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A89713	Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent.	Nolle, Heinrich, fl. 1612-1619.; Vaughan, Henry, gent,	1655 (1655)	Wing N1222; Thomason E1714_1; ESTC R209619	34,855	139

diversity of Salts for the Earth yeelds first Salt-gemme which answers in proportion to Sea-salt that is onely saltish in tast then Salt-nitre which is bitter in tast and Salt-alum which is austere and Astringent afterwards Salt of Vitriol and Salt Armoniac which are acid and hot and lastly those corrosive sharp Salts which are termed Alkal● with others that are sweet and pleasant as Sugar so in the lesser world that is in the body of man there is generated a Tartar or Salt which being dissolved causeth onely a saltish humour which the Dogmatical Physicians term saltish phegme in plaine termes a salt water or humour There is also generated a nitrous or bitter Salt which mixeth with the Urine and causeth bitter Choler and a vitriolated acid salt which predominates in acid phlegme and melancholy In like manner there be also aluminous and austere kinds of Tartar and other sorts which resemble the acrimonie of Salt as it is manifestly seen by the various affections of contractures and astrictions of the sinews and the many perilous troubles of acrimonious humours in Dysenteries and divers Ulcers as well inward as outward all which are caused by the many and different kindes of Salts which are generated in the body For why should not this be done by those things which are most like to doe it and most significant and which do most properly and fully expresse the natures and diversities of Causes having their derivation and appositenes from the very fountains of nature who is the best Interpretress of her own concernments These Salts believe me doe better expresse and discover unto us the essences and distinctions of Tartareous or saltish diseases then those four humours which are commonly termed the Sanguine the Phlegmatic the Bilious and the Melancholy both because that these latter termes signifie nothing unto us of the essence or matter of the Disease and also because that those Dogmatists themselves Hallucinate and stagger very much both in the formation or aptnesse and in the application of their said termes II. Tartar is two-fold Adventitious and Innate III. Adventitious Tartar proceeds from meat and drinke and the Impressions of the Firmament EVery thing that we eat and drinke hath in it a Mucilaginous reddish and sandy Tartar very noxious to the health of man Nature receives nothing for her own use but what is pure The stomack which is an instrument of the Archaeus of man or an internall innate Chymist and implanted there by God presently upon the reception of that which is chew'd and swallowed down separates the impure Tartareous part from the pure nutriment If the stomack be vigorous especially in its faculty of separation the pure portion passeth presently into all the members to nourish and preserve the body and the impure goes forth into the Draught if the stomack be weake the impure portion is through the M●saraic veines conveyd to the Liver where a second digestion or separation is made Here the Liver separates againe the pure from the impure the Rubie from the Chrystall that is to say the Red from the White The Red is the nutriment of all the members the heart the brain c. The white ●or that which is no nutriment is driven by the Liver to the Reyns and it is Urine which is nothing else but Salt which being exprest from the Mercuriall portions by the violence of the separation is forced to a dissolution It is dissolved into water by the Liven so cast forth If the Liver by reason of its debility makes no perfect separation it casts that Mucilaginous and Calculous impurity upon the Reyns where for want of a ●ight and through separation it is according to the concurrency and Method of nature by the mediation of the spirit of Salt coagulated into Sand or Tartar either Massie and Solid or Mucilaginous This Tartar therefore is the Excretion of meat and drinke which is coagulated in all mens bodies by the spirit of Salt unless the expulsive faculty by its owne peculiar vigour or virtue can command it into the Excrements and so cast it out by dejection IV. There are four kinds of this AdventitiousTartar which proceed originally from the four distinct fruits or Cibations which we receive from the four Elements THe first kind proceeds from the use of those things that grow out of the Earth as from all sorts of Pulse Grains Fruits Herbs and Roots upon which we feed The second proceeds from those nutriments which we take out of the Element of Water as from fish shel-fish c. The third is from the flesh of Birds and beasts c. The fourth comes from the Firmament which the spirit of Wine in respect of its subtilty doth most resemble This kind of Tartar is of a most forcible impression while the Air being primarily infected with the vapours of the Earth the water and the firmament doth afterwards annoy us as wee frequently see in those acute and pernitious Astral Diseases the Pleurisie the Plague the Prunella c. V. Tartar innate is that which is cogenerated with man in his mothers wombe VI Besides these impure Tinctures and Meteors there is another substantial Extrarious cause which cannot be reduced to a certa●ne kind TO this must be referred those Insecta's or quick Creatures which sometimes though rarely are generated in the body as Snakes divers worms c. Secondly those things must be referred hither which by inchantment and the mediation of evill spirits are invisibly and insensibly conveyed into the bodies of men and Women Thirdly We are to reduce to this Aphorisme or Canon all Splinters Bullets or other weapons which being violently thrust or shot into the body lie deeply in the flesh or under the skin VII We have now done with the Substantial Extrarious Cause To the Accidental I shall referre all disproportions of Limbs Gibbosities Luxations Wounds and fractures of bones CHAP. 6. Of God the first and supreme Cause of the Extrarious Cause HAving now done with the Extrarious or conjoyned and apparent cause of the disease I shall consider the cause of that Extrarious Cause I. This Cause I shall divide into six heads or branches The first of which is God 2. Excesse and defect of Necessaries 3. Fire 4. Hereditary impurity 5. Imagination 6. Violent Illation Of these I shall treat in their order and first of GOD MAn because he is made in the Image of God is bound also to live according to his Will I mean his will revealed and laid down in the Ten Commandements and the holy Scriptures namely in those Bookes onely which were left unto us and which without scruple we have received from the holy Prophets and the Apostles of the Lord and Saviour but when we transgresse and violate this Law and will of our maker then doth God send upon us condigne punishments amongst which Diseases are numbred in the very Booke of the Law For thus saith the Lord If ye shall despise my statutes or if your soules

the greatest effect Seeing therefore that Trees and all Roots which in the Winter time seem dead doe about the entrance of the Spring break forth and bud putting on greenness and a renew'd youthfulnesse and fresh vivacity as it were therefore the wise Ancients did at the very same time by observing them take their purging and restorative Physick and by that meanes God cooperating with them did mightily strengthen nature and multiply their dayes upon earth Such Physick as this is the starre of man imprognated with the Physicall tincture Others use onely the Philosophicall stone These glorious medicines whomsoever God shall reveale them to may in their just Dose be taken once in every week to the singular comfort and incredible improvement of nature So the Philosophers tell me The dose of the universall medicine is the weight of one graine IX Vse not too freqnently the permissions of Marriage MAn for procreations sake should not abhorre the Concessions and Priviledges of lawfull love but let him eschew all wantonnesse and confine his desires to naturall and legitimate and that too within the bounds of Wedlock But in this also there must be moderation Solons Law was thrice in the moneth Emission of seed weakens all bodies This experience tells us for men that are addicted to this intemperance have the most nice and tender constitutions easily offended and seldome fruitfull like Trees which bearing too much in one year yeeld nothing but leaves in the next You are to understand from this Paragraph that seed is two-fold Radical and Prolific The Radical seed is the innate balsame of the body which if it be advantaged with perfect digestion will yeeld effusion and a balsame of the same nature as it selfe In this balsame the body lives as in his proper seed Hence Anonymus Leschus Tract. 7. instructs us that so long as there is seed in the body it lives but the seed being consumed the body dies It is no wonder then that so many have perished by the intemperance who * going to bed in a vegetous perfect health were found dead next morning If you excite a Tree to bear fruit by violent and unnatural means or by artificiall as by kindling fire under his branches in an unseasonable time you will but kill the Tree and manifest your own indiscretion CHAP. 3. Of Diseases in Generall HItherto we have spoken onely of that part of Physick which teacheth us to preserve health It remaines now that we consider the other part which treats of the restitution of health I. That part of Physick which teacheth us the restoration of health is an Art laying down in certaine precepts or rules a sure safe way to redeem or free sick persons from diseases It is termed by th●Grecians {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} II. In this we are to consider first the disease and all its circumstances secondly the cure of it For the true method consists in knowing first the disease and afterwards the cure The Doctrine of diseases is termed by the Grecians {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} III. Disease or sicknesse is a privation or the loss of health IV. Therefore because health depends upon the strength and vigour of the radical balsame sicknesse must needs proceed from the weaknesse and indisposition of it V. But when the strength of the Balsame followes the conspiration of the Hypostatical principles as his proper {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ●r inclinatior then or in that cause the insirmity of the balsame proceeds from the ind●sposition of the principles Whence followes this consequence THat those bodies whose principles agree not amongst themselves may be truly judged to be sickly and ill disposed VI Touching the disease there are two things to be considered First The conjoyn'd and apparent cause of the disease which we shall terme Extrarious Secondly the cause of that Extrarious or conjoyn'd cause CHAP. 4. Of the Extrarious or conjoyned and apparent Cause of the Disease I. The conjoyned ' apparent cause of the disease I terme * by reason it is a Cause most remote from and altogether a stranger to our nature II. This Extrarious Cause is twofold Substantial and Accidental THe substantial is so termed because it is the substantiall Essence or matter of the disease The other is termed accidental by reason that the conjoyned cause signified by it is an accident not a substance III. The substantial extrarious Cause is either an impure tincture or a Meteor IV. An impure tincture is an impure spiritual nature so exactly mixt with the most inward parts of our substance that at the time of its commixtion it doth not presently and manifestly hinder nor prejudice the functions of the Balsame but remaining quiet and inoffensive at first and for a time doth afterwards by degrees discover its enmity and force and so infects the body TO this place must be referred first those impure seminal tinctures by which the prolific seed is tainted and the child that is borne of it comes to be Hereditarily infected with the Diseases of his parents Secondly the impurity of the body that proceeds from the bloud with which the child is fed and nourished in the wombe from which last impurity if the substance of the Childe were not vindicated and free'd by frequent breakings out by the Measels and divers other extrusions and petty and indispositions besides the dayly discharge of it through the proper Emunctories of the body it were not absurd to conclude that his whole nature must needs be depraved and overcome by it Purgations of this kind happen sometimes sooner sometimes later according to the strength of the Radicall balsame which in some is slower in others quicker and more vigorous as we see it exemplified in our very fields of which some are more barren some more fruitfull according to their scituation and the aspect of the Sun-beames shining directly and favourably upon some upon others glancingly and for a short time which makes some places more forward some more back-ward and their productions whether flowers or Hey or Corne to differ accordingly some being very good some very bad V. A Meteor is either volatile or coagulated both kindes are Extrarious I Call it a Meteor because I would have the Reader to inquire how the * Meteors of the greater world are generated and by their Generation to learn and find out the true Doctrine of the Microcosmical Meteors VI The volatile Meteor is commonly called an Exhalation and that is either dry or moist THe dry Exhalation is termed a Fume and the humid a Vapour the fumid Exhalation because it is a fume arising from a dry body or Principle is hot dry light and subtile alwayes tending upwards and is near to a sulphureous fiery nature which will easily inflame and kindle and so is set on fire and burns Contrarily a vapour is an humid flux which if it be deprived by any exterior heat of its owne cold quality and

so carried up into the Region of the Air and there condensed by cold is presently because of its thin Mercurial and aqueous nature forced to resume its former state and is turned againe into the nature of water For as we see in the greater world that tho●e Vapors and Exhalations which by the heat of the Sun the influence of the Stars and by their owne proper internall calidity are excited and stirred up doe afterwards afford matter for various miraculous Meteors and bodies imperfectly mixt both in the Region of the Air and in the bowels of the Earth and that those which are of a Mercurial cold moist and watry nature doe alwayes produce Clouds Raine Hail-stones Snow Frost and winds but those which are sulphureous hot and dry generate Coruscations Lightnings Fire-drakes Thunder-bolts and other burning Meteors so in the lesser world that is in the body of man the like and the very same vapours and Exhalations afford matter for the generation of many and different kinds of Meteors Hence it is that so many and such various sorts of Diseases afflict man-kind Some of them being Mercurial cold and moist others sulphureous hot and dry Nor are they so in meer forme and accident but in substance that is to say they are such in their essentiall virtue and are generated as wel in the inferiour Region the breast the stomack and the belly as in the superiour the head and the braine which parts do exactly quadrate and correspond with the airy Region and the subterraneous Concavities of the earth See Quercetanus Tetr page 45. 46. VII The Coagulated Meteor is termed Tartar of which we shall treat in the following Chapter CHAP. 5. Of Tartar I. Tartar is an acrimonious pricking and corroding or an aluminous acid and styptic mucilage which is bred in the body and being separated from its proper juyce is by the supervenient spirit of Salt according to the various inclination of nature at a set time and in those places which are most apt to receive it collected together and coagulated or if that juyce be not separated from it it putrifies from whence come worms and other innumerable symptoms QUercetanus in his advice against the Joynt-gout and the Stone describes it thus Salsugirous substances because they have alwayes mixt in them some portion of earth though the predominant part in them be Liquefactive are in the body of man termed Tartar a most apt in truth and most significant terme which was first given them from the Analogy or similitude that was found betwixt the humours in mans body yea betwixt his very blood and the substance of wine which of all the fruits of vegetables doth most abound with Tartar I doe not meane by Tartar in this place that substance which is dissolved and flowes in new Wines while they are thick and turbid which being afterwards separated or as the common phrase is settled doth as the grosser earthy and more impure part subside into a feculent substance found alwaies in the bottome and called Dregs Neither doe I mean that Tartar onely whose separation is performed by a long Tract of time and sticks to the Dregs or Lees of old Wine-pipes But I meane that Tartar also which is in perpetual liquefaction and commixture with the most refined wines and which gives them their tincture either red or any other This true Tartar either by Evaporation or simple distillation or a Balneum Maris is easily discerned to be moderately hot for the more liquid part of the humour which was the Vehiculum in which the Tartar in its dissolution was contained being separated from it the Tartar alone remaine in the bottom This liquid humour though of red wine distills all bright and limpid but the heavler red substance which I call Tartar stayes all behind a solid substance and the more you fetch out of the substantifical humour it becomes by so much the more hard and the dryer Nor is this Tartar onely in red or white Wines but in any other though decocted and also in the humours of mans body Nor is it there onely in the Chylus or nutriment which answers in proportion to wine newly made for from the Chylus as from new win● divers impure and tartareous dregs are separated but also in the very blood yea in the most pure and after the very same manner as we described it to be in wine And as the Art of distilling even that which is performed by the most gentle fire discovers and manifests unto us this kind of Tartar so nature also by her naturall fury both ranne and daily doth performe such separations of Tartar by a consumption of the humoural parts of our bodies out of which the Dogmatical Writers of Physick suppose the stone to be generated And it is wonderfull to consider how many sorts of Diseases by the intervening of obstructions or ●ppilations arise out of this meere separation particularly the joynt-gout and the stone which diseases according to the sentiment of these Dogmatists themselves happen most frequently to those who have the hottest Livers and consequently the coldest stomacks Who ingenerate much crudities and mucous matters which for want of a through-digestion may be compared to raw fruits that failing of their due and perfect maturity which is performed by a contemperate heat that is all concocting and digesting remaine acid bitter sowre and green These being mixt with and in the whole Masse of blood are there by the natural heate againe concocted and a separation is made of the more crude and tartareous portion which sticks afterwards to the inward parts and causing divers obstructions is at length forcibly carried into the joynts where it stayes and lodgeth For every part of the body of man doth naturally delight in and attract to it that which is most like to it selfe the fleshie parts are nourished by that portion of the blood which is most thinly moist and mercuriall the fat and marrowish parts by that which is most oily or sulphureous but the joynts which are parts that be naturally glutinous and mucilaginous love that portion which hath most likenesse and affinity with their nature whence it comes to passe that this Salsuginous and Tartareous matter is taken in by them Now when it happens that these parts in some bodyes either for their weakness or an innate hereditary disposition or some such cause cannot by a proper and particular digestion inoffensively digest nor expell this crude and indigested Tartareous matter then is this matter being of a saltish viscous nature coagulated in them and the ligaments of the joynts come to be stuffed up and stiffened with it whence proceed those acute intolerable paines which attend this Disease And this is the true and genuine conjoyn'd cause of the paines and knottines of the Joynt-gout The same cause is sometimes lesse acute sometimes more according to the nature and condition of the Tartar For as we see that there is in the greater world a great

abhor my judgements so that ye will not do my Commandements but that ye break my Covenants I also will do this unto you I will even appoint over your terrour consumption and the burning ague that shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart I will also smite thee in the knees and the legges with a sore botch that cannot be healed from the sole of thy foot unto the top of the Head I will make the Pestilence cleave unto thee untill it hath consumed thee from off the Land which thou possessest And in another place The Lord shall smite thee with a Consumption with a Feavour and with an inflammation and extream burning and with the Sword and with Blasting and with Mildew and they shall pursue thee untill thou perish And the Heaven that is over thy head shall be brass and the Earth that is under thee shal be Iron The Lord shall make the Raine of thy Land powder and dust from heaven shall it come down upon thee untill thou be destroyed Leviti● Cap. 29. 16. Deuteron 28. And in the new Testament that everlasting and blessed Physitian the Holy JESUS who came not to destroy but to save the world after he had healed the impotent man who had beene sick of his infirmity eight and thirty years he dismissed him not without this loving and gracious caution Behold thou art made whole sinne no more lest a worse thing come unto thee S. John Chap. 5. 14. and S. Paul also in his first Epistle to the Corinthians rebuking that new and sinfull custome which had crept then into that Church of prophaning the Lords holy Supper with their own intemperate feasts objects to them that sharp visitation by Diseases which for that very abuse God had punished them with For this cause saith he many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep for some of them had beene punished with death Thus is the just and all-seeing God the first and supreme cause of the Extrarious cause CHAP. 7. Of the excesse and the defect of necessaries which is the second cause of the Extrarious cause FXcess of Necessaries is to be considered first in Victuals where the offence is threefold 1. In superfluousness 2. In vairety 3. In our manner of receiving them We offend in superfluousness when that which is to nourish us is taken in too great a quantity whence follow frequent and unwholsome evaporations and belchings which so fill and oppresse the vessels and Organs of the spirits that they are hindered in their functions or the meat with its weight and quantity so indisposeth us that the inordinate operation and digestion is retarded Innumerable are the Diseases and molestations which proceed from this particular intemperance We offend in variety when at one dinner or supper we eate many and divers kinds of Meats and Drinkes for these having a great dissimilitude and enmity amongst themselves cause divers inconveniences by their various dissents and unequall digestion We offend in the manner of receiving when we eate hastily or swallow our meat before it be well chew'd and devour our Drinke like Whales as those are accustomed who drink healths as they term them at Meales taking off whole Bowles and Tankards {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} without so much as breathing time and thinke the excess very fashionable praise-worthy Another Excess in Necessaries happens about taking of rest and watching When the Animal spirits by too much sleep are by degrees habitnated into a certaine dulness so that they perform their functions sluggishly remitting still something of their due vigour until at length they lose all their activity and are naturalized as it were into an incurable stupidity Contrarywise by too much watching they are easily inflamed so that oftentimes they cause Maniacal fits and phrensies with divers others most desperate consequences A third excess of Necessaries happens from cold and heat Excess of heat happens either when the body is over exercised or when any other Extraneous heat hath too free an access to it and the innate fire of nature is beyond measure excited thereby so that inordinate exhalations are caused in the body which produce an excessive and dangerous resolution and weakness of parts Excess of cold happens either by a suddaine Refrigeration or cooling after Exercise or when we expose our selves too much to cold weather which hinders the evaporation of Excrementitious Exhalations by stopping the Pores and beating them back into the body where they lodge and remaine Whence it comes to pass that being of an Extrarious malignant disposition they afford matter and foment for many and severall kinds of diseases A like excess to this proceeds frequently from the hardness and thick Callousness of some peoples skins by which fault because little or no perspiration is performed the secret and the Ambient Aire of their bodies is intercepted so that there is no liberty for inspiration or exspiration Defect of Necessaries is first the want of meat and drink in their due time and proportion This is either famine or thirst Secondly The want of naturall rest according to the Verse Quod caret alterna requ●e durabile non est The strongest body and the best Cannot subsist without due rest Thirdly The want of Refrigeration or coolness of aire which by its needfull community and permeation allayes and tempers the inward heat of the heart Fourthly and lastly the want of due and requisite heat by which the Excrementitious Exhalations of the body are vented forth and the animall spirits incited to their peculiar functions CHAP. 7. Of Fire the third Cause of the Extrarious Cause BY Fire in this place I understand not onely Kitchin-fire or any other fire that burns but also the celestiall fire of the Sun and the Sun and the native implanted fire of all the parts of ●●ns body I. Externall fire is the producent of Extrarious Causes by its separative power or faculty by which it separates extracts them from other bodies communicates them afterwards to our nature II. The Internal innate fire produceth Extrarious causes when by digestion it separates the impure part from that food or matter in which it first resided whence our natural substance comes to be infected SO the naturall heat digests our meat and by the assistance of the innnate Salt dissolves it that man may retain or keep in his body that which is agreeable to his nature and joyne it to his essence but that which is contrariant he segregates from the other and casts forth at his proper Emunctories This Segregated matter or Excrement doth oftentimes mightily afflict the body and that it doth two manner of waies The first by being retained in the body or for want of evacuation The second by a noysome f●tid Exhalation and sent ascending from it to the nobler parts when it is so retained It offends by retention first when it is carried indeed to the naturall Emunctories or deijcient parts but the weakness of