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
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
THE BLOOD OF THE GRAPE Republished and enlarged by the Author TO WHITAKER M D Phisitian in Ordinarie to his Majesties House-hould Printed For SAMVEL BROVN MDCLIIII Gentle Reader I Am not ignorant that there belongeth to Kings from their servants both Tribute of duty and presents of affection elce it wil appeare a tacit denial of any grace or bounty received from them as for the former of these I hope I shal not live to be wanting in my most humble duty and the good pleasure of his Majesties imployments and for the latter I conceave the choice of this subject might be an oblation much referring to the excellency of his individual person And were the forme as Courtlie as the matter I could have had the confidence to crave the Patronage of the Highest borne Prince of the Christian world and a Person without flattery in whom all greatest Crownes concentrate though at present as highly beyond all Law of nature or national example injured traterously treated which offereth the cause of this may republication with a further enlargement of my former act in the yeare 1638. as being sensible of a vulgar misunderstanding of my intention in the tractation of this subect which was then and is now but an addition to our medicinal faculty more exactly to declare how and after what manner the juce of the Grape may be conducible to humane bodyes both for Aliment and Medicament which if those Lords and Commons that would suffer noe persons of honour and loyalty to make with themselves the representative body of the whole Kingdome if those I say had accepted it in my owne sense could not in such a Noaical stupefaction have slept out their Eyes of reason and sense of honour as to suffer their nakednes to be detected by the most common Robbers of the English Nation and themselves imprisoned for the same theft If they shal excuse themselves and that such ebriety was not the cause they can not appeare any other then the Tred of Dunghill-Cocks for no spirit of the Game or reasonable could suffer or conceive that the stoping up the fountaine of honour could render the rivolets any other then stincking Ditches if otherwise such stupidity were conveyed in their base Principles of nature 't is then a Gengrena in the masse of blood and by noe other scope to be cured but by extirpation and replanting more noble and lively Rootes in their roome If any person shal adjudge this sharpe Councel to be more medicall then prudential which terme in this age is the perfect Character of a cheating and treacherous villayne or knave which formerly obteyned a better signification let them know the consultor is more Medical then Prudential well knowing his faculty to be sufficiently comprehensive of all arts and sciences and Politicks if either Aristotel or Machivel are esteemed Pollititians and so such as have been endowed with such perfection of intellect amongst the Professors of this faculty the Almighty hath Crowned with a special title of honour as hath in many ages appeared by the studdys and practise of great Kings and hath ben the fountaine of the whole famely de Medicis soe great at this day nor are there any except the soules of Cornelius Agrippa soe vaine as to render an undervallue of the faculty or besmeere the Purple and Scarlet Robes of the Phisitian Cum stircore Vrinâ were my selfe over zealous by its subject matter I could demonstrate it for Antiquity to precede the Forme in that matter which was by the Almighty after informed and as soone as the sex was distinguished it was Corpus humanum vivens sanabile and instantly the subject of that part of Phisick which we call Diaetetical as appeareth by their necessity in eating of all manner of Aliment in Paradise by the order of the Creator except the Tree of Life and not only for antiquity but also for its dignity of frame about which the Almighty summoned a Councel and left most justly from its owne excellency to challenge precedence of all other subjects of sciences and arts except Theologie which is subjected principally in the forme it is also affirmed by the Orator in the 2 de natura Deorum that al Creatures are dedicated to its service and Iosephus wil create it Lord of al Terrestrialitie and the cause of al such production according to Plinie As for any larger Encomiastick I shal referr the Reader to Lactantius and leave Cornelius with his vanitles to the prudentials of these times which would have all knowledge virtue to consist in selfe confidence such poore Romantique learning as would enforce the antient worthyes both of art and courage to render a scornful blush to be seene amongst such butterflies and to see such unnatural and preposterous motion from perfection to imperfection from rationality to meer animality or contradictoriously much resembling the Dutchy of Spoleto in the territory of Narina which according to Pliny is exceeding dirty in a drought and as dusty in wett weather of such sort of strang earth were these Don Quixotes composed and having nothing to encourage their errant Knighthood but a poore leane Rozinante or som glistering quoine of their forefathers monuments which wil not passe currant with any but weake Capacities for others that observe their digression from their Fathers virtues cannot but conceave them better to have been pist out against a Wind-Mill then otherwise produced to the shame of their Genitors If I shall seeme to much censorious I shal earnestly desire a just cause of retraction which wold be a Royal Cordial to all Princes and sweet Natures which are perpetually molested with such confident and insolent vermin which wil stop the breach of any person that shal smel of honny except they close their Lipps Eares against their entrance If I have offended in my description of thos persons it wil be as difficult for me to recant as for them to repent of their Rebellion which is correspondent to witchcraft of which sinne repented I could never meete with an example except Manasses therefore doe conclude their prudence to stand upon no other bottome then the Diabolical attempt of greater Crimes for although they know and have seene the cclipscd beauty of heaven breake through such darknes to the enlivening of all creatures againe yet wil be and are stil better enterteyned with such Aegyptian darknes though measured by a short time as most conducible to their black designes conceaving this bonum presens to be preferred bfore all notions of other Beatitude or productioon of right reason and noblenesse of soule which demention the heathen Poets have rendred a most certaine symptome of irrecoverable destruction to which I leave them and til then expect it what I have writt concerning the subsequent subject is for the acquaintance of more reasonable creatures as neerest to the nature of the Gods according to Poetical expressions delighted and refres hed with this Nectar and if in
wine operate for feare of some concealed snake under the hearbes And doubtlesse the moderat use of wine for the animation of the soldiers the inlivening of the Magistrate and recoverie of women is profitable Especially in hystericall sits according to Hippocrates Hipp I denatura Mulierum And my transision now shall be to the tempers of humane bodyes in generall the wynes generally agreeing with those tempers and then more particularly to this or that individual Temper it selfe beeing the reason of mixture or the harmony and consent of the prime qualities in Elements and by the Exuberancie of each simple quality these foure symple tempers are created as hot when the heat predominateth over the cold and yet of siccity and moisture remaineth an equallity and so of the rest as cold dry and moist besides these foure conjugate tempers which proceed from the exuberancy of the two first qualities as hot and moist hot and dry cold and moist cold and dry which are the foure compound tempers their fixation consisting in that oleaginous humour which wee call innatum calidum and this innate so utile and necessary as a cause with out which mixt bodys cannot subsist 't is also fomented and supported by fluent heat contracted in the heart veines and Arteries as their proper Channels consisting of spirituall blood preserved in the heart as the middle of the body which by a lively consent doth maintaine support innate heat and perfect the universal temper of the body even as the Sun inliveneth and inlightne h the great world so doth the heart ejaculate a fluent heat to the vivisication of the microcosine or little world of humane bodys refreshing every part and exciting every particular function to its proper motion so as the innate or fixt spirit doth very much respond the fluent and such resiprocall concordance is as necessary as circulation in the sun whose motion being stopt or influence extinguished but one hower would be the ruine of the whole world and if such a cause may be admitted as some call causa sine quâ non then this comerce between fluent and fixt heat may be so accepted for otherwise all naturall actions are quiet and extinct therefore these beeing the prime existence and subsistence of humane nature and such powerfull agents in conformation and nutrition their spheare of motion may be more or lesse adapted by external meanes either homogeniall or heterogeneall And for tempers or distempers in generall there can be no aliment or medicament so convenient and agreeable as wine for the smallest wine if pure is a more neat clear pabulum to the fluent spirits then recent egges or milke sucked from any creature they all onerating nature with some excrement after concoction and in concoction must be some expence both of fluent and fixt heart which is so much an abbreviation to a naturall beeing but is of such puretie and spirituality as doth receive a sudden mutation and in its alteration addeth both light heat to the foresaid principles as the oyl of those natural lampes Fernelius apprehendeth much danger either in meat or medicine which are onerous to the principles of nature and therefore will have all cold diseases admit of a more safe remedie then hot distempers because in the regular way of cureing by contraries the application of hot remedies to cold affects doth foment maintaine naturall heat contrarily in the application of cold remedies in hot distempers to extinguish preternatural heart the naturall heate doth suffer much and many tymes is extinct with praeternaturall or febrill heat but in both cold and hot affects the application of wine upon proper indication is the most Excellent and in ofensive remedie And that it is such a remedy I shal pro duce som probable Arguments to make it more apparant to vulger intellects after this subsequent mode If it were by the most learned Auntients in Medicine adhibited as a safe remedy in fevers then it acounted proper in hot distempers for thus it hath been administered by them as hath been demonstrated in our former discourse and wil be more apparant in our following of the particular and most grand affects of humane bodyes And if it hath also been derected and ordained by the same authoritie in cold distempers then it is a proper remedie and approved in both And if we perpend the specifical differences of wines then wee shal make it a regular remedie according to the rule of Contrariety for Wyne that is generous moveth in all tempers from the Centure to the circumference and other Wynes in their proper nature more apperient open obstructions and in a Galenicall sense all oppilations are efficient causes of putrefaction and putrefaction of fevers so that opening being a contrary motion to obstruction Wine is a contrarie remedie per se in oppilation Et per accidens in putrid fevers Now I shal descend to particular and difficult effects controverted amongst the Most learned and where I find them differ in this poynt shal endeavour to reconcile them for the satisfaction of greener students and practicers less perite which after industrie wil effect not but his undertaking would better become a more learned pen and Person of a more settled condition then a person so many yeares Exiled with his deare soveraigne and patient Master yet I shal proceed in the first place to that affect which wee nominate a Frency which in truth is more properly the termination of al discourse it selfe being the privation of discourse conjunct with a fever and in this case whither wine may be commonly adhibited is the difference amongst the ancient Hippoc. lib. de affect intern some commending others doubting Hippocrates affirmeth the use of wine convenient in all perturbations of the mind Tralianus in the same condition where the spirits are Spent the ventricle cold and debil and upon the appearance of some concoction in vigilancie or defect of rest because of its narcotique qualitie which is most sure agreable to humane nature and for this special reason Epicurus hath taken it in large proportion not only in all painfull affects but also in the article of death in a palsie also which affect obtayneth amongst the Grecians many appellations Galen 2. Gal. 1. Scil Paralisia and Gal paraplexià by the major part of Phisitians to be apprehended of the same signification and that all the tearms signifie privation of sense and motion in a sensible moving part Whither wine be useful in this affect is much controverted Halyabbas and Avicen in this case appeare Hydroposians or water drinkers and render this reasō for the non adhibition of wine in this affect because say they Wine is a proper vehicle of humors to the nerues by its sharpnes or pungent qualitie doth enervate and by consequent foment the disease To which I answer that no kind of wine moderately taken and with out any mixture can or doth enervate quatenus vinum because it
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
differences would be of litle consideration because Galen wil have all acute diseases to be simply putrid feavors Galen 3. Cap. 8. de differ respir lib. 1. de different sebr Cap. 3. or conjunct with them and it is a received opinion of the ancients that al feavors except Ephemerall are putrid Hippoc. l. de vit Medicina and Hippocrates will have neque Calidum neque frigidum per se to be the cause of feavors sed aliquid amarum acerbum but a quality of salt or bitter or sharp predominancie therefore his sense is that all febrile heat proceedeth from the predominate motion of and alteration of pure humors to impurity Galen Plato Athenaeus are al of this fence therefore it doth behoove Physitians to perpend not only the universal cause and nature of putrefaction but also the reason of correction which is my scope at present therefore with the ancients I apprehend putrefaction to signifie a mutation of perfection or puritie to imperfection and impuritie Galen lib. 10. Meth. 8. as when wine is changed to vinegar Galen conceiveth putrefaction to be a mutation of the whole putrefying substance and effected by external ambient heat by which mutation Aristotle understandeth corruptiō by Galen I suppose understood a mutation to corruption therefore bodies are lesse putreable in winter then in summer because external ambient heat is then more minute both in ayre and water What reason wee shall render of cure is the expectation of the reader who wil as suddainly take notice of my indication properly extracted or deduced from the nature of putrefaction which according to Galen is the corruptible disposition in humors from a cause either internall or external and accordingly doe present for a remedie omniquaque dilute wine not such as is mixed with water but such as in its own nature is more or hath more of the aqueous then vinous qualitie and yet so naturally complexioned as will appeare a corrective or alterative to praeternaturall siccity and impure humidity ergo the consequence must be a roduction to harmony quia Sanitas est nil nisi harmonia as also an apt prevention of putredinous distempers which according to the judgement of the ancients doe proceed from oppilation nothing being more moderately aperient then such wine nor more tartarous therefore I have made observation of such persons accustomed to the use of wine according to their age and clime or without such acception not to have bin subject to putrid feavors nor can any person demonstrate wine per se and specifically ordained ever the mother of such mischief though many have suffered distempers fro excesse which is the vice of the best aliment and the worst yet such accidents fell not from the nature or quality of wine though in excesse but from the present soporisique quality vvhich vvith out prevention must succeed and vvith cure for the best for sleep stoppeth all evacuation except sweat vvine naturally moving from the center to the circumference and their negligent posture in the ambient closing the porosity of the body universally by this povver conjunct vvith the endeavour of nature to deliver it selfe of a burthen doth by its violent motion in flame spirits consequently this febril distemper putrefaction in this place and case is excepted according to vulgar sence nor can the subtilty of logique being an incommodum upon this vinose remoedy Galen 2. de acut Galen dot maintain the rationality of it as a remedy in putrid feavors therefore commended the Italian mode in adhibiting in al feavors Vinum Sabinum and confesseth in the same first book Cap. 40. that himselfe was accustomed to cure putrid feavors after the same manner and if any wil take notice of Hîppocrates not only in his book de acut but in others they shal find my boldnes in this practice grounded upon himselfe whose soul I could desire above all terrestriality not that I desir ōly to act or cloath my self with a part or habit of a Physitian as players doe the Persons of Kings and noble Persons no sooner disnobled disrobed but rogued I am not ignorant of the diversity of Medicall sects not doe condemne any but mounters but from this digression I shal transire to those strict Physitians which doe condemne the use of wine not only in this case but in al feavorish distempers but because they render no reason I cannot judge their sect for Methodists argue with reason and Empericks a particulari though not the best Logick yet if it be possible to bring them into the sect of rationalists I shall assist thē with this exception in Galen Galen Meth. 11. 12. ad Glauc which is against the use of any wine in these foure subsequent cases first when the feavor is vehement secondly when there is a conjunct payne from the head the third is in delirio which is a deception of reason and lastly when the origo of this putrid feavor is from or doth follow an inflammation Under favour the differences of wine observed wil respond all these objections as small dilute wine in all inflammations and more liberally or in a larger dosse prescribed doth abate if not abolish all vehemency and by its soporifick quality doth coligate the senses and reconcile sleep which is the diminution of all vehement symptomes delyration and sharpest paynes of the head which imperite Physitians more dangerously force by opiate preparations and I shall conclude with the same Authority I began this discouse Galen 11. Meth. 9. Galen l. 1. de Antid 3. and render the affirmation of Galen that this kind of wine is most convenient in putrid causes to provoke urine and concoct crudities or semiconcocted humors and wil not admitt the mixture of water more then it receiveth from the plant and this is the determination of the question concerning the application or use of wine in feavors Now I shal proceed to various affects about which the most learned Modernes have consulted whither the use of wine in them might be conducible to cure because some are hot the others cold distempers and begin with a Iew that laboured with Melancholy his temper hot dry from a vitious predominancie over the blood his body leane colour black indisposed to sleep prompt to all action prone to anger of an excellent witt and discourse but at this present Mute and hath bin so these six dayes his temper thus agreed upon with his distemper by a counsell of Doctors they now fix upon two scopes of cure the one moistning the other opening obstructions and in both wine is concluded a proper remedie There was also another great consult about a Cannon of Rome labouring with a feavor whither wine might be prescribed about this point was much controversy but concluded and adhibited the remedie Nor doe I read of any other Medicament in all this consultation sutation In the next place I present a young Gentlewoman labouring with