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A03119	A modest defence of the caueat giuen to the wearers of impoisoned amulets, as preseruatiues from the plague wherein that point is somewhat more lergely reasoned and debated with an ancient physician, who hath mainteined them by publicke writing: as likewise that vnlearned and dangerous opinion, that the plague is not infectious, lately broched in London, is briefly glansed at, and refuted by way of preface, by Fr. Hering D. in Physicke. Reade without preiudice; iudge without partialitie.	Herring, Francis, d. 1628.	1604 (1604)	STC 13248; ESTC S116668	27,376	51

miracle and neuer yet heard of that a venimous facultie should flow into the heart wander thorow the Arteries not finding his looked for friend should go out againe without any offence offered to the parts whereby he passed Besides if the attractiue facultie be inuenimed what reason can be giuen the heart should not be continually offended by the poison thereof It is euident thar the heart is the principall obiect of poisons how then shall it be touched by a venimous qualitie and not endure wrong Touching their experience I cannot yet giue credit to it I desire to see these things often tried with good successe to haue many testimonies of Physicians of great iudgement before I can beleeue them But let vs come to those that are infected and haue the poison actually seized on their heart It may be they may doe them good None at all For attraction proceedeth from the stronger power which draweth to it that which is weaker Let then some man tell me how he can be sure that the poison of the Plague shall not draw to it the venim of the outward medecine and why the poison thereof may not be stronger and greater than the other Besides the matter of the Plague is not properly poison but by similitude and therefore cannot be drawen by another poison But me thinke I heare one answer to all my arguments that the effect is performed though the cause be vnknowen because it is secret This is the miserable refuge of al empericks wherby they may easily wind out of any doubt and absolue the most intricate Question of our Art without much adoe But I abhorre this from my heart not because I allow no secret causes which I grant but because I thinke it a notorious fault redounding greatly to the reproch of our Art if we run still to hidden causes when manifest reason may easily end the controuersie How will they demonstrate that poisons haue this effect By experience But what experience can they shew worthy to receiue this credit And where are the Physicians of note and learning which approue them You haue heard my opinion reseruing to others their better iudgement Now that I haue stayed your stomacks with this honest graue and iudiciall speech of Father Augenius that great and learned Italian Physician who if I be thought too light may well weigh in the ballance with any one man whosoeuer he be giue me leaue briefly to examine the reasons that are produced to proue that these Amulets do no hurt secondly that they do good The first Argument if it be not altogether impertinent must thus be reduced to forme There is vse of poisons in Physicke therefore impoisoned Amulets of Arsenicke or such like may be safely vsed by men in health to preserue them from the Plague without hurt The proposition is somewhat largely stood vpon which was neuer to my knowledge called into question by any man of iudgement and the consequence which should haue beene proued left altogether vntouched Physicke consisteth of diuers parts That may be of vse in the Hygieine the preseruing part which hath no place in the Therapeuticall And there be many things of speciall vertue in the Therapeutice which if a man should practise vpon sound bodies to preserue their health he might well be sent to Anticyrae to purge with Hellebore his vnsound braine A sturdie horse requires a rough rider Duro Nodo durus Cuncus In magnis 〈◊〉 Morbis vbi ager necessariòex morbo periclitatur anceps potius Remedium tentandum quàm nullum In such cases Physicians are inforced to vse Euphorbium Opium and Paracelsus his deceitfull Laudanum and that sometimes in large quantitie which yet no wise man will prescribe to his Patients to preserue them in health There is therefore vtterly no consequence in this that because there may be sometimes in some diseases vse of Deleteries in the Therapentice therefore they may be safely vsed as Preseruatiues to maintaine health For in such cases they are opposed against the disease to fight with it as an Enemy and so by their colluctation Nature sometime saueth herselfe as when by the fighting of two dogges a Man sometime escapeth without hurt or wound In the Curatime part of Physicke there is a necessarie vse of the Saw and of both potentiall and actuall fire Secamus vrimus And yet by your leaue a Man in health will hardly be persuaded to such Preseruatiues Before I leaue this argument I will by your patience point at some defects in the proofe of the proposition Arsenicke Orpiment Toads and Adders are acknowledged ranke and deadly poisons in the highest degree This is true concerning the Minerals which consist of similar parts But touching Toads and Adders it cannot be verified that they be absolutely and generally poisons For these haue their venome Incertis determinatis Partibus in certaine and determinate parts not vniuersally diffused thorow the whole bodie Touching Adders or Vipers it is euident that their Poison lodgeth onely in the head specially the teeth and taile Their flesh which onely is receiued into that noble Medicine which thereof hath his name and is called Triacle is so farre from being a poison that it is a present Antidote against the poison of the other parts And this will not seeme strange if we dare credit Iacobus Ferrarius a learned Physician of Mantua who in his booke De Theriaca lately set foorth reporteth that he hath seene mens hands besprinkled with the blood of Vipers without any farther offence than a little itching for a short time And I haue beene informed by men yet liuing in our owne Country that they haue seene of our adders after their teeth haue beene pulled out handled in mens hands and caried in their bare bosoms familiarly without hurt The like is to be verified of the Scorpion who carieth his venom in his taile And therefore when they would dispatch themselues they turne vp their taile toward their backe and there shooting their stings kill themselues And this they doe when they are so pursued as they see no way to escape making by that meanes a speedy riddance of themselues Neither could they die so speedily of so small wound if the instrument inflicting the same were not venemous since they will endure farre greater wounds without danger of life Therefore it is euident that there is in the taile of the Scorpion a poison contrary to the life and temperament of the Scorpion The poison of the Spanish flies called Cantharides is esteemed to reside in the head wings and legs and the body very medicinable So the poison of a madde dogge lodgeth onely in his fome The poison of Asps in their egges of the Leopard in the gall or choler onely of the venemous Mouse in the vrine the Tortoise in the outward skinne But to returne to Adders or Vipers incomparable Galen in his 11. booke of the faculty of simple medicines and in his booke De opt Secta cap.

12. telleth of certaine persons who being desperately diseased by the vse of wine whereinto whole adders had by chance fallen not onely receaued no maner of hurt but happily thereby recouered their health There is therefore so great vertue in the flesh of vipers to resist malignity that the venome of the externall parts seemeth by the force thereof altogether drowned and subdued It followeth not therefore because there is poison in the viper therfore his whole subiect is a strong poison For so a man might conclude that the whole body of some men is poison because there is in their spettle and teeth a venemous quality as I my selfe with others haue seene euidently by a man in London who being bitten by another lightly in the hand was so impoisoned that the whole hand rotted and the party thereof shortly died I maruell therefore that a man of note for experience iudgement would open such a gappe to the vulgar sort to loath and contemne Physicke and Physicians whereunto they are prone inough of themselues as to affirme that one of their most noble and famous medicines hath a strong poison his Basis and principall Ingredient Galen in his booke De Ther. ad Pis. saith that the fat of the Crocodill laid vpon the wound helpeth those that are bitten by the Crocodill The biting of the venemous Mouse is healed by the Mouse brused and laid vpon the place After the same maner they that are smitten by the Viper are helped if you bruise the Viper and apply her to the wound The body of the Scorpion laide vpon the part healeth hir poison Dioscor lib. 6. cap. 44. E alia quam plurima animalia sua curant maleficia Yet the fatte of the Crocodill the body of the Scorpion or venemous Mouse are not receaued into the composition of the Treacle but doe onely helpe their owne poisons We must therefore obserue that nature hath not onely giuen venemous parts to these creatures but others which are alexeterys to their owne poison Secus ait quidam omnia illa ad vnum maleficium edidisset ac de venenis sollicita remediorum fuisset oblita Otherwise she should haue framed them wholy to euill and hurt and being carefull of poisons should haue beene forgetfull of remedies Natura autem vt in superfluis non abundat sic non deficit in necessarijs Nature as she abounds not in superfluities so she is not defectiue in necessaries Now these alexetery parts as I may call them are of two sorts Some haue an ingenit propertie of curing their owne poisons without admistion of other things as the fatte of the Crocodill and the Scorpion whereof our Marchants that trauell to Constantinople haue good experience Other haue an ingenit and mixed faculty as the body of the Viper which without other alexeterys being laid on the wound cureth hir owne poison and with commistion of other Antidots extinguisheth in a maner all poisons Galen explicateth this twofold faculty Lib. de Ther. ad Pis. cap. 4. where hauing said that the head and taile of the Vipers are to be cut off he addeth And maruell not that these parts being taken away the rest of the members doe make the Antidot more effectuall by the ingenit and admixed faculty of helping which is in their flesh After he calleth their faculty ingenit and admixed For as by their ingenit faculty they cure their owne poison so by their admixed property Potentissimum efficiunt Alexipharmacum He that would be farther satisfied let him peruse the booke of Galen and he shall not thinke his labour lost Your sweet kernels in bitter shels precious Diamonds in course stones and Pearles in base oysters might serue well to illustrate this which hath beene already prooued that there are certaine liuing Creatures which haue some parts very hurtfull or of no or little vse and others very commodious and beneficiall to the life and health of mankind but maketh nothing at all for your Arsenicke who is a minerall and consisteth of similar parts The sweet kernell is of a different temperament to the bitter shell the precious Diamond of a more excellent substance then the course stone or Oyster wherein he is found The flesh or sides of Vipers is of a differing temperament from the teeth and head wherein onely resideth the poison But in your Arsenicke you can shew me no part be it neuer so small which is not Arsenicke and that is a strong and ranke Poison you may seeke a good while heere before you finde either Kernell Diamond or Pearle This is no newes to them who haue any the least insight in Philosophy who know right well that in the body of man there be Organical parts much differing in temperament and nature and that euery least parcell or portion of a similar part is of the same nature and substance Your cures wrought by the fume of Orpmint and outward applying of Arsenicke make nothing to our purpose for it hath beene shewed that there is vse of many things in the healing part of Physicke which haue no place in the preseruing part And yet Doctors will perhaps make doubt of them and be twise well aduised before they draw them into practise in hope to worke such miracles as is reported by them It is well knowen that your dried Toad hath failed in that maruellous effect attributed to him But of all other the words following sound very strangely and harsh in my eares I know not how they can be perpetually opposite to mans nature nay if that be a true and sufficient definition of poison At no time to agree with nature I see not how these things may simply be called poisons that at sometimes and in some cases agree with nature aswell as a man would wish Here is strange doctrine and new learning indeed for our Philosophers and Physicians You see not how Arsenicke and such like poisons can be perpetually opposite to nature Then giue me leaue since I learned Logicke since your time to shew how I haue conceiued of these matters The very name of poison or venom implieth in my conceit an absolute contrariety and hostility vnto Nature And Warre is not more aduerse contrary to Peace vertue to vice blacke to white then poison is absolutely perpetually irreconcilably opposed vnto nature This wil more cleerly appeere if we peruse the definitions of poisons set downe by the best most acute and sound Philosophers Physicians Mercurialis in his first booke of Poisons cap. 5. following Gallen and other Philosophers defineth poison according to the common notion and apprehensions of men to be such a thing as killeth men and beasts irrecouerably the cause being vnknowen Auicen not so properly calleth it a Medecine contrary to mans nature Galen lib. 3. de Temp. calleth that an Aliment which is subdued by Nature and that Poison which subdueth and vanquisheth Nature Himselfe defineth it thus Poison is a mixed substance enemy to the heart and corrupter of