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A62436	Loimotomia, or, The pest anatomized in these following particulars, Viz. 1. The material cause of the pest, 2. The efficient cause of the pest, 3. The subject part of the pest, 4. The signs of the pest, 5. An historical account of the dissections of a pestilential body by the author, and the consequences thereof, 6. Reflections and observations on the fore-said dissection, 7. Directions preservative and curative against the pest : together with the authors apology against the calumnies of the Galenists, and a word to Mr. Nath. Hodges, concerning his late Vindiciae medicinae / by George Thomson.	Thomson, George, 17th cent.	1666 (1666)	Wing T1027; ESTC R1148	61,518	210

adustion according to their definition of a Feaver as if there were a fire no whit different from a Culinary in our Bodyes converting that which is white into black and black into white by a strong reverberating heat Suck like fond and foolish opinions have they harboured these Sixteen hundred years and upward for want of the knowledge of the Doctrine of Ferments which can never be so well illustrated as by Chymical Experiments which those Pseudo-Chymists boast they are acquainted with only I am certain in a formal manner sufficient to delude the world otherwise they would not deny the power thereof in their Actions If they did really understand how a little Leaven doth infect the whole Lump they would forthwith leave their bare beggarly Qualities in curing Diseases as Hot Cold c. Relollea as Paracelsus calls them things transient and momentany ebbing and flowing every minute according to the disposition of the Subject and insist more upon substances whose intrinsecal transmutation depends upon powerfull ferments Observation VI. What a Soveraignty and Influence the Stomack hath over the whole body may be proved by multitude of Instances and Examples that I could produce but this was eminently conspicuous that when any thing was taken in that disturbed the innate Archeus and required some difficulty to digest many horrid Symptoms did strait break forth as Vertigo Cephalalgie Delicium Phrensie Inquietude Dyspuoea Sopor defection of the Spirits a cohibition of Sweat and other cutaneous Fxcretions c. This was plainly apparent in this Stripling who having an indiscreet Nurse attending him suffered much damage when she offered him that which was by no means to be admitted as tolerable the natural ferment of the stomack being perverted by the pestilent Poyson And I doubt not but the period of his life was accelerated by the unwitting Dose of Milk which though it be the best Nutriment where it is well altered yet it often proves the worse corrupted Hereby we may learn not to ingest any thing into this noble Vessel but what may agree with the innate Archeus may increase the vital Spirit rectifie the enormous Ferment cherishing that which is genuine may be quickly altered and leave very little Dross and Recrement behind and such are those things that abound with noble Spirits as good Wine and strong Beer or Ale well brewed as for Flesh Broths Gellies Watergruel Ptisans Barley water and such like dull vapid things c. they are all to be abandoned and excluded from entering into this Palace where the sensitive Soul sits so long as such a grand Enemy stands in defiance of it and seeks to destroy it Observation VII In all parts I took notice of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a great coagulation and some small colliquation of juyces except in the Stomack where this Negro liquor did flote without any Concretion or Coaction whereby I gather That the kindly and familiar Ferment of the Stomack made to dissolve and open any hard tough food and to change it into a fluxible white Chile that the nutritive and excrementitious parts may be the better separated being now degenerate and hostile did still retain a property like the former though tending to Ruine tabefying and colliquating what it touched and changing it into a black instead of a white juyce On the other side the Ferments of the Fourth and fifth Digestions ordained lightly to incrassate thicken and to bring one portion of the blood to a moderate fibrous consistence and to subtiliate another becoming exorbitant and losing that primitive gift with which they were endued and acquiring a virulent Nature transcending their former bounds of Mediocrity and Modification of this red Balsom to be afterward assimilated doth now compinge and closely streighten the part thereof depriving it of that continual Circulation which is necessary for the generation of vital Spirits the immediate instrument of the sense and motion of every Animal and turns another small part into a venemous variegated Ichor or Serosity Observation VIII That whereas there is a power inherent in the Veins and Arteries to preserve the blood from Congelation even when the body is dead so great is the concretive force of the pestilential poyson that the blood is suddenly put to a stop and becomes grumified turning into Glotts in a living body with nigh as much expedition as the Spirit of Urine changes Spirit of Wine into a white thick lump Observation IX That a kind of glandulous substance like a Lambs stone should be found in the right Ventricle of the heart instead of an obscure clot of blood doth shew how sollicitous Nature though violently hurried away by a contrary Idea is to save it self from destruction sith that when the Haimopoietick power was lost she carries out of the stomack a small quantity of a rude Chyle passing a short way through some of the Sanguineous Vessels without receiving a rubicund Tincture into this noble Cavity and not able to give it the stamp and signature belonging to this vital Nectar was forced to yield it up to that impression which the exotick Ferment did make upon it Observation X. It being granted that blood doth make blood as I can demonstrate that it is in being before the conformation of the Liver and that when the Sanguis this pure defaecate sublimely graduated crimson juyce stands still and loses its virtue then the milky Chyle cannot receive a vital Character and be tinged as it ought How cautious should we be to exhaust and spend prodigally this treasure of Life as the Galenists who to satisfie their erroneous Documents without any solid Reason or approved Experiments rashly let it out in many trivial Diseases which might easily be Cured by proper Medicaments Observation XI Any Artificial evacuation of Blood except that which is performed by immediate Derivation being degenerate in the Pest Spotted Feaver Small Pox Meazils or any Malignant Disease whatsoever that hath alwayes in it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aliquid sanguinis congelativum somthing in it that doth condense and fix the blood is absolutely pernicious and brings certain perdition or at least great Calamity if thee be not present extraordinary vigour of Nature whatsoever the perverse Galenists pretend to the contrary that they empty an Athletick full Habit of Body and thereby cause Motion in the blood and so hinder the coagulation of it which opinion if rightly cavassed is notoriously false for they take a meer contrary course that diminish the good blood in this case which cannot be avoided when vent is given to a large vessell for out flies the best as well as the worst together indistinctly and hereby the Archeus must needs be disenabled to resist the poyson to attenuate profligate and tame any pertinacious viscous and noxious matter for I am sure if Hippocrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Helmonts Archeus i.e. the Vital spirit the principal Author and efficient Cause of Sanity be wanting nothing benevalent can

good is exclusively taken from us but are silent concerning that positive real evil that infests us having an absolute Entity in it consisting of a seminal power a fermental transmutation an operative Spirit and a lively Idea All which Endowments make a Disease to be Ens reale verum something in Reality That Maladies have in them a Spermatick power is evidently known by some hereditary Diseases that are propagated and traduced from the Father to the Son and from the Grandfather to the Grandchild which lie a long time unseen unfelt closely couched in the blood and at length break forth into Act upon some irritating occasion How is it possible that the Small Pox should lie above Twenty years in our bodies before it shoot out if it were not contained in a Seed which according to the disposition of each Individual when the fulness of time comes breaks forth sooner or later into Buds and Branches The Gowt and Stone are sometimes so concorporated with our seminal principles that it may be thought as difficult to separate light from fire as to part two such Companions fundamentally conjoined in our Conception Moreover as it is the Nature of every Seed whether Vegetal or Animal in the very moment of breaking forth into Act to ferment that thereby its vertues may be diffused readily into all parts and likewise an equal distribution of Spirits made In like manner morbos seeds have their fermentation which though invisible at first yet at length are plainly apparent by effects So requisite is fermentation for the production of all things that without it the Spirit remains drowned and overwhelmed in untractable and indisposed matter Did not the poyson of the Pest most contemptible for quantity ferment and season the whole mass of blood by altering the position and texture thereof by coagulating and changing it into a tartarous substance it could never cause such a tragical Catastrophe in mans body quite subverting its well composed frame For it is grand Ignorance to think that bare Qualities which are transient and momentany depending upon the influence of substantial Forms which cause a Flux and Reflux of the heat cold moisture and siccity according to the Motion Collision Exaltation Degradation Indigence and Abundance of Spirits in the body should on a sudden cause such a stupendious Metamorphôsis in this little admirable World wherefore nothing but that which causes a Zumôsis an Effervescence and leavens the whole lump of blood by its deletery diffusive property can turn all topsie turvy in this manner and bring a speedy ruine to this magnificent Structure Neither is there wanting in Diseases an Architectonical Spirit which is the Faber and Vulcan that hammers out and forges every kind of malady observing an exact Copy Rule and Canon which was at first imprinted in it by a vigorous Imagination As this Stamp Figure Idea or Character doth direct the Archeus so it begins proceeds and at last concludes according as the impression lasteth This pure restless Spirit that at first moved upon the waters is ordained by the great Creator of all things to be an exact Fabricator of whatsoever hath a being which alwayes at first pourtrayes and delineates the scheam and fashion of whatsoever is afterwards to be done by it And although it was never intended by that Fountain of this universal Spirit that any thing hurtful or destructive to man should be produced yet ever since there was brought an Ataxy irregularity and inconformity upon the spirit of man through the disobedience and rebellion of the Protoplastes it hath minted and coined exorbitant monstrous exotick Images by direction of which it acts to its own calamity and ruine consuming spoiling making havock of that through foolish vain Terrours Inquietudes Anxieties and Fury which ought to be preserved and cherished by regular and peaceable operations Now no sooner is it touched by any thing that is disagreeing and disproportionable to its natural constitution but it is affrighted perplexed fretted raged and disturbed and put quite besides it self if it cannot presently be rid of it yea the very thoughts of an approaching mischief doth sometimes cause the Archeus from a groundless fright to bring that really to an existence which otherwise would never have been as is apparent when a timerous person hearing a relation of the Pest and the terrible symptoms accompanying it doth through the power of strong imagination making somewhat of nothing sowe a pestilential Seed in the blood which fermenting and swelling up doth forthwith entertain the vital spirit that makes in it self a perfect Idea of that Disease which never ceases as long as it continues to diminish and at length to extinguish the bright shining Lamp of life Did not the vital Spirit at first running away afterward entertain treacherously as it were into its privy Chamber shaking hands and hugging in its bosom that which is virulent poysonous and deletery and thereby appropriate the same to it self entering into a firm league with that which is Tristissima mortis Imago the lurid and dismal Picture of lethiferous dissolution conspiring and co-operating with an irreconcilable Enemy to mans health neither the venom of any Mineral Vegetable or Animal nor the Heteroclite poyson of the Pest could injure us or any way damnifie us But as the Case stands Perditio nostra à nobis and that which was in the beginning ordained for a sole preservative to us doth often become our bane and destruction And Spiritus ille vitalis qui Actiones sanas etiam morbosas edit That Archeus which is the instrument of Sanity is likewise the Author of Maladies and that saying is too true to our sad experience Nemo laeditur nisi à se ipsa We are indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Self destroyers and do exactly patrize daily putting in practice what the First of Men taught us 'T is not the outside that simply defiles us but all our Misery flows from within 't is this domestick Enemy that doth infest us our familiar Friend with whom we continually converse that lies in our own bosom that betrayes us and delivers us up for a spoil to the ambient Air Diet and other necessary things we are forced to make use of for a subsistence to support this brittle and friable clod of earth These poysonous Atoms that lurk in the pores of the Air and are wasted up and down with every blast slighly entering into our bodies unfelt unseen cannot of themselves make the Pest unless our Archeus become an efficient and formal cause of its Quiddity so that it hath its immediate being from our vital Spirit which comes to pass in this manner So soon as these loathsom Particles enter in either through the larger or smaller passages of the skin the Custos or Centinel of that part where it first makes an impulse perceiving that its Territories is invaded by a cruel potent Adversary a destroyer of Nature being surprized with horror and confusion forthwith flies giving advantage to

Stomack and its Co-partner the Spleen which make according to Helmont a Duumvirate springs our Health the greatest felicity in this world so from the same root arises sickness and infirmity the bitter ingredient that marrs all that delicious mess which either Nature hath provided or mans ingenious Cookery can invent In hac Olla continentur mors vita This is that Pandora's Box which Adam to please his brutish appetite ventured to open for the reception of the forbidden fruit which was no sooner ingested but out flew infinite calamitous Maladies that vexed him and torture us his Posterity to this day In this little membranous Field was first sown the rebellious seed of all Diseases which ever since never ceased to propagate and multiply it self over the universal face of the globe of Mankind in a direful manner Here is the Plantation and Nursery of all sort of Feavers for never did I know any afflicted in this kind but still the digestive ferment of the stomack became impaired and degenerate from its Native goodness hence come those multiplicity of sad Symptoms which appear as Nauseousness Anorexy extream Thirst bad Sapour Sopour tedious Watchings Dotage Melancholy Madness and the like Here is the Mine where the Stone and Gowt have their Ens primum are first embrionated and lie in their rude Principles In this Duumvirate is the Nest where the Asthma Sqinsie Pleurisie Vertigo Epilepsie Apoplexy Lethargy Phrensie Diarrhaea Lienteria Dysuria Stranguria Ischuria Scorbute and this terrible blow Plaga excellens the Pest are first brooded hatched fed and at length perfected and able to subsist of themselves In this admirable Cavity is erected the Mint royal where the lively Image of Sanity and Infirmity are stamped and the lineaments of every Languor drawn out as it were with a Pencil that it may act uniformly in one continued series and tenour according to its kind and various constitution it meets with For even a vulgar Head knows how to distinguish a Quartan Ague from a Quotidian and both from a Tertian a continual from an intermitting Feaver the Spasm or Cramp from a Palsie the Dropsie from an Atrophie or a macilent Consumption and several other Diseases one from another And this is deduced from the Parts affected the certain Symptoms Accidents and Products that inseparably accompany each of them The silly old Women called Searchers can report upon the bare Aspect of a pestilential Corps when thy see Tumors of the Emunctories Cauterizing Carbuncles Blains Pustles and those stigmata nigra they call the Tokens in the superficies of the Skin that this or that Person dyed of the Sickness Wherein although they are sometimes mistaken by reason of some intervening outward Accidents which may hinder the eruption of these pestilential Blossoms yet an expert Physitian that hath a more intuitive knowledge into these things than the common People will hardly ever be mistaken in the Diagnôsis of the Disease And certainly this could never be discovered aright were not the Idea and Platform of every grief as it were shadowed out limmed and sigillated in the ingenite Archeus of the tender tractable Stomack and Spleen Neither ought it to seem strange that the Ventricle being a Membrane should have such admirable properties and rare effects bestowed upon it by power of the sensitive Soul there taking its principal habitation sith the womb of the same Texture doth sometimes act stupendiously even to the seeming imitation of a new Creation out of nothing as when the Idea of a Cherry Mulberry or the like is impressed by the uterine Imagination upon that part of the Infant according as the hand of the Mother shall be directed at that time of her earnest longing which fictitious fruit shall afterward flourish sooner or later as the Native Soil and Climate of that place doth bring real fruit to a speedy or late maturity Now forasmuch as the Stomack and its Compeer the Spleen the Duumvirate of this Commonwealth have such power committed to them that they are as the Key to open the Door to Health and Sickness and as it were the Helm that turns and winds this Vessel at pleasure In what ought a true Physitian to be more sollicitous than in preserving them in Eutonie Eucrasie Eumetrie and to have special care of this excellent Organ lest any thing assumed may injure the ferment of these parts disturb disquiet and annoy the Archeus thereof Away then with the seculent and dirty Medicaments of the Galenists which I can demonstrate to their faces if they dare to stand a Tryal are not fitting to be received into such a Noble part for the Cure of any deep rooted Disease whatsoever And were not their Patients grosly ignorant in that which concerns their own life did they but understand the notable damage both present and future that attends those that enter into this Wire-drawing Galenical course of Physick they would utterly abominate such dreggy stuffe if more pure and defecate Chymical Remedies could be obtained Never let any Lover of Learning harbour a thought that such an Elephant like Gigantical Disease the Pest is like to be detruncated and overcome by a Galenist who I 'le make it appear ipso facto knows not how to remove a trivial ordinary Feaver radically and fundamentally And all this proceeds for want of a clear understanding of the right use of the Stomack the powerful influence it hath upon all parts the Nature of its Ferment and the tender respect that is to be given to the Archeus the diligent Custos and watchful Janitor of the Orifice and Pylorus Suffer not then any that pretends to Cure thee to exhaust the innocent blood profusely by opening a vein in the Arm for the Cure of that Malady whose cause doth only Centrally depend upon an Exorbitancy Discord Dearticulation and Apostasie of the vital Spirit in the Duumvirate from the genuine well-disposed Constitution that ought to be in it CHAP. IV. Signs of the Pest. JUdiciously to dicsern the Pest from other Diseases is sometimes a Task of no small difficulty in that it hath no certain peculiar proper Pathognomonical inseparable Sign emergent with it not common to others So that an able Physitian may sometimes be puzled at first Access positively and absolutely to determine whether the Patient be smitten by this superlative stroke or afflicted with some other inferiour sickness He alone that is Omniscious can infallibly tell in what instant time this pestilential poyson is conceived or enters into mans body so closely doth it lie for the most part that none but he that knows things à priori can punctually discover that such an one carries about him a mortal Arrow shot into his Praecordia To see a man eat and drink liberally to be jocund frolick seemingly enjoying a Jubilee to exercise Venery and several Disports as at other times and yet to carry about him the very Picture of Death within is a Plague of the Plague To be undermined by a

our Bodies inclined to receive an Impression so according to our Capacity it breaks forth into Act speedily or slowly mildly or fiercely Now the pestilent matter being in great part exhausted and spent the Scorbutical malignity somewhat tamed and the Archeus fortified daring becomes as it were an old Souldier not ready as formerly to give back upon every terrifying Occasion I may confidently conclude That London is like to enjoy this Summer the Company of the Galenists when there is least need of them which will I fear be an ill Omen to some so long as they continue Bleeding and Deletery Purgation more destructive to poor Mortals than all the Pests that ever reigned since the Creation AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE DISSECTION OF A Pestilential Body And the Consequents thereof CHAP. V. IN the Year 1665. a most ruefull lamentable time as ever London suffered in this kinde when the Sickness swept away many Thousands in a week in the Moneth of August I visited a lusty proper man by name Mr. Wil Pick living in Peticoat-lane grievously wounded with one of those poisonous Arrows that flew thick about poor Mortalls so that his condition seemed to be almost desperate and finding no relief at all from those frivolous and vain preparations a Galenist had exhibited to him usque ad nauseam was in some short space preserved by Chimical Remedies the poison being therewith excluded and the Archeus of the Stomack redeemed from captivity At the same time there lay a Servant of Mr. Picks a youth about 15 yeares of age labouring under most horrid symptomes raving as it were extimulated by some Fury which Tragical Interlude was quickly terminated by a mortal Catastrophe Upon this I took occasion to request my then recovering Patient his Master to grant me liberty to open this defunct body for my own instruction and the satisfaction of all inquisitive Persons to which having given him some perswasive reasons to that purpose he strait condescended yet not without some jealousie and kind fear least I should do my self injury upon his concession I being much exhilarated in my spirits having obtained that desire which was often denyed me by those who pretended several slight excuses I girt up my self with all expedition getting in readiness what Instruments were fitting with a porringer containing Sulphur to burn under the Corps which was at that time placed in the open air in a yard there adjacent which for several respects was very convenient and for my better accommodation a Servant by the permission of the foresaid Master was ready to afford me his service in opening the Coffin nailed up and administring some other things necessary for my design The head of the Coffin being taken off and the linnen cleared away I could not but admire to behold a skin so beset with spots black and blew more remarkable for multitude and magnitude than any that I have yet seen some of which being opened conteined a congealed matter in one more shallow and in another more deep Here I conceived something more than of ordinary Rarity might be discovered wherefore perforating the Membrane that involved all the rest I made entrance into the lowest venter or Region where appeared a virulent Ichor or thin liquor variously coloured as yellow greenish c. the small guts being much distended with a venemous flatus did contain a great quantity of a foul scoria or dross in them but they were not as some apprehended outwardly spotted as the skin only some obscure large markes were made in their inward parts as likewise in the stomach arising from the poisonous liquamen therein lodged The Vena Porta and Arteria Caeliaca being divided afforded only a serous liquor no rubified juice at all that which was inclosed in these vessels was a firmly congealed substance of a very dark colour the Parenchyma of the Liver being separated was very pallid and did straight weep and send out a thin yellowish excrement The Spleen dissected appeared more then ordinary obscure a livid Ichorous matter following the Incision the Kidneys laid open abounded with a Citrine water but altogether exanguine as likewise the other viscera at length I came to that most excellent usefull part the Stomack whose tender membranes when I had divided a black matter like Ink did shew it self to the quantity as nigh as I could guess of a wine pint somewhat tenacious and slimy the inward membrane of the Ventricle was much discoloured but the bottom thereof not perforated as Helmont found in the like case in such a manner sayes he as if a potential cautery had been applied therto Having sufficiently lustrated and viewed the lower venter I ascended to the middle and making a divulsion of the sterne from the Mediastinum I intentively beheld the superficies of the Lungs stigmatized with several large ill favoured marks much tumified and distended the inward part of which being pertunded with my knife a sanious dreggy corruption issued forth and a pale Ichor destitute of any blood for which I searched by cutting this Organ of respiraion into various particles but could finde none but a dirty coagulation which Hipocrates calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the branches of Vena and Arteria Pulmonica After this I disparted the descending Trunck of the Cava and the Artery called Aorta expecting some considerable emanation of blood there if any where that might make a little inundation but no such thing succeeded for only some very few spoonfulls of a thin liquor of a pale hew came forth which might easily be licked up by a small handkerchief Diffecting these pipes secundum rectitudinem I found them stuffed with a thick curdled blackish substance which once laid hold on might be drawn out to some length Next I seperated the Pericardium that robust coat that circumvolves the Heart replenished with a deeply tinged yellow liquor Then having opened the right cavity of the Heart I therein found a white congealed matter extracting which with my fingers and narrowly viewing it I could not compare it to any thing more like than a Lamb-stone cut in twain which the Servant beholding standing nigh easily assented to in his Judgement To render a sound reason of this albified coagulation in this right Ventricle of the Heart may perhaps puzzle a good Physiologist For in all those cadavers I ever saw dissected this hollow receptacle did still contain a blackish blood condensed arising from a stopping of the Circulation of it first in that place Now the most probable cause as I conceive with submission of this unwonted white substance may come from a sumption of meer crude milk which an indiscreet Nurse had given this youth not long before he died part of which passing out of the stomach little altered might be conveyed upon a pinch and stress to preserve life through the Venae lacteae in the Mesenterie or some shorter passages into the subclavian vessels and there entring the right cavity of the Heart be for want

its Foe to take possession of that part and giving all over for lost It suffers the fermenting poyson to alter the natural well disposed mumial ferment in our bodies and to change it into the same condition with it self upon this the Archeus the forenamed Custos that keeps guard always watches and wards Night and Day for the preservation of the whole being full of Consternation and Terror throws away the Reins of orderly Government and yields it self up captive to the imperious Placits of a Truculent Tyrant uniting it self intimately with full consent to demolish this beautiful Edifice and to that end doth immediately frame a seminal Idea and an absolute draught of what it intends to accomplish Then is the first beginning of the Pest and is as it were in Ovo acquiring maturity by degrees sometimes quickly sometimes slowly according to the strength or weakness of imagination vigorous power or feebleness of mumial ferments the subtlety or dulness of the Poyson the activity or drowsiness of the Archeus So long as the pestiferous occasional Cause whither it arise from within or without continues not actuated and as it were not animated by our Archeus it can do us no harm but remains like an unpolished mishapen piece of Timber which was never yet brought into a form by a dextrous Mechanick So soon as the Architectonical spirit enters into this deletery matter it informs the same and brings that into an actual being of which otherwise it would have been deprived once quickned it never leaves to play a sad Tragedy unless the venemous matter be suddenly excluded the Idea obliterated and the Archeus highly fortified upon the Theatre of this Microcosm with variety of dismal Scenes as several individual Constitutions admit from the Prologue of its Birth to the Epilogue of its Death CHAP. III. Of the Subject Part where the Pest doth principally reside and act these Tragical Scenes in Mans body I Have not been a little anxious but not presumptuous as the Galenists have falsely aspersed me to find out the chief Palace or Chair of State where this mortiferous Tyrant the Pest doth principally sit enthroned where by its beck and insolent frowns it makes this little World and all that inhabit in it to crowch creep and tremble That this Poyson doth enter in and ride in the Triumphant Chariot of the vital Spirit both innate and influent is an undoubted Truth For as I said by means of it the Pest moves and hath a being and without the same it is as nothing for the pestilential matter whether generated within or hath an ingress from without through the Hand the Foot the Eye the Nostril Mouth or any other place still the Custos the vital Spirit of that part gives it entertainment by cowardly running from the poyson and so betraying that trust that was reposed in it by yielding up treacherously it self and a strong hold to the fury of a potent Enemy to which the Archeus becomes a Vassal to perpetrate those things that tend to Ruine and Desolation Notwithstanding this particular damage and nocument that arises from a dedition and timorous submission of the Archeus to this pestiferous Gas making an incursion and invasion upon the Borders and Confines of this flourishing Kingdom Mans living Body were far more tolerable were not this venom conducted to the very Center and Metropolis thereof the Stomack where the Soul it self keeps Court which incircled with all necessary Officers sends forth wholsom Edicts for the preservation of the body Natural In the Bed-chamber of this Noble Membrane the Stomack doth this usurping Disease take its lodging darting Basilisk-like his virulent beams into all parts circumjacent in a Heteroclite and Anomolous manner sometimes causing a stupor and lethargical drowsiness like Opium sometimes a phtenzy or fury like Hemlock or Nuces insanae at one time a Numness or Paralytical disposition like the Fish Torpedo At another time an inquietude or incessant motion like the poyson of a Tarantula Now an insatiable thirst and a scorching flaming heat like one bit by the Serpent Dypsas then again a Coldness Rigour and Shivering like the venom of a Scorpion provoking in one man a hungry appetite a little before death in another an aversation and loathing of all Food producing a manifest Feaver in this man and in that none at all or hardly any sensible striking down one as if he were Syderated or Apoplectical and tenderly handling another as it were in a dallying flattering and sporting way curiously spinning out the thread of his life for some dayes yea weeks and then at length cutting it off Thus this raging venom being once ushered by the desponding Archeus into the innermost Recesses and Closet of life is by this means become Master of the whole vacua dominatur in Aula and having quite confounded the Eutaxy and good Government that was before in the vital ingenite spirit of the stomack quietly and sedulously working 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 causes the same to be irregular exorbitant hair-brain'd foolish and furious careless what becomes of itself and what belongs to its tuition For the Confirmation of what I have delivered That the Region of the Hypocondries especially the Stomack is the principal place where the Pest taketh up its abode We are to take special notice what strange alteration is made in the Region Epigastrick by violent passions and how the Oeconomy of the whole body thereby is put into a disorder perhaps upon an imagination sometimes of that which is not at all real as it happens when a panick fear extraordinary anger an excessive joy some sad and dreadful News brought to us doth in a trice distract us making the first impulse upon the stomack and us Helmont excellently observes spoiling an eager appetite to our food in an instant quite taking off the edge of the stomack which before was sharp set And although the Galenists are plensed erroneously to separate the irascible and concupiscible Appetite so that they divide them into two distinct stalls placing the one i. e. the irascible in the heart and the other the concupiscible in the stomack the lower adjacent parts yet if they weigh the truth of things seriously they may be better informed that the Orgiastick as well as the Epithymetick are chiefly lodged in the mouth of the Ventricle which the Ancients for that excellency they conceived of it adorned with the name of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being of that power and soveraignty that according to its benigne or maligne Aspect it causes a serenity or obscurity in this little Horizon Here is the Bench where the sensitive Soul sits as Judge which if rightly tuned and well composed censures and strait puts to an end the manifold Conflicts Tumults Broils and Uproars in the Body Natural but if out of order and have an Atony it embroils all in Wars being the Ring-leader Promoter and efficient cause of all Disorder and Confusion Now as from this Fountain the