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blood_n	body_n	bread_n	water_n	7,086	5	6.4918	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50447	The mystery of curing comprehensively Explained and confirm'd, by exemplar of the Catholic medicine. Powerfully impregnated, and accuratly formed; to assist the regent principle, disabled, or impeded in vital government. Enabled hereby; more vigorously, and constantly to execute; the functions and daily operations; necessary to health, and life. For support of human bodyes, variously declining; and recovery out of a diseased state. The most useful, efficacious, and comprehensive expedient; (preventive and curative) against the painful diseased, and decays of human nature. By E. Maynwaringe. M.D. Jan. 11. 1693/3. Imprimatur. Edm. Bohun.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1693 (1693)	Wing M1506; ESTC R217894	13,756	17

THE Mystery of Curing Comprehensively Explained and Confirm'd by Exemplar of The Catholic Medicine Powerfully Impregnated and accuratly Formed to Assist the Regent Principle Disabled or Impeded in Vital Government Enabled hereby more Vigorously and constantly to Execute the Functions and daily Operations necessary to Health and Life For Support of Human Bodyes variously Declining and Recovery out of a Diseased State The most useful efficacious and comprehensive Expedient Preventive and Curative against the painful Diseases and Decays of Human Nature By E. Maynwaringe M. D. Spes adhuc Spirantibus Jan. 11. 1692 3. Imprimatur Edm. Bohun LONDON Printed for the Booksellers MDCXCIII THE MYSTERY of CURING Comprehensively c. FIRST give me leave to Premise this necessary Information That the Primitive Professors and Fathers of Medical Science were all diligent Preparers of their own Medicines And their Successors likewise for many Hundred Years after continued Industrious in that Work many urgent Reasons requiring that most necessary Duty which I forbear to recite waving also the great Imprudence in exposing Patients to Hazards by revolting from that secure knowing and most hopeful Practice Physitians then of the greatest Repute were ambitious of acquiring some Medicine extraordinary most useful and advantagious to the Publick and it was their Glory account●d to have their Names Celebrated thereby as Promoters of a general good But of latter times the Learned making an unhappy Defection and changing that laudable Custom for the vanity of Pen Practice Illiterate bold Quacks have stept in and personating the Physician have imposed their Cheats and Trifles upon unwary People which hath brought a Scandal upon publishing any thing of this kind and thereby barr'd the Publick from the benefit of Successful Labours of some Learned and most Ingenious Artists Thus much to obviate the Censure of undiscerning weak Heads and stop the mouths of malevolent men of opposite Interests I proceed now to the matter proposed and satisfaction promised That a single Medicine may be endowed with a Power of Vniversality properly and efficaciously to oppose many and various Diseases in divers Persons is what I have undertaken to prove The Possibility and rational Probability whereof will fairly appear if you rightly understand as followeth I am now going out of the common beaten Road of Physick and the vulgar Methods of Physicians into unknown Paths but leading a nearer and safer way you must not therefore expect my Discourse to comport with the common Notions and Opinions of Writers yet consentaneous with Reason and justifiable thereby confirmed also by matters of Fact For your clearer Apprehension I have digested the Discourse methodically into three Parts wherein three things presents principally to be considered The Agent the Works and the Instrument The First Part sets forth the Capacity of the Agent The Second contains the Difficulty and Facility of the Work The Third shews the Hability or Fitness of the Instrument The First Part. THE Capacity Power and Dexterity of this Agent the vital Principle eminently appears First in the wonderful Draught and Portraiture of Formation Secondly in the daily course of Conservation Thirdly in the Exigencies and Attempts of Curation In the first Performance of this Plastic and Architectonic Principle take notice that simple Spermatic Humour was the single matter out of which and of which only the Stamina or rudiments of the Stately Fabrick of Human Body was formed and framed with different Spermatick Parts Bones Cartilages Ligaments Tendons Membranes Fibres c. From thence proceeding to Organize and compleat this wonderful Machine The Second and continual Operation of this governing vital Spirit is maintaining and supplying the many different Parts of Human Body with various suitable Liquors derived from a simple alimentary Juice wrought in the Stomach called Chyle The third Performance of this diligent and dextrous Operator is repairing mending and reducing into order this Workmanship when decaying or discomposed By the Instrumental means of Medicine The first and second Operations of this Agent are wonderful in producing such various strange effects out of single and simple matter as Sperm and Chyle by a transmuting and transubstantiating Power Now to make some Remarks from hence and reduce these considerables to our Purpose Here is the wonder of Fabrication And the daily wonder of Nutrition and Conservation by single matter Then why not the wonder of Curation and Reparation by single Medicine which last Operation is not so wonderful as the two former when I come to shew you the rational Possibility and fair Probability thereof by comparing the Efficient and the Instrument with the Work to be done The first and second Performance of this great Architect and Conservator no Reason can demonstrate or explain yet Fact proves them both and undeniably are confest by all Why then is the third Performance so incredible and difficult to be admitted that may be comprehended by our Reason as the sequel of the Discourse will make manifest This curious Architect that built the Fabrick of Human Body and formed all the various materials thereof by Transmutation of single matter with no Instrument can probably and with facility repair and mend this Workmanship when out of Order with one exquisite Instrument egregiously contrived for Catholic use This vital Principle called Nature sometimes is a Catholic free Agent daily performing various offices and contrary motions in Human Body yet all conspiring harmoniously for the use and welfare of vital Government This Governour and Supporter of the Microcosme operates universally variously and contrarily yet consentaneously usefully and necessarily Binds and loosens opens and shuts moves upward and downward liquifies and coagulates rarifies and condenseth transmits and retains transmutes and transubstantiates alimentary Matter into various forms and Substances And all these different and contrary Actions are performed efficienter by the vital ruling Principle materialiter with a single alimentary Juice digested in the Stomach to supply and enable every Part of the Body differing in Organization Temperature Texture and Office to execute their various Functions If this supreme Agent can perform various and contrary Actions with single Aliment Then probably that same power may cure various and contrary Diseases with single Medicament Can the Vital transmuting Spirit of Bread and Water make Chyle Blood Nervous Juyce Sperme and Milk various Liquors for divers uses of the same alimental matter Can this transubstantiating Principle make Blood here Flesh there and Bones in another place of the same Food If this vital Spirit can maintain and feed all the different Parts of the Body with one alimentary Juice Chyle Then probably and very reasonably it may mend and Cure all those Parts with one Medicine If Nature can do wonders with single Aliment very likely she can do wonders with single Medicament 'T is undeniable that Wonders are wrought in Man 's Body every Day tho in Health But you are hard to believe that Wonders may be wrought by a Medicine in Sickness or a diseased