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A93809	Natures explication and Helmont's vindication. Or A short and sure way to a long and sound life: being a necessary and full apology for chymical medicaments, and a vindication of their excellency against those unworthy reproaches cast on the art and its professors (such as were Paracelsus and Helmont) by Galenists, usually called Methodists. Whose method so adored, is examined, and their art weighed in the ballance of sound reason and true philosophy, and are found too light in reference to their promises, and their patients expectation. The remedy of which defects is taught, and effectual medicaments discovered for the effectual cure of all both acute and chronical diseases. / By George Starkey, a philosopher made by the fire, and a professor of that medicine which is real and not histrionical.	Starkey, George, 1627-1665.; Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699.	1658 (1658)	Wing S5280; Thomason E1635_2; ESTC R13346	111,247	400

against heat must impugn the subject principle of life and this is the master-piece of the Galenists method namely to take part against nature to whose help alone they are called by the sick Patient That the life is in the bloud is most certain and by how much of it is taken away by so much is the vitall Balsam wasted and therefore very unwisely taken away if the disease may be cured without and that leads me to the fourth Conclusion 4. That all Feavers Agues and Pluresies may be cured without Phlebotomy In the Plague Small Pox and pestilential Feavers the question by our Antagonists will be yeelded every year affording sad presidents of Galenists dotages in this kinde as I instanced before in that great Doctor Sir Theodore Mayherne and could instance in above forty that my self have known and observed and that very lately but in the Pleuresie it will be a great controversie because without bloud-letting that disease is commonly reputed deadly without hope or help although that opinion be altogether groundless and false Truth the Pleuresie is a most dangerous Feaver with a Spasmus or Convulsion of the side especially the left among the ribs a little below the heart this accompanied with the Cough doth make a forcible dilaceration in that place and that causeth extravenate bloud and that threatning apostemation indangers the suffocation of the party affected without a speedy remedy forasmuch as extravenate bloud in such a heat will not be long uncorrupted but that the proper speedy and adequate remedy of this grief is bloud-letting that I deny That by bleeding in the beginning this disease findes mitigation by mean of the revulsion or diversion made thereby I grant and yet this notwithstanding phlebotomy is a dangerous often desperate sometimes alwaies a prejudicial prescription be the prescriber who he will which hath its absolute inseparable inconveniencies annexed to it and following it on which score it is not a remedy for an honest man to apply or prescribe That an eminent fright will take away not only Agues but other more deeply rooted and Chronick diseases is a thing very well known to many and would be believed by more yet the practise of that way of cure hitherto hath not and I presume never will prevail in the world At that sad fire by Gunpowder in Tower-street I heard of many cured of rigorous maladies by being put in a sudden fright to run for their lives and many on the fright sickned and there first took the beginnings of those diseases which after proved mortall to them and many mothers miscarried and many women fell into uterine and those terrible passions the like in other frights may be instanced as in taking of Cities and Towns unexpected alarms c. in which cases many have risen from their sick beds and come from their sick chambers and fought stoutly for their lives and lost their disease they knew not how others contracted diseases of which they never before were sensible and of which afterwards they have never been rid For to say truth a disease is most of all the fury of the indignation of the Archeus which finding a preterusual character impressed on its place of habitation straight rages and acts in its fury beyond all rule and measure this is the disease whereas that fury being pacified the product Nature can finde waies to evacuate with ease and the character impressed being but transient would abide but a short time as the smell of garlick in the breath of him that eats it only the Archeus growing mad as conceiving its habitation unfit to be indured with that odious Idea sets all on fire producing a real misery from it self effectively on apprehension of a conceived injury so verifying the Proverb Nemo laeditur nisià seipso Now the life dwelling in the bloud and the balsam of life being contained therein the taking of this away doth threaten ruine to the life and so consequently to the Archeus which is but its immediate servant by which fear it is oft taken from its fury to the abatement of Symptomes speedily after which sometimes the Archeus repents of its former fury and madness and so by accident this evil of the losing bloud produceth health sometimes when the danger threatned by loss of bloud is over the Archeus returns to its former fury and afflicts though not altogether with its former rigor the principle of life being wasted yet so as to delude afterward the vain Art of the Doctor and for its Epilogue ends in a Tabes according to Galen who laies down for a maxim Pleuretici nisi restaurentur intra quadragenarian fiunt Tebifici But admit the cure were certain by bleeding as it is not yet is it not to be practised by an ingenuous man since at the best it cures only by accident and that by fear of greater danger drawing or rather forcing the Archeus out of its rage and fury by which means the threed of life is cut shorter by wasting its subject in which it is kept and by which it is maintainied especially if it may be certainly speedily and safely cured and the bloud preserved which is a thing promised by Paracelsus Helmont c. and performable by medicines that are preparable by the Art of Pyrotechny of which I shall by and by give an account to the studiour and judicious Reader I shall have don in this place with Phlebotomy because elsewhere I shall have occasion to ventilate it only this I shall say that it is an inhumane barbarous butchery because so much bloud as is taken away so much is cut off from the threed of life and so the Doctor becomes Journeyman to Atropos cutting short the life of many by the rules of his Art or at least impairing their strength which art so magnified is at the best but a dotage because that where ever it is used with shew of gooth successe and colour of necessity there I know the cure may be performed without loss of one drop of bloud and so I come to examine purgatives concerning which I shall propound a fifth Conclusion 5. That no purge quatenus purging is an intentional remedy against a Feaver or Pleuresie nor Vomiting as a vomit For Purges properly so called or rather improperly are absolute venomes confounded by the Art sometimes with a little knavery together of the Apothecary and so prescribed ignorantly by the Doctor and taken unsuccessefully by the Patient These in the Plague Small Pox and malignant Feavers after the appearing of Symptomes with rigor are like fiends that must be conjured down till another seasons that is till the matter be digested or rather in other words till nature hath foiled the distemper then comes the Doctor to play both the fool and knave with his rules of Art and prescribes his lenitives gentle purges for fear lest the party should seem to recover without his help before this white purges are too desperate he diviseth a Clyster which

escape the Presse my leisure not permitting me to attend it they be attributed to their true cause one in perusing part of this Treatise as it was brought me by the Stationer before all was perfected I observed remarkable and that is a large Anachronism which I cannot tell if or no it were an error of the Printer or a slip of my pen this I am sure it is a fault about of the bottome of the 16. page where in stead of though he viz. Aristotle in many places severely carped at Galen read be severely carped at by Galen which was my meaning not being ignorant of the number of years between Aristotle Alexanders Tutor who was son to Philip the first founder of the Grecian Monarchy and Galen who lived since Christ of whom and Moses also he wrote blasphemously enough in the flourishing of the Roman Empire Other faults I observed and some may be which escaped by observation where either a word or letter may be defective or redundant which any candid Reader may correct with his pen by the direction of the sense and now I come to the second sort of Readers to speak one word to them And those are such who being indifferent on either side are apt to incline to that part which hath and brings the best reason such perhaps may at first sight blame me for too tart and Satyrical to whom I shall answer with the Comoedian In dicendo is operâ plerumque abutitur non qui argumentum narrat sed qui malevoli Poetae maledictis respondet I do but answer their reproaches oft and betterly cast on Paracelsus and Helmont and many other worthy Artists in the Chymical Mystery which if I wipe off and shew the impartial Reader that they are but spots in their own eyer which causing their sight to dazle they imagine to be on other mens garments which how substantially it is proved I appeal to the Reader then let no man wonder if I tax their abuses very sharply who were wont to make faults in others and then reproach them is if they were reall What I complain against in them is no more then what several of their Apothecaries have seriously complained of to me with protestations how they are tyred out with their Method the effect of Medicines being such that an honest Apothecary dare scarce appear with his Bils because he so oft told that such and such and other things did not the least good and yet they must provide and administer what the Doctor prescribes though he be ashamed after to ask his money for it and seldome receives it without grudging or imprecation On which account several conscientious Apothecaries have been enforced through scruple of their trade to renounce it and live in the Countrey on my knowledge and several have lamented unto me the languidness of their method and the burthen that lay on their spirits in the persecution of the same That Satyrically I call them sometimes Mr. Doctors as Basilius Valentine Domine Doctor is not because I am ignorant of the impropriety of the speech but in imitation of the vulgar and that not impertinently knowing the rule sentiendum cum Philosophis loquendum ut vulgus and therefore whoever will be critical let him spare his Animadversion there since I have saved him the pains and prevented him And lastly I expect some Readers of the Hermetick family who wil esteem these lines as true guides to noble Medicines who I do not doubt will earearnestly expect to hear some tidings concerning the true preparation of the volatile Salt of Tartar to operate on and to prepare Metals and Minerals how by it Vegetals may be prepared hath been shewed which give noble Medicaments for the restoring most diseases of all kinds such to wit which are not too highly graduated but where the case becomes too difficult for Medicaments of this rank there let the Sulphurs of Mineral bodies such as Antimony or Bismuth be cohobated with an assential Oyle till both be brought over the Helm this volatile Sulphur though foetid turn by a due circulation into an essential Salt and then have you a remedy for most deplorable diseases which may be further specificated with noble Vegetals as the Artist pleaseth and the strong odor of it by rectification with spirit of Wine taken away Yet the Spirit of Tartar thus volatized with Oyles is the most languid of any there being several waies to perform the same thing and each way giving more or less noble Spirits but one is most noble and is inferior to none but the Liquor Alchalest by which Mercury is so dissolved as to be brought into a sweet Oyle or Salt and fragrant on which though the dissolvent be coagulated yet it is so noble a preparation of the sme as may be truly succedaneous to those of the highest liquor thus also may be made the anodynous Sulphur of Venus and the glorified Sulphur of Antimony or of Regulus Martis or of the Metallus primus or of any Metalline body under Luna and yet on the perfect bodies also it acts by dissolution and gets a virtue inferior to few Arcana's of which operations I have treated in a peculiar Treatise entituled The Art of Pyrotechny explained and confirmed c. to which I remit the Reader as intending ere long to publish it In the mean time enjoy these fruits of his labours who is in all things to serve thee to his power Thine as his own Geo. Starkey Nov. 20. 1656. Natures Explication Helmont's Vindication The PREFACE OR INTRODUCTION CHAP. I. WHen this question was put to a certain Philosopher 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What is the best thing It was his Answer as is reported of him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Light an answer in my opinion no lesse judicious then witty Nor much unlike hereto was that reply of him who being asked wherefore he was born made this return Ad videndum Solem to behold the Sun For verily there is nothing comfortable but by reason of its participation of Light Darkness being on the contrary a priciple of dread and horror Now what visible light is unto bodily eyes the same is the light of understanding and knowledge unto the eye of the minde As then there is no state so solitary and deplorable as to defect then the want of light so is there nothing more lamentable nor deserving pity then ignorance and blindness of minde And of all generations as those were anciently reputed the worst which sprang out of the corruption of those things which were before the best so when the light that is in a man once turns to be darknesse how great is that darknesse As therefore that light is to be accounted the most desirable and the want of it the most miserable which concerns the soul or mind so of all ignorance that is the worst which hath reference to the most noble object by how much the subject of knowledge is better and of more

well as the preparation of Medicines which knowledge doth help an Artist first in choice of Medicines and secondly in the administration of the same which is more then the word Chy mistry doth include Yea whatever it is that makes to the Art of healing diseases is properly Medicinal yea though it be miraculous yet it is the gist of healing or medicine or infernal and superstitious it is a Satanical imposture in medicine both which I exclude from the Art of Medicine the one as being above Art the other as besides Art But that I refer to this Art which by a natural couse doth perform cures whether by Talismans or by Sympathetical remedies or by proper Medicaments either specifical or universal whether simply used as Nature by the Art of the Physician and that either Chymistry doth also comprehend the most absolute and perfect Medicaments besides which nothing can be defired for any disease or defect either inward or outward except those accidents which necessarily require the work of the hand as Fractures and Dislocations and pulling out of any thing violently thrust into the body of what kinde soever it be So then we need not any Medicaments which Chymistry doth not supply yet the Art requiring the administration as well as the preparetion of the noblest Medicaments it followes that Chymistry is too narrow a Genus to comprehend the whole of Medicine which Art doth being equally referred to theory and Practick And yet Chymistry is larger then to betotaliy comprehended by the Art of Medicine for by it are prepared Diapasmes which are in a sort medicinal and sundry curiosities some not at all referring to medicine as the making of Jemmes malleable glasse c. others are referred to Medicine and alse transcend it as the Elixir of the wise the white respecting only riches the red both riches and health Yea and this supreme Medicine Both transcend the bare Art of reftoring defects of nature in as much as it doth lengthen life wonderfully although I know few do believe it So then the Art of Medicine contains these branches first the knowledge of disenses and secondly the way of their cure And this also contains two parts first the choice and preparation of Mediqines and secondly their administration their administration includes a true knowledge of their virtue and so a proporitionable and convenient application of them in reference to the cause of the disease and the state of the Patient And this is universally to be noted that the more languid the medicines themselves are the greater sagacity is required in the Theorical part and care joyned with dexterity in the practick I know that according to the received Doctrine of the Schools I sholuld now unfold many very unprositable questions but intending the reality of things and not respecting the empty bubbles of Aerical notions I shall not meddle with them I mean questions in reference to the desinition and division and subdivision of this Art To proceed then to what I intend I said that Medicine is the Art of knowing curing and restoring all diseases and defects to which mankinde is subject to in reference to the body as Theosophy doth the same in reference to the soul so that next to it this Art hath the first place I express knowing curing and restoring not without cause as i shall by and by explain Knowing I say because without the knowledge of diseases a man may be a Mountebank but not a Physician which knowledge of diseases is as it were his line and plumment by which he works By this he judges the facility or improbability of the cure for though no disease in its kinde yet many particular diseases are incurable as in my Preface I touched and explained nor shall I here repeat There also I did clearly discover what knowledge was absolute and what accidental to a Physician the one constituting the other adorning him the one to be required the other to be desired in him I shall also passe that as already spoken fully to Curing is as much as to say taking care of and imploying diligence about them nor any diligence is not enough or any care promiscuously for the nurse and cook c. docarefully attend the sick party but by cure or care which is all one being but the English of the Latine word Cura of the Physician is that which is intended to the recovery of the Patient and that with as much speed and sasety as may be I add restorng as the grand mark of a real and true son of Art it is his diploma by which he appears to be one created of God and not by the Schools for their creatures they adorn with titles God graceth his with real abilities His knowledge is not such as he sucks from the Schools but such as is applicable to action the other being but empty shadowes of which in its place His cure and care is not consisting only in reiterated Visits seeling of Pulses and tossing of urines Stirring of Close-stooles and appointing Purges Vomits Bleeding Fontinels Blisters Scarisications Leeches and such enseebling Martyrdoms nor prescribing Syrups distilled Waters of green Herbs Lozenges Electuaries and such fooleries and what is more sordid he doth not oversee the Kitchin to make this Gelly or that Broth or this Glyster or the like but like a valiant Achilles or Hercules he assayles the Disease with powerful and prevailing Medicines and for the o precise provided alwaies meat be not taken immoderately of any sort and stomack which is of easiest concoction but of this by the way we shall insist larger on it in its place He doth not cowardly sum up a Catalogue of incurable diseases so that as the ignorant Academians of old had their Gracum est nec potest legi so the School Doctors have a very large roll of maladies over which they only put this inscription Incurabiliasunt and so leave them with a sad recommendation to God But as the valiant Hercules sought against Giants and Monsters and ovencame them so a true Son of Art makes it appear that all diseases are in their kinde curable And now may Reverend Doctors who perhaps some of you have read Galen at least curforily and some have read Hippocrates but never understood him some have turned over Fernelius Sennertus Avicen and others both ancient and modern writers to you I speak The Art that you think your selves masters of so that you would perswade your selves to be the very natural Sons of Asculapius what is your Art let us weight it in the ballance let us consider it and compare it with this Art which we commend and admire and I dobut not but as a shadow before the Sun so your appearing Art before true Art will pass away Can you cure the Gout some perhaps haps of you will finde impudence enough to affirm it to whom I shall only object Fiat experimentuam The people deny it according to the Adagy Neseit nodosam medicus curare

Esula Euphorbium Ialapium Bryony Asarum Aaron Hellebore and such like as Cambogia c. were not absolute Poysons O but they are tempered by the Art of the skilful Doctor Good words cost no money I wish it prove so But I pray Mr. Doctor if it be so what means the bleating of the sheep I mean what is the reason your Medicements retain their vomiting quality with convulsions of the stomack which have Hellebore mixed and their purging quality with gripings and such symptomes that have Scammony mixed thus you use to correct poysons thus you intend to cure diseases Minervain crassissimam But as a Jugler when his feats are discovered so you by this means become ridiculous you know the serious check the Frog in Aesop received who as you do would pretend to be a Doctor Our tibi ipsi labra livida non curas Coughs Colds Murres Hoarsenesses Head-aches Tooth-aches and the like nay oft-times the simple Itch and Scab doth reproach you at home and outdare you abroad and what is your excuse they are trivial cases By which it appears that if other diseases should become as common as these they would all be too mean for the Doctors reverence and good reason because they are above his abilities Though you name Mountebanks with contempt yet you differ from them obiefly herein They pretend skill in notorious diseases obiefly there where they are least or not at all known You in a place where you are most known are most desirous to deal in hidden unknown maladies How often shall a man finde the Doctors worship himself tormented and at his wits end with the Tooth-ach or Head-ach muffled up for a Hoarsness often coughing at every breath to whom if you object the common Proverb Physician heal thy self he will thank you heartily as much as if he did but he knowes he cannot do it but it must wear away he will take perhaps some old wives Medicine and what is the cause If another come to him for the same grief he is straight at his rules of Art the Cough saith he is caused by a Catharr and therefore first you must purge and then make an isfue and use Conserves of Fox-lungs and such like remedies why doth he not use these tricks himself this is the reason he knows it is a folly for these remedies are invalid yet be it as it will he that hath money shall have his counsel which he will not take himself because he wants some body to pay him for it and other good he expects none but the Patients confidence he hopes will help out the insufficiency of the Medicament which therefore he will confidently prescribe and count this his Counsel worth a Fee to another which to himself would not be worth taking Well be it so that according to the Proverb Aquila non capit muscas the Doctor is above these petty imployments which are too vulgar which might be the better beleeved if he were free from them himself yet I then desire to be enformed what they say to the forementioned Gout is not that a disease worthy their care and cure Yes without doubt for it is a disease that often followes great men and Heroes whom it so affects that he should not be unrewarded and that highly that could perform that here the Doctor hath proved his skill and method ad nauseam and at last he concludes it to be incurable Perhaps upon some disorder of the body by sudden heat and cold there may be caused a running and very sharp pain which as I said before is accidental and therefore transient the Doctor is advised and consulted with he adviseth fomentations unguents plaisters scar-cloths and scarifications then he purgeth the body once or again as the fansie takes him perhaps he will cause blisters to be drawn and after them cause issues to be made then he prescribes a Dietory and perhaps causeth him to sweat the pain goeth away sometimes he useth bathing of the part in hot Bathes either wet or dry then the Doctor strokes his beard and perswades himself he hath cured the running Gout Nesaevi magne sacerdos Oft times a good old woman sweating a party so taken soundly with Carduus Camomile-flowers batching the place affected with Brany Wine warm hath performed the like Amplaspolia This O this is the Doctors Method this is the Art they so magnifie in respect of which a Chymical Physician in contempt is by them termed an emperick and a Mountebank and what not We have seen their mystery in common maladies which are too vulgar for them a gallant excuse and in moe difficult cases in which being convinced by daily experience and opportunity of being more fully convinece still presenting it self hath extorted a confession of their impotency herein yet palliated with a shameless falshood that such discases are incurable which censure they give on a multitude of other diseases as the Phthisick Consumption Strangury Palsie Epilepsie and many others which it would be tedious to relate and hame But a true Physician acknowledges none of those shameful distinctions of trivial and considerable diseases nor that false distinction of curable and incurable but by his Art with Gods blessing he is able to cure and restore to their integrity all distempers of what kind soever which I shall briefly yet fully clear up and demonstrate This task may seem to some very difficult especially to a Pisse-Prophet who I suppose are very desirous to hear it demonstrated I doubt not but many of the Goosquill Tribe hope the contrary having this confidence that what ever is beyond their capacity is beyond possibility whom therefore I shall principally assail in this demonstration If any of you desire to know how I prove all disdases to be curable who am so consident to affirm it I shall aske you how you prove any diseases to be incurable which you so confidently affirm to be so I know that what ever you will answer though by much circumlocution it will all tend to this because you never could certainly cure such diseses there fore you so judge them In very truth Gentlemen if you from negative experience are so bold to collect a positive Maxim and confidently pronounce that incurable which you cannot cure I hope you will give the like liberty to a Son of Art to affirm those diseases to be curable which he hath oft and certainly restored Worth derision was that of an Ideot who being asked how many even and seven was he counted it on his fingers and could tell the number being asked how many four times seven was his finger Arithmetick failing he could not tell but being asked how many seven times seven was he said No man could tell he thought some men might possibly count up 4 times 7 but 7 times 7 God only knew So you some diseases you think you can cure others though you cannot yet some more experienced in your Art can but the knotted Gout Stone Strangury Epilepsie

Pox it is so commonly known to every Midwife and Nurse that a lask is therein lethal that upon the appearing thereof they do give over the party for lost unless by restrictives the loosness may be stopt and unless that be performed if the party affected be full of those variolae which the Pox sends forth certain death follows The same in pestilential Feavers is evident where phlebotomy purgatives are very dangerous nay desperate by wch it may be strongly concluded that if in the Plague the Smal pox and Pestilential Feavers phlebotomy a loose belly and cooling drinks are of very bad consequence so to wit as to cause death in many to indanger life in all that then the same things can not in reason be of good effect in any Feaver which brings me by the hand to the discovery of my method and Medicines for the cure of this disease the better to compare it with the way commonly practised by which both of them the better may be judged of and censured For Feavers are of sundry sorts either continual or intermittent The continual are various of which the saddest is the Plague next the Smal-pox next the pestilential Feaver next the malignant which is scarlet purple c. to which may be reckoned the Pleurisie which is a real sort of Feaver more violent by reason of an Apostemated matter threatned in the side of which it hath its denomination this accompanied with a cough and spitting of bloud with a tormenting pain is thought incurable without Phlebotomy and so the vulgar are perswaded by Doctors and Chirurgeons though very falsly Intermittent Feavers are of several sorts either Ephemerial or Tertian or Quartan of which the two last sorts are either single or duplicate and lastly there is the Erratick intermittent Feaver called by Paracelsus Febris extranea of all which are so many appearances that it would require a large Treatise to describe all the kinds of this disease But as for the cure or rather the way and means of restoring this kinde of disease therein the Galenical Tribe and I differ very much we only agree in the names and symptomes of the same concerning which let it not be objected that I leave out the names of Feavers Hemitritean c. since it is not my design in this place to make a curious Anatomy of that disease in its kindes according to its various Symptomes performed both learnedly and acurately by many Galenists as Fernelius and others who being professed Methodists were yet honourers of Chymical Medicaments as their writings do testifie which were a work of a peculiar Tractate to perform And to say truth the disease is sufficiently known being so common and so truculent that not only a Doctor but each ordinary Nurse can tell when a man or woman is Feaverish although to know certainly the kinde of each Feaver is a task sometimes too hard for a professed Doctor and yet that may be known and the disease as far from cure as before therefore well said he who sang thus Non opus est morbi testibus at medice To the certain safe and speedy cure of which malady I shall now come and that not perhaps without great expectation which I shall do my endevour to answer to the ingenuous readers satisfaction In order to which task I shall premise some positions by way of Aphorism very true and certain however contrary to the commonly practised way of the Schools 1. That the heat which appears in some nay most Feavers is not originally from the nature of the Feaver This appears first in intermittent Feavers commonly known by the name of Agues among us in which the cold fit in each access is oft the most afflictive part of the distemper and torments with a violent thirst yet without any sensible heat But nextly all malignant Feavers some more some less begin with a sensible internal cold and a quivering or shaking withall after which followes burning Thirdly Castrensian or Camp Feavers a kinde of Feaver but lately known among mankind from the beginning of them to the end of their Tragedy are without either thirst or heat and yet as truculent as any malignant Feaver whatever Adde to this that all Feavers when they draw towards a conclusion abate of their heat although the disease be more violent then as drawing nearer to death To which agrees that the Feavers of old persons and such who are of very weak decayed bodies manifest far less heat and burning then far milder Feavers do in strong vigorous bodies and lusty constitutions and that leads me to the second conclusion or Aphorism 2. That the more sensible the party affected is of heat and burning the more strength he may bejudged to have and the better probability of his recovery For it is the Archeus of the life whence this rage proceeds being provoked by some accidental matter whence the first offence doth arise or from some Ideal character instamped upon the seat of life or some near adjoyning sympathizing part either by mean of a virulent endemical fume or exhalation or of some passion of the minde which by its tyrannical impression doth disturb the seat of life that is its own original habitation the soul and life being originally seated in one and the same part whence is caused this or that disease according as the passive part doth receive the injury For it is not necessary that a Feaver should finde alway an occasional matter ready prepared since it is evident that grief fear c. have power to give originall being to this disease and so an eminent cold especially after being throughly warm which without controversie only inrage the Archeus by instamping an unusual Character on its place of habitation and so consequently follow febrile excrements which had not being before The vital Archeus is that Vulcan in man which doth stir up and feed that heat of life which from the first hour of life till death goes never our which in health is orderly and regular but being provoked rageth according to the known rule Idem agens laesus edit actiones laesas qui sanus edit actiones sanas Proportionable therefore to the provision for life is the virtue and strength of the Archeus whose rage in burning in Feavers is nothing else but a gathering together its forces to expell its adversary that is to blot out that character which either cold or virulent fumes or passions of the minde have instamped on its place of habitation and so proportionable to the strength of nature is the burning in such cases and this leads me to my third conclusion 3. That bloud-letting and purgations and cooling drinks are unreasonable waies to be used by him that pretends to cure Feavers For Nature only is the immediate helper both of Feavers and all diseases which assail the life primarily and in their first intention now if the provision for life be the subject cause of heat in Feavers what ever is intended primarily