To
all
Persons
of
Quality
,
Ladies
,
Gentlemen
,
Tradesmen
,
and
all
others
to
whom
these
Epistolary
Lines
may
come
,
I.
P.
wisheth
all
Health
and
Happiness
,
length
of
days
,
with
increase
of
Riches
.
Printed
with
Allowance
,
Octob
.
5.
1671.
Friendly
Reader
,
IF
Man
will
give
himself
the
trouble
but
to
turn
his
Eye
upon
himself
,
and
consider
how
great
things
God
hath
done
for
him
;
but
especially
to
take
a
view
of
those
vast
Endowments
with
which
he
hath
inspired
his
rational
Soul
:
I
think
he
cannot
chuse
but
divert
himself
into
a
Divine
Extasie
,
and
cry
with
Job
,
Quid
agerem
tibi
,
O
custos
hominum
,
Chap.
7.
20.
For
so
great
is
the
sweet
Influence
of
his
mercy
,
in
making
man
so
perfect
in
those
Theological
Virtues
of
Knowledge
,
Wisdom
,
and
Learning
(
of
which
large
Volumes
have
been
written
)
that
it
would
befool
the
best
of
Wits
,
that
should
be
so
peremptory
to
undertake
to
give
a
full
account
of
it
to
us
;
and
if
we
were
able
to
gild
our
Language
with
Angelical
Oratory
,
we
could
not
speak
its
due
praise
.
But
if
we
consider
Learning
as
it
is
,
and
that
as
it
is
sought
with
great
diligence
,
so
its
use
proclaimes
its
Vertues
,
and
tells
us
,
that
it
is
an
Ornament
to
Nature
,
the
Handmaid
of
Wisdom
,
the
right
Hand
of
Physick
,
and
the
greatest
perfection
of
Humanity
:
For
he
that
is
once
well
acquainted
with
this
,
he
climbs
(
like
the
Antiquary
from
year
to
year
,
till
he
arriveth
at
the
Ancient
of
days
)
from
one
degree
of
Learning
to
another
;
as
in
Naturals
,
Vegetables
,
Animals
,
and
so
in
himself
where
he
may
read
the
misery
and
frailty
of
man
,
and
lastly
in
the
Elementary
World
;
and
so
from
things
created
to
the
Creator
,
in
which
place
he
must
with
admiration
cease
to
inquire
,
and
be
proud
of
his
ignorance
,
lest
his
prying
into
those
things
,
makes
him
for
ever
accursed
.
Now
it
hath
been
the
care
of
Judicious
men
in
all
Ages
,
as
well
Heathens
as
Christians
,
to
preserve
the
learned
productions
of
their
Labours
,
to
instruct
and
encourage
those
that
shall
inquire
for
the
future
.
Neither
is
man
made
for
a
selfend
,
as
the
Learned
Plato
tells
us
,
when
he
saith
,
We
are
born
not
for
our selves
alone
;
but
partly
for
our
Country
,
partly
for
our
Parents
,
and
partly
for
our
Friends
:
and
whatever
was
first
made
,
was
created
for
mans
use
;
and
man
created
for
the
mutual
assistance
one
of
another
,
and
all
for
the
glory
of
God
.
Now
there
is
nothing
in
the
World
that
can
give
a
more
ample
demonstration
that
we
follow
the
Rule
of
Plato
,
than
by
putting
in
practice
the
gifts
bestowed
upon
us
.
Nor
do
I
think
any
thing
can
be
more
sweet
and
pleasant
to
the
Student
,
nor
more
honourable
to
God
,
than
for
one
man
to
study
the
Health
and
Welfare
of
another
.
It
was
the
sin
of
man
that
hath
made
him
miserable
;
and
Sickness
and
Diseases
is
a
great
part
of
it
in
this
World
.
And
seeing
it
is
so
,
and
that
God
hath
afforded
him
succour
in
these
Calamities
,
why
should
any
man
be
so
stupidly
sottish
,
as
to
refuse
to
understand
it
,
or
when
in
necessity
to
refuse
the
fruition
of
it
.
And
now
because
the
Study
of
Physick
,
and
the
Nature
of
mans
Body
belongs
to
my
Practice
and
Profession
,
I
think
it
highly
convenient
to
speak
something
in
reference
to
them
both
;
and
also
to
acquit
my self
like
a
Physician
.
And
because
I
spoke
in
the
Praise
of
Learning
,
take
notice
,
that
by
the
help
of
that
we
are
assisted
to
consider
,
that
the
Omnipotent
Creator
by
his
Divine
Will
,
out
of
a
lumpish
,
massie
,
confused
nothing
,
created
a
decent
Order
,
a
comely
Structure
,
Heaven
and
Earth
,
a
World
of
every
thing
.
Separated
the
Darkness
from
the
Light
,
the
Waters
from
the
Earth
;
gave
limits
and
bounds
to
the
swelling
Waves
,
sunk
the
deep
Channels
of
the
Ocean
,
and
drawed
the
Waters
into
their
proper
stations
,
that
so
Earth
and
Water
might
make
one
compleat
Superficies
,
adorning
the
Earth
with
her
vegetable
Companions
(
of
various
Colours
and
Forms
,
as
it
were
Arms
and
Scutcheon
of
the
great
Creator
)
indued
the
Earth
with
a
fructifying
quality
;
Beautified
the
Heavens
with
Stars
of
various
Natures
;
made
two
great
Lights
to
divide
day
and
night
,
and
to
distinguish
the
seasons
of
the
year
.
The
Air
was
furnished
with
Fowls
,
the
Sea
repleat
with
Fishes
;
and
thus
were
all
things
put
into
a
perfect
order
(
which
five
days
before
were
all
disorder
)
fit
to
entertain
a
Governour
to
sway
and
controul
the
unruly
Nature
of
brutish
Beasts
,
and
to
manure
and
take
the
sweetness
of
things
created
.
Thus
the
Creator
draws
to
a
conclusion
of
his
Work
,
and
seems
to
question
and
take
Counsel
with
himself
,
and
say
,
Faciamus
hominem
ad
imaginem
nostram
,
thereby
to
make
man
more
honourable
than
any
other
Creature
:
So
he
concludes
to
make
him
one
part
earthly
,
and
two
parts
heavenly
;
he
gave
him
a
terrene
Body
,
but
an
immortal
Soul
,
a
Divine
shape
with
his
face
erect
towards
Heaven
,
and
his
Understanding
partly
Divine
,
and
partly
Natural
.
Thus
did
God
finish
the
Creation
in
making
man
,
and
did
assign
him
with
his
own
Stamp
,
so
that
we
have
Gods
Hand
and
Seal
for
it
.
Thus
was
man
formed
,
called
by
the
Greeks
{αβγδ}
,
in
reference
to
his
Manhood
and
Creation
;
but
{αβγδ}
,
in
reference
to
his
parts
,
he
being
an
Epitome
of
the
Macrocosm
or
greater
World
.
Now
let
us
inquire
how
Diseases
are
bred
in
the
Body
of
Man
,
and
how
he
comes
to
be
crazy
and
sickly
;
therefore
take
notice
,
I
told
you
there
were
Stars
in
the
Heavens
of
several
Natures
;
so
there
are
humours
in
the
body
of
man
that
are
governed
by
those
Stars
,
so
that
according
to
their
motion
,
Rays
and
Aspects
are
the
natural
humours
of
man
either
nourished
or
debilitated
,
inflamed
or
congealed
,
corrupted
or
cleansed
,
increased
or
extinguished
.
For
at
sometimes
by
their
cruel
Influence
they
do
inflame
the
blood
,
consume
the
Spirits
,
exhaust
the
humidum
radi●ale
,
and
render
Diseases
so
potent
,
they
will
not
answer
to
Physick
,
although
ingeniously
applied
;
witness
that
raging
Pestilence
1665.
and
that
Pestilential
Dysenteria
in
1670.
with
many
others
.
When
at
some
other
time
by
their
beneficial
Rays
,
they
proclaim
the
Voice
of
Joy
and
Health
among
us
,
and
make
that
Balsamick
,
which
before
was
Arsenical
.
Therefore
this
is
the
primum
mobile
of
all
Effects
,
and
the
very
Punctum
from
whence
we
must
derive
all
our
Prognosticks
,
both
in
Sickness
and
in
Health
,
and
from
whence
we
must
seek
an
account
of
the
Course
of
Nature
.
Now
having
run
over
the
Heads
of
the
Course
of
Nature
,
we
may
admire
the
greatness
of
God
in
the
Worlds
Creation
,
his
Mercy
in
its
preservation
,
and
his
Wisdom
in
its
operation
,
and
cry
out
with
the
Psalmist
,
Quam
magna
sunt
facta
tua
,
Jehova
,
valdè
profundae
sunt
cogitationes
tuae
,
Psal
.
92.
5.
Now
it
will
be
convenient
to
speak
something
concerning
the
Nature
and
Signs
of
certain
Diseases
,
which
I
think
,
if
rightly
considered
by
some
,
they
would
not
go
so
head-long
to
work
as
they
do
,
mistaking
one
thing
for
another
,
and
so
prove
the
Nurses
of
Diseases
.
The
Scurvy
is
a
Disease
very
common
among
us
;
and
because
common
,
but
little
taken
notice
of
;
when
indeed
it
is
the
very
Mother
of
all
Diseases
that
proceed
from
Obstructions
;
and
we
meet
it
daily
in
a
several
Guise
and
Habit
,
and
appearing
by
several
Symptoms
.
For
sometimes
it
is
discovered
by
Laxity
,
Costiveness
,
or
various
coloured
Urines
,
putrid
Gums
,
loose
Teeth
,
stinking
Breath
,
wandring
Joyntpains
,
Pustles
,
consumptive
Wastings
,
shortness
of
Breath
,
Suffocation
,
Stitches
,
Scurff
,
and
other
Eruptions
of
the
Skin
,
with
many
more
such
like
:
So
that
it
may
well
be
called
the
Protean
Disease
,
by
reason
of
its
various
shapes
.
But
because
there
be
many
that
have
this
disease
,
and
yet
are
unwilling
to
make
use
of
a
Physician
,
I
shall
for
their
benefit
prescribe
a
very
safe
,
easie
,
and
familiar
way
of
Cure
;
and
therefore
take
notice
,
the
Cure
consisteth
in
opening
Obstructions
,
in
carrying
of
the
filth
by
Purgation
,
and
by
corroborating
the
Body
;
and
first
begin
with
an
opening
Purge
,
thus
:
Take
Senna
cleansed
one
ounce
,
Rhubarb
one
dram
;
infuse
them
twenty
four
hours
in
a
pint
of
Ale
or
white
Wine
,
then
make
it
a
little
sharp
with
Oyl
of
Vitriol
;
and
take
half
an
ordinary
Beer-glass
full
in
a
morning
once
or
twice
a
week
,
and
it
will
open
the
Obstructions
,
and
finely
cleanse
the
body
.
And
because
gentle
Purgers
are
apt
to
stir
up
wind
,
you
may
take
in
every
Dose
as
much
Ginger
as
will
lye
on
a
shilling
or
more
.
For
a
strengthning
Medicine
,
Take
Mithridate
one
dram
,
Antimony
Diaphoretick
seven
grains
,
Salt
of
Scurvy-grass
one
scruple
:
mix
them
,
and
take
it
at
night
going
to
bed
,
drink
a
little
muld
Sack
after
it
,
and
sweat
if
you
can
.
This
continued
,
will
do
more
good
than
most
of
their
Chymical
Preparations
so
much
cryed
up
.
The
Dropsie
is
a
disease
that
generally
takes
its
beginning
from
a
cold
Liver
;
which
being
not
able
to
sanguifie
,
sendeth
a
waterish
humour
into
the
Cavity
of
the
Belly
,
which
by
degrees
swelleth
all
the
parts
of
the
body
:
so
that
after
due
Evacuations
,
good
Diet-drinks
,
is
the
best
Method
of
Cure
.
The
Consumption
is
a
disease
usually
coming
from
a
defluxive
Rheum
,
and
is
known
at
first
by
a
small
Feaver
,
afterwards
by
a
Cough
,
spitting
up
mattry
flegm
,
want
of
Appetite
,
looseness
of
the
Belly
,
with
other
such
Symptoms
;
yet
let
none
despair
of
a
Cure
,
if
not
too
far
spent
.
The
French
Pox
is
a
disease
not
known
always
by
a
Flux
of
the
Yard
,
but
by
Pains
,
Buboes
,
Nodes
,
putrid
Ulcers
,
and
such
like
signs
;
therefore
those
that
have
had
such
foul
play
in
the
Sport
of
Venus
,
let
them
not
fear
,
but
be
assured
of
a
Cure
without
Fluxing
,
Salivation
,
Unction
,
or
any
such
cursed
way
invented
rather
to
kill
,
than
cure
a
Patient
,
to
turn
Beauty
into
a
beastly
Visage
,
a
pleasant
Countenance
into
a
Face
like
Hell-flames
.
The
Stone
and
Gravel
is
both
painful
and
common
,
and
is
so
well
known
,
that
it
needeth
no
distinct
signs
to
be
laid
down
;
yet
take
notice
I
have
Remedies
that
few
or
none
know
besides
my self
,
and
hath
or
knows
will
certainly
cure
,
if
the
disease
be
not
so
rebellious
to
defie
all
Medicines
.
I
might
,
if
I
had
more
room
,
have
spoke
of
Agues
,
Feavers
,
Jaundice
,
Coughs
,
Itch
,
Womens
Diseases
,
pains
in
the
sides
,
Deafness
,
Worms
both
in
old
and
young
:
And
for
Womens
sore
Breasts
after
their
Delivery
;
I
have
a
most
specifick
Balsom
which
cureth
at
twice
dressing
,
if
there
is
no
Tumor
;
as
also
all
other
such
painful
Sores
.
But
I
shall
conclude
here
,
and
speak
something
to
the
second
Branch
of
Study
,
and
that
is
the
most
commendable
and
ingenious
Art
of
Astrology
,
by
so
many
abused
.
Let
us
therefore
see
what
things
are
predicable
by
the
Stars
,
nay
let
us
see
what
things
are
not
predicable
,
if
scanned
by
an
ingenious
Artist
.
I
wonder
some
think
ill
of
this
Art
,
I
do
ingage
it
is
neither
joyned
with
Magick
,
knit
to
Witchcraft
,
nor
supported
by
Cheating
;
but
harmless
,
legal
,
innocent
,
and
profitable
:
and
had
not
some
of
its
Professors
plaid
the
Knave
by
it
,
it
had
never
been
so
much
abused
by
the
Ignorant
;
for
it
is
one
of
the
most
ingenious
of
the
Mathematicks
,
because
it
discourseth
the
life
of
man
from
the
Cradle
to
the
Grave
;
yet
not
offensive
to
the
Almighties
will
.
By
this
may
the
life
of
man
be
handled
,
with
all
his
Diseases
,
Craziness
,
Discomposure
of
Body
,
occasioned
either
by
bad
directions
or
bad
revolutions
,
or
other
bad
Positions
of
the
malevolent
Stars
;
by
this
we
are
inabled
to
discover
whatsoever
depends
upon
the
wealth
of
one
born
,
whether
it
will
be
or
not
,
or
whether
it
will
continue
or
not
.
I
have
sometimes
admired
at
the
Sympathy
of
the
Heavens
with
our
Actions
,
when
I
have
seen
the
truth
experienced
concerning
Women
conceiving
with
Child
,
their
Delivery
,
together
with
the
Sex
of
the
Infant
;
so
that
if
Truth
may
speak
for
the
Art
,
why
should
Envy
contradict
it
?
Thus
I
have
given
you
a
Synopsis
of
the
Art
of
Astrology
,
assuring
you
that
all
that
can
be
done
by
Astrology
,
is
lawful
;
and
what
cannot
be
discovered
by
it
,
may
be
judged
to
be
the
secret
Counsels
of
the
Almighty
:
where
we
shall
conclude
,
and
tell
you
that
Physick
and
Astrology
in
all
its
parts
,
whether
Nativities
or
Questions
,
are
faithfully
studied
and
practised
by
me
.
John
Partridge
.
All
those
that
are
desirous
to
make
use
of
my
Judgment
,
either
Physically
or
Astrologically
,
let
them
repair
to
my
Lodging
,
a
little
below
the
Pay-Office
,
on
the
other
side
of
the
way
,
next
door
to
the
Kings-Head
in
Broad-street
,
near
Bishopsgate
,
where
I
shall
give
Attendance
till
three
of
the
Clock
in
the
Afternoon
,
where
they
shall
be
treated
civilly
,
discoursed
modestly
,
and
used
honestly
.