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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50435	Ignota febris Fevers mistaken in notion & practice. Shewing the frequent fatal consequents thereof. Herein traversing the dissenting new hypotheses of some late writers: and erroneous opinions, of antique authors. With remarks upon bleeding, blistering, juleps, and the Jesuits pouder, in fevers. By Everard Maynwaringe, Med. D.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1698 (1698)	Wing M1495; ESTC R217776	69,714	170

Animal Spirits so positively asserted so much noted and often quoted I shall therefore call in some other Men eminently learned in this Science and justly so reputed to give their sentiments upon this matter controverted which perhaps may be more perswasive and definitive than what hath been said by me Dr. Charlton in his Enquiries into Human Nature there treating of Motion voluntary and how performed by Animal Spirits according to the Opinion of the Ancients He saith Page 495. But in this our more illuminate Age Fate hath brought forth some Physicians of this Nation and Colledge of most profound Learning and admirable Sagacity of Spirit who laying aside that so antique Hypothesis of Animal Spirits as both improbable and unnecessary hold it to be sufficient to solve all the Phaenomena of voluntary Motion if it be supposed That the dictates of the Soul are transmitted from the Brain to the Nerve and Muscle to be used not by emission of any Substance whatsoever but by a meer contraction of such fibres of the Brain as are continued to that Nerve And Page 501. he saith deridingly We Physicians indeed speak magnifickly of Spirits Animal as of the plenipotent and immediate Instrument of the Soul in all her Operations upon the Body Yea more in a preternatural State also we make them only not omnipotent For what Disease of the Brain can ye Name which hath not been referred to their Vices Afterwards Page 503. And yet notwithstanding after all our specious Discourses of these Emissaries of the Soul Animal Spirits we are distracted by various Opinions concerning them still anxiously inquiring of what Matter in what Place and how they are generated what are their Qualities Motions Ways and Manner of acting and in fine uncertain whether they be real Creatures of Nature or only the Idols of human Imagination And Page 515. he adds Perhaps then we are equally uncertain whether there be in rerum Natura any such things as Animal Spirits of distinct Species from the vital Spirits or not Truly my Opinion is that we are so And no less Man than Dr. Harvey expresly denied their existence De generat Animal exercit 70. Nihil sane in corpore animalium Sanguine prius aut praestantius reperitur neque Spiritus quos à Sanguine distinguunt uspiam ab illo separati inveniuntur So do all the Peripatetics hold against Galen Vnum esse duntaxat spiritum vitalem singulis partium omnium officiis deservientem Joan. Imperial de Ingen. human Page 52. And Sir G. Ent Antidiatribae pag. 141. Ego praeter unum sanguinis calorem nullos in animali spiritus agnosco sed in partibus singulis privum hospitari sensum qui ad Animae imperium excitetur You see now the concurrent Opinions of these great Philosophers and Physicians against Animal Spirits and that they have no Being but only in the Fancies of some Men. Then Dr. Morton's whole Doctrine of various kinds of Fevers is fictitious null and void and the Indications from thence in Practice must needs be false Guides extravagantly leading out of the right way of Curing And now I must make use of this Author 's own words as levelling against himself An enim fas est ut ii qui falsas fictas tantum Morborum causas contemplantur veram eorundem vivam Ideam ratiocinando unquam formarent eventum certum denunciarent vel justas Indicationes at que aequam Medendi Methodum Stabilirent Praefat. ad Lectorem Pag. 11. To establish the verity of Animal Spirits and to perswade a belief thereof This learned Author tells us that the Existence of Animal Spirits may be proved with as much Demonstration and a like Reason as the Soul it self Because they are both known only by their effects and not à priori Hoc modo existentia Spiritus Animalis atque Animae ipsius aequaliter demonstrari potest adeo ut utriusque existentia pari ratione vel agnoscenda vel neganda sit Page 7. I beg his pardon and must deny that equality of Proof for Reasons following First There is a Necessity of allowing and owning the Architectonic Spirit the vital Principle Anima that formed the Machine of Human Body and is Supreme Moderator in the Government The Specific Form is not to be questioned or doubted in every Creature but that there is such which gives the Being and the Distinction from others only the quiddity and quality thereof may be doubted and controverted Secondly None have denied nor so much as doubted of the Souls Existence the Heathen Philosophers not excepted but they have denied Animal Spirits from the difficulty of Admittance Thirdly There is a great Disproportion and Inequality of Proof between a Thing that must be and can by no Reason be denied but assented to by All And a Thing dubious that may not be that by many is denied to be from valid Reasons where there is no Necessity for the use of it and where is great Difficulty and Discord of Opinions in proving the Reality and Certainty thereof Fourthly The Effects of the one are so manifest as altogether undeniable But the reputed and supposed Effects of the other are so dubitable disputable and improbable that many learned Men of the highest Rank do not own such Effects to proceed from Animal Spirits but have assigned other causes to produce those Effects Wherefore Equality of Proof does not and cannot possibly so appear Here we might end as not expecting to gain Information of Fevers by farther Disquisition herein since this first Position being the Basis of the whole work is but an imaginary and erroneous Supposition Yet for Discourse sake and to observe the Novelties dependant upon these Supposed Animal Spirits we will proceed a little farther and take notice of some remarkables Spiritus Animales esse 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seu primum Principium activum quasi fermentum universale totius Corporis à quo Sanguis humores varie agitantur immutantur non dubito Dr. Morton de Puretolog Pag. 12. This is a Note above Ela that passes my understanding This Sounds Metaphysically appertaining to non Entities such as Animal Spirits and above the lower Region of Notions in Physick If this Report be true there is a strange Revolution in the Monarchy of the Microcosm The Supreme regent Principle Anima is dethroned and Animal Spirits have usurp'd the Government Anima which was Forma informans and always Principium Regens must now truckle under the Power of Animal Spirits according to this new Doctrine I never met with any that ascribed such a Domination that gave away the Priority and Supremacy to Animal Spirits That is an Assertion against the Prerogative of the Regent vital Spirit Anima which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first active Principle and the last acting ad terminum vitae and the only acting Principle potestate propriâ in Human Nature This is the Spring movent and all the rest are moved Animal Spirits

then Because the vital spirit is extinct which plainly does shew that preternatural febrile Heat efficienter is seated in the Life And that peccant febrile matter non fervet ex se contains no such heat in it self but produceth excitativè by irritating the vital Heat spiritus impetum faciens beyond moderation and its natural temper Fourthly A wound received and pain arising thence begets a Fever though a great effusion of blood doth happen therewith Now letting out the sulphur if such there were with the blood was more likely to prevent a Fever than to cause it if that Doctrine were true but I find the contrary that pain continuing the Fever continues also Fifthly Persons that are heated by great labour violent exercise or heat of weather if they drink a glass of Sack or other spirituous hot liquor it reduceth them safely to good temper and prevents a Fever But if they drink much small Beer after such heats thinking to cool themselves sooner that cold liquor commonly makes them sick and raiseth a Fever thereby Now observe that Sack and not spirits are more likely to kindle Sulphurous inflamable matter and a Fever from thence as small Beer and cool liquors most likely to prevent Fevers by that Doctrine But the contrary hereof does prove that inflamed sulphur is not the material cause of Fevers but any other offending matter Sixthly Wet and cold taking are oftentimes the causes of sickness and a Fever But such causes are so far from kindling Sulphur that they are more likely to damp and extinguish Sulphur kindled if any such inflaming matter were in Human Bodies All which does plainly shew that Fevers have not their Rise or any dependance from sulphur kindled in the Heart and that Doctrine erroneous founded upon false Principles I must now make this observation not to follow an Author by the cry of the People nor the Vogue of the learned Party who commonly are catcht with a fine dress of good latine not suspecting or not discerning the substance and matter thereof Since my writing I lately met with another Piece de Febribus much differing from the former Author who derived all the causes of Fevers from Sulphur of the Blood this only and wholly from a venemous Ferment infesting the Animal Spirits Dr. Morton Puretologia This novel Doctrine coming in my way I cannot pass it by without regard but must inquire into the verity thereof The common received learning that asserts Humours and Qualities this Author rejects as fictitious and useless to set forth and explain the causes of Diseases and their Symptoms Hoping to give a better account thereof by this new Hypothesis For setting forth and explaining of which he premiseth postulata quaedam Pag. 6. some precarious concessions promising to prove them afterwards which are these following 1. Dari reverà Spiritus animales This Assertion of Animal Spirits was the common received Opinion in former Ages and does yet keep up as a Truth not to be questioned in the Judgment of most for that they perform such necescessary offices in the Body as without their help many Functions they think must cease And in giving an Account of many Diseases especially such as are attributed to the Brain and Nerves they can give no probable Reasons without alledging and accusing the Animal Spirits setting forth their exorbitant Motions or preternatural cessations their interruptions or impetuous Influx their sluggish dull and torpid Fixations And scarce any Passion is named but the Spirits are Actors and by them All that is done or should have been is imputed to the Spirits And Dr. Morton gives a greater Prerogative and ascribes more Power to Animal Spirits in the Government of the Body than others have primum Principium activum totius Machinae p. 6. and bottoms his new Hypothesis upon Animal Spirits quasi fermentum universale totius corporis p. 12. making them universal in the causes of Diseases and as generally necessary in a State of Health to perform all vital Actions If this be so 't is very fit we should all know and assent to it Notwithstanding it is so undoubtedly asserted I question whether there be any such distinct Beings in Human Nature as Animal Spirits or only the Fancies of Mens Invention And my Reason perswades me to deny their Existence First Because their Matter and Manner of Generation their Ways and Motions are so uncertainly and contradictorily set forth by disagreeing Judgments Secondly For that all human Actions internal and external may be performed without their help and a rational and full Account of all Diseases may be given without them Entia non sunt multiplicanda sine Necessitate I shall therefore divide Human Nature into these two grand Principles An Invisible Spirit And a visible organized Body with canals containing liquid alimentary Juices to feed and supply this wonderful Machine The first a Vital Active Regent Principle The latter altogether Passive and Instrumental under the Power and Domination of the former which is the Life More than these two comprehensive Principles I know none nor can admit of as necessary or useful in the composition or oeconomy of Human Nature No Subordinate nor Co-ordinate Agents such as Archeus Helmontii or Anima Sensitiva of the Antients Nor as Dr. Willis understands and holds the Animal Spirits to be the Sensitive Soul That Plastic or formative vital Principle termed Anima that delineated and fabricated the Body in the Womb does also govern and is the sole Efficient cause of vital Actions in the state of Health and also in Sickness Vnicus tantum est vitae Moderator nec plures From hence Vegetation Sensation and Loco-Motion without a Duplicity or Triplicity of Souls which elsewhere is set forth and proved Monarchia Microcosmi that I shall not repeat here True it is that the contained current liquors in the Body are various in colour consistence use and gradual Perfection Some elaborated as finer and more spirituous in the common Sence and Acceptation of artificial rectified Spirits Yet when all this is done by Defaecation and refining they are but liquors still of one continued cohaerent visible expanded Body and not separate Atomical Beings to act conjunctim aut divisim as divers Agents in combination or separation upon Occasions so requiring as the Notion of Animal Spirits does insinuate and are so alledged and taken in that Sence Now if what we have said be true and the Reasons cogent then Animal Spirits have no Residence nor Office in Human Nature and the Basis of that Author 's new Hypothesis is annihilated and all the derived Doctrine and depending Practice thereupon comes to nothing or to naught But in casting off so antique and beloved Opinion so frequently made use on to set forth the causes of many Diseases and that Book de Morbis universal acutis brings in Animal Spirits invenom'd almost into all Diseases as principal Causes That I may not be thought singular and absurd in denying the Existence of these