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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91017	Popular errours. Or the errours of the people in physick, first written in Latine by the learned physitian James Primrose Doctor in Physick. Divided into foure bookes. viz. 1. The first treating concerning physicians. 2. The second of the errours about some diseases, and the knowledge of them. 3. The third of the errours about the diet; as well of the sound as of the sick. 4. The fourth of the errours of the people about the use of remedies. Profitable and necessary to be read of all. To which is added by the same authour his verdict concerning the antimoniall cuppe. Translated into English by Robert Wittie Doctor in Physick.; De vulgi in medicinâ erroribus. English.	Primerose, James, ca. 1598-1659.; Primerose, James, ca. 1598-1659.; Wittie, Robert, 1613?-1684.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1651 (1651)	Wing P3476; Thomason E1227_1; ESTC R203210	204,315	501

of the Nerves Arteries and principall Members It is because it is good onely for fimple wounds and such as are onely in the flesh which nature by binding alone doth conglutinate with the help of naturall Balsame that is to say of the innate heate of the body hence it is easie for the wound being wrapped every day in clean clothes and washed with warm urine to grow together again of it self without the use of any ointment at all Therefore that ointment is altogether unprofitable nor availes that any thing which they talk of experience for without doubt those wounds might have been eured without the ointment For that ointment doth neither dissolve nor purge away the excrements of the wounds nor preserve the temperature of the parts for the parts of the body which may bee wounded are of divers sorts as Sanguine Spermatick Nervous Membranous fleshy and men themselves may be Cholerick or Sanguine Melancholick Phlegmatick Plethorick Cacochymick and bee troubled with some other diseases also for all which one and the same remedy cannot bee so convenient But enough of this CHAP. XLIX Of the curing of the Kings-Evill by the touch of the Seventh-Sonne BEcause of late I have heard of some who reporting that they are Seventh-Sonnes do promise great matters about the healing of the Kings-Evill which they professe to doe by touch alone and so beguile the too credulous people something must bee sayd concerning them This chapter I have added at the request of some Physicians of principall note That some diseases are sometimes cured only with the touch of some remedies it is plainly manifest by the authority of the most excellent Physicians Such are those which are called amuleta and periapia being remedies that are hung about the neck or laid to the body Thus Galen commends the root of Peionie hung about the neck for the Epilepsie others the stone called aëtites bound to a womans Thigh to facilitate the birth and divers such examples are found in Authors which many say they have observed although I have sometimes made triall of peionie * A stone which is found in an Eagles nest without which as it is thought she cannot lay her egges and the stone aëtites for the aforesaid affects without any successe Neverthelesse I deny not but there are occult sympathies and antipathies nor doe I goe about to thwart experience and the authority of able Physicians But it is farre more which these men professe they can doe namely cure the Kings evill by their touch alone and that because they are Seventh Sons That this is naturall I thinke scarce any will believe For whatsoever is naturall doth depend on inward principles and may be done by every individuall of that kinde so it be entire sound and according to nature in every respect as all Rubarb parges choler and every man is risible Nor doth it depend on number for number according to Philosophers is of no force to act for actions are of the things themselves and doe depend on the formes of things But this seventh Son is said to have some peculiar power which is denied to the six former brethren to wit because he is the Seventh It must needs follow therefore that that power must arise some other way since it proceeds neither from the forme nor the number It depends not on the Touch for Touching as Touching hath onely the power of Touching Indeed if there be either any noxious or salutiferous quality in the body it is communicated by the Touch. But the Touch it self hath no such force Furthermore seeing that all diseases are cured onely by the taking away of their cause those Wondermongers cannot take away the Kings evill unlesse they first take away the cause Now seeing that the cause of the Kings evill is fleagm as Physicians say setled in the kernels which in other parts breeds other diseases he might be able by the same touch and by the same vertue to cure other diseases that come from the same cause which thing seeing hee cannot doe it must necessarily follow that the cure is miraculous or else that it depends on the imagination of the sick But seeing the imagination of the sick is so different being in some stronger in others weaker an uncertain event must be looked for from an uncertain cause Therefore it must of necessity be either miraculous or false or diabolicall I scarce believe that it is miraculous The Apostles and Primitive Christians did heale by touch alone to the greater glory of God and the propagating of Christian Religion But God will not have miracles to be wrought at every mans private pleasure thus whatsoever the Apostles did they professed that they did it not by any power of their owne but in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ And therefore those seven Brethren the Sonnes of Sceva a Jew who went about in the same name to conjure the uncleane spirits were beaten by the Devill and suffered the punishment of their rash boldnesse Thus it is not lawfull adventurously to attempt the working of miracles In like manner the power of curing the Kings Evill is by the blessing of God granted to the Kings of great Brittaine and France which is denied to other Christian Kings And so Edward the Confessor for his singular piety cured not only the Kings Evill which prerogative redounded to his Successors after him but also other ulcers by touch alone which his Successors could not doe Seeing then this priviledge is onely vouchsafed to the aforesaid Kings and is wholly performed in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ if other Kings should attempt the same it were too much rashnesse and a grosse tempting of God who hath not given any such power to them Therefore in Spaine where this disease of the Kings Evill is epidemicall and popular Francis the first King of France being taken Prisoner by the Spaniards cured it by his touch alone as he was wont to doe France concerning which Lascaris hath this Epigramme Hispanos inter sanat Rex Choeradas estque Captivus superis gratus ut ante fuit Indicio tali Regum sanctissime qui te Arcent invisos suspicor esse Deo In English thus The King in Spaine though Captive heales their sore And is as dear to God now as before Thus they who by his goodnesse are reliev'd Are but unto a greater vengeance repriev'd Moreover it is to be noted that the aforesaid Kings on whom God hath bestowed that favour have it upon a certain condition nor is it derived unto their successors unlesse they be lawfull heires and abide in the Christian Faith For if an Usurper as there have been such in times past and God knowes what shall be the destinies of Kingdoms should depose a lawfull Prince from his Imperiall Throne hee should not with the Kingdome obtain this prerogative to himself Nor if any King though a lawfull Successour to the Crown should renounce the Christian Religion as mens dispositions are variable