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A53048	Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues / written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.	1671 (1671)	Wing N856; ESTC R11999	321,583	731

The second sort that were to visit her were PHYSICIANS And after a short time they asked her what made a good Physician She answered Practise and Observation Then they asked her What made the difference between Pain and Sickness She said Pain was caused by cross perturbed Motions and Sickness by distempered Matter and the overflow of Humours Then they asked her Whether the Mind could be in pain or be sick She answered No but said she the Mind is like the fire it can put the Body to pain but can feel none it self likewise the Motion is like fire for the more Matter it hath to work on the quicker it moves and when the Mind is as it were empty it grows dull and the Head is filled with nothing but smoaky Vapours Then they asked her What difference there is between the Soul and the Mind She answered As much difference as there is betwixt Flame and the grosser part of Fire for said she the Soul is only the pure part of the Mind Then they asked her the difference if any was betwixt the Soul the Mind and the Thoughts She answered As the Mind was the Fire the Soul the Flame so the Thoughts were as the Smoak that issues from the several Subjects that the Mind works on and as Smoak so the several Thoughts many times vanish away and are no more remembred and sometimes they gather together as Clouds do and as one Cloud lies above another so the Thoughts many times lye in rows one above another as from the first to the second and third Region Then they asked her What was the best Medicine to prolong Life She answered Temperance and good Diet. Then they asked her What Diet As for Diet said she to Healthful Bodies Meats must be well and wisely matched but to Diseased Bodies such Diets must be prescribed as are proper to cure each several Disease As for the mixing and matching Meats said she they must be after this description following All Flesh-meats are apt to breed Salt Rheums and being roast breeds Cholerick Humours which Salt Rheums and Cholerick Humours causeth many times Hectick Fevers enflaming the Arterial Blood and Vital Spirits and drinking out the Radical Moisture and Salt Rheums penetrating into the Vital parts cause excoriations and ulcerations As for white Meats as Milk-meats and the like they are apt to breed sharp Humours also the gross parts cause many times obstructions of the Noble parts and the sharpness is apt to corrode especially the Uretaries Guts and Stomack producing Bloody-waters from the one and Cholicks in the other Also sharp Humours cause Cankers Fistula's and the like eating through several parts of the Body making several holes passages or wounds to pass through and Obstructions cause ill digestion ill digestion causes corruptions corruptions cause several Diseases as Feavers Small-Pox Imposthumes Boils Scabs and Leprosies if the Corruption is salt or sowr As for Fish and also all sorts of Pults they breed Slime and Slime in hot Bodies causeth the Stone and Gout in cold Bodies and all sorts of white Swellings as the Kings-Evil Wens and the like also the Brains Feet or any Sinewy part of any Meat doth the like as also Sweet-meats As for all sorts of Fruits Roots Herbs they breed thin crude Humours which causes Wind Wind causes Cholicks Cramps and Convulsions by griping and twisting the Guts Nerves and Veins as also all swimming and dizzy Diseases in the Head likewise Head-akes caused by a Vapour arising from the crude and raw Humours also in hot Bodies it causeth the Sciatica the heat over-rarifying the sharp Humours caused by Fruit makes it so subtil and searching that it doth not only extend to the outmost parts of the Body as betwixt the skin and flesh but gets into the small Thread-Veins As for all Sweet-meats and Comfits they are in some Bodies very obstructive and in all Bodies they breed both sharp and hot Rheums and I have heard said she that Sugar makes the most sharp and acid Vitriol As for the matching of several Meats Fish-meats do well agree with Roots Herbs and Fruits if they be stewed roasted boiled baked or the like otherwise the rawness hinders the concoction of the Meat but if they be drest as aforesaid they temper the saltness and quench out the heat which the over-nourishing strength doth produce Also Fish may be mix'd with Flesh-meat although all Physicians are against it for certainly the natural freshness and coldness of Fish doth temper and allay the natural heat and saltness that is in Flesh-meat mixing it into a good Chyle and tempering it into a Juicy-Gravy which encreases the radical moisture and nourisheth the radical heat also it supplies the Arteries fills the Veins plumps the Flesh smooths the skin whenas strong drinks mix'd with strong meats over-heats the Body enflames the Spirits evaporates the radical moisture burns the radical heat scorches the Arteries drinks up the Blood sears the Veins shrinks up the Nerves dries the Flesh and shrivels the Skin White Meats and Pults agree best as being of one and the same degree as it were of heat for all strong Meats curdle all sorts of Milk which causes obstructions and corruptions and turns it sowr being of a nature so to do which makes such sharpness in the blood and body as causes Tertians Quartans Quotidians and the like Diseases Pults and all sorts of Milk-meat being of a spungy substance digest as it were together when Meats that are solid mix'd with Meats that are more porous and spungy do hinder each other Small drink is best with white Meat but when Pults is eaten without Milk it may agree better with stronger Liquor Roots and Milk-meats agree as being both easily dissolv'd from the first forms into Chyle Nor do Fruits and Pults disagree for the sharpness of the Fruits doth divide the clamming of the Pults and the sliminess of the Pults doth temper the sharpness of the Fruits but Fruits and Milk-meats are enemies which when they meet they do exasperate one another So that Fruits and Pults and Milk and Roots do best together Roots having no sharpness in them but there is of all sorts of Flesh Fish Milk Roots and Herbs some being hotter than others and grosser as the most watrish Fruits are the hottest as having most Spirits in their acute Juices Likewise all Roots or Herbs that bite as it were the tongue or are bitter to the tast are hot although Druggists Herbalists and Physicians are many times of the other opinion but certainly all that is sharp salt or bitter proceeds from a hot nature and most commonly produces hot effects having a fiery figure and motion but because they find many things that are sharp or bitter to qualifie Feavers or the like hot Diseases they think it is the natural temper of the Drugs Herbs Roots Fruits or the like but a hot Cause may produce a cold Effect as for example Obstructions cause heat in the Body but sharp things do divide and dissolve those gross and tough Humours and open Obstructions Likewise those that are salt and bitter do purifie and cleanse the corruption in the Body and when the cause of

the Disease is taken or removed away the Body becomes equally temper'd for as the Disease doth waste the Body doth cool Thus it is the sharpness saltness and bitterness that cures the Disease and not a cold nature in the Simples for when the Disease as I said is gone the Body is well-temper'd and cooled Then they asked her which was the best way to make the best temperament for Health She said that way that was best towards Mediocrity as neither to eat too gross meats nor too watrish nor to drink too strong drink nor such as was very small that is neither too hot nor too cold either virtually or actually As for gross Meats they fill the Body with too much Melancholy Humours and the Head with Malignant Vapours Very fine and tender Meat makes the Stomack weak by reason the substance is not sufficiently solid for as very gross meat over-powers the Stomack by the laborious working thereon so very fine and tender meat makes it lazy and weak for want of exercise Very small Drinks being very watrish quench the natural heat and those that are very strong burn it out but said she Meats and Drinks must be wisely match'd and not only Meats and Drinks but the Nourishment and the Nourished for although in general hot Constitutions should use cooling drinks and meats for their diets and cold hot diets and moist dry diets and dry moist diets yet if the Body be any ways diseased or distempered they must order such a Body according to the Cause and not to the Effects of their Disease As for example To all Hydropical Bodies must not be applied drying Medicines nor Diets for if the Dropsie proceeds from a dry cause dry Diets or Medicines are as bad as poyson for though the Effect be watrish in such Diseases yet the Cause was dry So for heat or cold And this example may serve for all other Diseases wherefore Physicians must search out and know the original cause before they can cure the Disease for those that prescribe according to the Effect may cure by chance but kill with ignorance Then they asked her If the Spirits were always affected with the Distemper of the Body or the Body with the Distemper of the Spirits She answered Not always for sometimes the Spirits will be ill-affected and the Body in health other times the Body sick and the Spirits lively and well-temper'd But said she this is to be observed that the Body may be cold and the Spirits enflamed and the Body heated and the Spirits quenchched or stupified for the Spirits are the thinnest and subtillest substances of the Creature now this thinnest and subtillest substance in the Creature may be enflamed when the solid'st is be-numb'd with cold for a cold melancholy Body may have enflamed and distracted Spirits Likewise a cold diseased Body may have Hectick Spirits and thus both the Animal and Vital Spirits may be hot and the more solid Parts or Humours of the Body cold Also the heat of the Spirits may be quenched and the Body burning-hot as the Stomack Liver or other parts may be parched with heat when both the Animal and Vital Spirits have not a sufficient heat to give them lively motions And it is to be observed said she that the Animal and Vital Spirits as they are the thinnest and subtilest part of a Creature so they are nourished by the thinnest substances or parts of Food which dilate to the Spirits for though the Spirits can and do work upon the solid'st parts of the Body or Nourishment yet they only receive benefit by the thinnest As also the great annoyance for it is the Vapour of Meats and Drinks that feeds the Spirits and not the Substance for Vapour will choak smuther burn or quench them out But the Vapours from Liquors work more suddenly upon the Spirits either to good effect or bad than Vapours from a solid Substance by reason all Liquors have a dilatating nature which spreads it self amongst the Spirits with more facility Also the Vapour of Liquid Bodies is more facil than the Vapour of Solid Bodies and said she some burn their Stomacks with Drugs and some quench their Spirits with Julips others burn their Spirits with Cordials and flat or dead the Stomack with Meats virtually cold For it is to be observed that there is a general Error amongst Mankind about Rules concerning Health some practising with a belief that Drinks virtually cooling temper hot Meats and virtually cooling Meats hot Drinks In which they are deceived for though they may mix so and temper yet for the most part it is only as Water and Meal makes Dough or as Earth and Water makes Mud or as Sugar and Water makes Syrrup but doth not temper that virtual heat or cold that works upon the substantial or the spiritual parts for that which works upon the Spirits hath a more sudden operation than that which works upon the solid parts of the Body and that from the solider parts has a flower operation so that the Stomack may be parched and the heat of the Spirits quenched and the Spirits burnt and the Stomack weak by a heavy or dull coldness But those Bodies that are in health have not such defects as to fear such a sudden operation for as defects are easily inveterated so Health is not suddenly annoyed wherefore they may temper their Meat and Drink by cooling and heating yet not to a high degree for all Extreams are naught Then they asked her What was the reason that all Creatures look fuller and fatter in Summer than in Winter She answered The reason was Because then the Blood extends to the extream parts which swells out the flesh and puffs out the skin and in the Winter the blood falls back as the sap of Plants doth to the Roots which causeth the flesh and skin to look withered and dry as Branches and Leaves do sear'd faded wither'd and dry The like reason is when Men have Pimples Scabs Swellings Pocks and the like which is the fruit of corrupted blood Then they asked her opinion of Mineral Waters What Virtues and Vices they have being drunk She answered That all Mineral-waters were of a kind of a Brine but not so much a salt Brine as a sharp Brine if I may call that which is sharp Brine said she but whether it hath the effects upon the body as Brine hath upon dead flesh as to preserve or keep it from putrefaction I cannot say but certainly it drinks up the natural moisture in healthful bodies more often than it purifies the corrupted Humours in diseased bodies The Effects of Sharp and Salt are oft-times alike as a sharp Pickle will preserve from putrefaction as well as Brine But howsoever the Mineral-waters have much salt in them the Effects are hot and

dry and have a corroding quality their corroding quality is caused by the sharpness and their heat by their corroding and their driness by their insipid nature and though they are actually cold they are virtually hot their virtues are only on cold and moist bodies or diseases as those that have obstructions caused by raw cold flegm or swellings caused by cold clammy Humours or Ulcers caused by cold corrupted Humours or Rheums or Dropsies caused by too many cold moist Humours or the like Diseases caused by cold Humours and in my opinion said she they would be excellently good for all outward Ulcers or old Sores or Wounds being washed and bathed therewith by reason they have a cleansing drying faculty not only inwardly taken but outwardly applied Also they may temper the inflamations that most commonly attend all Ulcers Sores or Wounds not only by cleansing and drying up the putrefactions but being actually cold especially outwardly applied for though they are virtually hot being inwardly taken and digested into the blood or as I may say the Mineral rubbed or wrought into the body yet they are actually cold that is cold to touch But to return to the interior Maladies All those Diseases that are produced from hot dry and sharp causes are as bad as poysons They are so for such obstructions that proceed from hard-baked dry Humours or Dropsies caused by hot dry Livers Spleens or other parts or Consumptions that proceed from salt sharp Rheums or hot dry Lungs Livers Spleens or the like parts or all Swellings caused by hot dry or sharp Humours or interior Ulcers caused by hot dry or sharp Humours or Apoplexies caused by hard crusted flegm or dry black melancholy or burnt dry thick blood which stops the natural passages of the spirits or Epilepsies or Convulsions caused by sharp Humours which shrivel and knit up the Nerves or Veins or Joints of the Body or hot Winds which work and foam and as I may say yeest the natural Humours in the body distempering the body therewith Likewise it is an Enemy to all melancholy bodies being full of sharp Humours like Aqua-fortis which are bred in the body or as a sharp green Humour which is a poisonous Verdigrease bred in the body which Humour is the cause most commonly of the Disease called Epilepsis or Falling-sickness and oft-times is the cause of Convulsions but this Humour is a certain cause of the Stomack-Cholick that is to say a Wind in the Stomack and Sides Also they are Enemies to the Gout by reason that the Gout proceeds from a hot-baked dry salt or sharp Humour It is a bitter or sulphureous Humour or a limy chalky Humour that causeth the Gout and indeed it is a calcined Humour which makes it incurable For the Stone they may work good Effects although my Reason cannot perceive but that the Minerals may contract and confirm humours into stone as well as dissolve stone for thought their acuteness is penetrating and so may dissolve yet their driness is Contracting Uniting Combining and they are not only dry by the insipidness of their nature but by their sharpness for all sharpness is drying more or less and though sharpness is actually dissolving by corroding yet it is virtually drying by heating for corroding is the cause of heat For whatsoever is rubb'd or grated hard or swiftly grows hot even Stones or any Metal which is the hardest Matter we know but looser Matter as Wood will be set on fire Wherefore if Wood Stone and Metal will become actually hot by rubbing or grating actually thereon well may soft flesh especially the inward parts that are most tender And as it is the nature of sharpness to corrode and the nature of corroding or rubbing to heat so it is the nature of heat to drink up moisture and make all things dry And as sharp things may cleanse Ulcers by eating the filth therein or may be good to take off superfluous flesh call'd proud-flesh in Sores or may dissolve some hard Humours moderately taken or applied so they may make Ulcers Sores and Wounds and contract and confirm humours if immoderately or unnecessarily or wrongfully applied But as I said the Mineral-waters may as well cause the Stone in the Kidneys or Bladder as dissolve it and may also ulcerate as soon as cleanse but the Mineral-waters do rather make a passage and send forth Gravel by the quantity that is drunk and passes through the Uretories which like a stream doth wash and carry all loose Matter before it and not so much by the virtue of dissolving But to conclude concerning Mineral-waters said she I cannot perceive but they may breed more Diseases than they cure and those Bodies they are most proper for must be purged and empty before they take them lest the weight and quantity of the Waters should carry obstructions to the parts open and free by carrying too suddenly or forcibly or pressing or thrusting too hard Then they asked her about the nature of Purging-Drugs She said All Purging-Drugs were full of Spirits which was the cause they were so active and quick in operation for said she whatsoever hath most Spirits is most active which shews saith she that Birds have more Spirits which is innated Matter than any other sort of Animal-kind for they are always hopping and flying about also chirping whistling and singing which shews them not only to be more active as having more vital or sensitive Spirits but also more rational as being fuller of Animal Spirits But to return to Drugs said she they seem to have more of the Sensitive spirits vulgarly called Vital Spirits which work upon the grossest Substance than the Rational Spirits which are vulgarly called Animal spirits do with which spirits Cordials seem to be full as working upon the finer parts for Cordials do cheer and do revive the Soul or Mind making the thoughts more cheerful and pleasing which alacrity doth help to abate and qualifie the disorders in the body Then they asked her What was the best study for such as would practise Physick She said Natural Philosophy for said she those can never be good Physicians that are not good Natural Philosophers and if they would study Natural Philosophy more than they do there would be more frequent Cures for if they do not study Nature that makes the Body they shall never know Remedies to cure the body for those that do not understand the Works of Nature cannot mend a fault or prevent a danger to come but they must study Nature's Creations Dissolutions Sympathies Antipathies in Matter Motion and Figure but said she it is a difficult study and requires a subtil moving-brain to find out the several motions although they be the plainest vulgar and grossest much more the subtil and intricate ones And had Aristotle said she studied the motions in Nature or Natural motions as he did the parts of Nature or Natural parts he would have been a far more learned Man than he was but his study

water as sower Vinegar doth Milk and as curded parts will lye in clods so VVater in flakes of Snow Hail said she is broken water or rather crumbbled water for as a hand which nips a piece of Bread crumbles it by rubbing it between their fingers so doth some sort of cold Motions break and crumble water into a number of small parts and as many crumbs ' of Bread will stick together through the moist clamminess lying in little lumps so doth the broken parts of water which is Hail-stones and though the Body is divided into abundance of little parts yet every part is more compact as being closer contracted with being crusht and nipt together As for Frost said she that is candyed or crusted Vapour which is rarified water for as some sorts of hot Motions candy Sugar so some sorts of cold Motions candy's Vapour Likewise said she as Milk changes not the nature from being Milk with curding nor Bread with crumbling nor Sugar with candying so Water changes not the nature with contractions or dividings into Snow Hail Ice and Frost As for Ice it is made by such a kind of cold Motion as hot Motions make Glass for as fire in a hot Furnace calcines some sorts of Earth and the purest to Glass so doth the strongest of such sorts of cold Motions congeal Water into Ice And as some hot Motions strive to convert Earth into Water as we may see by making Earth into Glass so some sorts of cold Motions do turn Water into Earth as by condensing into Ice Hail Snow and Frost and as Snow and Ice is nothing but condensed Water so Glass is nothing but calcined or rarified Earth for that fine Earth which makes Glass is so rarified by the hot fire in a Furnace which blows and spreads it as thin and clarified it as clear as Water only it makes it not liquid and fluid yet whilst it is in the fire it is in a degree of being fluid for it is soft and clammy Thus Fire makes Earth so near like Water as it is transparent shining and smooth and brings it into the mid-way but it wants the liquid wet and fluid Motions which some will call Parts to make it perfect Water And I suppose that Crystals Diamonds and the like are only the purest part of Earth turn'd by the heat in the Earth or in the Sun to a Glassy substance but stronger as being wrought by a natural Heat and not by an artificial Heat or Fire but as Glass is a rarified Earth so Air is a rarified Water and Smoak a rarified Oyl and Oyl is a fluid Sulphur and Flame is a fluid Fire and Quick-silver is a fluid Metal Then they asked her Whether there were Natural Elements not subject to be Metamorphosed She answered Yes They asked How she would prove it She said She would prove there was a natural Fire by the Sun which never changes his heat or ●●ffens his light nor alters his natural Properties of attracting contracting and the like and to prove a metamorphosed Fire is Lightning Meteors Fevours and the like and to prove a natural Water is the Sea and to prove a metamorphosed Water is Vapour and to prove a natural Air is the Serene and to prove a metamorphosed Air is Wind and said she the difference of natural Elements and those that are called metamorphosed is that the natural Elements cannot lose their properties as those that are metamorphosed do by changing from one thing to another For say the natural Elements be mixed yet they quit not their natural properties as for example mix Wine or Aqua-vitae or the like and VVater and though they are mixt yet they lose not their natural properties as the VVater to cool and VVine to heat for put a drop of wine to a pint of water or to an ocean and it will be so much more hotter as the quantity of a drop can heat and so for a drop of water to so much wine and it is so much colder as the quantity of a drop can cool for though they mix yet they lose not their properties neither doth their mixture take from their pure nature Then they asked her If a natural or metamorphosed Element might not corrupt a pure Element She said No being not subject to change more than a gross and malignant Vapour can corrupt the Sun but said she natural Elements can and do often-times purifie corruption if they be not obstructed for though they cannot be changed they may be obstructed as we see dark Clouds will obstruct the natural light of the Sun and many times the natural heat yet they can neither quench out the one nor put out the other the like is the continuance of the natural Elements But perchance you will say that you talk of an Element and I speak of a Planet I say that for example But though the Sun is a Planet yet it is an Elementary Fire and though Earth may be called a Planet yet it is an Elementary Earth and for all we can know the Moon may be an Elementary VVater but howsoever there may be a natural Fire which is an unalterable Fire which you may call the Elementary Fire as the Sun and so the rest of the Elements for any thing that Reason can prove against it Then they asked her If Nature did work always exactly She answered No for Nature doth seldom work so exactly as to bring often to perfection not the Bodies of all Animals especially Mankind either in the Body or Mind much less to make them both exactly answerable or answerably exact As for their Bodies for the most part they are neither in proportion nor lineaments answerable to each other for some have well-shap'd Hands Legs and Feet and ill-shap'd Bodies others well-shap'd Bodies and ill-featured Faces and ill-shap'd Legs and Feet also some have one Feature in the Face excellent and all the rest ill-favour'd The like is the Mind for some have good Capacities and Understandings to some things and to others are as dull as sensless Blocks some are witty upon some Subjects and are meer fools to others so some will be good-natured to some things and bad or cruel to others without cause Likewise Nature seldom makes a Body and Mind answerable for some have an ill-favoured Body but a noble Soul and rational Understanding others most beautiful Bodies but base Souls and depraved Understandings which shews as if Nature took so much pains and care in making the one as she became weary before she began the other and sometimes she seems lazy in the beginning of her Work and sometimes as if she were idle in the midst of her Work and sometimes as if she were quite tired at the finishing of her Work as when she makes ill-favoured and weak Bodies imperfect Senses and ill or foolish Minds then she is lazy at the beginning and when she makes some parts exact and some defective then she is idle working by halfs and when she