effect must be cured by its contrary yet the right temper must be supported by its owne simile as heate by heate and moysture by moysture but whither in degree more or lesse moyst or intense is indicated by the natural constitution of that body and to be ordered by the Phisitian but this is a Paradox ot not understood by vulgar practicers who argue falsely upon this true ground of Hyppocrates so such as accept his Contraria contrarijs curantur to be a rule without exception in nourishing as much as curing as if there were noe difference betweene contrary and contrary Rebellion and Loyalty 't is truth as remedies they must be contrary to the affect and thus Arist will have a crooked Plant bent as much the other way to straiten it but if a straite Plant shal be incurvated there wil be consequently an organical affect which wee call vitiata figura so also if contrarie remedies or qualeties shal be applyed to an harmonius temper it wil be a cause efficient of discord conflict in nature or in the fore said temper therfore it is apparent that the quality is more to be observed either in meate or Medicine then the quantity especially of aliment because natural choice of foode is in noe Creature of health ultra capacitatem recipientis but if any Lessian shall dispute as strictly for temperance according to his measure I must severally as a Phisitian tel them the Worthies of our Art preferreth excess before such temperance for they affirme Canonically that al affects or diseases of plentitude or fulnesse are more safe because more curable then diseases of Emptinesse and who doth not apprehend variety of reason in this axiome first because universal evacuation is sooner effected then repletion Secondly because accidents of various formes cannot be avoyded for they are infinite and the least affliction upon an extenuate and lessiate body for defect of excrementitious humours to involue them giveth a dangerous charge to the radical principles because both the disease and medicine having nothing else to encounter must tyrannise over enfeebled nature as by its owne impotency not able to resist which Conatus naturae or endeavor to expel noctious causes doth over heate the spirits and effect such preternatural heate by its motion from the Center to the Circumference as doth inflame natural heate according to Christophorus a vega and not otherwise by the ascent of putrid fuliginous vapours to the Heart according to vulgar opinion Contrarily where there is a sufficiencie of excrementitious humours to entertaine both the Disease and Remedy there are they retained with lesse oppression and danger to the radical spirits and removed with lesse offence to the universal temper of the person so labouring as wil be more Phylosophically demonstrated according to this subsequent mode Albertus and many other Philosophers doe constitute in mixt Bodys a two fold Moysture one which they nominate humidum continuans and from this continuating humidity the Iunction of parts doth proceed otherwise they would be al siccity and consequently upon any motion disunited therefore there is no natural Body void of this Humidity though never so hard or grave as is dayly demonstrated by every Chymical Operator every hower extracting oyle out of the hardest body Therefore this Humidity is by Physitians nominated Oleaginosum humidum an oyley moisture consisting of ayrie and aqueous moysture The other humidity being humidum quasi nutriens is a waterish moisture in the mixt body nothing advantagious to the continuation of parts because of its tenuity is easily resolved which cannot with such facility be effected upon the Oleaginous because of its crassitude or thicknesse soe that were a proportion of excrementitious humours is wanting in a body by reason of a severe or thin Diet in that body both disease and medicine must of necessity be more tyrannicall over the fixed moysture which is the ligament of life and for this cause all Phisitians will acknowledge Diseases of fulnesse admitt of a more safe and speedy cure then those of inanition as diseases alsoe of a cold quality admit of a more safe remedy then hot distempers because in the application of hot remedies to the former we foment natural heat and our cold applications to the other we doe not only debilitate but very often extinguish naturall heà t But because I intend noe Controversy I shal fix my selfe upon my proper subject and shew how every temper may be preserved void of all distempers proceeding from the material principles of nature by the use of Wine and also prove it to be an excellent and specifical remedy in all affects produced by the discord of the foresaid Principles being peritely applyed according to proper indication nor shal I be prolix in my tractation of all the parts of this discourse Curiosity and expectation will proove abhortive if a taste of this promised Iuyce be not suddainely presented whose nature and excellency hath and doth appeare in our former expressions to be Encomiastick sufficient and such excellent Nectar in the opinion of Noah that he made it is first Act of Husbandry after the Deluge to Plant a vinyard before any other fruite or grayne as is affirmed by sacred Testimony The reason of that act if I should presume to render or explicate that Text without better quallification I might not without cause from Theologists have thrown upon me that snuff of Ne sutor ultra crepidam yet can I not soe much inthrall my fancy or suffocate such notions as may be probable though not an absolute and perfect Demonstration as to passe by his first act after his Resurrection or not to take notice of his age which I find extended twenty yeares beyond the age of Adam in whom the Principles of nature according to my reason sense should have been most pure and durable Nor can I argue otherwise but that matter soe formed must be subject to dayly decaye by perpetuall motion there fore how Noah after soe many Centuries from Adam should in age extend twenty yeares longer can make noe impression in my reason the taste of this Nectar excepted which is I conceive an inferior speties of that Plant of Life from which Adam was excluded for had it been of equall or the same perfection whereas he lived after his Plantation Three Hundred and fifty yeares which was a good Cordiall yet he had now been living and eternall in this world but as a best second was proved by his own experience and by six hundred yeares observation he could not but be sufficiently taught how to frame reasonable arguments to satisfy both himselfe and others and by reducing it into its principles make a sensible discoverie of natures mistery and upon such like experimental observation did he plant his Vinyard so that by inference the excellency of this subjectt doth appeare more transcendent then any other Iuyce either of vegitall or Animal Therefore it shal be my next consideration to explicate the
nourisheth above any thing and therefore is the most proper corrective of such sharpe humors because it breeds so sweet aliment ergo no vehicle of enervation as they would have it nor for their water drinking without the assistance of more exact Philosophy can I apprehend a greater enemy to the nerves then cold nor any congregation both of heterogenealls homogenealls or ligation of sence equally powerful to the qualitie of cold but if they intend medicate water it wil obtain lesse censure though not received a comparative with wine which used with moderation by its dulced nature doth exceed all corroboratives either chymically or galenically prepared and ordained especially when the affect is chronicall for some times the affect proveth acute in the beginning and then indicateth a thinner nutriment but pure water according to Arist doth not nourish as hath bin formerly disputed in my tract of waters In Spasmo or a convulsive motion when the moving facultie is depraved wil be a quaestion controverted of the same nature concerning the use of this juyce Celsus in this affect doth prohibit the use of Wine with better reason then either Avicen or Halyabbas because wine doth dilate and thus contract the nerves which sensibly appeareth to all artificers Hippoc. 5. Apher 2. de morb educated by sensible precepts to induce convulsions according to Hippoc and not without the consent of Avicen and Serapio in this case the adhibition of dilute wine in reconciliation of these authors Celsus must by my selfe be understood to speake of this affect quatenus in principio and if my memory in so long exile both from my Country books by that ever cursed Parlament of 1641. fayle me not these are his owne words In principio nequaquam convenit vinum ubi autem morbus declinare incipit Hippoc. 4. de acutis vinum convenit quia magis dissipat attenuat and after the same manner Hippoc. must be understood where he ordaineth wine for although wine may not be so convenient in the beginning of a convulsion yet in the progresse of the disease must be a proper adjuvant In opthalmia or inflammation of the eyes Mercurialis ordaineth wine in the declention for the unquestionable drinke without any mixture because it doth then concoct and determine the disease Galen 6. Aphor 31. especially generated of cold matter cause blood in which case Galen affirmeth vinum generosum and that he hath effected this cure by the same meanes in a pleurîsie Hippoc. 3. de Morbis which is a phlegmon of the membrane succinct the Ribbs Hippoc. ordaineth the use of sweet wine as an in crassative and expectorative which are most properly indicated from the inflammation it selfe yet the stricter sort of Phisitians are of opiniō this book reputationis causa was by the Cnydians composed published under his name Hippoc. l. de acut the doubt is raised out of his owne booke de acutis where he damneth the Cyndian Physitians for their ignorance and want of regular goverment in the diaeting affected persons yet none can accept against the use of hot qualities as adverse to the breast In a cyncope or passion of the heart which although most diseases in their course offer offence to this part yet I could never meet with any that by a special excellencie or proprietie were affects of this noble part but these two Scil affectus syncopalis and palpitatio cordis and these have their prime localitie in the heart in the first of these passions and in all such persons affected the considiration is how convenient the use of wine wil appeare Gal. l. 1. ad Glane 14 Method 22 Avicen 11. Cap. 3. de Sinc. being for aliment or medicament much doubted by some Physitians because Galen Avicen doe except against the use of wine as obnoxious to such persons as are afflicted from the head or labour with ingent feavors To which I answer though this passion of the heart may be more oppressed with such consent of parts and complication of affects yet extra paroxismum or upon the least appearance of victory in nature where refection of spent spirits is indicated there is nothing so safe and suddayne to effect it as wine Averr 7 Collect. 7 in this respect it is by a compulsive necessitie to be abhibited and Averroes is of my sence in this case as also the Saraceus amongst whom it was a custome or law not to tast of wine ordinarily yet in such necessitie they were permitted wine and in this passion as the best remedie so is it also in palpitatione Cordis or in the unnatural beating of the heart least by the deficiencie of spirit or any other preternatural Conatus the aegrotant fall into the former passion which is a syncope provided in this palpitation the wine be old and pure Amongst the various diseases of the ventricle I shal only rest upon the Canine appetite or the unnatural lust after meat because it admitteth more doubt then any of the precedent affects wine being generally granted by consent both Theologicall and humane to be most proper to excite a depraved appetite Hyppoc 2. aph 21 according to its proper acception for some wine according to Hyppocrates doth extinguish hunger and Galen doth in his interpretation conceive him principally to intend this canine appetite and the specifique wine to be most pure and without mixture in my owne opinion where this affect shal proceed from a cold and depraved humor vitiating the retentive faculty the use of wine pure is an excellent remedy Hippoc de arte veter and yet I meet an exception in Hyppoc though wine be pure yet if old that is superannuated and lusty such as wee call Vinum vetus generosum by him is not in this case permitted Galen 7. meth by which it is manifest that he tooke notice of the specificall difference in wines Galen also is of the same sence but they must by my comment be understood of excesse which will deject the appetite so prove a bonum presens but if this excesse prove vomitorius and so clense the ventricle of the morbid cause then 't is a plaine curative Concerning immoderate thirst which is conjunct with al feavors and of it self an immoderate or excessive appetite of moisture whither wine of any degree may encrease or extinguish this symptome is the doubt because siccitie by the rule of contrarietie can not be corrected but with humiditie therefore wine being generally by the most Phisitians in France adjudged hot and dry can not be granted a remedy in this case the reasons of their opinion I can conceive to be no other then they render for Phlebotomie in all affects and at all times ages and sexes and the mode of France is their sole argument and they would have others accept it a Demonstrative I am sure in neither opinion either Grecians Arabians or learned Modernes will joyne Issue with them
Galen will have the sweetest wine to be the most moyst of all other liquids and though it doth heat 't is calefactione temperata which is no praeternaturall or intemperate caliditie and both Galen Hyppoc salut diaeâ—… 30. and Hippoc testifie small dilute wine doth quench or extinguish thirst much more in a small quantity then fountaine-water in a large measur of one time or by often repetition for these reasons because dilute wine is cold moist ergo most proper to correct hot and dry and extinguish thirst there is also a more penetrative power in wine then in water and as humective there fore doth sooner determine thirst and my self have many yeares observed in the highest feavors one draught of dilute wine to effect more then many flagons of water or such like cold decoctions nor can any Physitian satisfie such thirst with water and not tumble upon this rock scil extinction or debilitation of naturall heat with praeternaturalie in illeo or the twisting of the bowells which affect sometime is a consequent of the collique by which they are often strangled a disease not frequently noted in Medicall books Celius Aurel saith that the Pythagoreans in Sicile Cal anrel l. 3. de acut passionâ—…s were accustomed to nominate this disease Sepimentum as if there were a hedge separating the bowells others call in Volentus or rowling of the bowells over each other Scribonius Marcellus doth name it a Phlegmon or inflammation both of small and great guts others call it tormentum acutum illiacam passionem and these appellations will be acknowledged for no sharpe payne in my opinion can be inflicted upon a sensible body whither Wine in this grand inflammation may be conducible will prove a quarrell between Hippoc Hop 3. de morb and Caelius the one ordayning the drinking of generose wine in this case the other absolutely damning it in the whole course of cure by which doth appear a grand misunderstanding in my last Author concerning Hippoc and a rash censure because Hippoc in that place forementioned doth conceive this affect to proceed principally from a cold cause and such humors are more reasonably dissolved by generous wine then any other and mine owne reason of this remedy is grounded upon the non passage of excrements in this disease and the necessity of nutriment by which it will appeare that from this remedy can proceed no oneration of the body with excrements because it leaveth none or any that passeth thorough any Port or passage but the bladder and for aliment no other succus so speedy and inoffensive The antecedent affect being the disturbance of the receptacles of dry excrements it wil not look like a disorderly motion to commit to every consideration such affects as doe molest the receptacles of moist excrements principally the obstruction of the Rhenes which parts were dedicated by nature to no other use elce but to separat serososhumores froÌ„ the blood conveigh them through the body by those ducts channells according to the universall opinion of all Phisitians since therefore this is their office and that this percolation is hindered often by oppilation from severall causes producing various affects the most common cause being the Stone and that in the cavity of the Rhenes though other affects are subjected in the substantiall parts thereof The Question now is whither the drinking sulphureous waters or wine doth most conduce to the cure of this affect Avicenna adjudgeth the drinking of Thermall waters either in a smal or great quantity to procure great difficulty in pissing and though the grand compression of such waters in a large proportion may force a stone into the pot yet not without exceeding difficulty and agitation of settled humors from which violence forced motion proceedeth excoriations ulcers and various distempers as dangerous and troublesome as the former obstruction therefore in this case white subtile wine that is not astringent is better approved then such waters therfore in the right regiment of dyet in this distemper white wine is to be preferred before incertayne mineral tinctures and if they were certainly known and perfectly separated yet cannot the practice be justified safe because Natura non patitur afflictionem and many rules admitt exception so doth this except against violence to nature mineralls therefore being in their own nature more heterogeneall to animals then any vegetall must though most exactly prepared offer violence to natur as for the stone in the bladder I shall joyne with Paracelsus his nil nisi cultrum prescribe no other remedy but the knife For other medicines of several formes and matter though Capevactius drew me over his discourse with many score probats yet is forced with this parenthesis to conclude Sed ingenuè fateor me nescire quid potest lapidem vesicae frangere Mercurialis in a flux of blood from the Rhenes adviseth abstinence from Wine omnino in the place ordayneth calybrate water which is a poore corroborative in a grand flux and expence of spirit continually nor is it incrassative or corrective of acrimonie tenuity and sharpnes of humors being the principall causes of such distempers except eruption or perforation of the urine therefore under favour I shal as boldly and more reasonably I suppose ordayne the use of black thick wine not only to incrassate and dulicifie the humor in the first causes but as a better sanative in eruption of the urine and for the refreshment and refection of spirit more reasonably to be adhibited then any calybeate vvater though better prepared vvith the juyce of pomegranats and quinces In our subsequent discourse vvee cannot avoyd the bladder as one of the forenamed receptacles of liquid humors and having before determined the only cure of the stone generated in this part by a petrefiring quality conferring thereunto I shall diluci'dly with out prolixity render my sense concerning the suppression difficulty stillicide or voiding urine by drops these being proper diseases of the bladder though diversly contracted from other vicine parts causally but subjected in the bladder as subjectum bene dispositum to receive such confluences the number and differences of such causalls vvill offer too much prolixity for this short undertaking for an iscuria or suppression of urine admitteth of very much dispute in medicall scholes about the causes essentiall and accidentall therefore I shall only passe to the proper remedies of such affect so caused Hippoc â—… Aph. â—4 Hippoc telleth me that all cold qualities are enemies to the bladder from whose testimony those remedies which are applyed to that part must be potentially hot and if wee consider the membranous substance and exanguitie of the part wee shall soon apprehend his reason that all cold is highly offensive to nervie substances nor can there appeare to my intellect any more then one scope of cure in all the forenamed diseases and that is diereticall or such meat or medicine as doth
Religion they murther steale betray innocents perjure themselves rebell against God their King and country supposing no eye can see the Pharisaicall pathes they walke in nor that they keep in memory the old cheate of the grand Pharisie who made it a damnable sinne for the publican to dresse meat upon the Saboth and the same Hyppocrite upon the same day made a great feast and invitation to our Lord and Saviour that he might obteyne advantage of his discourse and in a Traterous undertaking saith hee 't is lavvfull to breake a Comman dement for such a breatch of command and trechery at this or that time vvas and is by the inevitable ordinance of the Almighty and if God shall command othervvise they are Leviathans and vvill acknovvledge no supreame above naturam naturatam and vvithout controle doe vvhat they please as doth daily appear amongst the rest of their cheates their blasphemous fastnings and prayers vvhich is nothing but a plaine mocking of omnipotency or a request to deny his ovvn commands for if he vvil not give a contrary command to murder theft adultery perjury or disobedience and disloyalty their actions bid defiance and tell in spight of his vvill or povver they vvill doe it as gyants of force to unthrovvn the Gods and then they use Demetrius his faemenine vveapons to slay their uxorious husbands and then the people must be cheated vvith the pretence of Religion and the name of God vvhich themselves must take in to their declarations though they hate Reformation and perswade the people upon this hyppocriticall ground that it is but a superfluous curiosity of some fine woven bbravnes to avoid contagion or to seeke remedies correcting or curring affects yet their blasphemous prayers and fasting shall never effect or to arme themselves against their enemyes and for the same reason that God foreseeth death of every mode in time shorter or longer and his irrisistable order in such motion to bee in a voidable and yet the same omnipotent bath declared to all humane nature that the perdition of every person is of him selfe otherwise he can be no delinquent in his justice if by a supreame power inevitably obliged to such actions or passions how pernitious and impious this hereticall doctrine appeareth to reason and common sense is understood except such intellect as apprehend nothing either of reason or sense but that which is beaten in to their skulls with apoleaxe and whosoever alloweth this error must of necessity disalow of that forme of prayer for our daily bread ordred by our Saviour to be an inscience in him and a peece of Rebellion against his aeternal Father in such a resistance of his established will as also all the divine prayers for the prolongation of life and preservation from danger ordred by his Apostles and their successors as also the dispensation of the guift of healing to the Phisitian If all diseases and dissolutions of every knide be so imuiovably predestinated as cannot admit of any remedy or to what end or purpose did the almighty omniscient create honour the Phisitian to render the reason will silence Mr. Speaker and both houses of Parliament therefore under favour of more learned interpretors of learning in these poynts I shall doe my own indeavour rationally to expurge this pernitious and intollerable error concerning divine providence and to this purpose some thing concerning his caelestial administration of universalls are to be taken in to consideration and repeated by which the dignity and eximious utillity of medicine may be more clearly demonstrated That therefore the vicissitudes and actions of things and humane nature are not by chance but by the ordination of the Almighty ought to be a principle embraced by all Christian people and that God is the omnipotent and aeternall fabricator of the whole universe out of nothing as is affirmed by divine testimony this aedifice beeing so powerfully erected is also by the same efficacy conserved who hath also appointed to every created thing both a beginning end or termination of subsisting and moving and doth take notice not only of principall but also of subsequent causes of things as if that God did governe moderate dispose and order them according to his free will and yet all this government is void of fatall violence and most commonly commeth to effect mediately and from deputed causes which vulgarly are nominated second causes which the divine Majesty doth imploy as the instruments of his will so long as he doth so governe all things vvhich he hath created as also him selfe may suffer them to exercise their proper motions for the vvill of man by divine ordination is the originall of humane actions freely electing vvhat seemeth best for it self especially in externalls and the nature of motion is the cause of this or an other thing in vvhich it is per se according to Aristotel as in the Sun perpetuall rotation and in grave and beavy bodyes their inclination to their Center and the causes so respond the effects as if the effects be necessary the causes are also necessary if contingents the causes are contingents nor doth the praescience which is certaine not to be deceaved abolish the contingency of naturall events but the future effect is disposed as it were by a divine providence necessarily or contingently nor doth it nul the freedome of the agent nor is the creator obliged to the necessity but moderateth al things frely according to his free wil and pleasure as did evidently appear when he caused the sun to stand stil or move retrograde the space of one compleat day and caused the red Sea to divide and stand like firme wales without either flux or reflux or any motion that wee read of until the Israelites had passed over them as also in the case of Daniel and the three children in the fiery furnace and Duffus Milcolumbus King of Scots who was most barberously murthered Anno Dom 961. after which according to their own history there was no apperance either of the Sun or moone for the space of six months and though divine omnipotency can dispos of causes and life with every kind of death at his own free pleasure yet it wil not urge any person to accept that terme of life for a fatall determination but for a divine ordination of servient causes and their natural power of sustaining or corrupting life for since life according to the Phylosopher is in its selfe but a duration of heat conjunct with moysture which duration of vitall heat and extinction of the same are naturall effects depending upon naturall causes which doubtlesse because of the various disposition of internall heat and moysture complicated which externall causes not only the quality but also the quantety of life it selfe may be varied for it doth obteyn the internal conditiō of lively principles so long as the heat moisture are so united in animals that one is not destroyed or perturbed by the other so long they