first Degree as Silver Litharge of Silver 2 In the second Degree as Quick-silver Lead Plumbago wash'd Lead burnt Lead Ceruss 4 Altering by a second Quality are 1 Binding as Allum Tutty Pompholix Vitriol Spodium Antispodium 2 Glutinative as Lead Allum Cadmia c. 5 Some by corrupting are venemous as Quick-silver Auripigmentum Morter of a Wall Litharge Ceruss Sandarach Earths 1 SOme expel Poyson as Bole Armoniack Terra Lemnia Terra Samia c. 2 Al Earths Cool 3 Thus much of Living Bodies not sensible Sensible Living Creatures follow 4 Living Creatures are either Irrational as bruit Beasts or Rational as Man But whether Beasts be Rational or no is more than my Author can tel I am deceived if he do not contradict himself in this very particular for in his first Book Chap. 8. he confesseth that Man learned both Physick and Alchymy from the Beasts Is not he that teacheth more knowing than he that is taught If my Author be minded to leave the Truth and follow Aristotle he should have said so But to follow my Authors Method and to leave his failings The Doctrine of Bruits is called Zoography but the special knowledg of Men Physiologie LIB IV. Of Zoography 1 ZOography is the Anatomy of Bruits 2. Of Bruits some are Insecta others whol 3 Insecta are either such as have Wings or such as have none 4 Such as have Wings are such as 1 Have but two Wings as Flyes Gnats Butter-flyes 2 Such as have four Wings as Bees Wasps Grashoppers Beetles Cantharides 5 Such as have no Wings are such as go upon the ground as Emmets Spiders Palmer Worms Woodlice Locusts Moths Fleas Of these some walk some creep some leap 6 Such as are whol are such as either live in one place or in divers 7 Such as live in divers places are such as live both on the Land and in the Water 8 Such are Otters Water Rats Sea Horses Crocodiles Crabs Frogs 9 Such as live only in one place are 1 Such as fly as Birds 2 Such as live upon the Earth as four footed Beasts 3 Such as live in the Water as Fishes Of Flying Creatures 1 These that fly in the Air are called Birds 2 Besides those parts which they have common with other living Creatures they have some peculiar to themselves as 1 Instead of a Mouth some have a crooked Beak as Kites Hawks Eagles Parrots 2 Some have a straight Bil as Crows Ravens Mag-pies Storks 3 Some have a broad Bill as Ducks and Geese 4 Some have a sharp Bill as Wood-pickers Thrushes and Finches 5 Some have short Necks as Crows c. 6 Some have long Necks as Storks Cranes Swans c. 7 Some their Tails stick out right as Hawks Black-birds Mag pies c. 8 Some their Tails are crooked as Cocks 9 Some their Tails stick upright as Ostridges 10 Some walk and some hop 11 Some seldom fly at all as Peacocks Hens c. Of four footed Beasts that go upon the Earth 1 They are either with Horns or without Horns Such as have Horns are either greater or lesser 2 The greater are either Domestical as Bulls and Cows or Savage as Stags Unicorns Rhinocerots Wild Asses 3 Of Beasts without Horns some are Domestical and others Savage Domestical are either greater as a Horse an Ass a Mule or lesser as a Sheep a Hog a Cat a Dog 4 Savage Beasts are greater or lesser The greater are a Lyon an Elephant a Dromedary a Leopard a Wolf a Cammel a Pardel a Bear a Tiger c. The lesser are a Fox an Ape a Dormouse a Hedg-hog a Mouse a Coney c. Of Creatures living in the Water 1 A Fish is a Creature of a cold and moist substance long Body and lives only in the Water 2 They have no Necks but their Heads are joyned to their Breasts Their Liver is usually divided into two parts But whereas my Author saith they have no Lungs he is mightily besides the Cushion for many River Fish have Lungs neither can they live with out breathing as Carps Pikes c. He was mistaken before in saying Bees have but four Wings or else I am mistaken in thinking they have six 3 Of Fishes some live in the Sea Some in the Rivers some have scales some have none 4 Thus much of Zoography In which my Author hath taken much pains to little purpose Tome I. Part III. Of special Physiologie Or the Subject and Object of the Physitian 1 SPecial Physiologie is the Theorical part of Medicine and treats of things according to Nature 2 The things which constitute our Nature are Elements Temperaments Humors Spirits Faculties and Parts 3 The common Affections of Man are to be considered as Elements and Temperaments of which before Or else the special 4 Special parts of Man are Soul and Body The knowledg concerning the Soul is called Psychologia The knowledg concerning the Body is called Anatomy LIB I. Of the Faculties and Functions of the Soul both General and Special 1. PSychologie is the knowledg of the Soul 2 The Soul is Proper or Common 3 Common is either more or less Common More Common is that which we cal Vegetable and is in al living Bodies Less Common is that which we call Sensible and is only in Men and Beasts and not in Plants But by my Authors leave Why not in Plants I think Aristotle hath led al the World into Errors If it were my present scope I could prove both by Scripture and Reason that Man consists of three parts Spirit Soul and Body But to let this pass Our London Gentlemen that Nurse Curiosities in their Gardens know wel enough that divers Plants are sensible and few that have written Herbals but have written of them Besides 't is apparant That vulgar Herbs which we tread upon when we walk the Fields are not only sensible of what is present but also have a fore-knowledg of a thing before it comes else what 's the reason the Leavs both of Cynkfoyl and Trefoyl usually appear not only disordered but also discolored twenty four hours before a storm comes It were a good thing if men would first learn to know themselves they might know the better what 's in Herbs afterwards But to return 4 The Soul of Man consists in Faculties and Functions 5 Of these Faculties some are incited in Man others Influential 6 The Influential parts are three Animal Vital Natural 7 The Animal is double Sensitive and Intellective 8 The Sensitive is either Apprehensive or Motive The Sensitive is called Sense 9 The Senses are Internal or External 10 The External are five Seeing Hearing Tasting Smelling and Feeling 11 The Internal Senses are Common sense Fancy and Memory 12 Motive senses are two-fold Appetite and Motive according to place 13 Appetite is three-fold 1 Natural as the desire of Meat and Drink 2 Affectional as the Motion of the Will 3 The desire of Pleasure 14 The Intellective Animal Vertue is called Understanding and consists
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
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
Anatomy of the Hand the Foot remains V. The Anatomy of the Foot 1 The Foot is the Instrument of Walking and contains all that part that is between the Hip-bone and the top of the toes and imitates the Hand as much as may be It is divided into three parts the Thigh the Leg and that which we cal the Foot which is also divided into three parts Tarsus Metatarsus and the Toes 2 Parts of the Foot are either Containing or Contained The Parts Containing are either Proper or Common The Common are Scarf-skin Skin Flesh Membrana and Fleshy Panicle Proper is the Membrana of the Muscles 3 Parts contained are Muscles Vessels and Bones The Muscles are either the thigh leg foot or toes 4 The Muscles of the Thigh are eleven of which 1 Five stretch it out as Gluteus major Me dius minor Iliacus Externus Piriformis and Triceps 2 Three Muscles bow it as Lumbalis 〈◊〉 internus Lividus 3 The other move it Circularly 5 The Muscles of the Leg are ten whereof 1 Five bend it as Longissimus Gracilis Senervosus Biceps 〈◊〉 2 Some extend it as these four Membranosus Vastus internus externus 〈◊〉 3 The other Muscle Popliteus moves it oblickly 6 The Muscles of the Feet are eight of which 1 Five extend it as Castrominius internus externus Plantaris Soleus Tibiaeus Posticus 2 The other three bend it as Tibiaeus anticus and the two Periei 7 The Muscles of the Toes are twenty three whereof some bend them some extend them and others draw them transversly 8 The Vessels of the Feet are Veins Arteries and Nerves 9 The Vein of the Leg is branched 1 Into the Saphaena which passeth by the inside of the Ancle where it is branched into four parts and distributed amongst the Toes This is the vein which is opened in afflictions of the Womb and Head 2 Ischias which passeth by the outward part of the Leg. 3 That which passeth to the Muscles 4 Suralis which at the Knee is divided into two Branches the one takes the inside the other the outside 10 The Artery is divided above the Knee and administers Branches both to the Skin and al the Muscles 11 The Nerves arise from the Marrow of the Back and pass through either the Joynts of the Loyns or the Os Sacrum 12 The Bones in each Foot are forty six One of the Thigh one Patella two of the Knee two of the Leg and forty of the Foot Thus you have the Parts Containing The Parts Contained are such as are fluid soft and upheld by others Parts Contained 1 Parts contained are either Humors or Spirits 2 Humors are either Natural or Influential 3 Natural is that which is called Humidum Radicale 4 Influential is either Primary or Secundary 1 Primary is either Natural or not Natural 2 Natural is either 1 Nourishing 2 Excrementitious 3 Participates of both 5 Nourishing is Blood and Flegm Excrementitious is either Profitable or Unprofitable 6 Profitable is Milk Seed the Water of the Blood and the Water arising from the first Concoction 7 Unprofitable are Tears Snot Spittle Menstruis Blood Sweat and Urine 8 Those which are both Excrementitious and Nourishing are Choller and Melancholly 9 Humors not Natural are the same with these only they keep not a due Decorum in Quantity Quality Motion and Rest. 10 They offend in Quantity two waies either by Abundance or Defect 11 Abundance or Repletion is two-fold Plethora and Cacochymia 12 Cacochymia is either Simple or Compound Simple is of Choller Flegm and Melancholly 13 The failings of Quality are either more Common or more Proper More Common are Corruption Putrefaction Malignity Crudity 14 More Proper are in respect of certain Humors and so 1 Choller corrupted is 1 Vitiline or like Yolks of Egs. 2 Eruginous like Vert-de-greece 3 Prassine like Juyce of Herbs 4 Azure 2 Flegm is 1 Acide sowr like Vinegar 2 Vitrial like melted Glass 3 Salt like Brine 4 Gypsum like white Mortar 3 Melancholly adust proceeding either of burnt Blood burnt Choller or salt Flegm 15 Thus much of Hmors the Spirits remain 16 Spirits are insited in or influential 17 Spirits insited in are two either innate Moisture or innate Heat 18 Spirits Influential are either Vital or Animal 19 The Innate Spirit according to Hermetical Phylosophers is An Astral and vital Body a Natural Balsom a vital Sulphur and a vital Mummy Hitherto of a Corporal Anatomy A Vertual Anatomy follows Hermetical Phylosophers 1 They have a double kind of Anatomy the one Local the other Essential Vital or Formal 2 The Local say they is that which every Butcher doth when he cuts open an Ox or a Calf which although Hermetical Phylosophers do not reject yet they would not have Physitians spend all their daies in pering upon that and neglect businesses of greater import 3 A vi tal Anatomy is that which dissolves every Body into its first Principles He that drives such a Model of Physick ought to be wel versed in the Natures and Properties of Seeds the Office of Elements and Principles the Generation and transplantation of Roots the Motion and Influence of the Heavens and Heavenly Bodies the Disposition not only of Dead but also of Living Bodies They do not cal that Lump of Flesh only the Heart which others do but whatsoever hath vital heat in it They cal every Cavity the Stomach nay every place in which there is any Concoction Every place 〈◊〉 contains any fruitful Seed is a Womb with them But the main Basis of their Art is the Harmony of the Creation and the due Consideration of that notable Agreement between things above and things below Tome I. Part IV. Of Vertual Anatomy Or the Harmony between the Macrocosm and Microcosm VErtual Anatomy teacheth the Harmony between one part of the Creation and another the Analogical Comparation and Reductions of things therby fetching its remedies and learning their strengths and vertues from the Book of Nature not of Galen 2 For whatsoever is in the Universal World is also in Man not according to a certain superficial similitude as some Fools prattle but in Deed and in Reality are contained in him whatsoever is in the whol Theater of the World 3 The Spirit of a Man communicates with God himself the Rational Soul with the Angels and the Body with the Stars and Earth 4 Paracelsus and most other Hermerical Phylosophers hold that Man hath a double Body the one Natural Elementary visible and tangable which was first made of the Slime of the Earth the other Invisible Insensible deduced from the Coelestial Influence of the Stars and this Crollius cals the Genius of Man his Domestick Laris the Instructer of Wise Men for he cannot abide Fools 5 This Analogical Comparation is to be considered in a double Manner 1 In respect of the Heavenly Bodies themselves 2 In respect of Medicines caused by their Influence Of these the Galenists knew either very little or nothing at all
Afflictions of the Breast 1 The afflictions of the Breast are either the afflictions of the Spiritual part of the Heart or of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The afflictions of the Spiritual parts are either 〈◊〉 or Symptomes 3 Diseases are in the Lungs the Pleura or the Cavity of the Breast 4 In the Lungs are distempers stretchings obstructions Inflamations Imposthume and Consumption 5 The afflictions of the Pleura is a Pleuresie 6 In the Cavity of the Breast is Suppuration 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and collection of Humors 7 The Symptomes of the Spiritual part are failings of the voyce difficulty of Breathing Cough Spitting of Blood 8 Failings of the voyce are Hoarceness and other failings 〈◊〉 of breathing is either Asthma or 〈◊〉 or Dysnea 9 The afflictions of the Heart are either 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All Diseases afflict the Heart 〈◊〉 such as come of venemous humors 10 Symptomes of the Heart are weakness of strength Faintings and Palpitation of Heart 11 The 〈◊〉 of the Breasts are either of the Body of the Breasts or of the Milk Of the Body of the Breasts is of the Breasts themselves or of the Nepples 12 The afflictions of the Breast are Encrease Decrease Inflamation Morbus Pilaris Hardness Ulcers Cancers The afflictions of the Nepples are Ulcers and Consumptions 13 The vices of the Milk are Congealation abounding and want 14 The afflictions of the inferior Ventricle are either in the parts dedicated to Nourishment or to Generation 15 Diseases in the parts dedicated to Nourishment are either in the Stomach or in the Guts or Fundament or in the Mesenterium or in the Liver or in the Spleen or in the Gal or in the Reins or in the Bladder The Afflictions of the Stomach 1 The afflictions of the Stomach are 〈◊〉 of the Throat Ventricle or of the Stomach it self 2 The afflictions of the Throat are either Diseases or Symptomes 3 Diseases are distemper hardness ulcers Symptomes are 〈◊〉 of swallowing and pain 4 Afflictions of the Ventricle of the Stomach are either Diseases or Symptomes 5 Diseases are distemper weakness inflamation imposthumes and Ulcers 6 The Imposthumes are three-fold 1 Such as cause pain 2 Such as afflict the Appetite 3 Such as hinder digestion 7. The Stomach because it is very sensible and especially the mouth of it is easily offended by any matter that sticks there and causeth Head-ach and Heart-burnings by consent of the parts 8 The Stomach because it is the seat of Appetite is afflicted either through failing or Corruption of Appetite 9 Appetite failing is either Queasiness or loathing of certain Meats 10 Appetite depraved is either Longings such as are incident to women with Child or immoderate Thirst. Or else it is immoderate as greedy eating and Dog like hunger 11 The Stomach as it is the Kitchin that concocts the Food is troubled either with Crudities ill Concoction Wind Belchings Risings in the Stomach Hiccoughs Vomitings both of Blood and Choller The Afflictions of the Bowels 1 The afflictions of the Bowels are either Disease or 〈◊〉 2 Diseases are Obstruction Binding Inflamation Imposthumes and Ulcers 3 The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not going to Stool 〈◊〉 Worms and 〈◊〉 4 Want of going to Stool is either very slow hard or altogether stopped 5 Fluxes are either with Wind or without Wind with Blood or 〈◊〉 or with Skins 6 With Blood is 〈◊〉 the Bloody-flux or Tenasmus or a Flux of the Liver or the Hemorrhoids 7 Pain of the Bowels is either the Chollick or Illiack Disease Afflictions of the Fundament and Mesenterium 1 Afflictions of the Fundament are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ulcers 〈◊〉 Itching Swelling sticking out of Hemorrhoidal Veins and falling out of the Fundament 2 The Hemorrhoids are either Internal or 〈◊〉 The Symptomes of them are 〈◊〉 flowing of Blood or a stopping of it against custom 3 The afflictions of the Mesenterium and Sweet-bread are Swellings either soft or hard and Inflamations Afflictions of the Liver and Spleen Gall Reins and Bladder 1 The afflictions of the Liver and Spleen are either Diseases or Symptomes 2 The Diseases are either of the Liver or of the Spleen 3 The diseases of the Liver are distemper corruption of the substance weakness obstruction hardness swelling inflamation ulcers imposthumes 4 The diseases of the Spleen are swelling obstruction hardness inflamation imposthume ulcers and wind 5 The symptomes both of Liver and Spleen are yellow and black Jaundice Hypochondriack Melancholly Atrophia or pining away of Flesh Cachexia or Dropsie which is three-fold 1 Anasarcha commonly called a dry Dropsie 2 Ascytes or an ordinary Dropsie of water 3 Timpanites a Dropsie of wind 6 The afflictions of the Gall are obstructions stone fulness and emptiness 7 The afflictions of the Reins are stone imposthumes ulcers and pain 8 The afflictions of the Bladder are the stone inflamation imposthumes ulcers failings in making water 9 Failings in making water and 〈◊〉 are Diabets or continual pissing often and unseasonable pissing when men are not able to hold their water Ischuria or stoppage of Urine Dysuria or pissing with pain Stranguria or pissing by drops pissing blood 10 These are the afflictions incident to the parts dedicated to Nourishment Those which are incident to the parts dedicated to Generation follow Afflictions incident to the Parts dedicated to Generation 1 They belong either to the Genitals of Men or to the Womb. To the Genitals of Men they either come from some internal cause or else they are subsistent in the Yard or Testicles 2 From internal causes especially proceed immoderate Lust 〈◊〉 or continual standing of the Yard the running of the Reins and want of carnal Copulation 3 The afflictions of the Yard are Phymosis as when the top of the Yard 〈◊〉 not be covered or being covered wil not open inflamation imposthumes ulceration Fleshy swelling and corruption 4 The afflictions of the Testicles are inflamation hard swelling and ruptures 5 Ruptures are of divers kinds and each kind hath got a name by it self Those belonging to the Testicles are these three 1 When the Omentum fal down into the Scrotum 2 When the 〈◊〉 fal down into the Scrotum 3 When both fal down into the Scrotum 6 The afflictions of the Womb are Diseases and Symptomes Diseases are either in the Womb it self or in the passage to it 7 Diseases in the Womb it self are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hardness 〈◊〉 that dropsie of the Womb usually though 〈◊〉 falsly called a Timpany the Mole afflictions of Wind and Blood 8 In the passage to the Womb are Imposthumes ulcers inflamation itching warts 〈◊〉 and bits of Flesh growing 9 The Symptomes of the Womb are stopping and overflowing of the Menstiuis the Flux of the Womb Whites falling out of the Womb and the 〈◊〉 of the Mother pain faults both in the Conception and Travel 10 Faults of Conception are Barrenness and vicious Conception 11 The occasion of Barrenness is 1 From the Man as Palsey in the Yard ill shape of the Yard stoppings and bruises of the Spermatick Vessels defect of the
faculty by its pleasantness nourishing and preserving the Body This is the Necter the Poets said the Gods drunk If this suffer Congelation it grows hard and this is the original of the Gravel and Stone 28 Sal reverberatus is the general Clenser of Nature It clenseth the Body of its filth by opening cutting purging provoking vomit urine and sweating whereby it purgeth and quickeneth the Body From this Salt ariseth Itch Scabs Tetters Ringworms Botches Boyls Carbuncles the French Pox and the Scurvy and all Diseases that afflict the Blood The Differences of Diseases 1 Of Diseases some are Simple some Compound Compound Diseases the Alchymists stand not much upon because they are only an impediment of the Actions 2 The Differences of Simple Diseases the Ancients laid down not so accurately but the Modern most accurately 3 Of Diseases some are from the Seeds others without the Seeds for Diseases of the Instruments of Strength the Figure of the Body and solution of Unity as Wounds and the like cannot arise from the Seeds but only such as afflict the similar Parts 4 They hold two kinds of Seeds of Diseases 1 Iliastrum that is when the Seed produceth a Disease as Pears Apples and Nuts produce their like Trees Of this Nature are Dropsies yellow Jaundice Gouts c. 2 Cagastrum which comes of Corruption as Pestilences Feavers Pluresies c. 5 They hold five Beings of Diseases 1 Immediately from God as the Pestilence in Davids time 2 Influential from the Stars 3 Natural when it happens through default of Nature 4 Mental when it proceeds from the imagination either of the sick himself or of some other under which head Witchcraft is included 5 Venemous which contains all Poysons both Natural and Artificial 6 All Diseases may be divided into these four Heads to which all other Diseases may be reduced as to their Fountains First The Falling-sickness to which may be reduced the Palsie Convulsions Vertigo Melancholly Apoplexy and fits of the Mother Secondly The Dropsie to which may be reduced al Imposthumes the yellow Jaundice and Cachexia Thirdly The Leprosie to which may be reduced al Ulcers Fourthly The Gout to which may be reduced the Chollick Stone Head-ach Tooth-ach c. 7 Of Diseases some are Coagulated others Resolved for some consist of the impurity of the seeds the fruits of which turns to Coagulation others to Resolution Diseases arising from Coagulation or gnawing in the Stomach Al Diseases of the Head and Throat all Diseases that come of parts stopped as the Chollick stone and all difficulties of urine Diseases of Resolution are all such as come by opening of those parts of the Body which should be stopped as Fluxes of all sorts Running of the Reins c. 8 Diseases are two-fold some proceed from the Food we eat others from Celestial Influence First Those which come by the Food we eat come by the impurity thereof which ought to be separated and expelled by the usual waies But when Nature is not able to administer her Functions as she ought to do the Disease takes Root in the Body which brings forth fruit in its proper and appointed time That which causeth these Diseases to take Root is Opportunity for they search out a place where the Natural Balsom is weak and the Spirits proper for the nourishing such an untoward Seed as Hemlock and Henbane grow neer the places where they empty Jakes and Wormwood neer Iron works because there both Earth and Air is convenient for them And then secondly Such as come by Celestial Influence take Root in our Bodies by the Air we breath in for as by the Blessing upon the Creation we receive our nourishment from it so by the Curse upon the Creation we receive the Causes of Diseases by it God is as the Sealer that the Seal and our Bodies the Wax that receives impression from it 9 The most exact difference of Diseases is drawn from these three principles Mercury Sulphur and Sal. Of Mercury come all Diseases of sharp and sowr Vapors Falling-sickness Apoplexies Palsies al kinds of Defluxions and Rhewms all Malignant and Epidemical Diseases arising either from Poyson or Infection of Air. If Sulphur be immoderate it causeth 〈◊〉 of al sorts 〈◊〉 al 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let so man wonder that Feavers and sleepy Diseases should come from one and the same Cause you admiration wil quickly 〈◊〉 so soon as you are unchained from Galen and a little better acquainted with Dr. Reason for the immoderate 〈◊〉 of Sack causeth sleep as well though it be extream hot as the immoderate taking of Hemlock Poppy or Henbane which are extream cold The Reason is not in the Bodies of the Creatures themselves but in the Sulphurous quality of them From Salts all Internal 〈◊〉 take their Original as Imposthumes Ulcers 〈◊〉 Bleeding Heat and stoppage of Urine and according to the kinds of Mercury Sulphur and Sal so are the kinds of Diseases as we shewed you before I have now done after I have told you That Alchymists by the Seeds and Roots of Diseases understand nothing but the Causes of them 10 To this Division pertain al Diseases of Tartar It is called Tartar because of that similitude it hath with that Tartar that is found in Wine because it heats and burns the Body as Tartar doth Tartar in the Body of Man is a certain Juyce coagulated This Juyce is taken from our Nourishment by eating Beasts and it is inherent in the Beasts we eat by eating Herbs But when in the Microcosm al the internal Faculties work in a due order This Tartarial matter is separated from the due nourishment and cast our by Nature There are two things which cause the retaining of it 1 The weakness of the separating or expulsive Faculty 2 The immoderate taking of Food whereby there is such plenty of it that the expulsive Faculty is not able to cast it all our and so it lies in the Body grows thick and produceth those effects we mentioned before That we may make this appear the more lucidly and as cleer as the Sun when he traces over the Nemean Lyons Back consider the very same things in the Macrocosm You see in that the Earth is in some places more pure in others more impure you see the Water is purer in one place than in another as every Laundress can tell you and yet al Water comes from the same Fountain and Original namely the Sea You see the divers difference in divers Nations in Corn and Wine and the divers effects they produce and therfore what wonder is it that this Tartarial matter being separated principally in the Stomach should produce such different effects in the Body of Man as the Stone in one place and the Gout in another 11 There are four kinds of Tartars Viscuous Bolar Sandy and Stony and one of these contains in it more Salt another less Thence it comes to pass that one afflicts the Body with more pain than the other for the more Salt