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A30809	A short discourse on the rise, nature, and management of the small-pox, and all putrid fevers occasioned by the death of our late incomparable queen : together with a philosophical account of an excellent remedy for these and many other diseases / by T. Byfield ...	Byfield, T. (Timothy)	1695 (1695)	Wing B6400; ESTC R16240	10,499	30

the Vitals of which an undeniable Proof is the depression of the Spirits and sick Qualms of dangerous consequence if immediate relief be not given Nor is this all for the Blood as I said before being the very Mansion of the Spirit of Life as the Scripture it self bears Witness you part with your dearest Friend under pretence of expelling an Enemy which yet you can never do this way tho' you should draw it half out no more than you can fine thick muddy Liquors by such unlikely Experiments For what 's left is as bad still But we daily see when by a lively Principle within they have work't out and thrown off all that is of a contrary Nature they fine and grow clear without any more adoe and then are at rest as all Agents are when they have attained their end Another common Practice is Blistering and Sweating which tho' not quite so bad are yet without use but not without danger For as it is impossible to draw out inward fiery Venoms unless they were beforehand mounted near the Skin by an outward Application which only attracts Watry Substances So considering this Distemper as such a fiery Venom 't is hereby depriv'd of the Moisture necessary for its Latitude and Allay in both which respects 'tis of vast concern to keep it within that joining with the heat or unnatural fire they may between them from an Air and so rise with ease and safety to the Patient And being thus temper'd and allay'd they are generally of a large sort that don't leave deep Marks Whereas were the the Moisture drawn off as the Heat wou'd grow violently intense so neither would it without great force breath out But circulate and prey on all it finds within to the utter extinction of the Lamp of Life I know the general Incentive both to Blood-letting and Blistering is that the Fever is high and they fear it may get into the Head and these are of great use to prevent it as also to hinder such a number of Small-Pox from coming out I grant indeed there is a likelyhood of these Sulphureous Fumes in their rising to get into the Head nay of making the Patient talk Idly too for they are of an intoxicating Nature but of no more Danger than the Fumes of Wine provided no Errour be committed to make them strike back For when they come to the Superfices of the Skin the Watry and more Aerial Part which as a Vehicle helpt it thither easily passing through the Pores Wings away and the other being Sulphureous and gross receiving a check from the Air settles there in its own Fiery from and then the Head is clear and settled the Spirits brisk and lively the Appetite pretty good and the Fever abated As for the other Advantage pretended of preserving a good Face I have more than once observ'd this That when Physitians by Drawing-Blood or giving cooling things c. have sunk the Spirits and hinder'd the kindly coming out which is never so well as at Natures first attempt the Patient on the return of the Venom growing Heart-sick and opprest almost to Death to gain the Point they have lost they have been forc't to double their Files and heap Cordial upon Cordial which being Common Preparations and so not divested of their own unnatural heat as they ought to be have increased the Fever and drove out more than can well be maintained And these Pit most are a very smal sort and of great virulency and danger Because Nature now having done her utmost if she be baffled once more a thousand to one resigns But that I may comprize all in few words whatever rebates drives back stupifies dejects overcools makes great discharges of any kind or on the other hand whatever over-heats drives out too forcibly and fires the Spirits is directly contrary to these Distempers which ought so to be manag'd that the Natural not Unnatural Heat be assisted the former being the very Agent that must do the Work which if allow'd A Medicine rightly qualifi'd ought to have these properties That it be stript of all false fire which would assist and heighten the Distemper That instead thereof it be plentifully furnisht with the Salubrious Principles of Life and Sanity readily joyning in this extremity with that Vital Spark within us That it be of Ability to clear the first passages insensibly in the Operation yet most sensibly in the Effect For this is no time for Violent Means That it likewise be endow'd with a Power to compose and quiet the Spirits by bringing to equality and unity the Principles which are at Variance And not as Opiats which stupifying the Senses for a while detain and tye down not only the Spirits but the Distemper hindring its going off in its proper season and Nature from assisting so that when its Somniferous Virtue is spent you find you have lost time the Patient only growing sensibly weaker but the Distemper remaining in its full Vigor and more Fatal And that in a word by its innate Virtue with God's blessing it can bring you safe thro' this dangerous Disease to your desir'd Health and a more than ordinary Strength and such a Medicine is the Panacea of which the following Discourse Treats Some Account of a Universal Remedy THE Contemplation of Man's Body tho' Dead in its wonderful Structure by Anatomical Display is a curious View But the consideration of him alive in his vital Form and Spring of Action enlivening the whole is a more Elegant Review 'T is to my purpose at present to behold him inform'd with the principle of Coelestial Fire enkindling vital Airs and stretching 'em thro' the whole Circumference promoting thereby an animal Nourishing Heat to every Organ of the Body and by a Magnetick Love panting after the Universal Breath of the World and sucking thro' the Medium of the Air a continued Reparation of Enlivening Beams to his Central Spirit from the Fountain of Life and Form the Sun Having thus United the Lesser to the greater World by joyning breath to breath my design is to shew how this inbred Fire is maintain'd may be enlarg'd and when perverted and wrought into a destructive Heat and Fire against Nature by Art may be reclaim'd to an Oleose Soft Nourishing Heat from its harsh inrag'd consuming Fire But before I proceed I must take care to keep under the warm influences of the Sun and regard him as the common Parent of us all and the Soul of the World a Globe of Central Sulphur Gloriously Illuminating dark and shady Bodies I had almost aid Understandings too whose Masculine Principle endow'd with an hidden Fecundity bestows quickening Virtues on all the scatter'd Natures of the Earth whereby numberless Efficacies and vital Breathings are convey'd thro' Spiritual Channels for the avoiding Corruption and replenishing them with Light Adequate to that Tincture of Light which powerfully informs mixt Bodies So that He may truly be call'd the Heart of the Universe deriving Life to

all parts and impregnating decaying Nature with new Vitality This Magazeen of the Empyrean Heaven where the Light first seiz'd upon matter fills with Light and Life the soft and yeilding Natures of the Air which cannot be suppos'd a nothing or an empty space but an Essential Body of its own admitting of great Powers and Virtues where the matter is swallow'd up by its Form and Translated into a Nature almost Spiritual For where Form and Matter meet in equal poise or just Equality the matter 's rescu'd from all Blemishes and Accidents and freed in a wonderful manner from Infection and Corruption The Air thus richly stor'd with beams of Life and Universal Sperm supplies the various kinds of being on the Earth according to the strength of their Specifick Magnets And it does so superabound in Principles they cannot take em off her hands and she so lusts to be Imbodied that where there 's an aptness to Congelation she 'll strike the form of her Spiritual Essence As I have strictly observ'd the Rime in an Hoar-Frosty Morn exactly shot into Stiria which are the Signatures of abounding Volatiles And now 't is time to derive this flowing Bounty to the Sons of Men who lift up their Heads to Heaven for Life and Breath and all things and well they may for I know not where else they 'l feed their vital Flame Since nothing more humours the Tincture of Life in Man or his animal Fire than the Nutritive beams from the Sun For that Spark of Original Sulphur which transmutes into Redness the Mass of Blood is the Spring of Natural Fire and radical Moisture and the Sun in the little World Man discenter'd from the great Luminary But held in Life by the intercourse of large Breathings whereby he repairs his Store from that inexhausted Fountain In vain then shall I look for a fit Remedy amidst the Domestick or Exotick Drugs for Man By Food he may and must supply a Faecunda Terra but this is but dunging the Ground by Respiration he must support his Vital Air. Having thus pointed out the Noblest Principle of Life in Man I wou'd give a little aim at a suitable Medicine adequate thereto as the most apt to repair and set him right when decay'd or over-power'd and of such a Nature are the undetermin'd Sulphureous Sparks of the Universe collected at certain Seasons of the year when the Air is richly impregnated but the manner of attracting and further knowledg of what is taken together with the Artful handling of the matter are too curious and troublesome Niceties For who wou'd take the pains to reunite Atoms and consult the Poise so strictly in the cotempering of Principles as just to give the Dominion to a living Sulphur but such a temperament obtain'd becomes a Medicine Spiritually fixt and a noble Preservative against the Spirit of Diseases and its consequent Materiation by contact with material Thus our internal Air maintain'd by Art upon Nature free from disturbance or Venoms is always salubrious and pleasant It plain enough appears that the truest Medicine for the Life of Man is a well exalted Sulphur whereby it becomes Spiritualiz'd not Volatiliz'd But betwixt these two words lies seven years labour with brains too 'T is sufficient then to suggest the Nature of it that it may appear at least harmless Since I assum'd this Notion of Sulphur as the most Essential Principle of Life I have revolv'd again and again the most powerful Specifick Sulphurs especially those of the Mineral Nature which are difficulty enough obtain'd in Purity and notwithstanding Art they will retain some Portion of their Specifick Venoms which are not to be destroy'd but by the Death of the Species So strongly is Nature determin'd to the preservation of her Kind I could Instance in many of 'em that retain very Churlish Qualities after all the pretended Art about them such as Vomiting Purging Sweating c. meerly as Venemous to our Bodies tho they are banter'd off as having a Contest only with Offending Humours I have us'd 'em in my Practice and know as well what they are and can do as another After abundance of Experiments and Tryals for the attaining of Noble Pleasant Medicines I must confess I think my self not a little Fortunate in my Art of drawing down from the Sun and Air plenty of illuminated Sulphurs and in my Skill of ordering 'em so as to result in the most effectual and pleasant Remedy which is Preservative Curative and Restorative able at once to season the whole Fountain so as to cleanse it self and all its streams Far unlike to other Medicines which are reputed Good for some One Disease and that mistaken kill instead of cure But this Medicine dilated in an appropriate Vehicle is render'd dispensable to all Persons under any Circumstances and as salubrious as the most refin'd Air. And this I call my Panacea which I think abundantly more difficult to make than to make it appear to be of such General Use as the Nature of the Thing imports and the Experience of it can attest But I 'le not much concern my self to gain Proselytes I would have it valu'd only at the Rate of its Real worth and my self not too much undervalu'd for being the Author of it Universal Matter once obtain'd may be Reasonably thought productive of a Universal Remedy Now no passive actuated matter is undetermin'd and I have already declar'd against Specificks and Dead Matter is not for my turn The Living Permanent Active Matter of the World is my Subject which after 't is render'd fusible by Art penetrates the very Center of Life bringing with it the Riches of Superiour Orbs Generously enriching Nature's Store with Beams of Life and Balmy Fire enlarging her Magnetick Virtue whereby she Vigorously attracts both Air and Common Food assimilating them to her wholsom Nature Hereby tender Stamina Vitae become Robust the body haile and strong quick and bright able to dispel diseasie Forms and resist their first Attempts For the due Feeding and Maintaining the Animal fire in its Resplendent Lustre at once forbids all Jars Discords False Fire c. and gives a Free Enjoyment of the body in all its necessary and pleasant Actions Truly to sweeten unite and strengthen the Mass of Blood is of huge Advantage And 't is not Vomiting Purging nor Steel nor Alkalisate Powders nor washing with Waters will do the Business A Course of pure Air with Temperance bids fairer and many are relieved thereby But to restore Essential Sulphur the Origin of the Tincture of the Blood and subdue fixt Salts inferring Corrosive Fires and renew and increase a sweet Vital Air is the Work rather of a Philosopher than a Phisician For the doing of all which this Panacea is a Compleat Medicine altogether Philosophical and an entire Dispensatory Having now Regal'd the Spirits with this lively Mellow Remedy from so good a stock we may derive fresh Vigour to the branches Plumpness to the whole and