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             Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent.
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           HERMETICAL
           PHYSICK
           :
           
             OR
             ,
          
           The
           right
           way
           to
           preserve
           ,
           and
           to
           restore
           HEALTH
           .
        
         
           
             BY
          
           That
           famous
           and
           faithfull
           Chymist
           ,
           
             HENRY
             NOLLIVS
             .
          
        
         
           Englished
           by
           HENRY
           UAUGHAN
           ,
           Gent.
           
        
         
           
             LONDON
             .
          
           Printed
           for
           
             Humphrey
             Moseley
             ,
          
           and
           are
           to
           be
           sold
           at
           his
           shop
           ,
           at
           the
           
             Princes
             Armes
          
           in
           St.
           
             Pauls
             Church-Yard
             ,
          
           1655.
           
        
      
       
       
       
         
           THE
           TRANSLATOR
           To
           the
           ingenious
           READER
           .
        
         
           IF
           any
           will
           be
           offended
           with
           this
           
             Hermeticall
          
           Theorie
           ,
           I
           shall
           but
           smile
           at
           his
           
           frettings
           ,
           and
           pitty
           his
           ignorance
           .
           Those
           are
           bad
           Spirits
           ,
           that
           have
           the
           light
           ;
           and
           such
           are
           all
           malicious
           despisers
           of
           true
           knowledge
           ,
           who
           out
           of
           meere
           envie
           ,
           scribble
           and
           rail
           at
           all
           endeavours
           ;
           but
           such
           as
           submit
           to
           ,
           and
           Deifie
           their
           rigid
           superstition
           ,
           and
           twice
           sodden
           Colworts
           .
           For
           my
           owne
           part
           ,
           I
           honour
           the
           truth
           where
           ever
           I
           find
           it
           ,
           whether
           in
           an
           old
           ,
           or
           a
           new
           Booke
           ,
           in
           
           
             Galen
             ,
          
           or
           in
           
             Paracelsus
             ;
          
           and
           Antiquity
           ,
           (
           where
           I
           find
           it
           gray
           with
           errors
           )
           shall
           have
           as
           little
           reverence
           from
           me
           ,
           as
           
             Novelisme
             .
             Veritatem
             tempus
             manu-ducit
             .
          
           There
           is
           no
           reason
           (
           if
           they
           bind
           not
           their
           owne
           hands
           )
           but
           the
           discoveries
           of
           Survivers
           and
           Posterity
           ,
           may
           and
           should
           be
           more
           perfect
           ,
           then
           the
           superficiall
           searches
           ,
           and
           first
           attempts
           ▪
           or
           aims
           rather
           of
           their
           predecessors
           .
           I
           wish
           
           we
           were
           all
           unbiassed
           and
           impartiall
           learners
           ,
           not
           the
           implicite
           ,
           groundlesse
           Proselyts
           of
           Authors
           and
           opinions
           ,
           but
           the
           loyall
           friends
           and
           followers
           of
           truth
           .
           It
           would
           not
           then
           be
           impossible
           ,
           but
           that
           we
           might
           in
           a
           short
           time
           attain
           to
           that
           perfection
           ,
           which
           while
           it
           is
           envied
           in
           some
           ,
           will
           never
           bee
           found
           in
           all
           .
           As
           men
           are
           killed
           by
           fighting
           ,
           so
           truth
           is
           lost
           by
           disputing
           ;
           for
           while
           we
           study
           the
           
           figments
           and
           subtilties
           of
           Sophisters
           ,
           wee
           cannot
           search
           into
           the
           operations
           and
           virtues
           of
           nature
           .
           As
           many
           as
           wil
           consider
           this
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           improbable
           ,
           but
           they
           may
           do
           well
           .
           But
           despisers
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           hate
           to
           be
           quietly
           instructed
           ,
           must
           be
           punished
           with
           silence
           ,
           lest
           by
           seeking
           their
           peace
           ,
           we
           lose
           our
           owne
           .
        
         
           
           
             
               Plautus
               .
            
             
               Qui
               mali
               sunt
               ,
               habeant
               mala
               ;
               qui
               boni
               ,
               bona
               ;
               bonos
               quòd
               oderint
               mali
               ,
               sunt
               mali
               ;
               malos
               ,
               quod
               oderint
               boni
               ,
               bonos
               esse
               oportet
               .
            
          
        
      
    
     
       
       
         
           HERMETICALL
           PHYSICK
           &c.
           
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             I.
             
          
           
             
               Medicine
            
             or
             
               Physick
            
             is
             an
             Art
             ,
             laying
             down
             in
             certain
             Rules
             or
             Precepts
             ,
             the
             right
             way
             of
             preserving
             and
             restoring
             the
             health
             of
             Man-kind
             .
          
           
             THe
             word
             
               Medicine
               ,
            
             hath
             a
             manifold
             sense
             .
             First
             ,
             It
             is
             taken
             for
             some
             receipt
             or
             medicament
             .
             So
             the
             
               Philosophicall
               Stone
            
             is
             termed
             a
             Medicine
             .
             The
             
             Lord
             hath
             created
             Medicines
             out
             of
             the
             Earth
             ,
             and
             the
             wise
             man
             will
             not
             abhor
             them
             .
             Secondly
             ,
             It
             is
             taken
             for
             the
             habit
             ,
             or
             profession
             of
             the
             Physitian
             ,
             and
             then
             it
             signifies
             the
             faculty
             of
             curing
             existent
             in
             some
             learned
             and
             expert
             Professor
             .
             This
             habit
             or
             faculty
             is
             delineated
             ,
             or
             methodically
             described
             and
             laid
             down
             in
             the
             Dogmaticall
             Books
             of
             Physicians
             ,
             that
             others
             may
             learne
             and
             practise
             thereby
             .
             Thirdly
             ,
             It
             is
             taken
             for
             ,
             and
             signifies
             a
             Physicall
             System
             or
             Treatise
             ,
             and
             in
             this
             latter
             sence
             it
             is
             to
             be
             understood
             in
             this
             place
             .
          
           
             The
             Object
             of
             Medicine
             or
             Physick
             in
             this
             latter
             sence
             is
             ,
             Man
             ,
             not
             in
             general
             ,
             but
             that
             man
             onely
             who
             desires
             to
             learn
             the
             Art
             of
             Physick
             ,
             and
             is
             to
             be
             informed
             or
             instructed
             by
             this
             present
             Treatise
             :
             but
             the
             Object
             of
             Physick
             ,
             as
             it
             is
             an
             habit
             in
             the
             mind
             of
             the
             Physician
             ,
             is
             man
             in
             general
             ,
             either
             for
             the
             preserving
             
             or
             the
             restoring
             of
             his
             health
             .
             The
             operation
             ,
             use
             ,
             and
             end
             of
             Physick
             ,
             is
             health
             ;
             as
             the
             work
             and
             end
             of
             Physical
             books
             ,
             is
             a
             rightly
             principled
             and
             instructed
             Physitian
             ;
             so
             far
             as
             instruction
             goes
             :
             It
             is
             termed
             
               Hermetical
               Physicke
               ,
            
             because
             it
             is
             grounded
             upon
             
               Principles
            
             of
             true
             
               Philosophy
               ,
            
             as
             the
             Physick
             of
             
               Hermes
            
             was
             .
             And
             for
             this
             very
             reason
             the
             true
             Philosophers
             applyed
             themselves
             wholly
             to
             the
             
               Hermetic
            
             science
             ,
             that
             they
             might
             thereby
             lay
             a
             true
             foundation
             of
             Physick
             ,
             for
             the
             
               Hermetic
            
             Phylosophy
             layes
             open
             the
             most
             private
             and
             abstruse
             closets
             of
             nature
             ,
             it
             doth
             most
             exquisitely
             search
             and
             find
             out
             the
             natures
             of
             health
             and
             sickness
             ,
             it
             provides
             most
             elaborate
             and
             effectuall
             Medicines
             ,
             teacheth
             the
             just
             Dose
             of
             them
             ,
             and
             surpasseth
             by
             many
             degrees
             the
             vulgar
             Philosophy
             ,
             and
             that
             faculty
             which
             is
             grounded
             upon
             the
             principles
             of
             the
             common
             ,
             
             supposititious
             knowledge
             ,
             that
             is
             to
             say
             ,
             it
             doth
             much
             exceed
             and
             out
             do
             the
             
               Galenical
               Physick
               .
            
             This
             appears
             most
             evidently
             ,
             because
             the
             
               Hermetical
               Phisicians
            
             both
             can
             and
             frequently
             doe
             cure
             those
             diseases
             ,
             which
             the
             
               Galenists
            
             adjudge
             to
             be
             incurable
             ,
             as
             the
             Leprosie
             ,
             the
             falling
             sickness
             ,
             the
             Gout
             ,
             &c.
             
             That
             the
             Principles
             of
             the
             
               Hermetists
               ,
            
             are
             more
             certain
             then
             those
             of
             
               Galen
               ,
            
             is
             sufficiently
             verified
             by
             their
             performances
             ;
             besides
             ,
             it
             is
             a
             truth
             which
             cannot
             be
             denyed
             ,
             that
             the
             Certainty
             and
             proof
             of
             the
             principles
             of
             all
             Arts
             ,
             can
             by
             no
             other
             meanes
             be
             known
             and
             tryed
             but
             by
             practise
             ,
             as
             
               Paracelsus
            
             doth
             rightly
             urge
             
               In
               Praef●t
               .
            
             D
             
               fensionum
               ,
               page
            
             252.
             
             Now
             all
             the
             knowledge
             of
             the
             
               Hermetists
               ,
            
             proceeds
             from
             a
             laborious
             manual
             disquisition
             and
             search
             into
             nature
             ,
             but
             the
             
               Galenists
            
             insist
             wholly
             upon
             a
             bare
             received
             
               Theorie
            
             and
             prescribed
             Receits
             ,
             giving
             all
             at
             
             adventure
             and
             will
             not
             be
             perswaded
             to
             inquire
             further
             then
             the
             mouth
             of
             their
             leader
             .
             I
             call
             not
             those
             
               Hermetists
               ,
            
             who
             know
             onely
             to
             distil
             a
             little
             water
             from
             this
             or
             that
             Herb
             ;
             nor
             those
             ,
             who
             seeke
             to
             extract
             from
             other
             things
             by
             their
             sophistical
             operations
             a
             great
             treasure
             of
             Gold
             ,
             which
             onely
             nature
             can
             supply
             us
             with
             :
             for
             the
             most
             ignorant
             amongst
             the
             people
             ,
             may
             make
             a
             very
             useful
             Distiller
             ,
             and
             the
             other
             attempt
             is
             most
             commonly
             the
             task
             of
             Sophisters
             and
             Impostors
             :
             but
             I
             call
             them
             
               Hermetists
               ,
            
             who
             observe
             nature
             in
             her
             workes
             who
             imitate
             her
             ,
             and
             use
             the
             same
             method
             that
             she
             doth
             ,
             that
             out
             of
             nature
             ,
             by
             the
             mediation
             of
             nature
             ,
             and
             the
             assistance
             of
             their
             owne
             judgements
             ,
             they
             may
             produce
             and
             bring
             to
             light
             such
             rare
             effectual
             medicines
             ,
             as
             will
             safely
             ,
             speedily
             ,
             and
             pleasantly
             cure
             ,
             and
             utterly
             expell
             the
             most
             deplorable
             diseases
             .
             These
             
             are
             the
             true
             
               Hermetists
               :
            
             As
             therefore
             I
             doe
             not
             approve
             of
             all
             those
             that
             would
             be
             called
             
               Hermetists
               ,
            
             So
             neither
             doe
             I
             condemn
             all
             those
             ,
             who
             diligently
             and
             conscientiously
             practise
             the
             
               Galenicall
               Physick
               :
            
             for
             some
             of
             them
             are
             precize
             and
             petulant
             ,
             others
             are
             sober
             &
             modest
             :
             and
             these
             latter
             sort
             acknowledge
             the
             imperfection
             of
             their
             medicines
             ,
             and
             therefore
             they
             endeavour
             and
             take
             delight
             to
             adorne
             ,
             inlarge
             ,
             and
             accomplish
             their
             profession
             with
             the
             secrets
             of
             
               Hermetical
               Physick
               :
            
             but
             the
             other
             sort
             ascribe
             supreme
             perfection
             to
             that
             Ethnic
             ,
             Antichristian
             writer
             ,
             and
             his
             medicines
             ,
             and
             will
             not
             for
             meer
             envy
             ,
             or
             out
             of
             a
             childish
             depraved
             ignorance
             ▪
             looke
             upon
             the
             eminency
             of
             
               Hermetic
               Philosophy
               ,
            
             nor
             inquire
             into
             the
             secrets
             of
             it
             ,
             but
             seek
             rather
             by
             reprehending
             and
             carping
             those
             things
             they
             doe
             not
             understand
             ,
             to
             magnifie
             their
             own
             way
             ,
             and
             with
             peevish
             
             and
             virulent
             language
             ,
             raile
             at
             the
             
               Hermetic
            
             professors
             .
             Now
             as
             I
             preferre
             the
             
               Hermetical
            
             science
             to
             the
             medicines
             of
             these
             men
             :
             so
             (
             their
             Errours
             being
             first
             laid
             aside
             ,
             )
             I
             unite
             it
             with
             the
             Physick
             of
             the
             more
             sober
             
               Galenists
               ,
            
             that
             theirs
             by
             consoclation
             with
             ours
             ,
             may
             become
             perfect
             and
             irreprehensible
             :
          
           
             This
             
               Joseph
               Quercetar
               ,
            
             a
             most
             expert
             Physician
             ,
             and
             a
             learned
             Philosopher
             ,
             whom
             as
             my
             master
             in
             this
             science
             I
             worthily
             honour
             ,
             (
             for
             I
             must
             confess
             ,
             that
             by
             his
             instructions
             (
             God
             assisting
             me
             ,
             )
             I
             benefited
             very
             much
             ,
             )
             did
             most
             happily
             performe
             .
             And
             many
             learned
             men
             even
             in
             this
             Age
             design
             the
             same
             thing
             ,
             especially
             the
             professors
             of
             Physick
             in
             
               Marburg
               ,
            
             who
             by
             an
             express
             and
             memorable
             decree
             of
             the
             most
             illustrious
             and
             mighty
             Prince
             
               William
               Lantgrave
            
             of
             
               Hassia
               ,
            
             proceed
             in
             that
             very
             course
             .
             And
             who
             then
             can
             justly
             blame
             me
             ,
             for
             walking
             in
             the
             
             same
             path
             with
             such
             eminent
             men
             ?
             I
             shall
             conclude
             ,
             and
             give
             my
             judgement
             with
             learned
             
               Crollius
            
             (
             a
             man
             who
             for
             the
             advancement
             of
             the
             true
             Physick
             ,
             was
             most
             worthy
             of
             a
             longer
             life
             )
             that
             whosoever
             desires
             to
             be
             eminent
             in
             the
             Art
             of
             Physick
             ,
             (
             and
             none
             can
             be
             so
             ,
             that
             will
             study
             onely
             the
             
               Placets
            
             of
             one
             man
             )
             must
             (
             above
             all
             things
             )
             be
             unbiassed
             and
             addicted
             to
             no
             Sect
             ,
             nor
             aany
             one
             Author
             whatsoever
             ,
             but
             passe
             through
             them
             all
             in
             pursuit
             of
             the
             sincere
             truth
             ,
             and
             subscribe
             only
             unto
             that
             ,
             being
             mindful
             ever
             to
             preserve
             the
             same
             freedome
             for
             himself
             ,
             which
             
               Horace
            
             did
             .
          
           
             
               
                 
                   Quo
                   me
                   cunque
                   rapit
                   tempestas
                   ,
                   deferor
                   hospe●
                   ,
                
              
               
                 
                   Nullius
                   addictus
                   jurare
                   in
                   verba
                   Magistri
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 Where-e'r
                 my
                 fancy
                 calls
                 ,
                 there
                 I
                 goe
                 still
                 ,
              
               
                 Not
                 sworne
                 a
                 slave
                 to
                 any
                 Masters
                 will
                 .
              
            
          
           
           
             
               II.
               
            
             
               
                 Health
                 is
                 an
                 incorrupt
                 integrity
                 ,
                 and
                 soundnesse
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 preserved
                 by
                 ,
                 and
                 depending
                 upon
                 the
                 strength
                 and
                 virtue
                 of
                 the
                 radical
                 Balsame
                 .
              
            
             
               WHence
               followes
               this
               Consequence
               ,
               that
               the
               more
               strong
               and
               virtual
               the
               Balsame
               is
               ,
               so
               much
               the
               more
               vegetous
               and
               healthful
               is
               the
               body
               .
            
          
           
             
               III.
               
            
             
               
                 The
                 strength
                 and
                 virtue
                 of
                 the
                 Balsame
                 ,
                 depends
                 upon
                 the
                 equal
                 and
                 mutual
                 conspiration
                 of
                 the
                 Hypostatical
                 Principles
                 ,
                 that
                 by
                 their
                 even
                 and
                 peaceful
                 consistency
                 ,
                 the
                 Balsame
                 also
                 may
                 legitimately
                 perform
                 his
                 functions
                 ,
                 by
                 which
                 he
                 may
                 advantage
                 and
                 strengthen
                 himself
                 with
                 the
                 received
                 aliment
                 or
                 food
                 which
                 is
                 taken
                 in
                 ,
                 and
                 may
                 also
                 (
                 when
                 separation
                 is
                 performed
                 
                 by
                 the
                 stomack
                 ,
                 )
                 cast
                 out
                 through
                 his
                 proper
                 Emunctories
                 what
                 is
                 not
                 nutritive
                 ,
                 and
                 may
                 further
                 provide
                 that
                 the
                 seeds
                 of
                 diseases
                 (
                 if
                 any
                 lurk
                 in
                 the
                 flesh
                 ,
                 or
                 in
                 the
                 blood
                 ,
                 in
                 the
                 disguise
                 of
                 that
                 tincture
                 ,
                 )
                 break
                 not
                 out
                 ,
                 and
                 bring
                 suddain
                 destruction
                 to
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 or
                 else
                 may
                 cause
                 that
                 those
                 ●ll
                 seeds
                 may
                 by
                 the
                 balsames
                 strength
                 and
                 vigour
                 ,
                 be
                 cast
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 body
                 as
                 superfluous
                 impurities
                 ,
                 which
                 cannot
                 consist
                 with
                 the
                 health
                 of
                 man
                 .
              
            
             
               IT
               is
               truth
               therefore
               which
               the
               most
               noble
               and
               learned
               
                 Crollius
              
               speaks
               in
               his
               preface
               to
               his
               
                 Basilica
                 Chymica
                 :
              
               In
               what
               body
               soever
               (
               saith
               he
               )
               the
               
                 Hypostatical
              
               principles
               consist
               by
               union
               ,
               that
               body
               may
               be
               judged
               to
               be
               truly
               sound
               .
            
          
           
           
             
               IV.
               
            
             
               
                 Medicine
              
               or
               
                 Physick
                 ,
              
               treats
               either
               of
               the
               preservation
               ,
               or
               of
               the
               restoration
               of
               health
               .
            
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             2.
             
          
           
             Of
             the
             preservation
             of
             Health
             .
          
           
             THat
             part
             of
             Physick
             which
             treates
             of
             the
             preserving
             of
             health
             ,
             is
             an
             Art
             ,
             which
             by
             certaine
             cautionary
             Rules
             ,
             or
             Precepts
             ,
             teacheth
             and
             prescribeth
             a
             certain
             way
             and
             meanes
             to
             defend
             and
             save
             people
             from
             diseases
             .
          
           
             It
             is
             by
             the
             
               Graecians
            
             termed
             
               {non-Roman}
               {non-Roman}
               {non-Roman}
               {non-Roman}
               {non-Roman}
            
             :
             To
             effect
             what
             this
             Art
             promiseth
             ,
             I
             give
             these
             following
             Precepts
             .
          
           
           
             
               I.
               
            
             
               Lead
               a
               pious
               and
               an
               holy
               life
               .
            
             
               FOr
               Piety
               (
               as
               the
               Apostle
               teacheth
               )
               is
               profitable
               for
               all
               things
               ,
               having
               the
               promise
               of
               this
               present
               life
               ,
               and
               of
               that
               which
               is
               to
               come
               .
               Now
               all
               piety
               consists
               in
               thi●
               ,
               that
               we
               love
               God
               with
               all
               our
               souls
               ,
               and
               our
               Neighbours
               as
               our selves
               .
               Wonder
               not
               therefore
               ,
               that
               so
               many
               in
               this
               age
               perish
               so
               suddainly
               and
               so
               soon
               .
               Impiety
               now
               bears
               the
               sway
               :
               true
               and
               unfeigned
               charity
               hath
               no
               place
               to
               abide
               in
               ;
               Perjury
               ,
               Treachery
               ,
               Tyranny
               ,
               Usury
               and
               Avarice
               ,
               or
               (
               where
               these
               are
               not
               ,
               )
               a
               vicious
               ,
               lascivious
               ,
               and
               loose
               life
               ,
               are
               every where
               in
               request
               .
               The
               soul
               ,
               which
               God
               made
               and
               ordained
               to
               be
               the
               nobler
               essence
               ,
               and
               the
               mistress
               ,
               is
               now
               the
               bond-woman
               ,
               and
               the
               serviledrudge
               to
               the
               vile
               body
               .
               We
               daily
               see
               ,
               that
               one
               Groom
               will
               serve
               to
               
               dresse
               and
               look
               to
               many
               Horses
               ,
               one
               sheepheard
               will
               keep
               a
               thousand
               sheep
               ,
               one
               Herdsman
               as
               many
               Kine
               or
               Oxen
               :
               but
               to
               dresse
               and
               feed
               one
               voluptuous
               body
               
                 
                   There
                   's
                   need
                   (
                   betwixt
                   his
                   clothes
                   ,
                   his
                   bed
                   and
                   bord
                   ,
                   )
                
                 
                   Of
                   all
                   that
                   Earth
                   and
                   Sea
                   ,
                   and
                   Air
                   afford
                   .
                
              
            
             
               And
               I
               would
               to
               God
               that
               all
               these
               would
               suffice
               !
               A
               most
               unhappy
               truth
               was
               that
               of
               the
               
                 Stoic
                 ,
              
               He
               is
               a
               servant
               to
               many
               ,
               that
               serves
               but
               one
               body
               :
               for
               doe
               but
               imagine
               thy selfe
               placed
               in
               the
               Clouds
               ,
               or
               neare
               the
               Starres
               ,
               and
               from
               thence
               to
               looke
               down
               and
               observe
               our
               actions
               upon
               earth
               ,
               thou
               shalt
               not
               see
               one
               man
               quiet
               ,
               they
               runne
               all
               as
               busie
               as
               Ants
               over
               Sea
               and
               Land
               ,
               through
               Citty
               and
               Country
               ,
               by
               right
               and
               wrong
               ,
               to
               become
               Lordly
               and
               rich
               .
            
             
             
               
                 With
                 restless
                 cares
                 they
                 wast
                 the
                 night
                 and
                 day
                 ,
              
               
                 To
                 compasse
                 great
                 Estates
                 ,
                 and
                 get
                 the
                 sway
                 .
              
            
             
               What
               wouldst
               thou
               say
               at
               such
               a
               sight
               as
               this
               ?
               wouldst
               not
               thou
               cry
               out
               with
               
                 Seneca
                 ,
                 Oh
                 the
                 faith
                 of
                 God
                 and
                 men
                 !
              
               how
               many
               persons
               doth
               one
               ambitious
               stomach
               imploy
               ?
               If
               brutes
               and
               wild
               beasts
               devour
               or
               eat
               one
               another
               (
               unless
               they
               be
               compelled
               unto
               it
               by
               extream
               famine
               )
               we
               presently
               cry
               out
               ,
               it
               is
               a
               prodigie
               :
               but
               what
               thing
               (
               I
               beseech
               thee
               )
               amongst
               mankind
               ,
               is
               more
               frequent
               then
               such
               prodigies
               ?
               The
               Satyrist
               askes
               the
               question
               ,
               
                 
                   
                     —
                     When
                     ever
                     did
                     (
                     I
                     pray
                     ,
                     )
                  
                   
                     One
                     Lyon
                     take
                     anothers
                     life
                     away
                     ?
                  
                   
                     Or
                     in
                     what
                     Forrest
                     did
                     a
                     wild
                     Bore
                     by
                  
                   
                     The
                     tusks
                     of
                     his
                     owne
                     fellow
                     wounded
                     ,
                     die
                     ?
                  
                   
                     Tygers
                     with
                     Tygers
                     never
                     have
                     debate
                     ,
                  
                   
                   
                     And
                     Beares
                     amongst
                     themselves
                     abstain
                     from
                     hate
                     .
                  
                
                 
                   
                     —
                     Quando
                     Leoni
                     ,
                  
                   
                     Fortior
                     eripuit
                     vitam
                     leo
                     ?
                     quo
                     nomore
                     unquam
                     ,
                  
                   
                     Expiravit
                     Aper
                     ,
                     &c.
                     
                  
                
              
            
             
               But
               men
               ,
               whom
               God
               adorned
               with
               rationall
               soules
               ,
               kill
               one
               another
               ,
               and
               those
               to
               whom
               nature
               ,
               reason
               ▪
               and
               the
               faculty
               of
               speech
               ,
               did
               (
               above
               any
               other
               creatures
               )
               commend
               love
               and
               unity
               ,
               do
               by
               troopes
               (
               as
               it
               were
               for
               spectacle
               and
               ostentation
               ,
               )
               murther
               and
               butcher
               themselves
               .
               Add
               to
               this
               ,
               that
               (
               as
               
                 Seneca
              
               saith
               )
               a
               Dogge
               will
               bite
               before
               he
               barks
               ;
               stormes
               will
               threaten
               us
               before
               they
               dissolve
               upon
               our
               heads
               ;
               buildings
               will
               crack
               before
               they
               fall
               ,
               and
               smoke
               will
               give
               us
               warning
               that
               fire
               is
               at
               hand
               :
               but
               the
               destruction
               of
               man
               by
               man
               is
               suddain
               ,
               and
               without
               the
               least
               notice
               :
               nay
               ,
               the
               nearer
               it
               is
               ,
               it
               is
               by
               so
               much
               the
               
               more
               diligently
               concealed
               .
               And
               what
               then
               is
               one
               man
               to
               another
               ?
               who
               smiles
               ,
               when
               he
               hates
               ,
               salutes
               and
               embraceth
               ,
               when
               he
               intends
               destruction
               ,
               who
               under
               a
               serene
               smooth
               countenance
               hides
               poyson
               ,
               violence
               and
               blood-shed
               ▪
               Certainly
               thou
               wilt
               erre
               ,
               and
               erre
               grievously
               ,
               if
               thou
               wilt
               trust
               to
               those
               faces
               ,
               that
               meet
               thee
               civilly
               ,
               and
               salute
               thee
               fairly
               :
               they
               have
               (
               indeed
               )
               the
               complexions
               of
               men
               ,
               but
               the
               conditions
               of
               Devils
               .
               Nay
               ,
               thou
               wilt
               meet
               with
               some
               ,
               who
               (
               as
               the
               same
               Satyrist
               hath
               observed
               ,
               )
               
                 
                   
                     Esteem
                     it
                     no
                     point
                     of
                     revenge
                     to
                     kill
                     ,
                  
                   
                     Vnless
                     they
                     may
                     drinke
                     up
                     the
                     blood
                     they
                     spill
                     ;
                  
                   
                     Who
                     do
                     believe
                     that
                     hands
                     ,
                     &
                     hearts
                     ,
                     and
                     heads
                     ,
                  
                   
                     Are
                     but
                     a
                     kind
                     of
                     moat
                     ,
                     &c.
                     
                  
                
                 
                   
                     —
                     Quorum
                     non
                     sufficit
                     irae
                     ,
                  
                   
                   
                     Occid●sse
                     aliquem
                     ,
                     sed
                     pectora
                     ,
                     brachia
                     ,
                     vultus
                  
                   
                     Crediderint
                     genus
                     esse
                     cibi
                     ,
                     &c.
                     
                  
                
              
            
             
               But
               thou
               wilt
               reply
               ,
               that
               Salvages
               ,
               Barbarians
               ,
               and
               Canibals
               ,
               may
               (
               perhaps
               )
               commit
               such
               villanies
               .
               Art
               thou
               no
               better
               acquainted
               with
               our
               Saints
               of
               
                 Europe
                 ?
              
               that
               humane
               society
               and
               commerce
               ,
               that
               godlinesse
               and
               sanctity
               ,
               which
               we
               so
               much
               celebrate
               and
               commend
               our selves
               for
               ,
               is
               nothing
               else
               but
               meere
               monopolizing
               ,
               meere
               deceit
               ,
               and
               a
               mutuall
               imposture
               .
               And
               amongst
               us
               Saints
               ,
               who
               (
               in
               our
               owne
               opinion
               )
               are
               mighty
               righteous
               ,
               tender-hearted
               and
               brotherly
               ,
               there
               is
               nothing
               more
               usuall
               ,
               then
               to
               have
               store
               of
               
                 Anthropophagi
                 ,
              
               or
               Men-eaters
               :
               for
               the
               rich
               ,
               and
               the
               great
               amongst
               us
               ,
               not
               onely
               feed
               upon
               and
               live
               by
               the
               sweat
               ,
               the
               slaughter
               ,
               and
               the
               blood
               of
               the
               poor
               and
               opprest
               ,
               but
               esteem
               them
               (
               of
               all
               others
               )
               their
               choicest
               dainties
               ,
               
               for
               they
               are
               swallowed
               without
               much
               chewing
               ,
               and
               there
               is
               none
               to
               deliver
               them
               :
               Insomuch
               that
               those
               sheepheards
               ,
               who
               were
               said
               to
               flay
               their
               sheep
               ,
               robbing
               them
               of
               their
               Wool
               their
               skins
               ,
               and
               their
               flesh
               ,
               and
               leaving
               them
               onely
               their
               bare
               bones
               ,
               may
               be
               truly
               said
               to
               be
               more
               merciful
               then
               those
               men
               .
               So
               that
               man
               to
               man
               ,
               is
               no
               more
               a
               God
               ,
               but
               a
               Woolf
               and
               a
               Devil
               .
               Wonder
               not
               then
               (
               as
               I
               said
               before
               ,
               )
               that
               so
               many
               amongst
               us
               dye
               so
               suddainly
               ,
               and
               so
               soon
               for
               they
               had
               rather
               die
               sooner
               ,
               yea
               and
               die
               for
               ever
               ,
               then
               become
               sober
               ▪
               charitable
               ▪
               and
               truly
               pious
               .
            
          
           
             
               II.
               
            
             
               Follow
               after
               Sobriety
               .
            
             
               FOr
               as
               drunkenness
               and
               immoderate
               feeding
               oppress
               and
               weaken
               the
               virtue
               of
               the
               radical
               balsame
               :
               so
               sobriety
               preserves
               from
               sickness●
               ,
               and
               diseases
               .
               Sober
               above
               most
               Kings
               
               was
               
                 Massinissa
              
               the
               
                 Numidiar
                 ,
              
               who
               standing
               alwaies
               ,
               and
               at
               his
               Tentdoore
               ,
               would
               in
               the
               open
               field
               eat
               his
               meat
               without
               sauce
               ,
               being
               contented
               with
               dry
               bread
               ,
               and
               military
               Commons
               .
               For
               which
               very
               reason
               he
               was
               so
               vegetous
               in
               old
               age
               ,
               that
               at
               the
               years
               of
               fourscore
               and
               six
               ,
               he
               begat
               a
               Sonne
               ,
               and
               after
               ninety
               two
               ,
               did
               in
               a
               pitched
               field
               over-throw
               the
               
                 Carthaginians
                 ,
              
               who
               had
               broken
               their
               league
               made
               with
               him
               ;
               in
               which
               battel
               he
               did
               not
               onely
               supply
               the
               place
               of
               an
               active
               ,
               and
               expert
               Leader
               ,
               but
               performed
               all
               the
               duties
               of
               a
               common
               Souldier
               .
               By
               the
               benefit
               of
               this
               virtue
               of
               temperance
               ,
               did
               M.
               
                 Valerius
                 Corvinus
              
               live
               to
               be
               an
               hundred
               years
               old
               ▪
               and
               retain'd
               at
               that
               age
               a
               sound
               mind
               in
               a
               sound
               body
               .
               And
               
                 Socrates
              
               continued
               all
               his
               life
               long
               in
               a
               perfect
               undisturbed
               health
               :
               yea
               ,
               sobriety
               (
               if
               we
               should
               fall
               sick
               ,
               )
               will
               restore
               us
               to
               health
               .
               There
               are
               some
               who
               think
               ,
               that
               
                 Caesar
              
               
               used
               no
               other
               remedy
               to
               cure
               his
               falling
               sicknesse
               ,
               which
               tooke
               him
               first
               at
               
                 Corduba
              
               in
               
                 Spaine
                 ,
              
               so
               that
               by
               a
               meere
               spare
               dyet
               ,
               hard
               labours
               ,
               and
               tedious
               watchings
               ,
               he
               escaped
               ,
               and
               overcame
               that
               dangerous
               and
               most
               commonly
               fatall
               in
               disposition
               .
            
          
           
             
               III.
               
            
             
               Eat
               not
               greedily
               ,
               and
               drink
               not
               immoderately
               .
            
             
               NAture
               in
               Vegetables
               ,
               doth
               not
               swallow
               down
               her
               nutriment
               ,
               nor
               take
               it
               in
               ravenously
               ,
               and
               all
               at
               a
               time
               .
               She
               doth
               all
               things
               leasurely
               ,
               and
               by
               degrees
               ,
               that
               her
               
                 motion
              
               may
               be
               covenient
               and
               useful
               ,
               or
               assisting
               to
               her
               
                 Preservation
                 .
              
               It
               is
               thy
               concernment
               to
               imitate
               Nature
               ,
               and
               to
               do
               as
               she
               doth
               ,
               when
               thou
               dost
               eat
               ,
               and
               when
               thou
               dost
               drink
               .
               It
               is
               a
               most
               foul
               blemish
               upon
               the
               memory
               of
               
                 Alexander
                 ,
              
               that
               after
               most
               of
               his
               Victories
               ,
               he
               used
               to
               riot
               it
               with
               his
               
               Officers
               ,
               inviting
               them
               to
               delicious
               and
               sumptuous
               feasts
               ,
               in
               which
               he
               used
               alwaies
               to
               drink
               
                 Prizes
                 ,
              
               and
               he
               that
               could
               tun
               in
               more
               then
               all
               the
               rest
               ,
               was
               rewarded
               with
               a
               Talent
               :
               But
               this
               intemperate
               eating
               and
               drinking
               ,
               did
               cast
               him
               into
               such
               a
               violent
               ,
               suddaine
               disease
               ,
               that
               within
               three
               dayes
               he
               dyed
               of
               it
               .
            
          
           
             
               IV.
               
            
             
               Let
               thy
               meat
               be
               simple
               and
               unarted
               .
            
             
               FOr
               such
               victuals
               (
               saith
               the
               most
               industrious
               
                 Pliny
                 ,
              
               )
               are
               the
               most
               wholesome
               and
               agreeable
               :
               Nature
               is
               but
               one
               ,
               therefore
               she
               doth
               most
               delight
               in
               one
               kinde
               of
               meate
               and
               drink
               .
               Whence
               followes
               this
               consequence
               ,
               
                 
                   Thou
                   shouldest
                   never
                   at
                   one
                   meal
                   feed
                   upon
                   divers
                   sorts
                   of
                   meats
                   &
                   drinks
                   .
                
              
            
             
             
               For
               they
               are
               of
               an
               Heterogeneous
               nature
               ,
               and
               the
               fire
               of
               Nature
               ,
               which
               is
               but
               one
               and
               the
               same
               cannot
               work
               equally
               upon
               them
               all
               ,
               and
               prepare
               (
               legitimately
               )
               a
               nutriment
               for
               his
               own
               body
               ,
               out
               of
               divers
               and
               differing
               cibations
               .
               Every
               thing
               the
               nearer
               it
               is
               to
               unitie
               ,
               is
               by
               so
               much
               the
               more
               perfect
               and
               durable
               .
               There
               are
               infinite
               sorts
               of
               Trees
               which
               live
               very
               long
               ,
               but
               they
               use
               all
               of
               them
               (
               without
               change
               )
               onely
               one
               kind
               of
               nutriment
               :
               But
               if
               it
               be
               so
               ,
               that
               thou
               canst
               not
               abstaine
               from
               variety
               of
               meats
               ,
               yet
               be
               sure
               (
               if
               possibly
               thou
               canst
               )
               that
               they
               have
               some
               agreement
               and
               correlation
               amongst
               themselves
               :
               For
               Contraries
               ,
               (
               as
               
                 Hippocrates
              
               affirmes
               )
               will
               move
               sedition
               and
               differences
               ,
               while
               some
               of
               them
               are
               sooner
               ,
               some
               latter
               digested
               and
               communicated
               to
               the
               body
               .
               
                 Octavius
                 Augustus
                 ,
              
               would
               never
               have
               above
               three
               dishes
               of
               meat
               to
               his
               supper
               :
               Imitate
               him
               ,
               and
               use
               not
               too
               
               much
               indulgence
               towards
               thy selfe
               ,
               so
               shalt
               thou
               live
               the
               longer
               and
               the
               better
               .
            
          
           
             
               V.
               
            
             
               Accustome
               not
               thy selfe
               suddainly
               to
               meats
               and
               drinks
               ,
               which
               formerly
               thou
               hast
               not
               been
               used
               to
               feed
               upon
               ,
               unlesse
               they
               be
               prescribed
               thee
               by
               some
               expert
               and
               learned
               Physician
               for
               thy
               healths
               sake
               .
            
             
               FOr
               every
               Change
               is
               dangerous
               .
               Nature
               is
               simple
               and
               alwayes
               the
               same
               :
               Other
               manner
               of
               operation
               is
               simple
               too
               ,
               and
               without
               change
               ,
               and
               she
               delights
               altogether
               in
               constancy
               ,
               and
               simple
               nutriments
               :
               but
               if
               thou
               dost
               change
               ,
               she
               also
               will
               suffer
               the
               like
               change
               .
               We
               see
               daily
               ,
               that
               those
               birds
               which
               are
               taken
               ,
               and
               put
               into
               Cages
               ,
               by
               changing
               their
               naturall
               dyet
               ,
               fall
               into
               divers
               diseases
               ,
               and
               dye
               frequently
               .
               A
               Lamb
               that
               is
               nourished
               with
               the
               milk
               
               of
               a
               Cow
               ,
               seldome
               comes
               to
               any
               improvement
               ,
               but
               most
               commonly
               dyes
               .
            
          
           
             
               VI
               .
            
             
               Use
               Antidotes
               frequently
               ,
               to
               preserve
               thee
               from
               poysons
               ,
               and
               private
               or
               accidental
               mischiefes
               .
            
             
               LEst
               thou
               perish
               by
               venemous
               meats
               or
               drinks
               ,
               or
               by
               the
               aire
               thou
               livest
               in
               ,
               which
               may
               be
               poysoned
               as
               well
               as
               thy
               food
               .
               
                 Mithridates
              
               by
               the
               frequent
               use
               of
               an
               Antidote
               ,
               which
               from
               him
               is
               still
               called
               Mithridate
               ,
               did
               so
               strengthen
               nature
               ,
               that
               no
               poyson
               could
               hurt
               him
               :
               And
               when
               he
               tooke
               a
               venemous
               ,
               deadly
               confection
               of
               purpose
               to
               kill
               himselfe
               ,
               it
               could
               not
               so
               much
               as
               make
               him
               sick
               :
               So
               that
               being
               overthrown
               in
               battel
               by
               his
               Enemies
               ,
               and
               not
               being
               able
               to
               poyson
               himselfe
               ,
               he
               was
               forced
               to
               command
               his
               Armour-bearer
               to
               thrust
               him
               through
               ,
               and
               so
               dyed
               .
               There
               be
               divers
               
               kinds
               of
               Antidotes
               .
               I
               shall
               onely
               mention
               the
               most
               effectuall
               .
               The
               first
               is
               
                 Quercetanus
                 ,
              
               his
               confection
               of
               
                 Juniper
              
               and
               
                 Vipers
                 ,
              
               described
               by
               him
               in
               his
               private
               dispensatory
               ,
               
                 page
              
               349.
               
               The
               second
               is
               his
               blessed
               
                 Theriac
                 :
              
               the
               third
               ,
               his
               celestiall
               
                 Theriac
                 ,
              
               called
               so
               by
               way
               of
               Eminency
               ,
               and
               described
               both
               in
               the
               same
               Book
               .
               The
               fourth
               is
               (
               
                 rollius
              
               his
               
                 Theriac
              
               of
               
                 Mummie
                 ,
              
               with
               another
               very
               soveraigne
               ,
               one
               described
               by
               him
               in
               his
               
                 Bafilica
                 Chymica
                 .
              
               Use
               these
               Antidotes
               according
               to
               the
               Philosophers
               prescriptions
               ,
               and
               (
               God
               assisting
               )
               no
               poyson
               shall
               be
               able
               to
               hurt
               thee
               .
            
          
           
             
               VII
               .
            
             
               Fly
               contagious
               airs
               ,
               and
               if
               the
               aire
               thou
               livest
               in
               ,
               be
               infected
               ,
               change
               thy
               habitation
               .
            
          
           
             
               VIII
               .
            
             
               Take
               Physick
               in
               the
               spring-time
               ,
               
               and
               in
               the
               Autumne
               .
            
             
               LEt
               us
               consider
               the
               nature
               of
               Serpents
               and
               Vipers
               :
               these
               in
               our
               stated
               seasons
               of
               Spring
               &
               Fall
               ,
               cast
               off
               their
               old
               skins
               ,
               and
               are
               clothed
               with
               new
               .
               That
               Medicine
               or
               course
               of
               Physick
               ,
               which
               in
               all
               its
               circumstances
               answers
               to
               the
               great
               world
               ,
               will
               work
               the
               more
               easily
               ,
               the
               more
               prosperously
               ,
               and
               will
               have
               the
               greatest
               effect
               .
               Seeing
               therefore
               that
               Trees
               ,
               and
               all
               Roots
               ,
               which
               in
               the
               Winter
               time
               seem
               dead
               ,
               doe
               about
               the
               entrance
               of
               the
               Spring
               break
               forth
               and
               bud
               ,
               putting
               on
               greenness
               ,
               and
               a
               renew'd
               youthfulnesse
               and
               fresh
               vivacity
               as
               it
               were
               ,
               therefore
               the
               wise
               
                 Ancients
              
               did
               at
               the
               very
               same
               time
               (
               by
               observing
               them
               )
               take
               their
               purging
               and
               restorative
               Physick
               ,
               and
               by
               that
               meanes
               (
               God
               cooperating
               with
               them
               )
               did
               mightily
               strengthen
               nature
               ,
               and
               multiply
               their
               dayes
               upon
               earth
               .
               Such
               Physick
               
               as
               this
               ,
               is
               the
               starre
               of
               man
               imprognated
               with
               the
               Physicall
               tincture
               .
               Others
               use
               onely
               the
               Philosophicall
               stone
               These
               glorious
               medicines
               (
               whomsoever
               God
               shall
               reveale
               them
               to
               ,
               )
               may
               in
               their
               just
               Dose
               be
               taken
               once
               in
               every
               week
               to
               the
               singular
               comfort
               ,
               and
               incredible
               improvement
               of
               nature
               :
               So
               the
               Philosophers
               tell
               me
               .
               The
               dose
               of
               the
               universall
               medicine
               ,
               is
               the
               weight
               of
               one
               graine
               .
            
          
           
             
               IX
               .
            
             
               Vse
               not
               too
               freqnently
               ,
               the
               permissions
               of
               Marriage
               .
            
             
               MAn
               for
               procreations
               sake
               ,
               should
               not
               abhorre
               the
               Concessions
               and
               Priviledges
               of
               lawfull
               love
               ,
               but
               let
               him
               eschew
               all
               wantonnesse
               ,
               and
               confine
               his
               desires
               to
               naturall
               ▪
               and
               legitimate
               ,
               and
               that
               too
               within
               the
               bounds
               of
               Wedlock
               :
               But
               in
               this
               also
               there
               must
               be
               moderation
               .
               
               
                 Solons
              
               Law
               was
               thrice
               in
               the
               moneth
               .
               Emission
               of
               seed
               weakens
               all
               bodies
               :
               This
               experience
               tells
               us
               ,
               for
               men
               that
               are
               addicted
               to
               this
               intemperance
               ,
               have
               the
               most
               nice
               and
               tender
               constitutions
               ,
               easily
               offended
               ,
               and
               seldome
               fruitfull
               ▪
               like
               Trees
               ,
               which
               bearing
               too
               much
               in
               one
               year
               ,
               yeeld
               nothing
               but
               leaves
               in
               the
               next
               .
               You
               are
               to
               understand
               from
               this
               
                 Paragraph
                 ,
              
               that
               seed
               is
               two-fold
               ,
               
                 Radical
                 ,
              
               and
               
                 Prolific
                 .
              
               The
               Radical
               seed
               ,
               is
               the
               innate
               balsame
               of
               the
               body
               ,
               which
               if
               it
               be
               advantaged
               with
               perfect
               digestion
               ,
               will
               yeeld
               effusion
               ,
               and
               a
               balsame
               of
               the
               same
               nature
               as
               it selfe
               .
               In
               this
               balsame
               the
               body
               lives
               as
               in
               his
               proper
               seed
               .
               Hence
               
                 Anonymus
                 Leschus
                 ,
              
               Tract.
               7.
               instructs
               us
               ,
               that
               so
               long
               as
               there
               is
               seed
               in
               the
               body
               it
               lives
               ;
               but
               the
               seed
               being
               consumed
               ▪
               the
               body
               dies
               .
               It
               is
               no
               wonder
               then
               ,
               that
               so
               many
               have
               perished
               by
               the
               intemperance
               ,
               
               who
               
                 *
              
               going
               to
               bed
               in
               a
               vegetous
               ,
               perfect
               health
               ,
               were
               found
               dead
               next
               morning
               .
               If
               you
               excite
               a
               Tree
               to
               bear
               fruit
               by
               violent
               and
               unnatural
               means
               ,
               or
               by
               artificiall
               ,
               as
               by
               kindling
               fire
               under
               his
               branches
               in
               an
               unseasonable
               time
               ,
               you
               will
               but
               kill
               the
               Tree
               ,
               and
               manifest
               your
               own
               indiscretion
               .
            
          
        
         
         
         
           
             CHAP.
             3.
             
          
           
             Of
             Diseases
             in
             Generall
             .
          
           
             HItherto
             we
             have
             spoken
             onely
             of
             that
             part
             of
             Physick
             ,
             which
             teacheth
             us
             to
             preserve
             health
             ;
             It
             remaines
             now
             ,
             that
             we
             consider
             the
             other
             part
             ,
             which
             treats
             of
             the
             restitution
             of
             health
             .
          
           
             
               I.
               
            
             
               That
               part
               of
               Physick
               which
               teacheth
               us
               the
               restoration
               of
               health
               ,
               is
               an
               Art
               laying
               down
               in
               certaine
               precepts
               or
               rules
               ,
               a
               sure
               &
               safe
               way
               to
               redeem
               or
               free
               sick
               persons
               from
               diseases
               .
               It
               is
               termed
               by
               th●Grecians
               
                 {non-Roman}
                 {non-Roman}
                 {non-Roman}
                 {non-Roman}
                 {non-Roman}
              
               .
            
          
           
             
               II.
               
            
             
               
                 In
                 this
                 we
                 are
                 to
                 consider
                 ,
                 first
                 ,
                 the
                 disease
                 ,
                 and
                 all
                 its
                 circumstances
                 :
                 secondly
                 ,
                 the
                 cure
                 of
                 it
                 .
              
            
             
             
               For
               the
               true
               method
               consists
               in
               knowing
               ,
               first
               the
               disease
               ,
               and
               afterwards
               the
               cure
               .
               The
               Doctrine
               of
               diseases
               ,
               is
               termed
               by
               the
               
                 Grecians
                 ,
              
               
                 {non-Roman}
                 {non-Roman}
                 {non-Roman}
                 {non-Roman}
                 {non-Roman}
              
               .
            
          
           
             
               III.
               
            
             
               Disease
               or
               sicknesse
               ,
               is
               a
               privation
               ,
               or
               the
               loss
               of
               health
               .
            
          
           
             
               IV.
               
            
             
               Therefore
               ;
               because
               health
               depends
               upon
               the
               strength
               and
               vigour
               of
               the
               radical
               balsame
               ,
               sicknesse
               must
               needs
               proceed
               from
               the
               weaknesse
               and
               indisposition
               of
               it
               .
            
          
           
             
               V.
               
            
             
               
                 But
                 when
                 the
                 strength
                 of
                 the
                 Balsame
                 followes
                 the
                 conspiration
                 of
                 the
                 Hypostatical
                 principles
                 ,
                 as
                 his
                 proper
                 
                   {non-Roman}
                   {non-Roman}
                   {non-Roman}
                   {non-Roman}
                   {non-Roman}
                
                 ●r
                 inclinatior
                 ,
                 then
                 or
                 in
                 that
                 cause
                 the
                 insirmity
                 of
                 the
                 balsame
                 proceeds
                 from
                 the
                 ind●sposition
                 of
                 the
                 principles
                 .
                 
                 Whence
                 followes
                 this
                 consequence
                 .
              
            
             
               THat
               those
               bodies
               ,
               whose
               principles
               agree
               not
               amongst
               themselves
               ,
               may
               be
               truly
               judged
               to
               be
               sickly
               and
               ill
               disposed
               .
            
          
           
             
               VI
               .
            
             
               Touching
               the
               disease
               ,
               there
               are
               two
               things
               to
               be
               considered
               .
               First
               ,
               The
               conjoyn'd
               and
               apparent
               cause
               of
               the
               disease
               ,
               which
               we
               shall
               terme
               
                 Extrarious
                 .
              
               Secondly
               ,
               the
               cause
               of
               that
               Extrarious
               or
               conjoyn'd
               cause
               .
            
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             4.
             
          
           
             Of
             the
             Extrarious
             or
             conjoyned
             and
             apparent
             Cause
             of
             the
             Disease
             .
          
           
             
               I.
               
            
             
               The
               conjoyned
               '
               apparent
               cause
               of
               the
               
               disease
               ,
               I
               terme
               
                 *
              
               by
               reason
               it
               is
               a
               Cause
               most
               remote
               from
               ,
               and
               altogether
               a
               stranger
               to
               ,
               our
               nature
               .
            
          
           
             
               II.
               
            
             
               
                 This
                 Extrarious
                 Cause
                 is
                 twofold
                 ,
                 Substantial
                 and
                 Accidental
                 .
              
            
             
               THe
               substantial
               is
               so
               termed
               ,
               because
               it
               is
               the
               substantiall
               Essence
               ,
               or
               matter
               of
               the
               disease
               .
               The
               other
               is
               termed
               accidental
               ,
               by
               reason
               that
               the
               conjoyned
               cause
               signified
               by
               it
               ,
               is
               an
               accident
               ,
               not
               a
               substance
               .
            
          
           
             
               III.
               
            
             
               The
               substantial
               extrarious
               Cause
               ,
               is
               either
               an
               impure
               tincture
               ,
               or
               a
               Meteor
               .
            
          
           
           
             
               IV.
               
            
             
               
                 An
                 impure
                 tincture
                 ,
                 is
                 an
                 impure
                 spiritual
                 nature
                 ,
                 so
                 exactly
                 mixt
                 with
                 the
                 most
                 inward
                 parts
                 of
                 our
                 substance
                 ,
                 that
                 at
                 the
                 time
                 of
                 its
                 commixtion
                 ,
                 it
                 doth
                 not
                 presently
                 and
                 manifestly
                 hinder
                 nor
                 prejudice
                 the
                 functions
                 of
                 the
                 Balsame
                 ,
                 but
                 remaining
                 quiet
                 and
                 inoffensive
                 at
                 first
                 ,
                 and
                 for
                 a
                 time
                 ,
                 doth
                 afterwards
                 by
                 degrees
                 ,
                 discover
                 its
                 enmity
                 and
                 force
                 ,
                 and
                 so
                 infects
                 the
                 body
                 .
              
            
             
               TO
               this
               place
               must
               be
               referred
               ;
               first
               ,
               those
               impure
               seminal
               tinctures
               ▪
               by
               which
               the
               prolific
               seed
               is
               tainted
               ,
               and
               the
               child
               that
               is
               borne
               of
               it
               ,
               comes
               to
               be
               Hereditarily
               infected
               with
               the
               Diseases
               of
               his
               parents
               .
            
             
               Secondly
               ,
               the
               impurity
               of
               the
               body
               ,
               that
               proceeds
               from
               the
               bloud
               ,
               with
               which
               the
               child
               is
               fed
               and
               nourished
               
               in
               the
               wombe
               :
               from
               which
               last
               impurity
               ,
               if
               the
               substance
               of
               the
               Childe
               were
               not
               vindicated
               ,
               and
               free'd
               by
               frequent
               breakings
               out
               ,
               by
               the
               Measels
               ,
               and
               divers
               other
               extrusions
               ,
               and
               petty
               and
               indispositions
               ,
               besides
               the
               dayly
               discharge
               of
               it
               through
               the
               proper
               Emunctories
               of
               the
               body
               ,
               it
               were
               not
               absurd
               to
               conclude
               ,
               that
               his
               whole
               nature
               must
               needs
               be
               depraved
               and
               overcome
               by
               it
               .
               Purgations
               of
               this
               kind
               happen
               sometimes
               sooner
               ,
               sometimes
               later
               ,
               according
               to
               the
               strength
               of
               the
               Radicall
               balsame
               ▪
               which
               in
               some
               is
               slower
               ,
               in
               others
               quicker
               and
               more
               vigorous
               ;
               as
               we
               see
               it
               exemplified
               in
               our
               very
               fields
               ,
               of
               which
               some
               are
               more
               barren
               ,
               some
               more
               fruitfull
               ,
               according
               to
               their
               scituation
               ,
               and
               the
               aspect
               of
               the
               Sun-beames
               ,
               shining
               directly
               and
               favourably
               upon
               some
               ,
               upon
               others
               glancingly
               ,
               and
               for
               a
               short
               time
               ,
               which
               makes
               some
               places
               more
               forward
               ,
               some
               more
               
               back-ward
               ,
               and
               their
               productions
               ,
               whether
               flowers
               ,
               or
               Hey
               ,
               or
               Corne
               ,
               to
               differ
               accordingly
               ,
               some
               being
               very
               good
               ,
               some
               very
               bad
               .
            
          
           
             
               V.
               
            
             
               
                 A
                 Meteor
                 is
                 either
                 volatile
                 or
                 coagulated
                 ,
                 both
                 kindes
                 are
                 Extrarious
                 .
              
            
             
               I
               Call
               it
               a
               Meteor
               ,
               because
               I
               would
               have
               the
               Reader
               to
               inquire
               ,
               how
               the
               
                 *
              
               Meteors
               of
               the
               greater
               world
               are
               generated
               ,
               and
               by
               their
               Generation
               ,
               to
               learn
               and
               find
               out
               the
               true
               Doctrine
               of
               the
               Microcosmical
               Meteors
               .
            
          
           
           
             
               VI
               .
            
             
               
                 The
                 volatile
                 Meteor
                 ,
                 is
                 commonly
                 called
                 an
                 Exhalation
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 is
                 either
                 dry
                 or
                 moist
                 .
              
            
             
               THe
               dry
               Exhalation
               is
               termed
               a
               
                 Fume
                 ,
              
               and
               the
               humid
               a
               
                 Vapour
                 :
              
               the
               fumid
               Exhalation
               ,
               because
               it
               is
               a
               fume
               arising
               from
               a
               dry
               body
               or
               Principle
               ,
               is
               hot
               ,
               dry
               ,
               light
               and
               subtile
               ,
               alwayes
               tending
               upwards
               ,
               and
               is
               near
               to
               a
               sulphureous
               fiery
               nature
               ,
               which
               will
               easily
               inflame
               and
               kindle
               ,
               and
               so
               is
               set
               on
               fire
               ▪
               and
               burns
               .
               Contrarily
               ,
               a
               vapour
               is
               an
               humid
               flux
               ,
               which
               if
               it
               be
               deprived
               by
               any
               exterior
               heat
               of
               its
               owne
               cold
               quality
               and
               so
               carried
               up
               into
               the
               Region
               of
               the
               Air
               ,
               and
               there
               condensed
               by
               cold
               ,
               is
               presently
               (
               because
               of
               
               its
               thin
               ,
               Mercurial
               and
               aqueous
               nature
               ,
               )
               forced
               to
               resume
               its
               former
               state
               ,
               and
               is
               turned
               againe
               into
               the
               nature
               of
               water
               .
               For
               as
               we
               see
               in
               the
               greater
               world
               ,
               that
               tho●e
               Vapors
               and
               Exhalations
               ,
               which
               by
               the
               heat
               of
               the
               Sun
               ,
               the
               influence
               of
               the
               Stars
               ,
               and
               by
               their
               owne
               proper
               internall
               calidity
               ,
               are
               excited
               and
               stirred
               up
               ,
               doe
               afterwards
               afford
               matter
               for
               various
               ,
               miraculous
               Meteors
               ,
               and
               bodies
               imperfectly
               mixt
               both
               in
               the
               Region
               of
               the
               Air
               ,
               and
               in
               the
               bowels
               of
               the
               Earth
               ;
               and
               that
               those
               which
               are
               of
               a
               Mercurial
               ,
               cold
               ,
               moist
               ,
               and
               watry
               nature
               ,
               doe
               alwayes
               produce
               Clouds
               ,
               Raine
               ,
               Hail-stones
               ,
               Snow
               ,
               Frost
               and
               winds
               ;
               but
               those
               which
               are
               sulphureous
               ,
               hot
               and
               dry
               generate
               Coruscations
               ,
               Lightnings
               ,
               Fire-drakes
               ,
               Thunder-bolts
               ,
               and
               other
               burning
               Meteors
               :
               so
               in
               the
               lesser
               world
               ,
               that
               is
               in
               the
               body
               of
               man
               ,
               the
               like
               ,
               and
               the
               very
               same
               vapours
               and
               Exhalations
               ,
               afford
               matter
               for
               
               the
               generation
               of
               many
               and
               different
               kinds
               of
               Meteors
               .
               Hence
               it
               is
               ,
               that
               so
               many
               and
               such
               various
               sorts
               of
               Diseases
               afflict
               man-kind
               .
               Some
               of
               them
               being
               Mercurial
               ,
               cold
               and
               moist
               ;
               others
               sulphureous
               ,
               hot
               and
               dry
               :
               Nor
               are
               they
               so
               in
               meer
               forme
               and
               accident
               ,
               but
               in
               substance
               ,
               that
               is
               to
               say
               ,
               they
               are
               such
               in
               their
               essentiall
               virtue
               ,
               and
               are
               generated
               as
               wel
               in
               the
               inferiour
               Region
               ,
               the
               breast
               ,
               the
               stomack
               ,
               and
               the
               belly
               ;
               as
               in
               the
               superiour
               ,
               the
               head
               and
               the
               braine
               ,
               which
               parts
               do
               exactly
               quadrate
               and
               correspond
               with
               the
               airy
               Region
               ,
               and
               the
               subterraneous
               Concavities
               of
               the
               earth
               .
               See
               
                 Quercetanus
                 ,
                 Tetr
                 .
                 page
              
               45.
               46.
               
            
          
           
             
               VII
               .
            
             
               The
               Coagulated
               Meteor
               ,
               is
               termed
               
                 Tartar
                 ,
              
               of
               which
               we
               shall
               treat
               in
               the
               following
               Chapter
               .
            
          
        
         
         
           
             CHAP.
             5.
             
          
           
             Of
             Tartar
             .
          
           
             
               I.
               
            
             
               Tartar
               
                 is
                 an
                 acrimonious
                 ,
                 pricking
                 and
                 corroding
                 ,
                 or
                 an
                 aluminous
                 ,
                 acid
                 and
                 styptic
                 mucilage
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 bred
                 in
                 the
                 body
                 ,
                 and
                 being
                 separated
                 from
                 its
                 proper
                 juyce
                 ,
                 is
                 by
                 the
                 supervenient
                 spirit
                 of
                 Salt
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 various
                 inclination
                 of
                 nature
                 ,
                 at
                 a
                 set
                 time
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 those
                 places
                 which
                 are
                 most
                 apt
                 to
                 receive
                 it
                 ,
                 collected
                 together
                 ,
                 and
                 coagulated
                 ;
                 or
                 if
                 that
                 juyce
                 be
                 not
                 separated
                 from
                 it
                 ,
                 it
                 putrifies
                 :
                 from
                 whence
                 come
                 worms
                 and
                 other
                 innumerable
                 symptoms
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 QUercetanus
              
               in
               his
               advice
               against
               the
               Joynt-gout
               ,
               and
               the
               Stone
               ,
               describes
               it
               thus
               .
               
                 Salsugirous
              
               substances
               ,
               because
               they
               have
               alwayes
               
               mixt
               in
               them
               some
               portion
               of
               earth
               (
               though
               the
               predominant
               part
               in
               them
               be
               Liquefactive
               ,
               )
               are
               in
               the
               body
               of
               man
               termed
               
                 Tartar
                 ;
              
               a
               most
               apt
               (
               in
               truth
               )
               and
               most
               significant
               terme
               ,
               which
               was
               first
               given
               them
               from
               the
               Analogy
               ,
               or
               similitude
               that
               was
               found
               betwixt
               the
               humours
               in
               mans
               body
               ,
               yea
               betwixt
               his
               very
               blood
               and
               the
               substance
               of
               wine
               :
               which
               of
               all
               the
               fruits
               of
               vegetables
               ,
               doth
               most
               abound
               with
               
                 Tartar
                 .
              
               I
               doe
               not
               meane
               by
               
                 Tartar
              
               in
               this
               place
               that
               substance
               which
               is
               dissolved
               ,
               and
               flowes
               in
               new
               Wines
               ,
               while
               they
               are
               thick
               and
               turbid
               ,
               which
               being
               afterwards
               separated
               ,
               or
               (
               as
               the
               common
               phrase
               is
               )
               settled
               ,
               doth
               as
               the
               grosser
               ,
               earthy
               ,
               and
               more
               impure
               part
               subside
               into
               a
               feculent
               substance
               ,
               found
               alwaies
               in
               the
               bottome
               ,
               and
               called
               Dregs
               .
               Neither
               doe
               I
               mean
               that
               
                 Tartar
              
               onely
               ,
               whose
               separation
               is
               performed
               by
               a
               long
               Tract
               of
               time
               ,
               and
               sticks
               to
               the
               
               Dregs
               or
               Lees
               of
               old
               Wine-pipes
               .
               But
               I
               meane
               that
               
                 Tartar
              
               also
               ,
               which
               is
               in
               perpetual
               liquefaction
               and
               commixture
               with
               the
               most
               refined
               wines
               ,
               and
               which
               gives
               them
               their
               tincture
               either
               red
               or
               any
               other
               .
               This
               true
               
                 Tartar
                 ,
              
               either
               by
               Evaporation
               ,
               or
               simple
               distillation
               ,
               or
               a
               
                 Balneum
                 Maris
                 ,
              
               is
               easily
               discerned
               to
               be
               moderately
               hot
               ,
               for
               the
               more
               liquid
               part
               of
               the
               humour
               (
               which
               was
               the
               
                 Vehiculum
                 ,
              
               in
               which
               the
               
                 Tartar
              
               in
               its
               dissolution
               was
               contained
               )
               being
               separated
               from
               it
               ,
               the
               
                 Tartar
              
               alone
               remaine
               in
               the
               bottom
               .
               This
               liquid
               humour
               ,
               though
               of
               red
               wine
               ,
               distills
               all
               bright
               and
               limpid
               ,
               but
               the
               heavler
               red
               substance
               ,
               which
               I
               call
               
                 Tartar
                 ,
              
               stayes
               all
               behind
               :
               a
               solid
               substance
               ,
               and
               the
               more
               you
               fetch
               out
               of
               the
               substantifical
               humour
               ,
               it
               becomes
               by
               so
               much
               the
               more
               hard
               and
               the
               dryer
               .
               Nor
               is
               this
               
                 Tartar
              
               onely
               in
               red
               ,
               or
               white
               Wines
               ,
               but
               in
               any
               other
               though
               decocted
               and
               also
               
               in
               the
               humours
               of
               mans
               body
               .
               Nor
               is
               it
               there
               onely
               in
               the
               Chylus
               ,
               or
               nutriment
               ,
               which
               answers
               in
               proportion
               to
               wine
               newly
               made
               (
               for
               from
               the
               Chylus
               ,
               as
               from
               new
               win●
               ,
               divers
               impure
               and
               tartareous
               dregs
               are
               separated
               ,
               )
               but
               also
               in
               the
               very
               blood
               ,
               yea
               in
               the
               most
               pure
               ,
               and
               after
               the
               very
               same
               manner
               ,
               as
               we
               described
               it
               to
               be
               in
               wine
               .
               And
               as
               the
               Art
               of
               distilling
               (
               even
               that
               which
               is
               performed
               by
               the
               most
               gentle
               fire
               )
               discovers
               and
               manifests
               unto
               us
               this
               kind
               of
               
                 Tartar
                 :
              
               so
               nature
               also
               by
               her
               naturall
               fury
               both
               ranne
               and
               daily
               doth
               performe
               such
               separations
               of
               
                 Tartar
                 ,
              
               by
               a
               consumption
               of
               the
               humoural
               parts
               of
               our
               bodies
               ▪
               out
               of
               which
               the
               Dogmatical
               Writers
               of
               Physick
               ,
               suppose
               the
               stone
               to
               be
               generated
               .
               And
               it
               is
               wonderfull
               to
               consider
               ,
               how
               many
               sorts
               of
               Diseases
               by
               the
               intervening
               of
               obstructions
               or
               ●ppilations
               ,
               arise
               out
               of
               this
               meere
               separation
               ,
               particularly
               the
               
               joynt-gout
               ,
               and
               the
               stone
               :
               which
               diseases
               according
               to
               the
               sentiment
               of
               these
               Dogmatists
               themselves
               ,
               happen
               most
               frequently
               to
               those
               ,
               who
               have
               the
               hottest
               Livers
               ▪
               and
               consequently
               the
               coldest
               stomacks
               :
               Who
               ingenerate
               much
               crudities
               and
               mucous
               matters
               ,
               which
               for
               want
               of
               a
               through-digestion
               ,
               may
               be
               compared
               to
               raw
               fruits
               ,
               that
               failing
               of
               their
               due
               and
               perfect
               maturity
               ,
               (
               which
               is
               performed
               by
               a
               contemperate
               heat
               that
               is
               all
               concocting
               and
               digesting
               ,
               )
               remaine
               acid
               ,
               bitter
               ,
               sowre
               and
               green
               .
               These
               being
               mixt
               with
               ,
               and
               in
               the
               whole
               Masse
               of
               blood
               ,
               are
               there
               by
               the
               natural
               heate
               againe
               concocted
               ,
               and
               a
               separation
               is
               made
               of
               the
               more
               crude
               and
               tartareous
               portion
               ,
               which
               sticks
               afterwards
               to
               the
               inward
               parts
               ,
               and
               causing
               divers
               obstructions
               ,
               is
               at
               length
               forcibly
               carried
               into
               the
               joynts
               ,
               where
               it
               stayes
               and
               lodgeth
               .
               For
               every
               part
               of
               the
               body
               of
               man
               doth
               
               naturally
               delight
               in
               ,
               and
               attract
               to
               it
               ,
               that
               which
               is
               most
               like
               to
               it selfe
               :
               the
               fleshie
               parts
               are
               nourished
               by
               that
               portion
               of
               the
               blood
               ,
               which
               is
               most
               thinly
               moist
               ,
               and
               mercuriall
               :
               the
               fat
               and
               marrowish
               parts
               ,
               by
               that
               which
               is
               most
               oily
               ,
               or
               sulphureous
               ,
               but
               the
               joynts
               which
               are
               parts
               that
               be
               naturally
               glutinous
               and
               mucilaginous
               ,
               love
               that
               portion
               which
               hath
               most
               likenesse
               and
               affinity
               with
               their
               nature
               ;
               whence
               it
               comes
               to
               passe
               ,
               that
               this
               Salsuginous
               and
               Tartareous
               matter
               is
               taken
               in
               by
               them
               .
               Now
               ,
               when
               it
               happens
               that
               these
               parts
               in
               some
               bodyes
               ,
               either
               for
               their
               weakness
               ,
               or
               an
               innate
               hereditary
               disposition
               ,
               or
               some
               such
               cause
               cannot
               by
               a
               proper
               and
               particular
               digestion
               ,
               inoffensively
               digest
               ,
               nor
               expell
               this
               crude
               and
               indigested
               Tartareous
               matter
               ,
               then
               is
               this
               matter
               ,
               being
               of
               a
               saltish
               ,
               viscous
               nature
               coagulated
               in
               them
               ,
               and
               the
               ligaments
               of
               the
               joynts
               come
               to
               be
               stuffed
               up
               
               and
               stiffened
               with
               it
               ,
               whence
               proceed
               those
               acute
               intolerable
               paines
               which
               attend
               this
               Disease
               .
               And
               this
               is
               the
               true
               and
               genuine
               conjoyn'd
               cause
               of
               the
               paines
               and
               knottines
               of
               the
               Joynt-gout
               .
               The
               same
               cause
               is
               sometimes
               lesse
               acute
               ,
               sometimes
               more
               ,
               according
               to
               the
               nature
               and
               condition
               of
               the
               
                 Tartar
                 .
              
               For
               as
               we
               see
               that
               there
               is
               in
               the
               greater
               world
               ,
               a
               great
               diversity
               of
               Salts
               ,
               for
               the
               Earth
               yeelds
               first
               Salt-gemme
               ,
               which
               answers
               in
               proportion
               to
               Sea-salt
               ,
               that
               is
               onely
               saltish
               in
               tast
               ;
               then
               Salt-nitre
               which
               is
               bitter
               in
               tast
               ,
               and
               Salt-alum
               which
               is
               austere
               and
               Astringent
               :
               afterwards
               Salt
               of
               Vitriol
               ,
               and
               Salt
               Armoniac
               which
               are
               acid
               and
               hot
               :
               and
               lastly
               ▪
               those
               corrosive
               sharp
               Salts
               which
               are
               termed
               
                 Alkal●
                 ,
              
               with
               others
               that
               are
               sweet
               and
               pleasant
               as
               Sugar
               :
               so
               in
               the
               lesser
               world
               ,
               that
               is
               in
               the
               body
               of
               man
               ,
               there
               is
               generated
               a
               Tartar
               or
               Salt
               ,
               which
               being
               dissolved
               ,
               causeth
               
               onely
               a
               saltish
               humour
               ,
               which
               the
               Dogmatical
               Physicians
               term
               saltish
               phegme
               ,
               in
               plaine
               termes
               ,
               a
               salt
               water
               or
               humour
               .
               There
               is
               also
               generated
               ,
               a
               nitrous
               or
               bitter
               Salt
               ,
               which
               mixeth
               with
               the
               Urine
               ,
               and
               causeth
               bitter
               Choler
               ;
               and
               a
               vitriolated
               acid
               salt
               which
               predominates
               in
               acid
               phlegme
               and
               melancholy
               .
               In
               like
               manner
               there
               be
               also
               aluminous
               and
               austere
               kinds
               of
               
                 Tartar
                 ,
              
               and
               other
               sorts
               which
               resemble
               the
               acrimonie
               of
               Salt
               ,
               as
               it
               is
               manifestly
               seen
               by
               the
               various
               affections
               of
               contractures
               and
               astrictions
               of
               the
               sinews
               ,
               and
               the
               many
               perilous
               troubles
               of
               acrimonious
               humours
               in
               Dysenteries
               and
               ,
               divers
               Ulcers
               as
               well
               inward
               as
               outward
               ,
               all
               which
               are
               caused
               by
               the
               many
               and
               different
               kindes
               of
               Salts
               ,
               which
               are
               generated
               in
               the
               body
               .
               For
               why
               should
               not
               this
               be
               done
               by
               those
               things
               which
               are
               most
               like
               to
               doe
               it
               and
               most
               significant
               ,
               and
               which
               do
               
               most
               properly
               and
               fully
               expresse
               the
               natures
               and
               diversities
               of
               Causes
               ,
               having
               their
               derivation
               and
               appositenes
               from
               the
               very
               fountains
               of
               nature
               ,
               who
               is
               the
               best
               Interpretress
               of
               her
               own
               concernments
               .
               These
               Salts
               (
               believe
               me
               )
               doe
               better
               expresse
               and
               discover
               unto
               us
               the
               essences
               and
               distinctions
               of
               Tartareous
               or
               saltish
               diseases
               ,
               then
               those
               four
               humours
               which
               are
               commonly
               termed
               the
               Sanguine
               ,
               the
               Phlegmatic
               ,
               the
               Bilious
               ,
               and
               the
               Melancholy
               ,
               both
               because
               that
               these
               latter
               termes
               ,
               signifie
               nothing
               unto
               us
               of
               the
               essence
               or
               matter
               of
               the
               Disease
               ,
               and
               also
               because
               that
               those
               Dogmatists
               themselves
               ,
               Hallucinate
               and
               stagger
               very
               much
               both
               in
               the
               formation
               or
               aptnesse
               ,
               and
               in
               the
               application
               of
               their
               said
               termes
               .
            
          
           
             
               II.
               
            
             
               
                 Tartar
              
               is
               two-fold
               ,
               Adventitious
               and
               Innate
               .
            
          
           
           
             
               III.
               
            
             
               
                 Adventitious
              
               Tartar
               ,
               
                 proceeds
                 from
                 meat
                 and
                 drinke
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Impressions
                 of
                 the
                 Firmament
                 .
              
            
             
               EVery
               thing
               that
               we
               eat
               and
               drinke
               ,
               hath
               in
               it
               a
               Mucilaginous
               ,
               reddish
               and
               sandy
               Tartar
               ,
               very
               noxious
               to
               the
               health
               of
               man
               .
               Nature
               receives
               nothing
               for
               her
               own
               use
               ,
               but
               what
               is
               pure
               .
               The
               stomack
               ,
               which
               is
               an
               instrument
               of
               the
               
                 Archaeus
              
               of
               man
               ,
               or
               an
               internall
               ,
               innate
               Chymist
               ,
               and
               implanted
               there
               by
               God
               ,
               presently
               upon
               the
               reception
               of
               that
               which
               is
               chew'd
               and
               swallowed
               down
               separates
               the
               impure
               ▪
               Tartareous
               part
               from
               the
               pure
               nutriment
               :
               If
               the
               stomack
               be
               vigorous
               ,
               especially
               in
               its
               faculty
               of
               separation
               ,
               the
               pure
               portion
               passeth
               presently
               into
               all
               the
               members
               to
               nourish
               and
               preserve
               the
               body
               ,
               and
               the
               impure
               goes
               forth
               into
               the
               
               Draught
               :
               if
               the
               stomack
               be
               weake
               ,
               the
               impure
               portion
               is
               through
               the
               
                 M●saraic
              
               veines
               conveyd
               to
               the
               Liver
               ,
               where
               a
               second
               digestion
               or
               separation
               is
               made
               .
               Here
               the
               Liver
               separates
               againe
               the
               pure
               from
               the
               impure
               ,
               the
               
                 Rubie
              
               from
               the
               
                 Chrystall
                 ,
              
               that
               is
               to
               say
               ,
               the
               
                 Red
              
               from
               the
               
                 White
                 :
              
               The
               Red
               is
               the
               nutriment
               of
               all
               the
               members
               the
               heart
               ,
               the
               brain
               ,
               &c.
               
               The
               white
               ●or
               that
               which
               is
               no
               nutriment
               ,
               is
               driven
               by
               the
               Liver
               to
               the
               Reyns
               and
               it
               is
               Urine
               ,
               which
               is
               nothing
               else
               but
               Salt
               ,
               which
               being
               exprest
               from
               the
               Mercuriall
               portions
               ,
               by
               the
               violence
               of
               the
               separation
               ,
               is
               forced
               to
               a
               dissolution
               :
               It
               is
               dissolved
               into
               water
               by
               the
               Liven
               &
               so
               cast
               forth
               .
               If
               the
               Liver
               ,
               by
               reason
               of
               its
               debility
               ,
               makes
               no
               perfect
               separation
               ,
               it
               casts
               that
               Mucilaginous
               and
               Calculous
               impurity
               upon
               the
               Reyns
               ,
               where
               for
               want
               of
               a
               ●ight
               and
               through
               separation
               it
               is
               (
               according
               to
               the
               concurrency
               and
               Method
               
               of
               nature
               )
               by
               the
               mediation
               of
               the
               spirit
               of
               Salt
               coagulated
               into
               Sand
               ,
               or
               
                 Tartar
                 ,
              
               either
               Massie
               and
               Solid
               ,
               or
               Mucilaginous
               .
               This
               
                 Tartar
              
               therefore
               is
               the
               Excretion
               of
               meat
               and
               drinke
               ,
               which
               is
               coagulated
               in
               all
               mens
               bodies
               by
               the
               spirit
               of
               Salt
               ,
               unless
               the
               expulsive
               faculty
               by
               its
               owne
               peculiar
               vigour
               or
               virtue
               ,
               can
               command
               it
               into
               the
               Excrements
               ,
               and
               so
               cast
               it
               out
               by
               dejection
               .
            
          
           
             
               IV.
               
            
             
               
                 There
                 are
                 four
                 kinds
                 of
                 this
                 AdventitiousTartar
              
               ,
               
                 which
                 proceed
                 originally
                 from
                 the
                 four
                 distinct
                 fruits
                 or
                 Cibations
                 which
                 we
                 receive
                 from
                 the
                 four
                 Elements
                 .
              
            
             
               THe
               first
               kind
               proceeds
               from
               the
               use
               of
               those
               things
               that
               grow
               out
               of
               the
               Earth
               ,
               as
               from
               all
               sorts
               of
               Pulse
               ,
               Grains
               ,
               Fruits
               ,
               Herbs
               and
               Roots
               ,
               upon
               which
               we
               feed
               .
            
             
               The
               second
               proceeds
               from
               those
               
               nutriments
               which
               we
               take
               out
               of
               the
               Element
               of
               Water
               ,
               as
               from
               fish
               ,
               shel-fish
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             
               The
               third
               is
               from
               the
               flesh
               of
               Birds
               and
               beasts
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             
               The
               fourth
               comes
               from
               the
               Firmament
               ,
               which
               the
               spirit
               of
               Wine
               ,
               in
               respect
               of
               its
               subtilty
               ,
               doth
               most
               resemble
               .
               This
               kind
               of
               
                 Tartar
              
               is
               of
               a
               most
               forcible
               impression
               ,
               while
               the
               Air
               being
               primarily
               infected
               with
               the
               vapours
               of
               the
               Earth
               ,
               the
               water
               and
               the
               firmament
               doth
               afterwards
               annoy
               us
               :
               as
               wee
               frequently
               see
               in
               those
               acute
               and
               pernitious
               Astral
               Diseases
               ,
               the
               Pleurisie
               ,
               the
               Plague
               ,
               the
               Prunella
               ,
               &c.
               
            
          
           
             
               V.
               
            
             
               
                 Tartar
              
               innate
               ,
               is
               that
               which
               is
               cogenerated
               with
               man
               in
               his
               mothers
               wombe
               .
            
          
           
           
             
               VI
               .
            
             
               
                 Besides
                 these
                 impure
                 Tinctures
                 and
                 Meteors
                 ,
                 there
                 is
                 another
                 substantial
                 Extrarious
                 cause
                 ,
                 which
                 cannot
                 be
                 reduced
                 to
                 a
                 certa●ne
                 kind
                 .
              
            
             
               TO
               this
               must
               be
               referred
               ,
               those
               
                 Insecta's
              
               or
               quick
               Creatures
               which
               sometimes
               (
               though
               rarely
               )
               are
               generated
               in
               the
               body
               ,
               as
               Snakes
               ,
               divers
               worms
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             
               Secondly
               ,
               those
               things
               must
               be
               referred
               hither
               ,
               which
               by
               inchantment
               and
               the
               mediation
               of
               evill
               spirits
               ,
               are
               invisibly
               and
               insensibly
               conveyed
               into
               the
               bodies
               of
               men
               and
               Women
               .
            
             
               Thirdly
               ,
               We
               are
               to
               reduce
               to
               this
               Aphorisme
               or
               Canon
               all
               Splinters
               ,
               Bullets
               ,
               or
               other
               weapons
               ,
               which
               being
               violently
               thrust
               or
               shot
               into
               the
               body
               ,
               lie
               deeply
               in
               the
               flesh
               ,
               or
               under
               the
               skin
               .
            
          
           
           
             
               VII
               .
            
             
               We
               have
               now
               done
               with
               the
               Substantial
               Extrarious
               Cause
               .
               To
               the
               Accidental
               ,
               I
               shall
               referre
               all
               disproportions
               of
               Limbs
               ,
               Gibbosities
               ,
               Luxations
               ,
               Wounds
               ,
               and
               fractures
               of
               bones
               .
            
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             6.
             
          
           
             Of
             God
             ,
             the
             first
             and
             supreme
             Cause
             of
             the
             Extrarious
             Cause
             .
          
           
             HAving
             now
             done
             with
             the
             Extrarious
             or
             conjoyned
             and
             apparent
             cause
             of
             the
             disease
             .
             I
             shall
             consider
             the
             cause
             of
             that
             Extrarious
             Cause
             .
          
           
             
               I.
               
            
             
               
                 This
                 Cause
                 I
                 shall
                 divide
                 into
                 six
                 heads
                 or
                 branches
                 .
                 The
                 first
                 of
                 which
                 is
                 God
                 .
                 2.
                 
                 Excesse
                 and
                 defect
                 of
                 Necessaries
                 .
                 3.
                 
                 Fire
                 .
                 4.
                 
                 Hereditary
                 
                 impurity
                 .
                 5.
                 
                 Imagination
                 .
                 6.
                 
                 Violent
                 Illation
                 .
                 Of
                 these
                 I
                 shall
                 treat
                 in
                 their
                 order
                 ;
                 and
                 first
                 of
                 GOD
                 .
              
            
             
               MAn
               ,
               because
               he
               is
               made
               in
               the
               Image
               of
               God
               ,
               is
               bound
               also
               to
               live
               according
               to
               his
               
                 Will
                 .
              
               I
               mean
               his
               will
               revealed
               and
               laid
               down
               in
               the
               Ten
               Commandements
               ,
               and
               the
               holy
               Scriptures
               ,
               namely
               in
               those
               Bookes
               onely
               which
               were
               left
               unto
               us
               ,
               and
               which
               (
               without
               scruple
               )
               we
               have
               received
               from
               the
               holy
               Prophets
               ,
               and
               the
               Apostles
               of
               the
               Lord
               and
               Saviour
               :
               but
               when
               we
               transgresse
               and
               violate
               this
               Law
               and
               will
               of
               our
               maker
               ,
               then
               doth
               God
               send
               upon
               us
               condigne
               punishments
               ,
               amongst
               which
               
                 Diseases
              
               are
               numbred
               in
               the
               very
               Booke
               of
               the
               Law
               .
               For
               thus
               saith
               the
               Lord
               :
               If
               ye
               shall
               despise
               my
               statutes
               ,
               or
               if
               your
               soules
               abhor
               my
               judgements
               ,
               so
               that
               ye
               will
               not
               do
               my
               Commandements
               ,
               
               but
               that
               ye
               break
               my
               Covenants
               :
               I
               also
               will
               do
               this
               unto
               you
               ,
               I
               will
               even
               appoint
               over
               your
               terrour
               ,
               consumption
               and
               the
               burning
               ague
               ,
               that
               shall
               consume
               the
               eyes
               ,
               and
               cause
               sorrow
               of
               heart
               .
               I
               will
               also
               smite
               thee
               in
               the
               knees
               and
               the
               legges
               with
               a
               sore
               botch
               ,
               that
               cannot
               be
               healed
               ,
               from
               the
               sole
               of
               thy
               foot
               unto
               the
               top
               of
               the
               Head
               .
               I
               will
               make
               the
               Pestilence
               cleave
               unto
               thee
               ,
               untill
               it
               hath
               consumed
               thee
               from
               off
               the
               Land
               which
               thou
               possessest
               .
               And
               in
               another
               place
               ,
               The
               Lord
               shall
               smite
               thee
               with
               a
               Consumption
               ,
               with
               a
               Feavour
               ,
               and
               with
               an
               inflammation
               and
               extream
               burning
               ,
               and
               with
               the
               Sword
               ,
               and
               with
               Blasting
               ,
               and
               with
               Mildew
               :
               and
               they
               shall
               pursue
               thee
               untill
               thou
               perish
               .
               And
               the
               Heaven
               that
               is
               over
               thy
               head
               ,
               shall
               be
               brass
               ,
               and
               the
               Earth
               that
               is
               under
               thee
               shal
               be
               Iron
               .
               The
               Lord
               shall
               make
               the
               Raine
               of
               thy
               Land
               powder
               and
               dust
               ,
               from
               heaven
               shall
               it
               come
               down
               upon
               
               thee
               ,
               untill
               thou
               be
               destroyed
               .
               
                 Leviti●
                 .
              
               Cap.
               29.
               16.
               
               
                 Deuteron
                 .
              
               28.
               
               And
               in
               the
               new
               Testament
               ,
               that
               everlasting
               and
               blessed
               Physitian
               ,
               the
               Holy
               
                 JESUS
                 ,
              
               who
               came
               not
               to
               destroy
               ,
               but
               to
               save
               the
               world
               ;
               after
               he
               had
               healed
               the
               impotent
               man
               ,
               who
               had
               beene
               sick
               of
               his
               infirmity
               eight
               and
               thirty
               years
               he
               dismissed
               him
               not
               without
               this
               loving
               and
               gracious
               caution
               :
               Behold
               ,
               thou
               art
               made
               whole
               sinne
               no
               more
               ,
               lest
               a
               worse
               thing
               come
               unto
               thee
               .
               S.
               
                 John
              
               Chap.
               5.
               14.
               and
               S.
               
                 Paul
              
               also
               in
               his
               first
               Epistle
               to
               the
               
                 Corinthians
                 ,
              
               rebuking
               that
               new
               and
               sinfull
               custome
               (
               which
               had
               crept
               then
               into
               that
               Church
               )
               of
               prophaning
               the
               Lords
               holy
               Supper
               ,
               with
               their
               own
               intemperate
               feasts
               ,
               objects
               to
               them
               ,
               that
               sharp
               visitation
               by
               Diseases
               ,
               which
               (
               for
               that
               very
               abuse
               )
               God
               had
               punished
               them
               with
               :
               For
               this
               cause
               (
               saith
               he
               )
               many
               are
               weak
               and
               sickly
               among
               you
               ,
               and
               many
               sleep
               :
               for
               
               some
               of
               them
               had
               beene
               punished
               with
               death
               .
               Thus
               is
               the
               just
               and
               all-seeing
               God
               ,
               the
               first
               and
               supreme
               cause
               of
               the
               Extrarious
               cause
               .
            
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             7.
             
          
           
             Of
             the
             excesse
             and
             the
             defect
             of
             necessaries
             ,
             which
             is
             the
             second
             cause
             of
             the
             Extrarious
             cause
             .
          
           
             FXcess
             of
             Necessaries
             ,
             is
             to
             be
             considered
             ,
             first
             in
             Victuals
             ,
             where
             the
             offence
             is
             threefold
             .
             1.
             
             In
             superfluousness
             .
             2.
             
             In
             vairety
             .
             3.
             
             In
             our
             manner
             of
             receiving
             them
             .
             We
             offend
             in
             superfluousness
             ,
             when
             that
             which
             is
             to
             nourish
             us
             is
             taken
             in
             too
             great
             a
             quantity
             :
             whence
             follow
             frequent
             and
             unwholsome
             evaporations
             and
             belchings
             ,
             which
             so
             fill
             and
             oppresse
             the
             vessels
             and
             Organs
             of
             the
             spirits
             ,
             that
             they
             are
             hindered
             in
             their
             functions
             ;
             or
             the
             meat
             with
             its
             weight
             and
             quantity
             so
             indisposeth
             us
             ,
             that
             
             the
             inordinate
             operation
             and
             digestion
             is
             retarded
             .
             Innumerable
             are
             the
             Diseases
             and
             molestations
             which
             proceed
             from
             this
             particular
             intemperance
             .
          
           
             We
             offend
             in
             variety
             ,
             when
             at
             one
             dinner
             or
             supper
             ,
             we
             eate
             many
             and
             divers
             kinds
             of
             Meats
             and
             Drinkes
             ,
             for
             these
             having
             a
             great
             dissimilitude
             and
             enmity
             amongst
             themselves
             ,
             cause
             divers
             inconveniences
             by
             their
             various
             dissents
             and
             unequall
             digestion
             .
          
           
             We
             offend
             in
             the
             manner
             of
             receiving
             ,
             when
             we
             eate
             hastily
             ,
             or
             swallow
             our
             meat
             before
             it
             be
             well
             chew'd
             and
             devour
             our
             Drinke
             like
             Whales
             ,
             as
             those
             are
             accustomed
             who
             drink
             healths
             (
             as
             they
             term
             them
             )
             at
             Meales
             ,
             taking
             off
             whole
             Bowles
             and
             Tankards
             
               {non-Roman}
               {non-Roman}
               {non-Roman}
               {non-Roman}
               {non-Roman}
            
             ,
             without
             so
             much
             as
             breathing
             time
             ,
             and
             thinke
             the
             excess
             very
             fashionable
             &
             praise-worthy
             .
          
           
           
             Another
             Excess
             in
             Necessaries
             ,
             happens
             about
             taking
             of
             rest
             and
             watching
             :
             When
             the
             Animal
             spirits
             by
             too
             much
             sleep
             ,
             are
             by
             degrees
             habitnated
             into
             a
             certaine
             dulness
             ,
             so
             that
             they
             perform
             their
             functions
             sluggishly
             ,
             remitting
             still
             something
             of
             their
             due
             vigour
             ,
             until
             at
             length
             they
             lose
             all
             their
             activity
             ,
             and
             are
             naturalized
             (
             as
             it
             were
             )
             into
             an
             incurable
             stupidity
             .
             Contrarywise
             by
             too
             much
             watching
             they
             are
             easily
             inflamed
             ,
             so
             that
             oftentimes
             they
             cause
             Maniacal
             fits
             and
             phrensies
             ,
             with
             divers
             others
             most
             desperate
             consequences
             .
          
           
             A
             third
             excess
             of
             Necessaries
             ,
             happens
             from
             cold
             and
             heat
             .
             Excess
             of
             heat
             happens
             ,
             either
             when
             the
             body
             is
             over
             exercised
             ,
             or
             when
             any
             other
             Extraneous
             heat
             hath
             too
             free
             an
             access
             to
             it
             ,
             and
             the
             innate
             fire
             of
             nature
             is
             beyond
             measure
             excited
             thereby
             ,
             so
             that
             inordinate
             exhalations
             
             are
             caused
             in
             the
             body
             ,
             which
             produce
             an
             excessive
             and
             dangerous
             resolution
             and
             weakness
             of
             parts
             .
             Excess
             of
             cold
             happens
             either
             by
             a
             suddaine
             Refrigeration
             or
             cooling
             after
             Exercise
             ,
             or
             when
             we
             expose
             our selves
             too
             much
             to
             cold
             weather
             ,
             which
             hinders
             the
             evaporation
             of
             Excrementitious
             Exhalations
             by
             stopping
             the
             Pores
             ,
             and
             beating
             them
             back
             into
             the
             body
             ,
             where
             they
             lodge
             and
             remaine
             .
             Whence
             it
             comes
             to
             pass
             ,
             that
             being
             of
             an
             Extrarious
             malignant
             disposition
             ,
             they
             afford
             matter
             and
             foment
             for
             many
             and
             severall
             kinds
             of
             diseases
             .
          
           
             A
             like
             excess
             to
             this
             ,
             proceeds
             frequently
             from
             the
             hardness
             and
             thick
             Callousness
             of
             some
             peoples
             skins
             ,
             by
             which
             fault
             (
             because
             little
             or
             no
             perspiration
             is
             performed
             )
             the
             
               secret
               ,
            
             and
             the
             
               Ambient
            
             Aire
             of
             their
             bodies
             is
             intercepted
             ,
             so
             that
             there
             
             is
             no
             liberty
             for
             inspiration
             or
             exspiration
             .
          
           
             Defect
             of
             Necessaries
             is
             first
             ,
             the
             want
             of
             meat
             and
             drink
             in
             their
             due
             time
             and
             proportion
             .
             This
             is
             either
             famine
             or
             thirst
             .
             Secondly
             The
             want
             of
             naturall
             rest
             ,
             according
             to
             the
             Verse
             ,
             
               
                 Quod
                 caret
                 alterna
                 requ●e
                 ,
                 durabile
                 non
                 est
                 .
              
               
                 The
                 strongest
                 body
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 best
              
               
                 Cannot
                 subsist
                 ,
                 without
                 due
                 rest
                 .
              
            
          
           
             Thirdly
             ,
             The
             want
             of
             Refrigeration
             or
             coolness
             of
             aire
             ,
             which
             by
             its
             needfull
             community
             and
             permeation
             ,
             allayes
             and
             tempers
             the
             inward
             heat
             of
             the
             heart
             .
          
           
             Fourthly
             ,
             and
             lastly
             ,
             the
             want
             of
             due
             and
             requisite
             heat
             ,
             by
             which
             the
             Excrementitious
             Exhalations
             of
             the
             body
             are
             vented
             forth
             ,
             and
             the
             animall
             
             spirits
             incited
             to
             their
             peculiar
             functions
             .
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             7.
             
          
           
             Of
             Fire
             ,
             the
             third
             Cause
             of
             the
             Extrarious
             Cause
             .
          
           
             BY
             Fire
             in
             this
             place
             ,
             I
             understand
             not
             onely
             Kitchin-fire
             ,
             or
             any
             other
             fire
             that
             burns
             ,
             but
             also
             the
             celestiall
             fire
             of
             the
             Sun
             ,
             and
             the
             Sun
             and
             the
             native
             implanted
             fire
             of
             all
             the
             parts
             of
             ●●ns
             body
             .
          
           
             
               I.
               
            
             
               Externall
               fire
               is
               the
               producent
               of
               Extrarious
               Causes
               by
               its
               separative
               power
               or
               faculty
               ,
               by
               which
               it
               separates
               &
               extracts
               them
               from
               other
               bodies
               ,
               &
               communicates
               them
               afterwards
               to
               our
               nature
               .
            
          
           
           
             
               II.
               
            
             
               
                 The
                 Internal
                 ,
                 innate
                 fire
                 ,
                 produceth
                 Extrarious
                 causes
                 ,
                 when
                 by
                 digestion
                 it
                 separates
                 the
                 impure
                 part
                 ,
                 from
                 that
                 food
                 or
                 matter
                 in
                 which
                 it
                 first
                 resided
                 ,
                 whence
                 our
                 natural
                 substance
                 comes
                 to
                 be
                 infected
                 .
              
            
             
               SO
               the
               naturall
               heat
               digests
               our
               meat
               ,
               and
               by
               the
               assistance
               of
               the
               innnate
               Salt
               dissolves
               it
               ,
               that
               man
               may
               retain
               or
               keep
               in
               his
               body
               ,
               that
               which
               is
               agreeable
               to
               his
               nature
               ,
               and
               joyne
               it
               to
               his
               essence
               :
               but
               that
               which
               is
               contrariant
               ,
               he
               segregates
               from
               the
               other
               ,
               and
               casts
               forth
               at
               his
               proper
               Emunctories
               .
               This
               Segregated
               matter
               ,
               or
               Excrement
               ,
               doth
               oftentimes
               mightily
               afflict
               the
               body
               ,
               and
               that
               it
               doth
               two
               manner
               of
               waies
               .
               The
               first
               by
               being
               retained
               in
               the
               body
               ,
               or
               for
               want
               of
               evacuation
               .
               The
               second
               ,
               by
               a
               noysome
               f●tid
               Exhalation
               ,
               and
               sent
               ascending
               from
               
               it
               to
               the
               nobler
               parts
               ,
               when
               it
               is
               so
               retained
               .
               It
               offends
               by
               retention
               first
               ,
               when
               it
               is
               carried
               (
               indeed
               )
               to
               the
               naturall
               Emunctories
               ,
               or
               deijcient
               parts
               ;
               but
               the
               weakness
               of
               the
               expulsive
               faculty
               is
               so
               great
               ,
               that
               it
               cannot
               drive
               it
               out
               .
               Secondly
               ,
               When
               it
               is
               left
               in
               the
               very
               stomack
               without
               farther
               Exclusion
               .
               Thirdly
               ,
               when
               some
               subtil
               poyson
               ,
               in
               and
               together
               with
               the
               nutritive
               portion
               or
               Chylus
               ,
               doth
               convey
               and
               insinuate
               it self
               into
               the
               most
               inward
               parts
               of
               the
               body
               :
               which
               poyson
               was
               first
               taken
               in
               with
               meat
               and
               drink
               .
               It
               happens
               often
               (
               saith
               the
               most
               learned
               and
               expert
               
                 Quercetanus
              
               )
               that
               when
               the
               naturall
               Balsame
               is
               tainted
               by
               some
               impurity
               proceeding
               from
               food
               or
               nutriment
               ,
               it
               doth
               afterwards
               give
               way
               and
               occasion
               for
               many
               dangerous
               symptomes
               and
               diseases
               .
               This
               
                 Paracelsus
                 ,
              
               the
               great
               Father
               and
               leader
               of
               the
               
                 German
              
               Philosophers
               ,
               in
               his
               Treatise
               of
               the
               
                 Being
                 ,
                 and
                 naturn
                 
                 of
                 poyson
              
               doth
               most
               learnedly
               expound
               .
               The
               Stars
               also
               doe
               frequently
               powre
               down
               into
               the
               Aire
               ,
               and
               upon
               the
               Earth
               ,
               certaine
               Astral
               Emunctions
               ,
               and
               Arsenical
               vapours
               ,
               with
               other
               noxious
               Excretions
               and
               Exudations
               .
               See
               his
               Treatise
               of
               the
               
                 Being
                 ,
              
               and
               the
               power
               of
               the
               Stars
               over
               inferiour
               Bodies
               .
               Hence
               proceed
               Distraction
               ,
               Phrensies
               ,
               Plurisies
               ,
               the
               Plague
               ,
               and
               frequent
               ,
               suddaine
               Dysenteries
               .
               Putrified
               things
               grow
               to
               be
               noysome
               and
               hurtfull
               ,
               by
               the
               meanes
               of
               those
               corrosive
               Salts
               and
               fuliginous
               Exhalations
               ,
               which
               partly
               by
               an
               externall
               ,
               partly
               by
               their
               own
               internall
               heat
               ,
               are
               excited
               out
               of
               them
               and
               dispersed
               .
               Moreover
               the
               Excrements
               of
               man
               ,
               when
               they
               happen
               to
               be
               retained
               in
               the
               body
               ,
               are
               subject
               to
               a
               Re-putrifaction
               ,
               and
               frequently
               doe
               so
               ,
               and
               Wormes
               are
               generated
               out
               of
               them
               :
               In
               this
               Case
               ,
               the
               fuliginous
               ,
               malignant
               spirits
               of
               that
               foul
               Masse
               ,
               
               ascend
               to
               the
               braine
               ,
               whence
               proceed
               suddaine
               madnesse
               ,
               the
               Vertigo
               ,
               the
               Falling-sickness
               ,
               and
               divers
               other
               lamentable
               diseases
               .
               There
               are
               also
               certaine
               living
               Creatures
               ,
               which
               (
               if
               they
               be
               applyed
               to
               man
               )
               will
               by
               their
               natnrall
               heat
               ,
               suddainly
               indispose
               him
               ,
               by
               
                 emission
              
               of
               that
               which
               is
               most
               remote
               from
               ,
               and
               inconsistent
               with
               his
               nature
               .
               
                 Cantharides
              
               are
               so
               full
               of
               this
               virulency
               ,
               that
               being
               onely
               externally
               applyed
               ,
               they
               prove
               oftentimes
               pernicious
               .
               
                 Bartholomew
                 Montagnana
              
               reports
               ,
               that
               a
               certain
               Citizen
               of
               
                 Padua
                 ,
              
               applying
               them
               onely
               to
               one
               of
               his
               knees
               ,
               did
               bleed
               at
               the
               Urinary
               passage
               ,
               five
               quarts
               of
               blood
               .
               He
               affirms
               also
               ,
               that
               the
               like
               inconvenience
               happened
               to
               another
               ,
               who
               applyed
               them
               to
               his
               great
               Toe
               ,
               to
               take
               off
               the
               Leprous
               scurfe
               of
               his
               Nayls
               .
               The
               
                 Basilisk
              
               hath
               such
               a
               subtil
               and
               violent
               poyson
               in
               his
               eyes
               ,
               that
               his
               very
               looks
               infect
               and
               kill
               .
               How
               hurtfull
               
               Minerals
               are
               ,
               when
               elevated
               into
               Mercuriall
               vapours
               ,
               may
               be
               read
               at
               large
               in
               
                 Paracelsus
              
               his
               books
               ,
               
                 Von
                 den
                 Bergfrancfhe●ten
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               III.
               
            
             
               
                 That
                 Extrarious
                 Causes
                 ,
                 and
                 divers
                 indispositions
                 ,
                 are
                 introduced
                 by
                 common
                 fire
                 ,
                 none
                 is
                 ignorant
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 ALchymists
                 ,
                 Goldsmiths
                 ,
              
               and
               
                 Colliers
                 ,
              
               can
               sufficiently
               prove
               this
               point
               ,
               who
               are
               oftentimes
               so
               offended
               with
               vehement
               searching
               ,
               Sulphureous
               ,
               Arsenical
               and
               Mercurial
               smoaks
               ,
               that
               they
               fall
               into
               desperate
               and
               most
               painfull
               Diseases
               .
               The
               smoake
               of
               
                 Galbanum
                 ,
              
               and
               
                 Hartshorne
              
               will
               induce
               the
               Lethargy
               .
            
          
        
         
         
           
             CHAP.
             8.
             
          
           
             Of
             Hereditary
             impurity
             ,
             which
             is
             the
             fourth
             Cause
             of
             the
             Extrarious
             Cause
             .
          
           
             
               I.
               
            
             
               Hereditary
               
                 infection
                 ,
                 is
                 a
                 transplantation
                 of
                 extrarious
                 Causes
                 ,
                 performed
                 by
                 impressing
                 a
                 fixt
                 tincture
                 ,
                 springing
                 from
                 another
                 fixt
                 salt
                 into
                 the
                 prol●fic
                 seed
                 ,
                 which
                 Parents
                 contribute
                 to
                 the
                 Generation
                 of
                 Children
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 SAlt
              
               alone
               and
               onely
               ,
               is
               of
               all
               the
               three
               Principles
               fixt
               and
               f●●●e
               .
               Therefore
               those
               Diseases
               which
               proceed
               from
               the
               indisposition
               of
               the
               Salt
               ,
               are
               radically
               fixt
               ,
               and
               for
               the
               most
               part
               Hereditary
               ,
               as
               the
               
                 Leprosie
                 ,
              
               the
               
                 Stone
                 ,
              
               the
               
                 Joynt-gout
                 ,
              
               and
               the
               like
               .
               But
               those
               Diseases
               which
               spring
               from
               any
               infirmity
               of
               the
               fluxible
               
               and
               volatile
               principles
               ,
               that
               is
               to
               say
               ,
               from
               
                 Mercury
              
               and
               
                 Sulphur
              
               (
               as
               all
               manner
               of
               Cathars
               and
               Feavers
               do
               ,
               )
               cannot
               so
               easily
               infect
               posterity
               :
               for
               these
               Diseases
               neither
               fix
               their
               seeds
               firmly
               ,
               nor
               deeply
               ,
               because
               they
               have
               not
               their
               tinctures
               so
               tenaciously
               imprest
               .
               The
               nature
               of
               this
               kind
               of
               fixed
               Salt
               or
               Sulphur
               ,
               may
               be
               perfectly
               discern'd
               in
               the
               seeds
               and
               the
               roots
               of
               Plants
               :
               for
               if
               you
               take
               but
               some
               particles
               of
               them
               ,
               and
               transplant
               them
               ▪
               those
               very
               peeces
               will
               take
               root
               and
               grow
               ,
               and
               bear
               fruit
               :
               But
               neither
               the
               leaves
               ,
               nor
               the
               flowers
               in
               which
               the
               volatile
               Mercury
               &
               Sulphur
               have
               their
               seat
               ,
               will
               do
               so
               .
               Now
               the
               fixed
               Salt
               is
               alwaies
               conserved
               in
               the
               root
               ,
               and
               in
               some
               pithy
               stalks
               &
               Siens
               or
               Graffes
               :
               but
               the
               fixed
               Sulphur
               is
               in
               the
               seed
               .
               And
               this
               is
               the
               reason
               that
               the
               transplantation
               of
               all
               
                 Vegetals
                 ,
              
               is
               performed
               by
               these
               onely
               :
               but
               by
               the
               Mercuriall
               parts
               ,
               which
               easily
               fade
               and
               
               wither
               ,
               it
               cannot
               be
               done
               ;
               nor
               by
               those
               parts
               ,
               which
               have
               onely
               in
               them
               a
               volatile
               Sulphur
               ,
               as
               the
               flowers
               ,
               and
               the
               leaves
               of
               some
               Vegetables
               .
               See
               
                 Quercetan
                 ,
              
               in
               his
               advice
               against
               the
               joynt-gout
               ,
               and
               the
               stone
               .
            
             
               Therefore
               (
               saith
               the
               same
               
                 Quercetanus
              
               )
               whatever
               lodgeth
               in
               the
               body
               of
               the
               parents
               ,
               that
               with
               a
               firm
               ,
               spiritual
               ,
               impure
               ,
               and
               malignant
               tincture
               can
               affect
               or
               infect
               the
               radical
               Balsame
               ,
               the
               vital
               seed
               ,
               and
               the
               very
               root
               or
               fundamentall
               of
               humane
               nature
               :
               that
               same
               impurity
               (
               whatever
               it
               be
               )
               doth
               by
               an
               Hereditary
               transplantation
               pass
               into
               ,
               and
               infect
               the
               Children
               .
               But
               if
               these
               impure
               seeds
               of
               Diseases
               ,
               have
               not
               taken
               such
               a
               deep
               root
               ,
               nor
               so
               far
               corrupted
               the
               radicall
               Balsame
               :
               or
               if
               by
               the
               helpe
               of
               nature
               ,
               and
               her
               internall
               Balsame
               ,
               there
               is
               a
               separation
               made
               of
               them
               ;
               or
               if
               by
               the
               ministry
               of
               Art
               ,
               and
               externall
               ,
               specifical
               Balsames
               
               of
               Physick
               ,
               they
               are
               effectually
               allayed
               and
               weakned
               ,
               or
               are
               come
               to
               their
               proper
               terme
               and
               utmost
               duration
               ,
               so
               that
               their
               virulency
               and
               force
               is
               quite
               spent
               and
               broken
               :
               in
               any
               of
               these
               Causes
               ,
               Gouty
               and
               Leprous
               persons
               ,
               doe
               not
               alwaies
               beget
               Gouty
               and
               Leprous
               Children
               .
               For
               by
               these
               means
               ,
               the
               roots
               of
               Diseases
               ,
               even
               the
               most
               fixt
               and
               malignant
               are
               eradicated
               ,
               impure
               seeds
               are
               purified
               ,
               and
               the
               morbid
               tincture
               by
               long
               traduction
               becomes
               quite
               extinct
               .
               This
               Eradication
               of
               hereditary
               Diseases
               ,
               and
               Purification
               of
               diseased
               seed
               comes
               to
               passe
               by
               the
               benefit
               and
               assistance
               of
               good
               
                 Seed-plots
                 ,
              
               that
               is
               ,
               by
               the
               excellent
               ,
               wholesome
               temperament
               of
               the
               
                 Matrix
                 ,
              
               in
               vegetous
               and
               healthy
               women
               :
               whence
               it
               happens
               ,
               that
               the
               Fathers
               seed
               ,
               though
               tainted
               with
               some
               morbific
               indisposition
               ,
               is
               by
               the
               laudable
               vigour
               of
               the
               mothers
               radical
               
                 Balsame
              
               amended
               ,
               so
               that
               
               Arthritical
               and
               Calculous
               Fathers
               beget
               Children
               ,
               which
               all
               their
               life-time
               continue
               healthy
               and
               unattempted
               by
               such
               Diseases
               .
               Yea
               ,
               they
               beget
               such
               Children
               ▪
               as
               are
               not
               obnoxious
               or
               liable
               to
               such
               indispositions
               ▪
               In
               like
               manner
               also
               it
               happens
               ,
               that
               a
               vegetous
               ,
               healthy
               Father
               ,
               contributing
               good
               seed
               ,
               may
               have
               a
               sickly
               ,
               impure
               issue
               ,
               troubled
               with
               hereditary
               infirmities
               ,
               the
               Fathers
               seed
               attracting
               to
               it
               the
               malignant
               propriety
               of
               those
               Diseases
               which
               possessed
               the
               Mother
               .
               Thus
               good
               Corne
               ,
               if
               it
               be
               cast
               into
               a
               bad
               soile
               ,
               will
               degenerate
               into
               Tares
               ,
               or
               yeeld
               a
               very
               bad
               and
               a
               thin
               Crop
               :
               but
               sow
               it
               againe
               in
               good
               ground
               ,
               and
               it
               will
               recover
               its
               former
               goodnesse
               and
               perfection
               .
            
          
        
         
         
           
             CHAP.
             9.
             
          
           
             Of
             Imagination
             ,
             the
             fifth
             Cause
             of
             the
             Extrarious
             Cause
             ▪
          
           
             
               I.
               
            
             
               
                 Imagination
              
               is
               a
               Star
               ,
               excited
               in
               the
               firmament
               of
               man
               ,
               by
               some
               externall
               Object
               .
            
          
           
             
               II.
               
            
             
               When
               the
               Imagination
               is
               inflamed
               ,
               or
               at
               the
               height
               ,
               then
               strange
               passions
               and
               defections
               follow
               .
            
          
           
             
               III.
               
            
             
               
                 It
                 is
                 inflamed
                 first
                 ,
                 when
                 it
                 feigns
                 some
                 object
                 to
                 it selfe
                 ,
                 and
                 longs
                 for
                 it
                 ,
                 but
                 cannot
                 enjoy
                 it
                 .
              
            
             
               HEnce
               it
               comes
               to
               passe
               ,
               that
               pregnant
               or
               breeding
               women
               (
               whose
               imagination
               is
               most
               vehement
               ,
               because
               of
               the
               Starre
               of
               the
               
               Child
               ,
               which
               upon
               some
               singular
               longing
               ,
               doth
               most
               powerfully
               move
               them
               ,
               )
               doe
               by
               the
               force
               of
               an
               inflamed
               or
               exalted
               imagination
               (
               when
               they
               faile
               to
               come
               by
               that
               Object
               they
               long
               for
               )
               impresse
               into
               the
               very
               child
               ,
               the
               perfect
               forme
               or
               figure
               of
               it
               ;
               yea
               ,
               it
               oftentimes
               causeth
               miscarriage
               ,
               and
               the
               death
               of
               the
               Child
               ,
               as
               may
               be
               seen
               in
               this
               following
               History
               .
               A
               certaine
               woman
               great
               with
               child
               ,
               seeing
               a
               Baker
               carrying
               Bread
               into
               the
               Oven
               with
               his
               Doublet
               off
               ,
               longed
               for
               a
               peece
               of
               the
               Bakers
               shoulder
               ,
               and
               when
               any
               other
               meat
               was
               offered
               unto
               her
               ▪
               or
               brought
               in
               to
               her
               sight
               ,
               she
               would
               presently
               fall
               to
               vomit
               .
               Her
               Husband
               distrest
               betwixt
               love
               and
               pitty
               ,
               offered
               such
               a
               large
               summe
               of
               money
               to
               the
               Baker
               ,
               that
               he
               consented
               ,
               &
               suffered
               her
               to
               bite
               off
               two
               morsels
               of
               his
               flesh
               ,
               but
               being
               not
               able
               to
               endure
               the
               pain
               the
               third
               time
               ,
               the
               woman
               presently
               fell
               in
               Labour
               ,
               and
               was
               delivered
               of
               
               three
               boyes
               ,
               whereof
               two
               were
               alive
               ,
               and
               the
               third
               dead
               .
               
                 Mizaldus
              
               in
               his
               first
               Century
               ,
               relates
               it
               out
               of
               
                 Langius
                 .
              
               To
               this
               first
               Division
               ,
               must
               be
               referred
               those
               unfortunate
               Aspirers
               ,
               who
               affecting
               some
               great
               knowledge
               or
               science
               ,
               and
               missing
               to
               attain
               to
               it
               ,
               by
               reason
               of
               a
               blockish
               stupidity
               ,
               or
               imbecillity
               of
               apprehension
               ,
               come
               to
               be
               distracted
               and
               stark
               mad
               .
            
          
           
             
               IV
            
             
               
                 Secondly
                 ,
                 The
                 Imagination
                 comes
                 tomes
                 to
                 be
                 inflamed
                 ,
                 when
                 by
                 some
                 unexpected
                 Object
                 or
                 Accident
                 ,
                 a
                 man
                 or
                 woman
                 is
                 suddainly
                 frighted
                 .
              
            
             
               SUch
               Accidents
               prove
               oftentimes
               very
               pernicious
               .
               A
               causeless
               ,
               imaginary
               fear
               in
               times
               of
               infection
               ,
               hath
               cast
               many
               into
               the
               Plague
               ,
               and
               the
               Plague
               hath
               beene
               their
               death
               .
               There
               lives
               at
               
                 Gueilburg
                 ,
              
               a
               certaine
               Bakers
               wife
               ,
               who
               being
               young
               with
               
               Child
               ,
               went
               into
               the
               adjoyning
               Woods
               or
               Forrest
               ,
               to
               gather
               sticks
               ,
               and
               being
               very
               intent
               in
               gathering
               with
               her
               face
               towards
               the
               ground
               a
               Citizen
               of
               that
               place
               comming
               suddainly
               at
               her
               ,
               did
               so
               fright
               her
               ,
               that
               (
               not
               knowing
               well
               what
               to
               doe
               ▪
               )
               she
               struck
               one
               hand
               into
               the
               other
               ,
               and
               continued
               rubbing
               them
               together
               with
               a
               very
               strong
               compression
               for
               a
               good
               while
               .
               This
               woman
               was
               shortly
               after
               delivered
               of
               a
               Son
               with
               one
               hand
               onely
               ,
               which
               Childe
               I
               my selfe
               saw
               ,
               and
               taught
               there
               in
               the
               publick
               free-Schoole
               .
               In
               the
               like
               manner
               ,
               some
               men
               that
               have
               been
               frighted
               by
               Phantasms
               ,
               and
               spiritual
               Apparition
               in
               the
               night
               time
               ,
               have
               instantly
               fallen
               into
               grievous
               diseases
               ,
               and
               some
               have
               dyed
               .
               Others
               by
               the
               excesse
               and
               violence
               of
               the
               horrour
               had
               the
               hairs
               of
               their
               heads
               changed
               from
               the
               native
               colour
               ,
               into
               a
               quite
               contrary
               ,
               especially
               that
               part
               which
               they
               chanced
               to
               touch
               at
               the
               
               time
               they
               were
               so
               frighted
               .
               I
               my self
               have
               known
               two
               ,
               who
               affirmed
               ,
               that
               such
               a
               change
               did
               happen
               to
               them
               upon
               the
               like
               occasion
               :
               the
               one
               had
               halfe
               his
               Beard
               turned
               gray
               ,
               the
               other
               had
               part
               of
               the
               haires
               of
               his
               head
               turned
               perfect
               white
               ,
               the
               rest
               retaining
               still
               their
               first
               colour
               .
            
          
           
             
               V.
               
            
             
               
                 Thirdly
                 ,
                 The
                 imagination
                 is
                 inflamed
                 ,
                 when
                 the
                 stomack
                 is
                 offended
                 by
                 some
                 object
                 of
                 sence
                 .
              
            
             
               SUch
               perturbations
               happen
               often
               ,
               and
               men
               are
               frequently
               inclined
               to
               vomit
               ,
               when
               they
               looke
               earnestly
               upon
               those
               Ejectments
               which
               another
               hath
               cast
               up
               .
            
          
           
             
               VI
               .
            
             
               
                 Fourthly
                 ,
                 The
                 imaginationis
                 in
                 flamed
                 ,
                 when
                 any
                 person
                 imagines
                 or
                 fancies
                 ,
                 that
                 paine
                 or
                 trouble
                 he
                 is
                 
                 in
                 ,
                 to
                 be
                 intolerable
                 for
                 him
                 ,
                 and
                 incurable
                 .
              
            
             
               HEnce
               it
               comes
               to
               passe
               ,
               that
               men
               despairing
               of
               their
               health
               or
               redemption
               ,
               contrive
               their
               owne
               death
               ,
               and
               make
               themselves
               away
               .
            
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             10.
             
          
           
             Of
             violent
             Illation
             ,
             which
             is
             the
             sixth
             and
             last
             cause
             of
             the
             extrarious
             Cause
             .
          
           
             VIolent
             Illation
             is
             performed
             two
             wayes
             ,
             Corporally
             ,
             and
             Spiritually
             .
          
           
             
               I.
               
            
             
               Corporally
               ,
               when
               a
               man
               or
               woman
               is
               wounded
               ,
               thrust
               ,
               or
               shot
               ,
               or
               fallen
               ,
               or
               their
               bones
               broken
               .
            
          
           
             
               II.
               
            
             
               
                 Spiritually
                 ,
                 when
                 by
                 the
                 meanes
                 and
                 
                 ministry
                 of
                 evill
                 spirits
                 ,
                 a
                 man
                 or
                 woman
                 is
                 either
                 blinded
                 ,
                 or
                 maimed
                 ,
                 or
                 any
                 extraneous
                 visible
                 matter
                 ,
                 is
                 invisibly
                 and
                 without
                 manifest
                 violence
                 ,
                 conveyed
                 into
                 ,
                 and
                 lodged
                 in
                 their
                 bodies
                 ,
                 or
                 when
                 they
                 are
                 by
                 any
                 other
                 preternatural
                 wayes
                 and
                 meanes
                 set
                 upon
                 and
                 af●licted
                 .
              
            
             
               THat
               such
               things
               may
               and
               have
               been
               done
               ,
               we
               shall
               prove
               by
               the
               truth
               of
               this
               following
               relation
               .
               In
               the
               year
               of
               our
               Lord
               ,
               1539.
               there
               lived
               in
               the
               village
               of
               
                 Fugesta
                 ,
              
               within
               the
               Bishoprick
               of
               
                 E●steter
                 ,
              
               a
               certaine
               Husbandman
               ,
               named
               
                 Ulrich
                 Neusesser
                 ▪
              
               who
               was
               grievously
               pained
               in
               the
               Hypochondriacal
               Region
               ,
               with
               most
               violent
               and
               sharp
               stitches
               ;
               whose
               fury
               and
               persistance
               made
               him
               send
               for
               a
               Chirurgion
               ,
               and
               (
               incision
               being
               made
               )
               there
               was
               found
               ,
               and
               taken
               out
               of
               his
               side
               ,
               an
               Iron
               Naile
               ,
               which
               lay
               under
               the
               
               skin
               ,
               without
               the
               least
               external
               symptome
               ▪
               or
               discoloration
               of
               the
               part
               .
               This
               ,
               notwithstanding
               the
               pain
               ceased
               not
               but
               was
               dayly
               exasperated
               ▪
               and
               did
               more
               and
               more
               increase
               :
               whereupon
               this
               miserable
               man
               resolving
               with
               himselfe
               ,
               that
               there
               could
               be
               no
               cure
               for
               him
               but
               death
               ,
               snatched
               a
               knife
               out
               of
               the
               hand
               of
               his
               attendant
               ,
               and
               did
               therewith
               cut
               his
               own
               own
               throat
               .
               Upon
               the
               third
               day
               after
               ,
               when
               his
               body
               was
               to
               be
               drest
               for
               buriall
               ,
               there
               were
               present
               ,
               
                 Eucherius
                 ,
                 Rosenbader
              
               of
               
                 Weisenburg
                 ▪
              
               and
               
                 John
              
               of
               
                 Ettenstet
                 ▪
              
               (
               a
               Town
               in
               the
               Dukedome
               of
               
                 Bavaria
                 ,
              
               )
               both
               Chirurgions
               who
               in
               the
               presence
               of
               as
               many
               persons
               as
               came
               to
               the
               Funeral
               did
               cut
               up
               the
               Body
               ,
               and
               in
               the
               fore
               part
               of
               his
               belly
               ,
               betwixt
               the
               Cartilages
               and
               the
               Navill
               ,
               towards
               the
               side-region
               there
               were
               found
               ,
               and
               taken
               out
               ,
               and
               seen
               by
               them
               all
               (
               a
               prodigious
               and
               wonderfull
               ●ight
               ●
               )
               a
               round
               and
               long
               
               peece
               of
               wood
               ,
               foure
               knives
               of
               steel
               made
               partly
               with
               edges
               ,
               and
               partly
               with
               teeth
               like
               a
               saw
               ,
               and
               two
               peeces
               of
               sharp
               and
               rough
               Iron
               ▪
               each
               of
               them
               being
               more
               then
               a
               span
               in
               length
               ,
               and
               underneath
               all
               these
               ,
               a
               great
               lock
               of
               haire
               wrapt
               close
               together
               and
               made
               up
               in
               the
               forme
               of
               a
               Ball
               .
               
                 Mizaldus
              
               in
               his
               sixth
               Century
               ,
               relates
               this
               sad
               History
               out
               of
               
                 Langius
                 .
              
            
          
        
         
           
             CHAP.
             II.
             
          
           
             Of
             the
             cure
             of
             Diseases
             .
          
           
             HItherto
             we
             have
             known
             the
             Diseases
             by
             his
             Causes
             :
             It
             remains
             now
             that
             we
             teach
             the
             Cure
             of
             it
             ;
             and
             this
             we
             shall
             doe
             onely
             by
             certain
             genernall
             Rules
             or
             Precepts
             .
             But
             lest
             we
             should
             proceed
             without
             method
             ,
             we
             shall
             divide
             this
             Chapter
             concerning
             the
             Cure
             ,
             into
             seven
             Sections
             .
          
           
           
             We
             shall
             teach
             ,
             1.
             
             What
             ,
             and
             how
             manifold
             the
             Cure
             is
             .
             2.
             
             How
             a
             Physician
             ought
             to
             be
             qualified
             .
             3.
             
             Of
             what
             sort
             ,
             kind
             or
             quality
             ,
             the
             medicines
             or
             meanes
             of
             the
             Cure
             ought
             to
             be
             .
             4.
             
             Out
             of
             what
             things
             those
             Remedies
             must
             be
             sought
             and
             taken
             .
             5.
             
             Why
             Medicines
             sometimes
             cannot
             restore
             and
             introduce
             health
             .
             6.
             
             How
             the
             Remedies
             or
             Medicaments
             ought
             to
             be
             administred
             .
             7.
             
             How
             the
             sick
             man
             must
             carry
             or
             dispose
             of
             himselfe
             ,
             while
             he
             is
             in
             a
             course
             of
             Physick
             .
          
           
             
               Section
               1.
               
            
             
               What
               ▪
               and
               how
               manifold
               the
               Cure
               is
               .
            
             
               
                 I.
                 
              
               
                 The
                 cure
                 of
                 Diseases
                 ,
                 is
                 an
                 operation
                 by
                 which
                 a
                 sick
                 person
                 is
                 restored
                 to
                 his
                 former
                 health
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 sicknesse
                 (
                 what
                 ever
                 it
                 be
                 )
                 quite
                 expelled
                 ,
                 
                 and
                 radically
                 extirpated
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 II.
                 
              
               
                 
                   The
                   cure
                   or
                   healing
                   of
                   all
                   Diseases
                   ,
                   (
                   that
                   I
                   may
                   in
                   this
                   place
                   make
                   use
                   of
                   the
                   most
                   apposite
                   ,
                   significant
                   termes
                   of
                
                 Severinus
                 ,
                 
                   out
                   of
                
                 Crollius
                 )
                 
                   is
                   two
                   fold
                   .
                
              
               
                 1.
                 
                 Universal
                 ,
                 
                   which
                   is
                   an
                   absolute
                   Extirpation
                   of
                   every
                   radical
                   morbid
                   impurity
                   ,
                   whether
                   hereditary
                   ,
                   or
                   from
                   the
                   sinister
                   use
                   of
                   food
                   ,
                   or
                   by
                   the
                   force
                   of
                   externall
                   impression
                   .
                
              
               
                 THis
                 universall
                 Cure
                 is
                 performed
                 by
                 a
                 naturall
                 medicinall
                 Balsame
                 ,
                 consentaneous
                 to
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 man
                 ,
                 which
                 resolves
                 ,
                 discusseth
                 and
                 consumes
                 the
                 Seminary
                 tinctures
                 of
                 all
                 impurities
                 and
                 diseases
                 :
                 but
                 corroborates
                 ,
                 confirms
                 ,
                 and
                 conserves
                 the
                 innate
                 humane
                 Balsame
                 ;
                 for
                 (
                 as
                 
                   Paracelsus
                
                 teacheth
                 )
                 so
                 long
                 
                 as
                 the
                 radicall
                 humour
                 keepes
                 in
                 its
                 due
                 quantity
                 and
                 proportion
                 ,
                 no
                 Disease
                 or
                 indisposition
                 can
                 be
                 perceived
                 .
                 And
                 in
                 this
                 way
                 of
                 Cure
                 ,
                 the
                 pluralities
                 ,
                 particularities
                 ,
                 and
                 orderly
                 Rules
                 of
                 Symptoms
                 and
                 Prognosticks
                 ,
                 have
                 no
                 place
                 ▪
                 for
                 all
                 Diseases
                 (
                 what
                 ever
                 they
                 be
                 )
                 are
                 universally
                 &
                 perfectly
                 cured
                 by
                 this
                 one
                 universall
                 medicine
                 .
                 It
                 is
                 not
                 without
                 reason
                 then
                 that
                 
                   Raymund
                   Lull●e
                
                 affirms
                 ,
                 that
                 this
                 onely
                 one
                 ,
                 supreme
                 ,
                 universall
                 medicine
                 (
                 to
                 which
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 which
                 the
                 virtues
                 of
                 all
                 other
                 particular
                 and
                 specificall
                 medicines
                 are
                 reduced
                 and
                 included
                 )
                 may
                 be
                 safely
                 administred
                 unto
                 all
                 sick
                 persons
                 ,
                 without
                 inquiring
                 what
                 Dis●ase
                 they
                 are
                 sick
                 of
                 For
                 wise
                 nature
                 ,
                 by
                 an
                 instinct
                 from
                 her selfe
                 ,
                 hath
                 given
                 unto
                 this
                 her
                 favourite
                 medicine
                 ▪
                 the
                 prerogative
                 and
                 power
                 to
                 cure
                 ,
                 and
                 absolutely
                 to
                 exterminate
                 all
                 naturall
                 infirmities
                 whatsoever
                 ;
                 yea
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 rectifie
                 and
                 restore
                 
                 her
                 own
                 selfe
                 when
                 disordered
                 and
                 weakned
                 .
                 There
                 be
                 four
                 chief
                 kinds
                 of
                 Diseases
                 which
                 if
                 once
                 confirmed
                 ,
                 or
                 inveterate
                 ,
                 can
                 be
                 expelled
                 by
                 no
                 medicine
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 universall
                 ,
                 namely
                 the
                 Falling-sicknesse
                 ,
                 the
                 Gout
                 ,
                 the
                 Dropsie
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Leprosie
                 .
                 To
                 these
                 
                   Paramount
                
                 Diseases
                 ,
                 all
                 other
                 inferiour
                 sicknesses
                 ,
                 as
                 to
                 their
                 proper
                 fountaines
                 and
                 originalls
                 ,
                 have
                 relation
                 and
                 affinity
                 .
                 This
                 universall
                 medicine
                 ,
                 is
                 a
                 Jewel
                 much
                 to
                 be
                 wished
                 for
                 and
                 worthy
                 the
                 looking
                 after
                 ;
                 but
                 few
                 are
                 they
                 whom
                 God
                 blesseth
                 with
                 his
                 favourite-secret
                 .
                 
                   Lullius
                
                 adviseth
                 all
                 Physicians
                 ,
                 that
                 diligently
                 and
                 faithfully
                 labour
                 for
                 to
                 search
                 and
                 looke
                 after
                 it
                 :
                 because
                 it
                 is
                 the
                 infallible
                 remedy
                 against
                 all
                 infirmities
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 greatest
                 and
                 most
                 proper
                 restorative
                 and
                 comforter
                 of
                 the
                 spirits
                 in
                 their
                 functions
                 :
                 For
                 in
                 this
                 medicine
                 (
                 as
                 in
                 their
                 onely
                 and
                 proper
                 subject
                 )
                 there
                 is
                 ●●●all
                 and
                 universall
                 
                 collection
                 and
                 conjunction
                 of
                 all
                 the
                 operative
                 ,
                 effectuall
                 virtues
                 of
                 generall
                 Physick
                 ,
                 coacted
                 and
                 united
                 together
                 by
                 a
                 natural
                 method
                 ,
                 consent
                 and
                 design
                 :
                 which
                 virtues
                 are
                 otherwise
                 ,
                 (
                 according
                 to
                 the
                 ordinary
                 course
                 and
                 dispensation
                 of
                 nature
                 )
                 confusedly
                 dispersed
                 and
                 distributed
                 amongst
                 and
                 through
                 her
                 
                   *
                
                 three
                 great
                 Families
                 ;
                 and
                 he
                 that
                 hath
                 such
                 an
                 Antidote
                 against
                 all
                 bodily
                 Diseases
                 ,
                 hath
                 the
                 gift
                 of
                 God
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 an
                 incorrupt
                 ,
                 incomparable
                 ,
                 and
                 invaluable
                 treasure
                 in
                 this
                 life
                 :
                 What
                 ever
                 infirmity
                 cannot
                 be
                 healed
                 by
                 this
                 competent
                 ,
                 natural
                 medicine
                 ,
                 we
                 may
                 boldly
                 and
                 safely
                 conclude
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 finger
                 of
                 the
                 great
                 God
                 of
                 nature
                 is
                 in
                 the
                 Cause
                 .
                 But
                 the
                 paine
                 (
                 when
                 we
                 find
                 it
                 to
                 proceed
                 from
                 his
                 righteous
                 hand
                 ,
                 )
                 is
                 by
                 much
                 the
                 more
                 tolerable
                 ,
                 and
                 we
                 ought
                 to
                 beare
                 it
                 patiently
                 ,
                 and
                 thankfully
                 ,
                 until
                 the
                 
                 Almighty
                 Physician
                 himselfe
                 will
                 be
                 pleased
                 to
                 heal
                 us
                 ,
                 by
                 those
                 wayes
                 and
                 means
                 which
                 his
                 divine
                 and
                 unerring
                 wisdome
                 shall
                 judge
                 the
                 best
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 III.
                 
              
               
                 
                   2.
                   
                   Next
                   to
                   the
                   universall
                   ,
                   is
                   the
                   particular
                   cure
                   ,
                   by
                   which
                   the
                   roots
                   of
                   diseases
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   Seminal
                   tinctures
                   themselves
                   ,
                   are
                   not
                   alwayes
                   taken
                   away
                   ;
                   but
                   the
                   bitter
                   fruits
                   of
                   them
                   ,
                   the
                   Symptoms
                   ,
                   Paro●is●es
                   ;
                   and
                   paines
                   ,
                   are
                   oftentimes
                   prevented
                   ,
                   mitigated
                   ,
                   and
                   so
                   supprest
                   ,
                   that
                   they
                   cannot
                   come
                   to
                   their
                   exaltat●on
                   ,
                   or
                   the
                   worst
                   passe
                   ,
                   as
                   the
                   common
                   phrase
                   is
                   .
                   By
                   this
                   Cure
                   ,
                   the
                   Physicall
                   evacuation
                   of
                   Excrements
                   is
                   instituted
                   ,
                   and
                   some
                   considerable
                   succours
                   are
                   communicated
                   to
                   opprest
                   nature
                   by
                   the
                   friendly
                   ,
                   consentaneous
                   spirits
                   of
                   those
                   medicines
                   that
                   are
                   administred
                   ;
                   which
                   spirits
                   can
                   onely
                   rightly
                   know
                   ,
                   and
                   penetrate
                   into
                   
                   the
                   secret
                   lodges
                   and
                   topicall
                   residencies
                   of
                   the
                   radicall
                   mor●ifie
                   impurity
                   .
                
              
               
                 NOw
                 ,
                 though
                 this
                 particular
                 Cure
                 performs
                 no
                 more
                 ,
                 than
                 we
                 have
                 told
                 you
                 in
                 the
                 definition
                 of
                 it
                 ,
                 yet
                 is
                 it
                 not
                 therefore
                 to
                 be
                 slighted
                 ,
                 nor
                 rejected
                 ;
                 for
                 it
                 doth
                 oftentimes
                 in
                 the
                 most
                 desperate
                 diseases
                 ,
                 doe
                 the
                 work
                 of
                 the
                 universal
                 ,
                 because
                 the
                 most
                 mercifull
                 God
                 hath
                 discovered
                 unto
                 us
                 certain
                 secret-natural
                 universals
                 ,
                 
                 of
                 which
                 some
                 containe
                 in
                 them
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 the
                 whole
                 Heaven
                 ,
                 others
                 of
                 the
                 whole
                 Air
                 ,
                 and
                 some
                 againe
                 of
                 the
                 whole
                 earth
                 ,
                 by
                 whose
                 help
                 most
                 Diseases
                 are
                 easily
                 known
                 and
                 cured
                 .
                 Moreover
                 specifical
                 ,
                 appropriate
                 medicines
                 ,
                 when
                 they
                 are
                 rightly
                 refined
                 and
                 spiritualized
                 ,
                 will
                 emulate
                 the
                 virtue
                 of
                 the
                 universal
                 ,
                 by
                 consuming
                 radical
                 impurities
                 &
                 strengthning
                 the
                 virtue
                 of
                 the
                 innate
                 humane
                 
                 Balsame
                 .
                 Seeing
                 then
                 that
                 we
                 want
                 the
                 universal
                 ,
                 it
                 will
                 be
                 happy
                 for
                 us
                 ,
                 if
                 we
                 may
                 attaine
                 to
                 the
                 anie
                 knowledge
                 of
                 (
                 at
                 least
                 )
                 the
                 particular
                 ,
                 subordinate
                 ,
                 specifical
                 and
                 individual
                 kinds
                 and
                 means
                 of
                 cures
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Section
               2.
               
            
             
               How
               a
               Physician
               ought
               to
               be
               qualified
               .
            
             
               
                 I.
                 
              
               
                 
                   Every
                   Physician
                   that
                   desires
                   to
                   cure
                   sick
                   persons
                   well
                   and
                   happily
                   ,
                   must
                   be
                   a
                   sound
                   Christian
                   ,
                   and
                   truly
                   religious
                   and
                   holy
                   .
                
              
               
                 FOr
                 true
                 and
                 perfect
                 medicines
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 knowledge
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 can
                 no where
                 be
                 had
                 ,
                 but
                 from
                 God
                 ,
                 whom
                 we
                 can
                 serve
                 by
                 no
                 other
                 means
                 in
                 this
                 life
                 ,
                 but
                 onely
                 by
                 piety
                 ,
                 and
                 piety
                 hath
                 included
                 in
                 it
                 fervent
                 and
                 incessant
                 supplications
                 unto
                 
                 God
                 ,
                 hearty
                 and
                 frequent
                 thanksgivings
                 for
                 his
                 gracious
                 and
                 free
                 benefits
                 ,
                 with
                 sincere
                 and
                 actuall
                 love
                 towards
                 our
                 Neighbours
                 .
                 God
                 is
                 so
                 infinitely
                 good
                 and
                 kind
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 doth
                 dayly
                 give
                 ,
                 and
                 offer
                 both
                 to
                 the
                 
                   good
                
                 and
                 to
                 the
                 
                   bad
                   ,
                
                 all
                 those
                 things
                 which
                 are
                 necessary
                 both
                 for
                 their
                 
                   sustenance
                
                 and
                 their
                 
                   health
                   :
                
                 but
                 that
                 we
                 use
                 those
                 gifts
                 to
                 the
                 glory
                 of
                 God
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 good
                 of
                 our
                 Neighbours
                 ,
                 piety
                 alone
                 is
                 the
                 onely
                 cause
                 .
                 Therefore
                 ,
                 if
                 thou
                 desirest
                 to
                 select
                 ,
                 and
                 extract
                 convenient
                 and
                 effectuall
                 Medicines
                 out
                 of
                 those
                 Myriads
                 of
                 Creatures
                 ,
                 which
                 by
                 the
                 secret
                 power
                 of
                 their
                 Creator
                 ,
                 dayly
                 flow
                 upon
                 thee
                 ,
                 &
                 appear
                 about
                 thee
                 ,
                 
                   Fear
                   God
                   ,
                   and
                   love
                   thy
                   Neighbour
                   as
                   thy selfe
                   .
                
                 This
                 being
                 done
                 ,
                 I
                 affirm
                 it
                 to
                 thee
                 ,
                 thou
                 shalt
                 find
                 those
                 things
                 ,
                 which
                 will
                 fill
                 thee
                 with
                 joy
                 .
                 Thou
                 maist
                 easily
                 apprehend
                 by
                 what
                 I
                 say
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 is
                 unworthily
                 permitted
                 to
                 be
                 a
                 Physician
                 ,
                 whose
                 practise
                 hath
                 
                 no
                 other
                 aim
                 then
                 Covetousness
                 and
                 Usury
                 ,
                 and
                 abuseth
                 the
                 gifts
                 of
                 God
                 (
                 I
                 mean
                 his
                 medicinal
                 favours
                 and
                 discoveries
                 ▪
                 )
                 to
                 hoord
                 up
                 for
                 himselfe
                 the
                 riches
                 of
                 this
                 world
                 .
                 They
                 are
                 all
                 impostors
                 ,
                 and
                 faithlesse
                 Mountebanks
                 ,
                 who
                 professe
                 Physick
                 ,
                 and
                 its
                 great
                 ornament
                 Chymistry
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 such
                 a
                 sordid
                 ,
                 uncharitable
                 ,
                 and
                 unjust
                 design
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 II.
                 
              
               
                 
                   He
                   must
                   be
                   the
                   servant
                   ,
                   not
                   the
                   Master
                   of
                   nature
                   ,
                   and
                   according
                   to
                   the
                   sentiment
                   of
                
                 Hippocratesand
                 Calen
                 ,
                 
                   he
                   must
                   be
                   a
                   profound
                   Philosopher
                   ,
                   and
                   expert
                   ,
                   or
                   well
                   vers'd
                   in
                   the
                   Art
                   of
                   healing
                   .
                
              
               
                 HE
                 must
                 be
                 throughly
                 seen
                 in
                 
                   Philosophy
                   ,
                
                 because
                 there
                 be
                 two
                 sorts
                 of
                 Philosophers
                 .
                 The
                 one
                 (
                 who
                 are
                 in
                 truth
                 but
                 Philosophers
                 by
                 name
                 ,
                 )
                 after
                 the
                 common
                 Doctrine
                 of
                 the
                 Schooles
                 ,
                 inquire
                 onely
                 into
                 the
                 Elementary
                 qualities
                 of
                 sublunary
                 
                 bodies
                 :
                 but
                 the
                 other
                 sort
                 (
                 who
                 are
                 the
                 true
                 Philosophers
                 indeed
                 )
                 search
                 into
                 the
                 most
                 secret
                 operations
                 ,
                 proprieties
                 ,
                 and
                 performances
                 of
                 nature
                 :
                 her
                 most
                 private
                 Closers
                 ,
                 and
                 Sanctuaries
                 ,
                 are
                 ever
                 open
                 unto
                 these
                 ;
                 whence
                 it
                 comes
                 to
                 passe
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 have
                 a
                 perfect
                 experimentall
                 knowledge
                 by
                 the
                 light
                 of
                 Nature
                 ▪
                 and
                 are
                 indeed
                 true
                 Physicians
                 :
                 For
                 the
                 innate
                 naturall
                 faculty
                 of
                 all
                 productions
                 of
                 the
                 earth
                 ,
                 is
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 Chymical
                 dexterity
                 of
                 these
                 latter
                 sort
                 of
                 Philosophers
                 ,
                 vindicated
                 from
                 the
                 drossie
                 adherencies
                 of
                 the
                 matter
                 ,
                 and
                 united
                 with
                 the
                 firmamentall
                 virtue
                 ,
                 or
                 occult
                 quality
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 caused
                 and
                 communicated
                 to
                 them
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 influence
                 of
                 the
                 Stars
                 .
                 This
                 Art
                 of
                 refining
                 ,
                 and
                 uniting
                 inferiours
                 to
                 their
                 superiours
                 ,
                 makes
                 a
                 compleat
                 and
                 a
                 successful
                 Physician
                 .
              
            
             
             
               
                 III.
                 
              
               
                 
                   He
                   must
                   be
                   an
                   Alchymist
                   skilfull
                   in
                   all
                   spagirical
                   operations
                   ,
                   to
                   separate
                   the
                   pure
                   from
                   the
                   impure
                   ,
                   the
                   drossie
                   and
                   venemous
                   parts
                   of
                   his
                   medicinall
                   Ingredients
                   ,
                   from
                   the
                   usefull
                   and
                   sanative
                   ,
                   and
                   one
                   that
                   knowes
                   exactly
                   how
                   to
                   prepare
                   ,
                   and
                   when
                   to
                   administer
                   Chymical
                   medicines
                   for
                   the
                   restoration
                   of
                   his
                   Patients
                   .
                
              
               
                 FOr
                 as
                 Gold
                 is
                 seven
                 times
                 purified
                 ,
                 so
                 a
                 Physician
                 ought
                 to
                 try
                 and
                 refine
                 all
                 his
                 Physicall
                 Materials
                 by
                 the
                 ministry
                 of
                 fire
                 ,
                 which
                 separates
                 the
                 good
                 from
                 the
                 bad
                 .
                 Also
                 he
                 ought
                 to
                 have
                 in
                 some
                 things
                 ,
                 a
                 certain
                 and
                 confirmed
                 knowledge
                 acquired
                 by
                 long
                 experience
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 diligent
                 daily
                 inspection
                 into
                 the
                 works
                 of
                 nature
                 ;
                 for
                 true
                 Philosophy
                 is
                 nothing
                 else
                 ,
                 but
                 a
                 Physicall
                 practise
                 or
                 triall
                 ,
                 communicating
                 
                 daily
                 to
                 industrious
                 and
                 learned
                 operators
                 ,
                 most
                 usefull
                 and
                 various
                 conclusions
                 and
                 medicines
                 .
                 And
                 after
                 all
                 the
                 coyl
                 of
                 Academical
                 licenciated
                 Doctors
                 ,
                 he
                 onely
                 is
                 the
                 true
                 Physician
                 ,
                 created
                 so
                 by
                 the
                 light
                 of
                 Nature
                 ▪
                 to
                 whom
                 Nature
                 her selfe
                 hath
                 taught
                 and
                 manifested
                 her
                 proper
                 and
                 genuine
                 operations
                 by
                 Experience
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Section
               3.
               
            
             
               Of
               Medicines
               ,
               what
               their
               qualities
               should
               be
               ,
               and
               how
               prepared
               .
            
             
               
                 I.
                 
              
               
                 
                   Physicall
                   Remedies
                   or
                   Medicines
                   ,
                   should
                   both
                   expell
                   the
                   disease
                   ,
                   and
                   strengthen
                   natu
                   〈…〉
                   .
                
              
               
                 HEnce
                 came
                 that
                 infallible
                 Rule
                 of
                 Physicians
                 ,
                 
                   Contraries
                
                 are
                 cured
                 by
                 their
                 
                   Contraries
                   .
                
                 For
                 
                   Contraries
                   ,
                
                 by
                 the
                 consent
                 of
                 all
                 Philosophers
                 ,
                 expell
                 and
                 drive
                 out
                 one
                 another
                 ,
                 
                 therefore
                 it
                 is
                 necessary
                 ,
                 that
                 those
                 Medicines
                 which
                 take
                 away
                 the
                 Disease
                 ,
                 be
                 repugnant
                 and
                 contrary
                 to
                 the
                 Disease
                 :
                 and
                 for
                 the
                 same
                 reason
                 ▪
                 they
                 must
                 be
                 auxiliaries
                 and
                 consentaneous
                 to
                 our
                 nature
                 .
                 Upon
                 which
                 very
                 consideration
                 ,
                 that
                 famous
                 principle
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Hermetists
                
                 is
                 grounded
                 :
                 
                   Every
                   like
                   is
                   cured
                   by
                   its
                   like
                   .
                
                 Therefore
                 
                   Medicines
                   ,
                
                 as
                 they
                 respect
                 ,
                 or
                 look
                 to
                 the
                 Hypostatical
                 principles
                 ,
                 ought
                 also
                 to
                 have
                 some
                 correspondence
                 with
                 the
                 nature
                 of
                 the
                 disease
                 ,
                 but
                 in
                 their
                 Energie
                 and
                 effect
                 ,
                 they
                 must
                 be
                 adversant
                 and
                 quite
                 opposite
                 .
                 Thus
                 the
                 stone
                 which
                 proceeds
                 from
                 
                   Tartar
                   ,
                
                 or
                 coagulated
                 Salt
                 ,
                 is
                 cured
                 by
                 Salt
                 ,
                 but
                 it
                 must
                 be
                 Analyticalor
                 resolvent
                 salt
                 .
                 The
                 Joynt-gout
                 also
                 which
                 proceeds
                 from
                 Tartareous
                 ,
                 sharp
                 and
                 corrosive
                 Salts
                 ,
                 is
                 cured
                 by
                 lenitive
                 and
                 consolidating
                 Salts
                 .
                 In
                 like
                 manner
                 ,
                 sulphureous
                 Diseases
                 must
                 be
                 cured
                 by
                 their
                 proper
                 and
                 specificall
                 sulphurs
                 :
                 
                 but
                 to
                 inflammatory
                 sulphur
                 that
                 causeth
                 Feavers
                 ,
                 we
                 must
                 oppose
                 acid
                 ,
                 Vitriolated
                 sulphur
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 a
                 most
                 effectuall
                 cooler
                 ,
                 and
                 will
                 coagulate
                 and
                 allay
                 those
                 incensed
                 sulphureous
                 spirits
                 .
                 Whence
                 followes
                 this
                 Consequence
                 .
              
               
                 
                   That
                   some
                   Medicines
                   may
                   be
                   corrosive
                   ,
                   without
                   any
                   danger
                   or
                   prejudice
                   .
                
              
               
                 But
                 with
                 this
                 Caution
                 ,
                 that
                 they
                 be
                 so
                 qualified
                 ,
                 as
                 not
                 to
                 work
                 upon
                 the
                 innate
                 ,
                 radical
                 Balsame
                 ,
                 but
                 only
                 upon
                 that
                 Extrarious
                 malignant
                 matter
                 ,
                 which
                 is
                 the
                 conjoyn'd
                 and
                 apparent
                 cause
                 of
                 the
                 Disease
                 .
              
            
             
             
               
                 II.
                 
              
               
                 
                   It
                   is
                   requisite
                   ,
                   that
                   of
                   Medicines
                   ,
                   some
                   be
                   Spagyrically
                   prepared
                   ,
                   and
                   some
                   otherwise
                   .
                
              
               
                 FOr
                 Chymical
                 remedies
                 must
                 not
                 be
                 used
                 at
                 all
                 times
                 ,
                 nor
                 in
                 all
                 Causes
                 ,
                 but
                 onely
                 then
                 ,
                 when
                 our
                 internal
                 natural
                 Alchymist
                 is
                 insufficient
                 of
                 himselfe
                 to
                 separate
                 the
                 pure
                 from
                 the
                 impure
                 ,
                 and
                 perfectly
                 to
                 extract
                 out
                 of
                 compound
                 Medicines
                 ,
                 that
                 noble
                 Essence
                 in
                 which
                 the
                 force
                 and
                 virtue
                 ,
                 or
                 spirit
                 of
                 the
                 medicament
                 ,
                 is
                 chiefly
                 resident
                 :
                 or
                 when
                 there
                 is
                 a
                 necessity
                 in
                 fixed
                 and
                 rooted
                 Diseases
                 ,
                 to
                 use
                 minerall
                 remedies
                 ,
                 that
                 confirmed
                 and
                 obstinate
                 Maladies
                 may
                 be
                 set
                 upon
                 ,
                 and
                 brought
                 under
                 by
                 such
                 powerfull
                 and
                 active
                 Medicines
                 that
                 will
                 not
                 be
                 baffled
                 .
                 It
                 is
                 otherwise
                 a
                 foolish
                 and
                 needlesse
                 imployment
                 ,
                 to
                 separate
                 that
                 by
                 Chymistry
                 ,
                 which
                 nature
                 her selfe
                 
                 will
                 performe
                 with
                 more
                 ease
                 and
                 dexterity
                 .
                 And
                 Nature
                 knowes
                 better
                 what
                 is
                 most
                 convenient
                 for
                 her
                 ,
                 then
                 any
                 Physician
                 :
                 for
                 she
                 makes
                 use
                 of
                 her
                 own
                 proper
                 fire
                 ,
                 and
                 Magnet
                 ,
                 which
                 attracts
                 both
                 from
                 Physick
                 and
                 food
                 ,
                 that
                 which
                 is
                 congeneous
                 ,
                 and
                 most
                 like
                 to
                 her selfe
                 :
                 whereas
                 an
                 Artist
                 on
                 the
                 contrary
                 ,
                 doth
                 not
                 at
                 all
                 times
                 use
                 the
                 like
                 fire
                 ,
                 nor
                 exactly
                 in
                 the
                 same
                 degree
                 to
                 perform
                 his
                 operations
                 .
                 For
                 which
                 cause
                 ,
                 the
                 true
                 Hermetical
                 Physicians
                 ,
                 do
                 not
                 at
                 all
                 times
                 administer
                 Minerals
                 ;
                 but
                 most
                 commonly
                 when
                 they
                 exhibite
                 Minerals
                 ,
                 they
                 make
                 use
                 also
                 of
                 Medicines
                 extracted
                 out
                 of
                 Vegetables
                 ,
                 or
                 to
                 quicken
                 the
                 operation
                 of
                 these
                 latter
                 ,
                 they
                 give
                 a
                 competent
                 and
                 safe
                 quantity
                 of
                 the
                 former
                 .
              
            
             
             
               
                 III.
                 
              
               
                 
                   All
                   Medicines
                   must
                   be
                   specificall
                   and
                   a●propriated
                   to
                   the
                   Disease
                   .
                
              
               
                 THat
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 they
                 must
                 have
                 in
                 them
                 by
                 the
                 gift
                 of
                 God
                 ,
                 such
                 a
                 virtue
                 ,
                 that
                 is
                 peculiarly
                 proper
                 ,
                 and
                 designed
                 (
                 as
                 it
                 were
                 )
                 to
                 remove
                 those
                 diseases
                 against
                 which
                 they
                 are
                 administred
                 .
                 Whether
                 they
                 be
                 universally
                 so
                 gifted
                 ,
                 or
                 particularly
                 for
                 some
                 one
                 sort
                 of
                 disease
                 .
                 That
                 body
                 ,
                 or
                 subject
                 in
                 nature
                 ,
                 which
                 will
                 be
                 easily
                 corrupted
                 ▪
                 cannot
                 be
                 medicinall
                 for
                 all
                 diseases
                 :
                 and
                 this
                 is
                 the
                 reason
                 ,
                 that
                 out
                 of
                 such
                 bodies
                 ,
                 the
                 true
                 Philosophers
                 extract
                 onely
                 specifical
                 Antidotes
                 ,
                 whose
                 power
                 or
                 virtue
                 is
                 effectual
                 onely
                 against
                 some
                 particular
                 kind
                 of
                 disease
                 .
                 That
                 thou
                 maist
                 have
                 some
                 knowledge
                 of
                 those
                 materials
                 or
                 ingredients
                 which
                 are
                 requisite
                 and
                 proper
                 to
                 make
                 such
                 sp●cifical
                 Medicaments
                 ,
                 thou
                 must
                 
                 diligently
                 read
                 the
                 Bookes
                 of
                 the
                 
                   Hermetists
                   ,
                   De
                   signaturis
                   rerum
                   ,
                
                 That
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 Of
                 those
                 impressions
                 and
                 Characters
                 ,
                 which
                 God
                 hath
                 communicated
                 to
                 ,
                 and
                 marked
                 (
                 as
                 I
                 may
                 say
                 )
                 all
                 his
                 Creatures
                 with
                 .
                 These
                 Bookes
                 thou●
                 must
                 carefully
                 peruse
                 and
                 all
                 others
                 which
                 teach
                 us
                 the
                 true
                 and
                 solid
                 practise
                 of
                 Physick
                 .
                 But
                 if
                 it
                 would
                 please
                 God
                 to
                 blesse
                 thee
                 with
                 the
                 universal
                 Medicine
                 ,
                 these
                 studies
                 ,
                 and
                 all
                 other
                 cures
                 whatsoever
                 ,
                 might
                 be
                 safely
                 pretermitted
                 .
                 This
                 glorious
                 universal
                 Medicine
                 (
                 without
                 all
                 doubt
                 )
                 is
                 to
                 be
                 extracted
                 out
                 of
                 such
                 a
                 subject
                 ,
                 whose
                 innate
                 Balsame
                 preserves
                 both
                 it
                 
                   Selfe
                   ,
                
                 and
                 the
                 
                   Body
                
                 in
                 which
                 it
                 exists
                 from
                 all
                 corruption
                 .
                 This
                 body
                 is
                 so
                 adequate
                 ,
                 and
                 temperated
                 with
                 such
                 a
                 just
                 and
                 even
                 proportion
                 of
                 all
                 the
                 foure
                 Elements
                 ,
                 that
                 the
                 qualities
                 of
                 no
                 one
                 of
                 them
                 ,
                 can
                 ever
                 possibly
                 corrupt
                 it
                 .
                 If
                 thou
                 conceivest
                 it
                 may
                 be
                 bad
                 in
                 another
                 
                 kind
                 of
                 subject
                 ,
                 thou
                 dost
                 but
                 play
                 the
                 fool
                 and
                 deceive
                 thy selfe
                 .
                 What
                 ever
                 Nature
                 hath
                 ,
                 that
                 she
                 can
                 give
                 us
                 ;
                 what
                 she
                 hath
                 not
                 ,
                 she
                 neither
                 will
                 ,
                 nor
                 can
                 afford
                 .
                 To
                 the
                 wise
                 man
                 one
                 word
                 is
                 enough
                 .
                 I
                 speake
                 out
                 of
                 the
                 true
                 light
                 of
                 nature
                 :
                 My
                 Studies
                 also
                 hitherto
                 cannot
                 find
                 any
                 other
                 
                   Fu●damental
                
                 of
                 an
                 universal
                 Medicine
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Section
               4.
               
            
             
               Out
               of
               what
               things
               Medicines
               must
               be
               sought
               .
            
             
               
                 I.
                 
              
               
                 
                   They
                   must
                   be
                   sought
                   .
                   1.
                   
                   Out
                   of
                   the
                   Word
                   of
                   God
                   .
                   2.
                   
                   Out
                   of
                   Nature
                   :
                   and
                   in
                   nature
                   ,
                   out
                   of
                   Vegetals
                   ,
                   Animals
                   ,
                   and
                   Minerals
                   .
                
              
               
                 I
                 In
                 this
                 search
                 ,
                 we
                 must
                 first
                 pray
                 for
                 Gods
                 assistance
                 ;
                 and
                 in
                 the
                 next
                 place
                 ,
                 we
                 must
                 attend
                 to
                 the
                 instructions
                 
                 of
                 the
                 wise
                 Ancients
                 .
                 If
                 thou
                 couldst
                 finde
                 out
                 such
                 a
                 thing
                 as
                 would
                 purge
                 and
                 rectifie
                 nature
                 in
                 the
                 great
                 world
                 so
                 effectually
                 that
                 ever
                 after
                 she
                 would
                 remaine
                 sound
                 and
                 unimpaired
                 ,
                 so
                 that
                 nothing
                 of
                 her
                 Homogeneous
                 essence
                 and
                 perfection
                 ,
                 could
                 be
                 saved
                 from
                 her
                 by
                 any
                 Extraneous
                 fire
                 ,
                 then
                 (
                 without
                 doubt
                 )
                 both
                 the
                 way
                 to
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 miraculous
                 Energie
                 of
                 this
                 onely
                 true
                 and
                 undeceiving
                 medicine
                 were
                 in
                 thy
                 hands
                 .
              
            
          
           
             
               Section
               5.
               
            
             
               Why
               Medicines
               cannot
               alwayes
               restore
               sick
               Persons
               to
               their
               former
               health
               .
            
             
               
                 O●waldus
                 ●roll●us
                 ,
              
               a
               cruly
               learned
               and
               expert
               Physician
               ,
               in
               his
               Preface
               to
               his
               
                 Basilica
                 Chymica
                 ,
              
               doth
               most
               fully
               and
               judiciously
               handle
               this
               point
               .
               His
               words
               are
               these
               .
               It
               is
               observed
               sometimes
               ,
               that
               
               sick
               persons
               by
               the
               most
               convenient
               and
               effectual
               Medicines
               ,
               cannot
               be
               healed
               for
               some
               one
               or
               more
               of
               these
               eight
               subsequent
               reasons
               .
            
             
               The
               first
               is
               ,
               because
               their
               appointed
               time
               or
               terme
               of
               life
               is
               come
               ,
               which
               by
               no
               humane
               wit
               or
               Medicine
               can
               be
               prolonged
               .
               For
               there
               is
               no
               remedy
               upon
               earth
               ,
               by
               which
               our
               corruptible
               bodies
               can
               be
               freed
               from
               death
               ,
               the
               decreed
               penalty
               ,
               and
               the
               wages
               of
               our
               sinnes
               :
               But
               there
               is
               one
               thing
               ,
               which
               (
               if
               we
               add
               holinesse
               to
               it
               ,
               )
               will
               keep
               back
               and
               restrain
               corruption
               ,
               renew
               youth
               ,
               and
               lengthen
               our
               short
               life
               as
               heretofore
               in
               the
               
                 Patriachs
                 .
              
               Now
               though
               our
               life
               may
               be
               shortned
               and
               
                 *
              
               prolonged
               ;
               yet
               because
               of
               the
               punishment
               for
               sinne
               ,
               we
               must
               by
               the
               immutable
               decree
               of
               the
               eternal
               Law
               ,
               unavoydably
               
               die
               :
               for
               a
               conjunction
               of
               different
               Natures
               ,
               and
               things
               (
               suppose
               a
               Spirit
               and
               a
               Body
               )
               must
               necessarily
               induce
               a
               dissolution
               ,
               else
               we
               should
               state
               a
               Pythagorical
               Metempsuchosis
               ,
               or
               a
               revertency
               in
               ages
               as
               
                 Plato
              
               did
               .
               And
               in
               this
               Case
               the
               use
               of
               our
               universall
               and
               supreme
               Medicine
               ,
               will
               prove
               as
               vaine
               and
               ineffectuall
               ,
               as
               an
               old
               womans
               
                 Recipe●
              
               because
               the
               Marriage
               of
               souls
               and
               bodyes
               ,
               ordained
               by
               an
               inevitable
               necessity
               for
               divorcement
               and
               separation
               ,
               can
               by
               no
               industry
               of
               Artists
               ,
               nor
               Ayds
               of
               nature
               be
               rendred
               perpetuall
               ;
               for
               the
               statute
               Lawes
               of
               the
               present
               things
               ,
               and
               their
               great
               Law-giver
               ,
               are
               inviolable
               .
               It
               is
               impious
               therefore
               to
               seeke
               ,
               and
               impossible
               to
               find
               out
               such
               a
               Medicine
               ,
               that
               will
               carry
               us
               alive
               beyond
               those
               bounds
               ,
               which
               the
               very
               Father
               of
               life
               will
               not
               have
               us
               to
               transpasse
               .
            
             
             
               The
               second
               reason
               is
               ,
               Because
               that
               sick
               persons
               are
               too
               too
               often
               brought
               to
               such
               a
               lamentable
               passe
               by
               the
               ignorance
               of
               unlearned
               Physicians
               ,
               and
               their
               pernicious
               
                 Recipe's
                 ,
              
               that
               the
               best
               and
               most
               virtual
               medicines
               can
               doe
               them
               no
               good
               ,
               their
               bodies
               being
               utterly
               poysoned
               ,
               and
               made
               immedicable
               by
               those
               fatal
               Tormentors
               and
               Executioners
               of
               mankind
               .
               In
               this
               desperate
               ●ase
               (
               most
               commonly
               )
               is
               the
               Chymicall
               Physician
               called
               upon
               ;
               but
               then
               would
               I
               have
               him
               to
               call
               to
               mind
               ,
               that
               saying
               of
               
                 Trophilus
              
               in
               
                 Plutarch
                 ,
              
               which
               affirms
               that
               man
               onely
               to
               be
               the
               compleat
               Physician
               ,
               
                 {non-Roman}
                 {non-Roman}
                 {non-Roman}
                 {non-Roman}
                 {non-Roman}
              
               :
               and
               not
               to
               cast
               away
               (
               but
               of
               vaine-glory
               ,
               )
               their
               soveraigne
               and
               undeserved
               medicines
               ,
               to
               ●alve
               the
               credit
               of
               such
               detestable
               villaines
               ,
               whose
               infamy
               is
               past
               cure
               :
               
                 {non-Roman}
                 {non-Roman}
                 {non-Roman}
                 {non-Roman}
                 {non-Roman}
              
               :
               Let
               them
               beware
               also
               ,
               that
               they
               suffer
               not
               their
               
               Medicaments
               to
               be
               mingled
               with
               the
               sluttish
               and
               venemous
               compositions
               of
               others
               ,
               lest
               the
               ill
               consequence
               of
               such
               doings
               be
               laid
               to
               their
               charge
               ,
               and
               the
               success
               or
               good
               event
               (
               if
               any
               comes
               to
               passe
               ▪
               )
               be
               arrogated
               by
               ,
               and
               ascribed
               unto
               those
               impudent
               and
               clamorous
               impostors
               ;
               for
               such
               a
               perverse
               and
               execrable
               envy
               possesseth
               these
               Medicasters
               ,
               that
               to
               disgrace
               those
               that
               are
               more
               learned
               and
               expert
               than
               themselves
               ,
               and
               to
               keep
               up
               their
               owne
               decaying
               repute
               ,
               they
               will
               (
               if
               they
               can
               have
               that
               opportunity
               )
               cast
               those
               Patients
               which
               are
               curable
               and
               towards
               recovery
               ,
               into
               an
               incurable
               and
               hopelesse
               condition
               .
               Hence
               it
               comes
               to
               pass
               ,
               that
               amongst
               the
               common
               sort
               of
               people
               ,
               (
               who
               suffer
               most
               by
               them
               )
               they
               are
               publiquely
               saluted
               by
               the
               most
               apposite
               ▪
               Title
               of
               
                 Profest
                 Poysoners
                 .
              
            
             
               The
               third
               reason
               is
               ,
               Because
               the
               Physician
               is
               called
               upon
               too
               late
               ,
               
               when
               nature
               is
               quite
               mastred
               or
               orecome
               ,
               and
               the
               disease
               hath
               got
               his
               full
               sway
               ;
               otherwise
               if
               convenient
               or
               proper
               medines
               were
               seasonable
               ,
               (
               that
               is
               to
               say
               ,
               in
               a
               time
               of
               prevention
               ,
               by
               resisting
               the
               beginnings
               and
               first
               attempts
               of
               diseases
               )
               administred
               ,
               no
               doubt
               but
               (
               with
               Gods
               blessing
               and
               assent
               )
               the
               consequence
               and
               effect
               would
               be
               happinesse
               and
               health
               .
            
             
               The
               fourth
               reason
               is
               ,
               because
               the
               sick
               person
               will
               not
               punctually
               observe
               the
               Physicians
               prescriptions
               :
               for
               it
               happens
               too
               often
               ,
               that
               Diseased
               people
               charge
               the
               Physician
               or
               his
               Medicines
               ,
               with
               those
               ill
               events
               which
               by
               some
               omission
               or
               irregularity
               (
               contrary
               to
               that
               golden
               Law
               of
               the
               
                 Locrenses
              
               in
               
                 Ael●anu●
                 ,
              
               )
               they
               have
               drawne
               upon
               themselves
               .
            
             
               The
               fifth
               reason
               is
               ,
               because
               the
               
               nature
               or
               peculiar
               propriety
               of
               some
               persons
               ,
               are
               not
               inclinable
               or
               adapted
               to
               health
               ,
               as
               we
               see
               some
               timber
               to
               be
               so
               tough
               and
               knotty
               ,
               and
               out
               of
               a
               certaine
               natural
               defect
               ,
               to
               degenerate
               into
               such
               an
               untowardnesse
               ,
               that
               by
               no
               force
               or
               Art
               it
               can
               be
               cleft
               or
               wrought
               :
               And
               it
               happens
               very
               frequently
               ,
               that
               the
               time
               chosen
               for
               healing
               ,
               together
               with
               the
               indisposition
               of
               the
               Stars
               ,
               oppose
               the
               Cure
               :
               for
               what
               ever
               Disease
               is
               unseasonably
               ,
               that
               is
               to
               say
               ,
               immaturely
               heal'd
               ,
               the
               party
               will
               be
               ever
               after
               subject
               to
               a
               relapse
               ,
               because
               it
               is
               the
               seasonablenesse
               or
               fulnesse
               of
               time
               ,
               that
               (
               like
               harvest
               )
               gives
               a
               firme
               and
               a
               fixed
               health
               .
               A
               ripe
               Pear
               will
               fall
               off
               the
               Tree
               spontaneously
               ,
               but
               if
               we
               seeke
               to
               have
               it
               off
               ,
               while
               it
               is
               green
               ,
               we
               must
               either
               bruise
               the
               tree
               by
               shaking
               it
               ,
               or
               with
               more
               violence
               break
               off
               the
               bough
               .
               Therefore
               ,
               if
               these
               considerations
               be
               neglected
               ,
               especially
               in
               the
               Cure
               of
               
                 Astral
              
               diseases
               ,
               
               we
               shall
               but
               lose
               our
               labour
               ,
               and
               come
               off
               with
               prejudice
               .
               Physicians
               also
               must
               religiously
               provide
               ,
               that
               the
               remedies
               they
               give
               ,
               prove
               not
               worse
               then
               the
               Disease
               ,
               therefore
               let
               them
               never
               advise
               their
               Patients
               to
               any
               impious
               course
               ,
               nor
               consent
               to
               doe
               those
               things
               ,
               which
               by
               salving
               the
               sore
               ,
               destroy
               the
               soule
               and
               the
               body
               too
               :
               let
               it
               be
               their
               chiefe
               care
               not
               to
               hurt
               ,
               if
               they
               cannot
               help
               .
               By
               doing
               so
               ,
               they
               will
               keep
               a
               good
               conscience
               ,
               which
               is
               a
               continuall
               ●east
               ,
               but
               for
               a
               bad
               one
               there
               is
               no
               medicine
               .
            
             
               The
               sixth
               reason
               is
               ,
               because
               the
               disease
               is
               come
               to
               that
               pitch
               or
               confirmation
               ,
               from
               whence
               there
               can
               be
               no
               regress
               by
               the
               Laws
               of
               nature
               ,
               as
               in
               perfect
               ,
               absolute
               ,
               and
               confirmed
               bituminous
               ,
               massie
               ,
               sandy
               ,
               and
               stony
               coagulations
               :
               for
               in
               such
               consummated
               Diseases
               ,
               no
               medicines
               can
               availe
               :
               nor
               in
               a
               native
               deafnesse
               or
               blindness
               :
               
               for
               what
               nature
               her selfe
               hath
               once
               deprived
               us
               off
               ,
               that
               cannot
               be
               restored
               by
               any
               Artists
               ,
               no
               more
               then
               corporall
               disproportions
               and
               birthmaimes
               ,
               or
               transpositions
               can
               be
               amended
               .
            
             
               The
               seventh
               Cause
               or
               Reason
               is
               ▪
               the
               sordid
               ,
               tenacious
               parcimonie
               of
               some
               rich
               Patients
               ,
               which
               makes
               the
               Physician
               (
               for
               no
               Money
               is
               better
               disbursed
               ,
               nor
               more
               honestly
               gotten
               )
               discontented
               and
               carelesse
               :
               sometimes
               also
               the
               diffidence
               ,
               incredulity
               ,
               and
               suspition
               of
               Patients
               ,
               (
               though
               the
               Physician
               be
               never
               so
               faithful
               and
               diligent
               ,
               )
               hinders
               the
               operation
               of
               the
               Medicine
               ,
               and
               is
               a
               great
               impediment
               to
               the
               Physician
               himself
               .
            
             
               The
               eighth
               and
               last
               reason
               is
               ,
               the
               wisdome
               and
               the
               goodnesse
               of
               God
               ,
               who
               (
               without
               further
               toleration
               )
               takes
               away
               the
               Patient
               ,
               lest
               being
               recovered
               ,
               he
               should
               commit
               more
               ,
               
               and
               more
               heynous
               offences
               against
               his
               Maker
               ,
               his
               Neighbour
               ,
               and
               himself
               ,
               to
               the
               utter
               misery
               and
               perdition
               of
               his
               soul
               .
               For
               every
               disease
               is
               an
               expiatory
               penance
               ,
               and
               by
               this
               divine
               affliction
               ,
               correction
               and
               rod
               of
               judgement
               is
               the
               patient
               called
               upon
               ,
               and
               required
               to
               amend
               his
               life
               :
               or
               else
               by
               this
               fatherly
               visitation
               and
               imposition
               of
               the
               Crosse
               ,
               which
               every
               child
               of
               God
               (
               in
               imitation
               of
               his
               blessed
               Sonne
               )
               must
               patiently
               bear
               ,
               he
               is
               purposely
               exercised
               to
               be
               an
               example
               of
               piety
               ,
               submission
               ,
               and
               perfection
               unto
               others
               ;
               for
               God
               doth
               oftentimes
               permit
               some
               particular
               persons
               to
               be
               afflicted
               with
               many
               and
               grievous
               Diseases
               ,
               whom
               the
               cheerefulness
               and
               health
               of
               the
               flesh
               ▪
               with
               their
               dayly
               continuation
               in
               sins
               (
               if
               left
               without
               rebuke
               ,
               )
               had
               cast
               at
               length
               into
               some
               desperate
               spirituall
               malady
               ,
               to
               the
               manifest
               hazard
               of
               their
               eternal
               welfare
               :
               for
               health
               ▪
               without
               holinesse
               ,
               and
               a
               penitent
               
               resentment
               of
               of
               our
               frequent
               infirmities
               ,
               is
               no
               token
               of
               Gods
               mercy
               ,
               but
               rather
               of
               damnation
               ,
               and
               the
               portion
               of
               this
               life
               .
               Moreover
               ,
               sinnes
               by
               weakning
               the
               forces
               and
               activities
               of
               the
               soule
               ,
               make
               her
               impotent
               and
               unfit
               to
               govern
               the
               body
               ;
               so
               that
               the
               principall
               part
               being
               sick
               and
               unapt
               to
               rule
               ,
               the
               bodily
               faculties
               are
               profusely
               wasted
               and
               abused
               ,
               and
               so
               death
               is
               hastned
               on
               ,
               and
               with
               it
               a
               total
               and
               a
               finall
               destruction
               .
               At
               least
               by
               this
               yoke
               and
               bridle
               of
               sicknesse
               ,
               as
               by
               a
               wholsome
               kind
               of
               purgatory
               ,
               men
               will
               be
               retained
               in
               the
               ordinary
               offices
               of
               piety
               ,
               and
               (
               though
               they
               be
               but
               few
               ,
               who
               are
               effectually
               reclaimed
               or
               converted
               by
               it
               ,
               )
               yet
               this
               detainment
               of
               their
               health
               (
               which
               i●
               still
               left
               to
               them
               ,
               they
               had
               still
               abused
               ,
               )
               will
               in
               some
               measure
               restrain
               and
               cut
               off
               from
               them
               ,
               both
               the
               liberty
               and
               the
               power
               of
               sinning
               .
               Hitherto
               the
               most
               learned
               
                 Crollius
                 .
              
            
             
             
               Thou
               wilt
               now
               (
               perhaps
               )
               object
               ,
               that
               seeing
               all
               Diseases
               are
               not
               curable
               ,
               it
               is
               consequently
               absurd
               ,
               to
               terme
               any
               Medicine
               universal
               I
               answer
               ,
               That
               is
               termed
               universall
               ,
               not
               becaus
               it
               takes
               away
               all
               diseases
               at
               all
               times
               &
               in
               all
               Causes
               ,
               for
               that
               it
               cannot
               do
               ;
               but
               because
               it
               being
               but
               one
               ,
               can
               expell
               and
               cure
               all
               those
               diseases
               ,
               which
               by
               all
               other
               particular
               or
               specifical
               Medicines
               whatsoever
               can
               ,
               or
               have
               been
               healed
               and
               eradicated
               ;
               yea
               ,
               and
               some
               diseases
               which
               by
               no
               appropriated
               particular
               medicine
               can
               be
               healed
               ,
               as
               the
               Gout
               ,
               the
               Falling
               sicknesse
               ,
               the
               Dropsie
               ,
               the
               Leprosie
               ,
               &c.
               
               Therefore
               it
               is
               termed
               universal
               ,
               because
               it
               hath
               in
               it
               real
               and
               effectually
               ,
               all
               the
               manifest
               and
               occult
               virtues
               of
               all
               other
               specifical
               medicines
               &
               that
               eminently
               ,
               or
               by
               way
               of
               transcendency
               ,
               so
               that
               all
               other
               medicines
               are
               subordinate
               and
               accomptable
               unto
               this
               .
            
          
           
           
             
               Section
               6.
               
            
             
               How
               Medicines
               ought
               to
               be
               administred
               to
               the
               sick
               ,
               and
               after
               what
               manner
               the
               Physician
               must
               behave
               himself
               in
               their
               administration
               ,
               and
               generally
               in
               his
               practise
               .
            
             
               
                 I.
                 
              
               
                 
                   Every
                   professor
                   of
                   Physick
                   ,
                   when
                   he
                   is
                   furnished
                   with
                   convenient
                   ,
                   effectuall
                   ,
                   and
                   rightly
                   prepared
                   medicines
                   ,
                   before
                   he
                   enters
                   into
                   practise
                   ,
                   must
                   be
                   conversant
                   with
                   ,
                   and
                   acquire
                   the
                   friendship
                   of
                   some
                   learned
                   and
                   well
                   experienced
                   Physiciar
                   ,
                   whose
                   advise
                   and
                   assistance
                   in
                   his
                   first
                   attempts
                   ,
                   he
                   must
                   make
                   use
                   of
                   ,
                   not
                   omitting
                   his
                   own
                   observations
                   .
                
              
               
                 FOr
                 in
                 the
                 multitude
                 of
                 Counsellours
                 there
                 is
                 safety
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 more
                 
                 exact
                 judgement
                 is
                 given
                 of
                 the
                 Patients
                 present
                 condition
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 wayes
                 and
                 meanes
                 to
                 restore
                 him
                 are
                 better
                 and
                 surer
                 laid
                 .
                 By
                 this
                 Course
                 ,
                 that
                 opprobrious
                 
                   German
                
                 Proverb
                 ,
                 which
                 sticks
                 too
                 fast
                 to
                 some
                 young
                 Adventurers
                 (
                 
                   Ein
                   newer
                   Arkt
                   ,
                   Ein
                   newer
                   Kirch-hoff
                   :
                
                 A
                 new
                 Physician
                 must
                 have
                 a
                 new
                 Church-yard
                 ,
                 )
                 would
                 be
                 easily
                 refuted
                 and
                 quite
                 abolished
                 .
                 This
                 very
                 Course
                 (
                 after
                 serious
                 and
                 needful
                 considerations
                 )
                 I
                 did
                 heretofore
                 propose
                 to
                 my selfe
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 effect
                 it
                 throughly
                 ,
                 I
                 procured
                 and
                 entred
                 into
                 mutuall
                 and
                 friendly
                 Covenants
                 with
                 a
                 certaine
                 Doctor
                 of
                 Physick
                 ,
                 who
                 was
                 not
                 unlearned
                 :
                 and
                 that
                 I
                 might
                 by
                 this
                 meanes
                 proceed
                 farther
                 in
                 my
                 Chymical
                 discoveries
                 ,
                 I
                 conversed
                 with
                 him
                 by
                 frequent
                 Letters
                 ,
                 and
                 other
                 more
                 familiar
                 wayes
                 :
                 And
                 this
                 I
                 did
                 ,
                 because
                 I
                 supposed
                 him
                 (
                 at
                 that
                 time
                 )
                 to
                 be
                 a
                 true
                 Philososopher
                 ,
                 but
                 I
                 could
                 never
                 receive
                 one
                 line
                 from
                 
                 him
                 ,
                 that
                 was
                 not
                 wholly
                 dictated
                 by
                 the
                 spirit
                 of
                 pride
                 and
                 arrogancy
                 .
                 At
                 length
                 ,
                 when
                 it
                 fortuned
                 ,
                 that
                 (
                 after
                 a
                 most
                 loving
                 invitation
                 ,
                 I
                 could
                 not
                 for
                 very
                 moving
                 ,
                 and
                 extraordinary
                 reasons
                 ,
                 attend
                 upon
                 him
                 )
                 he
                 rail'd
                 at
                 me
                 (
                 though
                 altogether
                 innocent
                 ,
                 )
                 with
                 most
                 horrid
                 imprecations
                 ,
                 and
                 virulent
                 language
                 ,
                 terming
                 me
                 an
                 unsanctified
                 villaine
                 ,
                 and
                 laboured
                 by
                 all
                 meanes
                 to
                 vilifie
                 my
                 studies
                 and
                 person
                 ,
                 that
                 by
                 such
                 clamorous
                 and
                 publique
                 discouragements
                 ,
                 he
                 might
                 force
                 me
                 to
                 desist
                 ,
                 and
                 give
                 over
                 my
                 profession
                 .
                 But
                 none
                 of
                 these
                 things
                 shall
                 move
                 me
                 :
                 for
                 God
                 will
                 yet
                 give
                 me
                 such
                 friends
                 ,
                 with
                 whom
                 I
                 may
                 freely
                 deliberate
                 ,
                 and
                 advise
                 about
                 Physical
                 operations
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 healing
                 of
                 the
                 sick
                 :
                 too
                 much
                 knowledge
                 is
                 oftentimes
                 foolishness
                 .
                 True
                 Philosophers
                 walk
                 wholly
                 in
                 the
                 plaine
                 path
                 of
                 nature
                 .
                 What
                 profits
                 learning
                 ,
                 where
                 pride
                 beares
                 the
                 sway
                 ,
                 and
                 
                 blinds
                 the
                 owner
                 ?
                 I
                 have
                 ever
                 judged
                 ,
                 the
                 modest
                 knowledge
                 to
                 be
                 the
                 most
                 divine
                 .
                 It
                 is
                 true
                 indeed
                 ,
                 we
                 are
                 not
                 all
                 equalls
                 :
                 but
                 let
                 him
                 that
                 hath
                 more
                 of
                 the
                 light
                 ,
                 walke
                 in
                 that
                 shining
                 path
                 with
                 modesty
                 .
                 I
                 confesse
                 indeed
                 ,
                 and
                 it
                 is
                 true
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 was
                 my
                 superiour
                 by
                 many
                 degrees
                 ,
                 but
                 had
                 he
                 beene
                 moved
                 to
                 this
                 harsh
                 dealing
                 ,
                 by
                 a
                 meer
                 conceit
                 of
                 his
                 superiority
                 in
                 learning
                 ,
                 perhaps
                 he
                 would
                 not
                 have
                 cast
                 me
                 off
                 so
                 as
                 he
                 hath
                 done
                 .
                 God
                 resisteth
                 the
                 proud
                 ,
                 and
                 gives
                 grace
                 even
                 to
                 the
                 humble
                 .
                 Yea
                 ,
                 the
                 most
                 wise
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 blessed
                 
                   JESUS
                   ,
                
                 did
                 humble
                 himselfe
                 in
                 the
                 very
                 forme
                 of
                 a
                 servant
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 might
                 familiarly
                 live
                 and
                 converse
                 with
                 the
                 most
                 obscure
                 and
                 inferiour
                 sort
                 of
                 people
                 :
                 and
                 he
                 was
                 not
                 ashamed
                 ,
                 nor
                 disdained
                 to
                 teach
                 those
                 poore
                 spirits
                 ,
                 not
                 a
                 sublunary
                 ,
                 transient
                 knowledge
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 glorious
                 and
                 permanent
                 mysteries
                 of
                 the
                 Kingdome
                 of
                 heaven
                 .
                 I
                 love
                 still
                 the
                 
                 learning
                 of
                 so
                 eminent
                 a
                 person
                 because
                 others
                 whom
                 I
                 love
                 ,
                 commend
                 it
                 unto
                 me
                 :
                 But
                 that
                 great
                 knowledge
                 ,
                 which
                 he
                 abuseth
                 to
                 an
                 injurious
                 scorn
                 and
                 undervaluing
                 of
                 me
                 ,
                 I
                 heartily
                 hate
                 .
                 God
                 Almighty
                 (
                 it
                 may
                 be
                 )
                 for
                 some
                 secret
                 respects
                 ,
                 which
                 his
                 all
                 discerning
                 spirit
                 onely
                 knowes
                 ,
                 would
                 not
                 suffer
                 me
                 to
                 impart
                 any
                 longer
                 ,
                 (
                 as
                 we
                 were
                 mutually
                 bound
                 )
                 my
                 private
                 affaires
                 unto
                 him
                 .
                 Therefore
                 from
                 henceforth
                 let
                 him
                 live
                 to
                 himselfe
                 ,
                 onely
                 I
                 would
                 have
                 him
                 understand
                 by
                 this
                 which
                 is
                 published
                 ,
                 that
                 his
                 vehement
                 and
                 bitter
                 Letters
                 made
                 me
                 very
                 sad
                 .
                 But
                 to
                 returne
                 to
                 what
                 we
                 have
                 proposed
                 in
                 the
                 Contents
                 of
                 this
                 Section
                 ;
                 A
                 Physician
                 that
                 would
                 practise
                 successfully
                 ,
                 must
              
               
                 
                   First
                   and
                   before
                   all
                   things
                   find
                   out
                   the
                   disease
                   ,
                   and
                   what
                   the
                   cause
                   of
                   it
                   is
                   .
                
              
               
                 For
                 in
                 vain
                 wilt
                 thou
                 either
                 seek
                 or
                 
                 apply
                 remedies
                 ,
                 if
                 the
                 cause
                 of
                 the
                 disease
                 be
                 not
                 perfectly
                 knowne
                 unto
                 thee
                 :
                 the
                 beginning
                 of
                 the
                 Cure
                 ,
                 is
                 a
                 right
                 knowledge
                 of
                 the
                 Disease
                 :
                 but
                 the
                 disease
                 cannot
                 be
                 known
                 ,
                 without
                 knowing
                 the
                 cause
                 :
                 For
                 then
                 are
                 we
                 confident
                 ,
                 that
                 we
                 know
                 the
                 matter
                 and
                 effect
                 ,
                 when
                 we
                 have
                 discovered
                 the
                 cause
                 or
                 efficient
                 of
                 it
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 II.
                 
              
               
                 He
                 must
                 apply
                 and
                 appropriate
                 his
                 remedies
                 to
                 the
                 root
                 and
                 originall
                 apparent
                 cause
                 of
                 the
                 d●sease
                 ,
                 and
                 not
                 otherwise
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 III.
                 
              
               
                 He
                 must
                 administer
                 no
                 Med●cine●
                 ,
                 whose
                 forces
                 or
                 operative
                 virtues
                 in
                 taking
                 away
                 the
                 disease
                 ,
                 he
                 is
                 not
                 throughly
                 acquainted
                 with
                 ,
                 unlesse
                 he
                 be
                 well
                 assured
                 that
                 they
                 cannot
                 indanger
                 nor
                 prejudice
                 a
                 person
                 that
                 is
                 in
                 health
                 :
                 by
                 such
                 trials
                 he
                 may
                 safely
                 and
                 profitably
                 
                 discern
                 what
                 his
                 Medicines
                 can
                 and
                 what
                 they
                 cannot
                 effect
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 IV.
                 
              
               
                 He
                 must
                 administer
                 nothing
                 that
                 hath
                 in
                 it
                 a
                 manifest
                 poyson
                 ,
                 unlesse
                 the
                 venome
                 be
                 first
                 wholly
                 and
                 actually
                 separated
                 or
                 taken
                 out
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 V.
                 
              
               
                 
                   He
                   must
                   before
                   the
                   administration
                   of
                   his
                   Medicines
                   ,
                   remove
                   all
                   impediments
                   that
                   are
                   likely
                   to
                   oppose
                   or
                   weaken
                   their
                   virtues
                   ;
                   and
                   this
                   must
                   be
                   done
                   either
                   by
                   himself
                   ,
                   or
                   by
                   another
                   ,
                
                 viz.
                 
                   by
                   a
                   Surgeon
                   .
                
              
               
                 HE
                 must
                 let
                 blood
                 ,
                 take
                 away
                 all
                 luxations
                 ,
                 set
                 broken
                 bones
                 ,
                 &c.
                 
                 And
                 afterwards
                 apply
                 his
                 Medicines
                 inwardly
                 or
                 outwardly
                 ,
                 or
                 both
                 wayes
                 ,
                 as
                 need
                 requires
                 .
              
            
             
             
               
                 VI
                 .
              
               
                 He
                 must
                 prescribe
                 such
                 a
                 Dyet
                 both
                 of
                 Meat
                 and
                 Drinke
                 ,
                 as
                 will
                 be
                 agreeable
                 to
                 his
                 Patients
                 present
                 exigencie
                 ,
                 and
                 for
                 the
                 furtherance
                 or
                 assistance
                 of
                 nature
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 restoration
                 of
                 health
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VII
                 .
              
               
                 He
                 must
                 carefully
                 observe
                 a
                 just
                 Dose
                 in
                 all
                 his
                 Medicines
                 ,
                 with
                 respect
                 had
                 to
                 their
                 operations
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 the
                 strength
                 of
                 the
                 Patient
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 VIII
                 .
              
               
                 He
                 must
                 never
                 administer
                 any
                 of
                 his
                 Medicines
                 ,
                 without
                 sanctifying
                 them
                 in
                 ,
                 and
                 with
                 the
                 blessed
                 name
                 of
                 JESUS
                 CHRIST
                 .
                 Whatsoever
                 ye
                 doe
                 (
                 saith
                 the
                 Apostle
                 of
                 the
                 Gentiles
                 )
                 in
                 word
                 or
                 deed
                 ,
                 doe
                 all
                 in
                 the
                 name
                 of
                 the
                 Lord
                 JESUS
                 ,
                 giving
                 thankes
                 to
                 God
                 and
                 the
                 Father
                 by
                 him
                 .
                 
                   Colos.
                
                 3.
                 17.
                 
              
            
          
           
           
             
               Section
               .
               7.
               
            
             
               How
               the
               sick
               man
               should
               behave
               himself
               ,
               while
               he
               is
               in
               a
               course
               of
               Physick
               .
            
             
               
                 I.
                 
              
               
                 Let
                 the
                 sick
                 person
                 acknowledge
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 hath
                 deserved
                 ,
                 and
                 drawn
                 upon
                 himselfe
                 ,
                 the
                 just
                 anger
                 of
                 God
                 by
                 his
                 frequent
                 sinnes
                 :
                 and
                 that
                 it
                 is
                 by
                 his
                 righteous
                 permission
                 ,
                 that
                 he
                 is
                 visited
                 with
                 sicknesse
                 .
              
            
             
               
                 II.
                 
              
               
                 Let
                 him
                 by
                 an
                 unfeigned
                 penitence
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 godly
                 sorrow
                 reconcile
                 himhimselfe
                 unto
                 God
                 through
                 the
                 merits
                 of
                 his
                 Saviour
                 ,
                 putting
                 on
                 an
                 holy
                 resolution
                 to
                 become
                 a
                 new
                 man
                 ;
                 and
                 afterwards
                 let
                 him
                 draw
                 near
                 to
                 the
                 throne
                 of
                 Grace
                 ,
                 and
                 intreat
                 God
                 for
                 mercy
                 ,
                 and
                 his
                 healing
                 assistance
                 .
              
            
             
             
               
                 III.
                 
              
               
                 
                   After
                   reconciliation
                   and
                   invocation
                   of
                   the
                   divine
                   Aide
                   ,
                   let
                   him
                   send
                   for
                   the
                   Physician
                   ,
                   and
                   Physick
                   being
                   taken
                   ,
                   let
                   him
                   not
                   doubt
                   of
                   Gods
                   mercy
                   ,
                   and
                   his
                   own
                   recovery
                   .
                
              
               
                 THat
                 is
                 to
                 say
                 ,
                 let
                 him
                 certainly
                 believe
                 that
                 there
                 is
                 communicated
                 and
                 infused
                 (
                 by
                 the
                 gift
                 of
                 God
                 )
                 into
                 the
                 medicine
                 which
                 he
                 hath
                 taken
                 ,
                 such
                 an
                 innate
                 vertue
                 ▪
                 as
                 is
                 effectual
                 and
                 proper
                 to
                 expell
                 his
                 Disease
                 .
                 If
                 he
                 doth
                 this
                 ,
                 the
                 event
                 will
                 be
                 answerable
                 to
                 his
                 faith
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Medicine
                 will
                 in
                 all
                 circumstances
                 work
                 successfully
                 .
                 A
                 firm
                 credulity
                 ,
                 chearfull
                 hope
                 and
                 true
                 love
                 and
                 confidence
                 towards
                 the
                 Physician
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 Medicine
                 ,
                 (
                 saith
                 that
                 great
                 Philosopher
                 
                   Oswaldus
                   Crollius
                   ,
                
                 )
                 conduce
                 as
                 much
                 to
                 the
                 health
                 of
                 
                 the
                 Patient
                 ,
                 yea
                 sometimes
                 more
                 ,
                 then
                 either
                 the
                 remedy
                 ▪
                 or
                 the
                 Physician
                 .
                 Naturall
                 faith
                 (
                 I
                 meane
                 not
                 the
                 faith
                 of
                 Grace
                 which
                 is
                 from
                 Christ
                 ,
                 but
                 the
                 
                   imaginative
                   ●aith
                   ,
                
                 which
                 in
                 the
                 day
                 that
                 the
                 first
                 man
                 was
                 created
                 ,
                 was
                 then
                 infused
                 and
                 planted
                 in
                 him
                 by
                 God
                 the
                 Father
                 ,
                 and
                 is
                 still
                 communicated
                 to
                 his
                 posterity
                 ,
                 )
                 is
                 so
                 powerfull
                 ,
                 that
                 it
                 can
                 both
                 expell
                 and
                 introduce
                 Diseases
                 :
                 as
                 it
                 manifestly
                 appeares
                 in
                 times
                 of
                 infection
                 ,
                 when
                 man
                 by
                 his
                 owne
                 private
                 imagination
                 ,
                 out
                 of
                 meere
                 feare
                 and
                 horrour
                 ,
                 generates
                 a
                 
                   Basiliscum
                   Coeli
                   ,
                
                 which
                 infects
                 the
                 Microcosmical
                 Firmament
                 by
                 means
                 of
                 the
                 Imaginants
                 superstition
                 according
                 as
                 the
                 Patients
                 faith
                 assists
                 ,
                 or
                 resists
                 .
                 To
                 the
                 faithfull
                 all
                 things
                 are
                 possible
                 ,
                 for
                 faith
                 ascertaines
                 all
                 those
                 things
                 which
                 are
                 uncertaine
                 :
                 God
                 can
                 by
                 no
                 meanes
                 be
                 reach'd
                 and
                 injoy'd
                 of
                 us
                 ,
                 but
                 onely
                 by
                 faith
                 :
                 
                 whosoever
                 therefore
                 believes
                 in
                 God
                 ,
                 he
                 operates
                 by
                 the
                 power
                 of
                 God
                 ,
                 and
                 to
                 God
                 all
                 things
                 are
                 possible
                 .
                 But
                 how
                 this
                 is
                 performed
                 ,
                 no
                 humane
                 wit
                 can
                 find
                 out
                 :
                 This
                 onely
                 we
                 can
                 say
                 ,
                 that
                 ●aith
                 is
                 an
                 operation
                 or
                 work
                 not
                 of
                 the
                 Bel●ever
                 but
                 of
                 him
                 in
                 whom
                 he
                 believes
                 .
                 Cogitations
                 or
                 thoughts
                 ,
                 surpasse
                 the
                 operations
                 of
                 all
                 Elements
                 and
                 Stars
                 :
                 for
                 while
                 we
                 imagine
                 and
                 believe
                 ,
                 such
                 a
                 thing
                 shall
                 come
                 to
                 passe
                 ,
                 that
                 faith
                 brings
                 the
                 worke
                 about
                 ,
                 and
                 without
                 it
                 is
                 nothing
                 done
                 Our
                 faith
                 that
                 it
                 will
                 be
                 so
                 ,
                 makes
                 us
                 imagine
                 so
                 :
                 imagination
                 excites
                 a
                 Star
                 ,
                 that
                 Star
                 (
                 by
                 conjunction
                 with
                 Imagination
                 )
                 gives
                 the
                 effect
                 or
                 perfect
                 operation
                 .
                 To
                 believe
                 that
                 there
                 is
                 a
                 medicine
                 which
                 can
                 cure
                 us
                 ,
                 gives
                 the
                 spirit
                 of
                 Medicine
                 :
                 that
                 spirit
                 gives
                 the
                 knowledge
                 of
                 it
                 and
                 the
                 Medicine
                 being
                 known
                 ,
                 gives
                 health
                 .
                 Hence
                 it
                 appeares
                 ,
                 that
                 a
                 true
                 Physician
                 ,
                 whose
                 operations
                 are
                 natural
                 ,
                 
                 is
                 born
                 of
                 this
                 faith
                 ,
                 and
                 the
                 spirit
                 (
                 I
                 meane
                 this
                 spirit
                 of
                 nature
                 ,
                 or
                 star
                 of
                 medicine
                 ,
                 )
                 furthers
                 and
                 assists
                 him
                 ,
                 according
                 to
                 his
                 faith
                 .
                 It
                 happens
                 oftentimes
                 ,
                 that
                 an
                 illiterate
                 man
                 performes
                 those
                 cures
                 by
                 this
                 imaginative
                 faith
                 ,
                 which
                 the
                 best
                 Physicians
                 cannot
                 doe
                 with
                 the
                 most
                 soveraigne
                 medicines
                 .
                 Sometimes
                 also
                 ,
                 this
                 bare
                 perswasion
                 or
                 imaginative
                 faith
                 heales
                 more
                 and
                 more
                 effectually
                 ,
                 then
                 any
                 virtue
                 in
                 the
                 exhibited
                 Medicine
                 ,
                 as
                 it
                 was
                 manifestly
                 found
                 of
                 late
                 years
                 ,
                 in
                 that
                 famous
                 
                   Panacea
                   ,
                
                 or
                 
                   All-heal
                
                 of
                 
                   Amwaldus
                   ,
                
                 and
                 since
                 his
                 time
                 ,
                 in
                 that
                 new
                 medicinall
                 spring
                 ,
                 which
                 broke
                 out
                 this
                 present
                 yeare
                 in
                 the
                 Confines
                 of
                 
                   Misnia
                
                 and
                 
                   Bohemia
                   ,
                
                 to
                 which
                 an
                 incredible
                 number
                 of
                 sick
                 persons
                 doe
                 daily
                 resort
                 .
                 No
                 other
                 cause
                 can
                 be
                 rendred
                 of
                 these
                 
                   Magnalia
                   ,
                
                 or
                 rare
                 Physical
                 operations
                 ,
                 then
                 the
                 firme
                 and
                 excessive
                 affection
                 of
                 the
                 Patient
                 ;
                 for
                 the
                 power
                 ,
                 which
                 worketh
                 
                 thus
                 ,
                 is
                 in
                 the
                 Spirit
                 of
                 the
                 receiver
                 ,
                 when
                 taking
                 the
                 medicine
                 without
                 any
                 fear
                 or
                 hesitation
                 ,
                 he
                 is
                 wholly
                 possessed
                 and
                 inspired
                 (
                 as
                 it
                 were
                 )
                 with
                 an
                 actual
                 desire
                 and
                 beliefe
                 of
                 health
                 :
                 for
                 the
                 rationall
                 soule
                 ,
                 when
                 stirred
                 up
                 ,
                 and
                 enkindled
                 by
                 a
                 vehement
                 imagination
                 ,
                 overcomes
                 nature
                 ,
                 and
                 by
                 her
                 own
                 effectuall
                 affections
                 ,
                 renewes
                 many
                 things
                 in
                 her
                 own
                 body
                 or
                 mansion
                 ,
                 causing
                 either
                 health
                 or
                 sicknesse
                 ,
                 and
                 that
                 not
                 onely
                 in
                 her
                 own
                 body
                 ,
                 but
                 Extraneously
                 ,
                 or
                 in
                 other
                 bodies
                 .
                 The
                 efficacy
                 of
                 this
                 naturall
                 faith
                 ,
                 manifested
                 it selfe
                 in
                 that
                 woman
                 with
                 the
                 bloody
                 Issue
                 ,
                 and
                 in
                 the
                 Centurion
                 .
                 Hitherto
                 are
                 the
                 words
                 of
                 
                   Crollius
                   .
                
              
            
             
               
                 IV.
                 
              
               
                 When
                 the
                 Patient
                 is
                 del●vered
                 from
                 his
                 disease
                 ,
                 and
                 restored
                 to
                 his
                 former
                 health
                 ,
                 let
                 him
                 heartily
                 and
                 solemnly
                 give
                 all
                 the
                 glory
                 to
                 the
                 Supreme
                 ,
                 All-mighty
                 Physician
                 :
                 
                 let
                 him
                 offer
                 the
                 sacrifice
                 of
                 Thankes-giving
                 ,
                 and
                 acknowledge
                 the
                 goodness
                 and
                 the
                 tender
                 mercies
                 of
                 the
                 Lord
                 .
                 And
                 let
                 not
                 the
                 Physitian
                 forget
                 to
                 performe
                 his
                 duty
                 ,
                 by
                 a
                 thankeful
                 and
                 solemn
                 acknowledgement
                 of
                 Gods
                 gracious
                 concessions
                 ,
                 by
                 choosing
                 and
                 enabling
                 him
                 to
                 be
                 his
                 unworthy
                 instrument
                 to
                 restore
                 the
                 sick
                 .
                 And
                 this
                 he
                 must
                 do
                 ,
                 not
                 onely
                 because
                 it
                 is
                 his
                 duty
                 ,
                 and
                 a
                 most
                 deserved
                 and
                 obliged
                 gratitude
                 ,
                 but
                 also
                 out
                 of
                 a
                 wise
                 Christian
                 caution
                 ,
                 to
                 avoid
                 those
                 judgements
                 which
                 are
                 poured
                 upon
                 the
                 negligent
                 and
                 ungratefull
                 ,
                 by
                 the
                 most
                 just
                 jealousie
                 of
                 the
                 irresistible
                 and
                 everlasting
                 GOD
                 ;
                 unto
                 whom
                 alone
                 be
                 rendred
                 by
                 Angels
                 and
                 Men
                 ,
                 and
                 by
                 all
                 his
                 creatures
                 ,
                 
                   All
                   Praise
                   and
                   Glory
                   ,
                   and
                   perpetual
                   thanks
                   in
                   this
                   the
                   Temporall
                   ,
                   and
                   in
                   the
                   eternall
                   Being
                   .
                
                 Amen
                 .
              
               
                 FINIS
                 .
              
               
            
          
        
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A89713e-270
           
             *
             It
             was
             not
             long
             before
             the
             publishing
             of
             this
             peece
             ,
             that
             I
             was
             told
             by
             a
             very
             noble
             Gentleman
             ,
             that
             in
             his
             late
             travailes
             in
             
               France
               ,
            
             he
             was
             acquainted
             with
             a
             young
             
               French
            
             Physician
             ,
             who
             for
             a
             long
             time
             had
             beene
             suiter
             to
             a
             very
             handsome
             Lady
             ,
             and
             having
             at
             length
             gained
             her
             consent
             ,
             was
             married
             to
             her
             ,
             but
             his
             Nuptial
             bed
             proved
             his
             Grave
             ,
             for
             on
             the
             next
             morning
             he
             was
             found
             dead
             .
             It
             was
             the
             Gentlemans
             opinion
             ,
             that
             this
             sad
             accident
             might
             be
             caused
             by
             an
             excessive
             joy
             ,
             and
             for
             my
             part
             I
             subscribe
             to
             it
             ;
             for
             a
             violent
             joy
             hath
             oftentimes
             done
             the
             worke
             of
             death
             :
             this
             comes
             to
             passe
             by
             an
             extreame
             attenuation
             ,
             and
             diffusion
             of
             the
             animal
             spirits
             ,
             which
             passing
             all
             into
             the
             exterior
             parts
             ,
             leave
             the
             heart
             destitute
             ,
             whence
             followes
             suffocation
             and
             death
             .
             Scaliger
             Exercit.
             310.
             gives
             the
             reason
             of
             this
             violent
             effusion
             and
             dissipation
             of
             the
             Spirits
             :
             Quia
             similia
             maxime
             cuprint
             inter
             se
             uniri
             ,
             ideo
             spiritus
             ,
             veluti
             exire
             conantur
             ad
             objectum
             illud
             ex●ernum●
             atum
             ac
             jucundum
             ,
             ut
             videlicet
             cum
             eo
             vniantur
             ,
             Illudque
             sibi
             maxime
             simile
             reddant
             .
             If
             any
             will
             suspect
             ,
             that
             together
             with
             this
             excessive
             joy
             ,
             there
             was
             a
             concurrency
             of
             the
             other
             excess
             mentioned
             by
             my
             Author
             ,
             I
             permit
             him
             his
             lib●rty
             ,
             but
             certainly
             I
             thinke
             he
             will
             be
             deceived
             .
          
           
             *
             
               Extrarious
            
             signifies
             such
             a
             substance
             ,
             that
             is
             quite
             another
             thing
             ,
             and
             of
             another
             disposition
             than
             ours
             is
             .
          
           
             *
             I
             promise
             my
             English
             Reader
             ,
             that
             (
             if
             God
             will
             blesse
             me
             with
             health
             ,
             and
             his
             performing
             assistance
             )
             I
             will
             shortly
             communicate
             to
             him
             ,
             (
             according
             to
             the
             
               Hermetic
            
             principles
             )
             a
             most
             accurate
             Treatise
             of
             
               Meteors
               ,
            
             their
             Generation
             ,
             Causes
             ,
             qualities
             ,
             peculiar
             Regions
             and
             Forms
             :
             what
             spirits
             governe
             them
             ,
             and
             what
             they
             signifie
             or
             fore-shew
             .
          
           
             *
             Animalls
             ,
             Vegetals
             ,
             and
             Minerals
             .
          
           
             ☞
             
          
           
             *
             The
             terme
             of
             life
             is
             moveable
             ,
             not
             fixed
             :
             conditionall
             ,
             not
             positive
             ,
             as
             appears
             by
             that
             commandement
             ,
             which
             
               S.
               Paul
            
             observed
             to
             be
             the
             
               first
               with
               a
               promise
               ;
            
             and
             by
             many
             other
             reasons
             ,
             which
             cannot
             be
             inserted
             in
             this
             place
             .