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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86278	A new method of Rosie Crucian physick: wherein is shewed the cause; and therewith their experienced medicines for the cure of all diseases, theoparadota; freely given to the inspired Christians, by Ton aggelon presbytaton, ton archaggelon, logon, archon, onoma theo. And in obedience fitted for the understanding of mean capacities by the adorer, and the most unworthy of their love, John Heydon, a servant of God, and secretary of nature.	Heydon, John, b. 1629.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1672; Thomason E946_3; ESTC R207604	50,839	70

Money was it that made me undertake this Task Now of the well-fram'd parts of our body I would know why we have three joints in our Legs and Arms as also in our fingers but that it was much better then having but two or four And why are our fore-teeth sharp like Chizzels to cut but our inward teeth broad to grind but this is more exquisite then having them all sharp or all broad or the fore-teeth broad and the other sharp but we might have made a hard shift to have lived though in that worser condition Again Why are the Teeth so luckily placed or rather Why are there not Teeth in other bones as well as in the Jaw-bones for they might have been as capable as these But the reason is Nothing is done foollshly nor in vain I will shew you how to prolong life and to return from age to youth and how to change alter and amend the state of the body but that I intend in a Treatise entituled The Wise Mans Crown To keep the body in perfect health is my present design and to cure all Diseases without reward for there is a Divine Providence that orders all things Again to say nothing of the inward curiosity of the Ear Why is that outward frame of it but that it is certainly known that it 's for the bettering of our hearing I might add That Nature hath made the hind-most parts of our body which we sit upon most fleshy as providing for our ease making us a Natural Cushion as well as for Instruments of Motion for our Thighs and Legs she hath made the hinder part of the Head more strong as being otherwise unfenced against falls and other casualties She hath made the Backbon of several Vertebrae as being more fit to bend more tough and less in danger of breaking then if they were all one intire bone without those gristly Junctures She hath strengthened our fingers and toes with Nailes whereas she might have sent out that substance at the end of the first and second Joints which had not been so handsom and useful nay rather somewhat troublesome and hurtful And lastly She hath made all bones devoid of sense because they were to bear the weight of themselves and of the whole body and therefore if they had had sense our life had been painful continually and dolorous And now I have considered the fitness of the parts of mans bodie for the good of the whole let me but consider briefly his sences and his nature and then I intend more solidly to demonstrate the cause of all Diseases and with that the Cure because I intend a Method of Rosie Crucian Physick promised in my way to Blisse By our several Organs we have several Conceptions of several qualities in the objects for by sight we have a conception or image composed of colour and figure which is all the notice and knowledge the object imparteth to us of its nature by the excellency of the eye By Hearing we have a conception called Sound which is all the knowledge we have of the quality of the object from the Ear And so the rest of the Sences are also conceptions of several qualities or natures of their objects Because the Image in vision consisting of colour and shape is the knowledge we have of the qualities of the object of that Sence it is no hard matter for a man to fall into this opinion That the same colour shape are the very qualities themselves and for the same cause that sound noise are the qualities of a piece of Canon or Culvering charged with sulphurous Powder fired or of the Air And this opinion hath been so long received that the contrary must needs appear a great Paradox The same qualities are easier in a bell and yet the introduction of species visible and intelligible which is necessary for the maintenance of that opinion passing to and fro from the object is worse then any Paradox as being a plain impossibility I shall therefore endeavor to make plain these points That the subject wherein colour and image are inherent is not the object or thing seen That there is nothing really which we call an Image or Colour That the said Image or Colour is but an apparation unto us of the motion agitation or alteration which the object worketh in the brain or spirits or some internal substance of the Head That as in vision so also in conceptions that arise from the other senses the subject of their inherence is not the object but the continent That conceptions and apparitions are nothing really but motion in some internal substance of the Head which motion not stopping there of necessity must there either help or hinder the motion which is called Vital when it helpeth it is called Delight Contentment or Pleasure which is nothing really but motion about the heart as conception is nothing but motion in the head and the objects that cause it are called Pleasant or Delightful and the same Delight with reference to the object is called Love but when such motion weakneth or hindreth the vital motion then it is called Pain and in relation to that which causeth it Hatred There are two sorts of pleasures whereof one seemeth to affect the corporeal Organ of the sence and that I call sensual the greatest part whereof is that by which we are invited to give continuance to our species and the next by which a man is invited to meat for preservation of his individual person The other sort of Delight is not particularly any part of the body and is called The Delight of the mind is that which we call Joy Likewise of pains some affect the body and are therefore called The pains of the body and some not and those are called grief CHAP. III. Of the nature of the Soul of Man whether she be a meer Modification of the body or a Substance really distinct and then whether corporeal or incorporeal and of the temper of the bodie HEre I am forced to speak what I have in my Familiar Spirit and it is not impertinent to my purpose therefore if we say that the soul is a meer modification of the body the soul then is but one universal faculty of the body or a many faculties put together and those operations which are usually attributed unto the soul must of necessity be attributed unto the body I demand therefore To what in the body will you attribute spontaneous motion I understand thereby a power in our selves of wagging or holding still most of the parts of our body as our hand suppose or little finger If you will say that it is nothing but the immission of the spirits into such and such Muscles I would gladly know what does immit these spirits and direct them so curiously is it themselves or the brains or that particular piece of the brain they call the Pine-Kernel What ever it be that which doth thus immit them and direct them must have

exquisite skill in the Maker that if I should pursue all that sutes to my purpose it would amount to too large yet an entire Volume I shall therefore write all that is needful to be known by all men leaving the rest to be supply'd by Anatomists And I think there is no man that hath any skill in that Art but will confess the more diligently and accurately the frame of our body is examined it is found the more exquisitely conformable to our Reason Judgement and Desire so that supposing the same matter that our bodies are made of if it had been in our own power to have made our selves we should have fram'd our selves no otherwise then we are To instance in some particulars As in our Eyes the Number the Scituation the Fabrick of them is such that we can excogitate nothing to be added thereto or to be altered either for their beauty safety or usefulness but as for their beauty I have treated largely of it in my youthful merry Poems now am not minded to transcribe my tender nice subject and couple it with my severer stile I will onely note how safely they are guarded and fitly framed out for the use they are intended The Brow and the Nose saves them from harder strokes but such a curious part as the Eye being necessarily liable to mischief from smallest matters the sweat of the Forehead is fenced off by those two Wreaths of Hair which we call the Eye-brows and the Eye-lids are fortified with little stiff bristles as with Pallisadoes against the assault of Flyes and Gnats and such-like bold Animalcula besides the upper-lid presently claps down and is as good a Fence as a Port-Cullis against the importunity of the Enemy which is done also every night whether there be any present assault or no as if nature kept Garrison in this Acropolis of mans body the Head and look'd that such Laws should be duly observed as were most for his safety And now for the use of the Eye which is sight it is evident that this Organ is so exquisitely framed for that purpose that not the least curiosity can be added For first the Humor and Tunicles are purely transparent to let in light and colours unfould and unsophisticated by any inward tincture And then again the parts of the Eye are made convex that there might be a direction of many raies coming from one point of the object unto one point answerable in the bottom of the eye to which purpose the Chrystalline humor is of great moment and without which the sight would be very obscure and weak Thirdly The Tunica uvea hath a Musculous Power and can dilate and contract that round hole in it which is called the Pupil of the Eye for the better moderating the transmission of light Fourthly The inside of the uvea is blacked like the Wall of a Tennis-Court the raies falling upon the Retina again for such a repercussion would make the sight more confused Fifthly The Tanica Arachnoides which invellops the Chrystalline Humour by vertue of its Processus Ciliaros can thrust forward or draw back that precious useful part of the Eye as the nearness or distance of the objects shall require Sixthly and lastly The Tunica Retina is white for the better and more true reception of the species of things as they ordinarily call them as white paper is fittest to receive those Images into a dark room and the eye is already so perfect that I believe it is not needful to speak any more thereof we being able to move our head upwards and downwards and on every side might have unawares thought our selves sufficiently well provided for but Nature hath added Muscles also to the Eyes that no perfection might be wanting for we have oft occasion to move our Eyes our Heads being unmoved as in reading and viewing more particularly any object set before us and that this may be done with more ease and accuracy she hath furnished that Organ with no lesse then six several Muscles and indeed this framing of Muscles not onely in the Eye but in the whole body is admirable for is it not a wonder that even all our flesh should be so handsomly formed and contrived into distinct pieces whose rise and insertions should be with such advantage that they do serve to move some part of the body or other and that the parts of our body are not moved onely so conveniently as wil serve us to walk and subsist by but that they are able to move every way imaginable that will advantage us for we can fling out Legs and Arms upwards and downwards backwards forwards and round as they that spin or would spread a Mole-hill with their feet To say nothing of Respiration the constriction of the Diaphragme for the keeping down the Guts and so enlarging the Thorax that the Lungs may have play and the assistance of the inward intercostal Muscles in deep suspirations when we take more large gulps of air to cool our heart over-charged with love or sorrow nor of the curious Fabrick of the Lainix so well fitted with Muscles for the modulation of the Voice tunable speech and delicious singing You may adde to these the notable contrivance of the Heart it s two ventricles and its many valvulae so fram'd and scituated as is most fit for the reception and transmission of the blood and it 's sent thence away warm to comfort and cherish the rest of the body for which purpose also the valvulae in the veins are made But we see by experience that joy and grief proceed not in all men from the same causes and that men differ very much in the constitution of the body whereby that which helpeth and furthereth vital constitution in one and is therefore delightful hindereth crosseth it in another and therefore causeth grief The difference therefore of Wits hath its original from the different passions from the ends to which the appetite leadeth them As for that difference which ariseth from sickness and such accidental distempers I have appointed them for the second Part of this Book and therefore I omit the same as impertinent to this place and consider it onely in such as have their health perfection of body and Organs well disposed CHAP. II. Of the perfection of the Body and then of the Nature of the Senses of Delight Pain Love Hatred sensual Delight and Pains of the Body Joy and Grief OTher things I have to say but I will rather insist upon such things as are easie ahd intelligible even to Idiots or such Physicians that are no wiser who if they can but tell the Joints of their hands or know the use of their teeth they may easily discover it was Counsel not Chance that created them and if they but understand these natural Medecines I have prepared in this Book for their example they will know that they shall be cured of all Diseases without pain or any great cost and Love not

with their sight Hear one or two more that work the same by touch as violently The Hare-fish a most cold and dry creature to omit that she maketh a mans head ake by sight if you touch her aloof onely with a staffe that her venomous breath may go straight and round unto you you die presently The root Baazam in Palestine as Pythagoras writes kills the man that handleth it and therefore they used to make a dog pull it up as Ben. Iohnson saith who thereby died imediately To come into the body that costly poyson Mr. Linacre talks of that is in Nubia and one grain kills a man out of hand yet stay but a quarter of an hours working and that one grain divided will overcome ten men I hope you doubt not but these mighty poysons if they were like in Nature to the four great diseases and by little and little to be born by Nature and set upon them would be able easily by their great strength to devour and consume them or else sure such heaps of poyson as the Physicians give us would not dwell so long within us but would put out life in a moment Now what are these poysoned Vapours but most cold and dry bodies wrought and broken up by naturall mingling unto great fineness and subtileness by this peircing swiftly all about and by these contrary qualities overcoming Then let us take the stoutest Minerals such as are called Middle Minerals by Rosie Crucians or hard juices by Mr. Berkenhead to leave the Metals for a better purpose be they poysons as G. Agricola saith but what they be I care not and after we have by meer working cleansed them and stripped them of their cloggs and hinderances broken and raised them to a fine substance then match them with their likes the hurtfull things in our bodies shall they not let all the rest alone and straightway cleave to their fellows as well as a purging medicines and so devour and draw them out by little and little If there be no likes I grant they will as well as that fall upon their enemies or good juices and feed upon them Then what do you doubt is not a Mineral body far better And therefore if it be raised to as great a fineness much stronger in working then the gentle and loose temper of a wight or plant wherefore these our Mineral Medicines and some other forementioned Medicines and cure the great as we call them shall in any reason work more violently upon their likes then the natural poysons of Wights and Plants do upon their contraries both because the like doth more easily yield then the contrary and for that the lighter here is the stronger But if you cannot see these things by the light of mind open your eyes and cast them a little into the School of Alchimy into the lesser and lower school I mean of Germans and you shall see the Schollars especially the masters by stripping the Minerals and lifting up their properties but a few degrees to work wonders as to name three or four by quenching the Loadstone in the oyl of Iron his proper food they make him ten times stronger able to pull a nail out of a post c. And by this natural pattern they make Artificial drawers not for Iron onely but for all other things yea and some so mighty as they will lift up an Ox from the ground and rent the arm of a Tree from the body as Mr. Comer doth witness who reporteth again that he saw a flesh-drawer that pulled up 100 weight of flesh and a mans eye out of his head and his Lights up into his Throat and choaked him They make binders also to glew two pieces of Iron together as fast as the Smith can joyn them To be short they make eaters also that will consume Iron stones or any hard thing to nought in a moment they dissolve Gold into an oyle they Fix Mercury with the smoke of Brimstone and make many rare devises of it And all these wonders and many more they do by certain reason I could tell you if I could stand about it In the mean time consider if these or any other such like Minerals were raised higher and led to the top of their fineness and subtleness and matched with their like companions or with their contraries if you will those great diseases in our bodies what stirrs they would make among them how easily they would hew them pierce divide waste and consume them But you mus● alwayes have a special regard that the Medicines be not liker our natures then the nature of the thing that hurts us for then they would first fall upon us and let the diseases alone which heed is easily taken in minerals things very far off our nature saith Des Cartes And with these experience the wonderful vertue of the oyl and water of Tobacco wise men I have known do miracles with it What is to be said more in these matters I think nothing unless through the countenance of an idle opinion that reigns among them they dare flye to the last and of all other the most slender shelter and deny our ability to break tame and handle as we list such stout and stubborn bodies what because you know not how to do it will you fashion all men by your mould wise men would first look into the power and strength of skill and nature and see what they can do and measure it thereby and not by their own weakness there shall you understand that there is nothing in nature so strong and stubborn but it hath its match at least if not his overmatch in Nature such is the nature of mans body of his Soul of signatures of Plants of mettals and minerals and other things also But admit somewhat weaker as Herbs and Plants c. yet this if he get the help of a wisemans Art unto him shall quickly wax great and mend in strength and be able easily to overcome that other mark how the dregs of Vinegar a thing sprung out from a weak beginning and it self as weak as water is able if it be but once distilled to make stouter things then minerals even mettals themselves all but silver and gold to yield and melt down to his own waterish nature nay which is more then Mild-dew of Heaven as Mr. Cooks the Vicar calls it wrought first by the Bee that cunning beast and then twice or thrice by the distiller distilled will do the same you may judge with your self what not onely these but other fiercer and sharper things as Salts c. more like to do upon Minerals and by the way consider if such mild things as wine and honey so meanly prepared are able to subdue in that sort the most stiffe and tough things in the world so minerals cheaper then Aurum Potabile in their highest degree of dignity would cure the stoutest disease being prepared fitly that can grow in our bodies Now let us sit and take