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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90743	Phlebotomiographia or, a treatise of phlebotomy. Demonstrating the necessity of it in diseases; the time for elections. And likewise of the use and application of cupping-glasses, and leeches. Whereupon is added a brief and most methodicall tract of the crisis. Written originally in French, by Da de Plumis Campi chirurgion. And now faithfully rendred into English, by E.W. well-wisher to physick and chirurgery.	Planis Campy, David de.; E. W.	1658 (1658)	Wing P2376A; Thomason E1929_1; ESTC R209992	52,319	224

parts to the exteriour The other is called perfect whereby nature even as Mistris and Lady governing the body doth absolutely and wholly reject the matter out of the body and this is done either by vomiting or by flux of blood at the Nostrills or by menstrue or by the Hemorrhoides or by sweatings as we have said above A pritty similitude of Avicen concerning Crisis Avicenna had an excellent understanding of Crisis when he saith that The Crisis is no other thing but the strife and contention of two persons pleading the one against the other in a civill case for saith he even as in one civill proceeding there doth concurr four sorts of persons that is to say he which accuseth he who is accused the witnesses and the Judge In like manner do these four concurr also in the Crisis first the accuser who is the power which governs the body secondly the Malady which is accused and thirdly the witnesses are the signes of that Malady and the Physitian is the Judge And even as the civil Judge giving sentence the one of the parties continues sorrowfull and the other is joyfull so in like manner in the Crisis if the signes are bad the Physitian adjudgeth the patient to die and then he and his kindred continue sorrowfull but if the signes be good signifying victory of the powers over the Malady the Physitian makes Judgment and passes sentence that the Patient shall recover and thereby he and his kindred continue joyfull The Common Criticall judgment of no value It is true that the greatest number of Chirurgions do passe Judgement but it is most commonly of no value and that by reason of their not being able to discern that which causeth the said Crisis or rather by reason of his not observing it for if they did calculate well the Critricall daies they would not be deceived in predicting the events and would in no wife fail to hit the Mark. You must take notice in this place that they hold that the Salutary Crisis arives ordinarily the seventh fourteenth or twentyeth day wherefore it is that those dayes are called Criticall dayes They foresee the future Crisis by the signes of Coction which appear the fourth eleventh and seventeenth daies which are called Indicative and Contemplative dayes for according to Hippocrates the fourth day is the Indice of the seventh the eighth is the beginning of the other week the eleventh also is remarkable because it is the fourth of the other week yet the seventeenth is remarkable because it is the fourth after the fourteenth the seventh from the eleventh some do not go to search so many fashions but they hold simply that the Crisis doth use to conclude either the fourth day or the seventh or else the ninth and eleventh and fourteenth daies The Common opinion concerning the Crisis is fallacious As much upon the one side as the other the one party are as good shooters in a Crosbow as the other for it is most certain that the Crisis is either sooner or latter ascribing these daies of decision to the effects of the Moon And so the Astrologers assigne the Indices of Maladies when the Moon is distant in degrees about the fourth part or about half of the Zodiac from the true place where she was at the beginning of the Maladie But because her motion is more quick or slow at sometimes then at others sometimes she arives more late and sometimes more early to such aspects that if it happen that upon a Critical day the Moon is in her house or in her exaltation with Jupiter and Venus which are benevolent and healthfull Planets that doth denote that the change will be good A most true signe concerning the Crisis And if the disease consist in a great affluence of humours it is good that the Moon be in the increase in a quartile aspect or in opposition If the Moon be in the same time in Conjunction with the Sun or Saturn it is an ill signe and denotes that it will be a very dangerous disease or else of a long continuance If the Moon increasing do accompany Saturn precisely in the beginning of the disease it doth denote that the Malady will be of a long Continuance or Mortal But if the disease happens then when she is in her decrease it is a signe that the Malady will not continue long and will not be dangerous for this cause you ought not to sleight the salubrious or nocent signes of the Starrs but to observe them exactly to the end that you may attain the honour of Prognosticating Divinely for the wise man doth oppose himself to the mutation of the heavens made on the earth And that no otherwise then in removing away or repairing the earthly matter wherein the Heavens do operate or else not finding a subject to act upon his Action is turned in an Eclipse The Charity of the Anthour is Commendable Notwithstanding I desire in this place to make known that the fall of an Innumerable multitude of men is occasioned by not knowing any thing but the name and word onely of Crisis and not the cause of the effect And that severall men who by by their extream ignorance cause the Heaven and the Earth to be opened and fix there their eares and do there bound the eyes of their understanding to the end that they may take notice of the earth covering or Entombing their errours which ought rather to serve as Scarlet to make them blush And behold the manner how It is certain that our bodies are moved and inflamed by the superiour bodies otherwise they could not suffer for in the method of the distribution of things the body of the Moon in her Sphere doth by the points of the Zodiac produce that mutation which is made from time to time in all bodies none excepted As for example Example concerning the above named opinion If it happen that some one is taken sick the Moon being in the first point of Aries infallibly on the fourth day following counting from the time of falling sick the Moon is found in a point repugnant in property to that wherein she was at the time of the first falling sick And then is the Crisis made either by vomiting flux of blood flux of the belly or sweatings as we have said before In this day is prohibited the offering force to Nature whether it be by blooding or Physick either solutive or restringent for fear that nature intending to discharge her self by sweat be not forced to do it by other Emunctory and for this cause evacuation is to be practised upon the third or fifth day from the beginning of the sicknesse And none can deny however he be opinionate of himself but that this is true A too Common errour But alas behold the evil which doth often nay most commonly happen That while men are attending the Crisis on the fourth day because of the above mentioned motion of the Moon it happens that the Moon expedites her course and comes on the third day to the point which causeth the Crisis And without taking notice thereof the Physician who would count her hours makes too much haste and onely counts the fourth day for the Crisis and without any other Ceremony being bold causeth the sick person to be blooded or purged and by that meanes sends him to ask St. Peter for his Keys to open heaven with And when the Moon becomes declining or Retrograde she is not come to that point untill the fifth day wherein happens the same oversight Behold the reason why Hippocrates Lib. de flatibus would have the Physitian to have but a few patients and to languish with them for whom as saith Paracelsus he is created father and not Doctor I should enlarge my self further upon this discourse concerning this matter to make seen to the eye and felt by the finger the great errour which is commonly committed in Judgement upon Criticall daies and should shew the true meanes of giving a true Judgement according to second causes of either life or death But because that doth require a greater speculation and that the age of a man will not suffice for it I shall so bear praying to God that he will be pleased so to blesse our Labours that what we do may be to his honour and glory the edification and benefit of our Neighbour and the safety and salvation of our own souls To whom Father Son and holy Spirit be honour and glory eternally Amen To the Benevolent Reader A Quadrine Beleeve not That In Ostentation I have writ this Treatise of Plebotomy But as a friend to life I undertook to shew its operation In this Book A TABLE OF THE Chapters CHAP. I. WHat Phlebotomy is Its properties and that which must be particularly observed for the good performance thereof CHAP. II. How that the Chirurgion ought not to be ignorant of Astrology and of the profit that comes thereby as well for Phlebotomy as for all the Maladies which do happen unto humane bodies The Sympathy of the Starrs therewith and other discoveryes most usefull for a Chirurgion CHAP. III. Of the time of Necessity wherein are shewn the Maladies wherein Phlebotomy doth necessarily fall out CHAP. IV. Of the time of Election for the Inferiour Root and of the Superiour Root which extends its self to to the knowledge of the Starrs as well in the Concurrence which they have to the parts of our bodies as upon the Humours and Maladies which happen therein CHAP. V. That it is necessary that a Chirurgion have the Astronomicall figure in his study or at least in his shop and of the benefit that proceeds therefrom as well to the Patients as those that exercise or practice it which is proved by a History and other examples Also that it is better to mundify the blood than to evacuate it with the discovery of two excellent remedies for that effect CHAP. VI. Of the Veins proper to be blooded for several infirmities which arive to humane bodies together with the benefit and the manner of using of Cupping-glasses with Scarrification and without it and of that which is to be observed in this operation and lastly of Horse-leeches   A short treatise or discourse of Crisis's wherein is demonstrated how men do deceive themselves in the judgement of them not knowing the motion of the Starrs FINIS