Constitution of Body, that upon Contact, Palpation, or stroaking another Living Body they change the Tex∣ture of the same, alter a valetudinary Me∣lancholy stamp, to a wholsome, Chearful Image. And I doubt not but some Infected with the Venereal Poysonous sting of a foul Woman, have, making use of one peculi∣arly wholsom, found them Antidotarie, giving interchangeably better for worse Ideas.

Thus great is the Benignity of the good Creator, who hath not suffered Man to be destitute of Excellent Remedies contained in his own Body, for the mitigation, pes∣sundation of the sad Calamities, he hath, and doth daily bring upon himself through his Exorbitant, Lustful Phansie.

He hath also destinated other Creatures to be at his Service, to regulate, sufflami∣nate, amend, consolidate, purifie, and per∣sanate his wandring Precipitate, Maimed, Corrupt, Crasie, Absurd, Filthy, Mad Page  126 Imaginations, turning Body and Soul con∣tinually off the Hinges.

I wish those Specificks I deliver upon trust, were throughly explorated, and approved by Learned Authors, who, I fear, have taken up some of them too credulously for Truths, as they came from the mistakes of the Plebeian, without Examining them by the Test of Judicious iterated Trials.

I shall exhort therefore all hearty Lovers of Verity, that they would make a severe scrutiny into some of those Concrets, sup∣posed to have a Gift bestowed upon them, of Acting in a Spiritual manner upon vitia∣ted Ideas.

For my part, had I leisure; were I not Importunately turmoiled with the accurate facture of Pharmacie, I should, long e're this, have given a more satisfactory Ac∣count of the Operation of things, sympa∣thizing with our Nature, preserving good sound Imaginations, bearing an Innate ha∣tred to those that are Morbous, Crasie, Vi∣tiated, extinguishing them.

I have thought none more fitting for this Work, than those we call Virtuosi, if they would lay aside their wanton, little signifi∣cant, somewhat Impertinent (as to the main matter of Sanity, without which no∣thing can be done aright (Periergies, or Page  127 over-busie Curiosities, seriously setling them∣selves, (for the Well-fare of their Neigh∣bour) to the Inspection and Anatomy of Essential Energies of Spirits, lodging in divers Bodies, as they delight, or are dis∣pleased when they meet with those of their own Texture, nearly related, or strangers thereto: In that regard exert respectively their Ingenite Faculties producing Charact∣eristical Effects of Health and Sickness.

If they will not vouchsafe to do this them∣selves, let them encourage others thereto, making a Collection of such Observations, as other Practical Philosophers have really found true, being ready to exhibit plain Specimens thereof to their Senses.

This were the direct way to advance the Sophical Tractation of Materia Medica, and to rid us of that Lumber of Fruitless, Far∣raginous, Absurd Compositions, which do but aggravate our miserable Condition.

Having shewn what Excellent Properties are comprehended in the Parts of Man, for the Regulation of Noxious Phansies: I shall now make a Progress of the Matter in hand, Mustering such Animals with their Continents and contents, reported either to sully, deface, blur, or quite abolish the Idea's of Diseases, whose Action in this kind is called Specifick, being destinated ab Page  128 Origine, for that End, to produce such an 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 or Effect, no Rational Compu∣tation of which can be given from the Prae∣dicament of meer Qualities.

The Spiritual Endowments flowing from Animals, Vegetables, and Mineral Concrets, as they are simply, plain, rudely, or curious∣ly prepared: I shall set down as most of them are delivered to me, ex fide, trusting to the bare Traditions of some, to the Authority, and Integrity of others.

Therefore let no man think all the Inge∣nite Virtues, attributed here to the Principal Triple Common-weal of Bodies, to be al∣together Authentick; but let them take no∣tice of my Grand Design, viz. That they may come under (a certain Modification with all Circumstances observed) the Ex∣amination of Ingenious Experimenters, who are able to testifie the falsity, or verity of the same, as they find them.

Swallows are commended as Powerful to obliterate by degrees the Falling Sickness: Also an Elks Claw, Castoreum. The Gaul of a Sucking Whelp.

The Liver of Froggs prepared. Casto∣reum. Blood of a Turtle Dove. The stone in a Carps Head, are Specifick in the Appo∣plexie, and Palsie. Likewise Fox Grease. The smell of a Fox. Water Distilled from Ants.

Page  129The Dung of a Black Cow taken while it is hot, then Calcined, and given to Infants newly Born, to half a dram, pre∣serves them from Convulsion Fits, and the Epilepsie.

Peacocks Dung conduceth against the Vertigo or Diziness.

The Brain of a Swine avails in a Phrensie and a Weak Memory.

A small Bone found in Snails without shells, profits in Convulsions.

A Toad stops great Fluxes of Blood; also the Hair, or Downie substance about the Tail of a Hare, taken in March, blown in∣to the Nostrils. Cats Tail, Asses, or Hogs Dung are used for that purpose.

The Fat of a Pike applied to the Tem∣ples, Composes the Phansie to Rest. A Succedaneum to it is the Water drawn out of the Worms found in the spongy Balls of sweet Bryar.

The Juice extracted out of the Liver of a Weasil, instilled into the Eye, removes the Idea of a white spot, or Cloudiness in the Eye. The same is declared of the Gaul of a Weasil, or Hare. The Blood of a Mouse. And Water Distilled out of mans Dung.

The Inward Skin of Egg-shells newly Hatched, Powdered, and Applied, takes Page  130 away the venemous Impress of a Cancer in the Eye.

Scarabees, or Beetles dryed, and pulve•rised, repose the starting out of the Eye.

The Chrystaline Humour of the Eye o• an Ox Distilled, Corrects the Infirmities o• the Eyes.

The Gaul of a Pike mortifies a Fistula.

The Gauls of most Fishes, instilled into the Eyes, change the dark Character of Blindness, into the Luminous bright Image of Seeing. The Gaul of a Pike is most fa∣mous for that End.

A Headless Fly rubbed upon a Wheal, or Mattery swelling of the Eye-lid Cures it.

The Juice of Periwinckles instilled into the Ear, profiteth against the Impress of Deafness. The like is attributed to the Gaul of a Hare, mixt with a little Honey.

The Claw of a Toad, well dressed, and held to the aking Tooth, charms the dolo∣rous pain. The Tooth of a dead Dog, Acts in the same manner, as they say. So doth (as some affirm) the Gum of Ivy and a Snakes Skin.

The Powder of Lizards put upon the Teeth, maketh them to fall out.

The Blood of a Cocks Comb rubbed on the Gums of Children breeding their Teeth, causeth them to break forth the sooner.

Page  131Oyl of Toads blot out Pimples and Wheals of the Face. The Menstruous matter per∣forms the like.

An Egg boiled hard laid to the Crown of the Head, takes off the flaccidity and hang∣ing down of the Uvula.

The Grease of a Pike rubbed into the Soles of Childrens Feet, afflicted with a tedious Cough, puts a stop to it.

Creatures fresh killed, applyed to the Head, have a Specifick Virtue to mitigate pains and watchings.

Crabs, Dogs Dung. Swallows, and Swallows Nest. Boars Tooth, marr the strangulatorie Image of the Quinzie.

Goats Blood, Mumy, Crabs Eyes, con∣duce to the amendment of that deformed Figure of a Phthisis. The Heart, Liver, and Lungs of a Calf, distilled, are of some Use for that purpose (as they say) Vipers, River Crabs, Pearls Philosophically hand∣led, are doubtless of great Force. So are Snails.

Ants Distilled with Honey in Spirit of Wine, afford an Excellent Liquor, appro∣priated for an Atrophie, or Consumption; to be used both inward and outward. T'is delivered by some, that a New laid Egg boiled in the Urine of a Consumptive Body till it be hard; then perforated with a sharp Page  132 stick, that abundance of holes may be made, reaching to the Yolk; afterward this very Egg boiled again in the same Urine, till it be quite evaporated: At length, buried in an Ant-Hill, is available in an Atrophie; for as it is consumed by the Ants eating it, so is the Idea of the Consumption of the Body ob∣literated, and the strength restored. That frothy, slimy Water slipping out of the mouth of Horses, when they are Drinking, being taken inwardly, repairs decayed Na∣ture

Millepedes Cheslips. Bezoar Orient. Cro∣cus. The broath of an Old Cock, are ac∣counted powerful to asswage an Asthma, or Tissick.

The Heart of a Partridge abates the Pas∣sion of the Heart. The Heart of a Bird, called a Wag-tail, the Congelation of the Spirits.

The Arterial Blood of a Goat, the Pizzle of a Stagg, or Bull. Boars Tooth often given, cross out the sharp point∣ed Character of a Pleurisie. Also the bright shining Pictures in a Peacocks Tail, cut into small pieces, and given to Drink. The fore-said spumous slippery Li∣quor, gliding through the Horses mouths in Watering, imbibed, doth strangly alter the Pleuritical Impress.

Page  133The Skin of a Wolf, Vulture, Swan, worn for a Stomacher, help, as they say, Digestion.

Hard Eggs are reckoned for a Specifick in 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the Dogs Appetite.

The Powder of a Secundine of the first Born, is recommended for prevention of mischief in the Pica, a strange Idea of Long∣ing in Women with Child.

A stone found in an Oxes Bladder of Gaul, wipes off the Tincture of the Yellow Jaun∣dies. Goose-dung, Earth Worms have the like Property. Outwardly a Tench ap∣plyed alive to the Navil till it dye. Like∣wise a Spider inclosed quick in a little Box, hung about the Neck upon the pit of the Stomack till it dye.

The fore-said stone in an Oxes Bladder of Gaul prevails against Sadness.

The Spleen of an Ox is a Specifick against the Evils of the Spleen.

The Worms in Dog Rose mortifie the Worms in the Belly.

A Living Toad applyed to the Region of the Loyns, cancels the Character of the Dropsie in the Kidneys.

The Gut of a Wolf dryed, and the pow∣der taken, lulleth asleep the Torment of the Cholick. The same is reputed of the In∣ward Ventricle of a Hens Craw, and whiter Page  134 part of Hens Dung. Likewise the Testi∣cles of a Horse. The powder of the Inward skin of the shell of Eggs. Portion of the Navil string of a Child new Born, carried about, certainly prevents, or mitigates the Torture of the Cholick.

The Blood of a Hare Cures the Dysentery or Bloody Flix.

Crabs Eyes. The Jaw Bone of a Pike, deface that ugly Petrifying Image in the Kidneys. Scorpions are applauded by some for that purpose.

Cheesils, Goats Blood produce the same Effect in the Stone of the Bladder. Chry∣stal Glass often heated red hot, quenched in very pure Water, Acts rarely in this kind.

The Egg-shell of a Hatched Chicken powdered, profiteth in the stopping of the Urine. The Urine of a Lynx, or spotted Beast, give Relief in the Strangury; also Oyl of Wax. The like is said of the Pith in a Goose Quill. Anima Halecis. Goats Tal∣low put into the Navil. Urine of a Goat. Earth-worms.

The Juice of River Crabs disturbs the Formal Cause of an Inflammation of the Kidneys. Not Inferior to the former is the Urine of a Goat newly made.

The Dung of a Yellow Coloured Hen, mortif•es an Ulcer in the Bladder.

Page  135The Wind-pipe of a Cock torrefied. The Bladder of a Goat. A Fish found in the Belly of a Pike. Invigorate the Retentive Faculty of the Bladder, hindring the invo∣luntary coming out of the Urine.

The Pizzle of a Bull, or Stag, corrobo∣rates the Atonie, or Flaccidity of a Man's Yard, stirring up Libidinous Images. Bole∣tus Cervinus, or Stags Mushrom. Scincus, or Land Crocodile, promote Venery.

The Ashes of Horse-Leeches. The Ashes of a sucking Leveret, are apprehended pow∣erful to Cure the Rupture of the Guts.

A Cuttle Fish bone. The Roe of a Red Herring are of force for the Running of the Reins.

Beetles infused in Oyl of Lin-seed, stop the Exorbitant Flux of the Piles, and the Falling down of the Fundament. Mumy hath the like Credit.

Sponges growing in Bathing places, The Ashes of Mouse-dung, Purple shell-fish cal∣cined, applyed to the Fundament, reform the mishapen knaps thereof, Warts, and other Vexatious excrescences.

The powder of the Matrice of a Hen helps Conception.

The Fume of a Dead Tooth of Man, de∣stroys the Idea of Sterility.

The Liver and Gaul of an Adder or Eel Page  136 dryed, and taken in Drink, causeth speedy Delivery in Child-bed. A Girdle made of an Adders Skin, worn about the Loyns, hath the same Virtue.

The Secundine torrefied and drank, won∣derfully dischargeth the After-Birth.

Powder of Cockle-shells, Powder of Mo∣ther of Pearl, Crabs Eyes, Spiders Web, A Fish, called a Tench, do all help to raze out the Image of Feavers.

The Spawn of Froggs technically Orde∣red, appease the pain of the Gowt.

Swines Blood, River Crabs, take off in some measure, the Impress of a Hectick Feaver.

Sal {sal armoniac} seven times Sublimed, Powder of Vipers, The Heart of a Hare, spoyl by degrees the Figure, or Type of a Quartan. To that purpose conspires a Living Spider, Imprisoned in a little Box, placed about the Stomack.

A Red or Pickled Herring eaten, cures Hydrophobie from the Biting of a Mad Dog.

A Toad, rightly prepared, is a true Xe∣nexton, Preservative, or curative in the Plague, mortifying Pestiferous Phancies. A Wolf's Tongue is extolled by Paracelsus, as endued with the same Virtue.

A Lizard assists Nature to kill the Venom of a Carbuncle.

Page  137The Fat of a Wolf obliterates the Picture of a Disease, called a Wolf, in Mans Body.

Vipers Flesh frequently assumed, doth overcome that filthy Species of a miserable calamity, the Leprosie.

The Blood of a Hare extinguisheth the fiery shape of an Erysipelas. The Fat of the same Creature extracteth a Thorn out of the Flesh.

A Living Worm applyed close to the fin∣ger, afflicted with a Whitflaw, dissipateth it. The Blood and Skin of a Mole performs the same.

The Mouse, called a Shrew, or Ranny, cut up alive, forthwith put to the part bit∣ten, heals the Wound.

Honey, or the Bee it self, cure the sting of Bees.

The Liver of a mad Dog eaten, is an An∣tidote against his Poyson.

The Head of an Adder is Alexiterie against it's biting. A Scorpion against it's sting. A Toad stone agafnst the Venom of a Toad.

Page  138CHAP. XVI. The next Class of those things which make 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 are Vegetables, as follow.

THE Root of Male Piony, Missletoe of the Oak, A shrub of Elder growing on a Willow, taken Inwardly, or worn as a Periapton, are very preval‎ent for the de∣letion of the deformed, Venemous, Epi∣leptical Image.

Lilly conval, the Flowers of Linden, or Teil Tree, Black Cherries, Southern wood, Valerian, Oyl of the Wood of Hazel, Bal∣sam of Palestina, Spirit of Tobacco, Spi∣rit of Camphire, are according to tradition, Specificks against the Epilepsie, Appoplexie, and Palsie.

Balm, Black Hellebore prevail against mad Phancies.

White Poppy, Nutmeg, help to abate great Watchings.

Serpillum, or Wild Thyme, Vervein, Regulate the Disorders of the Head.

The Flowers of Succory. Rochet, appli∣ed to the Nape of the Neck, Celandine, the green leaves of Tobacco, mitigate the In∣flammation of the Eyes.

Page  139Hieracium i. e. Hawkweed, Eye-bright, Fennel, strengthen weak Eyes.

Wormwood, Vervain, diminish the ting∣ling noise in the Ear.

An Onion, Pellets of Common Raddish, put into the Ear, have a property to help the difficulty of Hearing.

The Root of Gentian amends the Idea of an Ulcer in the Nose.

Majoram, Hors-mint, Restore the decay of Smelling.

The Juice of mil-foil, the mushrom of a Birch tree, the Flowers of Daisie the lesser, restrain Haemorrhagies, Flowers of Benzoe, stalks of Nigella Romana, or Gith, Dissolve Congealed Blood.

Oyl of Box, the Root of sharp pointed Dock, Burdock, are reckoned appeasers of the Tooth ach: the Fume of Henbane kil∣leth Worms in the teeth.

A Decoction of Veronica mas, i. e. Flu∣ellin the male, is said to Cure the Aphthae, the Thrush in Sucking Children.

The Root of Aron, Bryony, Valerian, are Specified against Diseases of the Lungs.

Ground Ivy is powerful to do good in those who are Empical, i. e. have Corrupt matter gathered in the Chest: the Seed of Roman Nettle, and the Root of Comfrey, are also proper.

Horse-tongue, Ladies Thistle, appease the pains of the Side.

Page  140Wild Cresses take off the mark of Hoars∣ness upon the Lungs. Zizipha lenifie a Cough. Henbane-Seed, the Root of sting∣ing Nettle, Fluellin, Bistort, Comfrey, Burnet, Sanicle, check spitting of Blood.

The Lesser Housleek is of great force a∣gainst a Quinzie.

English Saffron, Scabious, Garlick, Hore∣hound, Spirit of Tobacco, Benzoe, de∣face the Character of the Tissick.

The Root of Mullein (before it comes to Flower) hinders the Impetuous Flux of the Latex to any part. The like Virtue is attributed to mother of Thyme and Ground∣pine.

Zedoarie, Balm, Anacardium, give re∣dress in Lipothymie, or Fainting Fits. Oyl of Cynamon in Palpitation of the Heart.

Hemlock, Gum of Juniper, afford suc∣cour in the Inflammations of the Breast: Likewise Rhaeas or Wild Red Poppy, Daisie Roots, and Flowers.

The Juice of Ground Ivie, the Flower of St. Johns Wort, reform the mishapen figure of a Phthisis or Ulcer of the Lungs.

Hemlock, Mint, the Root and Seed of Fennel, hinder an overplus of Milk, and its curdling.

The greater Dragon, Aron, spoil the fil∣thy shape of a Cancer.

Page  141Burnet, Bryony Root, Water of Vine branches, abate the Phantastical Longing of Women, hindering the mischief which com∣monly coms upon it.

Zedoarie is applauded as an excellent pro∣per Stomachick.

Essence of Bread helps Digestion admi∣rably well.

The Seed of Columbine, Crocus, Hore∣hound, Strawberry Leaves and Root, alter the Dye or Stain of the Yellow Jaundice.

Elder Berries lenefies the vehemence of the Bloody Flix.

Essence of Persicaria is excellent against the Diseases of the Mesentery.

Gladiolus, Sword-grass, Fox-glove, are of great importance in the Kings-Evil.

Black Hellebore, Tamarisk, Garlick, Fern, Epithymum, Polypodium, Seed of Roman Nettle are accounted Remedies for the Spleen.

Gratiola doth good in the Dropsie, Ana∣sarcha, Tapsus Barbatus in a Tympany.

Garden Scurvy-grass well prepared, Brooklime, Lesser Celandine, Horse-Raddish Herb two Penny, the leaves of Pine, or Firr, help to Cancel the virulent Idea of the Scurvy.

Rupture wort, Hippoglossum, Pilosella, Semen Sophiae, Filicula, Perfoliata are ap∣propriated for the Cure of a Rupture of the Guts.

Page  142Herb Paris reduces the Inflammation of the Scrotum to an Eucrasie.

The dead Nettle, Terebinth, Ebulus, much conduceth in a Gonorrhaea.

Satyrium, Boletus Cervinus, Cubebs, the Root of Dogs stone, Umbilicus Vene∣ris, quicken Veneral Phancies.

Oyl of Rue abates the Priapism.

Sweet Bryar Balls, Alkekeng, Juniper Berries, Saxifrage, Lignum Nephriticum, Peach stones, Lachrima Job, the Liquor of Birch, drawn from the Tree in March, are commended for the stone in the Kidneys.

Decoction of Red Ciches avails▪ in the Strangury.

Agrimony, in Pissing of Blood.

Figg leaves, Juice of Onions, Aloe, open the Piles.

Linaria, the Ashes of Vine Branches, re∣move the Warts and knubs of the Funda∣ment.

Black Hellebore quilted with Cotten in form of a Girdle worn, stops the Excessive Flux of the Piles.

The Root of Sloe bush, restores the Fal∣ling down of the Fundament.

Down upon Quinces, Maiden-hair, Thap∣sia cause the Hair to grow.

Storks Bill, called Gratia Dei, Unites broken bones.

Page  143Persicaria, Celandine, the lesser Bryony, take away black and blew strokes.

Hypericon, Persicaria, are excellent vulne∣rary Herbs.

The Root of Bryony steeped in Water with Oak Ashes, destroys Worms in the Skin.

Gladiolus applyed, fetches out Thorns and Splinters.

Mushroms of an Oak mortifie Carbun∣cles.

Strawberries are accounted a Specifick against the Leprosie.

The Bark of Birch, Bladders on Elm leaves cleanse away Freckles.

A Bath made of Osier leaves, refresheth Consumptive Limbs.

Lunaria is a special Remedy for a Cancer.

An Apple applyed to Warts, and buried under ground, mortifies them.

CHAP. XVII. Lastly, Mineral and Marine Substances Act upon the Idea's of Diseases, by defacing, or expunging them.

THE Legitimate Spir. of Vitriol Amber, Terra Sigillata, Red Coral, Natural Page  144 Cinnabar. Cinnabar of ♁. The Emeral'd, scatter those black Clouds arising from the horrid Spectrums of the Appoplexie, Epi∣lepsie, introducing instead thereof a bright∣ness and splendour in the Spirits. Our Be∣zoartick powder with ☽ doth notable things to this purpose. It operates rarely well in Comatous Evils and Watchings.

Balsam of Saturn appeases the furious Commotion of the brain.

The Sulphur of Vitriol Cures the Vertigo or Diziness.

The pure Tincture of Tutia respects the Good of the Eyes, causing the Species of Objects to be seen more plain.

Sal Punella, Flowers of Brimstone, made as they should be, are doubtless, of com∣mendable use in the Quinzie, and Tissick.

Tincture of Mars, Lapis Haematites, and Vitriol, stop excessive Bleeding.

Antimonium Diaphoreticum is conducible in Imposthumes of the Lungs. The Flow∣ers of ♁ fixed, are so prized in an Empical Condition.

Bezoar, Mineral, dissolves blood congea∣led, and is of great validity in a Phthisis; but above all, the Anodine Sulphur of Vitriol is to be preferred.

Coral Revives the Vital Image in Lipo∣thymical Persons.

Page  145Powder of Crystal encreaseth Milk.

Spirit of ♄ amends the defects of the Stomack.

Emeral'd, Coral, Sulphur of ☉ are mag∣nified for good Remedies in Cholera and Dysenterie.

Mars, Saccharum ♄ Clarifie the Spleen, Reforming it's peccant Idea's.

The Load-stone applyed to the Navil, causeth Cholick pains to cease by destroying the Image of the Disease.

The Sea Spong, Sal Gemm, is much com∣mended in Schrofulous Affects.

Sal Gemm Artificially prepared, is extol∣led in Bubonocele and Enterocele,

Mercury destroys all sorts of Worms.

Essence of Amber, Venice Borace, Re∣vives the Image of Virility, extinguishing the ill-favoured type of sterility.

Ludus Paracels. reduces the Stone of the Kidneys or Bladder to it's first Principles.

Spirit of Mercury causeth the Corrupting Impress of the Sore in the Kidneys or Blad∣der to fade away; revocating a Healing Fa∣cultie.

The true tincture of Coral, purified Sul∣phur of ♂ puts a stop to Diabetes.

Antimony fixed, restrains the virulencie of a Gonorrhaea.

The Emeral'd Red Coral, well ordered, Page  146 gives succour in Pissing Blood.

Crocus Metallorum, easeth the blind Piles▪ but above all, Van Helm. Ring.

Aetites, or Eagle stone placed in the up∣per parts above the Navil, hinders Aborti∣on; Situate below about the Thighs, cau•seth timely Delivery.

Osteocolla, or Lapis Ossifragus taken In∣wardly, helps to Unite broken bones.

Vitriol healeth Wounds at a distance.

The Stone, called a Saphire, wonderful∣ly brings to naught the Poysonous form of a Carbuncle.

Arsenick after a peculiar manner, Cures Ulcers. Antimony the eyes.

If Hydrophobus be soused in Sea Water, the Image of the Dog pourtrayed in the Phancie of him, who is bitten, becomes annihilated.

Crystal dug out of the Earth, resists the Malignity of Arsnick, Auripigmentum, San∣daracha.

Thus far have I pointed at that Pharma∣cy, which having a Gift of Healing implan∣ted in it, strikes immediately at the inward Efficient Cause of our Infirmities.

In the next place, I shall make a progress in Removing the Outward Occasional, Ir∣ritating, or Exasperating Matter, which provokes, enrages the Archeus, causing it Page  147 to fall into inordinate Passions, and Pertur∣bations, whereby Diseases break forth, are encreased, become tedious, or lethiferous, if not timely prevented.

CHAP. XVIII.

THere is not any Faculty, or Profession hath more imposed upon the Credu∣lity of Mankind, than Physick, considering how precious the Subject is to be handled, likewise how easily we might be Convinced of the grand Errors, and abominable Abu∣ses, thrust upon us, to the loss of our Lives, yea, our very Souls, were we not obstinate, self-conceited unspeakably Idle, and Ma∣licious.

In a Comedy, called the Cheats, an ad∣dress is made to a Reverend Learned Doctor, a Galenist, for advice in a difficult Disease; who no sooner views the Urine, but forth∣with gives Councel to Bleed and purge. I wish this were only Comical, and were not indeed Tragical.

What Cruelty, Tyranny, Torments hath been Exercised by the Galenists ov•r Mankind? What Butcheries and 〈◊〉 hath been made of poor Mortals 〈◊〉▪ by bleeding, and purging, is practically known Page  148 to all Perspicacious Physitians every Week, yea, every Day.

How indirectly do these Men assume to themselves priviledges, who, I'le maintain to their Faces demonstratively, are not able to Cure any great Feaver Radically, with Judgment worthy of a Philosopher.

Can any deliberate, well advised Man think, that it was ever the intent of any Prince, to set up a Company of Men to de∣stroy their Subjects, or at least, to suffer them to enjoy any Royal priviledge, if they perversely, against the perspicuous Light of Reason, and clear testimony of Fact, should persist in their male-praxis, their Active, wilful Homicide, at this day, when Van Helm. like a Prometheus, hath by means of Fire (blown up by a Heavenly Benediction) Discovered, and taught the World the Cure of those truculent Calamities, which that Epimetheus, or Protoplastes, by opening Pan∣dora's Box, hath brought upon it.

I have in Haematia, offered Dr. Willis, or any other Semi-Chymist, or Chymicophant, to make it appear by Solid Experiments, that Bleeding (as there stated) is an indirect way to overcome any Grand Disease. Se• surdo narro dum sibi plaudunt. 'Tis all one, as if I should vociferate to Neptune that he would forbear to swallow up Ships, Passen∣gers, Page  149 and Treasure, sith 'tis the Nature of the Ocean agitated with the Fury of a Tem∣pest, to Execute such mischief. So it is equally in vain, for me to cry aloud (if I had Stentor's Voice) that Dogmatists would forbear to destroy their Countrey-men; for as much as Nature, Education, Voracious Appetite of Gain, and Honour, hurry them to that End.

However I shall always discharge my Duty in reprehending their vitious Method, detecting how mischievous it is to the Life of Man. As I have deservedly declaimed against Phlebotomie, with Arguments, and Experiments, sufficient to perswade any in∣telligent Person, that it is a Reprobate means of Conquering any great Infirmity. So I shall at this time make manifest for the sa∣tisfaction of the Senses of all Judicious Men, that the common Instruments the Ga∣lenists use in Purging, or carrying off the Occasional, Provoking, Morbisique Matter are unworthy to be prescribed by those, who own themselves Learned Doctors.

That I may therefore justly reprove those 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 who keep Men in Purgatory, without Expiation of the Errors of Life.

I shall (besides most clarified Reasons de∣pending upon long Experience) alledge the Authority of Hippocrates, and Galen, for Page  150 the Countenancing what I deliver.

That brave Heroe Hippocrates hath deli∣vered to Posterity two Aphorisms, worthy to be Written in the Frontispiece of every Honest Able Physitians House.

The Sense of the first is mentioned five several times in divers places; as Aphor. 2. Lib. 1. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 &c. Also Lib. 1. Aphor. 23. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c. Again, Aphor. 25. of the same Book, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c. Likewise Aphor. 3. Lib. 4. the same words are repeated. And Aphor. 2. of the same Book, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: Intimating by these Repetitions, that Physitians ought to have a singular care what they purged out of the Body.

The Second most useful Rule he gives, is Aphor. 21. Lib. 1. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Denoting that in all Evacuations we ought to Observe the Motion, Orgasm, Inclination of Na∣ture, and most convenient passages for that purpose.

If these Catharsists were Legitimate Di∣sciples of a Master so excellently well Ver∣sed in Healing, they would never thus promiscuously exclude good and bad Juices, by their colliquating Solutives, without any Page  151 Euphorie or Profit to the Sick Man; giving Purging and Vomiting Medicines so often repeated, that their Patients have complain∣ed they have emptied upward and down∣ward 500. times; yea, some a Thousand, yet have found no melioration of their Health, but a decay of their Vitals.

Nothing is more Common than to meet with those, who (when for their Redress, I commend Vomiting, or Purgative Phy∣sick) presently Reply, they have undergone too much of that, desiring me to forbear: When some, upon promise of Safety, and Efficacy, have taken my Emetick Tincture, Emeto Diaphoret, or Emeto Cathar, Pow∣der or Pill with benefit: Yet having found little sensible Evacuation, they have mur∣mured, fearing lest the Physick lay in their Body to their future hurt; supposing the same malignity to be in mine, as in the Ga∣lenical Solutives; and that we were to judge of the Patients Restauration according to 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the largeness and num∣ber of Sieges.

The miserable Experience of Colliqua∣ting Purgatives, taken into my own Body, the space of Seven or Eight Years, without any solid Cure, taught me that the uncor∣rected Catharticks of the Dispensatory often∣times Page  152 carry off peccant Juices, without pro∣fit, making as much as they discharge, wronging the Ferments, weakning the Tone of the Stomack, forcing Nature to move a way contrary to the stream of her own 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 and the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 of the Morbifique Dross.

And when at any time there succeeds any Redress after plentiful Evacuations by this means, it is by Accident in Robust Bodies, where the Disease is trivial, Nature stand∣ing upon her own Leggs, the Vessels per∣meable; also an Impetuous motion in the Matter attenuated, ready upon an easie Irri∣tation to be sent packing. However this Exploit will not Nobilitate a Physitian, or his Art, seeing (take one time with ano∣ther) this way doth double the mischief to the Good. Neither is he upon this account able to promise the Radical Cure of any great Infirmity, very rarely, when 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is sitting, but never when she is jacent. Then truly this is no more than the good Old Woman can perform by her simple Method; wherefore for Satisfaction of Ingenuous Lovers of Knowledge, let us a little contemplate a Beadrol or Register of their stronger and weaker So∣lutives, with their Correctiors.

Can any one, who knows what belongs to poysons, believe that Gum Arabick, Tra∣gacauth, Page  153 Bdellium, are in any proportion fitting Mortifiers of the poyson of Colocyn∣this, which hath proved Death in the Sto∣mack of many a Man?

Is Vinegar sufficient to amend the viru∣lency of the Roots of Esula, Lawrel, or Mezereum, &c. Can Milk tame the Caco∣ethie of Elaterium, the Acid Gas of Sulphur, Scamony? Or the Juice of Quinces the Root of black Hellebore? Or Water wash away the Realgar of Lapis Lazuli? I could never find yet by repeated Essays, that San∣ders, Violets, Ginger, Mastick, Anniseed, Cinnamon, Saffron, Daucus Seed, Almonds, Penidia, Pepper, Spikenard, with several Gums, have any power to take off, to a purpose, the Deleterie Nature of Grand, boysterous Catharticks; neither do they otherwise than Disguise the more gentle Poyson of Minoratives (as they call them) as Manna, Cassia, Reubarb, Sena, Agarick, My∣robal, Carthamus, Mechoa, Soldan, Turbith.

I grant some have now and than a present ease by uncorrected Purgatives; but 'tis no other than what happened to the Doctors Servant, who, upon eating two or three Spi∣ders, discharged her Stomack, had a stool or two, so was for a while freed from her Grief.

For all that, let me give a Caution to those, who without scruple swallow down Page  154 Intoxicating Compounds, Electuaries, Po∣tions, Pills, or Powders (far worse than a simple Spider) that at length by frequent sumption of the same, they make not an In∣deleble Character or Impress upon the Sto∣mack, never to be razed out by any Art (as I have known) the Thread of their Life be∣ing cut short (according to Humane proba∣bility) half in half: withal what they en∣joyed had much feebleness and irksomness in it.

How can it indeed be otherwise, forasmuch their Oracle, Galen saith very true in this: Omne purgans Naturae Inimicum. Certain∣ly, Naturae bellum inferre Odiosum. He that Offers violence to the Vitals, takes a course to dissolve the compage of his Body the sooner.

Neither do I charge their own proper Emeticks, or Catharticks, as Malefactors, but I moreover accuse those they have bor∣rowed of the vulgar Chymists, viz. Infu∣sio Croc. Metal. abusively called Vinum Be∣nedictum, ☿ Vit. ☿ dul Sublimat, ☿ dul Praecipit. Turpet Miner. Vinum Antimo. Vinum Rubel. These are their scandalous Chymical Medicines, as bad, if not worse, than those which Mountebanks, cheating Astrologers, or those Quacks, who with their Ominous Bills, make a most doleful Page  155 noise in the streets, and every corner, worse than scritch-Owls, or Night Ravens.

'Tis not strange then that the common sort of People, yea, even those of better Quality, know not how to distinguish be∣tween Chymical Preparations, Real, or counterfeit; those safe and Hazardous: between Efficacious and Fruitless, Elabo∣rately defaecated, Philosophically handled, and those slightly contrived, or rudely flub∣bered over.

Herein lies the cheat, that the Galenists assuming to themselves the Name of Chy∣mists; Incogitant, unwary Persons take it for granted (by reason of the Authority, prevailing credit, they have gained among Persons of Degree, by seeming to be what they are not) that Men of so many Letters, must needs be the only Legitimate Sophi in our Science; whereas through want of In∣tegrity, Industry, Difficult Labour with their own Hands, Magnanimity, Arnauty, a Design of Noble Enterprizes, it is im∣possible they should arrive to any pitch of Knowledge in Pyrotechnie.

So weak are the Judgments of some of our Academicks, even those who Rank themselves among Scholars of the higher class, that I am ready to blush, observing what 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is in their Understanding, Page  156 how dim sighted their minds are, to make a right Distinction of things, and to value them as they are in themselves.

These are they, who assent that Dr. Wil∣lis, with certain others, are able Chymists, because having stolen a plat-form of more refined Philosophy out of Van Helmont, they have made a large spacious Rhetorical super∣structure, most part Sermocinal, little pra∣ctically Salutiferous.

Let me tell those, who covet to Learn, 'tis not a vast Library, profound speculati∣ons in a Closet, an Eloquent Tongue, a dexterity in Writing Elegantly, a pretty slight in prescribing after the manner of their boasting Method, a concourse of mul∣titude of Patients, the Applause of Great Men, Professors of the University, Virtuosi (who of all Men methinks, should be most cautious how they acquit Dogmatical Phy∣sitians) nor the Vogue of certain altogether Interested Apothecaries, Chirurgeons, Mid∣wives, or Nurses, can justifie a Man as an Authentick, Philosophical Chymist, unless he walk plainly, according to Helmontian Principles, viz. Renounce Phlebotomy al∣together, according to the Indication of Evacuation or Revulsion; laying aside all ill-conditioned Vomiting, and Purging In∣struments, Praedatorie Diaphoreticks, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉Page  157 Grating, Fretting Diureticks, and divers torturing palliating ways.

He then that will rid the body of those cadaverous, Foul, Out-lawed, Fretting Excrements, like Thorns or Splinters ex∣timulating the Archeus, to make sundry Ideas of Calamities: Let him hunt after those Remedies that the Vitals have a plea∣sing Gust for, which Obsecundate and fol∣low the Genius of Nature in the propulsion of Impurities, wheresoever sited, what way soever tending, withal obtain a Faculty 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to turn by meer contact any thing depraved in the Body to a better con∣dition.

Seeing 'tis most difficult to attain, Para∣celsus his, or our great Philosopher Van Hel∣mont's Arcana's, e. g. Tinctur Lili ab Elect∣ro Minera. Mercur. Vit stibii proles Integra. Tinctu Lili Antimon. Mercurius Diaphore. Element. Ignis e Cupro, ☿ Corallat, &c. Let him put out himself to the utmost, using all means possible to purchase such a Pharmacy, agreeable to the Doctrine of our Philoso∣pher, Fabricated according to his Rules in∣general, endeavouring 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to imitate his Illustrious Spagyrical Secrets, so by de∣grees let him aspire to greater things.

Let him study to defaecate throughly the Sulphur of ♁, that it may be at the Com∣mand Page  158 and beck of Nature, exterminating whatsoever annoys without blemishing the Ferments.

Let him Marry the well purified Sulphur of ♁, to the sweet Sulphur of a Vegetable, entertaining both into a delectable Bath.

He ought also to digest ♁ with an Alkali; afterward to extract a high Tincture, sub∣servient to Nature, in cleansing, sweeping away filth or dregs in the Body, making a Happy alteration in the Texture of degene∣rate Juices.

The Red and Citrine Sulphur of ♁ made by praecipitation, well sweetned with the Alcohol of Wine, afterward intimately joyned with a Solar Sulphur, fulfills the dict∣ates of Nature, in proscribing per loca Com∣moda, without damnifying the stomack, whatsoever is Rebellious, Conspiring against Life, stirring up the Archeus to Indigna∣tion.

Bezoard, Mincra, Solar, Luna, Iovial, may be so coyned, and such a stamp set up∣on them, that they may safely, and effectu∣ally agitate the Morbifique Matter, Hunting, Chasing it every way, without offering In∣jury to the Noble parts, or leaving an Evil Tang behind.

The Yellow Sulphur of ♁ like the Com∣mon, likewise it's Cinnabar, worked upon 페이지 159철학적으로, for∣mer End를 강력하게 실현할 것입니다.

꽃에서, Regul, 유리 ♁, , 무해하고 부드러운 Eme∣ticks, Cathart, Diaphoret, Diureti를 추출할 수 있습니다. 항상 Euphorie와 Euphrasie를 남겨 둡니다.

☿ 잘 거의 고정되어 ☉ 있거나 ☽ 자연을 방해하는 데 도움을 줍니다., 흰족제비, 방탕한, vitious, lentous, 완고한, 응고된 더러움∣ness, 〈 라틴어가 아닌 알파벳으로 〉 Relevation.

우리의 emetocathar, emeto diaphore pow∣der 또는 알약; 우리의 Bezoar Powder, 내가 그것을 제작☉할 수 있기 때문에 나는 그것을 제작할 ☽ 수 있습니다 또는 자연과 함께 할 수 있습니다 큰 악을 정복하는 데 도움이 될 수 있습니다., Nosopoietick 가시와 Bryars, Archeus의 측면에 있는 그 Goads를 제외하고, Sluce를 통해 사치스러운 열정에 그것을 소멸시키거나, 또는 가장 화려하고 편리한 외출: Withal 그들은 〈 라틴어가 아닌 알파벳 〉을 달콤하게 합니다. 괴혈병의 어떤 extream 산, mor∣tifie 악성 이데아, &c. 큰 급성 슬픔을 안전하게 길들이고, 일반적으로 위안을 제공합니다. 그들은 토하든, 정화하든, 아니든 행동하며, 온전한 것, 건전한 것, 타락한 것을 순화시키는 것을 행한다.

우리의 Emetick 팅크는 전자를 가진 동일한 Excellency로 영속된다, 그러나 Ope∣rates는 더 둔감하게, 그리고 약간 더 생명 힘에 이점으로 인내된다.

페이지 160우리의 필. Polychrest는 기공에 Eutony를 일으키고, 소화를 돕고, 혈액을 정화하고, Coarctations, 또는 Constricti∣ons를 확장하고, 막힌 통로를 열고, 심하게 응고된 물질로 댐을 만들고, 그것을 감쇠합니다. 그것은 가라앉히고, Edulcorates 예리한 초조한 주류: 그것은 발효를 손상시키지 않고, 또는 Of∣fending 부속을 손상시키지 않으면서 Inte∣stines, 신장, 식도, 풍관 및 피부를 통해 유해한 모든 것을 달콤하게 분해합니다. 이 알약을 가지고 있는 자는 글리스터를 처방할 필요가 거의 없다. 나 자신은 수천을 취했고, 그 중 많은 것을 다른 사람들에게 주었는데, 그 완고한 병약함, 비열함, 그로 인해 많이 억압된 생명 능력의 발전에 대한 것이다.

승화된 ♂ 일반 유황은 불순물을 멀리하는 경멸스러운 클렌저가 아니며, 라틴어가 아닌 알파벳으로 〈〉 Hypochondries에 대해 숙인되었습니다.

콜로신스. 스캐먼. 엘라테리. 에술의 뿌리, 헬레보. Alb. 가장 정제 된 미네랄 유황과 타르트 Volati의 소금으로 소화; 그래서 그들의 Poysons는 내성적이 되고, Friendly Catharticks, Diaphoret, Diureti를 피하고, Archeus가 Ferine Refractory Di∣seases를 정복하는 데 도움이 됩니다.

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