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Scholastick
Methods
The
Author
Med.
Londinens
Richard
Lownds
(
my
Lord
(
my
Lord
Theatri
Tabidorum
Vestibulum
;
Let
none
spurn
at
me
because
what
I
offer
is
of
a
new
Production
;
for
,
I
have
by
certitude
of
Observations
,
faithfully
and
succinctly
laid
open
the
fallacy
of
some
Opinions
anciently
received
,
and
not
taken
Precepts
upon
trust
,
only
from
Authors
,
for
understanding
the
Constitution
of
Nature
.
Moreover
,
I
have
not
learn'd
to
go
according
to
Vulgar
Institution
,
but
have
made
bold
to
step
aside
out
of
the
Common
Road
,
being
inclined
to
contemplate
and
reverence
Nature
,
rather
than
her
Apes
.
I
would
to
God
that
Physitians
would
think
of
refining
,
correcting
,
and
altering
the
Method
of
Physick
,
that
it
might
be
more
accurately
and
efficaciously
fitted
to
the
scopes
of
Curation
;
in
order
whereunto
,
a
liberty
of
thinking
and
speaking
freely
being
first
obtained
,
notwithstanding
the
obstinacy
of
crabbed
and
morose
old
Fellows
,
I
shall
undertake
,
relying
upon
Experience
,
and
being
instructed
by
her
,
to
publish
and
positively
assert
divers
things
,
somwhat
copiously
and
boldly
,
according
to
the
nature
of
my
Design
.
Experimental
Philosophy
Zwelfer
,
p.
Theodore
de
Mayern
,
p.
Womens
Diseases
French
Pox
Scurvy
,
p.
Bills
of
Mortality
Scurvy
,
p.
Rickets
,
p.
Consumption
,
p.
46
,
47.
Stopping
of
the
Stomack
,
p.
48.
Rising
of
the
Lights
,
Small
Pox
Running
Gout
Rheumatism
,
p.
French
Pox
&c.
p.
Pox
,
Scurvy
Willis
,
Kircherus
,
Sinibaldi
,
Zacchias
,
Kenelm
Digby
,
Vallesius
Flud
,
Greg.
Horstius
,
Fernelius
,
Aurelius
Minadous
Suckling
Children
A
further
Proof
of
this
great
Alteration
,
by
inquiring
into
the
manner
of
the
complication
of
the
with
other
Diseases
French
Lues
Heurnius
,
p.
Des
Cartes
Four
Humours
Chymical
Physicians
Chymical
Principles
Galenick
Rule
of
Contraries
Gale●●●●
〈◊〉
Critical
days
Critical
days
Dr
Willis
Mr
Boyl
Zacutus
Lus
Malign
Fevers
,
Small
Pox
,
Measels
,
old
Compositions
Mr
Le
Febure
Chymical
Physicians
Single
Specificks
read
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Four
Elements
De
gen
.
Anim.
exercit.
De
Morb.
vulg.
Comm.
All
things
are
to
be
examined
by
Reason
and
Experience
,
Slaves
which
are
sworn
to
Authors
.
De
Meth.
Medendi
Avicenna
,
Averroes
How
exceedingly
it
hath
troubled
him
to
see
his
Brethren
of
the
Faculty
dwell
only
upon
Commentaries
Galen
)
and
through
a
proneness
to
subscribe
to
the
dictates
of
the
Ancients
,
have
been
so
sluggish
as
to
acquiesce
in
them
,
and
according
to
their
rude
dogmatical
Positions
,
to
make
enquiry
after
the
Causes
and
Essences
of
Things
Natural
,
and
of
Diseases
,
and
Medicines
,
and
deliver
them
over
as
sacred
to
their
Disciples
.
What
is
this
but
to
strangle
Truth
,
and
extinguish
the
vigour
of
mens
Wits
with
meer
Authorities
which
should
rather
be
fitted
for
great
Things
,
and
led
on
to
more
eminent
searches
into
the
Secrets
of
Nature
?
Let
me
tell
them
,
as
long
as
they
are
carried
with
this
vain
opinion
of
Authority
,
and
so
earnestly
yield
up
themselves
and
their
Followers
Vassals
to
Authors
,
doubtless
they
do
a
great
injury
even
to
the
Ancients
themselves
,
seeing
it
never
enter'd
into
the
minds
of
or
the
other
old
Sages
of
Natural
Science
,
to
consecrate
their
Works
to
Posterity
,
with
such
an
intent
as
to
count
it
necessary
that
men
should
presently
be
content
with
them
only
,
and
rest
wholly
therein
;
but
rather
,
that
they
should
remember
to
employ
their
Endeavors
to
search
and
proceed
further
,
and
produce
somewhat
of
their
own
:
For
,
as
our
Ancestors
did
abundantly
labour
to
add
to
their
own
Inventions
,
with
as
great
exactness
as
might
be
,
to
the
Inventions
of
such
as
went
before
them
,
and
perform'd
their
utmost
,
by
learned
Observations
,
to
illustrate
such
things
as
to
them
seemed
difficult
and
obscure
;
so
it
is
our
duty
so
to
reverence
the
fair
Monuments
and
Inventions
of
good
Authors
,
and
so
apply
our selves
to
the
Inventors
,
as
an
Inheritance
belonging
to
many
;
and
acquit
our selves
in
such
a
manner
as
good
Fathers
of
Families
use
to
do
,
who
study
how
to
enlarge
and
encrease
what
they
have
received
,
and
transmit
that
Inheritance
from
themselves
to
their
Posterity
,
much
augmented
,
that
so
,
I
say
,
we
may
look
on
those
who
are
gone
before
us
with
so
many
illustrious
examples
of
their
Industry
,
not
as
our
Lords
and
Masters
,
but
Leaders
,
reckoning
with
That
there
yet
remains
much
work
to
be
done
;
and
that
very
much
is
like
to
remain
always
;
and
that
after
a
thousand
Ages
more
,
men
will
not
want
occasion
to
make
new
Discoveries
and
Additions
.
An
extream
Affection
to
Antiquity
Advance
of
Learn
Antiquity
deserves
that
men
should
make
a
stay
a
while
,
and
stand
thereupon
,
and
look
about
to
discover
which
is
the
best
way
;
but
when
the
discovery
is
well
taken
,
then
not
to
rest
there
,
but
chearfully
to
make
progression
.
Indeed
,
to
speak
truly
Antiquity
of
Time
is
the
Youth
of
the
World.
Certainly
,
our
Times
are
the
ancient
Times
,
when
the
World
is
now
ancient
;
and
not
those
which
we
count
ancient
,
by
a
computation
backward
from
our
own
Times
;
and
yet
so
much
credit
hath
been
given
to
old
Authors
,
as
to
invest
them
with
the
power
of
Dictators
,
that
their
words
should
stand
,
rather
than
admit
them
as
Consuls
to
give
Advice
.
the
Liberal
Sciences
have
fared
far
worse
than
the
Arts
Mechanical
,
which
always
have
been
,
and
are
continually
much
improved
Magicians
,
Mountebanks
,
Rogues
,
Cheats
,
Vagabonds
,
I
dare
confidently
avouch
,
that
the
Wisdom
we
have
extracted
chiefly
from
the
Grecians
,
seems
to
be
a
Child-hood
of
Knowledg
,
and
to
participate
that
which
is
proper
to
Children
,
namely
,
That
it
is
apt
for
Talk
,
but
impotent
and
immature
for
Propagation
;
for
,
it
is
of
Controversies
rank
and
fertile
,
but
of
Works
barren
and
fruitless
Methodical
Hive
Beaux
Esprits
Verè
celsus
Paracelsus
,
Most
sublime
Paracelsus
Des
Cartes
Kenelm
Digby
Nov.
Org.
that
the
Physicks
were
corrupted
by
their
being
accommodated
thereto
Henry
More
Tycho
Brahe
Des
Cartes
,
Peter
Boreel
Centuries
of
Observations
Natural
Philosophy
Des
Cartes
but
by
their
leave
they
were
able
to
effect
little
,
because
of
their
reasoning
in
the
old
obscure
way
of
Philosophy
;
but
now
that
it
hath
pleased
God
to
illuminate
the
World
with
a
greater
light
of
Philosophy
,
in
this
happy
Age
of
ours
,
by
clear
and
easie
Principles
,
every
where
obvious
to
the
Vnderstanding
,
and
more
accurately
fitted
for
use
,
I
have
reduced
the
whole
Art
of
Physick
to
these
two
Points
,
and
the
which
are
the
only
duties
of
a
Physitian
;
and
cashiered
the
common
Doctrine
of
which
have
no
Being
but
in
the
brains
of
the
vulgar
,
that
so
I
might
render
all
the
Mysteries
of
our
Profession
,
even
the
most
abstruse
and
difficult
,
plain
and
easie
.
Van
Helmont
Pharmacopeia
Augustana
Acutissimum
illum
Philosophum
Helmontium
;
That
most
acute
Philosopher
Helmont
.
Oswald
Grembs
De
Morbis
Lienls
His
main
intent
is
no
other
than
to
perswade
Physitians
,
that
the
Foundations
laid
by
do
not
correspond
with
the
practise
of
Physick
,
but
that
it
may
be
better
accommodated
by
the
Foundations
of
Bloods
Circulation
Bartholinus
,
Walaeus
Schenkius
,
Rolfinckius
,
Hornius
,
Sylvius
de
le
Boe
,
in
the
life
of
tells
his
mind
more
at
large
.
Theodore
de
Mayern
Printed
at
An
Apology
for
the
Physick
of
Answer
to
the
Libellous
Apology
of
Turquetus
Mayern
)
little
dog
de
Mayern
THe
Colledg
of
Physitians
in
the
Vniversity
of
being
lawfully
congregated
,
having
heard
the
Report
made
by
the
Censors
,
to
whom
the
business
of
examining
the
Book
of
was
committed
,
do
with
unanimous
consent
condemn
,
not
only
the
Chymical
Books
of
but
also
the
Art
of
Chymistry
itself
;
and
do
exhort
all
Physitians
which
profess
Physick
in
any
Nations
or
Places
whatsoever
,
that
they
will
continue
to
practise
Physick
according
to
the
Doctrine
of
Moreover
,
they
forbid
all
men
that
are
of
this
Society
of
the
Physitians
of
that
they
do
not
admit
of
a
Consultation
with
or
any
other
Chymists
,
or
any
Persons
not
approved
by
License
.
Whosoever
shall
presume
to
do
contrary
,
shall
be
deprived
of
all
Advantages
of
the
Colledg
,
and
Priviledges
of
the
Vniversity
,
and
be
blotted
out
of
the
Register
of
Regent
Physitians
.
Given
at
in
the
Vpper
Schools
,
the
ninth
day
of
THe
Colledg
of
Physitians
in
the
Vniversity
of
being
lawfully
congregated
,
having
heard
the
Report
made
by
the
Censors
,
to
whom
the
business
of
examining
the
published
under
the
name
of
was
committed
;
do
with
unanimous
consent
condemn
the
same
,
as
an
infamous
Libel
,
stuff'd
with
lying
Reproaches
,
and
impudent
Calumnies
,
which
could
not
have
proceeded
from
any
but
an
unlearned
,
impudent
,
drunken
,
mad
Fellow
:
And
do
judg
the
said
unworthy
to
practise
Physick
in
any
place
,
because
of
his
rashness
,
impudence
,
and
ignorance
of
true
Physick
:
But
do
exhort
all
Physitians
,
which
practise
Physick
in
any
Nations
or
places
whatsoever
,
That
they
will
drive
the
said
and
such
like
Monsters
of
Men
and
Opinions
,
out
of
their
company
,
and
Coasts
;
and
that
they
will
constantly
continue
in
the
Doctrine
of
Moreover
they
forbid
all
men
that
are
of
the
Society
of
the
Physitians
of
That
they
do
not
admit
a
Consultation
with
or
such
like
persons
.
Whoever
shall
presume
to
act
contrary
,
shall
be
degraded
and
deprived
of
all
honours
,
emoluments
,
and
priviledges
of
the
Vniversity
,
and
be
expunged
out
of
the
Register
of
Regent
Physitians
.
Given
at
in
the
Vpper
Schools
,
the
fifth
day
of
Quotidian
,
Tertian
,
Quartan
,
&c.
thick
and
red
Pract.
li.
hîc
aegros
infestant
,
omnes
not
as
Febrium
à
Graecis
&
Arabibus
descriptas
non
obtinent
;
Most
Agues
which
infest
men
in
this
Age
,
do
not
agree
with
the
descriptions
of
Agues
made
by
the
Greeks
and
Arabians
:
Tertian
,
Quotidian
Continual
Fevers
Continual
Fever
French
Pox
Miserabile
Scortatorum
Flagellum
;
The
miserable
Scourge
of
Whore-masters
.
De
Lue
Ven.
that
the
Pox
which
now
reigns
,
hardly
seems
to
be
of
the
same
kind
with
the
former
:
The
French
Disease
is
nom
become
Hereditary
,
being
derived
from
Parents
to
their
Posterity
by
Generation
,
and
communicated
from
infected
persons
to
others
by
kissing
,
by
sucking
,
by
clothes
,
and
the
like
.
Martin
Dorp
Thomas
More
Sceletyrbe
,
i.
e.
Sore
Mouth
Sore
Legs
French
Pox
Denmark
,
Norway
,
Holland
France
,
Spain
Cent.
Obs.
Forestus
,
Fonseca
,
Piso
,
Riverius
,
Serosa
Colluvies
High
Germany
hardly
so
much
as
a
shadow
of
what
it
had
been
among
those
Northern
Men
,
Eugalenus
,
Wierus
,
Ronseus
,
Forestus
Bils
of
Mortality
John
Graunt
Weekly
Bils
of
Mortality
England
,
viz.
the
Water
in
the
Head
,
difficulty
of
Teething
difficulty
of
Breathing
;
the
Convulsion
,
Falling
Sickness
,
Consumption
,
Hectick
Fever
,
Malignant
Fever
,
Slow
Fever
,
Ague
,
Dropsie
,
Kings
Evil
,
Do
Rachitide
,
cap.
Stopping
of
the
Stomack
Rising
of
the
Lights
the
Mother
Fit
of
the
Mother
viz.
almost
six
times
as
many
Rickets
,
the
Stoppings
,
and
Rising
it
seems
to
me
that
they
depend
upon
one
another
.
Scurvy
Companion
de
Scorbuto
stopping
of
the
Stomack
Rising
of
the
Lights
Small
Pox
Serosa
Colluvies
Agues
,
Fevers
,
Small-Pox
,
Measels
,
Small
Pox
Black
Slave
Running
Gout
Coughs
,
Catarrhs
,
Tooth-Ach
French
Pox
John
Wynel
One
occasion
of
my
Writing
was
my
observing
the
stupendious
growth
and
spreading
of
two
depopulating
Diseases
,
the
and
the
and
enquiring
thereupon
into
their
effects
,
in
the
I
found
them
so
benigne
,
that
it
gave
me
occasion
to
admire
the
mystery
of
concealment
:
I
observed
the
to
have
slain
its
Thousands
,
and
the
scarce
its
Hundreds
:
I
concluded
thereupon
,
that
Consumption's
Back
is
broad
enough
to
bear
such
Mocks
:
I
perceived
also
,
that
the
had
scarce
a
constant
name
in
the
killing
Catalogue
,
though
it
destroy
more
than
any
Ten
of
its
Fellows
;
but
the
of
many
kinds
,
&c.
have
great
numbers
dead
at
their
Feet
.
I
concluded
thence
,
I
observed
also
the
Mortality
and
pining
of
Families
,
their
Generations
gasping
,
and
soon
run
out
,
one
treading
on
the
heels
of
another
,
which
made
me
to
enquire
what
should
be
the
occasion
;
I
accused
their
pampering
diet
,
effeminate
education
,
premature
marriage
,
and
indiscreet
covetousness
in
taking
a
weak
,
crooked
,
or
rickety
Woman
(
for
her
Portion
)
to
be
But
my
thoughts
reasoning
against
the
sufficiency
of
this
enumeration
,
as
not
of
sufficient
consideration
,
they
carried
me
with
greatest
reason
to
contemplate
their
Diseases
;
and
finding
the
amongst
them
,
I
was
strong
in
my
conjecture
,
that
this
Malady
,
traduced
in
the
Seed
of
Parents
,
and
Milk
of
Nurses
,
hindring
Nature
from
accomplishing
her
intent
of
perfection
,
hath
brought
this
calamity
upon
Families
,
I
observed
further
,
that
hereby
one
principal
end
of
Marriage
,
to
propagate
a
strong
,
healthy
,
and
numerous
posterity
,
sit
to
traduce
the
being
,
name
,
and
memory
of
Parents
,
to
such
an
eternity
as
their
mortal
condition
is
capable
of
,
was
much
made
void
:
For
,
in
this
wanton
,
painting
,
patching
,
perfuming
,
Issuing
Age
,
a
man
knows
not
whom
or
what
he
takes
to
himself
or
his
Son
in
Marriage
,
a
Blessing
,
or
a
Curse
,
whereby
not
only
our
own
Bodies
are
indanger'd
and
damnified
,
but
Posterity
primarily
,
fundamentally
corrupted
,
extirpated
,
hearts
of
yoak-fellows
alienated
,
Jealousie
let
in
,
and
indeed
an
uncomfortable
life
together
,
because
they
cannot
get
a-sunder
,
like
two
Dogs
in
a
Chain
ever
snarling
,
and
all
because
the
abuseful
deceit
in
Marriage
I
observed
also
,
that
all
Pretenders
to
Physick
gave
out
a
more
than
ordinary
Skill
in
the
yet
scarce
one
Patient
of
Ten
went
off
from
them
sound
,
as
by
relapses
it
too
ordinarily
appears
.
I
was
therefore
led
to
believe
,
that
either
the
ignorance
of
the
Disease
,
or
shamefacedness
to
discover
it
,
made
them
carry
it
about
them
too
long
;
or
else
the
ignorance
of
such
as
they
applyed
themselves
to
,
or
the
impatience
of
the
Patients
to
bear
a
Cure
,
gave
the
Disease
this
advantage
:
For
,
though
by
Palliation
the
dolorous
Symptoms
were
baffled
,
yet
the
virulent
Cause
was
left
behind
in
the
dark
,
deep
in
their
Spirits
and
Bones
,
to
make
future
work
for
the
Physitian
.
Hereby
their
Patients
are
deceived
,
who
not
being
able
to
judge
,
think
better
of
their
Discovery
than
is
meet
and
safe
,
and
find
by
sad
experience
,
that
(
the
next
evoking
Season
)
the
Disease
having
gotten
strength
by
lying
in
Trenches
,
breaks
forth
more
dangerous
than
it
was
at
its
first
On-set
.
My
Scope
therefore
in
publishing
this
Treatise
,
is
,
to
present
a
good
office
to
the
world
,
by
entring
the
Lists
with
this
Champion
.
And
since
this
Enemy
playes
small
Game
also
,
and
is
come
down
so
low
as
the
Spinster
,
I
have
therefore
made
him
speak
plain
English
,
(
not
without
due
respect
to
Modesty
and
better
Vnderstandings
)
that
ordinary
Capacities
may
be
able
to
judge
of
their
own
Condition
by
their
own
light
,
and
in
season
look
out
for
relief
,
before
captivity
,
and
the
further
Enervation
of
their
own
Bodies
.
For
,
though
people
of
both
Sexes
may
be
privy
to
their
own
personal
integrity
,
yet
what
lurks
in
their
humours
from
Parents
Seed
,
or
Nurses
Milk
,
they
are
ignorant
of
:
And
,
however
no
present
Symptoms
thereof
discover
it
to
themselves
,
much
less
to
others
;
yet
the
of
it
oft
and
long
lying
obscure
,
doth
traduce
a
present
defilement
in
Generation
to
Posterity
.
I
have
read
many
Authors
on
this
Subject
,
and
found
satisfaction
in
none
.
I
perceive
,
that
on
this
,
as
on
other
Subjects
,
they
too
much
tread
in
the
steps
of
their
Ancestors
,
and
rest
in
their
Dictates
without
further
Inquiry
,
swelling
their
Volumes
with
Transcriptions
into
their
own
Methods
,
which
serve
to
fill
men's
Libraries
with
much
paper
,
and
but
few
Books
.
Scorbutick
Miasma
Carnal
Contact
ill
Cures
Carnal
Contact
Touch
and
Take
Carelesness
,
Sordidness
in
neglecting
their
own
Bodies
,
haud
ità
facilè
coinquinantur
Rheumes
,
Catarrhs
,
Epilepsies
,
&c.
Asthmaes
,
Coughs
,
Phthisical
Consumptions
,
&c.
De
Lue
Ven.
l.
De
Morb
Contag
.
l.
Pract.
l.
You
are
to
consider
the
Body
infecting
and
infected
,
and
there
is
required
in
all
Contagion
,
a
likeness
betwixt
the
Contagious
Body
and
that
which
receives
the
Contagion
no
man
can
declare
in
a
satisfactory
manner
;
because
those
occult
qualities
of
Bodies
,
and
the
essential
Forms
from
which
they
flow
,
are
not
discoverable
by
●●
in
this
dark
state
of
Man-kind
,
nor
any
way
to
be
discerned
but
by
their
effects
.
Z●cut
.
Prax.
Hist.
l.
In
the
Venereal
Congress
,
the
heat
being
excited
by
Motion
,
a
great
ebullition
of
Spirits
and
Humors
following
thereupon
,
and
the
Passages
of
the
Body
being
made
more
open
,
it
is
in
a
manner
impossible
,
that
any
means
should
be
found
out
,
that
may
totally
break
and
repress
the
force
of
the
Contagion
,
so
as
to
hinder
its
being
communicated
to
the
neighboring
vessels
,
or
its
passing
on
to
the
other
Parts
:
carnal
Contact
Horstius
,
Sennertus
.
Re●j●erus
,
Forestus
,
the
Course
of
things
Mercurial
Vnguent
Mercurial
Cinabar-Fume
Mercury
,
Antimony
Vulgar
Errors
Horstius
,
Zacutus
,
Riverius
What
is
one
Man's
Meat
,
may
be
another
Man's
Poyson
what
cured
one
of
the
Pox
was
destructive
to
another
inveterate
and
confirmed
a
Clap
virulent
running
of
the
Reins
quasi
Altera
Natura
,
as
it
were
Another
Nature
,
Sanguis
Sanguificat
the
Wells
the
Wells
Scurvigrass
,
Water-Cress
Scurvy-Grass
,
Water-Cress
,
Common
Wormwood
,
Water-mint
,
Hors-radish
,
Hereditary
Species
Accidental
Contagion
Fomes
Morbi
at
distance
Effluviums
,
Corpuscles
Invisible
Atoms
Fernelius
,
Sennertus
De
Morbo
Gal.
Nicolaus
Leonicenus
This
Contagion
De
Lue
Ven.
cap.
Sennertus
)
when
it
is
received
into
the
Body
,
doth
not
stand
still
,
but
after
the
manner
of
other
Venoms
,
creeps
into
the
inmost
and
most
hidden
parts
of
the
Body
,
and
sometimes
it
quickly
shews
it self
;
at
other
times
it
lurks
long
.
De
Abdit
.
rer
.
Caus
.
That
it
will
lurk
thirty
years
together
before
it
discovers
it self
;
and
thus
,
many
(
both
Men
and
Women
)
that
think
themselves
free
from
all
Infection
,
and
never
had
Sense
of
the
evil
upon
their
own
Bodies
,
counting
themselves
absolutely
sound
,
do
nevertheless
infect
others
that
lie
with
them
,
and
beget
Children
infected
with
that
Disease
.
fleshly
Coition
Pathologic
.
Exercit
Charlton
,
Helmont
Fernelius
,
Forestus
,
Horstius
,
Sennertus
,
Mad
Dog
Venereous
Illuvies
De
Morbo
Gal.
cap.
Experimen
.
Philos.
pag.
Scorbutick
Ferments
Small
Pox
Pocky
Lues
de
Morbis
insimi
Ventris
Gregorius
Horstius
Emperor's
Counsellers
ab
acri
&
adustâ
Materiâ
That
the
stubbornness
of
the
Disease
did
presuppose
some
Malignant
Reliques
of
the
deeply
impressed
without
Sense
or
Pain
at
first
upon
the
whole
Mass
of
Blood
,
where
it
lay
invisible
for
many
years
;
and
that
they
might
apply
what
Medicines
they
pleased
,
all
would
be
to
no
purpose
,
till
the
Patient
be
prescribed
a
Course
of
such
Remedies
as
are
proper
for
the
said
to
correct
the
whole
habit
of
the
Body
;
which
being
neglected
,
it
is
no
wonder
,
if
that
Malignant
Disease
,
having
by
its
noxious
qualities
tainted
the
Blood
,
did
after
many
years
lurking
,
take
its
opportunity
to
seize
upon
so
weak
,
a
part
as
the
Reins
and
Bladder
,
and
send
ill
Humors
that
way
,
and
elude
all
those
Medicaments
applied
for
the
Cure
;
therefore
he
advised
them
rather
to
go
to
work
with
Sweating
Decoctions
,
Bezoard
.
Min.
,
Liquor
Mercurii
,
in
Cure
of
the
Pox
:
For
,
I
had
the
like
Case
about
six
years
ago
in
an
old
man
,
a
Citizen
of
this
Common-wealth
,
who
had
an
ill-condition'd
Vlcer
in
the
whole
Leg
of
long
continuance
,
it
having
afflicted
him
many
years
,
and
grew
the
worse
for
all
the
Applications
that
had
been
made
to
it
.
As
soon
as
I
came
to
him
,
I
suspected
it
an
effect
of
some
Touch
gotten
in
his
Youth
,
which
had
been
then
but
superficially
cured
;
Wherefore
after
inquiry
made
into
many
Circumstances
of
his
younger
dayes
,
I
found
cause
to
deal
with
him
with
Minerals
proper
for
that
and
well
prepared
;
which
being
done
,
that
Vlcer
which
had
hitherto
resisted
all
Remedies
,
and
was
look'd
on
as
desperate
,
did
consolidate
of
its
self
,
after
which
the
old
man
married
a
Wife
,
and
never
complained
more
:
And
this
is
no
more
than
what
hath
been
observed
in
six
hundred
other
Patients
,
That
the
lurking
breaks
out
Pockie
Ferment
various
sorts
of
Vlcers
,
&c.
de
Morbis
Contag
.
Observ
Pocky
Lues
Zacutus
Lusitanus
Prax.
Hist.
Fluor
Albus
Cocks
of
the
Game
that
there
be
no
visible
Token
of
it
in
the
Body
yet
the
venom
is
not
idle
,
nor
doth
it
rest
,
but
works
by
little
and
little
,
till
it
change
the
solid
parts
of
the
Body
,
and
overthrow
their
Natural
Temper
.
Thus
when
the
constitution
of
any
part
is
alter'd
throughly
,
then
Nature
being
irritated
drives
the
venom
thence
to
some
more
noble
part
;
and
so
,
grievous
Symptoms
begin
to
arise
.
But
herein
no
certain
time
can
be
fixt
;
for
,
some
persons
fall
sooner
,
some
later
,
and
some
very
late
,
into
this
Distemper
,
who
before
seemed
to
be
sound
and
to
have
no
Taint
within
them
;
the
cause
of
which
,
doth
depend
upon
the
stronger
or
weaker
Faculty
of
the
Agent
,
and
the
Disposition
of
the
Patient
,
without
which
saith
,
nothing
can
act
under
the
cope
of
heaven
.
Hippocrates
,
viz.
Epid.
Sect.
Prorhet
.
l.
de
Diff.
Feb.
cap.
De
Abd.
rer.
Caus
The
Force
and
Efficacy
of
this
venom
lurks
for
a
time
,
and
in
time
discovers
its
self
by
manifest
Signs
and
Tokens
,
even
as
the
Poyson
which
comes
by
the
Bite
of
a
mad
Dog
,
or
the
sting
of
a
Scorpion
,
lurks
a
while
,
and
creeps
by
little
and
little
through
the
Body
;
which
when
it
hath
seized
,
then
it
tyranniseth
after
the
manner
of
other
Contagious
Diseases
.
after
the
manner
of
Fermentation
Effluviums
,
Particles
fine
little
invisible
Bodikins
De
Febr.
Fermentation
:
For
,
that
the
vertue
of
a
Ferment
or
Leven
is
very
great
,
appears
by
the
little
that
fermenteth
or
leveneth
a
great
loaf
of
Bread
,
and
a
little
yest
that
causeth
the
working
of
Beer
;
and
'tis
remarkable
,
in
how
short
a
space
of
time
,
a
very
small
portion
of
these
Ferments
doth
change
the
Fermentescible
Bodies
into
a
Nature
like
their
own
:
that
the
foresaid
Contagion
acts
after
the
manner
of
a
Ferment
,
which
being
received
in
a
Body
of
the
same
Nature
,
induceth
to
it
the
like
Disposition
.
It
,
being
a
small
portion
or
particle
of
Contagious
Matter
sent
forth
of
a
diseased
Body
,
lights
upon
a
sound
Body
,
where
being
received
,
it
acts
upon
it
by
a
certain
hidden
power
,
and
as
they
call
it
in
these
sickly
Effluviums
or
flying
Particles
which
are
communicated
thus
to
sound
Bodies
,
the
Contagious
Cause
is
so
powerful
,
that
it
needs
not
a
mutual
contact
of
Bodies
,
but
sends
forth
from
it self
somewhat
of
a
Subtil
and
Spiritual
Nature
,
by
which
the
Bodies
that
entertain
it
are
infected
,
and
contract
the
like
or
Tincture
flowing
out
from
the
diseased
Person
,
after
the
manner
of
*
Atoms
;
which
Atoms
a
Modern
Writer
little
Bodies
,
and
Contagion
is
multiplied
by
these
little
Bodies
,
which
like
Seed
,
comprehend
within
themselves
the
whole
Essence
of
the
Disease
.
Ferment
being
received
into
the
Body
,
changeth
it
wholly
,
and
alters
it
by
qualification
like
to
it self
.
De
Febr.
particles
of
it
so
agile
and
expeditious
in
motion
,
that
they
will
very
quickly
make
way
through
the
Mass
of
any
Body
,
like
beams
of
light
through
glass
,
or
any
Diaphanous
Body
.
Malign
Fevers
French
Pox
as
often
as
the
Blood
receives
a
Taint
from
any
thing
that
is
venemous
,
whose
venom
is
slow
and
of
little
activity
,
it
doth
not
discover
it self
presently
,
nor
break
forth
into
direful
Symptoms
,
until
it
be
ripened
by
long
time
,
and
a
Fermentation
,
that
the
whole
Mass
of
blood
be
tainted
throughout
,
as
is
to
be
seen
in
some
Venoms
which
are
communicated
at
a
distance
,
yet
have
not
their
effect
till
after
some
monthes
,
or
years
.
by
those
which
are
sent
out
continually
from
an
infected
Body
,
which
being
entertained
by
other
Bodies
,
do
presently
,
like
Venom
,
ferment
with
the
Blood
,
and
work
upon
whatsoever
they
find
Homogeneous
,
till
they
dispose
it
into
the
of
the
same
Disease
;
and
the
is
communicated
not
only
by
Contact
,
but
at
a
distance
.
Atoms
,
Effluviums
,
Corpuscles
,
i.
e.
De
Peste
Every
Natural
Mixt
Body
sends
forth
certain
Effluviums
or
Effluxes
of
its
own
Power
,
which
are
not
to
be
taken
for
meer
qualities
,
or
Accidents
propagated
from
a
Subject
through
a
Medium
,
but
they
are
truly
and
properly
very
little
Bodies
,
not
to
be
discerned
by
the
power
of
Sight
,
but
are
the
vehicles
of
Accidents
and
Properties
proceeding
from
a
Subject
,
of
the
same
Nature
with
the
whole
Subject
from
whence
they
flow
;
and
so
those
which
flow
out
of
a
Virulent
Body
,
being
of
a
foul
and
depraved
Disposition
,
do
by
a
kind
of
contrariety
to
nature
,
overthrow
the
inward
Oeconomie
or
Constitution
of
the
Body
.
Paulus
Zacchias
Quaestiones
Medico-Legales
Magnetick
manner
Kenelm
Digby
and
that
which
we
call
our
Air
,
is
no
other
than
a
mixture
or
confusion
of
such
Atoms
,
wherein
the
Aërial
parts
do
predominate
I
would
entertain
you
with
the
strange
subtilty
of
little
Bodies
which
issue
forth
from
living
Bodies
,
by
means
whereof
our
Dogs
in
will
pursue
the
scent
of
a
Man's
steps
,
or
of
a
Beast
,
many
miles
.
Sir
Kenelm
when
any
Hot
Body
attracts
the
Air
,
and
that
which
●●
within
the
Air
,
if
it
happens
that
within
●hat
Air
there
be
found
some
dispersed
Ato●●
of
the
same
nature
with
the
Body
which
draws
them
,
the
attraction
of
such
Atoms
is
made
more
powerfully
than
if
they
were
Bodies
of
a
different
nature
,
and
these
Atoms
do
stay
,
stick
,
and
mingle
with
more
willingness
,
with
the
Body
which
draws
them
:
the
reason
hereof
is
the
resemblance
and
Sympathy
which
they
have
with
each
other
.
Within
a
living
Body
,
such
as
is
Man's
,
the
interne
Spirits
do
contribute
much
facility
to
the
Spirits
that
are
without
.
The
Source
of
those
Spirits
,
or
of
the
Bodies
which
attract
them
,
draw
likewise
after
them
that
which
accompanies
them
,
as
also
that
which
is
united
unto
them
.
somewhat
of
a
more
occult
nature
,
of
a
more
sublime
,
Spirituous
,
subtile
,
finer
consideration
,
Controvers.
Med.
&
Philosoph
.
lib.
There
are
many
Sympathies
which
seem
not
to
be
effected
by
the
transmission
or
privation
of
any
thing
,
but
rather
by
some
occult
Cause
or
Property
,
or
whatever
else
you
please
to
call
it
.
We
are
to
reckon
,
that
there
are
in
things
some
occult
powers
,
and
certain
Incorporeal
Qualities
,
that
penetrate
through
Bodies
,
which
because
we
are
ignorant
of
,
we
are
apt
to
err
in
resolving
difficult
Poynts
and
Problems
,
and
every
Man
dotes
about
every
thing
.
Incorporeal
Qualities
Robert
Flud
Mosaick
Philosophy
Mos.
Phil.
l.
As
it
is
certain
that
like
doth
naturally
affect
his
like
,
(
for
,
Nature
doth
rejoyce
at
the
presence
of
its
Nature
,
and
Nature
doth
correct
and
corroborate
its
Nature
,
if
it
be
sound
,
and
full
of
vivifying
wholsome
Spirits
)
so
also
Nature
,
if
it
be
infected
by
a
Poysonous
and
Venomous
Nature
,
will
,
by
uniting
it self
unto
a
sound
and
wholsome
Nature
,
quickly
inquinate
and
corrupt
it
,
and
so
by
such
a
kind
of
abortive
and
depraved
union
,
Antipathie
is
placed
instead
of
Sympathie
.
Now
how
this
is
possible
in
Nature
,
I
will
in
few
words
relate
to
you
.
As
Nature
doth
magnetically
affect
and
allure
unto
her self
her
like
;
so
if
that
like
,
which
it
sucketh
unto
it self
,
be
inquinated
or
tainted
with
Corruption
,
the
said
attracting
Spirit
,
be
it
never
so
sound
,
will
quickly
taste
of
the
Bitter
with
the
Sweet
,
namely
,
of
the
Venom
,
and
so
will
also
be
corrupt
,
equally
with
that
Spirit
which
is
Homogeneous
,
or
of
kin
to
it
,
in
which
the
Infection
dwells
,
being
forced
to
entertain
Strife
,
Dissension
,
and
Antipathie
into
his
Tabernacle
unawares
;
even
as
we
see
a
sound
Spirit
in
the
Animal
,
which
thirsting
after
his
like
Spiritual
celestial
Food
,
which
hovereth
occultly
in
the
Air
,
to
be
refreshed
by
it
,
doth
unawares
draw
in
an
Enemy
with
it
,
namely
,
a
pestilent
and
corrupt
Fume
,
whereby
it
is
oppressed
and
inflamed
with
a
Putredinous
Fire
;
so
that
it
was
not
the
appetite
or
desire
of
the
sound
Spirit
to
draw
in
that
Poyson
unto
it
,
but
the
Spirit
like
it self
that
was
poysoned
.
And
again
,
each
Spirit
which
is
encumber'd
with
any
unnatural
and
Antipathetical
Accident
,
desireth
to
shake
off
contentious
Antipathie
,
and
to
re-assume
that
peaceful
Sympathie
which
it
enjoyed
before
,
but
finding
it self
unable
,
it
is
apt
to
cleave
and
adhere
unto
good
and
sound
Spirits
for
its
relief
,
and
if
more
sound
Spirits
of
his
like
were
joyned
unto
it
,
then
might
it
the
more
easily
conquer
and
expel
his
Antipathetical
Adversary
;
so
also
we
see
,
that
one
Blear-eyed
person
,
by
darting
his
infectious
Beams
for
relief
at
a
reasonable
distance
,
becometh
a
Flame
,
which
setteth
on
fire
the
sound
Spirit
unto
which
it
applyeth
;
for
,
spiritual
Poysons
are
like
secret
Flames
of
Malignant
Fire
.
Wherefore
as
Spirits
are
by
union
joyned
together
and
multiplyed
,
like
Oyle
added
to
Oyle
,
so
doth
the
infectious
Flame
encrease
,
and
feed
equally
upon
them
both
:
For
,
as
the
sound
Spirit
desireth
the
society
of
his
like
to
comfort
it
,
and
the
corrupted
Spirit
so
desired
,
doth
also
covet
the
sound
Spirit
to
assist
it
against
his
Enemy
;
so
Corruption
is
sucked
in
by
them
both
,
and
Antipathy
is
forced
to
roost
amongst
them
,
and
forsaketh
them
not
,
till
it
hath
penetrated
and
gnawed
even
into
their
bowels
,
and
poysoned
their
very
Entrails
.
Incorporeal
Qualities
Instit.
Med.
Disp.
Quaest.
French
Disease
;
It
cannot
be
denyed
,
that
sometimes
the
is
communicated
by
venemous
vapor
,
as
well
as
by
impure
Contact
;
and
that
it
and
the
Leprosie
,
and
the
like
distempers
,
are
contagious
by
venemous
expirations
that
the
Venom
of
this
doth
not
send
abroad
its
infection
at
so
great
a
distance
as
the
grand
Pestilence
doth
.
De
Morb.
Contag
.
cap.
Truly
very
many
Men
are
deceived
by
a
captious
and
vain
way
of
reasoning
about
this
and
the
other
Venemous
Diseases
,
because
while
they
see
all
the
Symptoms
of
it
to
insult
with
a
corruption
of
some
Humor
,
do
think
of
nothing
but
Humor
,
conceive
no
greater
matter
in
their
Mind
,
and
make
no
further
enquiry
with
the
acuter
part
of
their
Vnderstanding
;
whether
any
other
thing
prevail
in
the
Humor
,
wherein
the
chief
Cause
of
the
Distemper
doth
consist
;
which
doubtless
,
if
we
discern
not
by
Sence
,
we
ought
certainly
to
comprehend
by
Reason
and
Intelligence
,
or
else
to
be
wrapt
in
an
ignorance
of
the
greatest
Concerns
.
Therefore
that
power
of
the
Venom
,
being
very
fine
,
and
almost
incorporeal
,
and
beyond
the
reach
of
our
Senses
,
is
inherent
either
in
a
Humor
,
or
in
some
other
Body
,
which
Subject
is
as
it
were
the
only
of
that
malignant
venemous
faculty
which
affects
us
.
For
,
how
is
it
possible
,
that
a
meer
incorporeal
power
should
execute
force
upon
our
Bodies
?
Aurelius
Minadous
Venereous
Lues
de
Lue
Ven.
fine
Vapor
or
Spirit
,
or
Spirituous
Substance
,
endued
with
an
occult
pernicious
quality
and
power
,
able
to
infect
and
corrupt
all
the
parts
of
the
Body
,
ond
turn
them
to
its
own
l●keness
,
which
may
be
done
by
a
slight
kiss
,
or
putting
on
another
mans
garment
:
Venereous
Lues
Spirit
or
Spirituous
Substance
that
it
may
be
resolved
into
Vapors
and
smallest
Corpuscles
containing
the
whole
Essence
of
the
Disease
with
power
of
diffusing
it
to
others
,
destructive
to
the
Natural
Spirits
by
the
impression
of
its
Venom
,
which
is
of
an
inexpressible
occult
nature
and
condition
.
Coition
,
Clothes
,
Sweating
,
Kissing
,
Pockie
Contagion
the
Disease
in
a
slow
,
dull
,
viscous
matter
,
Particles
,
Bodikins
,
Atoms
,
Ferments
,
Pockie
Lues
Contagious
Diseases
De
Scorb
ill
Diet
,
bad
Air
drinking
in
the
same
Cup
breathings
of
the
infected
Fluor
Albus
there
seems
to
be
the
same
reason
in
this
as
in
the
French
Pox
:
For
,
as
that
Contagion
may
be
admitted
by
divers
Parts
of
the
body
,
and
being
once
admitted
,
doth
by
little
and
little
penetrate
into
the
whole
,
and
not
only
taints
the
spirits
and
humors
,
but
imprints
the
like
Disposition
upon
the
solid
Parts
;
so
also
the
Scorbutick
Contagion
,
which
way
soever
it
be
admitted
into
the
Body
,
infects
and
taints
the
Blood
,
and
imprints
the
like
Disposition
upon
the
Bowels
ordained
to
Nutrition
,
and
weakens
them
so
,
that
they
are
not
able
in
the
future
to
generate
good
blood
,
but
that
which
is
vitious
and
Scorbutick
.
De
Morb.
Contag
by
infecting
the
Spirits
,
which
are
the
Authors
of
all
Action
.
a
fortiori
where
they
have
as
many
kisses
as
salutations
of
Women
,
which
not
only
the
younger
sort
expect
,
but
those
that
are
old
and
wrinkled
,
if
they
be
not
complemented
with
a
kiss
,
do
take
it
as
a
Contempt
and
Injury
done
them
.
it
is
encreased
by
tipling
in
the
same
Cup.
Fabricius
Hildanus
de
Arthrit
.
Scorbuticâ
French
Lues
who
never
used
an
ill
Diet
that
might
incline
them
to
the
Scurvy
,
yet
being
infected
by
a
Scorbutick
person
,
they
suffer
the
same
Symptoms
.
Exercit.
de
Motu
Cordis
Contagion
being
impressed
upon
any
particle
,
is
carried
along
with
the
Blood
as
it
returns
to
the
heart
,
and
thereupon
it
afterward
taints
either
the
whole
Body
,
or
corrupts
some
particular
parts
which
are
most
liable
to
receive
the
Venom
.
after
I
had
published
my
First
Book
where
,
in
the
History
I
have
proved
,
that
the
French
Pox
is
contagious
at
a
distance
;
by
chance
I
met
with
a
very
rare
example
of
a
Disease
in
the
eyes
called
The
Servant
which
attended
the
Patient
,
and
only
brought
him
Clothes
to
wipe
himself
after
Sweating
,
and
victuals
to
eat
,
was
taken
with
the
very
same
Disease
,
and
could
not
be
cured
by
any
other
means
than
Mercury
;
let
none
doubt
therefore
but
the
Contagion
of
the
French
Pox
will
work
at
a
distance
.
Minadous
de
Lue
Ven.
cap.
the
Natural
Spirits
may
carry
Contagion
through
the
Air
from
one
to
another
.
Cutaneous
Diseases
far
remote
from
Towns
and
Cities
,
to
the
very
utmost
bounds
of
the
Country
,
lest
they
infect
others
.
they
have
all
the
Conditions
requisite
unto
Contagion
,
as
De
Contag
.
ult
shews
out
of
De
Lue
Ven.
Scholia
in
Obs.
a
kiss
as
she
was
dancing
.
De
Morb.
Contag
.
Observ.
same
Bed
Hereditary
Propagation
Hereditary
Diseases
Horstius
)
do
pass
as
it
were
by
Transplantation
,
because
the
Seeds
of
them
are
propagated
from
Parents
to
Children
,
from
whence
it
follows
that
they
have
Tinctures
very
strong
and
constant
.
Hence
it
appears
what
kind
of
Diseases
especially
are
Hereditary
,
to
wit
,
Tartareous
Diseases
,
which
have
roots
deeply
fixed
,
and
hard
to
be
eradicated
,
as
are
the
Stone
,
the
Gout
,
the
Leprosie
,
French
Pox
and
Scurvy
)
whereas
on
the
contrary
,
other
Diseases
,
which
they
call
Sulphureous
and
Mercurial
,
to
wit
,
Fevers
,
Inflammations
,
Catarrhs
,
and
the
like
,
are
not
easily
propagated
to
Children
,
because
the
roots
of
them
are
more
moveable
,
fluxile
,
and
sooner
tend
to
a
Resolution
.
De
Lue
Ven.
being
transferred
with
the
Seed
and
Menstrual
Blood
from
Parents
into
the
young
one
:
For
,
when
the
Blood
,
out
of
which
the
Seed
is
generated
,
is
infected
and
vitious
,
then
the
Seed
becomes
like
it
,
and
diseased
;
also
the
Mothers
Blood
being
impure
,
with
which
the
Child
in
her
womb
is
nourished
,
infects
it
,
which
Infection
,
after
Children
are
born
,
breaks
forth
upon
them
sooner
or
later
,
according
to
the
greater
or
lesser
force
of
Virulency
:
Prax
Hist.
Cap.
De
Morb.
Gal.
That
there
is
a
depraved
and
diseased
excretion
in
the
Seed
,
or
a
certain
occult
quality
infecting
the
Seed
and
inherent
in
it
,
which
impresseth
the
like
Tincture
upon
the
Off-Spring
;
For
,
the
diseased
defects
of
Parents
are
derived
by
force
of
the
Seed
of
Generation
,
yea
,
and
many
secret
Marks
and
Characters
;
yea
,
and
Children
for
the
most
part
resemble
their
behaviour
,
their
gate
,
and
countenance
.
The
truth
hereof
is
evident
,
because
that
Children
,
not
only
after
they
are
born
,
become
Heirs
of
the
French
Pox
,
but
likewise
bring
it
along
with
them
out
of
the
womb
.
Hereditary
Diseases
Whether
the
French
Pox
may
,
without
touching
a
Man's
Children
,
seize
upon
his
Grand-Children
,
It
seems
hard
how
the
Children
should
seem
free
themselves
,
yet
beget
others
infected
;
for
,
a
corrupted
Seed
derived
from
a
corrupted
Body
,
seems
to
import
a
necessity
of
corrupting
the
young
one
begotten
,
and
that
this
Corruption
ought
to
be
propagated
to
the
Second
and
Third
Generation
,
seeing
these
Generations
draw
their
Original
from
one
Beginning
only
.
The
Cause
of
this
Event
is
because
the
the
Formative
Power
,
though
it
hath
the
of
all
belonging
to
the
Father
,
yet
it
is
not
equally
excited
by
them
all
unto
operation
,
but
by
some
more
,
by
others
less
,
or
not
at
all
.
From
which
it
comes
to
pass
,
that
sometimes
it
is
not
excited
to
form
a
Member
diseased
,
and
by
consequence
the
Son
will
become
sound
in
that
part
;
but
sometimes
it
may
beget
a
distemper
of
the
Father
in
the
like
Member
of
the
Son
,
and
produce
a
Son
diseased
,
and
like
to
the
Father
;
which
the
Formative
Power
may
effect
in
the
Grand-Children
in
a
contrary
manner
.
Medical
Institutions
,
De
Causis
Morborum
Internis
,
Quaest.
De
Anatomiâ
Vitali
&
Mortuâ
That
sometimes
by
the
power
of
the
Natural
Balsam
of
the
womb
,
the
strange
Rudiments
or
Ferments
of
Diseases
are
subdued
and
overcome
.
Second
Section
That
sometimes
the
Grand-Sire
infected
with
the
Scurvy
,
propagates
this
Disease
,
not
upon
his
Son
,
but
upon
the
Grand-Child
,
the
Son
in
the
mean
while
being
free
;
because
it
may
so
fall
out
,
that
he
may
have
a
Sigillation
or
Character
impressed
upon
him
from
the
Grand-Father
,
the
active
power
whereof
is
obliterated
by
the
excellency
of
the
Mothers
Seed
and
Blood
;
which
nevertheless
breaks
forth
again
in
the
Grand-Child
,
in
case
he
hath
a
Mother
of
Constitution
weaker
than
was
the
Grand-Moiher
.
Rickets
,
Teeth
,
Consumption
,
Convulsion
,
Griping
of
the
Guts
,
French
Disease
De
Scorb
Scurvy
,
à
nutrice
cum
lacte
instillari
,
instilled
into
Infants
with
the
Milk
from
their
Nurses
.
French
Disease
,
That
it
is
De
Lue
Ven.
communicated
to
Infants
with
their
nourishment
and
Milk
from
corrupt
Nurses
:
which
is
the
most
powerful
manner
of
Infection
,
seeing
that
when
the
Milk
they
suck
is
changed
into
Blood
,
and
this
Blood
becomes
the
Nutriment
of
the
whole
Body
,
the
Venom
is
by
this
means
dispersed
throughout
the
whole
,
and
most
deeply
insinuates
it self
thereinto
,
and
therefore
those
that
are
this
way
infected
,
are
rarely
and
very
difficultly
cured
.
De
Lue
Ven.
Schol.
in
Obs
.
That
Children
by
the
Milk
which
they
suck
,
contract
the
Venereous
Contagion
with
their
Mouths
;
and
that
Nurses
themselves
also
by
giving
suck
to
Infected
Children
,
contract
this
Disease
from
them
by
their
Nipples
,
the
first
Sign
whereof
is
when
they
have
Vlcers
breaking
forth
upon
their
breasts
;
which
is
a
thing
that
I
have
often
seen
because
by
the
Infants
sucking
,
the
Nipples
are
heated
,
and
so
the
Pores
of
them
are
the
more
opened
,
whereupon
they
the
more
easily
take
in
the
virulency
.
Prax.
Hist
De
Morbo
Gall.
Children
take
it
of
the
Nurses
,
it
discovers
it self
usually
about
the
Mouth
or
Headfirst
:
But
if
the
Nurses
take
the
virulency
from
the
Children
,
then
their
Breasts
and
Nipples
are
affected
;
and
the
virulent
humor
creeping
thence
more
deeply
into
the
Body
,
the
whole
is
afterwards
contaminated
by
the
Contagion
.
foul
Disease
De
Arthrit
.
Vagâ
Scorbuticâ
Oswald
Grembs
That
the
Infection
may
come
from
the
Milk
of
the
Mother
,
or
of
the
Nurse
.
French
Pox
Scorbutick
Age
French
Pox
Original
Sin
French
Lues
,
Forestus
sensim
in
universum
orbem
est
disseminaat
,
it
spred
it self
by
little
and
little
over
the
wholeworld
:
Eustachius
Rudius
,
Maxima
pars
mortalium
eo
infecta
De
Morb.
Gal.
Spain
,
Italy
,
France
,
Germany
,
Si
unus
esset
Mundi
Princeps
de
Morb.
occult
it
might
have
been
utterly
extirpated
by
help
of
Physick
,
had
some
one
Prince
had
the
government
of
the
great
world
that
would
have
used
his
Authority
to
regulate
men
,
and
had
there
been
an
unanimous
Consent
of
many
to
conspire
against
this
Disease
de
Contag
De
Med.
Pri●
Contagious
Ferments
de
Morbis
in
genere
Oswald
Grembs
Diseases
lead
out
their
Armies
against
us
,
and
act
their
Forces
upon
us
by
unknown
Seminaries
,
and
invisible
Beginnings
.
we
have
of
later
times
had
new
Diseases
started
up
in
the
world
,
and
the
old
ones
do
little
suit
with
the
names
and
descriptions
given
them
by
the
Antients
,
because
they
have
put
on
other
strange
Symptoms
and
Properties
,
with
which
they
walk
disguised
,
and
deceive
such
Physicians
as
think
to
cure
Diseases
by
following
the
Directions
and
Precepts
of
the
Antients
.
Tumulus
Pestis
In
those
days
the
natures
of
men
were
more
strong
to
resist
Diseases
;
but
now
I
find
the
Seeds
of
Diseases
every
day
,
fall
on
more
fierce
,
and
become
more
hot
and
active
,
and
that
our
Nature
,
the
farther
it
goes
,
and
the
more
disorder'd
it
grows
,
the
less
it
is
obedient
to
remedies
.
Our
Plagues
increase
daily
,
because
our
Impieties
are
multiplied
.
Indeed
,
Diseases
are
changed
,
disguised
,
increased
,
and
do
degenerate
,
by
reason
of
somewhat
that
is
complicated
with
them
;
I
am
of
opinion
,
that
the
having
changed
other
diseases
,
and
brought
them
under
its
own
Command
,
will
have
an
Influence
likewise
upon
the
Pestilence
;
yea
,
it
is
Tinctued
by
it
already
;
Nor
do
old
Diseases
answer
any
more
to
the
Desciptions
of
old
Authors
,
nor
yield
obedience
to
their
Remedies
.
It
hath
infected
every
Corner
of
the
world
,
and
by
its
effect
plainly
shews
,
that
it
is
creeping
to
a
further
scope
,
as
yet
unknown
to
the
vulgar
.
It
is
not
a
Disease
consisting
of
Matter
,
but
is
only
a
Venemous
Ferment
,
affixed
,
like
a
subtile
Scent
or
Odor
,
either
to
the
solid
,
or
liquid
parts
of
our
Bodies
,
and
so
(
in
a
way
peculiar
to
it self
)
it
incorporates
not
only
with
the
Substantial
Parts
,
but
with
the
Excrements
also
,
or
Matters
of
other
Diseases
,
which
it
toucheth
,
because
it
affects
them
,
and
is
mingled
with
them
.
Hence
it
comes
to
pass
,
that
what
persons
soever
are
either
manifestly
weak
,
or
occultly
inclined
to
Diseases
,
they
are
easily
seized
by
this
Disease
,
and
so
it
by
Association
transforms
it self
into
the
various
shapes
of
those
Diseases
.
Wherefore
Diseases
being
thus
degenerated
since
the
time
that
the
French
Pox
brake
forth
in
the
world
,
they
do
for
the
most
part
appear
to
have
in
them
somewhat
of
a
Venemous
Nature
;
and
no
Man
hath
as
yet
sufficiently
investigated
the
Causes
of
them
,
so
that
by
this
means
most
Diseases
are
become
Contagious
,
more
cruel
,
more
frequent
,
and
more
slowly
and
difficultly
to
be
expelled
,
than
in
former
times
.
Prax.
Histor
De
Morbo
Gal.
Whether
the
French
Disease
may
be
complicated
with
all
other
Diseases
?
:
For
if
it
be
an
Vniversal
Evil
,
we
cannot
deny
,
but
it
may
be
joyned
with
All
,
and
it
may
happen
many
wayes
;
for
,
Distempers
do
unite
with
this
either
through
likeness
of
the
Matter
,
or
in
some
other
particular
,
as
the
Gout
called
pains
of
the
limbs
and
outward
parts
,
moist
and
cold
Livers
,
Distempers
of
the
Stomack
and
Spleen
,
from
whence
come
Pains
,
Obstructions
,
and
very
grievous
Diseases
,
as
the
Dropsie
,
Falling-Sickness
,
Stupor
,
Palsies
,
and
others
as
tedious
.
Oftentimes
also
,
this
dreadful
is
complicated
with
Acute
Diseases
,
as
Fevers
,
Internal
Inflammations
,
and
the
like
.
—
Med.
Princ.
Hist.
That
divers
other
Diseases
may
be
complicated
with
the
is
,
besides
daily
and
long
experience
,
affirmed
by
in
his
Treatise
of
it
,
and
after
him
by
that
Learned
Spaniard
who
have
both
of
them
very
elegantly
taught
,
that
all
sorts
of
Diseases
,
as
well
may
be
complicated
with
the
of
which
some
have
dyed
quickly
,
others
,
in
a
lingring
manner
,
according
to
the
Nature
of
this
cruel
Disease
.
Many
also
have
exchanged
Life
for
Death
,
by
violent
Fevers
,
and
Internal
Inflammations
,
contracted
only
upon
this
Account
,
and
other
very
Acute
Distempers
,
springing
from
this
Root
,
as
from
their
first
Original
.
Pockie
Ferment
De
Lue
Ven.
the
Cure
becomes
difficult
French
Ferment
Without
doubt
the
Pestilence
is
now
more
frequent
than
in
former
Ages
;
it
seizeth
us
upon
the
least
occasion
,
cruelly
persueth
,
and
more
easily
spreads
it self
,
because
of
its
being
associated
with
this
new
Venom
or
Poyson
.
Sieges
.
For
,
of
old
great
Armies
were
led
up
and
down
in
without
any
notable
Contagion
,
and
their
Musters
were
commonly
not
much
diminished
;
but
now
,
no
sooner
is
a
Siege
begun
,
but
immediately
the
Besieged
die
within
,
and
the
Besiegers
also
without
,
by
some
strange
popular
Pest
;
and
when
the
Siege
is
over
,
hardly
a
Company
,
or
Troop
,
marches
forth
,
but
there
follow
Wagons
laden
with
sick
men
.
Not
long
since
,
a
Camp-Fever
brake
forth
in
an
Army
of
ours
,
of
a
profound
Contagion
,
killing
men
without
Thirst
or
Heat
,
which
some
would
have
attributed
to
the
Impurities
and
Nastinesses
of
Camps
,
Marish
grounds
,
Houses
,
together
with
the
necessities
of
the
Souldiers
,
as
the
Causes
of
such
unusual
sicknesses
;
and
so
upon
this
supposal
,
Physicians
manage
the
whole
business
of
Curing
;
as
if
Camps
had
been
more
cleanlily
kept
of
old
,
when
such
strange
Pests
and
unusual
Fevers
were
not
seen
among
them
.
But
I
know
,
that
as
often
as
any
Fever
of
the
old
stock
doth
befall
a
Body
,
that
is
actually
under
infection
of
the
French
Disease
,
or
that
formerly
hath
had
it
,
but
was
ill
cured
;
immediately
the
Fever
associates
it self
with
the
Venemous
Reliques
of
that
and
from
it
borroweth
Poysons
,
which
produce
that
Fever
called
the
Malignant
and
Camp-Fever
;
after
which
,
the
Contagion
propagates
it self
,
even
upon
such
persons
as
are
free
from
the
said
and
having
the
Fever
as
it
were
for
its
Father
,
and
the
for
its
Mother
,
the
new-born
Monster
being
a
Mongrel
begotten
of
two
distinct
Diseases
,
starts
up
a
Third
Thing
different
from
both
its
Parents
.
Hence
it
comes
to
pass
,
that
as
well
Fevers
as
Pestilences
,
march
disguised
and
unknown
;
for
,
the
being
lock'd
within
the
feverish
goes
on
to
spread
it self
along
with
it
,
and
becomes
Epidemical
,
to
wit
,
this
unluckie
Monster
of
the
being
unlike
both
its
Parents
,
and
a
treacherous
Venom
,
becomes
like
a
Pest
,
and
renders
the
Pestilence
it self
,
by
adding
a
new
putredinous
Ferment
,
more
cruel
than
it
was
wont
to
be
.
De
Lue
Ven.
do
perish
,
who
are
seized
by
those
Malignant
Fevers
,
French
Fevers
,
so
termed
,
because
they
are
complicated
with
the
French
Pox
;
for
,
the
Venereous
Virulency
corrupting
the
Humors
,
puts
upon
them
a
malignant
quality
,
rendreth
the
Fever
the
more
grievous
,
and
debilitates
also
the
Natural
Heat
,
so
that
neither
the
Fever
,
nor
that
Maligne
Disease
,
can
be
overcome
by
Nature
.
Hectick
Fevers
For
,
the
Venereous
Virulency
it self
,
and
the
Pains
,
want
of
Sleep
,
and
other
Symptoms
,
debilitate
the
Natural
Heat
,
and
hurt
the
Instruments
of
Nutrition
,
so
that
a
Consumption
of
the
whole
Body
follows
,
conjoyned
with
a
slow
putrid
Fever
caused
by
vitious
corrupted
Humors
.
French
Hectick
French
Sprite
Pustles
,
hard
Bumps
in
the
Flesh
,
Inflamed
Tumors
,
purulent
Apostems
;
as
also
renders
wounds
hard
to
be
cured
,
insomuch
that
the
best
Chirurgians
do
complain
,
with
admiration
,
that
of
late
even
the
sleighter
wounds
will
hardly
yield
to
the
usual
Remedies
,
This
French
P.
hath
brought
forth
also
new
Palsies
,
new
Gouts
,
Jaundies
,
Dropsies
,
and
many
more
.
French
P.
De
Lue
Ven.
will
lurk
there
and
,
though
it
seem
extinct
,
will
shew
it self
after
thirty
years
time
.
Head-ach
,
Vertigo
,
Falling-sickness
,
Catarrhs
Scurvy
.
Helmont
De
Febr.
Naturâ
Oswald
Grembs
Hectick
Fever
Scurvy
,
it
arising
frequently
from
Scorbutick
Matter
,
and
so
requires
another
manner
of
Cure
,
than
the
Consumptive
Hectick
of
the
Ancients
,
not
with
Moistning
Remedies
,
but
rather
such
as
will
cut
and
attenuate
the
Offending
Matter
,
and
consume
the
putrid
Exhalations
.
de
Scorbuto
the
Doctrins
and
Symptoms
set
down
by
old
Authors
,
nor
make
a
Judgment
of
them
from
the
number
of
Days
and
Fits
,
but
by
the
propriety
of
their
Signs
:
For
both
in
respect
of
Heat
,
Cold
,
Duration
,
and
the
rare
Evils
and
Symptoms
attending
them
,
which
are
not
to
be
heard
of
among
the
Antients
,
there
is
a
vast
difference
betwixt
these
and
the
old
Fevers
and
Agues
.
de
Morb.
Contag
Scorbutick
Complication
affirms
the
Scurvy
to
be
as
it
were
the
of
all
Diseases
;
&
the
same
Horstius
)
is
by
in
his
Lectures
and
Consultations
,
avowed
concerning
the
French
Pox
Simple
Pox
Simple
Scurvy
Third
Monster
Pockie
Ferment
Scorbutick
Ferment
Guil.
Romanus
de
Morb.
Contag
.
p.
Scurvy
;
this
suits
with
the
vain
Conceits
of
vulgar
Physicians
Hereditary
Propagation
Hereditary
Propagation
Pockie
Ferment
Scorbutick
Ferment
Scorbutick
Ferments
Paul
Zacchias
Christianus
Langius
Thereupon
they
will
acknowledge
that
Man
born
to
open
the
Eyes
of
Philosophers
and
Physicians
,
who
err
and
go
astray
.
Effluviums
,
Atoms
,
Corpuscles
Helmont
,
Horstius
,
Sennertus
Invisible
Worms
That
these
Animated
Effluviums
are
constituted
of
indiscernable
Animated
Corpuscles
,
it
doth
appear
by
the
multitude
of
Worms
which
are
wont
to
issue
out
of
one
and
the
same
Body
;
of
which
some
are
so
big
that
they
are
presently
seen
,
the
rest
remain
in
an
undiscernable
state
of
Magnitude
,
yet
multiplyed
in
so
great
a
number
,
as
the
numberless
Corpuscles
or
Particles
are
,
of
which
the
doth
consist
;
and
being
exceeding
subtile
,
thin
,
and
light
,
they
plie
to
and
fro
,
no
otherwise
than
Atoms
do
,
with
the
least
puff
or
motion
of
the
Air
:
that
they
insinuate
themselves
,
not
only
into
Clothes
,
Ropes
,
and
Linen
,
but
into
other
Bodies
less
Porous
,
as
Cork
,
Wood
,
Bones
;
yea
,
into
those
which
are
least
Porous
and
most
compact
,
as
metals
,
money
,
had
daily
Experience
but
what
was
first
well
soaked
and
washed
in
Vinegar
,
if
it
came
from
any
Infected
Place
but
Diamonds
only
,
because
of
their
polished
Superficies
,
and
unconquerable
hardness
.
Animated
Effluviums
D●
Venen
not
only
the
Air
being
filled
with
them
,
but
the
very
dust
of
the
Earth
animated
into
such
kind
of
Vermicles
.
Georgius
Agricola
that
in
his
time
,
a
Plague
came
by
eating
of
Fruits
,
Pears
,
Prunes
,
so
that
the
eaters
dyed
in
few
dayes
after
;
which
Fruits
swarmed
with
multitudes
of
indiscernable
Worms
:
which
were
no
other
than
the
Animated
Corpuscles
or
Particles
flowing
from
Contagious
Carcases
,
and
fastning
upon
Trees
and
Plants
,
being
carried
thither
through
the
Air.
In
the
late
Pest
likewise
at
many
were
infected
and
dyed
presently
after
eating
of
Fruits
:
Some
will
object
,
that
if
this
were
so
,
then
by
these
Animated
Effluviums
or
Vermicles
,
being
blown
by
winds
from
one
place
to
another
,
the
whole
world
would
soon
be
ruined
by
Contagion
.
I
answer
;
that
this
is
not
wont
to
be
,
by
reason
of
the
divers
and
disproportionate
Situations
of
Countries
,
with
their
various
Natures
,
Tempers
,
and
Properties
,
and
the
divers
Constitution
of
winds
and
Airs
prevailing
within
them
.
Animated
Effluviums
i.
e.
Microscope
.
These
things
may
perhaps
seem
Paradoxes
to
the
Reader
,
but
when
he
shall
,
as
I
have
done
,
by
Experiments
made
the
space
of
many
years
,
by
the
help
of
most
exquisite
Microscopes
,
throughly
see
with
his
own
Eyes
,
then
I
suppose
,
he
will
not
only
believe
these
things
to
be
so
,
but
instructed
by
Experience
,
be
ready
to
attest
the
Truth
of
what
I
have
said
.
Verminous
Disposition
That
every
thing
which
is
Putrid
,
doth
of
it self
,
and
by
its
own
Nature
,
generate
Worms
:
Whereas
all
generation
consssts
in
what
is
hot
and
moist
,
according
to
the
Philosopher's
determination
,
a
twofold
Corruption
may
here
be
considered
;
the
one
Natural
,
the
other
specially
adventitious
or
beside
Nature
,
which
properly
is
wont
to
be
called
Putrefaction
.
I
say
therefore
,
that
there
is
no
living
thing
which
is
not
lyable
to
Putrefaction
,
even
as
the
*
Philosopher
himself
de
Hist.
Anim
affirms
.
For
the
understanding
whereof
,
it
is
to
be
noted
,
that
no
living
thing
can
be
generated
out
of
what
is
formally
Putrid
.
But
whenas
that
which
is
putrefied
,
being
a
mixt
Body
,
is
,
by
separation
of
impure
parts
from
the
pure
,
resolved
into
its
own
Elements
,
and
whereas
the
pure
Parts
natural
to
the
mixt
Body
being
mingled
with
the
putrid
,
are
agitated
by
heat
;
and
forasmuch
as
Nature
always
intends
the
best
,
hence
it
comes
to
pass
,
that
the
external
heat
works
the
prepared
matter
,
not
into
any
thing
that
is
of
an
Excrementitious
Nature
,
but
thrusts
forth
the
purer
Parts
of
the
Mixt
Body
into
somewhat
that
is
animated
;
and
this
is
the
only
Cause
of
the
Original
of
Animals
out
of
Putrefaction
.
Moreover
,
whereas
Philosophers
are
wont
commonly
to
say
,
that
some
Animals
are
generated
out
of
meer
Putrefaction
alone
,
that
is
true
,
if
we
conceive
the
whole
putrefaction
of
a
mixt
Body
to
be
performed
under
one
Action
,
but
because
no
mixt
Body
is
so
corrupted
,
but
that
some
of
the
purer
Parts
natural
to
it
do
remain
;
therefore
when
these
purer
Parts
become
Tinctured
with
in
an
ill
fuliginous
quality
through
the
putrefying
of
the
Excrementitious
Parts
,
hence
it
falls
out
,
that
the
said
purer
Parts
being
agitated
by
external
heat
,
do
thrust
forth
an
Off-spring
of
Animals
,
of
the
same
Nature
with
the
Excrementitious
Parts
which
gave
the
Tincture
.
Aristotle
,
Theophrastus
de
Divinis
Nat.
Charact.
Cornelius
Gemma
Georgius
Agricola
Matthiolus
,
Fuchsius
for
,
viewing
the
blood
an
hour
or
two
after
the
opening
of
veins
,
I
have
found
it
so
full
of
Worms
,
that
it
made
me
almost
astonished
,
and
I
have
ever
since
been
convinced
,
that
man
,
as
well
living
as
dead
,
may
abound
with
innumerable
vermicles
though
undiscernible
by
the
eye
Job
,
I
said
to
Corruption
,
Thou
art
my
father
,
and
to
the
Worm
,
Thou
art
my
mother
,
and
my
sister
.
That
according
to
the
various
distemper
of
humors
,
Putrefaction
acquires
venoms
or
virulencies
of
various
Natures
,
and
divers
powers
in
working
,
according
to
the
various
manner
of
combination
of
Malignant
Humors
De
vivâ
Mortis
imagine
.
I
shall
not
insist
upon
those
many
most
faithful
Experiments
made
by
and
others
both
Physicians
and
Chirurgians
,
who
have
abundantly
proved
with
the
Microscope
,
that
upon
the
opening
of
Buboes
and
Tumors
,
they
have
been
found
full
of
innumerable
Vermicles
undiscernible
by
the
eye
.
and
so
examining
the
matter
with
the
Microscope
,
they
found
those
petty
Vermicles
,
spred
upon
the
whole
Superficies
in
the
rough
parts
of
the
Skin
;
by
which
means
you
have
here
an
Infallible
experiment
,
touching
the
Original
of
that
most
Malignant
disease
the
which
is
further
confirmed
by
this
,
that
after
the
using
of
all
the
Bezoardicks
,
Diaphoreticks
,
and
Cordials
commonly
so
called
,
without
any
success
,
he
be
took
himself
to
the
use
of
such
remedies
as
have
a
power
to
kill
and
mortifie
the
putrid
seminaries
of
worms
,
by
mingling
them
with
such
other
remedies
as
were
proper
in
the
Case
.
with
the
like
prudence
to
collect
the
causes
and
cures
of
distempers
in
the
Measels
,
Small
Pox
,
and
Spotted
Fevers
,
and
if
you
follow
his
example
close
,
you
will
not
err
from
the
succesful
way
of
curing
:
And
he
knows
no
reason
why
he
should
not
,
in
all
and
singular
diseases
which
have
any
thing
in
them
of
a
notable
putrefaction
or
Fermentation
of
vitious
humours
,
resolutely
assert
,
that
they
spring
from
such
a
vevminous
seminary
of
Animals
,
seeing
he
hath
seldom
failed
of
a
prosperous
success
by
such
a
course
of
Cure
:
For
,
as
I
affirm
that
Inveterate
head-Aches
,
Pleurisies
,
accompanied
with
intolerable
pain
,
Pains
and
Gnawings
of
the
Stomack
,
Torments
,
Gripes
,
or
Wringings
of
the
Bowels
,
Epileptick
Convulsions
,
Arthritical
Tortures
,
and
other
the
like
distempers
,
do
arise
from
and
Exhalations
quickned
into
Animals
,
which
,
as
being
exceeding
slimy
,
very
easily
adhering
to
the
Nervous
and
Membranous
parts
,
doe
,
by
twitching
and
lancing
,
affect
them
with
very
cruel
pricking
and
shooting
pains
perpetually
;
So
also
by
administring
such
remedies
as
are
specifically
destructive
to
Worms
,
and
which
have
a
strong
power
to
precipitate
them
,
all
pains
have
been
removed
out
of
the
body
.
that
all
the
Membranes
of
the
body
,
as
well
as
the
Muscles
,
are
filled
with
a
subtile
spirituous
Liquor
,
which
perpetually
passeth
through
all
their
Fibres
,
and
keeps
them
in
a
due
Tone
,
No
man
can
think
this
too
much
to
be
granted
,
who
considers
those
very
very
little
Animals
which
are
furnished
with
all
their
appertinences
,
and
yet
are
less
than
the
smallest
of
those
Fibres
Spanish
Monarchy
,
which
de
Balzac
are
eternal
Vix
ulla
perpetua
praecepta
Ars
Medicinalis
recipit
,
Scarce
any
of
the
Precepts
of
the
Art
of
Physick
are
perpetual
Experimental
Philosophy
who
being
asked
by
an
Acquaintance
of
mine
of
the
same
Profession
,
why
he
would
not
give
such
a
Patient
seeing
he
grew
so
much
worse
under
the
use
of
to
which
he
had
been
confined
,
alleging
,
that
at
last
he
must
needs
die
with
them
in
his
mouth
:
He
briskly
answered
,
I
hope
there
are
but
few
of
this
man's
T●mper
;
but
it
were
to
be
wished
there
were
fewer
men
that
think
that
a
Physician
hath
done
enough
,
when
he
hath
learnedly
discoursed
of
the
Seat
and
Nature
of
the
Disease
,
and
methodically
employed
a
company
of
safe
,
but
languid
remedies
,
as
unable
to
cure
the
Patient
,
as
unlikely
to
kill
him
:
For
,
by
such
an
unprofitable
way
of
proceeding
,
to
which
some
lazie
,
or
opinionated
Practisers
of
Physick
,
have
,
under
pretence
of
its
being
safe
,
consined
themselves
,
they
have
rendered
their
whole
Profession
obnoxious
to
the
Cavils
of
Empericks
.
So
Monsieur
(
in
his
witty
French
Discourse
of
the
Court
)
hath
a
story
of
a
Physician
of
that
he
knew
at
who
being
content
with
a
possession
of
his
Science
,
and
(
as
he
termed
it
)
did
not
only
not
particularly
inquire
into
the
Cure
of
Diseases
,
but
boasted
that
he
had
killed
a
man
with
the
fairest
Method
in
the
world
.
Tis
not
that
I
am
an
enemy
to
Method
,
or
an
undervaluer
of
it
,
but
I
fear
the
generality
of
Physicians
have
as
yet
but
an
imperfect
Method
,
and
have
,
by
the
narrow
Principles
they
were
taught
in
the
Schools
,
been
perswaded
to
frame
their
Method
,
rather
to
the
barren
Notions
of
the
P●ripatetick
School
,
than
to
the
full
amplitude
of
Nature
.
Nor
do
I
find
,
that
Physicians
have
yet
done
so
fit
a
thing
,
as
seriously
(
and
with
such
attention
as
the
importance
of
the
thing
deserves
)
on
the
one
side
,
to
enumerate
and
distinguish
the
several
Causes
,
which
may
any
whit
probably
be
assigned
,
how
the
of
that
disorder'd
state
of
mans
Body
,
which
we
call
a
Disease
,
or
its
Symptoms
,
may
be
produced
;
and
on
the
other
side
,
by
how
many
,
and
how
differing
waies
the
may
be
removed
,
or
the
Diseases
they
belong
to
may
be
destroyed
.
And
if
this
were
Analytically
and
carefully
done
I
little
doubt
but
that
men's
knowledge
of
the
Nature
and
Causes
of
Diseases
,
and
the
ways
of
Curing
them
,
would
be
less
circumscribed
,
and
more
effectual
than
it
was
wont
to
be
.
And
I
am
apt
to
think
,
that
even
Methodists
themselves
would
find
,
that
there
are
divers
probable
,
if
not
promising
Methods
(
proper
to
divers
Cases
)
which
waies
they
yet
over-look
:
And
though
in
a
right
sence
it
be
true
,
that
the
Physician
is
but
Nature's
Minister
,
and
is
to
comply
with
her
,
who
aims
alwaies
at
the
best
;
yet
if
we
take
them
in
the
Sence
wherein
those
Expressions
are
vulgarly
used
,
I
may
elswhere
acquaint
you
with
my
Exceptions
at
them
.
In
the
mean
time
,
I
confess
to
you
,
that
I
know
not
whether
they
have
not
done
harm
,
and
hindred
the
Advancement
of
Physick
,
fascinating
the
minds
of
men
,
and
keeping
them
from
those
effectual
Courses
,
whereby
they
might
potently
alter
the
Engine
of
the
Body
,
and
prevent
or
cure
divers
stubborn
Diseases
,
more
happily
than
the
vulgar
Methodists
are
wont
to
do
.
And
indeed
,
'tis
scarce
to
be
expected
,
that
till
men
have
a
righter
knowledge
of
the
Principles
of
Natural
Philosophy
,
without
which
tis
hard
to
arive
at
a
more
compr●hensive
Theorie
of
the
various
possible
Causes
of
Diseases
,
and
of
the
Contrivance
and
Uses
of
the
Parts
of
the
Bodie
,
the
Method
which
supposeth
this
knowledge
,
should
be
other
than
in
many
things
defective
,
and
in
some
erroneous
,
as
I
am
apt
to
think
the
v●lgar
Method
may
be
shewn
to
be
as
to
some
particular
Diseases
.
To
be
short
,
how
much
esteem
so
ever
we
have
for
Method
,
yet
since
that
it self
,
and
the
Theories
whereon
men
ground
it
,
are
,
as
to
divers
Diseases
,
so
hotly
disputed
of
,
even
among
eminent
Physicians
,
that
in
many
Cases
a
man
may
discern
more
probability
in
the
success
of
the
remedy
,
than
of
the
truth
of
the
received
Notion
of
the
Disease
.
In
such
abstruse
Cases
,
methinks
it
were
not
amiss
to
reflect
upon
that
reasoning
of
the
antient
Empericks
(
though
upon
a
somewhat
differing
occasion
)
which
is
thus
somewhere
expressed
by
I
have
read
it
in
the
Preface
of
And
as
the
controverted
Method
in
the
above-mentioned
Diseases
,
is
not
yet
establish'd
or
agreed
on
in
the
Schools
themselves
,
so
divers
persons
that
are
wholy
strangers
to
the
Schools
,
do
yet
by
the
help
of
Experience
and
good
Specificks
,
and
the
Method
which
their
Mother-wit
,
according
to
Emergencies
,
doth
prompt
them
to
take
,
perform
considerable
Cures
.
indeed
the
Physiology
wherewith
Physicians
,
as
well
as
others
,
are
wont
to
be
imbued
in
the
Schools
,
hath
done
them
no
small
disservice
,
by
accustoming
them
to
gross
apprehensions
of
Natures
waies
of
working
.
Bacon
,
Advance
of
Learn
For
,
they
use
commonly
to
take
a
Prospect
of
Nature
,
as
from
some
high
Turret
,
and
to
view
her
afarr
off
;
and
are
too
much
taken
up
with
Generalities
,
whereas
if
they
would
vouchsafe
to
descend
,
and
approach
nearer
to
Particulars
,
and
more
exactly
and
considerately
look
into
things
Themselves
,
there
might
be
made
a
more
true
and
profitable
discovery
and
comprehension
.
Now
the
remedy
of
this
Error
,
is
not
alone
this
,
to
quicken
or
strengthen
the
Organ
,
but
withall
to
go
nearer
to
the
Object
:
And
therefore
there
is
no
doubt
but
if
Physicians
,
letting
Generalities
go
for
a
while
,
and
suspending
their
Assent
thereto
,
would
make
their
approaches
to
Nature
,
they
might
become
Masters
of
that
Art
,
whereof
the
Poet
speaks
,
Remed
Am.
they
ought
the
rather
to
endevour
,
because
the
Philosophies
themselves
,
upon
which
Physicians
,
whether
they
be
Methodists
or
Chymists
,
do
rely
,
are
indeed
very
slight
and
superficial
.
Wherefore
,
if
too
wide
Generalities
,
though
true
,
have
this
defect
,
that
they
do
not
well
bring
men
home
to
Action
,
certainly
there
is
greater
danger
in
those
Generals
which
are
in
themselves
false
,
and
instead
of
directing
to
Truth
,
mislead
the
mind
into
the
By-paths
of
Error
.
(
as
we
have
seen
)
hath
been
such
hitherto
,
as
hath
been
more
professed
than
labored
,
and
yet
more
labored
than
advanced
,
seeing
the
pains
hestowed
thereon
hath
been
,
rather
in
Circle
than
in
Progression
:
For
,
I
find
much
Iteration
,
but
small
Addition
in
Writers
of
that
Faculty
.
the
greatest
part
of
what
we
do
know
,
is
the
least
part
of
what
we
doe
not
know
,
calcare
superbiam
majore
cum
superbiâ
to
inquire
and
learn
even
from
Idiots
,
if
they
have
any
thing
that
seems
to
promote
a
Cure
upon
occasion
.
Henricus
ab
Heer
Farriers
,
Grasiers
many
such
things
may
serve
,
either
to
enrich
or
illustrate
the
way
of
curing
humane
Bodies
:
Their
ignorance
,
and
their
Credulousness
,
together
with
the
liberty
and
meanness
of
those
Creatures
which
they
Physick
,
gives
them
leave
to
vent
ure
on
any
thing
,
it
having
made
them
try
upon
Horses
and
Cattel
,
many
such
things
as
Physicians
dare
not
try
upon
Men
and
Women
.
And
among
those
many
extraordinary
things
,
some
,
as
it
often
happens
,
have
succeeded
so
prosperously
,
as
to
deserve
to
be
considered
by
the
skilfullest
Physicians
,
some
of
whom
might
,
without
disparagement
to
their
Profession
,
doe
an
useful
Piece
of
service
,
if
they
would
be
pleased
to
collect
and
digest
all
the
approved
experiments
ond
Practises
of
the
Farriers
,
Grasiers
,
Butchers
,
and
the
like
;
which
the
Antients
did
not
despise
,
but
honoured
with
the
Titles
of
and
among
which
,
if
I
had
leisure
,
I
might
take
notice
of
divers
things
,
that
may
serve
to
illustrate
the
Method
of
Curing
.
of
Vulgar
Errours
Art
Mechanical
,
and
that
it
is
ill
done
to
separate
the
Physick
of
Men
from
the
Physick
of
Brutes
,
The
wound
of
a
Horse
differs
not
from
the
wound
of
a
Man
;
they
have
the
same
Causes
,
the
same
Indications
of
Cure
;
the
Physician
is
the
Minister
,
be
it
of
a
Horse
,
an
Ox
,
or
a
Man.
A
Fever
Continual
,
and
Intermittent
,
is
a
disease
common
to
Horses
,
Dogs
,
Kine
,
and
Men
;
the
Remedies
also
are
common
,
as
Bleeding
,
Clysters
,
Purgations
,
made
of
Medicaments
Simple
or
Compound
.
The
Physick
of
men
hath
nothing
proper
to
it
,
which
the
Physick
of
Brutes
may
not
chalenge
to
it self
;
that
they
who
have
written
of
the
Physick
of
Brutes
,
among
the
English
(
for
whose
sakes
this
Book
is
written
)
of
which
is
one
,
and
another
an
(
whose
name
I
have
forgotten
)
as
also
those
Antients
who
have
written
of
that
sort
of
Physick
,
doe
use
the
same
Remedies
,
and
that
with
very
great
reason
;
for
,
Medicaments
doe
not
work
upon
man
as
he
is
a
Rational
Creature
or
a
Man
,
but
as
he
is
a
mixt
Body
.
Columella
,
Cato
,
Varro
,
Pellagonius
Cornelius
Agricola
Joannes
Ruellius
Apsirchus
,
Hierocles
,
Theomnestus
,
Pellagonius
,
Anatolius
,
Tiberius
,
Eumelus
,
Archidamus
,
Hippocrates
,
Hemerius
,
Africanus
,
Aemilius
Hispanus
Mountebanks
,
Quacks
trying
of
Practises
that
as
Physick
hath
owed
its
beginning
to
Experiment
,
so
those
that
practise
it
must
inlarge
and
rectifie
their
Principles
,
according
to
the
new
Discoveries
which
are
made
from
time
to
time
,
of
the
Operations
and
power
of
the
Productions
,
whether
of
Nature
or
Art.
in
his
excellent
Preface
,
speaking
in
the
sence
of
the
old
Empericks
,
of
the
original
of
Physick
,
And
lest
the
mistaken
name
of
should
make
you
undervalue
so
useful
a
consideration
,
which
not
the
nature
of
their
Sect
,
but
that
of
the
thing
,
suggested
to
them
,
I
shall
add
in
favor
of
experienced
,
though
otherwise
unlikely
Remedies
,
that
tis
a
Sentence
ascribed
to
(
and
in
my
opinion
one
of
the
best
that
is
ascribed
to
him
)
And
certainly
,
though
there
be
scarce
any
sort
of
men
,
whose
credulity
may
do
the
world
more
mischief
than
that
of
Physicians
;
yet
perhaps
neither
Nature
nor
mankind
is
much
beholden
to
those
,
that
too
rigidly
or
narrowly
circumscribe
,
or
confine
the
operations
of
Nature
,
and
will
not
so
much
as
allow
themselves
,
or
others
,
to
try
whether
it
be
possible
for
Nature
,
excited
and
menaged
by
Art
,
to
perform
divers
things
which
they
never
yet
saw
done
,
by
divers
waies
,
differing
from
any
,
which
by
the
common
Principles
that
are
yet
taught
in
the
Schools
,
they
are
able
to
give
a
satisfactory
Account
of
.
by
conversation
with
eminent
Physicians
having
found
,
that
the
learnedst
of
them
disagree
so
much
about
the
Nature
and
Causes
of
Diseases
,
that
a
man
may
prosperously
practise
.
Physick
,
that
is
either
ignorant
of
,
or
dissents
from
the
received
Doctrines
of
the
Schools
concerning
the
Causes
of
Diseases
,
and
some
other
Pathological
Particulars
,
provided
he
hath
a
Mediocrity
or
competent
measure
of
knowledge
in
Anatomie
,
and
the
Nature
of
Diseases
and
their
Symptoms
Hercules
Bovio
Il
Flagello
di
Medici
Rationali
,
the
Scourge
of
Rational
Physicians
He
was
Physician
to
three
Emperors
.
though
a
Physician
should
consider
the
Cause
,
and
the
Part
affected
,
and
think
that
ought
more
to
be
insisted
on
than
extraordinary
Receipts
of
Medicins
,
yet
I
question
not
but
an
expert
Medicin
administred
with
reason
,
may
avail
more
than
that
which
is
sometimes
suddenly
devised
with
great
reason
by
a
most
learned
Physician
:
And
upon
this
account
I
agree
with
that
even
the
Rational
Physicians
ought
to
give
place
to
the
Empericks
.
good
ghessers
as
long
as
the
Causes
of
Diseases
and
of
Natural
Actions
,
were
obscure
,
it
was
to
no
purpose
to
inquire
into
them
,
because
their
Nature
was
incomprehensible
,
Neque
enim
credunt
posse
eum
scire
,
quomodo
morbos
curare
conveniat
,
qui
unde
hi
sint
,
ignoret
;
They
will
not
believe
he
can
know
how
to
cure
Diseases
,
who
knows
not
from
whence
they
proceed
.
And
oftentimes
new
kinds
of
Diseases
fall
out
in
which
Experience
never
yet
gave
any
light
:
It
is
necessary
therefore
to
consider
how
they
began
,
without
which
no
mortal
man
can
understand
,
why
he
should
use
one
thing
more
than
another
:
Patient
died
with
the
fairest
Method
in
the
world
SYlvius
de
le
Boe
Disput.
Med.
Thes.
I
cannot
but
wonder
that
some
Physicians
,
who
are
eminent
for
learning
,
should
be
so
absurd
,
as
not
to
be
ashamed
even
now
openly
to
profess
,
that
all
things
which
may
make
for
the
perfection
of
Physick
,
were
known
to
any
one
or
more
of
the
Antients
,
although
they
are
discovered
to
be
false
by
every
days
experience
.
Novum
Organon
by
super-inducing
or
grafting
new
things
upon
old
;
but
an
Instauration
is
to
be
made
from
the
very
lowest
Foundations
.
of
Orange
To
what
purpose
is
it
,
in
order
to
Physick
,
to
search
into
the
Nature
of
Elements
?
truly
it
is
sufficient
if
we
inquire
into
the
powers
and
operations
of
Nature
,
so
far
as
she
hath
an
influence
in
the
mutation
of
Bodies
.
Sensible
Experiments
des
Cartes
first
Chapter
Elements
,
Humors
,
Temperaments
That
if
he
do
recede
from
the
common
Judgement
,
he
is
not
the
first
that
hath
swimm'd
against
the
stream
of
a
received
Opinion
:
That
in
matters
belonging
to
Physick
,
those
things
that
pleased
men
formerly
,
will
not
pass
now
,
because
the
Antients
,
resting
upon
a
false
Supposition
about
the
Motion
of
the
Bloud
,
did
very
fouly
and
dangerously
err
.
That
the
Art
of
Physick
ought
to
be
wholly
renewed
,
and
the
old
Props
failing
,
Posterity
is
concerned
to
take
care
that
the
Fabrick
be
re-built
from
the
very
ground
.
That
seeing
we
have
now
gotten
new
lights
,
and
a
knowledge
of
the
Causes
of
things
formerly
unknown
,
it
becomes
not
prudent
men
,
and
such
as
profess
Philosophy
,
to
hold
their
eyes
shut
still
.
That
though
the
Doctrines
of
the
Antients
be
yet
openly
maintained
in
Universities
,
yet
he
cannot
believe
,
but
that
most
Physicians
of
a
deeper
In-sight
,
doe
from
their
own
Reasonings
form
unto
themselves
new
to
proceed
by
.
That
Physick
was
at
first
Emperical
,
and
Remedies
were
invented
by
frequent
trial
of
particulars
,
and
not
by
general
Precepts
or
Analogy
;
and
if
,
after
the
example
of
his
Successors
had
be
taken
themselves
to
Observations
only
,
and
Experiments
,
without
doubt
the
Art
of
Physick
had
been
advanced
to
a
greater
perfection
and
fineness
,
and
with
much
more
advantage
to
the
sick
.
But
that
which
presently
shut
out
the
light
which
had
been
at
first
set
up
,
and
dimmed
the
eyes
of
posterity
,
was
the
preposterous
endeavour
of
those
men
,
who
hastily
,
and
in
a
manner
after
their
own
Phantasie
,
framed
the
Art
of
Physick
into
a
general
Method
,
after
the
fashion
of
some
Speculative
Science
;
and
so
by
this
means
,
a
copious
form
of
Doctrin
,
specious
enough
,
but
fallacious
and
instable
,
was
built
,
before
firm
foundations
were
laid
.
commend
to
our
Countrymen
,
now
that
he
is
printed
four
Elements
four
Qualities
simple
Complexions
as
many
Couples
of
complex
Qualities
,
four
Humors
that
others
had
dreamt
of
before
him
:
Contraries
were
to
be
cured
by
Contraries
.
Herostratus
,
Asclepiades
,
Protagoras
,
E●●sistratus
,
Herophilus
,
Quintius
▪
De
Fermentatione
First
Qualities
thence
to
be
deduced
,
I
must
confess
that
this
opinion
doth
in
some
sort
conduce
toward
an
explaining
of
the
of
Nature
,
but
in
so
gross
a
manner
doth
it
solve
the
Appearances
of
things
,
and
without
any
peculiar
respect
to
the
more
secret
Recesses
of
Nature
,
that
it
is
almost
the
same
thing
to
say
a
House
doth
consist
of
Wood
and
Stones
,
as
a
Body
of
four
Elements
.
viz.
Spirit
,
Sulphur
,
Salt
,
Water
,
Spirit
,
Sulphur
,
Salt
sensible
experiments
five
Principles
ie
Febure
A
Compleat
Body
of
Chymistry
Octavian
Pulleyn
Junior
four
Elements
four
Qualities
Novum
O●ganon
Siccum
,
Moist
Moisture
and
Drieness
are
not
to
be
understood
to
be
Qualities
but
they
are
rather
Bodies
qualified
;
and
therefore
(
by
the
leave
of
the
Schools
)
they
are
not
acquired
by
Parts
and
Degrees
,
after
the
manner
of
Qualities
.
Water
never
dries
,
though
it
seem
so
to
the
eyes
by
vanishing
:
And
Drie
sounds
nothing
else
properly
but
to
be
without
moisture
,
and
so
conteins
nothing
but
a
Negation
of
Moist
.
It
is
a
wonderous
piece
of
Folly
then
,
to
dream
,
that
Moisture
comes
on
by
degrees
,
and
a
remission
also
of
Moisture
and
Drieness
in
Elements
;
and
so
tis
a
monstrous
whimsie
to
have
introduced
such
kind
of
stupid
Dreams
into
the
Nature
of
Diseases
,
and
Rules
of
Curing
,
and
thereupon
to
have
laid
the
whole
Foundation
of
Physick
,
by
making
divers
marriages
of
Moist
Drie
,
Hot
and
Cold
,
with
each
other
;
and
all
this
,
to
uphold
the
vain
doctrin
of
Temperaments
;
not
considering
that
in
Nature
there
is
no
penetration
of
Moist
with
Dry
,
no
radical
union
or
commixtion
or
Temper
possible
betwixt
them
.
Cold
,
Helmont
That
neither
Hot
,
nor
Cold
,
nor
Moist
,
nor
Drie
,
are
to
be
reputed
Causes
of
Diseases
;
but
rather
that
which
is
Acid
,
or
Bitter
,
or
Sharp
,
or
Saltish
.
in
a
Fever
have
it
not
absolutely
from
Heat
but
you
are
to
consider
Bitter
,
Acid
,
and
Saltish
,
joyn'd
with
the
H●at
,
and
innumerable
the
like
;
and
so
in
like
manner
,
not
to
consider
Cold
of
it self
,
but
as
it
is
consociated
with
those
Faculties
.
Calidum
&
Frigidum
principatum
non
obtinent
inter
Morbificas
Causas
,
nec
Medicam
manum
valdè
implorant
,
Hot
and
Cold
have
no
preheminence
among
Causes
of
Diseases
,
nor
do
they
much
require
the
hand
of
a
Physician
:
Bitter
,
and
Saltish
,
and
Sweet
,
and
Acid
,
and
Austere
or
sour
,
and
Insp●d
,
and
Infinit
other
things
having
all
manner
of
Faculties
,
power
,
and
strength
:
Heat
hath
not
of
it self
any
considerable
force
,
but
among
all
the
Faculties
,
I
think
Cold
and
Heat
to
be
the
most
languid
the
Schools
do
perversly
traduce
the
Seminal
and
Specifick
powers
of
Things
into
Elementary
Qualities
,
from
whence
they
raise
their
Doctrin
of
Temperaments
,
and
to
these
they
unadvisedly
referr
and
ascribe
the
Vital
and
Seminal
Faculties
of
Things
.
Divine
Hippocrates
,
Divine
Galen
Digestions
,
Seminals
Cold
,
Moist
Experiment
.
Philos.
part.
as
the
Handmaid
to
Physiology
,
not
a
little
contribute
to
clear
up
the
nature
of
Digestions
,
and
the
Deficiencies
or
Aberrations
in
them
,
which
produce
a
great
part
of
Diseases
.
Indeed
,
since
the
Liquors
contained
in
the
Bodie
abound
,
divers
of
them
,
with
Saline
or
Sulphureous
Parts
,
he
that
hath
by
Chymistry
been
taught
the
nature
of
the
several
Salts
and
Sulphurs
,
and
both
beheld
and
considered
their
various
Actions
one
upon
another
,
and
upon
other
bodies
,
seems
to
have
a
considerable
help
to
discourse
groundedly
of
the
Changes
and
operations
of
the
Humors
or
Juices
contained
in
mans
bodie
;
which
he
hath
not
that
never
had
for
his
Instructer
the
Explications
of
a
skilful
Naturalist
may
add
much
to
what
he
hath
hitherto
been
commonly
taught
,
concerning
the
nature
and
origin
of
Qualities
in
Physicians
Schools
;
and
that
a
little
comparing
of
the
vulgar
Doctrin
,
with
those
various
to
be
met
with
among
Natural
things
,
will
easily
manifest
it
to
you
.
Much
more
likely
explications
,
than
those
which
were
applauded
some
Ages
since
,
of
divers
things
that
happen
as
well
within
as
without
the
Body
,
have
been
given
by
later
Naturalists
both
Philosophers
and
Physicians
.
The
Theory
concerning
that
disease
the
Stone
,
and
of
many
other
diseases
which
hath
been
given
us
by
those
many
Physicians
,
that
would
needs
deduce
all
the
of
diseases
from
Heat
,
Cold
,
and
other
Elementary
Qualities
,
is
inferior
to
the
account
given
us
of
them
by
those
ingenious
Moderns
that
have
applied
themselves
to
together
with
some
of
the
more
known
Chymical
Experiments
.
le
Febure
A
Compleat
Body
of
Chymistry
Galenists
to
be
only
Physicians
in
name
,
who
after
they
have
perused
some
University
Writings
,
do
perswade
men
,
that
Physick
is
nothing
else
but
an
Art
of
discerning
Heat
and
Cold
,
and
immediately
take
upon
themselves
the
Practise
,
and
fill
their
discourses
with
nothing
else
but
Notions
of
Heat
and
Cold
;
and
all
their
skill
tends
to
speak
more
or
less
of
these
But
the
learned
who
was
the
Ornament
of
his
Age
,
doth
confess
and
evidence
,
after
having
acknowledged
this
Error
,
that
besides
these
first
Qualities
,
there
are
many
other
powers
hidden
in
mixt
Bodyes
,
which
he
plainly
signifieth
toward
the
latter
end
of
his
second
Book
where
he
plainly
teacheth
how
the
Seminal
Vertue
contained
in
Compounds
,
and
which
really
is
the
Seat
of
all
their
activity
,
must
be
extracted
.
Preliminary
discourse
tis
a
very
difficult
matter
for
any
to
attain
the
exact
knowledge
of
Natural
Things
,
without
the
previous
guidance
of
Chymistry
,
and
a
being
acquainted
with
all
its
Parts
;
neither
can
any
be
reckoned
a
perfect
Physician
without
the
help
of
Hermetick
Philosophy
,
since
it
is
the
truest
Ground
of
Physick
,
without
which
no
Practitioner
can
deserve
any
other
Title
than
that
of
Emperick
:
For
,
it
is
not
a
Gown
,
or
Degrees
taken
in
Vniversities
,
which
constitute
the
Physician
,
but
a
solid
Knowledge
of
Nature
,
grounded
upon
sound
Reason
and
mature
Judgement
,
improved
by
Practise
and
Experience
.
The
rare
Prescriptions
of
Chymistry
have
their
Remedies
grounded
,
not
upon
the
actings
of
but
upon
the
Specifical
and
Internal
vertues
of
their
Principles
.
Hippocrates
,
Galen
tis
true
,
that
as
to
the
Art
of
Curing
nothing
avails
more
than
Experiment
;
and
although
there
be
many
things
not
properly
appertaining
to
an
Art
it self
,
yet
it
may
by
those
things
be
advanced
in
quickning
the
wit
of
the
Artist
.
Therefore
also
,
that
contemplation
of
the
Nature
of
things
,
although
it
make
not
a
man
a
more
apt
Physician
,
yet
it
renders
him
the
more
compleat
for
the
Profession
:
Experimental
Philosophy
It
is
not
so
much
matter
,
what
moves
the
Arteries
,
as
what
all
kinds
of
Motion
doe
signifie
:
but
those
things
are
to
be
known
by
Experiments
;
and
in
all
kind
of
Speculations
men
may
dispute
and
so
a
good
wit
and
quaint
Discourse
may
overcome
;
but
know
that
Diseases
are
not
cured
with
Eloquence
,
but
by
Remedies
:
Which
if
any
man
that
is
an
Experimental
Practiser
come
to
know
,
though
he
be
slow
of
Tongue
,
he
will
become
a
much
greater
Physician
,
than
he
that
without
such
an
Experimental
Course
,
shall
seek
to
adorn
himself
with
an
eloquent
Tongue
.
Galenick
Philosophy
Experim
.
Philos.
p.
seeth
not
how
from
those
narrow
and
barren
Principles
of
the
(
and
the
like
)
any
ordinary
effects
can
satisfactorily
be
deduced
:
Scholastick
Method
and
Medicins
Elements
,
Qualities
four
humors
Bloud
,
Choler
,
Phlegme
De
Gener
.
Animal
.
Exercit
.
four
Humors
If
these
things
be
so
,
then
there
is
a
necessity
that
the
maintainers
of
this
opinion
must
set
down
two
kinds
of
Bloud
,
the
whole
Mass
together
in
the
Veins
,
composed
of
those
a
fourth
part
of
it
more
pure
,
more
florid
,
and
more
spirituous
,
which
in
the
stricter
sence
they
name
Bloud
,
and
which
some
affirm
is
contained
apart
in
the
Arteries
,
and
therefore
seperated
from
the
rest
for
other
uses
:
Bartholinus
,
Walaeus
Sylvius
de
le
Boe
Dispu●
.
Med.
Arterial
Bloud
Cystick
Arteries
volatile
Spirit
Bilious
Humor
Liquor
Nervosus
limpid
liquor
of
the
Lymphaeducts
Spittle
,
Snivel
De
Febr.
Cap.
Though
this
opinion
of
the
Four
Humors
hath
ever
since
the
daies
of
prevailed
in
the
Schools
of
Physick
,
yet
in
our
Age
men
begin
to
suspect
it
;
nor
is
it
so
commonly
made
use
of
to
solve
the
of
Diseases
;
because
such
kind
of
Humors
do
not
constitute
Bloud
,
but
those
that
are
called
so
are
(
excepting
the
Bloud
)
only
excrements
of
the
cruentous
gore
,
which
ought
to
be
separated
from
it
:
For
,
the
bloud
is
in
truth
one
only
humor
,
nor
is
it
one
thing
about
the
Bowels
,
and
another
in
the
habit
of
the
Bodie
;
nor
is
Phlegm
moved
at
one
time
,
and
Bile
at
another
,
or
Melancholy
(
as
the
vulgar
talk
)
but
the
Liquor
boyling
within
the
vessels
is
only
Bloud
,
and
whither
soever
it
is
carried
through
the
several
parts
of
the
bodie
,
it
is
still
the
same
,
and
like
it self
.
But
because
in
some
persons
,
by
reason
of
the
abundance
of
Natural
heat
,
and
through
want
of
the
same
in
others
,
the
concoction
of
Aliment
is
sometimes
more
effectually
,
sometimes
more
remisly
,
performed
both
in
the
Bowels
and
in
the
Vessels
,
therefore
there
followeth
a
diverse
Temperature
of
the
Bloud
,
although
it
be
one
and
the
same
liquor
,
and
according
to
its
constitution
,
it
may
be
said
that
men
are
either
Cholerick
,
Melancholick
,
or
of
some
other
Temper
.
Moreover
,
because
while
the
Bloud
circulates
within
the
vessels
,
some
parts
of
it
continually
grow
old
and
stale
,
and
others
are
supplied
a
new
,
hence
it
is
,
that
from
crudity
,
or
too
much
coction
,
somewhat
excrementitious
must
needs
be
heaped
together
:
which
nevertheless
is
by
effervescencie
separated
from
its
Masse
,
even
as
it
happens
in
the
efflorescence
or
depuration
of
Wines
;
and
so
the
Bloud
being
after
the
same
manner
depurated
,
ought
to
be
of
it self
without
that
which
they
call
And
whereas
those
humors
vulgarly
so
called
do
consist
of
other
Principles
,
that
which
they
term
Bile
or
Choler
,
of
Salt
and
Sulphur
,
with
an
admixtion
of
Spirit
and
and
that
which
they
term
of
the
same
,
with
an
Addition
of
and
seeing
that
of
such
Principles
as
these
the
Blood
doth
immediately
consist
,
and
is
wont
to
be
sensibly
resolved
into
the
same
,
I
judge
it
better
to
lay
aside
the
vulgar
acceptation
of
to
take
into
use
these
celebrated
Principles
of
the
Chymists
,
for
explaining
the
nature
of
the
Bloud
and
of
its
Distempers
.
There
are
therefore
in
the
Bloud
,
as
in
all
other
Liquors
which
are
apt
to
Ferment
,
very
much
of
a
Mediocrity
of
and
some
little
of
:
and
when
the
Bloud
is
resolved
by
putrefaction
,
it
yields
the
same
Principles
separate
,
and
Distinct
.
Five
Principles
Spirit
is
a
subtile
and
most
volatile
portion
of
the
Bloud
.
By
the
offervescencie
of
this
it
is
,
that
the
Bloud
is
kept
in
a
continuall
Ebullition
and
Motion
,
and
purified
from
whatsoever
happens
to
be
mingled
with
it
which
is
Heterogeneous
or
unapt
for
mixture
,
or
else
the
Spirit
being
thereby
disturbed
in
its
Motion
,
there
follow●
an
exagitation
of
the
Bloud
,
and
a
Distemper
,
wh●ch
never
ceaseth
,
till
the
Heterogeneous
matter
be
either
subdued
and
reduced
,
or
else
evacuated
.
This
Spirit
,
in
destilling
the
Bloud
of
Animals
,
becomes
visible
,
ascending
of
a
clear
limpid
colour
,
like
and
by
the
adhesion
of
Salt
it
becomes
very
sharp
and
pricking
.
also
abounds
in
the
Bloud
appears
,
in
regard
we
feed
chiefly
upon
fat
Aliments
and
such
as
have
in
them
;
yea
the
Nutriment
accruing
to
the
solid
parts
from
the
Bloud
,
turns
into
Sulphur
and
Fat
;
and
it
is
probable
,
that
from
the
dissolution
of
this
it
receives
its
red
Tincture
:
Hence
it
is
,
that
the
bloud
being
impregnated
with
Sulphur
,
as
well
as
Spirit
,
the
whole
Masse
is
very
apt
to
Ferment
;
and
it
passing
through
the
Heart
,
receives
there
a
greater
effervescencie
or
accession
,
to
maintain
vital
heat
in
the
whole
Bodie
.
And
when
this
Sulphureous
part
is
exalted
,
and
becomes
luxuriant
in
the
Bloud
,
it
perverts
the
Temper
thereof
from
its
due
state
,
rendring
it
bilious
or
Cholerick
or
corrupt
,
so
that
it
cannot
concoct
the
Nutritive
Juice
;
or
inflaming
the
Bloud
,
it
puts
it
into
Heats
and
Burnings
,
as
in
Continual
Fevers
;
and
hence
it
is
,
that
the
more
of
any
one
hath
in
the
bloud
,
the
more
apt
he
is
to
fall
into
Fevers
,
That
a
also
is
in
the
Bloud
is
evident
by
Taste
:
That
which
is
the
by
feeding
upon
Vegetables
;
and
the
from
other
kinds
of
Food
,
which
by
a
good
Digestion
of
Nature
,
and
by
circulation
,
attains
to
be
Volatile
.
Now
if
it
so
hapPen
in
the
Bloud
,
that
by
reason
of
ill
Digestion
,
the
Salty
or
Saline
particles
thereof
are
not
rightly
exalted
,
but
remain
crude
,
and
for
the
most
part
Fixt
,
thereupon
the
bloud
becomes
thick
,
and
unfit
for
Circulation
;
from
whence
come
Obstructions
in
the
Bowels
and
solid
Parts
,
and
an
encrease
of
serous
Crudities
;
But
if
by
a
Depression
,
or
through
defect
of
Spirit
,
the
Salt
becomes
too
much
exalted
,
and
fluid
,
the
state
of
the
bloud
become
acid
and
austere
,
as
is
observed
in
the
Scurvy
and
Quartan
Agues
,
yea
and
various
Coagulations
of
Salt
hapning
upon
this
account
,
thence
arise
all
manner
of
Arthritick
Diseases
,
the
Scrophula
,
Nephritick
Distempers
,
Leprous
Dispositions
,
and
almost
all
Chronick
Diseases
:
But
when
the
Salt
,
after
concoction
well
performed
in
the
bowels
and
and
vessels
,
is
duly
exalted
,
and
by
association
with
the
made
volatile
,
then
,
by
reason
of
its
mixture
,
the
Liquor
of
the
bloud
ferments
the
more
equally
,
and
is
vindicated
also
from
Puirefaction
,
and
from
Stagnation
,
and
from
Coagulation
:
For
,
the
Saline
particles
do
restrain
the
exorbitances
of
the
Spirits
,
and
especially
of
Sulphur
:
wherefore
they
who
have
a
bloud
well
saturated
with
volatile
Salt
,
are
the
less
subject
to
Fevers
:
and
from
hence
is
is
,
that
they
who
frequently
let
bloud
,
are
the
more
inclinable
to
Fevers
.
or
terrestrial
Particles
abound
in
the
bloud
,
appears
by
the
grosness
of
its
humor
,
and
thickness
of
its
Consistence
.
This
serves
to
keep
the
bloud
from
becoming
too
volatile
,
and
from
being
too
soon
inflamed
;
even
as
in
the
ordering
and
making
of
Gun-powder
,
Coals
are
many
times
added
in
greater
proportion
,
that
its
parts
may
not
all
at
once
and
too
soon
take
fire
.
And
Earth
,
appears
also
in
the
Distillation
of
Bloud
,
after
which
you
will
find
good
store
of
that
the
Chymists
call
a
light
Earthy
substance
apt
to
crumble
.
that
there
is
a
of
the
Bloud
,
is
seen
by
its
Fluid
nature
for
,
by
this
it
is
kept
from
being
Stagnant
or
without
Motion
,
and
is
circulated
in
the
Vessels
without
thickning
,
and
withheld
from
too
much
Conflagration
and
Adustion
,
and
the
Heat
is
preserved
in
good
Temper
.
This
also
is
made
manifest
in
the
Distillation
of
Bloud
,
whereby
there
is
educed
a
Water
limpid
and
insipid
,
of
at
least
a
double
proportion
in
respect
of
the
rest
.
From
hence
the
matter
of
Urine
,
Sweat
,
and
of
any
of
the
other
moist
Excrements
,
doth
for
the
most
part
proceed
.
Four
Humors
Five
Principles
Five
Principles
Animal
,
Vegetable
le
Febure
After
that
the
Artist
hath
performed
the
Chymical
resolution
of
Bodies
,
he
doth
find
at
last
Five
Substances
,
which
Chymistry
admits
for
the
Principles
or
Elements
of
Natural
Bodies
,
whereupon
are
founded
the
Grounds
of
its
Doctrin
,
because
in
either
of
th●se
nothing
Heterogeneous
can
be
found
The
watery
part
,
which
they
term
The
Spirit
,
termed
also
viz.
Salt
Five
Principles
Four
humors
Five
Principles
Five
Principles
damnable
Rule
of
Contraries
Naturae
sunt
Morborum
Medicatrices
Hot
,
Cold.
&c.
Qualities
,
Temperaments
Seminal
,
and
Specifick
Power
Naturae
sunt
Morborum
Med●catrices
Seminal
Causes
Elements
,
Qualities
,
Contrarieties
,
Mixtures
,
Humors
,
Internal
Seminal
Principles
manner
of
their
Production
Causes
of
Adaptation
Affinities
,
Consents
,
Diversifications
Improvement
of
Medicinal
Inventions
second
Qualities
Epilepsies
,
Convulsions
Agues
,
Gouts
each
part
First
Digestion
Felleous
liquor
Fourth
Concoction
Fifth
Concoction
sixth
Digestion
Master
Ferment
Successive
Digestions
subserving
Ferments
second
Digestion
Felleous
liquor
Salt
,
Sulphur
Fermental
Action
Aristotle
,
Galen
,
Avicen
Spirituous
Liquors
Alimentary
Juice
pro
varid
cujusque
partis
Temperie
,
ac
Fermenti
in
ipsd
peculiaris
ratione
,
according
to
the
various
Temper
of
every
Part
,
and
the
nature
of
the
Ferment
which
is
peculiar
thereto
.
the
Corruption
of
the
best
is
the
worst
(
i.
e.
Experim
.
ph●●os
.
pa●●
That
he
who
throughly
understands
the
nature
of
Ferments
and
Fermentations
,
stall
probably
be
much
better
able
than
he
that
ignores
them
,
to
give
a
fair
Account
of
divers
of
several
Diseases
(
as
well
Fevers
,
as
others
)
which
will
perhaps
never
be
throughly
understood
,
without
an
Insight
in
the
Doctrin
about
Ferments
.
Notion
of
Diseases
in
general
excess
of
Quality
real
substantial
thing
Vital
Spirit
Occasional
Causes
Active
forcible
Spirit
Acrimonius
,
Bitter
,
Austere
,
Acid
,
Qualities
,
Temperaments
Diseases
sometimes
are
cured
by
Accident
if
they
be
inclinable
to
be
consumed
and
resolved
of
their
own
Accord
;
but
those
which
have
fixed
roots
doe
elude
and
scorn
whereupon
through
want
of
Remedy
they
become
incurable
Diseases
;
for
,
a
Remedy
ought
to
respect
that
Instrument
of
the
Soul
called
the
Of
the
Vital
Spirit
de
Ortu
Rerum
,
l.
Luminous
Air
De
Ahd●t
.
rer
.
Caus
.
l.
The
proper
signification
of
in
all
Languages
;
and
whereas
Wind
is
very
powerful
,
and
effecteth
wonderfull
things
,
and
is
not
to
be
seen
by
our
eyes
,
it
hath
so
fallen
out
through
a
kind
of
affinity
and
similitude
,
that
the
name
of
is
transferr'd
unto
every
thing
which
falls
not
under
our
sight
,
whether
it
be
corporeal
,
or
Incorporeal
.
Hence
it
is
,
that
the
substance
which
is
in
Us
,
very
like
to
subtile
Air
,
undergoes
the
Appellation
of
But
it
is
somewhat
of
a
nature
differing
from
Body
and
Humors
,
which
somewhat
of
an
impetuous
force
,
not
from
the
tenuity
of
its
substance
,
but
because
it
hath
a
great
power
of
incursion
,
like
So
far
therefore
as
it
excites
those
impetuous
Motions
,
it
is
understood
to
have
some
affinity
with
the
Nature
of
a
Body
;
but
in
asmuch
as
it
cannot
be
seen
,
it
draws
near
to
an
Incorporeal
Substance
;
whereby
it
comes
to
pass
,
that
it
is
of
a
middle
nature
betwixt
them
,
and
partakes
of
both
.
This
is
the
Vehicle
and
proper
seat
of
the
Soul
and
all
its
faculties
,
which
perhaps
you
may
properly
call
their
Body
:
for
so
the
Platonists
of
old
said
,
that
a
certain
Body
of
an
excellent
nature
,
Perlucid
and
Ethereal
,
is
subserving
to
the
Soul
and
its
faculties
,
to
the
end
that
they
may
be
United
with
the
Earthy
and
gross
Body
.
Nature
which
is
in
that
Spirit
,
hath
obtained
a
condition
more
excellent
and
more
divine
than
that
of
Spirit
.
it
must
needs
be
a
Thing
different
from
the
Temperament
of
the
body
,
and
be
constituted
above
the
nature
of
a
Temperament
,
seeing
it
is
the
Author
of
life
and
all
the
Functions
.
The
heat
which
is
in
this
Spirit
is
not
of
the
common
sort
,
but
plainly
Divine
and
Heavenly
,
like
the
light
or
heat
of
the
Sun.
a
kind
of
Ethereal
Body
,
elaborated
out
of
the
purest
part
of
the
bloud
,
and
changed
into
the
Substance
of
a
very
subtile
Air
,
and
it
is
the
prime
Instrument
of
the
Soul
,
for
performance
of
all
its
Functions
.
Eu●q
.
Spiritum
Causam
Continentem
dixere
.
Charmide
,
Ubi
eleganter
demonstrat
omnes
morbos
ex
animo
nasci
,
where
he
elegantly
demonstrates
,
that
all
Diseases
have
their
original
in
this
that
a
Disease
first
hurts
the
Faculty
,
afterwards
the
Action
or
Function
.
we
understand
nothing
else
but
the
substance
of
the
parts
which
are
animated
Qualities
,
Temperaments
,
Humors
de
Abd.
rer.
Caus
.
lib
Fernelius
)
a
hard
matter
to
number
up
the
sorts
of
Functions
which
are
beyond
the
powers
of
Elements
,
and
which
doe
in
no
wise
belong
unto
their
Temperaments
.
Occult
Qualities
,
Proprieties
Occult
Diseases
that
all
the
Effects
and
Operations
in
this
visible
world
have
a
dependence
upon
the
invisible
Corpuscles
,
Atoms
,
Effluviums
venemous
disposition
De
Ab●rer
.
Caus
.
lib
proceeding
from
a
more
hidden
Cause
,
whith
is
above
the
condition
of
Elements
;
and
works
not
upon
the
Temperament
,
but
upon
the
whole
Habit
of
the
Body
.
Verminous
,
Venereous
Methodical
Physicians
Critical
Daies
Ludere
Par
Impar
,
Even
and
odd
,
even
daies
and
odd
daies
H●urnius
in
Hippoc.
Progn
changing
of
the
Disease
to
a
contrary
state
,
to
life
or
to
death
Critical
daies
Two
hundredth
Judicatory
day
of
Crisis
odd
day
odd
number
even
number
Book
De
Morbis
tis
deadly
odd
day
even
daies
Epist.
〈◊〉
Joannes
Langius
Critical
dayes
ed
▪
●
,
de
Febr
,
na●u●â
.
that
he
undertook
,
without
Blooding
,
and
with
allowing
the
Patient
Wine
,
to
remove
a
Fever
in
F●ur
days
time
,
by
the
help
of
Diaphoretick
Preparations
;
and
that
he
thought
any
man
unworthy
the
name
of
a
Physician
that
cannot
do
the
like
.
Four
daies
Safe
Doctors
Gascoins
Pouder
,
Magisterie
of
Perle
,
Bezoar
Blistring
,
Cupping
even
and
odd
gamsters
Critical
daies
.
Hippocrates
innate
propriety
Hippocr
.
lib.
Septenary
is
as
it
were
the
Law
of
Nature
,
after
the
example
whereof
all
things
are
dispensed
viz.
Aristotle
Ternary
is
as
it
were
the
Law
of
Nature
,
whereby
all
natural
things
are
disposed
.
man's
life
is
dispensed
by
sevens
.
necessity
of
Nature
Critical
daies
although
number
be
not
a
substance
,
yet
it
hath
a
substantial
effect
upon
things
from
a
cause
unknown
to
us
:
ignotum
per
ignotius
decernere
Critical
daies
the
Motion
of
the
Melancholick
Humor
,
Med.
Princ.
hist.
lib.
Cartagena
,
de
sign
.
dier
.
Decret.
c.
Musical
Notions
,
the
Concent
,
and
proportions
of
numbers
;
and
as
among
those
Numbers
some
are
Dissonant
,
and
others
Consonant
,
so
it
happens
in
daies
of
sickness
disagreement
which
they
have
therewith
do
stir
up
Nature
to
a
Contention
;
but
the
daies
Consonant
to
the
First
day
,
by
reason
of
the
likeness
which
they
have
therewith
,
are
disposed
to
quiet
,
and
so
do
not
provoke
Nature
to
a
Contest
,
and
by
consequence
do
not
stirr
up
a
Crisis
.
one
Absurdity
begets
a
Thousand
Critical
daies
Critical
daies
mere
Figment
Critical
:
For
,
in
no
day
because
it
is
even
or
odd
,
is
there
any
danger
more
or
less
.
Critical
daies
Med.
Pri.
Hist.
l.
Critical
daies
de
Re
〈◊〉
.
cap.
Hippocrates
,
if
a
Fever
abated
upon
any
day
b●sides
a
Critical
,
was
wont
to
fear
a
Return
or
Relapse
.
But
lived
in
the
time
of
the
great
did
justly
repudiate
this
as
vain
,
and
said
,
there
is
in
no
day
,
because
it
is
even
or
odd
,
any
danger
,
more
or
less
.
For
,
sometimes
the
odd
daies
become
the
worser
.
Sometimes
also
in
the
Disease
it self
the
Course
of
daies
is
changed
,
and
that
day
becomes
more
grievous
which
was
wont
to
be
the
calmer
:
Moreover
,
the
Fourteenth
day
it self
is
an
even
day
,
upon
which
the
Antients
did
lay
so
great
a
stress
.
Who
when
they
contended
that
the
eighth
day
hath
the
same
Nature
with
the
First
day
,
so
that
the
Second
Septenary
or
Number
Seven
ought
to
begin
from
thence
,
did
thereby
contradict
themselves
,
in
not
reckoning
the
Eighth
,
nor
the
Tenth
,
nor
the
Twelfth
day
,
as
the
more
powerful
;
for
,
they
attributed
more
to
the
Ninth
,
and
the
Eleventh
.
Which
when
they
had
done
without
any
probable
reason
,
they
passed
from
the
Eleventh
,
not
to
the
Thirteenth
,
but
to
the
Fourteenth
.
We
find
also
in
that
the
Fourth
day
is
reckoned
most
grievous
when
the
Patient
is
like
to
have
his
Critical
Deliverance
on
the
Seventh
.
So
also
he
saith
,
that
upon
an
odd
day
,
the
Fever
may
be
both
more
grievous
,
and
a
certain
sign
of
what
is
to
come
.
And
in
another
place
,
he
apprehends
every
Fourth
day
as
most
efficacious
in
both
respects
,
that
is
to
say
,
the
Fourth
,
the
Seventh
,
the
Eleventh
,
the
Fourteenth
,
and
the
Seventeenth
,
whereby
he
passeth
from
odd
to
the
account
of
Even
.
And
yet
here
he
holds
not
firm
to
himself
,
forasmuch
as
the
Eleventh
day
computed
from
the
Seventh
,
is
not
the
Fourth
day
but
the
Fifth
.
So
it
appears
,
that
which
way
soever
we
count
upon
number
,
there
is
nothing
of
reason
to
be
found
in
that
Author
.
Critical
daies
Baldwin
Ronsseus
De
Febr.
cap.
critical
evacuations
are
determined
only
by
a
turgescencie
of
the
adust
matter
Contravers
.
M●d.
&
Philosoph
.
l●b
.
For
,
if
in
a
Disease
which
ought
to
be
determined
on
the
seventh
day
,
you
draw
away
,
or
add
but
a
little
matter
,
you
may
cause
the
Crisis
to
fall
on
the
sixth
or
eigth
day
:
Wherefore
seeing
proportion
may
be
alter'd
in
each
Constitution
,
or
in
any
Disease
,
it
is
impossible
to
six
the
same
Critical
daies
for
all
Fevers
,
and
Natures
,
and
Countries
,
and
Ages
,
and
Seasons
.
Critical
daies
In
these
Countries
,
Crises
do
seldom
fall
out
,
both
because
of
the
Coldness
of
our
Air
,
and
because
our
Physicians
being
furnished
with
more
benign
Purgers
,
do
happily
drain
away
the
matter
of
the
Disease
by
gradua●
gentle
Purgation
,
and
so
they
ca●ry
off
the
Cause
of
the
Crisis
.
De
Tempore
:
I
have
alwaies
observed
with
diligence
,
that
there
is
never
any
Crisis
at
all
,
where
the
Physician
being
Master
of
his
Art
,
knows
how
to
take
away
the
Disease
before
the
usual
time
of
the
Crisis
is
come
:
For
,
as
nature
enjoyeth
ordinary
Motions
,
and
is
accustomed
to
them
,
and
is
readily
governed
by
the
unity
of
the
Motive
Faculty
,
so
when
the
whole
Business
of
a
Disease
rests
only
upon
her
shoulders
,
she
endeavors
at
some
times
to
stir
up
a
Crisis
,
which
otherwise
the
goodness
,
or
the
badness
of
a
Medicin
or
manner
of
curing
doth
anticipate
,
retard
,
or
destroy
.
By
this
means
fo●sooth
sometimes
the
Crisi●
that
was
expected
on
the
Fourteenth
day
is
prolonged
till
the
Fortieth
.
It
is
the
part
therefore
of
a
good
and
faithfull
Physician
,
not
to
give
any
regard
to
Crises
;
and
it
were
better
for
the
Patient
to
have
been
without
a
Physician
,
if
he
be
cu●ed
by
a
Crisis
;
and
so
much
the
more
,
if
his
Crisis
were
slower
.
But
to
what
purpose
is
so
great
a
Catalogue
of
Critical
daies
?
s●eing
it
behoves
a
Physician
to
be
so
armed
,
as
to
be
able
to
●ame
a
dangerous
Disease
,
and
shorten
a
long
one
that
is
,
extirpate
it
betimes
,
that
it
may
not
be
delayed
in
expectation
of
a
Crisis
.
A
good
Physician
ought
n●t
to
regard
Crises
,
but
rather
to
prevent
them
.
For
,
Nature
never
intends
a
Crisis
,
unless
it
be
when
she
is
left
to
shift
for
her self
,
and
to
bear
the
whole
burthen
alone
.
Therefore
a
true
Physician
ought
to
overcome
the
Disease
before
the
usuall
Time
of
Crisis
,
and
so
he
neither
expects
,
nor
desires
it
.
Critical
daies
Acute
Diseases
Spaniard
Per●da
Greg.
Horst
.
I●stit
.
Med.
Disput.
Conciliator
D●ff●r
viz.
Petrus
Aponensis
Efficient
Cause
Ten
simple
Pulses
Cause
Efficient
Ten
Primary
Differences
in
Infinitum
reliquas
Pulsuum
Differentias
prudens
omitto
,
I
think
it
prudence
to
omit
the
rest
.
Fundamentals
of
Physick
Fundamenta
Med.
cap.
they
are
in
a
manner
inobservable
,
and
the
nature
of
Pulses
may
be
understood
well
enough
without
them
.
Sylvius
de
le
Boe
Disput.
Med.
De
vulgi
Erroribus
,
l.
above
two
Thousand
differences
.
The
very
Names
of
which
alone
if
many
should
hear
them
,
they
would
immediately
renounce
the
touching
of
Pulses
;
for
,
they
would
amaze
and
terrifie
the
ignorant
,
no
less
than
if
they
were
so
many
Magical
Spels
.
Doctrin
of
Pulses
that
the
Observations
which
concern
the
practise
of
that
Doctrin
,
were
either
ill
made
,
or
not
well
digested
into
Method
,
that
Method
which
is
deliver'd
by
most
,
seeming
more
Emperical
than
Rational
,
Of
old
,
the
differences
of
Urines
were
recited
as
they
are
wont
to
be
variously
distinguished
,
according
to
their
Then
,
to
the
several
kinds
of
these
they
affix
Pathological
significations
,
collected
only
out
of
more
ra●●
Observations
;
while
in
the
mean
ti●e
the
causes
of
the
or
Preternatural
Alterations
in
Urines
,
are
not
assigned
a●
they
ought
to
have
been
;
nor
is
the
signification
of
Urines
,
applied
to
the
Causes
of
Diseases
,
but
only
to
the
Disease
,
or
the
Symptom
,
and
therefore
is
oftentimes
fallaciou●
and
uncertain
;
because
the
same
Morbisick
Cause
,
as
also
the
signification
of
the
sam●
Urine
,
may
at
once
mediately
respect
dive●●
Diseases
and
Symptoms
.
And
therefore
●●
is
necessary
,
that
a
Doctrin
or
Method
about
Urines
be
instituted
,
above
the
vulgar
Notions
of
Philosophy
.
Caput
Mortuum
five
Chymical
Principles
paler
Urines
high
colour'd
Contents
of
resolve
them
by
Putrefaction
Salty
Principle
Colour
,
Scent
A
brief
censure
of
Jo.
Langius
fallere
ac
falli
nescius
sub
magni
nominis
umbrâ
A
Censure
of
the
Aphorisms
of
second
Book
Critical
daies
Acute
Diseases
Swoundings
or
Faintings
&
Lippis
&
Tonsoribus
not
a
,
i.
e.
Dog-daies
.
white
Hellebore
,
&c.
in
what
part
soever
most
Sweat
doth
appear
,
there
is
the
seat
of
the
Disease
.
that
the
part
where
cold
or
heat
is
first
perceived
,
is
the
seat
of
the
Disease
.
that
if
Cold
and
Heat
by
Turns
,
frequently
invade
the
body
,
it
argues
the
Disease
will
be
of
long
continuance
:
Critical
daies
Platonick
year
Meth.
vitand
.
Error
l.
that
if
a
woman
take
honey'd
water
,
going
to
bed
,
and
find
wringing
pains
thereupon
in
her
Belly
;
it
is
an
Argument
that
she
hath
conceived
with
Child
:
If
no
pains
,
then
,
that
she
is
not
with
Child
:
Aphorism
;
yet
I
have
often
tried
the
Experiment
,
but
could
not
observe
any
such
Pains
ensuing
.
He
denies
that
an
odoriferous
Fume
received
by
the
genitals
of
a
woman
,
will
,
if
she
be
not
with
child
,
always
penetrate
up
inwardly
to
the
Nose
because
the
passages
of
the
Womb
may
be
closed
not
only
by
a
Conception
,
but
by
a
false
Conception
,
by
suppressed
Menstruals
,
by
Fat
,
by
Tumors
,
and
by
six
hundred
other
Causes
,
as
we
know
by
Experience
.
—
if
a
woman
with
child
hath
conceived
a
Male
,
She
is
lively
coloured
in
the
face
,
if
a
Female
,
then
ill-coloured
:
For
,
who
can
defend
this
Aphorism
to
be
alwaies
true
?
How
many
women
have
we
seen
ill-coloured
,
being
great
with
a
Male
,
and
well-colour'd
with
a
Female
?
In
the
Aphorism
likewise
of
the
sixth
Book
,
if
a
woman
with
Child
be
taken
with
an
acute
Disease
,
it
is
deadly
;
who
can
defend
this
to
me
,
who
have
seen
women
sometimes
seized
with
acute
,
and
very
acute
Diseases
,
and
yet
they
have
escaped
?
Moreover
,
in
the
Aph.
of
the
fourth
book
,
it
is
said
,
that
sandy
setlings
of
urine
be
token
the
Stone
in
the
bladder
:
No
man
of
understanding
would
maintain
this
,
seeing
such
urines
have
been
very
often
observed
,
without
suspicion
of
the
Stone
.
In
like
manner
in
the
Aphorism
of
the
fourth
Book
,
it
is
said
,
They
whose
urines
appear
troubled
like
the
urines
of
Beasts
,
either
have
pains
in
the
head
,
or
shall
have
;
and
yet
we
have
seen
many
sick
have
such
urines
,
who
never
had
a
pain
in
the
head
throughout
all
the
time
of
their
sickness
.
how
the
sentences
of
are
of
eternal
verity
!
Galen
that
though
they
be
not
all
,
yet
they
are
for
the
most
part
true
that
if
the
the
Kall
slip
out
,
it
necessarily
putrefies
though
it
fall
out
otherwise
,
yet
it
is
in
a
great
part
true
.
But
Sanctorius
)
consider
the
words
of
well
which
follow
when
this
Aphorism
and
the
rest
of
them
are
said
to
be
of
eternal
verily
,
it
is
to
be
understood
in
a
Figurative
form
of
speech
that
they
are
so
,
though
the
very
things
do
not
come
to
pass
:
Figurative
Sence
real
Sence
Eternal
Verily
Agitur
de
Corio
Humano
For
ease
to
the
memory
pub●ished
them
in
verse
both
A
Censure
of
the
Prognosticks
of
that
they
are
most
absolute
,
and
full
of
Divine
Oracles
,
and
never
reprehended
in
the
current
of
so
many
Ages
Common
Places
If
Nose
be
sharp
,
Eyes
hollow
,
Temples
fallen
,
Ears
cold
and
contracted
,
Skin
dried
,
Colour
pale
,
black
,
or
leaden
,
it
is
a
dangerous
state
,
excess
of
Venery
Traveling
,
Study
fourth
Text
in
acute
Diseases
a
cold
Breath
is
easie
breathing
portends
good
,
but
short
breathing
,
and
great
breathing
,
pain
and
inflammation
in
the
Brest
,
Scorbutick
Fevers
cold
Sweats
partial
or
imperfect
Sweats
,
are
bad
:
acute
ones
if
the
Head
,
Hands
,
and
Feet
grow
cold
,
while
the
middle
parts
burn
,
tis
ill
,
and
that
it
is
best
,
that
the
whole
Bodie
should
be
warm
and
soft
.
—
blue
or
livid
Hands
and
Feet
be
token
Death
,
and
that
it
is
not
so
bad
,
if
they
be
black
,
that
if
the
Patient
happen
to
escape
with
life
,
yet
the
parts
blackish
will
gangrene
,
tis
good
,
if
the
Patient
can
turn
and
rouse
himself
cheerfully
;
but
dangerous
,
if
he
be
sluggish
.
—
divine
as
it
were
by
a
Magical
glass
Vomitings
,
Spittings
,
Expectorations
Purulent
Persons
an
eruption
of
Bloud
by
the
Nose
Critical
days
Head-ach
in
Fevers
If
the
Disease
begin
with
Head-ach
,
the
Patient
becomes
more
afflicted
the
day
than
on
the
but
is
better
again
on
the
if
the
Head
begin
to
ake
on
the
third
day
of
the
Fever
,
then
the
Patient
will
be
most
afflicted
on
the
but
will
be
freed
from
the
Disease
on
the
or
on
the
if
the
Head
begin
to
ake
on
the
day
then
expect
a
Crisis
on
the
Continual
Fevers
Exquisite
Tertians
our
great
Master
Predictions
concerning
such
Diseases
are
uncertain
.
second
Aphorism
according
as
a
Country
is
hot
,
cold
,
moist
,
dry
,
or
windy
,
and
according
to
the
manner
of
feeding
used
therein
,
so
mens
bodies
will
abound
with
various
Juices
second
Aphorism
Novum
Organ
.
Aph.
De
vi●ndis
error
.
lib
that
sometimes
they
are
not
true
he
hath
Exper.
Phil.
part
a
great
respect
for
and
were
it
not
for
that
,
he
should
venture
to
say
,
that
some
of
those
rigid
Laws
of
(
whose
severity
made
men
say
they
were
written
in
Bloud
)
did
perhaps
cost
fewer
persons
their
lives
,
than
that
one
Aphorism
of
which
saith
,
that
for
,
it
hath
for
divers
Ages
prevailed
with
great
numbers
of
Physicians
,
to
suffer
multitudes
of
their
Female
Patients
to
die
under
their
hands
,
who
might
probably
have
been
rescued
by
a
discreet
Phlebotomy
,
which
Experience
hath
assured
us
(
whatever
the
close
of
the
Hippocr
.
Aph.
Aphorism
saith
to
the
contrary
)
to
have
been
sometimes
not
only
safely
,
but
usefully
employed
,
even
when
the
Infant
is
grown
pretty
big
.
By
neglect
of
this
,
numbers
of
Teeming
women
have
been
sufler'd
to
perish
,
who
might
probably
,
by
a
seasonable
loss
of
some
of
their
bloud
,
have
prevented
that
of
their
Lives
.
:
For
Ibid
p.
That
in
Acute
Diseases
,
Persons
given
over
by
Physicians
may
recover
,
the
more
judicious
even
of
those
Galenists
that
are
of
a
despondent
temper
will
not
deny
:
For
,
not
only
gives
us
this
sober
admonition
but
even
himself
,
who
was
so
skilful
in
Prognosticks
And
even
in
Chronical
Diseases
,
where
Events
are
wont
much
better
to
answer
Physcians
Predictions
,
there
are
sometimes
such
Cures
performed
,
as
may
encourage
humane
industry
,
and
keep
a
sick
mans
Friends
from
forsaking
the
Cure
of
him
.
For
,
it
hath
been
often
seen
,
that
divers
persons
given
over
by
some
Physicians
,
have
been
cured
by
others
,
perchance
more
lucky
than
more
skilful
,
by
the
use
of
extraordinary
,
powerful
,
and
especially
Chymical
Physick
.
Ibid
Essay
viz.
That
the
Prognosticks
hitherto
current
in
Authors
,
and
commonly
made
by
Physicians
,
do
suppose
the
use
of
the
Received
Remedies
,
and
of
the
Dogmatical
Method
of
Physick
;
but
if
there
were
discovered
such
generous
commanding
Medicins
,
as
by
powerfully
assisting
Nature
,
or
by
nimbly
proscribing
the
Morbifick
Matter
,
might
enable
Nature
to
hinder
the
Disease
from
continuing
its
Course
,
and
acting
its
Tragedies
in
the
Body
,
then
Physicians
would
not
need
in
Acute
Diseases
to
wait
so
long
for
a
to
instruct
their
Prognosticks
Critical
Solutions
Acute
Diseases
Chronick
Diseases
new
Medicins
new
Methods
Marasmus
.
Lo
then
De
vitan
.
err
.
l.
Sanctorius
)
how
those
Medical
precepts
are
often
apt
to
deceive
us
,
if
they
be
not
discreetly
heeded
!
that
seeing
hath
erred
,
if
he
speak
contrary
to
our
Sences
,
why
should
we
not
reject
him
?
and
forasmuch
as
he
is
neither
an
Allie
,
nor
Kinsman
of
mine
,
nor
Uncle
to
any
of
my
Ancestors
,
that
I
know
of
,
nor
Canonised
in
the
catalogue
of
Saints
,
as
one
that
had
been
by
Divine
power
inspired
,
I
see
no
reason
why
we
may
not
all
honorably
relinquish
him
.
who
had
rather
derogate
from
their
own
Sences
,
than
from
and
who
mortally
hate
and
rail
against
such
as
would
debate
things
mith
freedom
.
Jacobus
Sylvius
a
filthy
Sink
,
a
rude
indigested
heap
of
stuff
,
a
Monster
of
ignorance
,
ingratitude
,
and
arrogance
De
Tremore
&
P●lpitatione
Trembling
is
an
involuntary
Motion
of
the
parts
Tremblers
have
not
Motion
without
the
Command
of
the
Will.
De
Febr.
Diff.
cap.
a
Semitertian
is
of
the
number
of
Continual
Fevers
.
in
Comm.
in
lib.
Epid.
cap.
De
Typis
that
a
Semitertian
is
not
alwaies
Continual
,
but
somtimes
Intermitting
.
Method
.
Med.
Splene
is
nourished
with
the
grossest
blood
,
much
more
gross
than
that
with
which
the
Liver
is
nourished
:
De
usu
Part.
that
the
bodie
of
the
Splene
being
finer
than
the
Liver
,
and
thicker
than
the
Lungs
,
it
is
deservedly
nourished
with
the
finer
part
of
the
bloud
.
Serous
and
thin
humors
you
are
to
purge
in
the
beginning
,
but
in
gross
and
viscous
humors
you
are
to
expect
concoction
.
that
all
thin
humors
Ex
Comment.
in
lib.
Epid.
cap.
are
crude
;
which
Assertion
he
in
many
places
opposeth
,
that
all
crude
humors
ought
to
be
concocted
before
they
be
evacuated
Prognosticks
,
cap.
Children
concoct
all
things
very
speedily
,
by
reason
of
the
strength
of
the
Alterative
power
,
which
is
stronger
in
them
than
in
young
men
.
in
lib.
Epid.
cap.
Comment.
in
Prognost
.
cap.
Aphorism
,
lib.
Dispositions
of
Children
are
very
quickly
alter'd
,
as
well
through
the
moistness
of
their
Bodies
,
as
by
reason
of
the
weakness
of
their
natural
Power
.
in
lib.
Epid.
cap.
in
lib.
de
Symptom
.
Caus
De
Locis
Affectis
,
cap.
Aph.
lib.
De
Simpl.
Med.
Fac.
cap.
in
lib.
De
Rat.
Vict.
in
Morb.
acut
.
cap.
on
Aph.
that
water
in
lib.
De
Rat.
Vict.
in
Morb.
Acut.
cap.
De
Simpl
,
Med.
Fac.
cap.
in
lib.
Meth.
Med.
De
Opt.
Sectâ
preternatural
Tumor
with
pain
,
not
apt
to
be
compressed
,
but
hard
,
and
hot
.
in
Comment.
in
lib.
Epid.
cap.
but
that
it
yields
to
compression
,
after
the
manner
of
skins
or
bladders
fild
with
water
or
wind
.
de
Locis
Affect
.
cap.
in
Aph.
Epid.
cap.
Comment
in
Aph.
&
lib.
Natural
Faculties
Iliack
Passion
,
do
void
their
Ordure
upwards
by
vomit
.
nothing
contained
in
the
guts
can
be
voided
by
vomiting
.
the
Prologue
to
the
Play
De
V●ct.
Rat.
in
Morb.
ac
De
Sympt
.
Caus
.
ca.
Scorbutick
Ferment
Balsamy
Part
Greg.
Horstius
Scorbutick
persons
De
Mo●b
.
Contag
.
lib.
their
blood
is
crude
and
Ichorous
,
apt
to
taint
and
corrupt
all
the
Alimentary
Juice
which
is
daily
added
to
it
,
because
of
an
impure
Tartar
,
endued
with
Vitriolate
and
Aluminous
qualities
,
diluted
and
united
with
the
Mass
of
bloud
:
De
Ferment
.
&
Febr.
Fevers
,
Chap.
a
sweet
,
Spirituous
and
balsamick
Nature
,
Sulphur
and
Spirit
de
Febr.
ca
Volatile
Salt
vapid
,
flat
and
dead
Balsamick
Sulphureous
and
Spirituous
De
Ferment
De
Febr.
cap.
Pleurisie
,
pestilent
Fevers
,
small
Pox
,
de
Febr.
&
ca.
Quinsie
,
Inflammation
of
the
Lungs
,
Dysenterie
,
Coagulation
or
Congelation
that
the
Chyle
being
imported
into
the
Subclavian
Veines
,
and
from
them
into
the
and
thence
immediately
disembogued
into
the
right
Ventricle
of
the
heart
,
is
there
converted
into
a
liquor
of
a
different
Nature
,
Bloud
,
by
a
kind
of
exaltation
of
its
Nature
,
or
an
advance
of
those
natural
Spirits
which
it
containeth
,
into
vital
or
more
sublimed
and
active
ones
.
By
this
,
the
Liver
is
deposed
from
the
office
of
Sanguification
;
and
Dr
Gener.
Anim.
Exercit.
the
Liver
borroweth
its
heat
and
colour
from
the
Bloud
;
but
not
the
Bloud
from
the
Liver
.
the
Chyle
makes
but
a
short
stay
in
the
heart
,
but
remains
constantly
commixed
with
the
Bloud
,
untill
it
be
thereto
perfectly
assimilated
.
The
bloud
flowing
in
the
heart
,
Arteries
,
and
Veines
,
doth
in
quantity
at
least
ten
times
exceed
the
Chyle
of
one
Meal
,
and
in
strength
or
activity
an
hundred
(
for
,
what
is
more
potent
than
that
Spirit
which
enliveneth
the
whole
Bodie
;
what
more
soft
,
gentle
,
and
more
easily
superable
than
Chyle
?
)
and
therefore
no
doubt
but
the
Bloud
doth
easily
obtain
Victory
over
the
Chyle
,
and
over-run
it
with
his
own
nature
.
Lib.
De
Febr.
ca.
the
Alimentary
Juice
which
is
supplied
out
of
our
daily
Food
,
comes
crude
;
but
being
commixed
with
the
Bloud
,
and
circulated
with
it
,
is
assimilated
thereto
:
Andreas
Caesalpinus
,
Conringius
,
Thomas
Bartholinus
,
Vesalius
,
five
Particulars
Scorbutick
Tincture
acid
Serum
Greg.
Horstius
Med.
Obser.
lib.
Zacutus
Lus
It
cannot
be
amiss
here
to
recite
what
is
said
by
in
his
touching
the
Bloud
of
the
and
of
the
which
is
most
worthy
to
be
known
and
noted
,
That
in
the
bodies
of
there
abounds
a
bloud
thick
,
succulent
,
and
compact
,
so
that
if
they
be
seized
by
a
Continual
Fever
,
they
all
die
,
unless
there
intervene
a
large
letting
out
of
bloud
.
On
the
contrary
,
the
bodies
of
the
are
filled
with
bloud
crude
,
watery
,
and
not
very
firm
or
compact
.
If
in
Fevers
the
bloud
which
is
drawn
from
a
be
fluid
and
watery
,
so
that
it
do
not
thicken
with
standing
,
it
is
an
undoubted
sign
,
known
even
to
Idiots
,
that
they
all
die
,
because
the
Fibres
of
the
bloud
are
corrupt
and
dissolved
:
But
in
not
only
in
malignant
Fevers
,
but
even
in
the
lesser
Diseases
,
and
sickly
persons
,
the
bloud
,
though
fluid
and
watery
,
betokeneth
no
danger
.
Hereupon
it
comes
to
pass
,
that
the
do
hardly
bear
bloud-letting
,
especially
if
it
be
large
,
because
their
bloud
is
less
Spirituous
;
as
is
evident
by
experience
,
in
regard
,
that
if
we
in
health
be
let
bloud
,
merely
for
prevention
of
a
Disease
,
we
very
often
fall
into
grievous
Faintings
,
even
while
the
blood
is
flowing
:
Much
more
then
is
it
to
be
feared
in
Continual
Fevers
.
The
nature
of
the
differs
not
much
from
the
constitution
of
the
and
the
complexion
of
the
is
firy
,
so
that
they
may
have
greater
need
of
eventilation
by
bleeding
.
Wherefore
,
things
thus
standing
,
it
were
a
Physicians
best
course
to
use
providence
and
caution
in
this
matter
,
and
to
accommodate
his
counsel
according
to
the
diversity
of
Countries
,
Reason
and
Experience
shewing
him
the
way
.
acid
Serum
Crimson
liquor
Metb.
Med.
l
doth
perhaps
empty
that
vitious
humor
which
is
in
the
Veins
,
yet
not
sincere
or
mere
,
but
mingled
with
the
bloud
and
the
profitable
humor
:
But
Purgation
empties
that
only
which
is
vitious
and
offends
in
quality
,
leaving
the
profitable
behind
in
the
Veines
,
unless
perchance
it
work
too
immoderately
.
Method
c
draw
bloud
,
even
to
Fainting
Collig
.
cap.
deleterious
venemous
Purgers
viz.
Thonerus
Observ.
Med.
lib
That
drawing
of
Bloud
is
dangerous
,
and
for
the
most
part
deadly
,
is
evident
in
Reason
:
For
,
whereas
the
Source
of
those
Fevers
springs
not
from
a
Plethorie
or
Fulness
,
but
from
ill
Juices
,
and
that
which
feeds
or
kindles
the
Disease
exists
in
a
putrefaction
and
corruption
of
serous
and
pituitous
Humors
,
frequently
mingled
with
such
as
are
ichorous
and
bilious
;
if
then
Bloud
be
let
,
the
Humors
become
the
more
unruly
and
confused
,
and
natural
strength
is
cast
down
by
a
resolution
of
the
vital
Spirits
,
which
not
being
strong
before
in
an
ill-habited
body
,
must
needs
be
unable
afterward
to
encounter
with
the
Disease
and
conquer
it
.
Add
moreover
that
the
Seminary
of
those
Fevers
being
for
the
most
part
setled
in
the
M●seraick
Veins
and
the
lesser
vessels
more
distant
from
the
heart
,
it
falls
out
thereupon
,
that
a
Vein
being
opened
,
the
more
laudable
bloud
flows
out
first
;
afterward
follows
that
which
is
much
worse
,
and
so
by
reason
of
vacuity
,
to
preserve
a
continuation
of
the
stream
,
the
vitious
humors
being
called
away
from
the
remoter
or
remotest
parts
,
and
brought
nearer
to
the
heart
,
cause
much
detriment
and
danger
.
And
when
there
is
Malignity
in
those
Fevers
,
they
have
much
more
need
of
good
Cordials
so
fitted
as
to
infringe
it
,
and
discuss
the
or
Malign
Inquination
of
blood
and
humors
.
It
is
witnessed
by
Experience
,
that
many
persons
who
have
drawn
bloud
to
prevent
Fevers
,
have
by
that
means
been
seized
thereby
,
some
examples
whereof
you
will
find
in
my
Observations
;
and
Physician
of
relateth
in
his
observations
,
that
he
knew
divers
of
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
,
who
having
no
Sence
of
any
Disease
likely
to
come
on
them
,
would
needs
be
let
bloud
for
security
,
but
within
few
daies
after
fell
into
a
Fever
,
and
died
.
For
my
own
part
I
have
by
long
experience
found
,
that
many
persons
seized
by
those
Fevers
,
from
whom
bloud
hath
been
drawn
by
advice
of
principal
Physicians
,
have
thereby
been
sent
packing
to
their
Graves
,
although
their
bodies
,
as
to
outward
appearance
,
have
seemed
Sanguine
and
Plethorick
.
Thereupon
,
I
being
afraid
to
follow
their
steps
,
do
very
rarely
give
order
for
or
encourage
the
opening
of
a
Vein
.
And
it
hath
very
often
been
no
small
matter
of
wonder
to
me
,
that
forein
Physicians
,
both
are
so
profuse
in
letting
bloud
,
in
all
Continual
Fevers
without
distinction
.
Of
late
,
four
of
which
three
were
Barons
,
being
at
fell
into
a
Fever
,
and
were
blouded
several
times
,
after
the
fashion
of
that
place
;
the
three
Barons
died
,
but
the
fourth
man
escaped
,
though
less
strong
of
constitution
than
the
other
.
De
Febr.
cap.
by
which
the
Sick
are
miserably
tormented
,
and
the
Disease
seldom
removed
,
so
that
this
Disease
is
deservedly
called
the
shame
and
Reproach
of
Physicians
.
an
ill
disposition
of
bloud
,
acrimonious
,
and
bilious
,
so
that
it
doth
not
rightly
transmute
and
assimilate
the
new
Chyle
or
Nutrimental
Juice
which
is
continually
supplied
,
so
as
to
make
good
bloud
of
it
,
but
turns
it
into
an
ill
Fermentative
matter
:
an
adust
degenerated
Sulphur
a
sharp
acidity
a
Fortiori
slow
continual
Fever
Preliminary
Point
vapid
,
flat
,
insipid
,
dead
state
of
the
Bloud
.
letting
bloud
flat
and
dead
a
grain
of
Salt
Fermental
Venoms
a
sorrowful
Frame
of
Heart
De
F●br
.
Cap.
so
that
its
whole
Mass
being
too
much
diluted
with
crude
Humor
,
becomes
more
watery
,
and
the
less
Spirituous
;
by
which
means
men
are
rendred
sluggish
,
and
unapt
for
motion
or
exercise
.
abstinence
,
hard
labors
,
and
Studies
,
Fastings
,
and
Watchings
the
vital
Spirit
being
very
much
evaporated
,
the
Mass
of
bloud
doth
begin
as
it
were
to
grow
vapid
,
that
Diseases
many
times
induce
such
a
Disposition
of
bloud
habitually
;
as
do
the
Scurvy
,
Jaundies
,
ill
habit
of
Body
,
long
Fevers
and
Agues
,
and
the
greatest
part
of
Chronick
Diseases
;
in
which
the
whole
Mass
of
bloud
,
passeth
from
a
Spirituous
nature
into
a
sharp
,
acid
,
or
austere
.
—
Scorbutick
Dispositions
fixed
Salt
native
Sulphur
Saline
principle
Scorbutick
Dispositions
Acute
Diseases
Continual
Fevers
coagulated
,
congeled
or
curdled
as
upon
the
opening
of
a
Veine
,
the
Bloud
that
is
drawn
forth
,
doth
by
a
spontaneous
Coagulation
,
and
separation
of
the
parts
from
each
other
,
imitate
the
various
substances
of
Curded
or
Turnd
Milk
;
so
sometimes
while
it
is
contained
within
the
Veines
and
Arteries
,
it
undergoes
just
such
another
mutation
by
Morbifick
Causes
,
as
Milk
doth
when
it
is
imbued
with
the
Runnet
;
by
which
means
the
bloud
being
Clogged
or
Hindred
in
its
circulation
,
or
in
some
places
congeled
and
setled
by
parcels
,
produceth
manifold
Distempers
Maligne
and
Pestilential
Fevers
second
Chapter
there
happens
a
preternatural
manner
of
effervescency
or
Ebullition
of
Bloud
,
which
induceth
such
an
Alteration
of
it
as
befalls
Milk
;
that
is
to
say
,
sometimes
there
is
induced
a
coagulation
of
that
Crimson
liquor
by
a
Morbifick
Cause
,
so
that
its
substance
being
turn'd
,
separateth
it Self
into
parts
,
and
a
secretion
is
made
of
the
gross
and
earthy
part
from
the
thin
:
by
which
means
the
bloud
is
not
so
readily
circulaeed
in
the
Vessels
,
but
that
portions
of
it
like
gelly
,
will
be
stagnant
and
clogging
in
the
way
,
to
the
causation
of
divers
Maligne
and
pestilent
Distempers
.
Maligne
Feavers
that
the
Maligne
Ferment
causeth
a
coagulation
of
the
bloud
by
parts
,
which
congeled
portions
cause
a
or
inward
Mortification
,
with
a
or
dejection
of
Spirits
small
Pox
the
bloud
being
Tainted
with
the
Ferment
of
the
small
Pox
is
apt
to
coagulate
;
and
that
the
prime
Intention
in
curing
them
is
,
that
the
motion
of
the
bloud
should
be
preserved
from
Stagnancy
,
and
that
the
congeled
or
gellied
venemous
portions
of
it
be
driven
out
toward
the
skin
small
Pox
Simple
Fulness
that
Nature
being
by
Bleeding
eased
of
part
of
t●e
hurden
of
Morbifick
matter
,
is
by
that
means
the
more
inabled
to
deal
with
the
Remainder
:
observ.
Med.
ubi
suprà
Joannes
Agricola
Parva
Chirurgia
letting
of
Bloud
in
a
Malignant
Fever
is
deadly
,
especially
if
it
be
delayed
twenty
four
hours
after
the
first
seisure
made
by
the
Disease
;
and
that
he
had
observed
above
a
hundred
destroyed
by
Bleeding
.
and
that
though
the
Veines
have
been
opened
at
the
very
first
,
yet
the
Fevers
were
thereby
the
more
exasperated
,
and
the
more
grievous
Symptoms
followed
;
for
,
the
Feverish
doth
not
consist
in
a
but
in
a
Fevers
which
shewed
themselves
with
spots
,
began
first
to
spread
in
and
though
they
began
the
cure
with
it
,
yet
they
all
died
that
had
a
Vein
opened
.
that
frequent
letting
of
Bloud
renders
men
more
apt
to
Fevers
,
wherefore
it
is
commonly
said
,
that
those
who
once
let
bloud
are
inclined
to
a
Fever
,
unless
they
do
the
same
every
year
.
more
largely
diffuseth
its
venom
are
seated
in
the
Animal
Spirits
,
or
in
that
Spirituous
subtile
liquor
which
is
abounding
in
the
Brain
,
the
Nerves
,
and
all
the
Nervous
parts
either
with
Fears
,
or
Griefs
:
Maligne
Fevers
venereous
exercises
,
Watchings
Humors
of
the
Mass
of
bloud
,
Scorbutick
Ferments
Fevers
in
general
Contagious
Fermenss
Alexipharmacal
Remedies
per
Diaphoresin
Menstruals
,
Haemorrhoids
Crimson
liquor
If
the
supply
of
the
Alimentary
Juice
be
not
congenerous
with
the
bloud
nor
assimilated
to
it
,
but
,
by
reason
of
a
defect
of
coction
,
is
wholy
diluted
into
a
crude
humor
,
sometimes
waterish
and
cold
,
sometimes
sharp
or
Salt
,
and
sometimes
acid
,
austere
,
and
degenerated
from
its
natural
state
after
one
manner
or
another
,
and
becomes
lyable
to
be
stagnant
,
defective
in
motion
,
or
subject
to
Feverish
Ebullitions
,
and
is
a
cause
of
Paroxysms
or
Fits
in
Agues
and
Fevers
.
third
Chapter
the
Esservescence
of
bloud
in
Agues
,
which
constitutes
the
Fit
,
depends
only
upon
the
non
assimilation
of
the
Alimentary
Juice
to
the
Bloud
;
and
that
the
said
Juice
daily
supplied
out
of
our
daily
Food
,
not
being
duly
digested
and
Sanguified
by
mixtion
with
the
old
Mass
,
doth
degenerate
into
watery
crude
humor
,
which
Nature
not
being
able
to
subdue
,
is
provoked
to
that
Feverish
disturbance
,
which
we
call
a
Fit
and
the
Returns
of
it
are
not
taken
off
,
till
the
offending
Juice
be
removed
out
of
the
Body
.
sixth
Chapter
Quartan
Agues
Evacuators
do
not
procure
one
jot
of
advantage
,
but
rather
by
depauperating
the
Bloud
,
destroy
the
strength
new
Spirit
the
bloud
,
and
volatilize
it
.
Serosa
Colluvies
Northern
Climates
Institut.
Med.
lib
The
Spirits
of
men
are
variously
affected
by
Aliments
,
and
by
the
external
Air
;
from
whence
it
comes
to
pass
,
that
those
people
which
inhabit
the
cold
parts
of
the
world
,
by
reason
of
their
Dense
or
gross
Spirits
,
which
flow
from
a
thick
Bloud
,
are
stout
and
formidable
,
and
fearless
of
danger
,
The
Asiaticks
and
such
other
finer
Nations
,
have
a
finer
bloud
and
Spirits
,
French
,
Italians
,
Spaniards
D●
Febr.
lib.
That
the
opening
of
a
Vein
is
a
Fraudulent
Remedy
,
and
that
by
it
no
man
can
with
any
assurance
promise
health
:
And
whereas
Nature
is
the
Curer
of
Diseases
,
by
how
much
the
stronger
she
is
maintained
,
so
much
the
more
happy
she
is
in
doing
her
work
;
and
whereas
in
the
course
of
the
Disease
she
is
sufficiently
weakned
by
fasting
,
want
of
sleep
,
and
other
Accidents
,
it
cannot
be
convenient
to
add
weaking
to
weankness
by
letting
of
Bloud
.
that
bloud-letting
hath
hitherto
been
tolerated
,
only
upon
this
Account
,
that
Physicians
have
not
been
Masters
of
such
powerful
Medicins
as
might
be
effectual
without
it
,
and
that
it
would
be
no
longer
tolerable
to
continue
the
Custom
,
if
such
Remedies
were
invented
:
de
●●●vitate
vitae
humanae
,
cap.
that
ill
custom
of
opening
a
Vein
is
no
small
cause
of
shortning
a
man's
life
;
so
that
tis
a
wonder
to
see
,
that
there
is
scarce
a
House
in
the
City
,
wherein
they
use
it
not
twice
a
year
;
so
prodigal
they
are
of
wasting
the
Treasure
of
life
!
Yea
more
I
have
known
very
many
persons
,
very
inclinable
to
an
ill
habit
of
body
,
and
weaknesses
of
the
Liver
,
and
yet
were
so
bold
as
to
draw
bloud
every
year
,
and
so
'tis
no
wonder
they
were
afterwards
snatch't
away
by
untimely
death
.
Chirurgians
and
Barbers
as
do
not
hinder
this
wicked
Custom
,
which
preyeth
upon
our
Vital
parts
,
cuts
off
the
thred
of
life
,
accelerates
an
early
death
,
and
is
in
cause
that
even
the
strongest
men
have
no
long
life
;
as
is
witnessed
by
experience
.
Exper.
Phil.
part.
An
error
in
the
Foundation
cannot
be
amended
in
the
Superstructure
:
Elements
,
Qualities
,
Temperaments
,
Complexions
,
Scholastick
Doctor
Titular
Doctor
formal
Doctor
Greece
,
Italy
Dogmatick
Physicians
Le
Febure
A
Complete
Body
of
Chymistry
To
the
Apothecaries
of
England
that
he
hath
,
and
alwaies
shall
have
the
same
Tenderness
for
them
,
as
he
hath
had
for
his
own
Countrimen
the
French
Apothecaries
:
That
the
end
of
his
endeavors
in
his
undertaking
is
,
to
advance
the
dignity
of
the
Art
of
the
Apothecary
,
which
now
lies
bending
toward
its
ruine
,
if
it
be
not
upheld
by
its
true
Arches
and
Pillars
,
the
faithful
learned
experienced
and
curious
Physicians
Galenick
Doctors
Doctor
Duhan
did
him
the
favor
to
correct
his
Defaults
,
and
lead
him
by
the
hand
through
all
his
endeavors
as
that
Kings
Apothecary
,
to
perform
operations
by
his
direction
for
a
true
course
of
which
is
Chymical
Foundation
He
gives
nothing
in
his
Book
to
the
Apothecaries
but
what
he
first
received
from
the
Physicians
,
so
that
it
is
to
them
only
that
they
owe
the
obligation
.
course
of
Preparation
than
formerly
that
he
hath
undertaken
this
labor
for
their
sakes
,
because
he
never
yet
found
one
that
hath
taken
the
pains
or
care
,
to
shew
and
discover
punctually
the
manner
of
operating
upon
things
to
preserve
their
vertue
and
correct
their
defaults
;
and
that
they
may
observe
the
difference
there
is
in
the
correction
of
those
Medicaments
which
are
made
according
to
the
opinions
and
directions
of
antient
with
that
which
is
directed
and
commanded
by
the
Modern
,
the
Chymical
;
and
that
they
may
observe
likewise
the
Envy
and
Malice
of
those
that
carp
at
and
rail
against
whilst
they
through
ignorance
exclaim
,
that
this
admirable
Art
is
not
employed
by
its
followers
,
save
only
on
Poysons
,
whereas
they
will
find
Chymical
Preparations
of
as
well
as
of
other
things
.
Apothecarie
Royal
Galenick
Formalities
Physical
learning
Scholastick
Precepts
,
Methods
De
Abditis
Rerum
Causis
,
concerning
the
hidden
Causes
of
Things
Chymical
Physick
occult
powers
of
Medicaments
occult
Diseases
Qualities
,
Temperaments
à
tot
â
substantiâ
occult
powers
à
tot
â
substantiâ
occult
Diseases
Galenick
Philosophy
occult
Medicaments
I
have
already
shewn
,
that
there
are
those
occult
silent
and
secret
Powers
in
things
,
and
that
they
are
contained
within
the
limits
of
Nature
:
For
,
at
any
time
arise
,
there
is
a
necessity
that
there
should
be
contrary
to
them
.
There
is
nothing
in
this
whole
world
,
to
which
Nature
hath
not
produced
somwhat
that
is
like
and
somwhat
that
is
contrary
,
although
it
cannot
be
found
out
by
our
diligence
.
Therefore
,
as
against
Diseases
proceeding
from
Distemper
,
we
oppose
vertues
which
are
of
a
Distemper
contrary
;
and
against
Diseases
proceeding
from
matter
,
contrary
faculties
of
matter
;
and
against
instrumentary
Diseases
,
the
second
powers
or
vertues
of
Medicament
,
which
arise
from
the
powers
of
the
Temperament
and
of
the
matter
mixt
together
:
So
truly
in
occult
Diseases
it
is
necessary
that
nature
should
provide
contrary
powers
,
which
are
themselves
also
occult
,
and
by
disagreement
contrary
to
them
.
For
,
shall
we
think
such
strange
Diseases
should
lie
as
incurable
and
destitute
of
proper
remedies
?
or
that
nature
should
be
so
exceedingly
defective
,
as
not
to
afford
us
things
necessary
for
life
?
Therefore
in
the
nature
of
those
Faculties
and
Qualities
,
which
slow
many
orders
or
degrees
are
to
be
placed
,
whose
extremes
are
contrary
:
Of
these
some
are
disagreeable
,
and
wholy
enemies
to
us
;
on
the
contrary
,
others
are
both
friendly
and
familiar
,
and
as
it
were
preservative
of
our
life
.
These
are
they
which
are
customarily
called
the
occult
Proprieties
of
Medicaments
.
a
new
and
occult
nature
occult
new
and
often
happen
new
kinds
of
Diseases
,
of
which
no
Account
can
be
given
by
common
experience
.
And
therefore
it
in
such
case
is
necessary
to
consider
upon
what
account
they
began
;
without
which
no
mortal
man
can
understand
,
why
he
should
use
one
Remedy
rather
than
another
.
strange
Newness
mysterious
Diseases
mysterious
Medicins
exterior
Phaenomena
Epist.
Med.
lib.
Medicamentis
Graecorum
Medicis
opulentiores
Rhubarb
,
Senna
,
Cassia
,
Manna
,
Le
Febure
they
think
it
becomes
not
them
to
set
their
hands
to
work
,
to
attain
a
true
knowledge
of
mixt
Bodies
by
Chymical
Anatomy
.
They
,
and
their
Sectators
,
imagin
they
should
wrong
their
Gravity
and
Doctoral
state
,
to
desile
and
fully
their
hands
with
the
blackness
of
Coals
but
are
perswaded
that
operation
ought
to
be
joyned
to
it
,
to
attain
full
delight
and
satisfaction
,
and
lay
firm
and
sure
Foundations
to
their
Reasonings
;
being
unwilling
to
build
upon
the
quick
sands
of
vain
,
frivolous
,
and
fantastical
opinions
:
which
makes
them
willing
to
undergo
the
charges
,
Toil
,
and
labor
of
practical
Chymistry
,
and
not
be
discouraged
by
watchings
and
ill
scents
and
savors
,
that
they
may
the
sooner
attain
to
a
solid
and
delightful
knowledge
of
the
works
of
Nature
,
and
find
out
by
the
several
experiments
of
their
works
and
Processes
,
the
abstruse
Causes
of
her
wonderful
effects
.
For
,
it
is
a
very
difficult
matter
for
any
to
attain
to
the
exact
knowledge
of
things
Natural
,
without
the
previous
guidance
of
and
an
acquaintance
therewith
;
neither
can
any
be
reckoned
a
perfect
Physician
without
the
help
of
Hermetick
Philosophy
,
since
it
is
the
truest
ground
of
Physick
,
without
which
no
Practitioner
can
deserve
any
other
Title
than
that
of
Emperick
.
It
is
not
a
Gown
,
nor
a
Degree
taken
in
Universities
,
which
makes
a
man
a
Physician
,
but
a
solid
knowledge
of
Nature
:
manual
operation
internal
Principles
invent
a
proper
Medicin
First
and
Second
Qualities
internal
Specifical
vertues
of
their
Chymical
Principles
.
Qualities
and
Temperaments
Princes
Palatine
Epist.
Med.
ill
Disposition
Hot
,
Cold
,
Moist
,
Dry
,
Rule
of
Contraries
Chymical
Physicians
real
Principles
Constituent
principles
general
Conclusions
pretended
Principles
see
,
feel
,
and
handle
?
Rational
Physicians
Catharticks
,
Cordials
Galenick
way
who
by
an
ambitious
and
vain
ostentation
of
a
Plurality
and
great
Bodies
of
Remedies
,
suppose
those
Medicaments
to
be
the
better
,
which
are
without
Method
made
up
of
a
world
of
our
mere
Talkative
Physicians
are
wont
,
out
of
a
vain
ostentation
,
to
heap
together
all
things
into
one
numerous
Medicament
,
as
it
were
into
a
confused
Chaos
;
by
which
they
inrich
the
Apothecaries
rather
than
ease
the
Sick.
〈◊〉
.
l.
Galenick
Masters
Exp●r
.
Phi●
.
Part.
be
perswaded
to
decline
that
more
frequent
than
commendable
custom
,
of
stuffing
each
with
a
multitude
of
Ingredients
:
For
,
I
think
Physicians
may
well
be
more
sparing
,
as
to
the
number
of
the
things
prescribed
,
than
most
of
them
use
to
be
,
both
to
save
charges
to
their
Patients
,
and
for
other
Considerations
.
The
addition
of
needless
Ingredients
to
the
Bulk
of
the
Medicin
makes
it
but
the
more
troublesom
to
be
taken
,
and
the
more
apt
to
clogg
the
stomack
;
besides
,
oftentimes
the
efficacy
of
the
more
useful
Ingredients
,
as
well
as
their
quantity
in
each
Dose
,
is
much
abated
by
their
being
yoked
with
those
that
are
less
appropriate
,
or
less
operative
.
Besides
,
it
seems
a
great
impediment
to
the
further
discovery
of
the
vertues
of
Simples
,
to
confound
so
many
of
them
in
Compositions
.
For
,
in
a
mixture
of
a
great
number
of
Ingredients
,
tis
so
hard
to
know
what
is
the
operation
of
each
,
or
any
of
them
,
that
I
fear
there
will
scarce
in
a
long
time
,
be
any
great
progress
made
in
the
discovery
of
the
vertues
of
simple
Drugs
,
till
they
be
either
oftner
employed
singly
,
or
be
but
few
of
them
employed
in
one
Remedy
.
And
besides
all
this
,
whereas
when
one
of
these
Mixtures
is
administred
,
the
Physician
expects
but
such
operation
as
is
suitable
to
the
Quality
which
he
conceives
will
be
predominant
in
the
whole
Compound
,
several
of
the
Ingredients
may
have
particular
Qualities
that
he
dreams
not
of
;
which
working
upon
a
Body
that
the
Physician
considers
as
subject
only
to
the
Sickness
that
he
endeavors
to
●●re
,
may
therein
excite
divers
latent
seeds
of
other
Distempers
,
and
make
new
and
unexpected
Commotions
in
the
Body
.
I
fear
,
that
when
a
multitude
of
simples
are
heaped
together
into
one
compound
Medicin
,
though
there
may
result
a
new
yet
tis
very
hard
for
Physicians
to
know
beforehand
what
that
will
be
;
and
it
may
sometimes
prove
rather
hurtful
than
good
;
or
at
least
,
by
the
Coalition
,
the
vertues
of
the
chief
Ingredients
may
be
impaired
rather
than
improved
;
as
we
see
that
crude
and
crude
may
be
either
of
them
safely
enough
taken
into
the
body
in
a
good
quantity
;
whereas
of
which
consists
of
those
three
Ingredients
,
a
few
grains
may
be
rank
Poyson
.
:
As
for
those
fam'd
Compositions
,
and
the
like
,
though
I
cannot
well
commend
the
skill
of
those
that
first
devised
them
;
and
though
I
think
that
when
two
or
three
simples
may
answer
the
same
Indications
,
they
may
be
more
safely
employed
,
yet
I
would
by
no
means
discommend
the
use
of
those
Mixtures
,
because
long
experience
hath
manifested
them
good
in
several
Cases
.
And
in
a
word
,
though
I
had
not
the
respect
that
I
have
for
and
other
famous
Doctors
that
devised
the
Compositions
,
whereinto
Ingredients
are
thrown
by
scores
,
if
not
by
Hundreds
,
yet
however
I
should
not
reject
an
effectual
Remedy
,
because
I
thought
it
proved
so
rather
by
Chance
,
than
by
any
skill
in
the
Contriver
:
And
I
think
a
wise
man
may
use
a
Remedy
that
scarce
any
but
a
Fool
would
have
devised
.
ruling
Galenists
the
Kinds
of
Medicin
ought
to
differ
according
to
the
nature
of
places
,
and
that
the
work
of
curing
is
one
thing
at
another
in
and
another
in
Prosper
Alptnus
mere
Simples
Hadrianus
à
Minsicht
are
so
nauseous
,
lothsom
,
and
abominable
,
that
they
are
neither
easily
taken
,
nor
held
;
yea
rather
,
men
are
miserably
crucified
,
the
whole
body
put
violently
out
of
order
,
the
Ferment
of
the
Stomack
perverted
,
the
native
heat
oftentimes
mortified
,
and
the
natural
strength
and
vigor
much
abated
:
Pils
,
Electuaries
such
Medicaments
as
were
fitted
to
these
times
,
the
places
,
and
the
people
where
he
lived
;
being
new
in
respect
of
Method
,
and
so
new
,
that
the
newness
of
Diseases
,
which
in
this
most
frigid
old
age
of
the
world
,
and
as
it
were
new
Age
of
maladies
(
ever
and
anon
starting
up
and
increasing
,
and
which
were
utterly
unknown
to
the
Antients
)
doth
seem
not
so
much
to
perswade
,
as
to
exact
and
command
this
newness
also
of
Remedies
.
For
,
if
it
was
commendable
in
the
Antients
,
yea
and
in
the
Physicians
of
all
Ages
,
rather
than
blameable
,
that
they
in
their
Compositions
and
Prescripts
of
Physick
,
had
every
one
a
respect
to
their
own
Air
or
Sky
,
and
their
own
people
,
both
who
will
blame
me
,
or
take
it
amiss
,
that
I
in
my
Prescripts
do
accommodate
my self
to
our
Countrimen
,
and
these
Northern
Parts
,
especially
the
Inhabitants
of
the
and
of
the
Forein
Gallimafries
ruling
Galenists
Le
Febure
Chymical
Physicians
It
is
confessed
that
many
Remedies
are
taken
from
the
Family
of
Minerals
:
but
for
all
this
,
it
must
not
,
nor
can
it
be
granted
,
that
they
are
Venemous
,
or
contrary
to
the
nature
of
man's
bodie
;
and
to
affirm
it
,
is
the
height
of
Ignorance
:
For
,
if
antient
Physicians
have
used
them
crude
and
raw
,
as
they
were
,
without
any
preparation
,
as
may
be
seen
in
and
several
other
Authors
;
If
some
of
the
modern
also
have
made
use
of
them
,
as
in
his
Pills
against
the
Pox
;
and
who
put
in
practise
,
calling
it
by
way
of
Excellency
and
if
hath
done
the
like
with
with
the
Filings
of
and
many
others
,
with
for
Diseases
of
the
Lungs
,
why
should
be
debarred
from
the
same
Remedies
,
after
they
have
by
separating
Purity
from
Impurity
,
prepared
,
corrected
,
and
devested
them
from
the
malignity
and
venom
which
they
did
contain
?
which
is
a
much
better
way
than
the
pretended
correction
which
give
to
their
Medicins
,
who
pretend
to
mitigate
the
vices
and
malignity
of
their
Medicaments
,
by
the
addition
of
some
other
substance
,
which
usually
hath
in
its
self
some
particular
vice
and
impurity
;
as
is
obvious
in
the
Preparations
of
their
and
some
others
which
they
pretend
to
correct
by
a
simple
addition
of
and
the
like
.
But
I
cannot
better
resemble
the
difference
between
their
way
of
correction
and
that
of
the
than
by
using
a
vulgar
comparison
touching
an
unskilful
Cook
,
that
in
dressing
of
Tripes
should
think
it
enough
to
boyl
them
with
sweet
Herbs
,
and
never
wash
or
clense
them
from
their
inward
impurity
.
Le
Febure
by
stealth
old
Principles
Therefore
to
stop
the
mouths
of
the
Le
Febure
)
take
notice
that
they
use
in
their
Practise
,
though
Emperically
,
whether
they
be
Natural
or
Artificial
;
as
for
example
,
do
they
not
make
use
of
crude
and
many
more
natural
mixt
Bodies
without
preparation
?
Do
they
not
use
Spirit
of
Spirit
of
Salt
of
Sugar
of
And
though
most
of
them
be
unacquainted
with
and
the
true
time
and
Method
of
exhibiting
that
admirable
Remedy
,
yet
nevertheless
they
venture
by
stealth
to
give
it
their
Patients
,
disguising
it
oftentimes
with
some
Infusion
of
or
some
portion
of
their
ordinary
Pils
;
for
,
they
mix
in
their
Infusions
,
and
in
their
Pils
.
But
that
which
is
yet
more
to
be
noted
and
consider'd
is
;
that
when
the
by
the
obstinacy
of
a
Disease
,
are
at
a
stand
,
and
can
no
longer
find
in
their
Method
a
Remedy
to
cure
,
and
eradicate
the
evil
of
it
,
because
they
never
attained
to
a
perfect
knowledge
of
it
,
they
use
to
send
their
Patients
to
Baths
and
Minerals
,
as
to
the
which
practise
of
theirs
makes
them
tacitly
to
confess
,
that
there
is
in
Minerals
a
more
potent
,
penetrative
and
active
vertue
than
in
any
other
of
those
Remedies
which
they
did
put
in
pract●se
before
.
This
Truth
is
further
confrmed
by
those
remedies
which
are
daily
used
by
with
very
good
success
,
being
for
the
most
part
compounded
of
but
those
especially
which
do
work
with
most
efficacy
.
It
is
true
,
that
do
also
send
their
Patients
to
Mineral
Waters
,
and
injoyn
them
the
use
of
them
;
but
there
is
this
difference
betwixt
them
and
the
that
the
Mineral
Waters
are
distinctly
acquainted
with
the
which
predominates
in
the
Waters
by
them
prescribed
;
which
the
other
Physicians
do
not
,
having
but
a
confused
and
superficial
knowledge
of
the
vertue
residing
and
hidden
in
these
waters
,
and
prescribing
them
only
because
others
have
used
them
before
,
not
being
able
to
give
a
Reason
for
the
effects
by
them
produced
,
much
less
to
give
an
account
of
the
efficient
internal
Causes
of
the
same
,
since
it
belongs
properly
to
the
inquiry
of
whose
peculiar
work
it
is
to
anatomise
Mineral
Waters
,
and
demonstrate
what
Fire
or
Volatile
substances
are
contained
in
them
:
And
if
the
ingeni●us
Artist
finds
not
himself
fully
satisfied
with
the
examining
the
Waters
,
he
may
further
extend
his
inquiry
in
working
upon
the
Earths
adjacent
to
these
Mineral
Spirits
,
and
endeavor
to
discover
what
Metal
most
abounds
in
the
growing
about
that
place
;
which
being
done
,
it
will
be
easie
for
him
to
find
what
Salt
,
or
what
Spirit
,
is
the
most
likely
to
dissolve
that
Metal
,
and
to
mix
and
unite
it
so
indivisibly
as
it
is
with
the
Water
:
and
being
thus
instructed
,
he
can
never
fail
to
assign
pertinent
and
demonstrative
Reasons
,
both
of
the
effects
and
cause
of
the
vertue
and
efficacy
of
those
If
it
be
answered
,
that
do
also
give
reasons
for
those
effects
,
and
assign
them
to
the
predominant
in
the
Waters
;
I
reply
,
that
they
can
never
fully
satisfie
a
curious
Inquisitor
and
searcher
of
truth
in
Nature
,
by
Reasons
taken
from
the
but
what
light
they
have
must
be
borrowed
from
and
so
farr
they
are
no
more
a
since
they
reason
only
by
the
Principles
and
Organs
of
Let
us
then
conclude
in
the
behalf
of
and
say
,
that
they
are
the
true
weapons
wherewith
a
Physician
must
arm
himself
,
to
conquer
and
extirpate
the
most
stubborn
and
rebellious
Diseases
,
even
such
as
are
held
incurable
by
the
ordinary
Remedies
of
Scholastick
Methods
Chymical
Remedies
Alum
;
Calomelanos
Emetick
Powder
Merc.
Vitae
fine
fingred
Galenist
Ambulatory
Doctors
common
Road-Practiser
Master
Doctors
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Philosophy
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Physicians
if
Physicians
were
a
little
more
curious
,
to
take
notice
of
the
observations
and
experiments
,
suggested
partly
by
the
practise
of
Midwives
,
Barbers
,
old
Women
,
Empericks
,
and
other
illiterate
persons
,
where
the
Practitioners
of
Physick
are
altogether
illiterate
,
there
oftentimes
Specificks
may
be
best
met
with
,
because
such
persons
being
wont
,
for
want
of
skill
in
Physick
,
and
particularly
in
the
art
of
mixing
Simples
,
and
in
that
of
varying
their
Remedies
according
to
circumstances
,
do
almost
wholy
rely
upon
whose
vertues
from
their
practise
,
may
sometimes
be
better
gathered
,
than
from
that
of
Whose
skill
lies
in
old
Book
Learning
,
and
the
old
skilful
Physicians
,
in
regard
that
those
(
besides
that
they
assist
not
with
any
skil
in
the
the
vertues
of
their
remedies
)
are
wont
to
try
to
the
uttermost
of
the
effects
of
their
few
Specificks
:
And
the
nature
of
their
Medicins
may
be
the
better
known
,
in
regard
they
are
not
wont
to
blend
them
,
as
Learned
men
but
too
often
doe
,
with
many
other
Ingredients
,
whose
mixture
either
alters
their
nature
,
or
makes
it
difficult
to
determine
,
whether
the
effect
be
to
be
ascribed
to
what
is
given
for
the
or
to
some
other
of
the
Ingredients
,
or
to
the
whole
Compounds
as
such
.
that
we
should
not
d●sdain
the
Remedies
of
illiterate
Practisers
,
only
because
of
their
being
unacquainted
with
our
Theory
of
Physick
:
nor
should
we
by
too
great
reliance
on
the
or
other
ancient
Opinions
,
neglect
useful
Remedies
,
because
presented
by
persons
that
ignore
them
,
and
perhaps
too
hold
opinions
contrary
to
them
;
therefore
I
leave
you
to
consider
what
is
in
the
person
of
that
represented
by
where
having
spoken
of
the
darkness
of
the
Causes
of
things
,
and
the
uncertainty
of
the
Theorems
of
Physick
,
For
though
this
Sentence
ascribes
too
little
to
Reason
,
yet
there
is
something
in
it
that
deserves
to
be
consider'd
;
especially
since
we
observe
not
,
that
the
late
Anatomical
discoveries
of
the
&c.
by
formerly
unknown
ways
,
in
newly
detected
Vessels
,
hath
yet
made
men
cure
diseases
much
better
than
before
;
not
that
I
think
that
discoveries
will
not
in
process
of
time
(
when
the
shall
be
fully
and
indisputably
made
out
,
and
the
thereby
suggested
clearly
established
)
highly
conduce
to
the
part
of
Physick
;
but
yet
this
observation
may
make
it
the
more
reasonable
,
to
beware
of
relying
so
much
upon
the
yet
disputable
Opinions
of
Physicians
,
as
to
despise
such
practises
,
though
usually
succesful
,
as
agree
not
with
them
.
That
he
thinks
it
were
no
ill
piece
of
service
to
mankind
,
if
a
severe
Collection
were
made
of
the
Cures
of
such
persons
as
have
recover'd
after
a
having
been
judged
irrecoverable
by
the
Doctors
that
though
to
cure
cheaply
be
not
properly
and
in
strictness
any
part
of
the
end
of
the
art
of
Physick
,
which
considers
mens
health
,
and
not
their
purse
;
yet
it
ought
in
Charity
,
if
not
also
in
Equity
,
to
be
the
endeavour
of
the
Physician
,
especially
when
he
dealeth
with
Patients
that
are
not
rich
;
for
,
not
now
to
say
any
thing
of
the
Fees
of
Physicians
,
which
in
some
places
are
not
very
moderate
,
tis
certain
that
the
Bills
of
Apothecaries
,
especially
in
Chronical
Diseases
,
do
often
prove
so
chargeable
,
that
even
when
the
Remedies
succeed
,
by
that
time
a
poor
Patient
is
recover'd
,
he
is
undone
,
and
pays
for
the
prolongation
of
his
Life
that
which
should
have
been
his
livelyhood
:
Whence
it
comes
to
pass
,
that
the
more
necessitous
sort
of
people
are
either
fain
to
languish
unrelieved
,
for
wa●t
of
being
able
to
purchase
health
at
the
Apothecari's
rates
,
or
are
deterred
from
applying
themselves
to
a
Doctor
,
till
their
Diseases
have
taken
too
deep
root
to
be
easily
,
if
at
all
eradicated
;
And
this
oftentimes
,
not
more
through
the
fault
of
the
Apothecary
than
of
the
Doctor
,
who
in
his
prescriptions
might
,
for
the
most
part
,
easily
direct
things
that
would
be
much
more
cheap
,
without
being
much
less
efficacious
.
Galenick
Masters
divers
of
the
Eminentest
themselves
have
more
than
once
ingenuously
acknowledged
to
him
,
and
seriously
deplored
with
him
the
incompleatness
of
their
Art
;
and
since
about
divers
particular
Diseases
,
we
have
observed
the
Method
of
some
of
the
most
reputed
Doctors
in
(
which
yet
I
think
is
at
this
day
as
well
stored
with
Learned
men
of
that
Profession
,
as
any
part
of
not
only
very
differing
,
but
repugnant
to
each
other
,
I
suppose
we
may
without
disrespect
to
their
Profession
,
dissent
from
the
most
of
them
about
those
Cases
,
about
which
they
are
reduced
to
disagree
so
much
among
themselves
.
And
it
would
be
worth
an
impartial
disquisition
,
whether
since
the
ought
to
be
grounded
on
and
accommodated
to
the
Doctrin
of
Diseases
,
the
New
Anatomical
discoveries
lately
known
,
and
others
not
yet
published
,
do
not
by
innovating
divers
things
in
require
some
Alterations
and
Amendments
in
the
that
he
who
in
all
points
too
pertinaciously
insists
upon
the
Scholastick
Method
,
doth
together
with
the
Disease
remove
the
man
out
of
the
world
.
Oswald
Grembs
Chymical
Medicaments
Galenick
Method
they
are
no
better
than
Empericks
,
while
they
give
Chymical
Remedies
,
but
are
ignorant
from
what
ground
they
have
their
operation
;
for
if
they
know
not
from
what
cause
Spirit
of
gives
relief
in
Fevers
,
not
because
tis
cold
,
not
because
tis
hot
,
not
because
it
cuts
and
attenuates
,
but
because
it
extinguisheth
the
hot
Fermenting
which
is
the
occasional
,
internal
,
and
continent
Cause
of
Fevers
,
then
they
cannot
be
called
truly
Methodical
Physicians
,
because
ignorance
of
the
true
cause
renders
them
Empericks
,
and
because
if
they
perform
a
Cure
with
those
Remedies
,
they
know
not
why
,
or
what
they
do
.
Pag
▪
that
the
unusual
efficacies
of
new
Remedies
,
may
probably
make
the
Method
of
curing
more
compendious
,
because
one
Medicin
may
be
so
richly
qualified
,
as
to
answer
several
Intentions
,
which
in
the
common
way
require
diversity
of
helps
and
Remedies
.
Thus
for
Instance
,
in
the
cure
of
the
by
the
received
Method
the
Physi●ian
must
propose
to
himself
several
Scopes
(
suited
to
several
Indications
)
yet
one
single
Medicin
,
without
any
sensible
Evacuation
,
hath
wasted
the
peccant
humor
,
appeased
the
pains
(
which
before
were
very
great
)
discussed
the
unbroken
Tumors
,
and
healed
the
broken
ones
.
—
Thus
according
to
the
known
Method
,
the
great
remedy
in
Pleurisies
is
copious
Blood
letting
,
which
is
strictly
prescribed
even
to
aged
persons
,
and
Teeming
women
,
by
the
famousest
of
our
Practitioners
,
and
,
I
confess
,
not
irrationally
,
where
the
Physician
is
furnished
but
with
vulgar
Remedies
:
and
yet
by
some
Medicins
we
have
known
pleurisies
cured
,
even
in
young
men
without
Phlebotomy
,
and
I
some
while
since
made
a
succesful
Trial.
oftentimes
the
peccant
Matter
though
very
offensive
by
its
qualities
,
is
much
lesser
than
is
supposed
in
quantity
,
and
migbt
,
if
we
were
but
Masters
of
Specifick
Remedies
,
either
be
breathed
out
by
insensible
Transpiration
,
or
carried
off
by
Sweat
or
Urine
,
without
tormenting
,
or
weakning
the
Patient
,
by
those
other
copious
Evacuations
of
grosser
matter
,
Bleeding
,
Purging
,
Vomiting
,
Issues
,
which
are
alwaies
troublesom
and
painful
enough
,
though
not
alwaies
effectual
.
Nay
that
even
in
Chirurgery
it self
,
if
those
that
practise
it
were
as
knowing
as
Nature
is
bountiful
,
there
would
not
be
so
often
a
necessity
,
as
tis
commonly
supposed
there
is
,
of
multilating
or
tormenting
the
Patient
to
recover
him
.
the
Charges
and
Trouble
of
taking
Physick
may
be
very
much
lessened
we
might
by
discovering
the
true
Causes
and
Seats
of
Diseases
,
find
out
such
generous
and
effectual
Remedies
(
whether
or
more
Universal
as
by
quickly
freeing
the
Patient
from
may
exempt
him
from
needing
either
much
Physick
from
the
Apothecary
,
or
many
chargeable
visits
from
the
Doctor
.
that
by
this
very
means
,
if
men
want
not
curiosity
,
and
industry
to
vary
and
prosecute
experiments
,
there
must
necessarily
arise
such
a
store
of
new
and
active
Medicins
,
that
in
all
probabilty
many
of
them
will
be
found
endowed
with
such
vertues
as
have
not
been
,
at
least
in
that
degree
,
met
with
in
the
usual
Medicins
,
whether
simple
or
Compound
,
to
be
found
in
the
Apothecaries
Shops
.
there
are
certain
Preparations
and
Compositions
so
lucky
,
and
whose
success
doth
so
much
exceed
expectation
,
and
the
efficacy
of
common
Compositions
,
that
the
same
Physician
,
whose
they
are
,
may
upon
several
occasions
,
prescribe
an
hundred
others
,
each
of
which
he
may
think
as
rational
as
any
of
those
,
which
nevertheless
shall
all
of
them
be
inferior
thereunto
Theodore
de
parcel
Chymists
I
must
take
liberty
to
add
(
and
that
upon
serious
consideration
)
that
the
Chymical
Preparations
hitherto
common
in
Dispensatories
,
are
,
as
to
the
generality
of
them
,
sarr
enough
from
being
the
most
dextrous
,
or
noble
,
that
can
be
devised
.
For
,
our
vulgar
Chymistry
(
to
which
the
Shops
owe
their
venal
Spagyrick
remedies
)
is
as
yet
very
incompleat
,
affording
us
rather
a
Collection
of
loose
scatter'd
(
and
many
of
them
but
casual
)
Experiments
,
than
an
Art
duly
superstructed
upon
Principles
and
Notions
,
emergent
from
severe
and
competent
Inductions
.
And
therefore
till
the
Principles
of
Chymistry
be
better
known
,
and
more
solidly
establish'd
,
we
must
expect
no
other
,
than
that
very
few
vulgar
Chymical
Remedies
should
be
of
the
noblest
sort
;
and
that
in
the
preparation
of
many
other
,
considerable
Errors
should
pass
unheeded
,
and
Faults
gross
enough
be
apt
to
be
mistakenly
committed
.
he
must
particularly
inculcate
this
,
that
if
we
had
but
a
few
petent
Menstruums
to
unlock
Bodies
,
or
Liquors
which
can
resolve
a
great
variety
of
Concretes
,
without
having
their
vertues
,
I
say
not
impaired
,
but
destroyed
thereby
,
I
scarce
know
what
might
not
be
done
in
Chymistry
.
Chymical
Physicians
Let
me
advertise
you
that
if
divers
Chymical
Remedies
have
seemed
upon
Trial
less
effectual
than
indeed
they
are
,
it
is
because
they
have
been
tried
by
such
Physicians
,
as
weaken
their
efficacy
by
not
administring
them
as
they
should
:
For
,
some
Physicians
will
never
exhibit
a
Chymical
Remedy
,
till
the
Patients
strength
hath
been
almost
tired
,
if
not
quite
spent
with
the
unprosperous
use
of
divers
other
clogging
and
debilitating
Medicins
.
Others
are
so
difsident
of
Chymical
Remedies
,
that
they
never
dare
exhibit
them
in
a
full
Dose
,
nor
by
themselves
,
but
will
blend
a
small
quantity
of
a
Chymical
Medicin
with
other
Ingredients
,
which
either
constitute
with
it
a
M●dicin
of
new
Qualities
resulting
from
that
Mixture
,
or
at
least
much
clogg
or
enervate
the
activity
and
vertue
of
the
Chymical
Ingredients
;
by
which
,
even
in
so
inconsiderable
a
Dese
,
these
distrustful
Docto●s
dare
yet
require
that
great
matters
should
b●
performed
.
And
another
sort
of
Physicians
there
is
,
who
are
of
so
despondent
,
or
rather
partial
an
humor
,
that
if
a
Chymical
Remedy
or
Specifick
,
do
not
presently
perform
the
hoped
for
cure
,
though
they
find
that
even
upon
their
disadvantageous
manner
of
administring
it
,
it
doth
good
,
yet
they
will
quickly
desist
from
the
use
of
it
:
And
because
it
doth
not
do
wonders
,
they
will
not
scruple
to
affirm
that
they
have
tried
it
,
and
found
it
do
nothing
;
whereas
they
are
wont
to
continue
their
own
Courses
of
Physick
without
Discouragement
,
though
it
be
usually
some
weeks
before
the
Patient
find
any
good
by
them
,
and
oftentimes
the
Patient
is
,
by
the
tedious
course
of
Physick
he
hath
gone
through
,
very
little
better'd
,
if
not
much
impaired
,
as
numbers
of
the
Printed
Observations
,
as
well
as
daily
experiences
,
do
testifie
.
Which
I
speak
,
not
with
an
intention
to
disparage
Physicians
in
general
,
the
most
learned
and
ingenious
of
them
being
free
enough
from
the
partiality
which
I
here
take
notice
of
,
but
to
keep
good
Remedies
from
being
disparaged
by
the
Envious
or
unskilful
Trials
of
bad
Administrers
And
though
indeed
some
Chymists
are
so
vain-glorious
,
or
unwary
,
as
to
promise
,
that
the
operation
of
their
Remedies
shall
be
as
well
sudden
,
as
effectual
,
yet
if
the
Medicins
themselves
be
found
available
,
although
not
swiftly
so
,
that
slowness
ought
to
make
us
but
condemn
the
Boastings
of
the
man
,
not
reject
the
use
of
the
Remedies
.
For
sometimes
the
Patients
Constitution
makes
the
Medicin
prescribed
by
the
Receipt
unfit
to
be
administred
;
and
sometimes
too
,
the
Disease
for
which
the
Receipt
is
proper
,
is
in
the
Patient
complicated
with
some
other
distemper
,
which
may
be
as
much
encreased
by
the
Specifick
,
as
the
other
Disease
may
be
lessened
.
Galenick
Masters
Theodore
Mayern
the
whole
Art
of
Chymistry
it self
.
Chymical
Physicians
We
must
not
be
so
timid
as
to
suffer
our selves
to
be
perswaded
,
that
if
a
Patient
miscarry
after
the
use
of
those
Remedies
,
the
fault
must
necessarily
belong
to
the
exhibited
Medicin
.
For
oftentimes
Nature
will
in
despight
of
Remedies
make
a
of
the
peccant
matter
,
and
thereby
impair
the
condition
of
the
Patient
;
and
much
oftner
before
Death
,
the
Conflict
of
strugling
Nature
and
the
conquering
Disease
,
doth
manifest
it self
in
horrid
and
dreadful
Symptoms
,
which
some
envious
or
ignorant
Doctors
(
for
the
more
learned
are
wont
to
be
more
equitable
and
less
partial
)
do
injuriously
impute
to
the
Chymical
Remedy
given
before
the
appearing
of
those
Symptoms
,
not
considering
that
the
like
Accidents
are
wont
to
attend
dangerous
Diseases
,
and
dying
Persons
,
where
only
,
and
no
ones
at
all
have
been
administred
.
And
that
divers
of
the
most
Eminent
and
Methodical
of
our
Modern
Physicians
,
scruple
not
now
to
use
frequently
both
and
some
other
Chymical
Remedies
,
and
to
impute
the
miscarrying
of
the
Patients
that
use
them
to
their
Diseases
,
rather
than
the
Medicins
;
though
not
many
years
since
,
all
the
frightful
Symptoms
accompanying
the
dying
Persons
to
whom
they
had
been
exhibited
,
were
considently
imputed
to
those
Medicins
.
Chymical
Preparations
of
the
humor
of
some
Chymists
and
of
others
that
practise
Physick
,
who
so
dote
upon
the
Productions
of
their
Furnaces
,
that
they
will
scarce
go
about
to
cure
a
cut
finger
,
with
less
than
some
Oyl
or
Balsam
,
and
in
slight
distempers
have
recourse
to
Chymical
,
and
perhaps
to
Mineral
Remedies
,
which
being
for
the
most
part
such
as
vehemently
alter
the
body
,
they
do
oftentimes
more
harm
than
good
,
when
employed
in
common
cases
that
need
not
such
active
Medicins
.
And
methinks
those
that
practise
,
as
if
nature
presented
us
nothing
worth
the
accepting
,
unless
it
be
cookt
and
perfected
by
might
consider
,
that
himself
often
employeth
Simples
for
the
cure
even
of
formidable
Diseases
.
And
though
for
particular
reasons
,
I
be
inclinable
enough
to
think
that
such
searching
and
commanding
Remedies
as
may
be
so
much
of
kin
to
the
as
to
cure
great
numbers
of
differing
Diseases
,
will
hardly
be
obtained
without
the
help
of
Chymical
Preparations
,
and
those
perhaps
of
Minerals
;
yet
as
to
most
particular
Diseases
,
especially
when
not
yet
arrived
to
a
deplorable
height
,
I
am
apt
to
think
,
that
Simples
,
or
other
unelaborate
mixtures
,
may
furnish
us
with
Specificks
,
that
may
perform
much
more
than
some
Chymists
are
wont
to
think
,
and
possibly
be
preferrable
to
many
of
their
costly
himself
,
a
person
more
knowing
and
experienced
in
his
Art
,
than
almost
any
of
the
Chymists
,
scruples
not
to
make
this
ingenuous
confession
,
Pharmac●
.
&
dispensat
.
Nov.
p.
(
saith
he
And
he
elsewhere
truly
affirms
,
that
there
may
be
sometimes
greater
vertue
in
a
Simple
,
such
as
Nature
affords
it
us
,
than
in
any
thing
that
the
fire
can
separate
from
it
.
And
certainly
,
the
Specifick
properties
of
divers
,
if
not
most
Simples
,
are
confounded
and
lost
by
those
Preparations
,
it
is
not
the
elaborateness
,
but
the
skilfulness
of
Preparations
,
that
produceth
the
noble
Remedies
;
and
a
few
Teeming
principles
well
known
and
applied
,
will
inable
a
man
with
ease
to
make
better
Remedies
,
than
a
great
many
furnaces
and
Glasses
,
though
never
so
well
contrived
,
and
though
very
useful
in
their
kind
:
Saff●on
,
Cinamon
Aromatical
Drugs
white
Hellebor
Salt
of
Tartar.
Chymical
Principles
Galenick
Masters
hot
,
cold
,
moist
,
dry
,
dark
Chaos
hidden
Qualities
Chymical
Remedies
Chymical
Physicians
real
Principles
Chymical
Physicians
truest
Handmaid
to
Physiologie
,
and
will
not
a
little
contribute
to
clear
up
the
nature
of
Digestions
,
and
of
those
Deficiencies
or
Aberrations
in
them
,
which
produce
a
great
part
of
Diseases
.
since
the
Liquors
contained
in
mans
body
abound
,
divers
of
them
,
with
Saline
or
Sulphureous
Parts
,
He
that
hath
been
by
Chymistry
taught
the
nature
of
the
several
sorts
of
Salts
and
Sulphurs
,
and
both
beheld
and
consider'd
their
various
actions
upon
one
another
,
and
upon
other
Bodies
,
seems
to
have
a
considerable
help
to
discourse
groundedly
of
the
Changes
and
Operations
of
the
Humors
,
and
other
Juices
of
the
Body
.
Leyden
,
Francis
de
Le
Boe
Process
of
the
Chyle
Let
me
for
the
manifestation
of
that
Process
,
which
hath
hitherto
lain
hid
call
in
to
my
counsel
and
assistance
,
an
Art
which
produceth
things
admirable
and
stupendious
every
day
,
and
is
certainly
of
principal
use
in
the
discovery
of
natural
Mutations
,
and
in
some
Particulars
,
if
I
may
speak
it
,
exceeding
Nature
her self
;
the
most
profitable
and
only
necessary
Means
,
for
the
constituting
of
Natural
Science
,
and
a
solid
Body
of
Physick
.
I
shall
not
as
others
have
done
hitherto
,
consider
the
nature
of
Diseases
according
to
the
Etymological
definitions
,
whereby
the
Essences
of
them
are
very
ill
explained
,
and
the
sick
worse
cured
,
men
resting
in
former
time
upon
a
dubious
,
barren
,
and
sometimes
mischievous
Grammatical
Disquisition
of
Terms
in
the
Art
of
Physick
;
but
my
principal
care
is
about
the
laying
of
such
a
solid
Foundation
of
the
Art
of
Physick
,
as
may
be
fit
for
the
better
sort
of
Practisers
,
who
desire
to
contend
with
Diseases
,
not
wrangle
about
Phantsies
;
and
therefore
is
ought
to
be
,
by
the
help
of
derived
from
the
true
Fountains
of
things
Natural
and
Medicinal
,
that
we
may
,
by
a
Chain
of
Reasonings
thereupon
,
be
led
to
a
finding
out
the
true
Causes
of
any
Distempers
whatsoever
,
and
the
right
way
of
curing
them
.
Vital
Flame
Water
,
Salt
Volatile
Spirit
Lixivious
Salt
acid
Spirit
Lixivious
Salt
Volatile
Spirit
Milky
Veins
Chymical
Notions
Chymical
Physician
common
Salt
Volatile
Salt
Spirit
of
Wine
Spirit
of
Salt
common
Galenists
Chymical
Physician
Iterated
Phlebotomies
Wormatick
Cause
Alkalisate
Salts
Hectick
Fever
cooling
Pectorals
Second
Qualities
He
that
finds
that
there
may
be
acid
Juices
in
the
Stomack
,
and
in
other
parts
(
as
is
frequently
evident
in
the
sharp
Liquors
which
many
Stomacks
cast
up
)
and
that
there
are
also
Sulphureous
Salts
in
the
Body
,
as
is
apparent
in
Bloud
and
Urine
,
which
abound
with
such
:
He
that
observes
how
acid
Liquors
lose
their
Acidity
,
by
working
upon
some
Bodies
,
as
Spirit
of
Vinegar
grows
almost
insipid
upon
the
it
hath
corroded
:
and
how
those
Saline
Liquors
,
by
working
upon
certain
Bodies
,
degenerate
into
Salts
of
another
nature
,
as
we
have
sometimes
observed
in
Oyle
of
working
upon
the
Fourth
part
of
its
weight
in
Quick-silver
;
and
how
the
contrariety
of
Acid
and
Sulphureous
Salts
makes
them
sometimes
disarm
,
sometimes
,
after
some
ebullition
,
Precipitate
each
other
,
and
sometimes
unite
into
a
Third
substance
of
a
differing
nature
from
either
of
those
from
whose
Coalition
it
results
,
as
we
see
in
and
(
as
I
have
observed
)
in
a
Salt
which
I
sometimes
make
to
emerge
from
a
due
proportion
of
Oyle
of
and
Spirit
of
freed
,
after
conjunction
,
from
their
Aqueous
Moisture
:
And
he
,
in
a
word
,
that
hath
carefully
Analysed
and
made
Trials
on
many
Parts
both
of
the
Macrocosm
and
Microcosm
,
and
heedfully
applied
his
Experiments
made
on
the
former
,
for
illustration
of
the
Changes
observable
in
the
latter
,
shall
be
likely
to
explicate
divers
particulars
in
Pathology
,
more
intelligibly
than
he
that
is
a
stranger
to
Chymistry
.
That
the
generality
of
fermer
Physicians
have
ascribed
too
much
to
the
Humors
,
under
the
notion
of
their
being
Hot
,
and
Dry
,
Cold
,
and
Moist
,
or
endowed
with
such
other
and
have
taken
a
great
deal
too
little
notice
of
the
properties
of
things
Scholastick
Learning
That
all
Fix't
things
may
be
made
Volatile
by
the
help
of
the
Volatile
Spirit
alone
,
and
that
by
the
volatilisation
of
what
is
Fix't
,
and
a
Fixation
of
what
is
Volatile
,
Galenical
Physick
Chymical
Physicians
Chymick
Principles
,
Processes
,
Alterations
,
Venereous
,
Verminous
Scorbutick
Ferments
three
,
All
in
one
Oswald Grembs , lib. 1. cap. 1. De Cordis affectibus .
Si Galenicorum Remedia Secundam , & Tertiam Digestionem non attingant , multo minùs Quartam , & Quintam .