Ferments as many Varieties of Putrefactions and as many Dungs of one Bread as there are particular Kindes of Animals nourished by Bread Yea and moreover there are more Ferments for the Corruption of Bread because also Bread doth putrifie after many manners as well of its own accord as through the Odour of Places and Impressions of Agents And that which is said of Bread the same thing may be understood of other Foods The Schooles taking notice also that nothings will profit us but that which in its Root containeth the Flourish of Life therefore also they would that the Spirit of the Liver being actually natural should glisten in the Venal Blood like an Air And they have thought it to be a Vapour and therefore also they have confounded it with an Exhalation Not knowing that a Vapour is Water but that it is not a Gas a wild Spirit an uncoagulable Air and Skie Therefore they have thought that a Vapour exhaling out of the out-chased venal Blood even as elsewhere it breaths out of any lukewarm Liquors was that Spirit of the venal Blood from whence the vital Spirit should afterwards be materially framed Of which I have elsewhere profesly spoken For indeed whatsoever defcendeth into an healthy Stomack if it be concocted by the Ferment of the Spleen it waxeth sharp through the fermental and specifical Sharpness of our Species And Superfluities being first sequestred from thence it is at length turned into venal Blood Which Blood after the Bound of its Digestion is transferred into the Heart and is made Arterial Blood which in the holy Scriptures is called A ruddy or red Spirit wherein the Soul inhabiteth For it is made fit to pass over into Vital Spirit and the remainder thereof to undergo the last Digestion of the solid parts and at length without that its residence to exhale into the Air Therefore also for that very Cause it ought to be volatile and to have assumed the Disposition of a Spirit in the Heart Furthermore that Sharpness of the Stomack by Virtue of the ferment of the Gaul is converted into a Salt even as elsewhere concerning Digestions And the Actual Saltness is separated with the Urin and Sweats because it became Excrementitious But the Mass of the venal Blood it self seeing it cannot pass over into Spirit but by the Vital Ferment of the Heart I say there is made a substantial Derivation or Translation of the Venal Blood into Arterial Blood and of the Arterial Blood into Spirit wholly throughout the whole without any residence and separation of heterogeneal Parts because the Excrements are first withdrawn from thence and the Substance of the Heart is restless being continually busied about this Office of Transmutation that it may uncessantly effect Arterial Blood out of the Venal Blood and of this vital Spirit So that a certain natural Spirit doth not fore-exist in the venal Blood from whence as it were of the matter whereof vital Spirit may be made But the whole venal Blood it self if there shall be need is made Arterial Blood and from thence â—ital Spirit Therefore the making of Venal Blood in the Liver and the making of Arterial Blood in the Heart do differ For one is a true transmutation of the Chyle into venal Blood and the generating of a new Being But the other is an extenuating of the Venal Blood into a volatile Arterial Blood and into a Vital Air For venal Blood is made with a thickning of it self and with a Separation of the liquid Excrement or Urin. But the Vital Spirit is made with a melting of that which is thickned and an Aiery extenuation thereof to wit whereunto the Arterial Blood affords a Degree or Mean I confess indeed that the Spirit of Wine is snatched as a Spirit into the Arteries as a certain simple Symbolizing and previously disposed thing that it may easily passover into vital Spirit but the Schooles do from hence conclude nothing for their Spirit of the Liver Therefore let the venal Blood be the Spirit of the Liver it self coagulated and the fore-existing Matter of the Vital Spirits Which Spirit indeed hath the Nature together with the Power of a Body that it may be Spiritualized Therefore even as from the Ferment of the Heart the venal Blood is made arterial Blood and a volatile Spirit So in the Arteries as it were in the Stomack of the Heart and the Ferment of the Heart being drawn the Arterial Blood it self passeth over into the Common-wealth of Spirits Yea the secondary Humours also or the immediate Nourishments of the solid Parts are by degrees made Volatile least they should leave a remaining Residence behind them but they make an egress with a total transpitation of themselves The Heart therefore by its Ferment frameth arterial Blood out of venal Blood the which by the same endeavour it so fits and extenuates that moreover so much of vital Spirits is made out of the arterial Blood in the Arteries as it were in its Stomack as the Grosness and resisting Substance of the arterial Blood in so small a space wherein it is agitated or wrought in the Arteries permits to be made And there is well nigh a single Action while the venal Blood passeth over into arterial Blood and the Arterial Blood into Spirit Because they differ not in their Shops and likewise in the Degrees of Digestion Extenuation and Subtilizing For as much of arterial Blood is bred of venal Blood and as much of vital Spirits is made out of the arterial Blood by the same Feâ—ment of the Heart as is needful for every one of them and the Faculties of concocting are able to make Neither is it sufficient also to have known that the venal Blood doth ascend into arterial Blood but that the arterial Blood passeth over partly into vital Spirit and partly departeth into the Nourishment of the solid Parts Also that at length of vital Spirit it is made animal and the which receiveth an ultimated or utmost Determination in its Nerves so indeed that it is made visive or visible Spirit in the optick Nerves or Sinews of Sight but being exorbitant from thence and being derived into the Tongue it should be plainly unprofitable for tasting even as also the Aanimal Spirits the Authors of touching are unfit for Motion and those of this for them But moreover it behoves us to have known the Marrow of the vital Spirit For indeed of the Sharpe Chyle partly venal Blood and partly a Urin and sweat is made But that excrementous Saltness of the Urin is a volatile and Salt Spirit the which being co-fermented with Earth at length a Salta-peter is formed wherefore that Salt Spirit is excrementous The venal Blood indeed by Distillation shews unto us also a saltish Spirit plainly volatile not any thing distinguishable in Smell as neither in Tast from the Spirit of the Urin Yet essentially different in this that the Spirit of the Salt of Venal Blood cureth the Falling-sickness but the
Cedar before all Woods yet perhaps India affords Woods not any thing inferior to the Cedar of the Shoar of Palaestina Yet I have alwayes given a Primate-ship unto the Authority of the holy Scriptures Yet not that therefore the hand of the Lord hath bound up it self to the Cedar but what things I have written of the Cedar I have offered for a memorial of honour towards God who hath been propitious or favourable unto me But other things which there are concerning the Cedar shall be buried with me for the World is not capable thereof But that which the Moderns do boast of the Elixiâ— of Propriety that doth not succeed according to the Description of Paracelsus For the three Simples being shut up together in a most large and sealed glassen Vessel afford at least a few small dorps of a milkie Liquor and some small drops of a somewhat palish Oyl after two dayes space and as many not more after two Months but scarce a third part of the matter suffers by the Fire but that a collection of corrupt Matter is threatned but if it be but a little more strongly urged the Vessel how most large soever bursts asunder But if the Ingredients be connexed with the middle Liquor the thing it self is at length of no worth Indeed Paracelsus hath been silent even as in most of his other Descriptions as to the addition of the Liquor Alkahest wherewith the whole matter is presently solved throughout its whole and the Medicine succeeds according to his Description For there is in this Elixir a subtile Fragrancy by reason whereof it preserves the liquid matter of our Body from Corruption as it were a Balsam for with one only small drop being given to drink in Wine I have oftentimes so refreshed those that were desperate through a contagious Fever that they have as yet dined with me at noon who at midnight had received the last or extream â—unction of holy Oyl Truly through want of the Being of Cedar the Elixir of Propriety doth relieve But what shall I say The Alkahest is required which is not granted to thinkers but only to knowers and that indeed to those on whom Knowledge is doubled Wherefore I will declare a certain trivial thing for the use of the vulgar for the preservation of long Life In the Year 1600 a certain Man serving in the accounts for military Provision but being burdened with a numerous and small off-spring complaines that he was in the 58th Year of his Age but if he should fail it would happen that his Children would beg their Bread from door to door He begged of me some defence of Life I being as yet a young Man condoling his Condition considered that the Odour of a Sulphurous Torch being enflamed did preserve Wines from Corruption Therefore I inferred in my mind that the sharp distillation of Sulphur did so necessarily contain this Fume of Sulphur and plainly all the Odour thereof that it self was nothing but the very Fume of Sulphur combibed into its Mercurial Salt Then in the next place I supposed that our venal Blood was the Wine of our Life and that being preserved if it did not give a Long Life at least-wise it would defend from many Diseases of Corruptions through the efficiency whereof the Life would at least be after some sort defended in Health free from Diseases and at rest from Pains Wherefore I gave him a Bottle full of the distilled Liquor of Sulphur and I likewise taught him the art of preparing that Oyl from enflamed Sulphur Moreover I bed him that at every meal he should take two small drops at least of that Liquor in his first draught of Ale or Beer neither that as wanton he should easily exceed that Dose I supposing that two small drops did contain much Fume of the Sulphur That Man obeyed my admonitions and he as yet walks through the Streets of Brâ—nels in the Year 1641. And which is more famous he never at all lay by it with any Diseasâ—â— in all that forty Years although he once through a fall upon the Ice 〈◊〉 his Leg nigh the Ham Yet he alwayes remained free from a Fever slender and lean although the old Man lived in the penury of conveniencies The name of the old Man is John Mass who served in the Bed-Chamber of Rythovius Bishop of Yper when the Counts Egmond and Horn were beheaded and then was he five and twenty Years of Age. FINIS Opuscula Medica Inaudita THAT IS Unheard of little VVorks OF MEDICINE BEING TREATISES 1. Of the Disease of the STONE 2. Of FEVERS 3. Of the HUMORS of Galen 4. Of the PEST or PLAGUE Written by John Baptista Van Helmont Toparch or Governor in Merode Royenborch Oorschot Pellines c. And now faithfully rendred into English for publick good and increase of true Science By J. C. Sometime of M. H. Oxon. Col. 4. 14. Luke the Beloved Physitian greets you Deut. 32. 39. See now that I even I am he and there is no God with me I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand Res ardua est ignotis dare scientiam obscuris lucem obsoletis nitorem in-speratis fidem dubiis certitudinem ac naturae suae omnia Judiciorum desiderio tribunitia potestas efflagitata est judiciorum lenitate alius ordo ad res judicandas postulatur LONDON Printed for Lodowick Loyd and are to be sold at his Shop next the Castle in Cornhill 1662. TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS MAN THE LORD CASPAR ULDARICK BARON of Hoensbroeck COMMENDATOR of the Teutonick Order of the sacred Romane Empire in Gemert A FAVOURER of good ARTS and his singular FRIEND and PATRON THou remembrest that the Illustrious Lord Lord Werner Spies of Bullensheim Provincial Commendator of the Teutonick Order of the Confluence of Baillive and Commendator of the House of Pitzenburg of Mecheline Lord in Elsen and Herrn-Mulheim c. of late thy Uncle the most favourable of my Friends three dayes before his Death sent his Horse-litter for me because he lay sick of a cruel Tertian Ague and when I came unto him that he as yet saluted me with his Head and offered to embrace me in both his Arms I was willing presently to succour the same man because an intermitting pulse bad me to make haste but that his Friends deferred the promised help till the afternoon that the Physitians might be present Who when they had explained their own endeavour and that now in 13 dayes they had cut a Vein twice and as often purged him but that they had nourished him with Broaths and Whey Lastly that they had strengthened him with the Confections Alkermes and De Hyacintho and therefore that they must proceed in the same path except that at length his Legs and Arms were to be Ulccrated by Cantharides But that I answered Ye see oh my men Friends how much hope these same Remedies have afforded increased and left Wherefore
fixednesse of a bone as also in the fractures of bones For the Chyle of the stomack is the same after growth as it was in a Youth But all that is at length discussed without any remainder of it self it again retakes the nature of a bone in a callous concretion in the solidness of fractures And therefore for that very cause all Chyle is volatile and thus far it sometimes doth assume the disposition of spirit in the venal bloud Not indeed because there is a natural spirit in it and diverse from the venal bloud but rather because the whole venal bloud hath obtained a spiritual Character in the promise John 5. The water the bloud and the spirit are one But I will teach concerning digestions after what sort that sowreness in the Chyle may be transchanged into a volatile Salt whose excrementitious part is banished with Urine and Sweats But the very Masse of venal bloud through the fermental virtue of the heart and assistance of the Pulses doth passe over into Arterial bloud of yellow looking reddish whence it is made vital spirit And so is not the air or vapour of the venal bloud but the venal bloud it self is brought into arterial bloud and from thence at length into vital spirit For the Office of the Liver is univocal and is called Sanguification but not the creation of spirit which do differ far from each other For neither do so many and so diverse Offices belong to one bowel especially because the rude heap of venal bloud is not yet a fit seminary for the spirits For it is sufficient for the Liver being enriched with so few Arteries and a communion of life that it performeth a true transmutation of the Chyle into venal bloud and a true generation of a new Being But in the heart as it were the fountain of life it is first of all meditated concerning vital Beginnings For the Venal bloud is there extenuated into Arterial bloud and vital air which two are wholly perfected by one only action according to the more ready and slow obedience of the venal bloud For the venal bloud is made with the in-thickning of the Chyle or Cream therefore by the separation of the liquid excrement or urine But the spirit is made with the attenuating or making thin of that which is in-thickned Both which actions so opposite do not therefore agree with one Liver But if the Schools will have a natural spirit to have fore-existed in meats but to have received a perfection in the Liver But yet it easily expires in things boyled cocted and roasted And if any doth by chance remain that spirit is not the hepatical or Liverie one of our Family Goverment I confesse indeed that the Spirit of wine is the spirit of Vegetables and is easily snatched into the Arteries as it were a simple Resembler previously disposed that it may easily passe over into vital spirit But from thence the Schools do frame nothing for their spirit of the Liver For the Spirit of wine is immediately snatched into the Arteries out of the stomack without digestion Neither is it taken as a vital companion by the degree of venal bloud it is also easily from thence gathered that the vital spirit doth not presuppose a natural one And what I have said is manifest For truly they which suffer fainting or trembling of the heart do presently and immediately feel the spirit of wine to be admitted into the fellowship of life for neither then also are they made drunk by much wine abundantly drunken Otherwise Wine being as yet corporally existing within the stomack drunkenness doth not from elsewhere proceed than because the winie spirit is abundantly snatched into the heart and head and there breeds a confusion of the fore-existing spirits it self being a stranger not yet polished in the shop of the heart Therefore the venal blood it selfe let it be the spirit of the Liver corporal coagulated into a matter and subjected to a vital Goverment with me it may be so so that we understand it Rhetorically to wit the venal bloud it self to be an object capable and a matter that it may thereby be made Spirit And in speaking Phylosophically or properly there is no spirit in the venal bloud made for it self by the Liver because the labour of Sanguification seperation of the Liquor Latex Urine and Sweat doth employ the Liver to wit while those do most swiftly pass thorow the slender Flood-gates of small veins For the venal bloud although it received an entrance of it self in the Meseraick veins yet the true generation of the same is made also the endowments of small threds and coagulation under the most swift passage together with its Whey through the small Trunks of a hairy slendernesse But if also the generation of spirit doth moreover employ the Liver Truly besides the vain generation of the same the Liver is to prostrate it self like an Asse with too much fardle and plurality of offices And it is sufficient for the venal bloud that being made a Citizen of the veins it doth partake of life and be illustrated with a vital light Therefore even as by the ferment and labour of the heart the venal bloud is made arterial bloud and volatile spirit So a ferment the Vicar of the heart being drawn from the arteries they are also made so volatile that after their consumings they leave no remaining lees that do go forth with a totall transpiration of themselves Therefore the heart doth frame out of the venal bloud arterial bloud which it fitteth and extenuateth by the same endeavour and makes so much vital Spirit in the arterial bloud as the groseness of the venal bloud and the resisting substance of the same doth permit in so little a space wherein it is agitated and shaken together within the bosoms of the heart yea indeed neither is it enough to have known the venal bloud to be Spirit also to be brought over into arterial bloud and to grant a vital Spirit by whose favour it may be informed by the minde and be made animate and from hence at length to be translated into the bosoms or stomachs of the Brain there to receive the various limitation of Characters So that it is made motive in the thorny marrow or Spina Medullae as we have seen in the Shops optical or of the sight which if they are through some errour brought to the tongue they are plainly unprofitable for tasting Wherefore it comes to passe that oft-times the fingers are benummed some moveable part looseth its sense being left either feeling or motion for that the parts are bedewed with a strange and wandring Spirit For the Authours of touchings are unfit for motion and those of this likewise for them But moreover it behoveth to have known the disposition of the vital Spirit For truly it will sometime sufficiently appear that of soure Chyle partly venal bloud and partly salt Urine and the excrements are made But that that excrementitious
meats and drinks than of those lesse exact if the middle life do badly season the Archeus And then which way is it convenient to render meats and drinks which the Lord hath judged good infamous through a tartatous treachery I suppose indeed that it was invented by Tartar Hell or the Infernal when Satan did now conjecture that there would speedily be a banishment of Humours out of the Schools of Medicine And indeed seeing every thing is dissolved by the bursting of the bonds which tie the same it helpeth to have admonished that coagulated things are not made in us by drying up the gowty Chalk excepted neither by Tartar privily existing in us surely much lesse from a stony and limy condition of the Microcosme For that Chalk after the attained thickness of the Sunovie or degenerated spermatick Muscilage is afterwards by degrees dried up Even as elsewhere concerning the Gout After another manner even as any Schirrhous thing and likewise a bole clay muckinesse sand and Duelech are in their beginning coagulated and resolved by seminal beginnings and are far otherwise solved and coagulated than if a stubborn and unchangeable Tartar of any kind of things had of its own free accord yielded a foreign curd in us It is a Sophistication to have accused not the cause for a cause or to have neglected the cause as not the cause which Sophistry if it be wont any where to bring on great straights surely in healing as great as may be full of dangers of life and damnation as also of dammages For one doth well digest and difficulty separate but another doth successfully expell and troublesomely digest Lastly a third doth briefly digest and cause meking but doth vitiously transchange for himself under the command of a foreign seed Therefore it is one thing to chastize a forreign impression of the middle life which consisteth in the concretion or growing together of the thing digested it is another thing to expel or separate that which else being retained would hurt And that is contained by dissolving and expelling Finally if there should be any Tartar in things taken into the body ending at length into a stubborn coagulation which it had treacheroufly brought inward with it it should every where even contain a desperation of healing And in this respect a medicine of destruction in the earth had been framed in nature from the beginning by the Lord of things Last of all Tartar is not in meats as neither in meaty drinks but in the water there is indeed a seed of small stones but that Stone is no more Tartar than a rocky stone is bread wherefore also from a stonifying Seed the presence or power of Tartar can in no wise be concluded Likewise although in superfluities or degenerated venal blood there be a power unto a Duelech or Schirrhus yet not unto Tartar and much lesse that there is Tartar naturally as well in the blood as in superfluous excrements For whatsoever is bred by accident from a foreign and estranged seed and by a Metaphor by reason of its coagulation is likened unto Salt coagulated in wines is onely by an abusive alienation called back unto Tartar For Nature hateth metaphorical and poetical liberties Therefore Tartar is not the internal occasional matter of diseases CHAP. XLIV An erring watchman or a wandering keeper 1. The Schools nod or doubt concerning the four humours 2. The Authours repentance 3. A Position with proofs 4. What muck or snivel is and in what sheath it is generated 5. Who the keeper in the terms proposed may be 6. The unexcusable necessities of the keeper hitherto unknown 7. It is proved that snivel is not the excrement of the Brain 8. The brain is from thence concluded to be most miserable 9. The vanity of Diseases dedicated to a Catarrhe or Rheume 10. Snivel is not made of venal blood 11. An argument from a like suitable thing 12. From the Pose or distillation of the head 13. From the likenesse of the other Bowels 14. From the supposed doctrine of the Schools 15. From the identity or samelinesse of the Archeus 16. From Anatomy 17. From an absurdity 18. From the necessity of stoppage 19. From the constitution of the brain 20. From its scope or aime 21. From experience 22. The rashnesse or heedlessnesse of the Schools in a matter of so great moment and so plain is taken notice of 23. That the excrement of the Ears is brought forth by a vapour 24. A necessity of watchmen or keepers 25. It is proved by the Pose 26. By Hoarsnesse 27. By Coughs 28. The Keeper is an unheard of power 29. The Schools thought both powers to be a certain distemper even in healthy persons 30. A diversity from other powers is proved 31. The testimonies of the keepers 32. A stuffing in the head or descending Rheume is never healthy 33. The Cough is examined 34. A wandring keeper 35. A dry Cough 36. The difficulty of curing from whence it is 37. The Remedies are taken notice of 38. The rashnesse of the Schools 39. Remedies out of Sulphur 40. A twofold Asthma or difficulty of breathing 41. The difficulties of healing 42. The use of the Keeper 43. The erring Watchman of the wind-pipe is the more destructive one 44. Snivel differs from a spitting by reaching 45. That the Keeper differs from the other Faculties in the brain 46. That the Diaphragma or Midriff is pory THe Schools pointing with the finger at the muck or snivel from the Brain and the spittle of Coughs have said Behold Phlegm is one of the four constitutive humours of us And afterwards they alwayes subscribed to themselves That boldnesse in wantonizing increased being confirmed by the prescriptions of so many ages and subscribed authorities of Schools As if the brain had consumed the three other supposed and feigned humours for the nourishment of it self Phlegm onely being excluded although most like to it self and otherwise according to the minde of Galen most fit to be totally transchanged into venal blood Also sometimes the Doctrines of the four Humours being forgotten they have sent away the same muck or snivel no longer as a Phlegm or a snivelly Phlegm but as a superfluity of the brain being as it were a banished enemy a superfluity resulting from digestion It hath deservedly shamed them of that their own Doctrine because they have acknowledged snivel to be an excrement of the last digestion but not any longer a humour produced in the Liver as it were one part of four of venal blood For an excrement resisteth a vital humour Therefore they do oftentimes nod and stagger and doubt again while they do promiscuously point out a snivelly man to wit from that dung and diseasie affect to be Phlegmatick and afterwards they thereby measure and divine of his strength wit manners and fortunes In the mean time the Beginnings of the Schools are unfortunate which from an excrement known to themselves do denominate the essence existence properties of
have ascended into a poysonsomnesse by addittaments But these seeing they are not admitted within the root of the Mercury do operate onely without about the Sulphur and are there variously disposed according to the manner of the receiver At length I perceived That there was a sixfold difference of Digestions in us and that the three former of them were busied about the disposing of the matter appointed for to nourish the which although they do truly transmute yet they are sent before rather for a preparatory disposing than for a vital espousing thereof For truly in the Fourth Digestion a vital power is communicated to the venal blood and so the Controversie is decided whether the arterial blood be quickned For the venal blood is not truly enlivened until it be made arterial blood The which is drawn through the partition of the Heart into the Arterie Aorta for no other end but that in that Buttery it may be endowed with Life and informed with a mind But we are nourished by both bloods even as we have our original of the seed of a twofold Sex For perhaps the Mysterie of the Lyturgie is hence known why a little Water is mixed with much Wine That the Water may pass into venal blood and the Wine into arterial blood I perceived therefore That the Fifth Digestion was plainly occupied about the participative communion of Life But Lastly That the sixth did operate by a dispositive quality but did rejoyce in an assimilating ferment and that inducing humanity Therefore external aides are stirred up and do operate by another quality than internal ones Fat or gross persons are taken with Paines or Crampes or Convulsions of the Tendons the which notwithstanding the grease of man being outwardly over-smeared doth alay For the Sixth Digestion is wholly assimilative therefore it indeavours to change the grease brought on it into its own vital aire But the internal grease of fat things being now subdued by an assimilating ferment is kept without action But the Sixth Digestion enters into the middle Life of the external anointed grease the which our Archeus doth therefore appropriate to himself which Life and its properties are hidden in the last Life of the internal grease Moreover I perceived after what manner a Cantharides doth embladder in living People but not in a dead carcase as neither doth it raise up a burnt Escharre in the dead carcase although it dissolves the dead carcase no otherwise than as Calx vive poudered doth resolve Cheese For the Cantharides as long as it remains dry doth not act but is moistened by an unsensible eflux of our dew then first it begins to itch whence the Archeus under the Epidermis or outward skin is furiously inflamed not much otherwise than as under an Erisipelas the burning Coal or burning Fever and so the Cantharides begins in the Epidermis and an Escharotick in the skin the same which a Gangreen doth at length finish in the habit of the Body For Causticks do at first crisp the skin the which afterwards they resolve into a muscilage after they have fully moistened For then they do not onely sharpen our heat but also they assume the strength of a proper corroding Then I say they do not onely make an Escharrhe which ariseth from an inflaming of the Archeus but do melt the whole Lastly I perceived also that Amulets or preservative Pomanders things bound about the Head and hung about the Body do act by the virtue of influence and that directive without the evaporation of those things which indeed do reside in the more fixed Bodies Although there are other things hung on the Body which are by little and little diminished of their Virtues because they dismiss a Vapour out of them But things tied to the Head or Body are Bony Horney Animals and Plants but others are Mettallick Stony Salts Transparent things or Thick or Dark things But Mettals are seldome Amulets unless they are as yet opened or exalted by an external adjunct Because they have a dividable Sulphur in them But in Stones there is great virtue but of Stones some are transparent Looking-glasses but some are thick or dark ones As Corral Coraline the Turcois the Jasper But in clear Stones the Evestrum or Ghost of Life being well or ill affected doth reverberate To wit the life rejoyceth to be reflexed in a clear glass whereby it is then made like to the Understanding which in its own light is altered after the manner of a Chamelion at the assimilation of Objects Neither also have I in vain perceived Gemms to be as it were thick Glasses well polished Because the native and natural Endowment that is in them from the nature of the Glasse doth more powerfully reflect the vital beam communicated unto it For something is continually and necessarily discussed or blown out of us which is not yet plainly destitute of the participation of Life That very thing doth keep the activity of its own sphear about us the which while it findeth in the polished Glass it easily reflecteth on the whole Body from whence it issued for thereby sympathetical Remedies or Things were first made known But afterwards when it was known that things tied about the Body were applied in operating by virtue of a Glasse there were thereupon boughtie or convex concavous c. figures of Looking-glasses presently bethought of whereunto Gentilisme joyned Hieroglyphicks that by a figure they might denote the sign of a hidden virtue Superstition in posterity thereby encreased who anointed Gamahen Talismanicks and devilish Scurrilities of that sort Thinking that Figures had not indeed the virtues of a Sign but of a Cause But transparent Glasses do receive an Evestral or Ghostlike faculty the which although they do not reflect as otherwise dark ones do yet they approach nearer unto the nature of life or the shining glasse Finally I perceived that the diversity of Effects the end and appropriation of Medidines did not proceed from the fourfold fiction of Complexions but from the very powers of Simples themselves whose Election dose and preparation have therefore stood neglected because they have not been hitherto searched into in their root and manner After the perceivances of all these things at length another Spirit took from me the bottle which the other had given me And with great grief I then perceived all the necessities of Death in me unfit to be declared Whereby I presently returned unto my self neither could I receive comfort but when I truly knew that all things were acted onely by a Dream and because that if I ought to rehearse the virtues of things I could not better performe it than if I had as it were felt all those things within This one thing at least I did moreover remember that Chymical things did rather act by the force of Art than by the native power of Nature because their beginnings were brought forth and changed by the Fire To wit Chymistry separates fixed things from things not fixed
of Long Life For first of all the Moon doth not heap up or expel this venal Blood although the purgation of the Womb be co-incident with the course of the Moon For that coincident is unto both terms or limits by accident for otherwise if that purgation of the Woman should be from the Moon it self verily all Women should be Menstruous on the same day and at least-wise those which should dwell in the same Climate Or at least-wise all young Virgins should likewise suffer the same with the new of the Moon which is false For if some Ships do follow one Pretorian or chief leading Ship which in a dark night hath a Lanthorn in stead of a Flag The Lanthorn indeed affords onely a Sign of their following but the Wind Stern and Governours of the Stern shall be the immediate efficient Cause of their following So the Moon like a Torch finisheth the task of her circle in four weeks and six hours So also a Woman for Reasons straightway to be added For the Woman ought to encrease and nourish her conceived generation from her own blood unto a just stature of the Young and to feed the Infant being brought forth with her own blood being turned into milk Therefore she had need of a greater plenty of venal Blood and therefore while it should not be supt up for those ends it should also become superfluous and by consequence be voided or expelled Yea although a Woman eats and drinks much less then a Man yet she abounds with more blood That is the shop of the venal Blood makes more arterial Blood in the Woman than in Men even out of a more sparing meat and Drink From whence it of necessity in the next place follows That in the Woman more is turned into a profitable nourishment and in the Man that more is changed into excrements But how it is manifest what or of what sort that superfluous blood may be let all know that the venal Blood of Man ought to be renewed in a space of daies wherein the Moon measures all her particular courses through the Zodiack For that is the space wherein the venal Blood is kept in its Balsam it being longer reserved it is corrupted For truly he that aboundeth with Blood it must needs be that by nourishing he spends the same on the family of Life or that he transchangeth it into fatness phlegms of the Latex or other drosses as Sweat or diseasie Excrements For the Woman hath small pores the fleshy Membrane under her upper skin doth enrich her with much fat neither therefore can she consume so much Blood superabounding in her as she daily makes or concocts The bound therefore of the course of the blood being finished that which is barren becomes all superfluous the which therefore Nature is busied in casting forth and sequesters it unto the veins of the Womb as unto its appointed emunctories For the blood departs unto those proper places nor those likewise strange ones because for the ends already declared the Menstrues is the superfluity of the Blood of the Woman alone And it becomes burdersome by the very title whereby it is superfluous And as yet by so much the more because then it puts off the vital Spirit no othewise than as some Wines after the Years end become strengthless For these ends therefore and by these means the venal Blood is made an Excrement afterwards a poyson and attaines worse faculties in going But at length it assumes the horrid properties of a new dead carcase For therefore the Menstrues of the first dayes is more infected than that which flows forth in the following dayes For although the expulsion of the Menstrues be the proper office of the Veins Yet the collection of the same even as also its renewing and sequestring do belong unto the Monarchal Archeus of the Womb. Therefore indeed that which is most hateful is the more speedily cast out of doors whereby it first separated it self from the good blood and for this cause it being the longer detained about the Veins of the Womb for that cause also it is the more poyson some In the next place although this Poyson masks it self with the shew of venal Blood yet the favour of the vital Balsam being by degrees laid aside it ascending unto the malignity of a cadaverous or stinking Liquor assumeth the disposition of a poyson and hath degenerated from the former nature and properties of Blood The which handy-craft operation proveth For truly a Towel that is dipped in the Menstrues if it be plunged into boyling water it contracts an un-obliterable spot for the future and the which at least-wise in the third washing falls out of the Towel it being made full of holes no otherwise than if it should be corroded by the sharp Spirit of Sulphur That which after another manner is a forreigner to the bloud of a Man whether it shall flow forth through the Nostrils Wounds Hemerhoides or Bloody-flux or next if it shall fall out from Ulcers like a more wan clot From whence also it is manifest that the Menstrues hath an aluminous tinging property any besides a cadaverous sharp poyson fit for gnawing or erosion But as it once enjoyed the Seal of the Archeus of Life whereof it being afterwards deprived it obtains a fermental faculty full of a powerful contagion as also hostile sharpnesses For that Blood through its divers degrees of malignity stirs up diverse passions within on the miserable Woman For when as it being once sequestred from the other blood unto the Inns of the Veins of the Womb hath received the aforesaid sharpness of malignity and from thence is supped back again into the branches of the hollow vein by a retrograde motion of revulsion which is made through large cuttings of a vein or symptomatical wrothfulnesses which are the stirrers up of Fluxes of the Womb it causeth Swoonings Heart-beatings Convulsions and oft-times horrible stranglings But if the Menstruous Blood being not yet derived unto the Veins of the Womb or plainly severed from the rest and so neither hath as yet had its utmost mischief or corruption It is detained with a certain inordinacy and stirs up divers conspicuous Symptomes in many places From what hath been said before therefore it is manifest That Women great with young Nurses weak or sick Persons blood-less Women those that are become Lean those that are not of a ripe age and swift or circular movers do want Menstrues because also Superfluities It is also false that all Menstruous Blood without distinction is poysonsom or hurtful And likewise that we are nourished and grow big in the Womb by the Menstrues For truly the venal Blood of the Woman hath not the condition of Menstrues before that untill it being unfit for nourishment is enfeebled or deprived of Life and brought bound unto the sink For neither doth he who drinks Wine drink Vinegar although this be made of that As neither is he fed with Excrements who eateth
rage Furthermore the transmutation of the Arterial bloud into Spirit which is begun in the heart is ripened in the current of the Arteries or stomach of the heart Neither therefore is it a wonder that in the Spleen abounding with so many Arteries a Ferment and the first motions of the heart are established instead of a stomach the mentall and sensitive Souls being indeed Saturns Kingdoms For the digestion of the heart is with a full transmutation of the arteriall Bloud into Spirit without a dreg and smoakiness Because it is that which neither containeth filths nor admits of diversities of kinde neither doth the Spirit the Son of heat degenerate by reason of heat Indeed it is the immediate operation of the sensitive Soul alwayes univocall or single like to it self and to life for the life that is uttered by vitall motions Therefore the chief aims of the Pulses are 1. A bringing of the venall bloud from the bosom of the hollow vein unto the left womb of the heart 2. An increase of heat 3. A framing of arterial bloud 4. And again a producing of vitall Spirit 5. And then there hath been another ultimate aim of Pulses to wit that the original life residing in the implanted Spirit of the heart may be participated of Therefore I will repeat what I have said elsewhere To wit that some Forms do glister as in Stones and Mineralls but some moreover do shine by an increased light as in Plants but others are also lightsome or full of light as in things soulified And so a vitall lightsomness is granted to the vitall Spirit by a kindling not indeed of fieriness but of enlightning and specificall or differing by its particular kindes So indeed Fishes do not live more unhappily are more straightly and lively and longer moved than hot bruit Beasts The Schooles in the room of those things which I have already demonstrated do suppose the bloud in the Liver to receive the nature of a Spirit which perhaps they therefore call naturall To wit such an Air as is wholly in all juyces of Herbs and from hence at length they will have the vitall Spirit to be immediately bred and made But I do from elsewhere derive the Spirit and from a far more noble race But whether the Schooles or I do more rightly phylosophize let the Reader judge who now drinks down both Doctrines together he being at least mindefull of that which I am straightway to say to wit that sometimes the whole arterial bloud and the nourishable Liquor created from thence or the nearest nourishment of the solid parts are at length dispersed by the transpirative evaporation of the Body without any dregs or remainder of a dead head And therefore that the Reader may from thence think that the arterial bloud is of it self inclined that it may sometimes be made Spirit which is not equally presumed of the vapour of the venall bloud For therefore they have been ignorant that the whole bloud of the Arteries is often turned into a spiritual vapour or vitall Spirit But the venall bloud if it be changed in our Glasses by a gentle luke-warmth into a vapour it leaves a thick substance and at length a Coal in the bottom Therefore the Doctrine of the Schooles is far remote from the knowledge of the Spirits who think the vitall Spirits to be framed of a vapour or watery exhalation for they have neglected in this vapour of the venal bloud how of bread and water and venal bloud prepared thence not indeed a watery exhalation as they think but a Salt and enlightned Spirit is stirred up and its heat not onely made hot but also making hot For no Authour hath hitherto diligently searched into that vitall light whereby the Spirit is enlightned and is after a sort made hot So that the Life Light Form and sensitive Soul are as it were made one thing Again the rotten Doctrine of the Schooles confoundeth the ends of Pulses and breathing To wit that Breathing is made for the nourishment of the vital spirit the life of the fire which they will have to be nourished with aire the cooling refreshment of the heart and expelling of smoaky vapours For they intend or incline to nourish the vitall heat and coolingly to refresh or to diminish it which things how they can agree together let others shew I am willingly ignorant thereof at least in the greatest want of vital spirit and while the increase thereof is chiefly desired then indeed there is the least and slowest elevation of the Arterie And on the other hand while the Spirit aboundeth there is the greatest elevation of the Artery I confesse indeed that breathing is drawn by the bridles of the Will or by the instruments of voluntary motion but the Pulse not so But seeing that a sound breast may satisfie by its breathings the ends of the Pulses the Pulse should not therefore be necessary as long as any one is cold and his breathing doth sufficiently inspire But seeing notwithstanding in the mean time the Pulse doth not therefore pause surely there must needs be one cause or necessity of the Pulses and another cause or necessity of breathing For we percieve the necessities of breathing we also do measure our breathing at our pleasure and some can wholly press it together or suppress it in themselves But why do we not feel the more vitall and no less urgent necessities of the Pulses Chiefly seeing it is the life that is the Original of sensibility which alone indeed doth feel all its own necessity and doth alone exclude us from every act of feeling Wherefore hence I conjecture that there are other necessities unknown to the antients I know indeed that from the Arterial bloud and from the vital spirit there are no dregs filths or superfluities expelled as I shall shew in its place but that smoaky vapours are wanting where there is no adultion but that the venal bloud in the wasting of it self by the voluntary guidance of heat doth produce a Gas as water doth a vapour or exhalation And that that Gas which the Schools do signifie to be the spirit of the Liver or natural spirit of the venal bloud is subsequently of necessity expelled it remains without controversie For otherwise a man being almost killed with cold should the sooner wax hot again if he should for some hours hold his breath understand it if the breath should be drawn for cooling refreshment notwithstanding neither indeed in that state doth he notably stop his breath upon pain of death Also a fish wants Lungs and breathing for the bubbles which do sometimes belch forth are blasts of ventosities of digestion but not breathings But Frogs and Sea-monsters that utter a voice have little Bellows which perform the office of Lungs yet Fishes are not colder than Frogs yea Frogs and Horse-leeches are preserved under the mud all the Winter from corruption and do live without breaching yet not without a Pulse Therefore there is one
nature disorderly touch the limits of the heart we straightway feel the numbers of beatings and the defects of intermitting storms But if an ordinary framing of smoakinesses should be in the heart how should they be seperated from the vital Spirit and by what trench should they remain divided from each other How should the expulsion of smoakie vapours be possible which should not also abundantly power forth the vital Spirit most intimately co-mixed with themselves And so as the Schooles have nothing of pure Doctrine do they also suffer no unpolluted thing no undefiled thing without an excrementitious and dungie smoakiness do they think that the essential offices of life do indifferently belong as well to a smoakie vapour as to the Spirit of life And so hitherto also to be co-mixed How should the depression of the Arterie thus far tend unto a good end and that appointed by the Creator which together with the smoakiness should also puffe out the vital Spirit thorowly mingled with it And so shall it forthwith bring death and destruction How had not that Vmpire of things most highly to be honoured even from mans Creation made death by the contraction of his Pulses Last of all if a smoakie vapour should be the Musical measure of the Pulses as they will have them what should be that seperater who should compel the smoakie vapours rather to depart into the habit of the flesh from without than thorow the chief Arteries with a straight line into the head Or if a co-mingled smoakiness doth indifferently hasten with the vital Spirit into the bosoms of the Brain why do they not continually disturb the Family-government of the Senses what if the pressing together of the Arterie be dedicated to the expulsion of smoakie vapours for since the Arteries are thumped sidewayes so also thus far they do bestow Spirit and vital Powers on the places thorow which they passe therefore that way also they should mutually expell smoakinesses which surely should be more pernicious to all the Bowels than to the Arteries themselves because these are judged to be refreshed by fresh Air but not the Bowels If therefore they will have smoakie vapours expelled by the pressing of the Arteries together let them first shew us that smoakie vapours cannot be otherwise purged than by the last or utmost mouths of the Arteries and that with the continual safety of the Spirit that is thorowly mixt with the smoakinesses Truly the Schooles do support their defiled Doctrine by a smoakie vapour and by a blinde perswasion of sluggishness do subscribe their Genius unto Galen Seeing therefore they have been ignorant of the matter heat residence content and circle of the Urine but have passed by the efficient cause of Pulses but have fled back chiefly to heats and colds and have neglected their true ends the whole significative knowledge of healing hath remained polluted Therefore the Schools are prophesied of as it were from a three-legged stool as well in the knowledge of Diseases as in the progress and end of the same which thing I shall hereafter much more plentifully prove Therefore Endemical things do affect or stir all things whereby and which way they enter to wit the Head Breast and the Dependants on these And by how much they do prevail by so much do they operate and effect For some do imprint a spot or defilement on the part and afterwards depart Such as are misty or clowdy things stinking things things putrified by continuance c. But some do enter in the shape of a smoak and are breathed into Minerals which are again divers wayes coagulated within For some are spewed-forth spittings if they are not hurtfull But others do for terme of life toughly adhere on the walls of the pipes of the Lungs and do exercise their tyranny for their entertainment Of this sort is whatsoever doth fume out of the veins of Minerals wherefore also the Fume of Minerals by reason of its malignity an Arsenical poyson have become Sunonymalls or things of one name to wit the Arsenick and smoakie vapour and smoak of Metalls fall together or agree in one Whence are hoarsnesses tremblings of the heart faintings Asthmas Pleurisies Inflammations of the Lungs Coffs spittings of Bloud Consumptions Imposthumes full of matter c. In the mean time it is not manifest that Endemicks or things proper to people in the Countrey where they live are drawn by the Arteries neither that the same are immediately affected But if Mercury doth bring forth tremblings that at least is impertinent to the Arteries Neither also do they therefore tremble into whom Mercury is driven by Ointments But they are bladdered in the mouth throat the Uvula falls down and their teeth are ulcerated do shake or are loose and wax black their head swells and they spit stinking things greatly Also Guilders Diggers and Seperaters of Mercury because they do inspire a deadly poyson into the head and Sinnewy parts they do work or effect Endemicks in us as much as they can CHAP. XXVI The Spirit of Life 1. The Doctrine of the Antients concerning a threefold Spirit 2. They have stated whence we must begin 3. The spirit of wine doth contain onely two Chymical Beginnings flexible at the pleasure of the Artificer 4. Vital spirit out of spirit of wine 5. How drunkennesse comes 6. How the spirit of wine and Aqua vitae or Water of life do differ 7. Whatsoever is stilled onely by fire doth go back from the virtues of its former composed body 8. The ferment or leaven of the stomack and of bread differs 9. The Plurality of ferments 10. Gas being unknown hath brought forth many absurdities in the distinction of things 11. The soul is in the Arterial bloud and not in the venal bloud 12. The Venal blood is without a spirit of the Liver 13. Drunkennesse 14. The progresse of the vital spirit through its offices 15. The declared disposition of the spirit it self 16. What things are by sense reckoned to be one are severed or discerned in their effects 17. From whence the spirit of life is Balsamical 18. The spirit of Aqua vitae only by touching looseth its oylinesse 19. It is presently made a Salt 20. The whole venal blood is turned into a Salt 21. Of the life of the vital spirit 22. The light is now and then extinguished in the matter of the spirit 23. There are as many particular kinds of sublunary lights as there are of vital lights 24. The definition of the vital spirit 25. The heat of life is not the Constituter of its own moisture 26. That heat is an adjacent to life 27. The undistinction of the Schools of the effects of heat and of a ferment 28. Whence heat is Escharotical or the maker of an Eschar in us 29. Whether the animal Spirit be distinct from the vital I Have discoursed already before of the Archeus as it were the Vulcan in the seed and after what manner he may dispose
or boyling to be concoction therefore they translated digestions to boyling and on both sides where they thought heat to be the natural total and one only cause of them For they saw that by seething and roasting very many things waxed tender and were altered Therefore a liberty being taken from artificial things they translated a Kitchin into the amazed transmutations of the bowels and meats not indeed by way of similitude but altogether properly and immediately and by thinking the matter passed over into a belief and then into a true opinion and all the offices and benefits of our nature they translated into heats and temperaments as it were into totall causes Especially indeed because they perceived the bellies of men and four-footed beasts to be actually hot even so that afterwards they laboured more for increasing of heat than for strengthening of digestion For neither have they diligently searched further into it although the event did for the most part deceive their hope Thinking it sufficient that heat might be found as well in boyling as in the natural digestion of the belly from which they slumbered as expecting abundant help to themselves In the mean time they were in doubt when they took notice that meats were not by seethings wholly transchanged into juice by a total metamorphizing For fleshes the vessel being shut they resolved into a consummated Bâ—oth a true portage being pressed out and melted but indeed they observed their errour because fleshy tough and hard remaining threds did abide and never melt by a true transmutation into juice yet through an aptnesse of belief and antiquity of errour they suffered their eyes to be vailed seeking privy shifts and biding places they presently thought themselves safe while that they had implored the divers degrees of heat if not also its particular kinds and general kinds as is a fiery elementary radical correspondent to the element of the stars c. yea and the moments of heats for a help of their excuses So that every degree should almost in every moment have its own constitutive temperature in digesting In which stupidity Paracelsus also involved himself who will have one only bread in so many particular kinds of living creatures to receive a specifical diversity of venal bloud and dungs by reason of the moment of degree alone in heat As if the Latitude of heat could frame a species or vary in the substance But while the Schools did presume to have taken away every knot in the Bulrush they afterwards fell into the spongy differences of digestive heat natural and likewise into that of besides and against nature And at length they ought now and then against their will to fly back unto the sacred Anchor of hidden secrets or properties in digestions So indeed that there should be some certain heat the Authour of digestion as well in diseases as in health Having forgotten in the mean time that as they had feigned one only kind of contraries and both to be said or declared after like manners that there should be one only and a uniform condition of both Wherefore they forgot to devise the like particular kindes and properties of colds to wit of what so it that natural digestive cold besides and against nature should be And likewise they ought to have taught some radical and primogeniall cold So that if radical heat doth answer in proportion to the Element of the Stars and doth differ in the whole general kind from any other luke-warmth also radicall cold ought to differ in as many numbers and faculties from any other cold unlesse through the great want of truth they forsake their own wisdom as barren So indeed although heat not natural should proceed into natural and this into it by an unheard of license of seeds yet they have banished native and feverish heat into distinct species yea also into generall kinds that they might save the effects attributed to digestive heat So that while they would believe that some Birds do digest those things which otherwise do defend them against the fury of the fire they have acknowledged some fire to be more powerfull than fire For a Dog doth digest swallowed bones which fire never dares to convert into Chyle Therefore The diversities of which effects have constrained the Schools to erect heat into the Latitude of a predicament opposite colds being in the mean time neglected When as in the mean time there is only a specifical diversity of heat which is not able to with-draw it from the number of other things For truly whatsoever is cast into the stomack digestion being at length finished is transchanged and far separated from boyling and other coctures after whatsoever degree prepared Because the one only ignorance of ferments hath caused digestions and the remedies of unconcoction to be unknown and a faulty argument to be promoted of not the cause as of the cause where it is not an idle brawling as it were about a name while fermentall effects are ascribed to heat Because the resolving of this question doth change the intentions of healing Therefore I willingly accustome my self to enquire into the proper causes to wit at the meditation whereof profit follows diseases tremble or the strength or faculties are made vigorous Therefore ferments are worthily wrath because they are against their will believed to war under a Relolleum or quality not having a seminal Being For it never belonged to heat to withdraw a thing into a formal transmutation Seeing heat by it self and primarily doth nothing but make hot but by accident it separates watery things from stiff or tough things Which univocal or single action of heat is no wise a digestion being wholly included in transchanging For although digestion doth happen in us heat accompanying it yet that is not heat although it be by accident connexed with heat For therefore in a Fish there is no actual heat neither therefore notwithstanding doth he digest more unprosperously than hot Animals Neither is he after the manner of men badly affected by things cast into him Therefore it is a frivolous thing to flee to potential heat for a fish For in sensible things known by sense the touching only is witnesse and judge but not to flee to dreams For if digestion be to be attributed to heat not actually hot but to a virtual power I now enjoy my wish For otherwise what is that I pray but ignorantly to brawl about heat as such And in the mean time to confesse that there is something besides a sensible heat which is the containing cause of digestion For what can more foolishly be spoken than that potential heat doth actually make hot and that digestion is made for this heatings sake Can a thing in power now act actually But at least in a Dog-like hunger there is a most swift digestion and implacable hunger Therefore a troublesome and offensive heat even then ought to be felt in us hot creatures if digestion be made in us by actual
heat For if a little heat causeth a small digestion and amean heat a mean one Verily at a powerful and troublesome digestion a great heat ought also to be present Which thing notwithstanding although I have divers times the more curiously searched into I have not found to be true Then at length it is to be noted That the digestion of bread in a Man Dog Horse Fish Bird differ in the whole general kind no otherwise than as a manifold venal bloud and filths sprung from thence Wherefore from one only particular kind of digesting heat those kinds of varieties of digestions cannot proceed Therefore let the Schools erect and defend so many general kinds of heats and colds before they do require for themselves to be believed I therefore do draw so great a difference of venal blood from formal properties and specifical ferments never from heat For truly I perfectly know that whatsoever things have divers essential efficients have also divers effects and attributes to wit So that products divers in the general kind do necessarily require their own efficient causes diverse in the general kind For otherwise any thing should produce any thing indifferently to wit even as one and the same thing doth arise from the same nigh causes For how frivolous a thing is it to have adjudged the vital powers and the formal and specifical parents of transmutations unto luke-warmths For if the digestion of heat were needful a more prosperous and plentiful digestion should continually follow a greater heat For by how much every cause is more powerful in nature by so much it doth also more powerfully perfect its own proper effect By consequence the stomack of one sick of a Fever in a burning Fever should more powerfully digest than that of a healthy person But surely in the stomack of him that hath a Fever nothing is rightly digested For Eggs Fishes Fleshes and Broths are presently made cadeverous or stinking within and therefore they do cause adust or burnt belchings the which if sowre belchings do soon follow after Hippocrates hath reckoned to be good as well from the sign as from the cause Yet there is in one that hath a Fever a heat also sometimes that heat is temperate to wit while it is not troublesome neither doth stir up thirst yet the digestion is void Impure bodies by how much the more powerfully thou nourishest them by so much the more thou hurtest them which in a Feverish man is manifest wherein we must presently use a most slender food easie of digestion And we must abstain from the more strongmeats to wit those consummated or accomplished in growth from meat Broths because the ferment being absent they do easily putrifie contract an adust savour and turn as it were into a dead Carcass No otherwise than as raw flesh being bound on the Wrist Breast Soals of the feet or Neck so far is it that it should be resolved into Chyle that straight-way after some hours it putrifies and stinks although it be salt The same thing is in an impure Feverish body where heat is present but a digesting ferment is wanting For if heat be the cause of digestion otherwise digestion is wanting in a Feaver but heat is present but we must more apply our selves to digestion than to cooling refreshment especially if no very troublesome heat be present Therefore we should rather study the increase of heat than cooling And so the Scope of the Physitian should be changed while it should be devised concerning the increase of heat in a Fever for digestion nourishing and increase of strength Neither also shall sharp and hungry Medicines of Sulphur Vitriol Salt Niter Citron and the like help but the heat should be stirred up and increased by sharp things He speaketh something like madness who saith That the Snow makes cold as it is white So it is a ridiculous thing to affirm That the specificall ferment of the stomack doth digest by reason of vitall heat existing in it Surely it is to be lamented that the credulity and sloath of those to whom the care of the life is committed have changed burying-places into a meer Sumen or fatting juice despairing of the searching out of natural properties whence notwithstanding they have their Sur-name Paracelsus also being deluded by a digestive heat and ignorant of the Ferment of the stomack admires that some things which are most hard are changed into Chyle in a few hours and that a bone is consumed in the luke-warmth of the stomack of a Dog who aspiring to the Monarchy of healing failed thereof after that he named this a power to be admired at was ignorant of and knew not the ferments For being unconstant to himself he wrote elsewhere That this digestive property doth agree no lesse to the mouth being shut than to the stomack and so also from hence That Anchorets have spent their long life happily without swallowed meat But surely that Idiotisme is to be left to his own boldness while in the mean time whatsoever hath perhaps remained within the hollownesses of the Teeth is straight-way made like a dead carcasse with a horrible stink but is not digested For I remember that a white and thick glasse being cast out of my Furnace was swallowed by my Hens they being deluded through the heat of Milk but the fracture of glasse is always sharp-pointed but after a few dayes some Hens being killed the glasse was found to be pointingly diminished on every side and to have lost its sharp tops and to have been made roundish or globish But the other surviving Hens and Guests had presently after a few dayes consumed the rest of the Glasse although they had also devoured the small Pellets of Glasse taken out of the Hens formerly slain Thou shalt take notice in the mean time that glasse doth resist waters which resolve any Mettals Indeed the ferment in many Birds is so powerful that unlesse they are now and then fed with Tiles or Bricks Chalk or white earth they are ill at ease through the multitude of sharpness But on the contrary that the stomack of one that hath a Fever is wholly of an adust savour he rejecteth meats of three dayes continuance being oft-times as yet distinguished by the sight or sometimes turned into a yellow or rusty liquour to wit through the straining scope of the ferment I learned the necessity of this ferment of the stomack while being a Boy I nourished Sparrows I oft-times thrust out my tongue which the Sparrow laid hold of by biting and endeavoured to swallow to himself and then I perceived a great sharpness to be in the throat of the Sparrow whence from that time I knew why they are so devouring and digesting And then I saw that the sharp distilled Liquor of Sulphur had seasoned my Glove and that it did presently resolve it into a juice in the part which it had moistned which thing confirmed to me a young Beginner that meats are transchanged
by a sharp or soure thing and so that a ferment doth inhabit in the stomack which should change all things cast into it although sweet presently into a sowreness Wherefore also all things are sharp which are given to drink to him that wants an appetite as are Oyl of un-ripe Olives Vinegar juice of Citron of Orange Mùstard also Salt and Salt-peter as it hath a spirit in it that causeth hunger and most pleasingly sharp And likewise the Berbery Rasp Cherries Quinces c. In this respect they give content to silk folks that want digestion or concoction Therefore the contemplation of this ferment is so necessary that it is chief in the Government of life and therefore it is to be grieved at that the knowledge thereof is hitherto suppressed in the Schools And although the dryth of the whole body waxeth strong with old age yet we do not wax old unlesse by the penury poverty and extinguishing of some ferments For truly the Stag Crow or Raven Eagle Goose c. in their first yeers of youth are far more dry than we yet they remain alive for some ages yea Youth is voluntarily renewed to the Eagle and Stag. But that digestive ferment is not placed in any kind of sharpness only For neither doth Vinegar or the Broth of Citron leaven or ferment the meal yea neither is leavened meal therefore the ferment of the stomack but this is a sharp hungry stomatical specifical and humane ferment Indeed so specifically distinct throughout all the species of Bruits that it is appropriated to themselves For Mice Dormice and Swine do sooner perish with hunger than they do eat of a Ring-Dove or Wood-Culver But in a man it for the most part aspireth to the largeness of a general kind In the mean time many do abhorr Cheese Wine Milk or do despise other things because they do not digest them And therefore what things soever do strive with our digestion are specifically contrary to the property of that Ferment and do endeavour to oppress the Ferment Therefore the Digestive Ferment is an essential property consisting in a certain vital sharpness or soureness mighty for transmutations and therefore of a specifical property For the Falcon dyeth before he will eat up Bread I have already said elsewhere that if the venal bloud be stilled by whatsoever degree of heat yet it is alwayes thickned waxeth dry and leaves a Coal behind it yet that and the same venal bloud doth wholly exhale by our Ferments with an unsensible transpiration Seeing therefore heat doth alwayes univocally or singly operate it cannot by digesting change the meat into Chyle into bloud into a nourishable liquor and at length banish it by an unsensible efflux without any remainder of it self One only heat cannot I say in a Youth change venal bloud into bones and likewise in the breaking of a bone constrain the venal bloud into a callous matter which in those of ripe yeers and likewise in healthy people doth wholly fly away into exhalations unless besides heat there are other powers knowledges and perceivances the chief effectresses of these things For truly it is proper and natural to heat to consume moisture and to retain the thicker part by drying up For Mice are fed only with meal without drink and do resolve it into their own Juice or Chyle which thing surely is far diverse from the scope of heat Therefore heat is not the Authour of digestion but there is a certain other vitall faculty which doth truly and formally transchange nourishments And that I have designed by the name of Ferments But there are many Ferments in us even as I shall by and by explain concerning digestions But seeing the Stomack doth now and then want a Ferment it is manifest from thence that its own Ferment is not proper to it selfe but that it flowes thither from elsewhere and is inspited And therefore the Spleen doth so rest upon the stomack that Hens have their spleen most unitedly heaped about their stomack and therefore do they also the more strongly digest I do here lay open the blindness of the Schools exceedingly to be admired and bewayled with tears of bloud who have dedicated that Noble bowel of the Spleen for the sink of the worst melancholious excrement by the assistance of which one Bowel we live and do possess life and the golden Kingdoms of Saturn But they have devised that the sharp and black excrement which being now and then seasoned with too much Ferment is rejected by the Spleen by reason of the indisposition of the Bowel is therefore black Choler which things shall hereafter in out Duumvirate and likewise concerning Digestions be made more cleer Moreover before the conclusion of this question we must note that among Physitians there are only four degrees of heat and as many of cold in Simples to wit from the temperate degree even unto Causticks and Escharrers because they treat only of a virtual and potencial quality the which I shall sharply touch in its place elsewhere For therefore the fourth degree of heat is with Physitians in the nature of things and temperate as to the touching But the Phylosophers do measure heat according to the sire and so even to the fire they feign eight degrees whereof the fifth sixth and seaventh they have not yet designed because men are wont to believe their positions They will have the eighth to be only in the Elements and into this they have believed the passage of the Elements to be for they supposed to have proved something in the fire as if Kitchin-fire were an Element and never elsewhere But I have already before demonstrated this whole opinion to be of no value First of all it is ridiculous that they have made the degree of heat in the fire equall to the cold of the water to the moisture of the air and to the dryth of the earth Wherein they being notably deluded neither therefore have they bravely shewn the same degrees to be so violent elsewhere as in fire Indeed in this eighth degree they affirm That the Elements do destroy devoure and consume each other no otherwise than as fire doth consume wood And then he Chymists after the custome of Physitians have made only four degrees in the fire it self taking little care to themselves touching the other Elementary qualities because they had enslaved themselves only to the Art of the fire which degrees indeed they distinguished so that the first is from a luke-warmth under a wandring Latitude even unto the fire of sublunation or cleering up of Oylie spirits But the other from hence even to the sublunation of dry spirits And then a third is even unto an obscure fierynesse But the last is even unto the utmost power of the flame of a Reverbery or striking back But I for a more cleer doctrine do in Chymicals distinguish the degrees that the first may be where the greatest cold is more remiss or slack For I who conceive
an enemy to the veins but that these do draw no hostile thing unto them from whence it followes that the veins of the stomach do not allure any thing of the Cream under them and that all bloud before it be attracted by the veins of the Mesentery hath boren the hand of the ferment of the Gaul in its own stomach of the bowels yea although the Arteries being dispersed throughout the stomach do suck the Spirit of Wine yet they draw no juyce For which way should the Arteries draw juyce seeing they can never do any good thereby seeing sanguification doth not belong to the heart but to the Liver Seeing the juyce being attracted in the Artery should of necessity be a hinderance and ought to be corrupted If therefore the Arteries have a natural endowment of avoyding things hurtful and likewise of drawing vital things unto them and things appointed for them by the Lord of things shall that discretion be denied to the veins in the stomach For nature should have dealt ill with Horses who being content with one onely draught in the morning are fed all the day after with Straw Hay Chaffe Oats or Barley For truly dry or unjucie things should straightway contract thirst in the stomach if the veins of the stomach should draw drink unto them Horses should be thirsty all the day Therefore the drink ought of necessity to remain in the stomach so long as that it may expect there an end of future digestion least the sour Liquor be drawn into the veins which is plainly hostile or least the Cream being half cocted be supped up by the veins before the appointed time Therefore there is another use of the veins of the stomach than that which is of the meseraick veins And therefore the Argument objected falls to the ground because the meseraick veins are the stomach of the Liver and there is not another besides those the veins of the stomach are not likewise that which are onely dedicated to the nourishing of the stomach Again whensoever the Pylorus is not exactly shut it happens as in long drinkings that the stomach doth almost with a continual thred as it were make water downwards by dropping into the bowel but in those that have Fevers whose Pylorus doth erre through too much straightness the drink doth sometimes remain a full three dayes space and at length more is cast back by one onely vomit than was taken in two dayes which thing surely doth oppose that that the veins of the stomach do attract juyce It hath oft-times befallen me lying in a Coach with my face upwards that I should hear through the jogging of the wayes my stomach to contain a Chyle floating in me like to a Bottle half full but that I have often gone to bed after that without a Supper or drink yea that I felt my stomach in the morning as I did the day before Wherefore I being somewhat curious have provoked my self to vomit and I vomited up Cream somewhat sour plenteous transparent so that my teeth were astonished by reason of the sourness and although I felt no burden before vomiting yet after vomiting I perceived an easement or lightning whence I observed First of all that if the veins of the stomach had now sucked the Chyle 20 hours I had not been as yet able to have cast back so much from a moderate yesterdayes dinner 2. That the sour Cream is not allured by the veins 3. That that sourish Cream was not as yet dismissed from the stomach not indeed through the vice of digestion but through the errour of the Pylorus 4. That digestion differs from the expulsive faculty if one be perfected the other being absent or failing 5. That now and then the digestion beares the unguilty fault of the expulsive saculty and this of it 6. That as I did offend by too much shutting of the Pylorus so drinkers do offend-by a too much negligent bolting of the Pylorus 7. Moreover at the beginnings of Diseases things are often cast back which were taken three dayes before 8. That it belongs not to the veins of the stomach to attract the Cream 9. That nevertheless the Doctrine remaineth which hath made it a foolish thing for a Clyster to be injected by the fundament for nourishing of the sick 10. That the upper orifice of the stomach in Fevers offends by too much opening and thirst but that the Pylorus errs through a strict closure of himself 11. That in Fevers both digestion and also expulsion do offend 12. That the Key of the Orifice or upper mouth of the stomach is in the Spleen and that of the Pylorus in the Gaul by reason of the divers seats of a twofold ferment 13. That the reason of Scituation for the Spleen and Gaul is from the reason of their office For indeed the Schools do extend the first Region of the Body from one extream from the mouth even into the fundament and from the other extream even into the hollow of the Liver But I do describe the Regions by digestions seeing otherwise without these a Region it self is a Being of Reason For what doth it belong to a digestion that there is the utterance of an excrement what doth it pertain to the stomach that its drosse departs thorow the fundament For the Dung of the intestine is no more the excrement of the stomach than sweat is therefore if the fundament belongs to the first Region by reason of the excrement of the stomach therefore also the Skin shall belong to the first Region by Reason of sweat and the Bladder by reason of Urine Therefore not an excrement Lastly not the departure hereof but digestion alone doth prescribe a limit unto a Region and therefore there are as many Regions as digestions In the next place the shop of sanguification is not the Liver it self in its own substance because even the Liver of Fishes should also make their venal bloud but yet seeing every thing generates the like to it self it should of necessity be that either the Liver of Fishes should be red or their bloud to be white both whereof are false whence we learn that sanguification it self is made in the Liver it s own stomach which is the manifold vessel it self of the Mesentery Otherwise the Liver hath too few and slender veins for the due perfecting of the juyce of so great a heap For out of them the last perfection of sanguification is inspired into the hollow vein on the venal bloud by the ferment of the Liver And the Schools do think that sanguification is made by an actual nourishing warmth of the Liver and Cream because they are ignorant of any other actions than those which happen through a daily touching or comprehending And therefore also that every Agent ought necessarily to suffer by reason of a resistance are-acting of the Patient and that is the unexcusable containing cause of our death because the radical heat For they hold it a firm thing that
wholly into a Chick and the bloud wholly into the last nourishment From whence I conjecture it to be a falshood that there is no nourishment without an excrement For the Schools have meditated of dungs and have not minded that Homogeneal things do onely concur to generation Therefore although before the transmutation of the food there are made the seperations of dregs Yet that afterwards dregs are no more made in transchanging to wit after the obtaining of Homogeneity or parts of the same kind For a seperation of dregs from that which is Homogeneal is impossible wherein one thing doth not any thing differ from another But in meats or under the first ferment there is a diversity of kind by reason of the difference of the meats and parts of the same the unequality of chewing and an unlike application of the received ferment For the sood doth partly hearken the more easily to the ferment and being partly rebellious doth resist whence also a disagreeable capacity of the ferment doth arise That also of the Schools is false That the stomack doth primarily coct for it self secondarily only for the whole body and so that it self is truly nourished by a sourish Chyle And so that if it should not be nourished by its own Chyle neither would it begin or attain a Cocture Because that from the self-love of nature every thing doth act intentionally for it selfe 1. If that thing may have place in a totall Agent yet surely not in the direction of all particular parts 2. Because no part doth act any thing in the body from a proper pleasure of self-love and much lesse do the shops dedicated to the service of the whole so act But nature doth on every side obey the appointments of the Creator which were measured out by use and necessity in the power of the Lord of things 3. We are nourished by the same things whereof we consist but we in no wise consist of the Cream 4. The stomack is nourished with no other matter than the other rank of membranes which is destitute of the Cream 5. The Cream doth not receive life but by the Degrees of venal bloud but the stomack cannot be nourished by a nourishment not yet vitall 6. The Cream is a melted food having as yet the Archeus and Properties of the food but spermatick and similar members of the first constitution cannot be nourished by a liquor not yet limited unto a humane species 7. The veins are not dispersed into the stomack that they may suck venal bloud but that they may diffuse nourishment But they do not contain the Cream Therefore the family-administration of the Members being unknown faulty arguments from not the cause as for the cause do every where sprout forth in the Schools and do bring forth capital errours and deaf experiences to be purged in another Tent. Francis Alvares an eye-witness writeth That the Abyssine or Aethiopian Nobles are delighted in their feasts with raw Oxe flesh with a seasoning or sawce of its own Gaul yet they are not any thing weaker than the strongest Europeans If therefore the Gaul be an excrement as it hath pleased the Schools and of so great cruelty as they think that the Gaul being detained in the stomack doth produce a fainting of the Spirit yea that within few dayes Choler through a disease doth kill us How shall a raw and cadaverous Gaul make men sound and the more strong Perhaps they will object If the Gaul be so necessary a Bowel Pigeons or Doves could not want that But they know not that the scituation of the Members and heart in a Pigeon is turned upside down For if an Emmet hath his Choler in him Pigeons have also their Gaul although it be not bitter nor distinguished by a little bag as neither in Emmets For it is sufficient that the Blas of the second digestion is established in another part For the heart of a Pigeon sits in the four Lobbets of the hollow of his Liver they being overwhelmed above and its bunch hangs forth downwards The Pigeon being a great fighter even unto bloud doth want a little bag of Gaul But the Lamb hath a large Gaul even as also every the least and mildest of fishes They gave me Gaul to eat and in my thirst they gave me Vinegar to drink That was wine of Myrrhe mixed with Gaul which they offered to the Saviour of the world now fainting with the pains of an unwonted passion and wearied out with the weight of his own Crosse Not indeed that he might presently swoon even as otherwise they are threatned with fainting who undergo bitter vomitings which the Schools falsely call Gaulie ones The Jews therefore did acknowledge the Gaul for a Balsam preserving life and it fat differeth from that yellow poyson rejected by Vomiters Therefore the Sacrilegious did offer Gaul whereby they might the longer torment the Lord Jesus under pains before death Therefore the Gaul if it be a Bowel and its action be altogether vital it can scarce be restored and at least is by no means delighted with material Remedies as neither with solutive ones but with an equivalent ferment of the nature of a Blas for there is a certain immediate and mutual traduction or passing over and easie operation of powers into powers Because there is a touching of each other and that mutual in a co-resemblance and therefore also a piercing one For I remember that I saw the diffected dead carkass of a certain Comptroler to a King of another a School-master who were dead of the yellow Jaundise yet the emunctory of neither Gaul was brought close to the Duodenum but in some of the Meseraick Veins were pellets which I judged to be liquid dung there detained molesting the action of the ferment of the Gaul also sorrow hath oft-times given a Beginning to the Jaundise and doth nourish it being begun If therefore sorrow doth inhabit in the Spleen the seat of Melancholy according to the Schools why therefore should the Gaul be stopped from sorrow and not the Spleen Therefore 1. Sorrow doth not only hinder the digestion of the Stomack but also of the Gaul By the errour whereof the liquid Dung which is especially carried through the Fundament doth immoderately and unseasonably arise into the veins 2. Therefore the Gaul is a noble and vital Bowel At length The Cream sliding out of the Pylorus or neather mouth of the Stomack into the Duodenum being straight-way snatched within the Sphear of activity by the in-breathing of the Gaul doth exchange its sourness into Salt and its more watery part is made severable from its more pure or un-mixt part which is drawn by the Reins Whence the Urine is sufficiently salt but the venall bloud a little But that Paracelsus will have the Urine to be brought into the bladder not by the Reins and Urine vessels but by the habit of the flesh that is indulged by his own Idiotisme or Property of speech Even as
the bread without which the food should not be turned into nourishment and this Idea or Image he calls an uttered Anatomy and he boasts that it is visible by art I think that in the same bread there might be thus together the Idea of a Sparrow a Carp a Swine an Oxe a Dog an Horse an Ape c which Idea's should pierce the humane one in the same morsel of bread so that Paracelsus did not shew always an humane Idea but now and then he offered a swiny one unlesse a spiritual separater were present who might remove the other Idea's as oft as he will from the humane one to wit who makes himself appear visible in an humane Idea to whom he will Away for shame with serious trifles in healing Furthermore a Bean being set or sowed the bean presently comes forth to light neither hath it lost its heterogeneal parts to be propagated into a root stalk branch and leaves But a thing separated being granted which should be made in the seeds of things according to the varieties of parts to be constituted therefore how much more curiously hath the Archeus watched over Tartars to be separated from the meat or food Nevertheless if any Tartar be granted in the food surely that is never sent into the veins but when it shall be converted into a true Chyle that is after that it shall cease to be Tartar And therefore coagulation being taken away it is no more a Tartarous matter otherwise the whole Universe should be nothing but Tartar For a certain young man loosing with us from Cales sailed eighteen whole dayes even unto Bilbo and he did eat daily not lesse than as much as he had eaten in six dayes on land but he went once aside on the ninth day and again on the eighteenth day to unload his belly but his excrement scarce exceeded the bignesse of two eggs Whence I infer that so great an heap of foods was changed and consumed into juice straightway to be blown away in nourishing If therefore his meats did contain Tartar and that young man should not expel this by excrement he had of necessity been sick seeing indeed Tartar is not digested or turned into good arterial blood but according to the lawes of Tartar it being snatched into the veins ought to have been coagulated yet he lived in health above four years after Therefore the Tartarous trifles do fall to the ground Again a man being made not a little lean by a more durable disease recovered but he could not abstain from much meat because he was exceeding hungry neither yet cast he forth thorow his bowels the sixtieth part of the food taken so that whatsoever he is wont lately to deject by excrements did then repair his flesh For so a more strong stomach doth easily coct even the harder meats without hurt or remembrance of Tartar which meats notwithstanding the Archeus separates abroad as a true excrement being lately become more sloathful than himself to wit he sometimes is luxurious within while with threatnings to himself he corrupts with a superfluous delight those things which otherwise are unhurtful unto him and banisheth whatsoever lesse pleaseth him although it be full of juice For whatsoever he will not overcome that he is not intent upon doth not attempt but repelleth from him and condemneth But as much as he doth not resolve in the shape of a transparent liquor but leaveth troubled or besmeared with colour all that he leaveth as unprofitable to run down in hast But that which is fully resolved being fit for himself he chooseth retaineth and suits with a conformity draws it inwards and entertains it within his own possession being then stript of the inclination of every cream and it borrows that inclination from the Archeus of the members that are to be nourished But so much as the Archeus hath once despised it is either a superfluity in it self or it presently becomes such for a repulse but whatsoever he hath once repelled that he hopes will never be assumed again afterwards Therefore it is manifest that if meats are not changed into good venal blood that happens through the vice of digestion but not for the sake of any Tartar for a more slow and delicate digestion doth loath all things as it were with much huckstery and reserveth but little to it self from much meat though full of juyce but it despiseth the rest being affrighted through the abundance no otherwise than as being enraged by its own unaptnesse or drowsinesse For I remember that a cock being filled with wheaten bran expelled the brans whole by excrement without the floure of the meal but that he being by and by pressed with hunger again ate up the ejected brans and in his second dung that all the bran returned into a liquid excrement Whence I have learned that if any thing among the excrements doth appear lesse bruised or changed that is not from the vice of Tartar but from the errour of the digestive faculty VVherefore also I have conjectured that manly age is lesse subject to wormes than old age or childhood is For one onely bread in this is almost wholly reduced into blood which in the other departs into an excrement Likewise the venal blood is made a bone flesh liver gristle c. And it undergoes various hardenings not for the sake of Tartar but of the transchangeative virtue of the Archeus Therefore finally we are constrained or cannot admit of any Tartar in meats for that hath deceived Paracelsus because he sawâ— yellowish stone to grow to the teeth which although it neither had its like elsewhere in the body nor abroad in the world yet because it after some sort answered to the Stone in the bladder in hardnesse he rashly affirmed this stone of the teeth to be the Tartar of meats moreover to be the harder by how much the neerer it should be to the meats and mouth Lastly he thinking that nothing of a meaty Tartar did belong to the bladder said that the stones of the reins and bladder are onely the Tartars of drinks not of meats and to be fitly of that property that it was the harder by how much the farther it proceeded or went from the mouth Surely an elegant devise which he also imposed so much the harder on it by how much the longer he persevered in it For he plainly shewed therein that he neither knew the original and matter of Tartar nor of Stones in the kidneys or bladder yea nor of the stone of the teeth And therefore he also hath rashly brought Tartar for to be the Father of any Diseases which things surely are here more largely to be explained First of all therefore I will suppose ale or beer of the best and wholsomest water to wit rain-water and refined from all suspition of Tartar and heavy to be made strong and to be drunk by one inclined into the disease of the Stone verily notwithstanding this man shall not therefore be
being despaired of by the Schools are dismissed unto old Women to the contempt of Galen namely one which should dry up and drink up the thin Sanies into it self in the next place another which should be a cleanser of the corrupt Pus But how seriously hath this man weaved his own Fables and how undefiled or fault lesse are these toyes kept as yet to this day For now indeed they do no longer remember a four-fold humour and a four-fold excrement resulting from thence from the corruption of those Indeed Galen will have the grosse matter to be venal bloud putrified neither is he mindful of himself while he teacheth that the bloud in corruption is turned wholly into Choler In the next place if purging Medicines do separate three humours apart out of the venal bloud at the will of the Physitian he ought to have remembred that that happen through the corruption of the bloud to wit while it departs asunder into its fore-going constitutives or whatsoever hath been devised concerning purging things and humors is false wherefore in an Ulcer that not two onely but four ought wholly to issue forth yea according to Galen an Ulcer without grosse matter to wit a Cancer a difficult or malignant Sore or acorroding one fluid with liquid Sanies onely shall be more easie to be cured than otherwise a grosse mattery Ulcer is Because it is that which shall have need of driers onely to wit Chaffe or burnt bones For how stupid and unsound a thing is it to have taught that an Ulcer is to be cured by the cleansing and sequestration of excrements fruits or products But not by a cutting off of the Root which they no where and never knew besides an intemperate heat seeing that every excrement shewes a necessary Relation unto the digestion and part in respect whereof it is an excrement So that a true excrement is a superfluous heap left by a digestion and by a part whereunto it is unprofitable and therefore sequestred from it Because the name of an excrement doth contain an expulsion of the impure from the pure And therefore liquid and grosse matter are not the excrements of an Ulcer or of the part as neither of a natural digestion but they are the products of the Seeds or Roots of Ulcers And therefore he for the most part and in the most things labours in vain who cleanseth an Ulcer according to the prescription of Galen especially in the more malignant ones And likewise it must needs be that those things which are not nourished do also want excrements For nature doth no where labour that it may nourish an Ulcer Seeing that in an Ulcer a proper corrupter doth inhabit which vitiateth the nourishable bloud before it be fit to be digested A lee also in speaking properly is not the superfluity of Wine but a meer residence because of Wine there is no nourishing and no digestion Therefore an Ulcer as such is not nourished neither doth nature intend to nourish that Therefore the liquid and thick corrupt matter are not the excrements of an Ulcer but the products of the corrupter and they are the tokens signs products effects or fruits of venal bloud depraved into hurtful matter For the bloud which is appointed daily for the nourishing of all particular parts is sent is distributed by distributive Justice nor otherwise to the part being ulcerous than if it were moreover in good health Whither when it is come down and cannot be there changed into the true substance of that which is to be nourished it undergoes the lot which the Ulcerous Ferment commands and the bloud doth therefore degenerate and is transchanged in the Root of the part wherein the corrupter is placed and resideth but not in the very hollowness or paunch of the Ulcer For else it should of necessity be that meer and harmless venal bloud should alwayes fall down into the very hollowness of the Ulcer and by corrupting in the same place to degenerate which thing the Eye and daily experience do affirm to be false Therefore if the Schools do wipe an Ulcer whether with a Towel or in the next place with a cleansing Medicine although they both do the same thing yet they take away nothing but the last product but do never reach unto the radical cause or Original But if a bloudy Clot or else a bloudy Muscilage do fall down into the Ulcer that comes to passe because the encompassing places to wit wherein the very Root of Ulcers is there is so great a storm of torture that some small vein that is the nigher being eaten thorow cannot contain its own bloud And so that the bloud which thus by chance falls down into the hollowness of the Ulcer is not seen to be changed into corrupt Pus from whence it manifestly appeares that the bloud doth not degenerate in the hollow of the Ulcer but in the brims or lips thereof wherefore also the vanity of Galens Doctrine is seen which placeth the healing of an Ulcer in the withdrawing of the product The Root therefore of every Ulcer is in its bottom and lips or brim that is it inhabits in the parts next to the hollowness wherein indeed is their own Cookroom in which the venal bloud is altered into a corrosive liquid grosse corrupt matter c. But the liquid matter it self is the product or positive effect of Ulcers But the very hollowness thereof which is commonly reckoned to be the Ulcer of Physitians is the privative and deficient product For as a burnt or destroyed Village is not war but is the effect accusing the defect privation desertion and destruction made So neither is an Ulcer the wasted hollowness of the flesh but this is the sign left by the Ulcer For in the Coasts of the Ulcer there doth an hostile corrupter and guest the poysonous Ferment on every side inhabite for which cause we see the lips or coasts and bottom to be diversly altered Let the Schools therefore take heed what they teach while they deliver the curing of an Ulcer to consist in the taking away of the latter product yea corrupt Pus doth not carry the disposition of an excrement neither doth it proceed as an excrement of nature from the Ulcer but it is a fruit of the Ulcer to wit of a forreign corrupter fermentally depraved with a malignity therefore it degenerates eats up gnawes and consumes And indeed the greater Ulcers do want grosse matter they weep out continual liquid or thin matter onely and now and then a tenfold greater quantity than otherwise a just distribution of bloud doth require and the transchanged Liquor flowes abroad into sharp and devouring waters which the Galenists do never dry up with their driers although they do moreover super-add all their cleansing Medicines and however the Catagenians and Catatopian do boastingly glorie of their own experiments For corrupt Pus is not procreated but in the flesh being closed and opened and those not yet altogether ill-affected
effect is supposed and likewise a cause thereof neither is it doubted what that effect or what the cause thereof may be but the knitting of them both is only sought for To wit after what sort the effect proceeds from the cause or on the other hand after what manner and by what means such a cause may produce its effect The knowledge I say of the Tree and its Fruit is presupposed The which if we compose them for healing for if the whole world be for man also the whole physical knowledge of nature shall therefore be subservient to man the knowledges of ones self shall be first to be presupposed To wit that a true Physitian doth know the Tree of the whole nature of man and the fruit thereof to wit health Likewise also the tree of vitiated health and the very rank or order of health depraved as the Fruit of that Which proper knowledges of the thingliness or essence together with its adjacents are required Therefore that we may know the Tree in its root and properties that ought to be done by the Fruits wherefore also the Fruits are first to be known But the Fruits as well of entire as of vitiated health seeing they are the Scopes whereunto the properties of occult Remedies are referred have themselves in manner of a Tree and Trunk whereinto the young budding slips and seeds of things ought to be ingrafted as it were the Fruits of the same This indeed the ordination of Medicine requireth that Remedies although they have themselves in manner of a cause yet that they become fruits or effects in us as they do fructifie in our Tree and so they are not only the Fruits of their own native Tree whence in the nature of things they are derived but rather they are new Fruits from an ingrafting of a product and so are plainly promiscuous of a branch or Fruit of the Tree implanted and of the vital power of the stock whereinto it is ingrafted Such fruits indeed do bewray their own Tree And so as in every progress of nature a duality of Sex is required for the production of every Fruit it was no wonder that the rank and applications of occult Qualities or Remedies hath remained unknown if it hath hitherto stood neglected that a healthy and diseasie state is bred by the same Parent and so also they have referred the whole essence of a Disease into external occasional efficient and warring causes but not into the true and inward Tree of sicknesses Let us suppose therefore the Archeus to be provoked and almost furious the which being provoked by occasional causes doth pour forth its own blood and causeth the Bloody-Flux or likewise let us feign the Archeus grievously bearing the mark of pain conceived in some part serving to the last digestion and being as it were stung with fury to stir up an Erisipelas The question is of finding out a Remedy by the occult or hidden property The Schools therefore have considered to apply cooling things to the Erisipelas as to the fruit and they would not apply a Remedy to the vitiated tree But the Secretaries of natural things have attended to the aforesaid furies to be restrained by fear so that the fear is not to be incurred on the man but on the Archeus Therefore they have killed the most fearful creature to wit a Hare Not indeed with a weapon that he might dye by an unexpected death but by hunting that he might perish by the biting of Dogs whereby a doubled force of fear may be imprinted on his whole Body Therefore they have tinged a bloody Towel in the blood of the Hare and kept it being dryed And that they have administred by pieces in Wine and the Dysentery was cured And likewise they have put it dry on the Erisipelas and it was cured Yea the Germane Souldiers do give an Hare dryed in the smoak in drink and the Bloody-Flux or Dysentery is cured with an undeceiveable event From whence they have learned that cuttings of veins and purgings are vain whether thou respectest feigned humours or in the next place a diminishing of heat and strength together with the blood likewise that coolings are ridiculous because they are those things which endeavour to heal from the effect do never touch at the roots and for that cause do for the most part provoke nature into greater furies The Erisipelas therefore and Bloody-Flux have obtained some common point wherein they might agree And that is a certain Ideal poyson bred by the Archeus For truly in the Tree of man every exorbitant passion of the Archeus doth tinge its own Idea or likeness on the blood yea and on the excrements no less than in the Tree of a Dog through the exorbitancy of madness Fruits are bred in his spittle which do afterwards produce in us the Fruit of the transplanted madness Therefore the knowledge of hidden Remedies is badly sought into from the Fruit. For I have known that whatsoever things are made in the world are made from the necessity of the Seeds of every Archeus and so by means of an incorporeal and invisible Being But I have known that seminal Beings do arise from an imaginative sorce of soulified things or the Archeus of the same by a co-like perturbation And so that by a certain invisible Principle this visible world is continued But in things subjected or not soulified I have observed that they after a co-like manner have themselves by the same certain Analogical proportion But that every disjoynting or irregularity of the Archeus doth by its Idea's frame the Seeds to be poysons unto its own Body and so a sound Tree rusheth into a vitiated one I have considered that the poysons of some things which are bred with us do bear Seeds not those which by the exorbitancy of their of own Archeus but in respect of our Archeus might produce vitiated Idea's and to themselves natural to us mortal Idea's Whence indeed if Fruits or Branches be implanted into the Tree of our entire health it happens that from both as it were from a promiscuous Sex vitiated or poysonous Fruits do arise in us But the poysons are on both sides among the number of occult properties Let therefore suitable helps or Remedies have Idea's which are chiefly the extinguishers of the poysoned Idea's or those which by an eminent goodness may transchange as well the Archeus the producer of the poyson as the poyson it self produced whence I have very clearly learned that almost every poyson and its Antidote and so also the whole race of occult or formal properties do seminally descend from the activity of a vital light For so the poysons of soulified creatures do arise from disturbances the which by how much the sharper they shall be by so much also the more cruel poysons they bring forth For so the poysons of Serpents are bred from anger envy sury pride and those being variously mixed with fear But the corrosive and putrifactive
moisture in us and the radical heat may be for synonymals But moreover all do with one consent presage that our Vital heat would never fail us if there might always be enough and to spare of that moisture and fodder Which moisture because they believe to be hereafter wasted by a necessary action of heat they finish the hope and Treatise of Long Life by a denial But alas with what pernicious blindness hath the Schoole of Medicine through thinking stumbled in all things It had also seen the Flame of a Lamp to be nourished with Oyl and that through defect hereof that also failed but that it was continued by the pouring on of Oyl Wherefore a plausible Invention smiled on them and therefore they drew that Invention into the History of Life Especially because they by sense took notice that heat was no less in the four-footed Beast and Bird than in a Man So greatly with the Patronage of Aristotle have they confounded heat under the Etymology of Life And then they presently drew out of heat the token of true and presential Fire Yet the Question remained under Controversie The Aristotelicks indeed attribute this Fire unto the Element of the Stars and contratrarily distinguish the sublunary Element of Fire in its species But others attribute it unto the Element of sublunary Fire And have about this and the other their own Arguments of Brawlings In the mean time the Schoole hath been wholly dumb about mute and cold Fishes and although it confessed that Fishes do live are moved and nourished no more unprosperously than four-footed Beasts yea although it knew that they are enriched with a far more fruitful race of Off-springs in the next place that they live a more healthy Life and notwithstanding that Fires and heats are wanting under the Sea especially the frozen Sea wherein in the mean time there was the greatest and most populous Common-wealth neverthelesse it would not forsake the embers of the vital spark drawn in from its tender years although it took notice that it was deluded through a Patronage of truth Wherefore the miserable Schooles flee unto Decrees or Authorities Therefore they would have Man Birds and also four-footed Beasts to be indeed in a Trine Number and that the Fish might be involved as a Fourth and consocial thereunto and be constrained under their large Doctrine That they might determine of an equal right concerning the Fish as absent in the participation of Radical heat But because the Soul comes as a Servant unto established pleasures and doth also administer Reason even for a non-Being at pleasure they have devised a privy shift and determine to wit That hot living Creatures are actually hot with a palpable Fire but that Fishes are onely potentially hot As if therefore Fishes should onely potentially live if the Effect doth not badly square with its granted Causes The Schooles I say do feign Heat to be the total Cause of an actual Life to wit they substitute an equivocal or doubtful Quality like unto heat but an irregular unnamed one because an unknown feigned and dissembled one to be received under the name of potential Heat For the Schools by imagining have abhorred to enter into the Depth of the Sea wherefore the Speculation of Fishes being left as barren because it was resisted by a plausible Devise they have well pleased themselves as it were wandring in a Dream in hot Animals with the Application of Lamps and Life Shall the radical Moisture thus be no longer with Aristotle Spermatick Froathy and Muscilaginous but now to let it be Oylie Fat and Combustible Shall thus therefore a Fat Belly which through much Grease shall afford Fewel for the radical Moisture be only of necessity Long-lived A Capuchin in our Country was Cold for almost an whole year at least-wise in both his Legs and Arms because he shall loose less of his Moisture he shall of necessity retain his Oyl the longer in his Lamp But at least-wise here a certain wan Stupidity of the Schools elsewhere by me demonstrated is adjoyned To wit that the Action of Heat especially if it shall not be kindled by a lively Flame doth indeed dry up all Moistures into a Sandy-stone and Coal but never consumeth them without the remainder of a residence even as is easie to be seen in us so that it is even a wonder that they have not hitherto observed that Consuming is not made in us by Heat alone But at least-wise there should be need of a torch in the Heart which thing also the Schools have not yet considered least otherwise the feigned and vapo rous fatness of the Moisture because it is that which in the Heart should be wholly Spiritual like Aqua Vitae should in a small moment and great breviary burn up all at once and cease to be For else without a torch neglected by the Schools the feigned History of Life shall badly square unto Fires built from the first-born Liquor which are on every side kindled at once However they shall say at least from one Absurdity drawn out of the Latex or Liquor of Life there are many Anguishes But let us freely feign that this idle Devise of the Schools might stand To wit that the Life is a certain Fire wasting the radical Moisture because it is Fat and doth thereby live and that Lean Persons alone are of a shorter Life But from whence is that Moisture in us Is it not from the Nourishment materially and from the vital Archeus efficiently Certainly our Lamp shall never be extinguished if the Power of burning or blazing Heat as they will have it be for the making of Oyl out of the Bread and Drink and if nothing of a Residence remaineth from the fatness in the Torch which may stop up and stifle that Torch To wit even as nothing at length remains from the Blood in Persons of ripe Years which may have it self in manner of a superfluous Coal And indeed in a Feast hath it not its abundance of Nourishments and heat the Workman of that fat Moisture resulting within from thence Seeing that Light proceeds from Light and an uncombustible Fire from Fire with no difficulty Why therefore doth the Man die For I find from the Positions of the Schools a perpetual Motion in the Theory but not in the Practick Therefore Fraud and Deceit do subsist in their Positions or at least-wise a shameful Rashness But they will say that after growth nothing is any longer applyed from the radical Moisture unto the solid Parts Therefore it must needs be that the true radical Moisture seeing it doth now no longer co-here to the Root therefore also the sound Parts do by degrees wax dry and so that the Fodder of the Heat failing the same Heat dyeth But first of all from hence is drawn that the Death of Old Age doth not happen but by reason of the dryness of the similar Parts When as a Stag of one Year old is dryer than a Man of
Spirit of the Salt of Urin not so From hence at leastwise it is manifest that there is a Salt and volatile Spirit in the venal Blood But after what manner the whole venal Blood may be homogeneally transchanged by the Ferment of the Heart cannot be explained by Words because Natures themselves are not demonstrable from a former Cause For the Operations of Ferments for the transmutation of things are essential but not the accidentary Propagations of Accidents for the causing of Dipositions only The vital Spirit therefore is plainly Salt therefore Balsamical and a Preserver from Corruption That although the Aqua Vitae doth easily pass into vital Spirit yet this Spirit is not Oylie or combustile like the Aqua Vitae but the Spirit of Wine only through a touching of the Ferment is easily wholly changed into a salt Spirit and forthwith looseth its inflamable Disposition Even as I have taught in the Book of the Stone in Man after what manner Aqua Vitae may by the Spirit of Urin be in one only instant coagulated into a subtile Gobbet or Lump The which concerning the volatile Salt of the arterial Blood may through the effective Ferment of the Heart be much more evidently proved Wherefore they who for some good while do undergo the beating of the Heart although they shall then drink abundantly and that much of the more pure Wine yet they are not easily made Drunk Because that by reason of an urgent necessity the Spirit of the Wine is most speedily attracted into the Heart and Arteries which are scanty in spirits and is suddenly formed into vital Spirit It restoreth I say the Strength or Faculties neither yet doth it then make drunk because it is no longer a stranger but being drawn into the Heart it easily becomes domestical and then is on every side dispensed through the Arteries For it doth not argue to the contrary that the Spirit of Salt-peter is sharp and that therefore the vital Spirit ought to be sharp For neither was the Spirit from whence Salt-peter was made in the Earth then sharp And therefore the vital Spirit is Salt and nearer to the Spirit of Urin than of Salt-peter the which by reason of Adustion and Extraction is alwayes a new Creature of its composed Body That Foundation therefore which is laid by the Ferment of the Gaul in volatilizing and making Salt this afterwards is perfected in the Shop of the Heart For the foregoing Digestions are as so many Dispositions unto vital Functions and Necessities for a Member being once stupified if Sense or Feeling shall return that surely is made with sensible Spurs and Prickings which are the tokens of true saltness But that the whole venal Blood is a meer Salt may not from elsewhere be more clearly deducted than that because in the Dropsy Ascites and in Ulcers it is homogeneally through a most easie Degeneration changed into a salt Liquor But a salt sharp Quality and subtile Matter was suitable to the vital Spirit if it ought to be sufficient for preserving of the Members The redness also of the venal Blood assumeth a yellowness while it is made arterial Blood because that which is Red through the tartness of Salt waxeth Yellow in its dissolving Neither yet hath the arterial Blood lost all its redness for truly a Part thereof ought to remain for the Nourishment of the solid Members It is a dead or invalid thing whatsoever I have hitherto said that the Spirit of Life is a salt sharp Vapour and made of the arterial Blood by the vital Members their own Ferments I will therefore Speak of the Life of the Spirit For seeing it ought to do its Duty with the Offices of Life it was not required that it should be in the shew of a salt Liquor or arterial Blood or that it should befool us under the likeness of a salt Exhalation but because it ought primarily to live and receive the Life it was meet for it to be enlightned not indeed with a burning enflaming or fiery Light but with a simple vital Light of the Nature of soulified Formes of the sensitive Life and Soul and that indeed of a humane Species For for the Understanding thereof suppose thou that Wormâ— named Glow-wormes have by Night a Light in their Belly which not only shines like the Eyes of a Cat but also pouers forth a thin Light round about that Light is extinguished with the Life of the Glow-worme A like Light suppose thou to be which enlightneth the vital Spirit as long as it liveth it shineth and is propagated into Spirit newly made being duly elabourated And by how much the more impure and the less elabourated it shall be by so much shall that Light be the Darker But that Light is extinguished in us the Matter of the Spirit remaining in the Plague Poysons c. even as by Swooning and Beating of the Heart the Light is extinguished and the Spirit vanisheth away In time of Death also the Membrane of the Eye is destitute of a manifest Light plainly to be seen Yet the Essence of that Light in Glow-worms is not so alike to that which is in us to wit as they differ from us only in Degree But there are as many Species of these Lights as there are of vital Creatures That is unto us a token of divine Bounty that there are so many Species and vital Differences of Lights which by us are comprehended under one only Notion because that those Lights are the very Lives and Forms themselves of vital Creatures So that the thrice most glorious Father of Lights doth recreate himself in the abundance of the kinds of Lights with no less a Lavishment than as in one only humane Countenance he hath fashioned almost as many Varieties as Men because there is in his Power a certain Common-wealth of vital Lights and Band of innumerable Citizens a certain Similitude whereof he expresseth in vital soulified Creatures by a Life a Form that is by a vital Light The vital Spirit therefore Is Arterial Blood resolved by the force of the Ferment and Motion of the Heart into a salt Air being vitally enlightned which Light in us is hot but in the Fish it is so actually cold that it is never able to aspire unto a Power of Heat as long as it liveth and subsisteth Our Heat therefore is not a consumer of the Original Moisture as neither therefore through want of Heat do Fishes hitherto escape Death although their Moisture be not lifted up into an Exhalation and least of all in the frozen Sea For neither shall the Capuchin our Country-man who is cold for the greatest part of the year from his Feet even unto his Belly nor feeling himself to have Feet therefore not undergo a dayly transpiration of the nourishable Moisture or doth he refuse the Refreshment of Nourishments or is the Capuchin changed in those parts into a Fish the which otherwise should be necessary for him to be if Heat should
temperature of the seeds of their composed Bodies But the spirit of mans urine is neither sharp nor Alcalized but meerly salt even as also that of Horses is And that for this cause because the Volatile sharp matter of the Chyle of the stomach is by vertue of another ferment transchanged into a Volatile salt Even as elsewhere concerning the digestions of Animals I here give thee to observe by the way that in things transchanged there is not an immediate regresse or return unto that from whence they were transchanged no more than from a privation to a habit For that in transchanging the last life of the thing perisheth because the whole disposition of the middle life of the former Being is at once taken away by reason of the extinguishment of its former seed For therefore things transchanged do keep the essence of a new Being with a neglect of their former composed Body Therefore have I found any Remedy whatsoever unprofitable which I otherwise had believed to be very likely a dissolver of the Stone from its former composed Body Yet that is a truth that the spirit of Urine in the fundamental point of its nativity is salt and that by reason of that salt it doth more readily coagulate other Spirits than any sour or sharp spirit doth Milk Neverthelesse the spirit of urine doth not coagulate milk or the venal Blood Because the spirit of the venal blood yea and our vital Spirit is salt after the manner of Urines From hence indeed the spirit of the urine hath it self after the manner of an excrementitious spirit cut off from the blood and so by reason of a co-resemblance it is its Chamber-fellow neither do they act on each other And then also I observed that the spirit of Urine doth not more strongly coagulate those things which were already before coagulated For Bole Clay or the rocky or Chalk-stone do by degrees degenerate by the spirit of urine into a nitrous Salt and are rather dissolved Since therefore the spirit of Urine doth not coagulate Bodies already coagulated such as are Bole Clay c. As neither Bodies coagulable such as are Milk and the venal blood but it coagulates the spirit of Wine or the like thing which is entertained with it in the urine for as was shewn above after the fermenting of urine that urine containes also a spirit of Wine or Aqua vitae I desisted not seriously to enquire after what manner the stone is coagulated in us and in our urine 1. First of all it is an undoubted truth that Duelech is not of a calcinous or limy condition however Paracelsus may be carried on the contrary 1. Because a calcining degree of heat is wanting in us 2. And then because every Alcali is rather that which is destructive to a rocky stone than a Coagulater thereof 3. Because a Calx or Lime presupposeth a Chalky-stone and therefore Duelech should be calcined before it were a stone 4. From the composing parts of Duelech it shall by and by be made manifest that it is not possible for Lime to be in it yea nor that Duelech himself is calcined or doth send forth a Lixivium or Lye Likewise neither is Duelech of the nature of a gowty Chalk because he growes together in the midst of the urine but that Chalk is coagulated from the Sunovia But the Sunovie is a living seedy muscilage which degenerated in the journey of nourishment and from a transparent and Crystaline matter hath passed over into a thick white and slimy matter as of Gouty persons elsewhere from a matter without savour I say it is transplanted into a sharp one though the tartnesse whereof indeed it hath attained a thickness or grossness For then also it is unfit for a total diflation or transpirative dispersing of it self To wit whereby the nourishable Liquor is wholly consumed without any remainder But the Sunovie being once infected with a tartness its watery parts are pufft away but the gross remainder waxeth dry by degrees into the utmost dryth and hardnesse of a Sand-stone But Duelech attaines to the utmost hardness of it self in one onely instant of time The Gouty Chalk therefore differs from Duelech in its whole matter and efficient cause For therefore such a Chalk is hardned out of the water because indeed by drying Neither for that cause doth it imitate the hardness of a rocky stone but onely of a sandy stone I have spoken these things to that end that it may be manifested that Duelech differs from any other coaguted Bodies whatsoever in its different kind of Agent and matter And seeing notwithstanding I as yet knew not the manner or process of the birth of Duelech but I knew in the mean time that Bodies do nor receive the limitation of their hardning but by the actions appointments and properties of their own seeds Lastly Since I knew that whatsoever things do act corporally are altogether sluggish slow and idle as for the coagulation of Duelech therefore I enquired into fermental savours and Odours as the Authors of many seeds Therefore I found the savours and actions of Salts to be indeed famous ones but not any thing reaching the vertue of the salt of Urine And then also I beheld the more weak or feeble Salts which might follow the Race of Sulphurs But Mercury although it alone according to Paracelsus did contain the whole perfection of the thing yet I found it to be slow and feeble For as oft as I distinguished Salts and Sulphurs from their Mercuries I admired at their sluggishnesse and indeed at the dignities of these two Principles Wherefore I stuck in Salts for the searching out of the nativity of Duelech I confess indeed that Mercury being a flowing mettal in its nature and properties is never sufficiently known But that body hath deceived Paracelsus through a similitude of proportion he thinking because his Device had pleased him because he had endowed the watery matter of things with the name of Mercury that therefore the properties of Quick-silver and its natures without a peere being never to be sufficiently searcht into did agree as suitable to all Liquors which may be drawn out of Simples For all the Philosophers of former Ages confess that nothing in the Universe is not so much as by far to be likened to Argent Vive Yet it hath not been hitherto sufficiently unfolded that Argent-Vive or Quick-silver is a Simple actually existing body but not a constitutive part of things And so that there hath been nothing but a meer abusive passing over of a Name For this cause I as yet perswaded my self that seeing a non-Duelech was made of Duelech that ought to be done by the action of an Agent on a disposed matter And although I knew these and many the like things yet I discerned that I therefore knew nothing the more Wherefore I as yet more detested a wording or discursive Philosophy because it was that which stayed me before the Threshold of Nature
treasure of life If therefore the life it self cannot preserve its own seat and treasure from corruption as long as it is in the veins when shall it preserve it and how shall it ever be free from corruption And likewise if the life doth not preserve the blood from corruption wherein it glistens after what manner shall the bones be preserved The veins therefore are ordained by the Creator that they may preserve the blood from corruption because the life is co-fermented with the blood of the veins Therefore under this Question the ornament and appointment of nature goes to ruine or the whole order of healing hitherto adored by Physicians falls to the ground But be it so by what sign do Physicians judge of putrified blood Is it not from the more white black yellow somewhat green or duskish colour Is it not from a slimy gross watery thin matter And lastly Is it not from a consistence not threddy or fibrous scarce cleaving together c. But I declare under the penalty of a convicted lye if any one will make tryal that I have examined the bloods of two hundred wanton countrey and healthy people in one only day and many of them were exceeding unlike in their aspect colour matter and consistence many whereof I distilled and found them to be alike profitable in healing For our Countrey Boores are wont at every Whitsontide to let out their blood whereby they might drink the more largely For although many of them seemed to be putrefied others cankery or black chole-ry yet especially the Countrymen from whence they had issued were very healthy Therefore they confirmed by the cause the tokens of corruption not withstanding them that their bloods were not any thing estranged from the nature of a Balsame Wherefore I have laughed at the Table of judgements from the beholding of blood let out of the veins and so I confirmed it with my self that the venal blood is commanded by Physicians to be kept that at least in his regard they may reckon one visit to the sick For if the corruption of the blood hath any where place and betokeneth the letting forth of it self from that Title surely that must be in the Plague But in the Plague the cutting of a vein is destructive Therefore there is no where putrefaction in the blood of the veins and a fear lest the putrefaction of that blood should prevail and by consequence the scope of letting out the blood is in this respect erroneous I suppose also thirty men to be oppressed with an equal Pleurisie but ten of them to pour forth blood out of a vein apparently vitiated for the blood of those that have the Pleurisie is like red wine whereunto clots of Milk have a Conflux but the remaining twenty I will cure without shedding of their blood It is certain in the mean time that those twenty have their blood no otherwise affected than the ten whose vein was cut And again That if in those twenty that were cured a vein be opened their blood shall be found rectified restored into its former state and far estranged from a pleuritical errour Therefore the blood of him that hath a Pleurisie is not corrupted although it may seem to be such The which I prove Because from that which is corrupted or deprived of life there is not granted a return unto life health or an habit Therefore black blew or wan green c. blood do not testifie of its corruption but they afford signes of its fermental angry heat or turbulency alone For first of all if the more waterish and yellow blood should betoken a vice the arterial blood should be far worse than the blood of the veins which thing is erroneous For the blood of the veins is no otherwise distinguished by the aforesaid signs than as wine is troubled while the Vine floureth for it is not therefore corrupted because the tempest being withdrawn it voluntarily cleers up again So likewise a Fever doth variformly disturb the blood and discolour it with strange faces But these masks cease the Fever being taken away Truly I am wont to compare the Lookers into the blood unto those who give their judgement concerning Spanish Wine and who give their thoughts in beholding of the urine But they will say If putrefaction be not in the blood why then doth purely red blood leap out of a vein at the third and not at the first turn or at the first and not at the third turn But that argument at least convinceth that one part of the blood is more and sooner disturbed than another not the whole or all at once For it is certain that nature tends by degrees in a lineal path unto the perfection appointed for her Therefore that the blood nigh the heart is more pure than that which is about the first shop thereof Therefore they say and err therein That a Tertian as well as that which is Continual as that which is renewed by Intervals consisteth of yellow Choler a Quartan of black Choler as also a Quotidian of phlegm but putrified ones For why was it of necessity to suppose these Humours the which I have elsewhere demonstrated to be feigned ones to be putrefied seeing they confess a non-putrefied Sunochus to be continual and more cruel than the three aforesaid Fevers Which particulars surely if they are compared with the definition of Fevers proposed now of necessity the blood in every Sunochus or continual Fever and the vital spirit in a diary Fever shall putrifie the life remaining to wit they shall attain the bound of putrefaction And then seeing the Schools confess that such putrified humours do not consist in the sheath of the heart and that therefore they are not primarily inflamed in a Fever and so by consequence that putrefaction is in vain required for a feverish heat to be kindled in the heart If therefore putrefied Humours do enflame the spirit in the heart from far that thing shall by every law of nature be made nigh before afar off and they shall the rather or more fully enflame all the blood that lyes between the heart and themselves with the heat of Putrefaction and so all Fevers shall of necessity afford a putrefied continual Fever Wherefore neither shall a Quartan Ague stop its course and repeat its return if the same putrefied matter thereof waiteth safe in the Spleen for a years space Gangrens certainly teach me that nothing of a putrefied matter for every putrefied matter is dead can long persist without a further Conragion of it self Neither do I apprehend how the Archeus of life it self shall putrefie that it may give satisfaction to Galen for a diary Fever But if they understand a diary Fever to be the daughter of that Putrefaction which at length is implanted in the spirit of life But thus all Fevers in the Schools should be Diaries Again If a diary or one dayes Fever be the daughter of Putrefaction therefore Putrefaction is presupposed to be
to the bottome which is a demonstration of the deed First therefore the pearles of the shops are not true ones but a certain abortion of those sowed within through the middle substance of the Pearle Secondly the powder of Pearles or Corrals dissolved although it may delude the eyes yet it is not truly solved it remayning the powder which it was before Thirdly instead of comforting remedies they substitute nothing but the acide salt of the things dissolving Fourthly that powder being thus solved cannot be made bloud and therefore neither can it enter into the veines Fifthly what if it had entred unto the Liver hollow veine and so by the power of digestion that sharp salt adhering thereunto had at length been wasted into a transmutation What other thing should such Comfortatives performe besides to besmeare the veines within with a forreign powder And at length to load an un-obliterable malady with aâ— forreign guest This is the harvest that is to be exspected from Gems It is an alike doating monstrous thing which they promise concerning the broath of an old Cock being joyned with herbs For first of all there is more of life and strength in the more young birds than in decrepite ones Let the judgment be brought unto Hens And also medicinal broaths are ungratefull and troublesome to the stomack and so they are easily dismissed unto excrements Therefore after this manner under a changed maske they again dissemble their Apozemes under the broath of an old Cock Last of all there is the Antidote Alkermes which although as it consisteth of the Syrupe of the grain that dieth Scarlet I wish it were not adulterated by roses it be laudable neverthelesse inasmuch as it being scorched and roasted is impregnated with the more crude silk untill that it can be powdered the whole power of the dying grain is vitiated which silk being thus roasted is nothing else but the wool of silke wormes depraved or vitiated by burning For the invention of some covetous old man brought up that thing as thinking that nature is exhilarated or rejoyced with things that delight the eyes Far be it for neither Gold gems not pretious stones as such shall refresh the vital spirits and much lesse crude silk roasted and that if it were tinged with a Purple Colour unlesse the vitall spirits shall well perceive restaurations to themselves by the additions of strength But moreover vaine are comforting and cordiall things which are wished for the fewel of Fevers remayning and the blood and strength being diminished For if a Fever prostrateth a strong person and one that is in good health how shall it suffer him to be strengthened being now dejected Especially by things which are forreigners in the whole general kinde nor agreeing with the spirits in the union of co-resemblance How shall a Citizen fortifie himself who hath received an houshold enemy stronger than himself into his possession The wan therefore and vain promises of Physitians concerning fortifiers and strengtheners are full of deceite For he that exhausteth the strength or faculties together with the blood and withdrawes them by evacuating medicines but forbids wine and things that do immediately restore the strength also who continually prosecures after cooling things as enemies to the vitall heat how shall he procure strength by such electuaries CHAP. IX The true cause of Rigour or the shaking fit in Fevers 1. Rigour or extreame cold and trembling is from the spirit making the assault but not efficiently from the diseasifying cause 2. Why he intends Rigours 3. Why he stirs up cold and heat 4. Why he begins with cold 5. The Authour runs not back unto the lawes of the microcosme 6. There are intermittences almost in all agents 7. The manner of making cold 8. The manner and cause of rigour 9. A marke of ignorance in Galen concerning the tossing of a member 10. The burning cause of a Fever 11. That every motion as well an healthy as a sick one is made efficiently by the Archeus 12. How the Authour learned that thing 13. The turbulency of the Archeus disturbs the urine 14. The ordinary office of the Gaule is troubled and makes the Chyle bitter 15. VVherefore also the bitter vomitings thereof diminisheth nothing of a Fever 16. VVhence is burning heat and sweat in a Fever 17. VVhat sweat may betoken 18. Sharpnesse increaseth cold the which an Erisipelas proveth 19. A Gangrene how it may undoubtedly be stopped 20. VVhy the beginning of a continval Fever is from horrour 21. Paracelsus is noted 22. The errours of Galen especially concerning the putrefaction of the blood and spirit 23. The true seat of a diary and hectick Fever 24. The fabulous similitude of Galen for the parching heat of an hectick Fever 25. VVhy lime is enflamed by water 26. A mechanical proof 27. The blockish cause of gaping 28. The true cause and the organ of the same 29. Sleep the drowsie evil giddinesse of the head Apoplexy c. are from the mouth of the stomach 30. Gaping is not in the muscles of the cheekes or jaw HIppocrates first put a name on the Spirit of life to wit that it is that which maketh the assault and the guider of all things which happen in us which prerogative surely none hath at length called into question In the mean time the Schooles that succeeded being as it were giddy with the vice of whirling about have wrested aside the causes of trembling into old wives fictions The Spirit therefore being the Prince of the world in us hath alone obtained a motive beginning in us as well local as alterative to wit conteyning the cause of Rigour or extremity of cold as well in respect of locall motion as of the alterations of cold and succeeding heat For the Archeus intends by trembling rigours to shake of the excrement adhering to the similar part Even so as a spider also shakes her cobwebs and joggs them with rigour that she may shake of a forreigne thing which lighteth into them But the Aroheus taking notice that he can little profit by rigours or shaking extremityes stirs up an alterative Blas All which I have elsewhere taught to consist naturally in Winter and Summer cold I say and heat To wit through the successive interchange whereof all sublunary things do decay in the coursary number of dayes From Winter therefore in the very universe it self the beginning of the year proceedeth through a spring and Summer into Autumne wherein the fruites are at length ripened For whatsoever things are made by nature undergo this beginning increase state and declining So the Archeus himself as all seeds and vital things do imitate the nature of general ones stirs up feverish rigours colds and heats But not the offensive matter of the Fever even as hath already been sufficiently and over-proved at the beginning For so also in disjoynting of the bones the teeth presently shake and rigours spring up And likewise while a woman with child untimely expels the not
being suited to the Element of fire and at another time to the Whey of the Milk And far more shamefully do they undistinctly liken both of these to the Gaul Therefore four Humours shall equally be made of any meat under one act and the same shop of sanguification because they are immediatly principally and simply and always intended by the Liver or they are made in unlike places and moments Not indeed in unlike ones because so there should not be constitutive parts of one and the same blood But if in like places and moments Why while urine and choler are made at once is not one individually mixed with the other even as also gaul with the urine Why in the next place is the urine never bitter if gaul be always comixed with it whereby it is tinged as they say Why when the gaul is broken in a fish can none however the more exact washing take away that bitternesse And after another manner one onely smal drop of gaul should defile a whole bucker of urine with bitternesse Who in the next place is that so exact Seperater which was able to seperate the watery Choler from the urine but could not materially seperate all the urine from the blood Wherefore at length is not that Choler or gaul of the blood snatcht together with the urine to the kidneys which a total absence of its bitternesse proveth if Choler be believed to be throwly mixed with the blood above the Liver Let us therefore consider how choler being made by the Liver in the Liver shall come down unto the little bag of the gaul In what place sanguification is wrought Whether about the Port-vein and hollow of the Liver Or indeed in the very body of the Liver Or lastly in the very hollow vein above the Liver But in whichsoever of these places that choler is made at leastwise there is not from thence a vein of return for choler unto the little blader of the Gaul For it ought to proceed from the Liver unto the Gaul by a retrograde motion and uncertaine passages of conveighance Why at least wise have both those choler 's remayning in the masse of the blood their own excrements and seperated Innes But phlegme and the blood want excrments For if both of them are made beneath the Liver what seperater therefore seperates them And which why Since they being generated at once in the same place are perfectly mixed with the urine But if the Gawl and also black choler be made together with the act of sanguification in a most swift passage thorow the smal and slender little branches of the veines extended into the Liver I pray let young beginners be mindfull of the flendernesse of those little branches or veines which is scarce sufficient for the transmitting of the vrine and so that they should require a momentary transmutation of the urine blood and the other three humours to be made by the Creame This matter I have elsewhere profesly explained in a full treatise concerning a sixfold digestion And in the 16. brief head in particular That Choler is not made of meates And in the 17. That the Gawl is a bowel in forme of a liquour and the necessary balsame of life but in no wise an excrement In the 25. The curious opinion of the Schooles concerning the Gaul is unfolded In the 26. That nature had been more carefull for the Gaul than for phlegme In the 27. That the seperation of the urine and of the wheyinesse of blood differs in the whole essence from the seperation of the wheyinesse out of Milâ— In the 30. How much Gaul imports beyond every disposition of an excrement In the 31. Why birds might want urine and a kidney but not a Gaul In the 35. That the excrements of the kidneys and belly have indeed the colour of Gaul but not that they are therefore tinged with the Gaul and much lesse with choler In the 36. After what manner the dung excludes a comixture of the Gaul In the 37. That excrements may seem Gauly which are no way Gauly and therefore that these things have been rashly passed by by the Schooles Also that a leeky liquour is not of the Gaul the history of a Cock proveth and some following experiments in the Chap. of the Pylorus Sec. 24. The which that I may not here with a tediousnesse repeate the curious Reader shall enquire and he shall finde them in the places cited For if the Liver generateth both Cholers and Phlegm together with the blood why doth it despise and lay aside a great part of them for an excrement but reserve the rest in the blood when as otherwise of simple and homogeneal blood there either ought to be no duality of any of its particular parts or there should be the same necessary duality no less of Phlegm and Blood than of both the cholers Neither doth reason otherwise suffer that the same singular Cream of the meats should be daily and alwayes and equally divided into six parts to wit into blood both Choler 's retained in the blood and again into both the excrementitious Cholers and those shut up within their own entertaining places at length into phlegm especially when as the gaul differs from the liquor swimming on the blood let out of the veins in its whole property Unto which six humours if thou shalt add the Urine now seven humours shall ordinarily be framed of one only Cream and the supposed device of a quaternary of Elements and the necessity of that fiction perisheth Therefore if these are made by one only act of one liver in a direct and ordinary course of Ordination at once why doth it generate those things as necessary out of the homogeneal liquor of the Cream whereof there is no way a need for a Being as neither for a Well-Being But if they are for nourishing why doth it rather sequester both Cholers into their own sheaths and the chief Mansions of Constitution than Phlegm to wit the which they blush not to confess to be a defectuous liquor cold and so a partaker of death errour and a vital want But they will have Phlegm to be laid up in the vein and to be re-cocted into blood Therefore it is not as yet This Something being as yet crude undigested and uncocted not yet a true particular Humour and not yet a constitutive one of the bloud seeing it is as yet deficient no otherwise then as the juyce of unripe Grapes cannot be called Wine For if Phlegm answer to water even as they also liken the blood unto air one ought to be as perfect in it self as the other and as equally necessary if there are four Elementary Humours equally necessary for the composition and successive Alteration of us Surely that thing contains a Mockery that a Humour failing of its appointment should be ordinarily changed into another Humour As if the Water had not its own Perfection Ordination Order and Constitution but were naturally brought into
in separating And so seeing both Cholers accuse of a necessary access in a just temperament as they call it these could never be made fit for nourishment Since moreover we are daily nourished by the same things whereof we consist to wit of a temperate and lively seed refusing both Cholers And there shall be the like reason for both Cholers which there is of Phlegm That if this be perfected into the blood within the veins Choler shall no less be made blood in the Arteries For if Phlegm be changed into blood out of a natural proper and requisite shop much more shall yellow Choller be fit that in the heart it may degenerate into the more yellow blood of the Artery and into the spirit of life and the heart shall be the restorative shop of a gawly excrement But alas how miserable an Argument is it while as the blood let out of the veins disposeth it self to corruption sometimes two three or more liquors are seen therefore there are as many constitutive Humours of us For blood is wholly changed into milk and then after its corruption it hath only three subordinate parts to wit Whey Cheese and Butter nor ever more For sometimes it is totally coagulated in the Dug into a hard swelling in the form of Cheese now and then it wholly passeth over into a white yellow somewhat green c. corrupt Pus Sometimes into a pricking gnawing watery liquor as in the Disease called Choler Ulcers c. Elsewhere also it totally departs into a salt Wheyish liquor as in the Dropsie and many Hydragogal or water-extracting Medicines Oft-times also it waxeth wholly black like pitch as in blood that is chased out of the veins in a Gangreen c. but frequently into an ashie and stinking clay of slime as in Fluxes At another time also it wholly passing over into a yellow poyson shews or spreads forth the Jaundise in which manner also it boasts it self in those that are bitten with a Serpent Elsewhere also the blood is without the separation of an Heterogeneal matter wholly changed into sores issuing forth matter like honey called Melicerides into swellings of the Neck or Arm-holes conteining a matter in them like Pulse c. And in the Pâ—ssing-Evil the blood is totally changed into a milky liquor Even as under a Tabes or Consumption of the Lungs it wholly passeth into a yellowish spittle Are therefore perhaps as many Humours to be constituted in the blood as there are beheld degenerations thereof And shall there be as many Liquors in Rain-water as there are things growing out of the Earth For the blood is in us like unto water neither had it need of divers seeds in the Liver that it may be one only equally nourishable Humour But in the last Kitchins it attaineth its own requisite diversities whereby it performeth the office of nourishing And so it should in its beginning in vain exceed in divers seeds and diversities of kind the which at length ought totally to be Homogeneally reduced into one only glewie white and transparent nourishable Sperm or Seed for the support of the similar parts or to remain red for the flesh of the Muscles and substance of the bowels Wherefore I stedfastly deny That the blood as long as it liveth or is detained in the veins although after the death of a man is coagulated and by consequence that it bath integral unlike parts with any Heterogeniety of it self But that all diversity in the blood is made only by the death or destruction of the same Therefore the diversity of Humours is the daughter only of death but not of life Neither is that of concernment that Excrements do now and then occur in the body which dissemble the countenance of blood To wit from whence they are made by degeneration For Urine is no longer wine even as neither are corrupt Pus or Snivel or spittles as yet parts of the blood Because Excrements are no longer that which they were before their corruption Because every thing assumes its Essence and name from the bound of transmutation For what doth it prove if blood by Phlebotomy separates water or other soils in time of its corruption if the same water be thereupon neither Gaul nor Choler nor bitter and wants the properties of Gaul Or what a rash belief is that Water swims on dead blood Therefore it it is gauly Choler which under a false taste dissembles the bitterness of Choler For that Water swimming on the blood is not an entire part thereof nor of its Essence or Contents or more near akin to the Blood than a Chariot in respect of a man sitting therein It is therefore to be grieved at that for so many ages none hath ever tasted down that water but that they all have engraven their names on the trifles of their Ancestors that I say under a shew of healing the Schools have delivered the destructions of the sick under false Principles For truly Humours are destructive Ignorances sluggishnesses and shamefulnesses introduced by the Father of lies and celebrated by the loose credulity of his followers For although the bottom of the blood doth sometimes look the less red it shall not therefore be black Choler Even as neither is the sediment of the Urine Phlegm But while the life of the blood departed it s no wonder if all particular things which were kept in the unity of life do re-take the material conditions whereto they are obliged For the variety of soils in liquid bodies depends on a preheminency of weights Because they have a latitude in weight which after death become Heterogeneal or of a different hind and by degrees do hasten into a disorder of confusion For will a man that is of a sound judgement believe that Wine Ale and the juyces of herbs do lay aside their own black Choler at the bottom together with their sediment For what hath black Choler common with the heterogeneal substance of a sediment But as to the Colour every Aethiopian hath his Blood almost black but for the most part without whey yet none of them is Melancholy but all wrathful For the blood which by the encompassing air is presently cooled in the Basin waxeth more red than that which being sunk unto the bottom hath the longer continued lukewarm For this also is ordinary that any blood being chased out of the veins presently waxeth black in the body For whatsoever things do readily putrifie do easily admit of the companions of putrefaction and that part of blood doth sooner putrifie which hath the longer continued warm after its death Therefore neither is it a wonder that the part of the lower ground thereof becomes more intensly black But that black blood is not a separation of weight in the Blood and much less black Choler I have separated nine ounces of fresh Blood and that as yet liquide into Porâ—ingers One whereof I exposed to swim in cold water but the other part being equal to the former
he teacheth that blood being putrified is wholly turned into Choler For from thence he will be constrained to grant that part of the blood is daily putrified in its constitution Yea and that Hony in Cholerick persons wholly putrifies within few hours but not in sanguine ones And that as well a Cholerick complexion as the Choler thereof are meer corruptions At leastwise as much of Choler as is daily made in sanguification So much according to that precept of Galen putrifies And by consequence Choler is not a constitutive Humour of sound and healthy blood but a vitious adjacent thereof For while the blood being putrified as Galen witnesseth is turned into Choler that Choler is understood to be true Choler but not a putrified Being seeing otherwise putrified Choler is no more to be accounted Choler than a putrified man a man But after that I seeingly knew that no Being existing in its perfection testifies to the unlike parts of its own seminal root if any should remaine but that the seed disposeth of its own matter that thereof this some one thing may be made and not by an apposition or adjoyning but by a true formal transmutation I afterwards perfectly knew also that the diversity which sometimes shines forth in the corruption of the blood can never attest and much lesse shew forth the constitutive parts of the matter whereof no more then a strangled Calf although it be changed into Bees is therefore composed of Bees or hony if together with May dew it shall suffer a full moon in the grasse by night is changed into Eeles but with Rie bread if it passeth over into Ants But a womans Shift being shut up with wheat departs into Mice within few days Yet hony doth not therefore draw its matter from Eeles or Ants a calf his from Bees or Mice their matter from flax and menstruous blood And the Eele Ant c. shall be so composed of hony as again the Eele being dead doth the second time exclude hony out of his body Therefore Paracelsus errs who saith that a roasted Stork departs into a Serpent and Ducks into Frogs in fifteen daies space because those birds were wont to be fed with those meates and therefore that they ought feminally to conteine those beasts in them But that thing is altogether repugnant to the experience of the deed and unto Phylosophy Truly the original of things is not from those things whereinto things being resolved are changed Because that in natural generation the constitutive parts ought so to be made some one thing that they may be fully actuated by the one only form of the thing generated And therefore whatsoever under the relation of generation is not changed from its former essence that remains plainly excluded and unoccupied For all natural things are constituted almost after a single manner and by a simple seed so that although entire parts are composed such as are bones and finewes yet those being bound together not only in the method of connexion but in the vital bond of a specificall union do passe over into another family and are a Being it self from whence to fetch back the parts of the former seed is altogether unpossible to nature The venal blood therefore is not a part co-weaved of four Humours differing in an elementary species and much lesse is the blood resolveable into those Humours from whence it is believed to have arisen But by consequence whatsoever is produced out of the blood or through the paunch by corrupting that it is not one of those four feigned Humours but a putrified excrement of the blood Much lesse is there a ground of founding an argument for a possible existence of Humours Therefore it is cleerly manifest that the Schools have not understood the blood as a natural single and composed Being of nature but for an artificial Being patcht together and connexed of many Beings Under which ignorance it is certain that properties requisites health diseases and remedies also have as one remained hitherto unknown and that by conjecture only they have healed from false principles of healing But go to yet one only faculty of the Liver in sanguification shall regularly directly and ordinarily produce four Humours at once and the variety of these from the example of hony mentioned by Galen depends on a fourefold variety of one efficient Therefore it must needs be that in one only Liver a fourfold expresse complexional distemper is regularly and daily prevalent to wit every one whereof against the will of its companion is fit to frame its own Humour And since he writes that more of Phlegm is ordinarily generated and therefore also he determineth of a more aboundding cause of a Quotidian ague It followes that the Phlegmatick complexion even of the most intemperate Cholerick person shall as yet be the more prevalent one But seeing the fiction of Elements do long since cease and have been suppressed from whence the reflexion of a Quaternary of qualities and Humours was to be hoped for Now no reason shall henceforth remain why it should rather incline to four Humours than to three or unto ten of whatsoever disposition that matter shall at length remain the heir Because the fundamentall stem being taken away to wit that there are not nor ever were four Elements in the universe nor that our body is in any wise materially or efficiently constituted of the same A fourfold generation of Humours in the Liver doth also totally fall to the ground together with it Because it is that which hath alwayes had respect unto the Elements and the supposed and feigned qualities and connexed strifes of these In the next place how inconsiderate is this device of the Schools that they will have the Spleen to be the sink of black and the worst of Choler yet the Spleen to yield its asistance to the Liver as indeed the Spleen doth administer the vicar-ship as the Liver doth in making of blood to wit while the Liver is ill affected As if in us from a right of substitution the vital faculty of the Liver should glister or grow in some other part and especially on a sordid sheath which they say is that of the worst calamities Good and most Holy Jesus wilt thou as yet long admit of confusions of so great moment in healing Have respect unto thy people groaning under so grosse falsities and remember thy natural bounty For the Schools see in artificial things a chest that was compacted of diverse pieces to be again dissolved into its parts and they from a childish stupidity have thought that the same thing hath happened in nature through thy humanity namely that Choler is fetcht out of the blood yea and out of the flesh also and that Choler hath therefore always persisted under transchanged formal Beginnings and that therefore out of Choler the blood doth again materially arise and re-arise But another hath seen salt to be resolved into water nor to be then any longer seen and
readily and fully sequester the offending filth It should follow that their universal succours to wiâ— purgings and cuttings of a vein are the most potent helps of the plague The which notwithstanding are already many times found to hasten on death That supposition also of necessity falls down together which introduceth corrupt humours for the immediate cause of the plague For in very deed the Pest doth rather infect the nourishable humours than that these are the cause of the Pest Otherwise I have elsewhere made it sufficiently manifest that nature doth not acknowledge nor ever had humours in the constitution of the bloud Wherefore neither are these able to cause any thing because they are non-beings Again if humours in the making of their putrefaction should be the connexed cause of the Pest at leastwise the Schools ought to have set forth the name of that humour and likewise to have expounded the manner and process whereby those humours are corrupted and how they being now corrupted are the conjoyned cause of the plague and also after what sort they may be speedily sequestred together with the hinderance of their impression on the vital parts It had behoved them in the next place to point out the place wherein the assembly of the foregoing pestilent corruption as it were in a Nest was held For if this center be the veins or bowels to wit where the first sequestration of excrements happeneth all sweat should be altogether hurtful because it is that which should bring the poyson from the stomach or liver through the vital bowels and not pour it forth neerer thorow the accustomed sinks For so the Lues Venerea only by a Gonorrhea chusing its mansion in the Testicles if by solutive medicines it be drawn back from the shops of the urine that it may go back through the veins into the paunch It spreads a necessary Lues only by that passage into the whole body Much more therefore should the Pest if it had defiled the humours in their own shops and should be bâ—ought sorth in passing thorow by sweats infallibly defile all of whatsoever is vital within But if indeed the habit of the body be the place of the putrefaction of pestilential humours now the Diet of Physitians shall be ridiculous which is believed to hinder the generating of putrifiable humours In the next place from what and from whence putrefaction in good juicy blood should arise in the habit or also in the center of the body before the plague not any thing hath been determined by the Schools concerning all thesâ— things as thinking it sufficient to have said by the way that the corruption of humours is the conjoyned cause of the plague because run away Doctors have never beheld this but asquint For when they observed that a laxative medicine being drunk up the flesh and blood being consumed by that venom and a yellow humour or pale snivel or the more dark blood not yet fully transchanged did flow forth they affirmed that not only the venal blood but the whole body did consist of four humours differing in kind and that they were again resolved into them Even so that they have supposed this putrefaction for the Pest to be begun in yellow Choler being compared to fire or in black Choler and therefore called melancholly as being neerer to earth Saturn and malignity Truly although I have elsewhere abundantly demonstrated four humours as a frivolous and hurtful invention yet let us now grant by way of supposition of a falsehood that the blood did consist of a commixture of those four humours yet when the blood hath now ceased to be and is by a formal transmutation changed into a nourishable and vital liquor which immediately nourisheth increaseth and cherisheth every member it at leastwise fights with the truth of Phyloâ—ophy that that nourishable liquor being degenerated from blood by a formal transchanging had not yet forgotten its former condition and compacture Suppose thou if Wine Ale the liquor of flesh with the juice of poâ—herbs be drunk at one meal and changed into blood certainly that constitution of the blood is not one as long as it consisteth of those four divers things being as yet co-mixed but those four are made only one while as by a formal transmutation they are made a new product which is blood In like manner therefore although the blood should consist of a connexion of four humours yet seeing they are now one and no longer four that one thing constituted shall be no longer that thing connexed of the four original liquors granted Neither can the diseases resulting from thence either insist or be accounted as humorous in healing they not bâ—ing any more able to return back into those four feigned humours although they are granted to have been real ones than the blood that is once made can return into the former Wine Ale Broath of fleshes and juice of potherbs It is manifest therefore that the Schools contrary to all Phylosophy are ignorant that there is a formal transmutation while blood is made of meats and while of blood a nourishable liquor is made And it is manifest from the aforesaid blindnesses that the greatest part of diseases hath been committed upon trust unto the ignorance of principles in the Schools But I ingeniously protest that I have never found even the least tittle of assisting aid in any books of Ancestours For although many being as it were holpen did recover nevertheless I have seen ten-fold more who from the beginning of the invasion of the plague had made use of the fame remedies to have unhappily perished For Triacle for a long time ago hath always promised help and the water thereof is now accounted every where more excellent although they know who have known the properties of the Pest that they contain a vain help For Antidotes which restrain poyson have nothing of certainty against the plague and therefore University-Physitians daâ—e not expose themselves to the contagion of the plague under the unfaithful safeguâ—â— of Triacle because the poyson of the Pest is a far secret one from any other But some Religious persons in a City leaving nothing unattempted whereby they might obtain moneys or esteem profess to sell the most choice Triacle at a great price But since none going to warfare in Christ infolds himself in secular affairs I exhort every one chiefly to beâ—are of such pompous Boasters For why they enter not in by the door but above by the roof being not called they intrude themselves into medicine For these will almost say with Tully We have deceived the people and have seemed most famous Apothecaries For Triacle was as yet unknown unto Hippocrates the subduer of the plague It receiveth a three-fold quantity of honey according to the plenty of all simples Also sixty simples being at discord being dry hard shut up crude excrementous and for the most part inveterate from the age of two years These Simples I say are rendred much
age but not that there is any conjoyned material cause of a man besides his body it self which is the very product of generation to wit from a material cause and seminal internal efficient which things have hitherto been vailed from the Schools and so they have reputed the internal occasional causes of diseases to be the immediate and conjoyned ones being as yet plainly distinct from the disease produced Wherefore that is also next to be repeated in this place which I have taught in my discourses of Natural Phylosophy to wit that there are six digestions in us For in the three former that there are their own Retents and their own excrements the which seeing every one of them are in themselves and in their own Regions troublesom yea by a co-inâ—olding and extravagancy they have become hateful they degenerate into things transmitted and transchanged and do from thence induce divers diseases occasionally But in the fourth and fifth digestion I have shewn that not any perceiveable excrement is admitted But in the sixth digession which is that of things transchanged that very many voluntary dungs do through the errour of the vegetative faculty offer themselves Moreover that some are transmitted from some other place as also that not a few do degenerate through a violent command of things suscepted or undergone which things have been hitherto unknown by the Schools and therefore also have been neglected and the which therefore have wanted a proper name and the diseasie effects of these have been ridiculously translated and adjudged unto the four feigned humours of the Liver Wherefore although I as the first have expelled the diseasifying causes of Tartar yet least I should seem to make new all things from animosity I will here call these filths the Tartar of the blood although by an improper Etymology because for want of a true name Such excrements therefore whether they are brought into the habit of the body from elsewhere or next made under transchanging by a proper errour of the faculties or lastly through a violent command of external things being there degenerated I name them the Tartar of the blood 〈…〉 that in very deed they are Tartars in the matter and manner of the Tartar of Wine but because of good nourishment being now defiled that which before was fruitful and vital hath afterwards become hostile And these things I have therefore fore-admonished of that ye may know that the Tartar of the blood is the product of the plague and that that is easily made from efficient pestilential causes And moreover it is not yet sufficient to have said that the Tartar of the blood is the product of the Pest but besides I ought to prefix the place thereof For I will by and by teach that the Plague is a poyson of terrour and therefore I have noted that the Seat or primitive Nest thereof is in the Hypochondrial or Midriffs to wit where the first conception of humane terrour is whether it happen from external disturbances or next of its own accord from the motions of things conceived Wherefore there are present in the plague vomiting doatage headach c. the which in its own place I have decyphered in the Commonwealth of the Spleen Therefore if the Schools had put this Tartar of the blood for a conjoyned cause we had as yet notwithstanding been differing from each other as that which with them had been a connexed cause is with me a product of the plague for the Pestinvades us after an irregular manner neither is it s conjoyned matter a certain solid body or visible liquor as neither therefore any putrefaction plainly to be seen but only a Gas separated and degenerated from the substance of the Archeus But whatsoever visible thing offers it self as vitiated in the Plague is not of the matter of the plague it self nor of the matter whereof but it is either the occasional matter of which before or it is the product or off-spring wherein the plague sits as it were in a nest Wherefore the Carbunole Bubo or Escharre are not the original matter of the Pest but the effect and product which the Pest â—ath prepared to it self For the plague is for the most part so cruel and swift that as soon as it is introduced into the Archeus it cannot omit but that it subjecteth some part of the nourishable humour unto its tyranny and dwells therein Wherefore if the putrified humour should be the immediate cause of the plague truly it had been putrified before it had putrified To wit seeing the Pest it self prepares that vitious product for it self which the Schools call humours they being as yet undefined For Fernelius would be a little more quick-sighted than the Schools and therefore he knew that the plague was not bred or did conâ—ist of the putrefaction of four seigned humours as neither of the heat of the air or of the cold thereof but of a certain poyson the Foster-child of hidden causes Again we must take notice that when the 〈◊〉 of the blood or dross of the last digestion being vitiated hath received a pestileâ—â—â—â—ment it hath a priviledge of exhaling through the pores no less than other transchanged excrements without any residence left behind it or remaining dead-head So the Chymists call the dreg which remains after distillation to wit if the humours shall be alimentary but not if the substance it self of the solid parts be scorched into an Escharre or Carbuncle for so the much more hard dungs of the Lues Venerea being as it were equal to bones the counsel of resolving being snatched to them do wholly vanish But although the Tartar of the blood doth also rejoyce in the aforesaid prerogative as oft as it is banished as infamous out of the family-administration of life yet while it is transchanged into a corrupt mattery or thin sanious poyson it gnaws the skin into the shape of an Escharre before that it can sweat thorow the pores in manner of a vapour And that indeed by reason of the imprinted blemish of a strange ferment whereby it degenerated into a formal transmutation But if indeed the Tartar of the blood shall draw the odour of the ferment but is not yet transchanged Glandules Buboes c. are made which are oftentimes ended by a plentiful Flux of sweat without opening of the skin whereas the other aforesaid products cannot obtain that and almost all these are by the Schools banished into Catarrhs The whole Tartar of the blood therefore is indeed bred at home but it is a Bastard which is intruded by force destruction and errour But since the remedies of Nature are subject unto so many Courts of digestions and bodies of so eminent an excellency do possess a violence and strength of acting and likewise have filths admixed with them or difficult bolts truly the art of the fire is never sufficiently esteemed which now and then graduates one Simple to that height that it persecutes with revenge all the excrementitious
divert himself But that the Archeus being terrified and a run-away and returning as half in a rage is made so hostile unto the parts his Clients over which he alone is president the confirmation thereof is not elsewhere to be fetched than that a thorn is thrust into the finger which by the fat or grease of an Haâ—e is safely expelled without discommodities as that remedy asswageth the fury of the Archeus which thorn doth otherwise stir up a great Tragedy of fury For the Archeus brings forth a poyson in his Clients by his own fury the which otherwise a simple small wound would willingly be ignorant of Conceive thou how unlike is the wound of phlebotomy and the sting of a Bee And likewise the stroak of phlebotomy that is clean how far doth it differ from the prick of unclean phlebotomy It s no wonder therefore that the seat where the image of the conceived terrour and piercing of the combined image of fury shall first happen is hostilely disturbed is furiously scorched yet oftentimes poysonous tempests are transmitted and chased unto the more outward habit of the body by the implanted spirit of life unto places I say whither the Latex or liquor of the veins tendeth of its own free accord in time of health or they are dismissed unto the external habit of the body And therefore whatsoever is to be done in the Pest that is to be cured with speed For sometimes the image of the Pest is cloathed only with the inflowing spirit and then medicines that provoke sweat do readily succour But where the inhering and in-bred Archeus conceiveth the image of his terrour and fury in the solid parts unless he presently resign up and lay aside the conceived image unto and in the spermatick nourishment I have called that corrupt nourishment the Tartar of the blood and produce a tumour there is danger least it presently pass over into the very substance of the solid parts which contains an unexcusable detriment of death And therefore that the plague may not take up for it self a tough Inn within the body we must procure that the pestilent image do not long float within but that the whole houshold-stuff be allured forth and fall out by sweat For the Carline Thistle is said to have been in times past shewn unto an Emperour by an Angel for the plague of his Army perhaps therefore called Angel-Thistle because the first rise of the image of the Pest stirs up drowsie evils loathings a Fever vomiting and head-aches about the stomach but the herb Ixia or Chamilion drives away sleep and much more deep drowsinesses against Nature and therefore they hope that the extraction of fresh Carline Thistle should not be unfruitful for the plague that is newly begun The End A TABLE Of many of the Chief things contained in this Book The rest being referred to the Contents of the CHAPTERS A. WHat Accidents properly are to what serving c. 131 9. c. Acheldamah consumes a dâ—ad carcasse in one day 671. 54. Adam not cursed 654. A demonstration of his fall 659. What he generated after sin 663. 17. Why he and his posterity Bearded 666. Adam's lust arose from a natural property of the apple 668. No motion of lust in Adam before his fall 682. 85. Of Adam's understanding 711. The Praise of Agnus Castus 707. 52. What kind of knowledge in the apple 665. Air not reducible into water 60. 12 76 41. Air the reducer of bodies into water 68. 26. Air the seperater of the waters 71. 4 152 19. Air is exceeding cold and dry Ibid. 76. 40. 1120. Air acts on the water without a reaction 76. 41. A vacuity in the air proved by a manual 82. 4 7 1126. It s magnal or sheath 85. 20 692 12. It is imprinted with the seal of formes c. 133 18. c. What office it bears in minerals Ibid. 20. How it joyns to the vital spirit 183. 37. Air seperates sulphurs 184. 45. It Volaâ—izeth the blood 186. 187 56. Air not capable of a vital light 189. It doth not nourish the vital spirit 190. 9. How the Alkahest of Paracelsus operates on bodies 65 7 105 6 104 27 479 43 787. it is compared to the fire mentioned in Macchabes 108. 28. It s operation on a Coal Ibid. It s Aenigmatical description 115 28. The Revealer of the proportion of light c. 146. 89. The operation of the liquor Alkahest one the Cedar 811. Aloes hurt by washing 463. 39. Alcalies reduced into a meer simple water 106. 12. How alcalies are made 183. 38. The Common-wealth of Alcalies 184. 40. Alcalies why fit for wound drinkes 186. 53 294 21. Amber drawes the virtue from vitriol without touching it 764. 22. Amber becomes a Zenexton against the Plague 767. 37 787 1146. Amulets act by influence 330 19. 481 An Amulet against the Plague 767. 37. Antimony in its form better than in its principles 788. 153 Antimony observes an Influence 773. 63. How a sweet Anodine workes 918. No Animal spirit in nature 187. 58. A good Angel never appears Bearded 661. 37. Anasarcha by what produced 513. It s cure 521. The Apoplexy hitherto unknown 906 998 Its rise 917 Its seat 915 Apple takes away warts 154 Apostemes how made 186. 52 290 6 Aqua Fortis c. 96. 14 Aqua Vitae see spirit of wine  How Arcanum's do operate 473. 15 164 15 Arcanum'â— cure all Diseases 524 Arcanum's never go into nourishment 577 Arcanum's iâ— some sort exceed the powers of nature 753 Arsenick though never so well preparâ—â— is not to be inwardly administred 466. 52. It is fixed by co-melting with salt-peter 105. 10 The Arterial spirit of life is of the nature of a Gas. 110. 40 Arterial blood exhales without a Capâ—t mortuum 182. 34 By what 185. 40 How an Arterie becomes hard 185. 48 The Arteries do not atract air 190 Arteries attract spirit of wine but no juicy things 203. 41 The Archeus its constitutive parts 35. 4  110 41 Its seat 430 287 28 What it is in the beginning of Generation 133  18 142 60 The manner of its operating 142 61 c. Its defects 549 Archeus sensible of death 553 Archeus receiving of evils the cause of our hurt 1127 Archeus hath an imaginâ—tion of its own differing from the mind 1128 Aroph of Paracelsus 709. 53 878 879 Aristotles four constitutive causes of things condemned 18. 3 Astrology natural why preferred before the stellar astrology 26. 9 Its supports or props vain 126. 46 c. Condemned by an experiment 127. 48 By a review of the attributes they give to the Planets Ibid. 50 Astronomy slighted 12. 5 Ascites what 508. 524 Asarum by boyling lays down its vomitive force 172. 45 The difference of Ascarides from worms 221  83 Its cure Ibid. Asthmawhat 260. 40 356 What the Asthma consists of 360. 27 Froâ— whence the Ashma ariseth 261. 42 â— twofold Asthma 357. 9 358. 368. 68 The Asthma is
a falling sicknesse of the lungs 361. 29 368. Common Remedies for the Asthma vain 3623637. The seat of the Asthma in the Duumvirate 361. 28 The Asthma not cured but by an Arcanuâ—â— 362. 40 A moist Asthma from Endemical things drawn in 363. 45 The reasons of the Schools concerning the Asthma rejected 364 53 The grounds thereof 365 366 367 58 A dry Asthma is the Falling-sickness of the Lungs 368. 60 Remedies for Coughs vain in the dry Asthma ibid. VVhat remedies are fit for both kind of Asthma's ibid. 370 68 The â—ume of Sulphur profitable in drinks for the Asthma 372 77 The Authours intent to have burnt this book 10. 13 His breeding 11. 1078 He Read about 600 Physical Authors 13. 15 How stird up to be a Physitian 14. 20 The way he took to attain knowledg 22. 43 Why he brake down the old received doctrines 37. 3 433 18. His persecution 470. 2 His dream Ibid. 3. 1073 His challenge 526 The Authors observations on his stomach being loaded 123. 41. His visions 265. 13 716 His vision of generation 736 His medicines never Exhausted though he cured thousands yearly 1080 What happened to the Author upon the rasting of Wolfsbane 274. 12 The Author understood wholly in his heart but not at all in his head 275. 13 The Authors search into the cause of Madnesses 277. 25 The Authors diâ—â—inctions of the office of a Physitian and a Chyrurgion 1080 How the Author was hurt with the smoak of Char-coale 300. 20 How two of the Authors sons died of the Plague 1135 Of the search of the Author after the Tree of life 808. Of his dream 810 How the Author cured himself of a Pleuriâ—ie 399. 35 400 B. BAlsams c. made with hony 467. 56 Barrenness from what 630 The Beard bred from the stones 333 38 334 41 335 47. Concerning Bezoar 991 The great vertue of its milkie juice 992 Beâ—s generated from a strangled calf and dew 478. 1026 65 Of the virtues of the Birch tree 892 The Blas of the heart the fewel of the vitaâ— spirit 180 Blas of Government hitherto unknown 330. 19 20 21 22. The Binsica of the Rabbins 24. 51. The Blas of man voluntary 177. Blas twofold Ibid. What Blas is 78. 1. Defluxions of the Bladder Ridiculus 856 The venal blood exhales without any dead head 404. 21 112 5 182 34. It s salt made by a mumial ferment 473. 19. What operation precedes blood-making 479. 49. How it nourisheth 112. 4. Out-chased blood the occasional cause of the dropsie 517. Blood never putrifies in the veins 941. Blood-making not hindred in the dropsie 517. Blood of the hemeroyds not putrified 943. Blood of a Bull why poysonable 174 49 783. 19. Of the difference between Arterial and venal blood 179. The spirit of the blood not in the liver 181. 32. The Arterial blood exhales without any Caput mortuum 182. 34. By what 185. 40. The making of venal and Arterial blood are different 732 In what time the Bloud of man is renewed 640 The best part of the Bloud the Schools calâ— Phlegm 1050 23 An eâ—statial power in the Bloud 777 75 Bloudy Flux cured by Horse-hoof fried 334 41 Of things cast into the Body 597 With the manner thereof 604 Of things breathed into the Body 617 A solid Bâ—dy not changed into another Body without reducement into its first matter 241 6 Bones broken cured by Comfry 457 5â— 461 26 Of the Stone for broken bones 564 Bone of the Head profitable against the Falling-sickness 770 51 The Emunctories of the Brain 435 13 The defects of the Brain â—ise from the Midriff 276 19 Of Bread 451 14 White Briony resolves congealed bloud and profits in the Dropsie 519 Butler 557 His wonderful Stone 558 Butler cured the Plague 1149 And by what 1151 Buboes and Glandules terminated by sweat 1104 Burial of Malefactors why nâ—cessary 1134 Why slain Souldiers ought to be buried deeper than usually they are 1135 C. IN what respect Camphor is said to cool 471 4 The Cabal first manifest in sleep 781 98 99 What each mans Calling properly is 124 36 A new Catheter 886 Of the operation of Cantharides in thâ— living and the dead 480 60 The original of a Cancer 544. its progress and Cure 545. 546. 158 A Canker in the Stomach cured by a fragrant Emplaister 115 22 A Cancer curable by a reduced Frog 141 Â 56 c. Of a Country mans curing the Cancer 546 Catarrhs or rheums proved ridiculous 429 430. c. Cauteries what 380. 1 The promises of a Cautery childish 381. 6 Nine conclusions against the appointment of Cauteries 382 10 A Cautery prevents not a Catarrhe 384 Â 14 The benefit of Cauteries accidental 384 20 Whom a Cautery may profit 383 28 29 Causticks act not on the dead as on the living 499 170 No nutriment from Clysters 479 49 Cliâ—â—ers unprofitable 969 The prayse due to Chastity 682 Why Cheese loathsom to many 115 25 Chewing food well necessary 4â—3 â—1 Child-birth hastened by a Potion 127 49 Black Choler according to Hippocrates subsisting in the Midriff if dispersed thorow the Body begetteth the Falling-Evil if into the Soul madnesses 29â— 15 What the Choler of the Schools is 454 22 How it is made 1045 Choler wholly an Excrement 1048 16 The bitterness of the mouth not from Choler 1060 The Seat of Choler not be found 1053 No Choler in Nature 1054 The Incarnation of Christ not according to the order of Nature 665 Chymistry commended 462 32 It creates things which not before were c. Â 477. 36 486 What one of its chiefest endeavours is 115. 17 It prepares a universal Dissolver 482 Chymical Medicines adulterated by the cavetous 990 The degrees of Chymical heat 202 35 Of that Cinnabar whereof half an ounce Impregnates a Barrel of Wine 578 Whence the yellowish Spittle of Consumptive Persons proceeds 440 39 What a Consumption is 449 63 The remedies thereof 441. 43 Of diseasie Conceptions 608 Thirteen conclusions from fire pepper and causticks proved by Handicraft-operation 500 The power of Cold as to reduction of Bodies into water 108 29 109 38 Coughs whence 430 5 259 â—3 Purging in Coughs condemned 431 9 No true Remedies found for Coughs 260 Â 37 Pose the fore-runner of a Cough 569 67 Remedies for a Cough the same with a Pleurisiâ— 570 68 Concerning Coral 991 719 The virtue of its Tincture 605 Coral by what it changeth its colour and is restored by 1143 Coraline Secret what 390 25 805 Its preparation Ibid Crabs Eyes 991 Their milkie juyce 992 Observations on Crabs 886 Their virtues in wounded persons 294 295 The ashes of burnt Crabs against the madness occasioned by a Dog 297 15 Cramps cured by mans fat 480 58 What the Crasis of a thing is 415 82 The right way of curing 473 14 D. THe virtues of Daucus 837 Of desperate Diseases 307 53 A description of desire 270 Contemplation of Diseases 530 Difference between death and