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A61890	The Lord Bacons relation to the sweating-sickness examined, in a reply to George Thomson, pretender to physick and chymistry together with a defence of phlebotomy in general, and also particularly in the plague, small-pox, scurvey, and pleurisie, in opposition to the same author, and the author of Medela medicinæ, Doctor Whitaker, and Doctor Sydenham : also, a relation concerning the strange symptomes happening upon the bite of an adder, and, a reply by way of preface to the calumnies of Eccebolius Glanvile / by Henry Stubbe ...	Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.	1671 (1671)	Wing S6059; ESTC R33665	245,893	362

a vain apprehension that it is totally corrupt and depraved of its former being and no wise capable of being retrograde This cannot be said without an apparent injury unto us We know the variety and fallaciousness of colours and by our rules can well conjecture how far the Humours are vitiated what may be concocted in order to the nutriment and benefit of nature and what maturated to a convenient ejectment And we do utterly deny the consequence of this Argument though we grant the Assumption Viz. If the bloud be of such a nature that it may be recovered to its pristine colour and vigour without Phlebotomy then ought not men to use Phlebotomy But the Bloud like Mercury may be polymorphised and changed into divers shapes and at length be reduced to the same state and condition as when it was in its primitive es●sence Ergo. The Assumption I can grant but not where such a practitioner as G. T. is made use of I doubt not but the followers of Erasistratus could effect it by their Fastings Frictions Bathes and other remedies used by such judicious men I grant that robust nature doth daily produce such rectifications of the bloud in many that make no use of a Physician But as willing as I am to gratifie my Adversary I should not yield thus much to Helmont or such as practice with Arcana and commanding Medicaments To the sequebe of the Major I reply that albeit that Nature may oftentimes do miracles yet are not miracles to be presumed upon It is possible for the sick to recover without any means yet are means to be used the omission thereof is imprudent and criminal but the use thereof if the Physician be knowing and discreet safe and as secure as the condition of our mortality permits any thing to be A few dayes or hours of the encreasing distemper will more impair the strength of the sick than the loss of a little blood which in the condition it is adds not to the vigour or nutriment of the diseased the dammage will be easily repaired and perhaps all this nicety will be to no purpose for after a multitude of vexatious sometimes dangerous symptomes Nature may produce in the almost exhausted patient a violent eruption of bloud and thereby terminate that malady which might have been alleviated or allayed before Fluxus sanguinis largi ex naribus solvunt multa ut Heragorae Non agnoscebant medici The Bloud for which they are so sollicitous Nature her self is not so careful to preserve it but that frequently in the beginning and progress of diseases she alleviates her self by discharging it out of the nose and that in greater quantities of more florid blood than the Lancet would take away This evacuation is of all the most facile the most easie to be regulated by the Physician since he can stop it when he will and the most innocent in the beginning and increment of diseases Sanguinis eruptiones haemorrhagiae hanc habent praerogativam prae aliis evacuationibus quod ipsae etiam in principio in aliis temporibus etiamsi non adsint signa bonae coctionis possunt esse magis utiles quam aliae evacuationes quae ●ere semper sunt malae ex eo quod sanguis semper per apertas partes fluunt semper libere commodum exire possit nec eget praeparatione concoctione sicut alii humores qui per alias evacuationes excerni debent In evacuatione quae per venas apertas fit nullam merito expectamus concoctionem hinc Medici secta vena in morbis acutis in principio mittunt sanguinem hinc spontinae sanguinis vacuationes bonae erunt Addatis sanguinis eruptiones copiosas nedum utiles fieri propterea quod sanguis malus una excernatur sed etiam quoniam ejusdem sanguinis evacuatio universum corpus refrigerat caloremque transpirabilem corpus difflabile facit Quare hac ratione excretiones sanguinis optimae erunt quae in statu apparent plene cocto existente morbo sed neque ea quae cum cruditatis signis fiunt erunt plane abhorrendae timidae In fine that prudence which obligeth us to self-preservation obligeth us to the most probable courses in order thereunto and What can seem more rational than that which NATVRE directs us unto that whereby she so happily mitigates and concludes diseases that which so many Ages have recommended unto us and in the use whereof not only Greece and Rome but all Nations universally as well ●arbarous as Civil are agreed on And thus much shall suffice for an answer to his first Argument I now proceed to the second The Blood is the support of Life and we are taught by Divine Writ that in the Bloud that Spiritus rubens is Life I answer That the Scripture in the places aimed at cannot be understood literally and properly for then the words infer that the Beasts have no other soul than the bloud Deut. 22.23 onely be sure that thou eat not the bloud for the b●oud is the soul and thou mayest not eat the soul with the flesh Thus it runs in the Original though our Translation renders it Life And so Levit. 17 10 14. in which last place 't is said that the bloud is the soul of all flesh Nay in Genesis c. 9. v. 5. Concerning man 't is said The bloud of your souls will I require It remains then that deserting the literal sense we fly to some that is Analogical And hence it is that most Divines take the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for Life Thus Exod. 21.23 Thou shalt give life for life is not incongruously rendred instead of Thou shalt give soul for soul. Thus the Civil Lawyers frequently stile Loss of Life by the phrase of Animae amissio But however these passages may be popularly current yet in Phylosophy and Physick when we would speak distinctly and argue firmly 't is not to be allowed of for Truth that the Blood or Spiritus rubens as our Helmontian most non-sensically terms for as great a Pyrotechnist as he would seem 't is past his Art to demonstrate that it is a Spirit or Chimically to educe a Spiritus rubens out of it is Life for Life is nothing else but the union of the soul with and its presence in the body or to declare it by its effects 't is the conservation of all those faculties and actions which are proper to the animated creature as Death is the extinction of them Out of which 't is evident that Blood is no more properly called Life than 't is possible for the Definition of Life to be acmodated to Blood that is not at all But since common discourse doth allow us often to fix the principal denomination upon the chief instruments and that the Scripture explains it self Levit. 17.11 and what my Adversary in one place calls the LIFE in another he terms it the ●rin●ipal sup●ort of Life let us

consider how far that is true That the Bloud is not so much as a part of the body but the Aliment thereof is the assertion of most Authors it is not continuous to the rest of the body but floateth as Liquor in a vessel and in vulgar speech no man takes the loss of bloud for a mutilation or dismembring and there are sundry distempers and phaenomena which conclude in favour of the spirits or what is Analagous to them and the Nerves to assert their pre-eminence above the Blood and its Vessels and whatever may be said concerning Generation which is very disputable 't is a certain mistake in our Helmontian to make the Bloud the principal matter for sensation whereas sanguine persons are not the greatest wits and the senses are most quick in women during their lyings in after a great effusion of bloud as also in dying persons or motion which is not in paralytick members though the Bloud flow unto them continually as it was wont before I add that there is not any convincing Argument to prove that the Bloud is animated I confess the conjunction of the soul and Body and operations consequent thereunto are most mysterious unto me and I think it no less true that our Life is a constant miracle then that we are at first wonderfully framed nor can I determine what particular use the soul makes of all the parts and ingredients of our humane bodies But this appears unto us daily that the conjunction betwixt the Soul and Blood and the dependance of our Life thereon is not so great or intimate as that upon the effusion of a little no nor of a great deal of the bloud Death or any debility extraordinary and durable should ensue unavoidably and if it happen but sometimes 't is apparent thereby that 't is but accidental and not a proper consequence of that effect 'T is manifest that the operations of the Soul are not restrained to one determinate proportion of bloud in every body nor to the same in any albeit that there seem requisite in all Animals that there be some bloud or what is equipollent thereunto 'T is also mani●est that this Bloud for which some are so sollicitous doth continually expend and waste it self in nutrition and that even the nourished parts are in a continualexhaustion so that without supply it would degenerate ●nto choler except in those miraculous fasts and diminish to little or nothing as appears upon great fastings and several diseases 'T is no less manifest that upon great evacutions of bloud by wounds or otherwise when the Bloud hath been so exhausted that very little can be imagined to remain yet in a few dayes the veins and arteries do fill again and nature is so replenished and vigorated that this lost bloud seems not only as good in order to the functions of life but better in order to health and strength since the production of this last in the end of diseases is accompanied with convalescence whereas the precedent did not hinder the indisposition Out of what hath been said the Answer to this Objection is facile viz. The Blood is not so the seat and residence of the Soul nor so absolutely necessary to Life granting all that can be desired of us as that some of it may not be let out without present danger or irreparable detriment so that if the motives for Phlebotomy be cogent or so probable as to render the Action prudential no difficulty can arise from this scruple It is written in Deut. 24.6 No man shall take the upper or nether milstone to pledge for he taketh a man's life or soul to pledge Here the milstone is called the life or soul of a man as much and as properly as ever the Blood is any where else But though there be a prohibition for a man to deprive his poor neighbour thereof as of the support of his Life yet undoubtedly none was ever interdicted by virtue of this precept to help the distressed Miller to pick and dress his Milstones His third Argument is this Moreover one would think it should put a stop to their prodigal profuse bleeding if they did but consider with what difficulty Nature brings this Solar Liquor to perfection how many hazards of becoming spurious and abortive it pusses through how easily it is stained by an extraneous tincture how often intermixed with something allogeneous and hostile to it how many elaborate circulations digestions and refinings it undergoes before it be throughly animated and made fit for the right use of the immortal Soul One would imagine by this Objection that the Generation of the Bloud were as difficult a work and required as much of sollicitude as the Philosophers stone and that the least errour would disappoint the process and eject the poor soul out of its tenement and mansion But there is not any such thing he that considers the perpetual supply of Chyle by the Ductus Thoracicus and with how much ease it is transformed a great part into Blood by the similar action of that which pre-existed in the veins together with the concurring aid of the Heart and sanguiferous emunctory vessels and the previous alterations in the stomach and intestines will imagine neither the production of Bloud nor the reparation of it to be so tedious and hard a matter Nor is it true that the Bloud is so easily stained with hostile tinctures since it is a liquor that is in perpetual depuration and hath the convenience of so many out-lets to discharge it self by Neither will every crudity in the immature Chyle or bloud render the blood unfit for the use of the immortal soul there is extraordinary and unimaginable difference betwixt the bloud of one person and another as appears upon distillation burning and mixing it with other liquors yet are all these within the latitude of Health and with equal perfection exercise the operations of Life Nor doth every allogeneous mixture vitiate or deprave the bloud for the Chyle Bloud and Flesh retain some particles of the original food taken into the stomach hence it is that sheep fed with pease-straw though as sat as others yield a flesh differently tasted from other mutton the like is to be observed in the feeding of other Animals generally Nor is this more evident in other Animals than 't is in Men for not to mention those Medicaments which by the alteration they make in the Vrine do demonstrate they have passed along and been once mixed with the bloud as Cassia Rhubarb Annise-seeds c. In fonticulis observavi quod si praecedente die aliquis allium aut cepam comederit pus quod in fonticulo est odorem allii aut cepae obtinebat sanguis autem qui per fonticulum expurgatur non nisi per venas expurgari potest unde possumus dicere quod sanguis acutum odorem detinere possit The like phaenomenon is to be observed in wounds and ulcers which feel detriment

warmth and concurrence of the contemporary fabrick for the first blood can neither give a beginning to its self nor is it comprehensible how the weak impulse thereof should shape out all the veins and Arteries in the body according as they are scituated Out of which it is ●vident that the Soul or Plastick form doth at first reside and principally animate in the Spermatic parts so called not that they are delineated out of the Sperme but out of the Colliquament which is Analogous to it and that they are her first work the blood is but the secundary and generated out of the Colliquament for other Materials there are none by the Plastic form which is the proper efficient thereof and besides the Auxilary Heat there are no other instrumental aids but the spermatick vessels wherein the Colliquament at first flows to the punctum album which when blood is generated do become the Heart and sanguiferous Channels This is avowed by Doctor Glissen himself Liquor hic vitalis antequam sanguinis ruborem induit sese a reliquis ovi partibus quibus promiscue commiscetur segregare incipit in rivulos seu ramificationes quasdum excurrere quae postea venas evadunt Rivuli isti in unum punctum col●untes in eum locum conveniunt qui postea punctum saliens cor appel●●tur Idque fieri videtur diu antequam sanguinis aliquod vestigium compareat Herewith agree the most exquisite Observations of Doctor Highmore Most certain it is by the History of Generation that no Parenchymatous part hath any operation in the first production of the blood all their ●arenchymas being post-nate thereunto And if the blood be thus generated at first it is but rational for us to imagine that it is alwayes so generated during life For as it is true that the same cause acting in the same manner will alwayes produce the same effect So in this case to argue from the identity of the eff●ct to the identity of the cause is allowable Est enim causarum identitas quae fa●it ut effectus sit idem quippe effectus supponitur non esse donec a causis existentiam suam indeptus ●uerit dum existentiam illam largiuntur oportet ipsius quoque identitatem impertiant qua sine effectus ipsemet nequaquam fuerit That the Spermatic vessels in which the blood moves do contribute to ●anguification much seems apparent from hence that the blood is seen in them before it is in the heart And because it is observed that the fluidity of the blood seems to depend much on them and therefore in the dead it doth not coagulate except praeternaturally in the veins though it do commonly in the Heart or wheresoever it is extravasated Manat praeterea aliquid a venis nobis incognitum quod dum earum ambitu sanguis concipitur prohibet ●jus concretionem etiam post mortem in cadaveribus jam perfrigidis nequis hoc colori acceptum ferat quod vero coralliorum instar aliquando repertus est concretus in venis ipsis hoc merito Fernelius ascribit morbo occulto And not only the ●●uidity but motion of the blood seems to depend much thereon for if by a l●gature the impulse and succession of blood be prevented yet will the blood in the veins continue its course and not stagnate Exempto e corpore corde motus tamen sanguinis isque satis c●ler in sanis videntur Et si vena ulla etiam lactea duobus locis ligetur laxata ea sola ligatura quae cordi propinquior est dum partes adhuc calent semper Chylus ad hepar sanguis ad cor cum movebitur qui nec a corde per Arterias nec ab intestinis per lacteas objecto potuit obice propelli nec stuiditate sua potius sursum quam deorsum movetur The truth hereof seeming undeniable to Pecquet he makes use of a new Hypothesis to solve this motion of the blood as if it arose from compression of other parts or contraction in the vein it self But the Phaenomenon will appear in such cases as admit not this pretence From these reasons it is that the blood doth not need so much as any pulse in the veins and arteries as appears in the first faetus but as soon as it comes to the Heart it does to prevent coagulation the punctum saliens being endowed with no such quality practiseth its systole and diastole when yet no such motion is observable in the Arteries at that time Whence the colour of the blood ariseth is a secret unto me I know that digestion reduceth some Juyces to a redness in some Fruits the ●ire doth the like in some the mixture of acid Liquors begets a Vermilion But here I conceive none of these causes produce the effect● the generation of the blood is manifestly an Animal Action and as such unsearchable Whatever I attribute to the veins it is not to be expected that supposing they should instrumentally sanguifie the blood should turn blew from them any more than that water put into new vessels of Oak should turn white whereas it becomes reddish Thus the Plastic form produceth blood at first and whilest th●re is no first concoction in the stomack supplieth that defect by that albuiginous Colliquament which is of the same nature with the Chyle we digest our meat into and convey by the Lacteous Thoraciducts into the Heart That it is of the same nature appears hence that it resembles it and that it is extracted from the Blood of the Mother and produceth in the Embryo the like excrements of Choler and Vrine and Mucosities nay it hath been observed by Riolanus to have been tinged yellow How much more may be concluded hence in favour of the Galenical aliment●ry humours supposed to consti●ute the Blood I leave those to judge who consider the variety of female constitutions and their condition during their being with child perhaps the Hypothesis of a proportionate mixture of the five Chymical Principles will not seem more colourable Having thus related how Sanguification is performed in the Faetus at first I come to give an account how it is performed afterwards and even here it seems an Action perfectly Animal for even Concoction in the Stomach is not the bare ●ffect of Heat elixating the meat nor of acid or saline Ferments dissolving it nor of any other kind of imaginary Fermentation But 't is the effect of an Animal power operating upon the Meat in the stomachs of sundry Men and Animals by several wayes This appears most evidently herein that the same meat eaten by several Persons or different Animals produceth different Blood and different Excrements therefore Chylification is an Animal operation and is modulated by the speci●ick and individual constitutions Having thus determined of things that the Soul in all these actions is the Efficient we may consider that the meat being masticated in the mouth and commixed with the salival juyce