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A56500	A new method of physick: or, A short view of Paracelsus and Galen's practice; in 3. treatises. I. Opening the nature of physick and alchymy. II. Shewing what things are requisite to a physitian and alchymist. III. Containing an harmonical systeme of physick. Written in Latin by Simeon Partlicius, phylosopher, and physitian in Germany. Translated into English by Nicholas Culpeper, Gent. student in physick and astrologie, dwelling on the east-side of Spittle-fields, neer London.; Medici systematis harmonici. English.	Partlicius, Simeon, fl. 1620-1624.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1654 (1654)	Wing P612; ESTC R203157	135,087	369

Healing In Method they observe not only Physical Indications but also the motion of the Heavens As pertaining to Instruments they consider the Difference Composition and Proportion of Medicines both Chyrurgical and Physical they never regard Diet much in the Cure of Diseases and this Paracelsus not only taught but also practised for he would drink with his Patients night and day or else he is belyed Thus you have the general Definition of Medicine What follows now but that we give you an Idea of our Hermonical Systeme in two Tomes Whereof the first shal contain the Theorick and the latter the Practical part Tome I. Of the Theorical part of Medicine THis is divided into two parts Remote and Neer Remote which is common both to Physick and Natural Phylosophy and is called the Knowledg of things Natural is either General or Special Of the General Knowledg of things Natural Or the Object of Medicine and Alchymy 1 THe General knowledg of things Natural is the Remote part of the Theory of Medicine which treateth of the Object of Medicine or Matter of curing the Natures Parts and other Accidents of al Elementary Bodies By others 't is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 The Common Affections thereof as also the Species are to be considered LIB I. The Common Affections are called Special 1 SToicheiologia Special is that which delivers the common Principles of Elementary Bodies 2 It is derived from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies an Element an λέγω which signifies to speak 3 Its Parts are either the first or those which arise from the first 4 The first are Principles Elements and the Qualities which are in the Elements 5 Parts arising from the first are Mixture and Generation and the Temperament which ariseth from the Mixture of Qualities Chap. 1. Of Principles 1 A Principle is that whereby one thing or another gets its beginning 2 And this is called either the First or a rising from the First The first is called Nature Naturing the second Nature Natured 3 The First is by which and from which all things are made but that subsisteth by it self and draweth the original of its Essence from nothing and therfore Plato in his Phoedon cals God Nature Naturing 4 That which hath his Original from the first which we cal Nature Natured is that by which all Natural things subsist and from which they borrow their Name viz. Natural 5 Nature then is double Universal and Particular 6 Universal is the Power of the God-head spread through the whol World according to which Nature acts 7 This is taken 1 For that Divine Vertue which God hath planted in al things 2 For the Influence of the Stars by which he acts it in al things 3 For the Moderater and Nourisher of all Natural Bodies 4 The Pithagoreans call'd it God himself Virgil an Internal Spirit and Plato the Soul of the World 8 The Particular Principle or Nature is every Natural Body taken as consisting in Matter and Form 9 Matter is the first Subject by which things are made 10 Form is the Manner or Example they are made by Chap. 2. Of Elements 1 AN Element according to Philip Melancton is a Simple Body containing in it the Seeds of all mixt Bodies 2 It is two-fold either Opacous which is an Object of the Sight or Transparant Transparant either more or less Less as the Water More as the Air and Fire 3 The Earth is an Element obscure cold and dry 4 The Water is an Element less cleer very moist and somthing cold 5 The Air is an Element very cleer somthing moist and very cold 6 The Fire is an Element cleerest dryest and hottest 7 Elements and Principles differ 1 Elements are Corporeal Principles Incorporeal 2 Principles are the Objects of Reason Elements of Sence 3 Principles are first and immediate Elements compounded of the Principles for they consist of Matter and Form and if you wil take Elements as Principles then take them as Sensible Principles consisting of Matter and Form Chap. 3. Of the three Principles of Alchymists which are contained in every Natural Body and give it its Constitution as also of the Faculties and Properties of the Elements and their Number according to the Doctrine of Hermes 1 IN this particular Alchymists reject the Opinion of Aristotle altogether 2 According to Paracelsus the first Matter of al things is a certain great Mystery not perspicable to Sense which contains in it somthing after an hidden and invisible way 3 According to the Opinion of later Alchymists it is an Essential Subject containing all Forms in it or a certain Punct from which all things flow and to which they return as to their Center Plato cals it the Soul of the World 4 The Principles are either such things as are Simple or Bodies composed of them 5 Simples are such as consist of themselves from whence al other things come and to which they return 6 Compounds are such as are made of these Simples and return to them again and they are divided into Bodies Formal and Material 7 Both Simples and Compounds then are either Invisible as Formal and Spiritual or Visible as Material and Corporeal and these are contained in every individual Substance 8 Those that are Invisible are contained within those that are Bodily as the Soul is in the Body and the Spirit in whatsoever lives whereby it not only preserves it self but begets its like 9 They are double Active and Passive 10 Actives are nothing else but the Forms of Natural things which God gave by his blessing at the first and they have continued ever since 11 Passive as Seeds Roots Plants Constellations c. 12 Seeds are a vital beginning containing within it self the Spirit of what it is a Seed of by which it produceth again its own Body Tast Color Quality Magnitude and Figure 13 Constellations are ordained by their Motions to order the Actions of Natural things both of Herbs living Creatures and Minerals to concoct their Nourishment to separate their Excrements to supply them in matters belonging to Procreation and Increase both continually and constantly 14 Roots are that which dispose to Action Maturity and Fruitfulness both Plants and Trees 15 Seeds act by another invisible way and have a strange kind of Power within them to beget their like having their like within them only in respect of Power and they are 1 Of Living Creatures provoked by the power of Venus 2 Of Plants shut up in their Seeds 3 Of Minerals which is cover'd with a bulk of Rubbish Al these have hidden Spirits in them 16 The Formal Principles or Active Bodies are three whereof two are moist and one dry The two moist are Mercury and Sulphur That which is dry is Sal. These Hermetical Physophers cal Spirit Soul and Body These three Principles although they are Spiritual yet being joyned with Simple Elements they make up Material and mixt Bodies 17 Mercury is that sharp penetrating pure and Aetherial Body

that Aerial Subtil and Spiritual Substance the next Instrument of Life and Form 18 Sulphur is that moist sweet oyly viscuous Substance the food of heat indued with a glutinative Quality 19 Sal is that salt dry and purely terrene quality representing the Nature of Salt indued with wonderful Vertues having power to dissolve coagulate clense evacuate and to perform such like actions 20 The Visible Elements are two one dry which is the Earth the other moist which is the Water 21 The Earth is a Body separated by the Water from Sal Sulphur and Mercury It is called Terra damnata Ashes and Caput mortuum 22 The Water is an insipid flegm destitute both of Sal and Sulphur only moistening without any manifest strength or force 23 There are two Elements then you see Earth and Water 24 The Air seeing it cannot be separated is therefore mixed with Sulphur or more especially with Mercury 25 We acknowledg no other Fire than that which they cal in English the Sky the Greeks Aether from burning 26 The Heaven is then the fourth Formal or Essential Element or rather the fourth Essence extracted from Elements and Principles You have the Principles and Elements The Qualities follow Chap. 4. Of both first and second Qualities 1 QUality is an Affection of Body which demonstrates what it is or the Form which moveth the Sences 2 Qualities are either the first because they are in Elements and Simple Bodies or such as arise from the first and are called Compounds 3 Quality is either manifest or hidden 4 Manifest and first is either Active as Heat and Cold or Passive as Driness and Moisture 5 Heat is the first Quality which heateth 6 Cold is the first Quality which cooleth 7 Moisture is the first Quality which moistneth 8 Driness is the first Quality which dryeth 9 The Heaven according to Plato and the Astrologers is the first Principle of Heat according to the Peripateticks it is Elementary Fire 10 You have the first Qualities Those which arise from them follow And they are either Simple or Mixed 11 Simple are such which principally consist from the first as 1 Rarity and Lightness from Heat which moves upwards 2 Thickness from Cold which moves downwards 3 Softness and Thinness from moisture which yeilds to touching 4 Hardness from Driness which resists touching 12 You have the Simple Qualities the Mixt follow which are Tast Smel and Color 13 Tast is a Quality arising from a straining of an Earthy Body through a Moist by the force of Heat 14 It is double Mean and Extream 15 Mean causeth Sweetness and Fatness consisting of an hot and moist Quality 16 Extream is that which shews 1 More Heat as sharp bitter and Salt 2 Remiss Heat or rather Cold as Tart Austere and Sower 17 A sharp tast proceedeth from strong heat and thin driness as in Pepper Onions c. 18 Bitter hath not so subtil a Driness nor yet so strong an heat as in Wormwood 19 A Salt tast hath a thicker Driness and less Heat as in Salt 20 A Tart tast consists of very much Cold or else of very remiss Heat and Driness as in Crabs Verjuyce and wild Pears 21 Austere consists of less Coldness and Driness as in our English Grapes 22 Sowr consists of a thin driness and mean cold as in Vinegar 23 You have the Tast the Smel follows Smell is a Quality arising from the straining of Moisture through Driness caused by Heat 24 'T is either Mean as Sweet and Fat Or Extream in which 1 By greater Heat it is Sharp Bitter and Salt 2 By remiss Heat it is Tart Austere and Sowr 25 You have the Smel the Color follows Color according to Philip Melancton is mixture of Transparant Bodies with Opacous 26 It is either Simple or Mixed 27 Simple is that which immediately consists from the qualities 28 It is either exactly Mean as Redness or less Mean as other Colors 29 You have the the Manifest Qualities the Hidden follow Which are certain special Vertues which Physitians can give no Reason for 30 These are two-fold which the Learned cal Idiocratia and Pathema 31 Idiocratia is a Property working by it self for which a Reason cannot be given neither doth it cal for help from any thing else And so Fennel cures the Eyes and Peony the Falling-sickness 32 Pathema consists in Sympathy and Antipathy Sympathy is a mutual Love one thing hath with another Antipathy is a Hatred in the like Nature Both of them are Natural and may cleerly be seen both in Living Creatures Plants and Minerals And now by the leave of my Author I would fain demand of some of the Rabbies of our times Whether God when he made the Creation made not a Rational piece of Work If so Whether a Reason may not be given for every thing in the Creation If that be granted me too then What hidden Vertue can there be in things I cannot indure such sleepy businesses which are maintained by few the Brats of Dr. Ignorance and Dr. Laziness excepted 33 You have the Principles Elements and Qualities of the Dogmatists which Hermetical Phylosophers very ingeniously comprehend in Principles Visible and Invisible Mixture and Generation arising from these now follows Chap. 5. Of Mixture and Generation in the General 1 HEre come Two things to be considered 1 General That which is needful to Generation and Putrefaction as Alteration and Mixture 2 Special as Generation and Putrefaction or the Temperature which comes from Mixture and Alteration 2 Alteration is a Motion or Effect whereby another quality is procured 3 And it is either Simple or Compound 4 That is Simple which contains but one quality in it and operates either in Actives or Passives 5 In Actives it is a Heating which is an Alteration whereby the Cold is expelled or else a cooling wherby Heat is served with the same Sawce 6 In Passives it is a moistning whereby Dryness is converted into Moisture or else a Drying whereby Moisture is changed into Driness 7 A Compound Alteration is that which contains more qualities in it self and 't is called Concoction 8 Concoction to wit of mixt things for the Concoction of Living Creatures is another manner of business is an Alteration tending to Perfection 9 It is Three-fold Maturation Elixation and Assation 10 Maturation is a Concoction by which the Fruits of Trees and Plants wax ripe 11 Elixation is a Concoction made by the Heat and moisture of a thing which is within it self as things putrefie 12 Assation is a Concoction made by external Heat and Driness as Meat is roasted Chap. 6. Of Mixture according to the Opinion of the Dogmatists and Hermetical Phylosophers FIrst According to the Opinion of the Dogmatists 1 Mixture is an Union of Bodies to be mixed for Alteration 2 In matters of Passion it consists in qualitie or substance Matters Active are imployed in acting 3 The four Elements are in al mixt Bodies according to form and quality Secondly According

Physitian gets confidence of the sick Party partly by his own Nature partly by the help of other men That a Physitian may get confidence in his Patient by his own Nature let him carry himself like a wise man as wel as like an Artist Cicero said true when he said That in all Arts nothing memorable or worthy of praise could be done without Wisdom If a Physitian carry himself rigidly and not respectively towards his Patients he affrights them if they like not his person they wil like his Medicine much less you may see this in Chyrurgions when they let people blood If the sick be afraid the blood retires and he seldom bleeds as he should do But if he come cheerfully and have good confidence in his Chyrurgion he bleeds wel So if the party dislike the Medicine either he vomits it up again or retains it in his Body that it never operates Cornelius Celsus was of opinion That the prudence of a Physitian did more good than his Art and Socrates included al Vertues in this one word Prudence And Celcus held That a pratling Physitian was another Disease to the sick Chap. 6. Of the Authority of Physick PHysical Authority endowed with the Ornaments of Body Mind and Estate coming out into the World to act is to consider 1 Its Duties 2 The Persons An Idea of Hippocrates his Aphorisms concerning Duties 1 The Duties of a Physitian unless limited within the bounds of Method are innumerable 2 He ought to have a quick eye to the Air Earth and Water of the place where the sick is 3 He ought to observe the operation of the Chyrurgion seek out fit Remedy for the Disease and leave necessary Precepts with those about the sick 4 He ought to enquire after the Disease of the sick and of those that stand by diligently to heed when the change wil be and what the event wil be 5 The whol course of his Physick ought to be only an Imitation of Nature 6 He ought to communicate what he knows to be true to his Scholers 7 He ought to warn the sick of their Duty to terrifie them that are secure and to cheer up those that are faint hearted 8 Let him not perform his Office negligently nor rashly 9 Let him take Occasion by the Fore-top and expect patiently what the end wil be 10 Let him not be too confident in what he expects neither let his courage fail if it fal out otherwise 11 When he takes a Patient in hand let him shut rashness and fearfulness out of doors 12 Let him be ashamed of no work or operation that belongs to Physick 13 Let him fly rashness and headiness in al his actions 14 Let him use Gravity in his Apparel Speech Gate and every thing else 15 In commanding things necessary in forbidding things hurtful in reproving Errors let him be of an Heroical spirit and do it with Authority 16 Let him be very gentle to and familiar with sick people 17 Let him give Physick to the poor freely and without reward 18 Let him have a special care of sick strangers 19 In dangerous Diseases let him do good to such as are ingrateful and Covetous 20 Let him be ready nimble and clever in all his actions 21 Let him want no Physical Instruments at home but carry only such abroad as are necessary 22 Let him keep the Forms as wel of Compound as Simple Medicines in his memory 23 Let him prescribe as wel what Diet as what Medicine the sick ought to use 24 As for such things the sick hath a desire to let him not so follow his humor that he encrease his Disease nor so rigidly oppose him that he perplex his mind 25 Let him be wel skil'd in the operations of Chyrurgery that so if a Chyrurgion be wanting he may perform his place speedily securely and safely 26 Let him alwaies have a special regard to the former Custom and present strength of the sick 27 Concerning Duty his Office is First To prescribe a Diet which strengthens Nature and resists the Disease Secondly To loosen the Belly with gentle Remedies as Subpositoris Clysters c. Thirdly If Blood abound to breath a Vein Fourthly To use Apozemes to cut the matter causing the Disease Fiftly To prepare tough humors for expulsion Sixtly To purge them out Seventhly To draw humors back to use Diurecticks Rubbings Cupping Glasses to cause sweat Eightly To draw the Disease to the external part of the Body Ninthly To draw it out by Baths or Issues Tenthly To dissipate the matter remaining and strengthen the part Eleventhly To recover strength with good Diet. 28 Let him keep a Method of Physick in his Study such a one as you shal find in the following Scheam First Let him have a Catalogue of Authors both Galenists Paracelsians and Empericks Secondly If he travel let him keep a Diary Thirdly Let him set down by themselves what things he finds worthy of observation Fourthly Let him keep a Garden of Herbs of his own Fiftly Let him set down his best Experiments in such an order that he may know redily how to find them Sixtly In the morning let him cal to mind what he did the day before Seventhly In the afternoon 1 Let him walk abroad to know and gather Simples 2 Let him confer with Galenists Paracelsians and Empericks 3 Let him visit the sick Eightly In the Evening 1 Let him consider what he hath done all day 2 Let him commit somthing to memory An Idea of Hippocrates his Aphorisms concerning Persons 1 Of Persons Some regard the Sick Some those that stand by And Others the Physitian 2 Cure the mind of the Sick with good Language before you attempt to cure his body with Medicine 3 Declare in loving Language to the Sick what is fitting for him to know so carry yourself towards him that he may not be too confident of Life nor too fearful of Death 4 What the Sick ought to do command peremptorily and make him not too confident of his life lest he disobey your Command 5 Keep close from the Sick that which is not fitting for him to know and if he suspect it either craftily dissemble it or cunningly make the best Interpretation of it 6 If the Patient be stubborn make the Disease worse than it is that he may obey If he be faint hearted tel him it is better than it is that he may not despair 7 Promise nothing directly but tel the Patient all the Work lies in the Power of God and his obedience 8 Somtimes use many Remedies somtimes but few according as the disposition of your Patient is either stout or faint-hearted 9 Let a Physitian be neither Covetous nor unfaithful above al things let him not neglect his Patients 10 Let the Physitian abstain from threatnings unless he deal with Mad-men Let him use modest Language and gentle admonition 11 Let him suffer none to be about the Sick but such as the Sick loves let him cause the rest to

c. VIII Pectorals as Scabious Orris c. IX Breeding Milk as 〈◊〉 Smallage c. X. Breeding Seed as Pease Beans c. XI Extinguishing Seed as Rue c. XII Helps Burnings as Plantane c. XIII Dissolves swellings as Marsh-Mallows Orris c. 18 You have the Manifest Qualities of Simples the Hidden Qualities follow 19 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all the 〈◊〉 cannot tell what to make of only their Ancestors gave them with good 〈◊〉 They have nothing to say for the 〈◊〉 of them but only Tradition and by that they are led by the Noses as they use to lead Bears along the street And in so doing pray tell me how much they differ from Empericks 20 You have the common Altering Qualities the Proper follow as they are attributed to certain parts of the Body Such are Cephalick Pectorals Cordials Stomachicals Hepaticals Spleeneticals Nephriticals Histericals Arthriticals 〈◊〉 if a Man should write plain English they are such as are appropriated to the Head Breast Heart Stomach Liver Spleen Break the Stone Cherish the Womb and the Joynts 21 You have such as Alter those that Evacuate Chacochymia follow And they do it by a Quality either Manifest or Hidden 22 They which Evacuate by a Manifest Quality are either washing clensing or making slippery 23 They which Evacnate by a Hidden Quality as they cal it do it either Insensibly as Sweating or Sensibly and that either upwards as Vomiting or downwards as Purging by Urin or Stool 24 Purging is either Moderate or Strong and 〈◊〉 certain Humors as Choller 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Water 25 You have the Qualities of Simples conducing to Health those conducing to Ornament should follow which because they rather consist of Compounds than of Simples we wil refer them to their proper place 26 Thus have you the qualities of Simples considered in General what now remains but that we enquire after the Special Anatomy of 〈◊〉 27 In every Medicine we must consider its common Affections and its Species 28 It s Common Affections are either its Subject as the place of gathering and preserving of them or Adjunct as the time of gathering of them and the time of their durance 29 According to Species the Medicine is made either of simple bodies or of mixed Of simple Bodies as Fir Air Water Earth 30 Of mixt Bodies either such as have life and not sence or such as have life and sence Such as want sence are such as come out of the Sea or 〈◊〉 out of the Land as Mettals Plants and their parts Thus you have the Signatures of the 〈◊〉 which are no certainer than they should be The Signatures of Hermetical Phylosophers follow which if you try you shal find a little more certain LIB IV. The Signatures of Hermetical Phylosophers both Internal and External by which they find out the Vertues of things 1 A Signature is either Internal or External 2 External is that which shews the Efficacy of a thing and somtimes the Temperature 3 It contains 1 The Signatures of Men taken from other Living Creatures 2 The Signatures of Plants by their similitude to some part of the Body of Man 3 The Signatures of Diseases 4 Medicines which help by similitude 4 Internal Signature is the Principle Cause 〈◊〉 and Foundation shewing the Vertue and Efficacy of a thing and it is called Vital Essential and Formal 〈◊〉 or Anatomy 5 These Internal Principles are three Sal Sulpher and Mercury 6 In these three constituting and vertual Principles the qualities that is Tast Smel and Color are found not by imagination and guess only but in Reality and Truth namely The Tasts are most found in the Salt the Smel in the Sulphur and the Colors in the Mercury 7 These three are found in every Elementary Body These are the things that bring it forth and preserve it being brought forth By these it flourisheth and is furnished with divers Operations 8 None of these three Principles are found alone but doth partake of some of the other for Salt by the benefit of these two Salts Sal Nitre and Sal Armoniack contains in it self a certain Oyly substance and Mercurial The Sulphur retains a certain Salt substance and Mercurial And Mercury retains a certain Sulpurous and Salt substance but it retains the name of that which it partakes most of Now what Analogy there is of these three with our Body I shal open God willing more plainly when I come to our 〈◊〉 Harmony which I promised before 9 Thus you have the Remote Theorick of 〈◊〉 the Neer follows Tome I. Part V. Of that part of the Theorick of Physick which is called Pathologia 1 THE next part of the Theory of Physick is that which explaineth the Universal Constitution of Man 2 In every Constitution four things are to be considered 1 The Disposition of the part to act 2 The Action 3 The Cause of the Action 4 The Consequence of the Action 3 Every Constitution of the Body is included under these three Differences namely Good Bad or neither of them both 4 Health is Good Sickness Ill Neutrality neither of them both Therfore Medicine is the knowledge of things Healthful Unhealthful and Neuter 5 Healthful Unhealthful and Neutrality is taken three waies 1 As a Body 2 As a Cause 3 As a Sign 6 A Body is said to be Healthful that enjoyes 〈◊〉 Health The Cause of Health is that which either brings it or preserveth it being obtained A Healthful Sign is that which shews the Body to be in Health 7 An Unhealthful Body is that which is surprized with a Disease The Cause is that which causeth the Disease The Signs are 1 Such as shew the kind and greatness of the Disease and they are called Diagnostical Or 2 Such as shew the Event of the Disease and they are called Prognostical 8 Neutrality is when the Body is neither perfectly wel nor yet sick between which two Extreams is a great Latitude For when a Man begins to fail in performing his Actions before he fals absolutely sick it is called a Neutrality of sickness when a man begins to recover again it is called a Neutrality of Health 9 The Causes of this Neutrality are no way 〈◊〉 neither are the Signs absolutely Demonstrative 10 The knowledge of things Healthful is called Hygiena or Diet under which also the knowledg of things Neutral is comprehended The knowledg of things Unhealthful if you regard the 〈◊〉 is called Pathologie but if you regard the Practice 〈◊〉 11 Pethal gie is 〈◊〉 part of Medicine which explaineth 〈◊〉 against Nature 12 The 〈◊〉 which are against Nature in Man are 1 The Disease which consists in the parts 2 The Cause which consists in the things contained of which we 〈◊〉 before 3 The Symptomes which consists in the Functions and Operations of the 〈◊〉 13 The Common 〈◊〉 and Species are to be considered in Pathologie 14 The Common 〈◊〉 is that which unfoldeth the Accidents of the Disease 15 It is called 〈◊〉 and