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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	find_v	great_a	read_v	2,892	5	5.5522	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50431	The catholic medicine, and soverain healer rectifying and assisting the depraved functions, of infirm and diseased bodies : for reducing and curing in all cases, enabling thereby to digest, expectorate, transpire, open, dissolve, discuss, evacuate, cleanse, purifie, allay, ease, heal, strengthen, and restore the decayed parts of unsound and distempered bodies : confirm'd by demonstrations of fact, in eminent cases performed : communicated to the world, as the most happy, comprehensive, expedient, preventive and curative, against the diseases of humane nature / by a strict examiner of medical art.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1684 (1684)	Wing M1490; ESTC R18244	18,376	19

Medicament Why should we then be so hard to believe the Curing Wonder and doubt not at all in the Feeding or Nourishing Wonder But you will say That Aliment is flexible and obedient to the power of Nature who easily converts it to divers Vses And I say if you can make a Medicine thus pliable and yielding to the power of Nature 't is possible then you may make it thus generally useful for Curing I understand now the possibility to be very fair and reasonable on Nature's side that she can manage a Catholic Medicine very well to serve all her Designs and Purposes for Curing if she had but such an Instrument to act with but the possibility of designing forming and making this Catholic Instrument lyes not so easie and probable on the Physitian 's side it is like to fail on his part he knows not how nor which way to go about it SUPERAT CAPTUM Nature is willing to receive ready to operate with such an Expedient as a Catholic Medicine if you had it to give her Huc usque deventum est So far so good we are now got half way through this hard knotty Business we only want a Physician to go through the other half to perform the Medicine but now I remember making of Medicines is the Apothecaries Business and the Doctor only prescribes what and how it must be made But the Catholic Medicine will not be made after that manner the Apothecary-Doctor is not like to do the Business so long as he makes Medicines by guess with Pen and Ink upon a piece of Paper only he must take a little more pains than in reading and writing this is no Book Medicine he must operate in the Laboratory too if ever he will gain the Catholic Medicine We must find out another that is long experienced in the Preparation of Medicines a diligent Operator striving earnestly to purchase something Excellent by various Tryals and Experiments beyond Book Reading such a Man may happily find out this great Arcanum Perhaps you will say there have been such Seeking Men that have not found what they sought and laboured after can you tell us how or which way they must go about it that they may not seek longer in vain I 'll tell you as I was told and will put you into the same Path that led the Author hereof to this hidden Treasure Nature Corroborate est morborum medicatrix This is the way that leads to the Catholic Medicine follow the Track be guided by this Dictate and God speed you This golden Saying Nature Corrchorata were the words of Helmont and Hypocrates hinted the same many hundred years before him Nature strengthened and assisted is the Curer of Diseases Nature is Medicatrix and Medicine is Instrumentum 't is Nature that heals primariò immediatè Medicine Cures reinotè instrumentaliter as an Instrument that Nature useth to work by for except Nature doth take hold of and close with this Instrument to exercise it for her Help performing some Operation therewith in order to Curing else Medicine is given in vain and effects nothing and this we may believe that no Medicine directs it self here or there in the Body but Nature which is the Life disposeth of it to this part or that as she stands in need conveying both Nutriment and Medicament at her pleasure at least to her power and there is nopower else If Nature be Medicatrix and Medicine is only Assistant then invita Natura Nature refusing ot act with the Medicine no good can be done nor can the best Food give Nourishment to the Body if Nature doth not convert it to the proper Use and Intention If so then Medicine ought to be such as must not disgust not disturb her that she may readily receive and act therewith chearfully If Nature be Medicatrix the Curer of all Diseases then doubtless she knows best where the Disease lyes and which way she must be helped and no Physitian is so sharp sighted to see where nor so discerning to know what is most expedient and proper for Relief but many times instead of Helping he does Hurt mistaking the Case rather troubling than assisting or relieving by forcing a wrong Operation or promoting the Right with a Bad Medicine and better it is to do nothing than such injurious meddling Experience tells us that many a sick Person hath been made worse by Medicines Naeture more perplexed and Diseases exasperated thereby Now here lyes the Excellency of the Catholic Medicine that it doth not constrain or force Nature to any particular Operation but is fit for any and promotes that which Nature elects ror her Relief By this you may perceive the difference between a Common Medicine and a Catholic Other Medicines constrains Nature to such or such a particular Operation which if the Case doth not require it but Nature would act another way more advantageous you then contend with and thwart Nature and instead of Helping you offer Violence and Injure her that Medicine is as another Disease added to what she complained of before and Nature struggles with this Cross Medicine and doth not comply with the Operation to effect any Good and this is easie to be discerned oftentimes upon a Medicine given instead of an Allay and Mitigation the Diseased Person complains more Nature being unwilling to go that way as the Medicine compells the Consequents then must needs be ill and the Physitian 's Designment frustrated Natura Corroborata Is that the way to the Catholic Medicine And is that the way to effect Cures Then you must be very careful and wary that you do not debilitate Nature by irksome nauseous exhausting painful Medicines and if so then a great many are much out of the way whose Medicines and Methods enfeeble Nature by large Exhaustions and tyering-Medicines that overload fret and grieve Nature not contributing to her strengthening and assistance but the contrary There are three sorts of Vnlucky Medicines the one ill composed or associated and incongruous of Composition not agreeing within it self The second are such whose Ingredients or the Preparation of them are disgustful to Nature and not fit to be exhibited to any Body There is a third sort which although tolerably good in themselves and innocent yet being given unduly and unseasonably when Nature requires a Medicine of another Operation this is an Vnlucky and unfortunate Medicine also and strains Nature the wrong way neither of these three do Corroborate Nature but debilitate and deject No wonder then that so many pale Faces and thin Chaps appear after Physicking since there are so many Vnlucky Medicines abroad in the World or unluckily appointed and given Truly if Nature be fretted gall'd or opprest with such unwelcome disgusting Medicines she will make signs of her ill Usage but if you give good Medicines such as do corroborate help and assist her Smiles and good Looks will declare it I might proceed far in Discourse touching the great difference