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The doctors physician, or, Dialogues concerning health translated out of the original French.; Dialogues de la santé. English. 1685
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Frémont d'Ablancourt, Nicolas, 1625?-1693.
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about to make you the receptacle of all the Bottles that remain iâ—… the Cistern as if it were worth the â—…hile to know how much exactly you â—…re able to hold Stomack I can no longer resist the evil that presses me Help help I sink under the burden Heart Extream Evils must have extream Remedies An Insurrection on such occasions is a great secret though I should even be reckoned the Author of it Courage we are now delivered from what lay heaviest upon us Stomack Ha! how much I am eased Heart In expectation of the return of the Appetite which is lost I have just now given order to Mr. Crap-sick to keep the door and suffer nothing to enter into your Quarters during the whole day On my part I shall bravely second the head-strongness of that new Porter I 'le demand nothing at all and refuse whatever may be offered me in the mean time to hinder the intrails from interrupting us I have ordered the Gall to make an entire evacuation of the place Stomack Ha! make use of some otheâ—… than of that blade for if the Physicians who pry into every thing perceiâ—… that he is concerned in our affairs they say I have got a Cholera Morbus and that will be enough to make me in a moment become an Apothecaries-shop Heart Give your self no troubleâ—… only take your rest I am going tâ—… recall the Spirits from the Organs that 〈…〉 may recruit and temper them during 〈…〉 long and quiet sleep Afterward wâ—… shall take the best measures we can thaâ—… we may not again Relapse into such 〈…〉 disorder Stomack I consent and with pleasure betake my self to sleep Alas that the heart cannot as well as I tast of these pleasures but why do I regret wheâ—… a Camp is beset with enemies and the Souldiers must have rest there is a necessity that the General watch Heart Say rather that in a Town Besieged and on all sides open it is only in the time of sleep and during the darkness of the night that the breaches can be repaired Second Dialogue Reason refusing to answer the motions of the Heart makes use of Prejudice to speak to him Prejudice The Heart Prejudice TAlk no more of that you shall never perswade me that we are able to judg what is good for the Health of the Body and far less that we know what is to be done to preserve or to restore it when it is out of order or lost Heart Were Reason here we should hear another kind of Language Preju I question very much that For if Physicians skillful and Learned as they are call others to their assistance when they themselves are sick how can silly Reason that never studied nor took a Degree understand Diseases distinguiâ—… Symptomes and proceed to a Cure Heart If the Degree made the Doctoâ—… Physicians of whom you speak woulâ—… know their own Diseases and Curâ—… themselves There can be no greateâ—… sign of their ignorance than theâ—… begging assistance of others Can 〈…〉 Lawyer know the matter of Fact betteâ—… than the Party on such occasions thâ—… question is not how to gild the Pilâ—… but how to Plead the Cause and that 〈…〉 a thing very well worth the labour 〈…〉 is our Life that is concerned and havâ—… we any thing more precious Concluâ—… then with me that the Body and Reasoâ—… constituting but one and the same persoâ—… there is a necessity that when thaâ—… suffers this should bestir it self for itâ—… relief Preju These Chimerical unions werâ—… good in those days when the Husbanâ—… and Wife were but one Body and onâ—… Soul that time 's past and Reason iâ—… convinced that no Man knowing him self we must wholly trust our Healtâ—… to those who labour day and night tâ—… find out a Specifick and proper Remedy for every Distemper Heart Ho ho where are the Physicians that Study to find out Specificks for Diseases They are Singing Birds whose skill consists only in a Note a Tone or a Cant that signifies nothing at all Preju That Note or Cant hath such Charms though that it may be said to be a Gold Chain which links the Patients Ear to the Physicians Mouth Heart What false steps do you cause Reason to make How do you lead her out of the way that Nature hath prescribed for enjoying perfect Health How dangerous is it to be possessed with Prejudice and not to see but with another Mans eyes what have you got by delivering us over to the Colledge is our Stomack the better for it do I droop the less for it Our feet are no longer able to carry us and the nodes and knobs of our fingers deprive us of the use of our hands See now how the specific Bills of your Doctors have compleated the ruine which your debauches began with pleasure Prejudice We know your Distempers and the causes of them better than you do They proceed only from the bad temper of your Constitution and a complication of your Infirmities Could one quench the burning heat of your Bowels without overcooling your Stomack or rectify the tone of this without over-heating your upper Region Heart Nay rather say that all our miseries proceed only from the draining of our Veins and the diversity of poysons that hath been given us And that 's the reason that in the midst of our career we suffer all the pains and anxieties of the most decrepid and unfortunate Old Age. Preju If you suffer blame the bad influences of your Ascendant for it and not your Physician who hath always timed his Remedies by the most favourable Signs and Aspects Hold your peace then or talk more discreetly Heart When Reason speaks and gives me Counsel I listen and obey But so â—…ong as she will not speak to me but by â—…our Organ and that in the Language of an Almanack too I shall only consult Nature Patience and Sobriety with the examples of those that live under their Laws of them I shall make experiments which agreeing with the Stomack are much better than all the raveries of your Mountebank Astrologers Preju We are much agreed upon the matter for what have we hitherto done but followed the inclination of Nature and granâ—ed the Heart and Stomack whatever they were pleased to demand Heart You have not followed Nature but your own Vicious inclinations and all the complaisance you have had has been for your own irregular Appetites and not for the Stomack and me This had never been if you had not made Reason transgress its bounds but since by so doing she hath forgot her functions it is my duty to tell you of it that you make her reflect Preju How now insolence but let it pass the Heart loves to comfort himself Heart Know then that Nature so soon as a Child is Born being willing to continue her work and carry it on to the end which she hath proposed to her self gives the Stomack new Orders to demand Food and the Intrails to make good use of
Savage What nonsense is this have not you holes and Emunctories enough without encreasing the number of them what must run in the Channel of our Rivers that are so necessary for the commerce of Life if you divert the rivulets Away away also with these stomagers and girdles that you use for fortifying your Stomack and cooling your Reins and throw your self Naked into this well Physician How stark Naked Savage What are ye affraid off here 's a great deal a-do indeed Courage Now that I have dipt you and made you drink of those waters and eat of those fruits tell me how you find your self I am much mistaken if you talk not in another strain Physician Ha! where am I I am overjoyed my Heart 's as light as a Feather but what do I see my old skin fall off my wrinkles are gone and my flesh is as plump and smooth as that of a young Child my grey haâ—â— fall off and black â—ome in their place What Vigour what Strength O how glad and pleased I am I always thought that the fountain of youth was but a Chimaera nevertheless I have found it who could have believed it but now who can doubt of it when they see me so fresh and young Savage Besides all these wonderful advantages have not cost one drop of Blood nor any thing that looks like Physick Physician On the contrary I have taken nothing that hath not seemed to me more delightful than Healthfull Savage Seeing you are perswaded of the truth of these things where can you better erect a Trophie of your spoils than upon this Mountain from whence the whole World may be seen for that end make use of that lovely Tree which is as an umbrello to those healing waters that shading us on all sides makes us enjoy the pleasure of that agreeable verdure which crowns the Banks Physician With all my heart For I make no doubt but that of all places where Nature delights herself this is the chief because of the variety of wonders that occur here The Plants do not only croud together to rob us of the sight of the Earth but by sending out flowers strive to outvie one another in the Glory of pleasing the eyes and perfuming the Air. What charming consorts do the gentle breezes and little Birds which sport in the Bushes make I am transported with joy ravished with delight and nothing can match my felicity Savage The more you express your extasie the more do I joyn with you in admiration of the virtue of our waters and the excellence of our Fruits I am hopefull also that you shall not rest there and I foresee that after this first transport which you could not hinder you shall obtain what you have so long wished for Physician There my Trophy is hung up will this way I have placed them in do and d' ye approve of these few words which I have put upon the Branch that carries them THE TROPHIES OF VANITY DEDICATED TO THE SOUL of the WORLD Savage Of Vanity that 's not enough for seeing you told me at your first coming that you were one of the Colledge of Physicians that must be put into the Inscription in Greek and Latin for it 's said that your excellency consists only in that Phy. Will you now put me to despair after you have given much cause to boast of your civility Vanity and the Faculty or Colledge is here but one and the same thing And then to what end Greek and Latin if no body in this Countrey understand them Nature Make no alteration in the Inscription I am satisfied with it Physician Who is this I hear Nature Thou hearest her whom thou callest The Soul of the World who touched at thy Confession am resolved to answer thy demands Speak only in a few words without Ceremony or preamble Physician What 's the reason that of late Men have so little regard to Life that they 'll make no more use of Physicians Nature Because Men love to live and Physicians kill them Physician I am very well satisfied that a Man of Sense who hath studied his constitution may during the whole course of his Life be without Physicians for if one turn but in the least in the little Circle of our ways of acting it is easie to observe that the revolutions are always the same Nature If Life consisted only in making several turns in one and the same Circle it would happen that instead of turning Children Men would turn young again Life is not what you take it to be When I light a Lamp I fill it with Oyl and leave the conduct of it to Reason which preserves it from the accidents to which it is obnoxious Nay I suffer her to dispose of her match as she thinks fit and thence it is that they who double it consume it sooner than they who divide it into small threads Physician We say the same also that Men cannot husband too well the radical moisture you speak of as of an Oyl or Balsam and therefore I think that in all thinks we agree with you Nature And for my part I think by your discourse that we agree in nothing at all Give him the other prick with a Pin to let out the rest of his vanity Physician At least this is common to us both that we Cure the Patient who calls for our help Nature Make a sieve of his Skull if he still persist in these foolish presumptions Art thou ignorant that I abhor Blood and hast thou forgot that Physicians thirst after it who never enter the House of a Patient but by force of Arms Terror going before and Death following them at the heels Physician And how do you enter there Nature I am there before the sick Person who calls me perceives it of my self I dart a beam of hope and gladness into his Heart And if the desire which I suggest to the Patient he not thwarted I shew him in my train Health conducted by Patience Physician Who dares to thwart you Nâ—ture Such a Physician as thee who neither understanding the Disease nor the Remedies that are proper for it busies thy self about the Patient in doing the Office of an ordinary Cook ordering Broaths Jellies and Barley-water as if thou laboured to increase the sickness by what the sick person has the greatest aversion to Physician Can one do better at first than to use light Food and benign Medicines expecting the Critical dâ—ys that we may observe what course you are about to take Afterwards following your foot steps we proceed to Purgatives For it is prudent not to hasten any thing in the beginning Nature When one falls can he be too soon raised up again Acknowledge frankly if thou would'st be instructed by me that it 's thy Ignorance and not the Disease which makes thee temporize Physician I confesâ— that in the beginning of a Distemper we have but very confused Notions of the evil and of the Remedies that are proper