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A62438	Ortho-methodoz itro-chymikē: or the direct method of curing chymically Wherein is conteined [sic] the original matter, and principal agent of all natural bodies. Also the efficient and material cause of diseases in general. Their therapeutick way and means. I. Diætetical, by rectifying eating, drinking, &c. II. Pharmaceutick. 1. By encreasing and supporting the vital spirits. 2. By pacifying and indulging them. 3. By defacing or blotting out the idea of diseases by proper specificks. Lastly, by removing the extimulating or occasional cause of maladies. To which is added, The art of midwifery chymically asserted. The character of an ortho-cymist, and pseudochymist. A description of the sanative virtues of our stomach-essence. Also, giawo-mempsiz: or a just complaint of the method of the Galenists. By George Thomson, M.D.	Thomson, George, 17th cent.	1675 (1675)	Wing T1029; ESTC R222195	87,128	216

that Excrements be strictly egested or voided by Stool for ventris torpor omnium confusio Urine Expectoration sometimes easie Vomiting or Universal Cutaneous Breathing For the promo●ion of which where Nature is difficient Art ought to supply A Soluble Belly and easie transpirable Skin doth much conduce to a Healthful Life For want whereof Pil. Polychrest and Tinctur Polychrest not omitting sometimes Glysters and Bathing do much conduce In Women the Monthly Terms ought to have their just course If they come short Elix propri Sulphur Mar. Philosophically prepared do much avail Also the Inward Haemorrhoides or Piles opened are to be indulged for the draning of these a gentle frication to and fro with a Tuft of Grass when the Fundament is open is of singular use where there is any propensity in Nature to evacuate foeculent fretting blood from the Mesentary or Spleen I look upon this as a most noble Emunctory to disburden each Neither ought a supurfluity of Seed to be kept too long in peculiar Bodies especially if there be danger it may contract an ill odour to the Annoyance of the Kidneys Spleen Head for seeing the Testicles have no small influence upon the parts tending to their happiness if they be in their right Tone certainly then if out of order they dart hurtful beams to the notable damage of that Organ where they lights Have a care of transgressing herein too much for that confounds all One thing I must by the way urge that Physitians have a special care how they make a Retention of any Degenerate Malignant Impurities by Astringents or Opiates without removing the Cause from whence they flow The only way to perform this aright is to pacifie the Arci●●s to amend the exorbitancy of the Ferments to strengthen Nature to carry off at the same time that in a larger quantity with succeeding ease which before came away by little portions in a dribling manner without any redress to the debilitating the Vitals Then no doubt the Fibers of the Stomach and other parts will be corroborated the Morbisick occasion of their weakness being sequestred To cleanse away every morning with a Linnen course cloath any cl●mmy soulness from the three notable Emunctories as the Groin Armpits Neck doth somewhat help to preserve from Sickness The scraping the tongue fasting ridding it from a viscous impurity doth not only profit for the keeping from a Squinsie but also other Inconveniencies Salt of Pot-ash calcined mixed with five or six times the quantity of Almond Cake poudred fine doth scour the Mouth if a little thereof be taken with three or four spoonfuls of water gargarized and rubbed with the Finger Note sharp Liquors are offensive to the Teeth but Alkalies friendly to them CHAP. VI. THe third Diaetetical necessary Supportter of a happy life and Restorer of it when impaired is good Aire which if congruous to the Lungs is as welcome to it as some Food to a rightly disposed Stomach What Famous Cures holsome Air with Mineral Waters have effected is well known to those whom the Galenists have left as desparate for whereas they at first upon a false Supposition that the Air did chiefly conduce to the cooling of the Heart and explosion of Fuliginous Particles generated from excessive Heat did take their Indication of cooling more or less according as any Febrile Disease did invade the Patient but all in vain having exhausted both the Strength and Purse of the Sick Person thus missing a sanative End they at length study to find out some pure Aire to which they commit the Patient although often too late to be Cured yet is he sometimes beyond expectation revived even to their astonishment who are ignorant of the true cause thereof For those Coagulations dreggy grosness in the Blood rather augmented than diminished by faeculent Medicaments Enemies to the Stomach are by the subtil Ambient dissolved rarefied volatilized and sent packing without any filthy settling left behind Hereby the Stomach recovers its Digestion and the Blood runs freely in its proper Channels so powerful is the Air with the Ferments to refine the Juices attenuating all tenacious Matter residing in them or lurking about the Spleen or Stomach whose Appetite and Digestion are much advanced or depressed according as the Ambient is Thin or Thick Defaecated or Dreggy This great Separator of Moisture doth in some places so rarefie and consume the solid Nutriment of Mans Body that although he eat plentifully Quadruple to what he doth at other times in some Regions yet shall he continue in perfect health obtaining the same weight of Body he had some weeks before few visible Excrements in comparison of those insensibly dissipated to be discovered This is the happy effect of subtil fresh well clarified often changed cold piercing Aire grateful to the Lungs on the other side where this Ambient is gross restagnant stuffed full of foul corpuscles to which one is confined misty or foggy many discommodities of Health ensue as dull Appetite In digestion crudities contamination of the of the Blood flatness heaviness of the Spirits depravation of the Ferments whence troops of Diseases invade us Where the Atmosphere is well qualified and constituted men enjoy length of days as well as at present a sound Body where 't is otherwise disposed the thread of Life is shortned In general the Aire destitute of Noisome Exhalations from the Earth and endued with Benevolent Influences from the Heavens is profitable for the Lungs In particular that Air chiefly concerns the preservation from Sickness and the Restauration of Sanity which doth best agree with the Individual whose approbation comes from Experience For there is a Natural appetite in the Lungs of some to embrace this or that Air above another as it is inhaerent in the Stomach to be affected with certain peculiar kinds of meat Where the Aire is culpable Art ought to amend it which is done by imitating Nature ventilating it when restagnant heating and subtillizing it by good Fires when 't is cold or gross consuming or putting to flight stinking Particles by the diffusion of acceptable good Odours If the Air abound with excessively Acid or foul Nitrosulphurious Atoms it is to be rectified with the breath of the most refined Askali's and the Fumes of well corrected Sulphurs By this means many Diseases may be prevented and in some sort cured CHAP. VII THe fourth Assistanting to a Comfortable Life is Exercise and Rest which ought to succeed each other by turns Quod caret alterna requie durabile non est Now Motion is previous to Rest for the first Symptoms of Life arise from a Loeo Motive Faculty We shall not here examine Aristotles Definition of Nature i. e. The Principle of Motion and Rest but rather insist upon the Modification or Regulation of Motion as it tends to the Health of Man Of so great use is Motion or Exercise that the Wise Creator ordained Respiration and Pulsation to continue constantly for our Vital pre●ervation

who is the chief Mover of all Essences I look upon the Materia Prima of Aristotle as impossible a meer Chimaera Galen and his Sectaries are much mistaken in delivering the Four Elements Earth Water Aire Fire the Material Cause of all things which being as they say variously mixt and tempered by power of an Active Form bring forth Bodies of different Shapes and Kind one from another The late Chymical Philosophers reject the former Opinion and being frequently conversant in Opening all sorts of Bodies by the Fire which they will by no means allow to be an Element and meeting frequently with Salt Sulphur Mercury have confidently taught that these are the Beginning Matter of all things tangible Others add two more i. e. Water and Earth all which as is Asserted they can at their pleasure demonstrate or lay open to View when they make Separations This Discovery by Fire indeed seems far more plausible and favourable for the Foundations and Principles of all Bodies than the former Conceit yet upon severe Search it will not hold true For as I have published in Haemati directed by Helmonts Doctrine these which they call Principles are made by the Fire not actually existent before in the Compound Body Neither can Salt Sulphur Mercury be extracted by any Art whatsoever out of all things tractable Moreover their unsteadfastness shews them to be no Principles for they are easily changed one into another contrary to the Nature of what ought to be the Beginning of things Wherefore Dr. Willis his Doctrine taken from Bened Valent. or Paracelsus and trimly polished for Sale is to be rejected as being not only false in the first Instructions concerning Nature but also dangerous and destructive if made use of according to what he hath delivered for the Cure of Diseases Learned Helmonts discovery of Acidum i. e. Sharp of a binding rough Condition and an Alkalie of a lixiviate smooth Nature either volatile or fixed having a property to scour or loosen is by Tachenius and some excellent Philosophers owned to be the best of Sensibles whereby we can most experimentally and effectually derive the nighest Origination of all things endewed with a Corporeal Being into which Acidum and Alkali Art is able to bring back the same Besides these two Luminaries in Physick afford the clearest Directions for the Cure of the worst Maladies the only chief End for which the upright Physitian is to put out himself notwithstanding these how specious soever Principles reputed are not really so for they as well as the former may be reduced into Water which by the Authority of Acute Van Helmont and my own Proof in some measure I set down as the Principle and Ultimate Matter the Beginning and End of all Elementarie Bodies For according to the diversity of Ferments the Activity of the Seminal Spirit and the peculiar Image delineated by it this Liquid Matter is moulded into those infinite number of various kinds of Creatures This is that Abyss or Deep on which the Spirit of God moved at first now successively the Spirit of the World which out of this never failing Treasure of Water frames those innumerable Kinds of things obvious to our Senses Now of all Tangible Essences Nothing is more similar or freer from Alloy Mixture than Water nothing more capable of impress nor susceptible of a Seminal Spirit and so easie to be brought to this or that Form Hence 't is manifest there is not any thing chiefly more requisite for the production of all Corporeal Beings than this Material Subject namely Water and an Efficient cause viz. a Spirituous Seed working by means of Ferments or a certain Volatile Spreading Swelling Chafing Scent according as it frames that Idea or Picture of the thing it intends to bring by degrees to Perfection till which time the same Agent if not impeded by some Accidents which began makes a constant progress till the whole be finished bringing it to the highest State from whence by little and little it declines at length returning to that from which it took its first Being What I have here delivered The sensible Seed of Animals Plants and Minerals Confirm for they all consist of a Jelly-like Substance easily to be brought into Water The Corporeal Seed of all Animals are as it were a Mucilage or the White of an Egg the Seed of all Vegetables may by digestion be turned into the like Consistence As to Minerals The best Inquirers into them affirm that a certain green glutinous slimy Water flowing in peculiar places of the Earth gives them their first Birth So that an able Chymical Philosopher hath no reason to doubt what Helmont hath set down to wit that all Bodies have their Beginning from Water that he could by means of his Liquor Alkahest cause them to return again to the same This is that Proteus which being altered by an odorous Ferment peculiarly inherent in the Seminal Matter or the place where it resides invites such a portion of the universal Spirit according as it is capable to mould it by degrees into such a Species or individual Being proportionable to the Plat-form laid at first All outward Conveniencies concurring Withal as Concretes or Bodies are generated from VVater so are they likewise chiefly nourished thereby For the Experiment of our Philosopher confirms it thus He took an Earthen Vessel filling it with 200 weight of Earth dried in an Oven in which moistened with Rain-water he set the Stem of a VVillow of five pound weight This being for the space of five Years irrigated was nourished only with Rain or distilled water as there was need the vessel being covered over with a Plate of Tin full of holes lest any dust from without should fall into it after five years growth the Plant put into the Scales weighed 169 pound besides the quantity of Leaves four years every Autumn left out Then at last he weighed the foresaid Earth dried and it wanted of the former weight not above two ounces upon this account 164 pound of VVood Bark and Root sprang from VVater alone This Experiment of Van Helm did that excellent Searcher into Nature the Lord Bacon confirm by the encrease of a Shrub kept a considerable time in VVater The same VVater feedeth 40 distinct Plants growing on one bed Also divers Animals do plainly arise from a waterish Matter they are likewise preserved Principally therewith In the Stomach of the Salmon is seldome any solid matter found neither can the Sturgeon take into the Stomach any gross matter for nourishment the passage belonging thereto being so small that scarse any thing but VVater can enter Some Men and VVomen have been reported to live with VVater alone for many dayes That Pretious and Viler Stones are generated by VVater and encreased by the same is manifest according to the Tryal of Van Helmont Touching those Existents which the Chymists call Principles they are not really such for they have their rise from VVater and may be