Nourishment is that Substance which encreaseth and Nourisheth our Bodies and 't is two-fold 1 Properly and truly such are Nourishments which nourish our Bodies 2 Improperly such are Nourishments which by a Medicinal Vertue alter the failings of the former and yet notwithstanding nourish too 2 The Nourishment we take in hurts our Bodies three waies 1 In Quantity when we 〈◊〉 more than we can digest and thence comes Crudity 2 In Quality when the Food is too hot too cold too moist too dry each of which 〈◊〉 Diseases of its own Nature 3 In Substance when it is of too thick 〈◊〉 and this breeds Obstructions and all the the Diseases coming thereof III. Exercise and Rest. 1 〈◊〉 is a laborious Motion of the Body altering both the breath and pulse in respect of Motion 2 Exercise is either General or Particular General is of the whol Body which either helpeth or hurteth 3 Exercise helpeth when 't is Moderate and it helpeth thus 1 It makes the Body strong 2 It encreaseth Natural Heat 3 It moves the Spirits whereby the Vapors and Excrements pass through the Pores by Insensible Transpiration 4 Too much Exercise 〈◊〉 because it 〈◊〉 Distempers or Solution of Unity 5 Particular Exercise is of some of the Parts as Running to the Feet Singing to the Breast and Fighting to the Arms. 6 Rest either profiteth or hurteth It profiteth 1 When 't is Temperate for that recollects the tired Spirits 2 When it follow Moderate Exercise 7 Too much Rest hurteth 1 It causeth cold Diseases 2 Hinders the expulsion of the Excrements 3 Duls Natural Heat 4 〈◊〉 the Digestion of the Food IV. Sleeping and Watching 1 Sleep profiteth and hurteth It profiteth 1 Because it recruiteth the tired strength of the Body 2 It rallies the scattered Spirits 3 It cals back the heat to the inward parts 4 It helps Digestion 5 It routs Care from the Heart 6 It settles a mutinous and troubled Mind 7 It recruits a dry Constitution with Moisture 2 Immoderate Sleep hurts 1 Because it duls the Spirits and makes them 〈◊〉 2 Makes dul Wits and bad Memories 3 Procures abundance of crude Humors 4 Spoils Natural Heat 3 Watchings either profit or hinder If they be moderate they profit For 1 They quicken the Spirits and Sences 2 They distribute the heat into the parts of the body 3 Helps to expel the Excrements 4 Immoderate Watching hurts 1 Scatters the Animal Spirits 2 It dries the Body especially the Brain 3 It encreaseth Choller 4 It 's the Cause of hot Diseases V. Affections of the Mind 1 Of Affections of the Mind some tend to Health as moderate Ioy and Content of Mind Some hurt 〈◊〉 all Perturbations of the Mind whatsoever To name some of them 1 〈◊〉 which heats 〈◊〉 blood and spirits stirs up the Humors sets all the Body in a hubbub and ingenders Feavers 2 Immoderate Joy which sends all the Spirits to the External parts of the Body and leaves the Principal unguarded 3 Fear which cals all the Spirits inwards and leaves the outward parts unguarded 4 Sadness which consumes the Spirits by piece-meals causeth 〈◊〉 and thereby hinders Concoction 〈◊〉 is this all the mischief 〈◊〉 doth for it dries the Body and fils it as ful of Melanoholly as an Egg is full of meat VI. Fulness and Emptiness I think that which Physitians vulgarly translate Fulness and 〈◊〉 might better be translated Casting 〈◊〉 and Keeping in or if you will have me spit a few Scholastical Phrases Excretion and Retention 1 It is an excellent good principle when people cast out what should be cast out and retain what should be retained and perform them both in a due manner 2 When such things are retained as ought to be cast out imagine Urine Dung Spittle the Menstruis it hurts 3 When such things are 〈◊〉 out which ought to be retained as immoderate Bleeding immoderate flowing of the Menstruis it can do no good Thus you have the things not Natural It follows now that we shew you a Method how to use them that so we may not seem like Pharaohs Task-masters set you to make Bricks and not give you straw The Vse of things not Natural 〈◊〉 preserving Health 1 〈◊〉 a common Rule that we should use a Mediocrity in al things not Natural and have a special regard to former Customs 2 The Use of the Air is according to its Substance and Quality According to its Substance it ought to be pure clear thin and open 3 According to its Quality it ought to be according to the Nature and Complexion of the Party And therefore as the Eternal and only Wise God hath ordered the differences of Airs in this Nation so hath he ordered differences of Complexions in men suitable to it 4 Of Nourishments The Substance Quantity Quality Time and Manner of administring 〈◊〉 diligently to be heeded al which are to be 〈◊〉 to the Complexion of the Eater and the strength of his Nature 5 The Rule of Quantity is this That the strength of the Body may be refreshed and not oppressed 6 The Rule of Quality is taken from the Nature of the Food the Nature Custom and Pallat of the Eater the season of the Yeer the Climate and the Position of the Heavens 7 The time of giving it is the accustomed times of eating and when hunger cals for it 8 The use of Motion and Rest Sleeping and Watching and Affections of the Mind consists in Manner and Time 9 The use of Excretion or Evacuation is various 10 Evacuation is either Natural or Artificial Universal or particular 11 Universal Evacuation is Purging Vomiting 〈◊〉 Bleeding by 〈◊〉 by the 〈◊〉 or by Horse-Leeches or by the Menstruis Bathing Sweating Pissing 12 Particular Evacuation are of the several Parts The Vse of things not Natural in Diseases 1 The first thing that here comes to be heeded is That you have a special care such things not Natural be used as are contrary to the Disease and its Cause 2 Although a Physitian ought to have a special care of al six of them yet amongst them all Nourishment seems to bear away the Bell. And 3 In Nourishment have a care of the five things we told you of before viz. Its Substance Quantity Quality Time and Manner of giving 4 As concerning the Substance of the Nourishment note That so much as Nature is employed in overcoming the Cause of the Disease so much slenderer ought the Diet to be because Nature when she employs much of her strength in opposing the Disease is not so wel able to mind a hard digestion Also the acuter a Disease is let the Diet be the slenderer 5 The Quality of the Nourishment let it be such as strengthens Nature and opposeth the cause of the Disease And is to be considered 1 According to Custom 2 According to the Disease 3 According to the Natural Constitution of the Body 6 As for the Time of eating regard must be had to the Custom of the Party when
Presence makes Humane Actions flourish preserves body and mind in vigour she is an Excellent Chamber mate more precious then Gold admirable useful both for Church and Common-wealth and the best of all earthly goods she being gone the body runs the direct road unto Death 4. Health is a Power of exercizing the actions of the body of man which are according to Nature arising from the Natural Constitution of all the parts ' We will let Galens definition of this alone as somthing imperfect you shall finde that to Performe the ordinary and Natural offices of the body two things are required The Action it selfe and the Power of acting Thence we gather that Health consisteth either in actual or potential act That it doth not consist in Acting alone is Palpable for then every man should be sick when he is asleep because most parts of his body Act not then 5. The Reason of Health is to be sought out in the body rather then in the Soul For seeing there are two things required to every Act namely the facultie or the soul instructed with its faculties which is the principal cause of Operation and moves the body to action Then the organ which the soul useth as a meanes to act by The faylings of this cannot be imputed to the soul for the soul cannot be hurt nor weakned but remaynes alwayes the same it acts the same operation so long as the creature liveth if it have the same instruments to act by According to Aristotle for a man is Somtimes well somtimes sick the Cause of which is to be sought from the constitution of the Organ although I ingeniously confesse My opinion is That the greatest mischiefs that befal a man during his life take their Original from the soul and the internal spirits as I shall shew more clearly when I come to the Subject 6. Health consisteth in an Accedental not in an Essential Constitution The Consttitution of each Part is double Essential and Accidental Essential is that which depends upon Matter and Substancial Forme by which all Compounds have their Nature and being Accidental is that which followes the former and disposeth their qualities and Accidents in all parts Exercies all their action diversly according to their diversity Now Health consists not in the Essential Constitution for so long as a man lives the Essential Constitution is immutable but Health may be changed and Sickness come in place the Substantial Form remaining Therfore a man is Somtimes sick and Somtimes well and yet a man stil. Health then is to be placed rather in Accidentalls for they are changable both by reason of Age Diet Air and other circumstances 7. To the Health of a mans body is required a good constitution of the humors and Spirits a good temperature of the similarie prats a good structure of the Organs and vnion of all the body The word Healthfull is taken three waies As the Body As the cause As the sign A healthfull body is such a one as enjoyeth present health and that either as alwayes so or as most commonly so as at present Health alwayes so is he who hath a firm and stable Health Health as at present is that which is fleeting and unconstant The Cause of Health is that which either restoreth it beeing lost or preserveth it being obtayned good Constitution of the foure Humors and spirits causeth Health The just structure of the Organs is when they consist of a just Magnitude Number Place and Confirmation Lastly the union Continuaty of all the Parts To conclude you shal find no greater preserver of Health than the Moderate use of the six things not Natural which because my Author hath left out I care not greatly if I set them down 1. Ayre 2. Meat and drink 3. sleeping and watching 4. Fulness and Emptiness 5. Exercise and Rest. 6. Affections of the Mind 8. Medicines may be given even to men in health if they be rightly administred Hyppocrates was the first that gave occasion to this question Whether healthful men ought to take Medicines or not But yet t is most certain and Galen both confesseth and commendeth it That it is the Peculiar Office of many Medicines to resist the Disease before it comes as such as resist infection cut gross and tough Humors and many others which we may reade in his fourth Book of Preserving Health But if by Medicine Hipocrates means Scammony and such other violent purges we will easely grant him the point without further dispute of the story We have done with the end come now to the cause both of Medicine and Alchymie both principal and less principal Chap. 6. The cause of Physick and Alchymie both principal and less principal 1. THe principall Cause of Medicine is God As all good Arts in generall have their fountain Original from God himself So Medicine also is a gift of God by his divine will granted to the sons of men for the Art was never first invented by the wit of man but came by demonstration from God himself to man becanse he belighted in the sons of men All Arts and Mystriees as well as the world that contains them have their Originall from God Hence it came to pass that those ancient wise men because they knew Medicine was a divine thing and they were ignorant what the true God was ascribed it unto their gods God then is the Author of medicine Nature the instrument of God the Physitian is or should be the servant of them both Hence it is that Herophylus said That medicine was the band by which God healed the sick if then the most high God be the Author of Medicine let not men despise it 2. God is the principall cause of Alchymie All true Medicine is the gift of the most high God and he that will learn it let him go to God and not to the Ethicks If you will learn wisdom go to God and not to the creatures for they are as foolish as your self God is the maker of all secrets and hath distributed some of them to every creature you can never learn them by reading dead letters but go to the living God from whom all knowledg flows to mortals even as the trees bud by the heat of the sun What knowledg hath man which he hath not from above even from that God which created knowledg it 's not an Accademie can furnish a man with the principls of knowledg but'tis the grace and gift of that invisible God if God inlighten your eys the best Book of Physick is the Book of nature and there you may read it and search for it by Chyromancie and Physiognomie 3. The less principal cause of Physick is either Impulsive or Instrumental Impulsive is the want and defect of Human Nature joyned with a natural appetite to knowledg Instrumental is that admirable Beauty and Hermony of Natural things 4. The less principal causes of Alchymie are the same with those of Medicine The Impulsive
LIB I. Of the Analogical Comparation of the Heavens with the Body of Man 1 ALL things that are above are to be found in things below or if you would have it a little plainer Terrestial things are in Heaven after a Celestial manner Celestial things upon Earth after a Terrestial manner And this none but a few people that are scarce wel in their Wits wil deny 2 We shal only here give you the Sum of the Analogy and Harmony of the Universal World with the Body of Man which we shal God willing treat more plainly and fully of in our Harmony of both Worlds First Of the Coupling of the Celeftial Orbs with our Bodies and Eyes Secondly Of the Coupling of the Sun and Heavens with our Rational Soul Thirdly Of the Comparation of the Beams of the Sun with the Spirits of Mans Body Fourthly Of the Comparation of the Sun with the Heart of Man Fiftly Of the application of the Heat of the Sun to the Native Heat of Mans Body Sixtly 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 of the beams of the Moon with the Animal Spirit of Man Seventhly The comparing the Course of the Sun and Moon with the Course of Mans Life Eightly The Comparing of the Faculties of the Beams of the Planets with the Faculties of Mans Body Ninthly The comparing of the Nature of the Stars with the Humors in Mans Body Tenthly The comparing the several Stars with the several Parts of Mans Body Eleventhly The comparing of the World with the Affections of Man 3 You have the Analogy of the Heavens with the Body of Man The Anatomy or Analogy of Medicines follows which is two-fold 1 According to the force of the Stars and that is called 〈◊〉 Anat my Or 2 With the Body of Man and that is called Signatura LIB II Of the Influential Harmony 1 INfluential Harmony is that which teacheth the Influence and Dominion of the Planets both over Diseases and the Medicines which 〈◊〉 to cure them 2 The Course of the Planets 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diseases according to the Nature of each Planet upon those parts of the Body which they rule so Saturn 〈◊〉 the Spleen Jupiter the Liver and Mars the Gal the Sun the Heart Venus the Reins 〈◊〉 the Lungs and the Moon the Brain 3 So the 〈◊〉 of Saturn proceed Melancholly failings of the Spleen and Afflictions of the Hypochondria Jupiter causeth distempers and obstructions of the Liver Cachexia Dropsie yellow Jaundice Mars causeth al distempers of the Gall the Stone and Obstructions Fulness and Emptiness The Sun causeth distempers of heat tremblings pantings of Heart faintings weakness Vinus causeth the Stone in the Reins Mercury the Phthisick Pleuresie Asthma and Cough The Moon causeth Diseases of the Brain I confess I am not altogether of my Authors Opinion in some of these and what my Jugdment is you may find if you please to peruse my Semeiotica Uranica 4 Diseases are cured either by Sympathy or Antipathy 5 A Disease is cured by Sympathy when it is cured by such remedies as are under the Planet that rules the part afflicted And so such Medicines 〈◊〉 are under the Dominion of the Moon and Mercury help the Brain and if Mercury cause the Disease your only way is to use such Medicines as are under the Dominion of Jupiter Not only because of the Antipathy between him and Mercury but also because Jupiter is 〈◊〉 in the House of the Moon 6 Diseases are cured by Antipathy when they are cured by the Remedies of the contrary Plannet and that two waies 1 When their Houses are contrary and so Mars cures the ill effects of Venus 2 When their Natures are contrary so Saturn cures the ill effects Venereal Lust causeth LIB III. Of the Faculties of Simples which the Dogmatists make use of to find out their Natures 1 EXperience and Signiture first found out the Vertues of Plants so Hemlock was found out to be hurtful by Experience 2 Signature is either External or Internal 3 External is a meer accidental business the Basis and Foundation of which is nothing else than the Form or Figure Color or Feeling of a Plant. 4 Internal is the Temperament or Quality which is the Principle and Foundation of their 〈◊〉 and Vertues 5 The Temperament or Qualities consist most in their Tast less in their Smel 6 The 〈◊〉 by which their strength and 〈◊〉 are known ar nine 1 Three 〈◊〉 testimonies of heat as Sharp 〈◊〉 and Salt 2 Three give testimonies of Cold as Tart 〈◊〉 and Sowr 3 Three give testimonies of temperance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fat and 〈◊〉 7 Seing Simple Medicines have two Qualities and somtimes three then the first is called Simple and Elementary which ariseth from the 〈◊〉 of the four 〈◊〉 The other is called 〈◊〉 which ariseth from the consistence of the 〈◊〉 diversity of Proportion Besides these two some have a third Quality which is Purging and is by 〈◊〉 called Hidden because it is 〈◊〉 from al Block heads 8 In general some Simples conduce to Health others to Ornament 9 Such as conduce to Health are either Alterating or Evacuating 10 Alterating are either Common or appropriated to some certain part 11 Such as are Common do it either by a 〈◊〉 Quality or by a Hidden 12 By 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they 〈◊〉 it by the first second or third degree 13 First Quality is either Temperate or 〈◊〉 Intemperate is Hot Cold Moist and Dry. 14 These Qualities they call D'grees but might 〈◊〉 properly have called them Orders Galen cals them Numbers 15 The Orders of Intemperature reach to four Degrees both in respect of Heat Cold and Dryness but not of Moisture although my Author affirm it because Moisture is inconsistent both with Heat and Coldness it being dried by the one and congealed by the other 16 The second Faculties of Simples are such as these I. Emollient as Butter Saffron c. II. Purifying as Cadmea Fat c. III. Hardning as 〈◊〉 c. IV. Making thin as Chamomel c. V. Making thick as 〈◊〉 and most cold Herbs VI. Opening as Garlick Gall c. VII Binding as Bole 〈◊〉 c. VIII 〈◊〉 as Juyce of unripe Grapes 〈◊〉 c. IX Drawing as Birthwort Pepper c. X. Discussing as Southernwood c. XI 〈◊〉 as Honey Barley c. XII Purging as Lupines c. XIII Attenuating as Vinegar Acorus c. XIV Emplasticks as Oyl Butter c. XV. Stopping as Chalk c. XVI Putrefying as Aconitum c. XVII Causing pain as Mustard-seed c. XVIII Easing pain as Oyl of Dill c. 〈◊〉 Stupefying as Opium Hemlock c. 17 The third Faculties arise from the Conjunction of the first and second Such are I. Suppuring as Saffron White Lilly Roots c. II. Breeding Flesh as Barly Meal c. III. Glutinating as Aloes Allum c. IV. Scarrifying as Frankinsence c. V. Provoking the Terms as Annis c. VI. Bringing a Callus as Terra Samia c. VII Stopping the Terms as Acasia Lillies
or according to place 5 The cause which stirs up a Disease by it self are either through fault of Quantity or Quality Through fault of Quantity is either a want of Blood and Spirits or a superabounding of Blood which is called Plethora 6 Want of Blood and Spirits proceeds 1 From the Constitution of the Body 2 From outward heat as of the Air Fire c. 3 From fasting 4 From Purging 5 From Watching 6 From Labor 7 From Joy 7 A Redundance of Blood or a Plethora distempers both Heart and Liver and is most incident to people of idle lives 8 The fault of the quality is called Cacochymia which is either 9 Confusedly of all things contained or particularly of some of them as 1 Of Humors as a hot cold moist or dry distemper 2 Of Matter when the Humors are too thick or too thin hard or turbulent 3 Of the Form when the Blood or Spirits are corrupted by putrefaction of humors 10 Cacochymia of certain things contained is of Choller Melancholly Flegm Watry Humors and Wind. 11 The Causes of Choller are 1 A hot and dry Temperament of the Liver and Heart 2 A frequent concourse of cool Air. 3 Hot and dry Nourishment 4 The Evacuations of Choller stopped 5 Vehement Exercise 6 Immoderate Watching 7 Anger 12 Choller is either Natural or against Nature Natural is either Nourishing or Excrementitious Against Nature is either in the Liver or in the Vessels 13 The Causes of Melancholly are 1 A dry Liver and Heart and a stopped Spleen 2 Cold and dry Air. 3 Much feeding upon gross food 4 Usual Evacuation stopped 5 Care and much Watching 6 A sad life 14 Melancholly is either Natural or against 〈◊〉 Natural is either Nourishing or Excrementitious Against Nature is hot and sharp 15 The Causes of a Cacochymia of Flegm are these 1 A moist Temperature of the Heart and Liver 2 A cold and moist Stomach 3 Cold and moist Air. 4 The use of cold and moist food 5 The avoiding of Flegm by the Mouth and Fundament stopped 6 An idle lazy life 7 Much sleep 8 Leading a life without Care 16 Flegm is either within the Veins or without Within the Veins it is either Natural or against Nature Natural is either more or less Nourishing 17 The Causes of a Cacochymia of Water are 1 The Stomach cold the Liver and Spleen stopped 2 Cold and moist Air. 3 Moist Food 4 Retention of usual sweating or urine or accustomed Evacuation 5 An idle life 6 Immoderate sleep 7 Sadness 18 The Causes of a Cacochymia of Wind are 1 A cold and moist Stomach 2 Cold Air. 3 Windy Meat 4 Retention of Excrements 5 Idleness 19 The Internal Causes of Diseases by Accident or according to the seat of the Body are either in the first second or third Region A Cacochymia may occupy al the Regions of the Body or but one of them A Plethora is conversant in the second and third Regions only or in but one of them What my Author means by Region here I know not unless he mean the Ventricles 20 The humor is gathered together in any part either by Congestion or by 〈◊〉 21 In every Fluxion are four things to be considered 1 The matter which is moved 2 The way by which it is moved 3 The part sending it 4 The part receiving it 22 The Matter flows either by Transmission or Attraction 23 The Causes of Transmission are either the violence of the Matter or the plenty of it stirring up the Expulsive Faculty 24 The Causes of Attraction is unnatural heat Grief Motion Rubbing Consent of Parts 25 You have the Universal Causes both Internal and External The Particular follow The Causes of the Diseases of the Parts both Similar Organical and Common 1 The Causes of the Diseases of the Similar parts are either Evident or Antecedent and Consequent 2 Evident are such as make a desperate attempt upon al the Body and afflict the Spirits the Humors and Substance of the parts if they be strong there wil be some quoil to get them out again 3 Antecedent and Consequent though they be of another temper and quality yet they afflict the parts of the Body by Contagion 4 The Cause of Organical Diseases are of Conformation Magnitude Number or Place 5 Of Conformation are the Figures of the Parts Passages Cavities or Superficies 6 The Figures of the Parts are inverted either through the fault of the Seed or Womens Blood in the Womb or default of the Midwife at the Delivery or by the fault of the Physitian in giving Physick after the delivery or by accident as blood-letting Convuisions c. 7 The Causes of 〈◊〉 of the Passages and Cavities are either of too much dilation or too much straitness 8 The Causes of Dilation are either opening Medicines or the Expulsive Faculty strong and the Retentive weak 9 Dilation of the Vessels proceeds either from the plenty and quantity of Humors or else from their quality 10 Diseases of straitness proceed either from Obstruction or Constipation Contraction or Compression 11 The Causes of Superficial Diseases are roughness and smoothness Of roughness are such things as are sharp clensing and corroding Of smoothness such things as are Glutinous 12 The Causes of the greatness of the Disease are either encrease as plenty of Matter strength of Nature Wind c. Or decrease as weakness of the Spirits defect of Matter Wounds Bleeding Putrefaction 13 The Causes of accidental Diseases and their Symptomes are understood by themselves but of Compound Diseases by the Causes of the Simple 14 Thus-much of Aethiologie Nosologie follows which is either General or Special LIB VI. Of General Nosologie 1 GEneral Nosologie is that Art which sheweth the 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 of Diseases 2 A Disease is an Affect against Nature wherby the Actions of the Body are viciated 3 A Disease is Essential or Accidental 4 An Essential Disease is Particular or Common Particular are either Similary Organical or Dissimilary 5 Similar is 1 A Distemper either Simple as Hot Cold Moist or Dry or Compound as Cold and Moist Cold and Dry Hot and Moist Hot and Dry. 2 Immoderation of the Matter as when the Part is either too hard or too soft too loose or too much bound too thick or too thin 3 A Corruption of the whol Substance which is either Infectious or Venemous 6 An Organical 〈◊〉 is either of the Conformation Number and Bigness or Place 7 A Disease of Conformation is either in the Form or passages of the Body 8 A Disease of Bigness is when the Members of the Body are either bigger or less than they should be 9 A Disease of the Number is when the Members are either more or less than they should be 10 A Disease of the place is when Members are not in their right places as in Ruptures and Dislocations Accidental Diseases 1 Accidental Diseases are either in respect of Number or Composition and both of them are either Singular or
to Hermetical Phylosophers 1 They can by no means close with this Doctrine for they demand seeing Mixture is a certain Motion Who is the Mover By what Powter â—he Elements tend to Mixture in such just 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 The Mover is a Vital Principle indued with Knowledg the Form Species Seed Constellation by whose Power and Knowledg such Divine Offices of Mixture are administred 3 Transplantation is a certain accident of Mixture and Generation when not that which is intended but another thing is Generated And this comes to pass two waies First By a confusion of Seed and so of a Horse and a shee Ass a Mule is ingendred Or the Seeds of many Plants put close together will produce but one Plant. Secondly By Degeneration when not the same Seed comes up which you Sow so Wheat often degenerates into Darnel Chap. 7. Of Generation according to the opinion of Dogmatists and Hermetical Phylosophers 1 GEneration is a Mutation from qualities having respect to the Nature of each Subject 2 For as Philip Melancton saith Heat being tempered with cold and joyned with driness and moisture is a mixt body of al qualities and Elements 3 Putrefaction is an Alteration bringing Corruption from whence is bred Consent 4 Consent is a Transit of one thing into another by certain Nurseries 5 According to Hermetical Phylosophers Generation is the progression of the Seminal Spirit out of its Fountain and vital Principle into the Stage of the World whereby of Invisible it becomes Visible and produceth Color Smel Tast Heat Cold Moisture Driness Magnitude and Form and all Ornaments of Body and by this Renovation maintains a perpetuity of its own Species 6 Whatsoever new things we see every day they had a being before in the Seeds 7 Whatsoever we see corrupted here every day they are not brought again to nothing but return again to their Fountains from whence they came 8 For this cause are Elements necessary to Generation which are the Wombs that contain the Seeds and Principles of al Bodies 9 The Places Elements and Bodies must be agreeable to the Seeds for the Seeds themselves have this Power to find out what is agreeable to their own Natures and therefore such Seeds grow Naturally in hot places such in Cold such in Moist and such in Dry. Sulphur is best found in one place Mercnry in another and Salt in a third 10 The Seeds perform their Progress and Operation by the help of the sensible Mechanical spirits 11 The Mechanical Spirits are such as are adorned with an inbred Knowledg and instructed with an Artificial Workmanship whereby they cause Tast Color Smel Order and Proportion in Natural things He that dreams of Spirits without these endowments dreams of nothing but Vapor and Smoke 12 In this inferior Globe are three famous differences of Generation namely of Living Creatures Plants and Minerals 13 In Living Creatures the Seminal Matter is contained in the Natural Balsom in the Vital Sulphur in the Vital spirit in the Mummy in the Radical and first matter c. 14 The Generations of the superior Globe are certain but far different For in the Coelestial Sphears they continue perfect til the Consumation of al things 15 Generation comes not by Putrefaction as people think Putrefaction doth but administer heat wherby the vital vertue is stirred up to action For as in the Earth it were a Madness to think that one Plant was changed into another by Putrefaction so above the Earth Living Creatures beget their like not by Putrefaction but by the Vital spirit of the seed Chap. 8. Of Temperaments 1 TEmperament is either the end of the Mixture or the Form of the thing mixed or the Principle of Natural Facultie 2 The Soul makes use of the Temperament as an Instrument to perform its Actions 3 Temperament is the Principle without which actions cannot be performed Take away the Temperature of a Particular part and the Natural Actions thereof cease also 4 The Temperament of Living Creatures is one thing and of Creatures without life another and yet some question whether there be any Creatures without life or not and my self by the leave of my Author could afford to be one of them 5 The Temperament of Living Creatures is either Total or Partial 6 The Total is either Influential or Radical 7 Influential ariseth from the Elements 8 Radical is the Justice or due giving to every one his own 9 Justice is Simple or Compound 10 Simple is Four-fold Hot Cold Dry and Moist 11 Compound is Four-fold Hot and Moist Hot and Dry Cold and Moist Cold and Dry. 12 Temperament is to be considered in respect 1 Of Sex 2 Of Age. 3 Of Place or Region 4 Of the Seasons of the Year 13 It is called Temperament 1 For its Excellency 2 Absulutely or Comparatively 3 By act or power of acting 4 By it self or by accident Also it is either Healthful or Sickly either alone by itself or with Flux of Matter Fluxes of Matter which hinder Temperament are Blood Choller Flegm Melancholly 14 Al these Hermetical Phylosophers cal Salts which are of divers abilities And thus much of the Common Affections The Species followeth to wit A Body with Life A Body with Life 1 It is either not sensible as Plants and Mettals or sensible as Living Creatures 2 Living Creatures are either Rational or Irrational 3 Irrational are Beasts of which some have Blood and some have none 4 Such as have Blood some have Feet and some have none 5 Of such as have Feet some have two as Birds some have four as Beasts 6 Of such as have no Feet some have Fins as Fishes some no Fins as Serpents Of al these in Order The second Part of the first Tome Of Living Bodies not Sensible and Sensible 1 A Living Body not sensible is that which we cal Vegetative 2 It is either perfectly Living as Plants or imperfectly as Mettals 3 The Doctrine of Plants is called Botanical LIB I. Of Art Botanical 1 ART Botanical is the Anatomy of Plants 2 The Instruments to be compared for this Art as also for all other Arts are Skill and Exercise 3 The Parts of this Art are Two The shewing the Reason of them and the History of them The shewing the Reason of Plants 1 It is the first part of Art Botanical which finds out the common Natures of Plants from their Causes 2 A Plant is a Vegetable Essence growing for the most part out of the Earth or Water 3 Its parts are two A Body and a Soul by which the Body is nourished encreased and brings forth seed 4 The Kinds of Plants are two Simple and Compound The simple are Garden and Wild. 5 The parts of a Plant are like or unlike 6 As in men there are Ages so there are in Plants and also in Herbs namely before they run to Flower in flower in seed or Fruit and when they shed their seed or Fruit. 7 Of Herbs some are nourishing as Wheat Barly
and Pulses LIB II. Of the Doctrine of Pulses 1 PUlse hath his Original First From the Motion of the Heart Secondly Of the Arteries by Distention and Contraction which Physitians call Systolae and Diastolae and their use is to preserve Vital heat in the Body 2 In the Pulse are four things to be considered 1 The Reason and knowledg of them 2 Their Differences 3 Their Causes 4 Their Significations 1 The Reason of observing and knowing the Pulse 1 In this consider First The Precepts of Feeling the Pulse of which some concern the sick Body others the means of its cure Secondly The Principles which are necessary to distinguish the Pulse 2 The Difference of Pulses 1 Of Pulses some are absolutely 〈◊〉 others relatively such 2 Absolutely such are either Simple or Compound 3 Of simple are six kinds 1 In the quantity of Distention as great mean smal 2 In the quantity of the Force as vehement moderate weak 3 In Motion of Time as swift mean slow 4 In quantity of Time and Rest as often Mean seldom 5 In quantity of the Artery as soft mean hard 6 In perfusion of the Artery as full mean empty 4 Compound are such as consist of the mixture of some of these simples 5 Relatively such are reduced either to Order or Disorder Equality or In quality 3 The Causes of Pulses 1 The Causes of Pulses some are Primary 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Pulse some secundary changing and altering the Pulse 2 The Primary or Efficient Causes of the Pulse are 1 The Vital spirit either strong or weak 2 The Instruments are the Arteries either wide or narrow soft or hard 3 The use of the Pulse is the conservation of vital heat in the Body 3 The secundary causes which change the Pulse are 1 Natural as the Temperament Habit sex and age of the Body 2 Nor Natural as air meat and drink exercise and rest sleeping and watching fulness and emptiness and affections of the Mind 3 Things against Nature as Diseases and their symptomes 4 Prognosticks by the signification of the pulse 1 Greatness of the Pulse shews Heat 2 Vehemency shews strength of the Faculties 3 A weak Pulse shews weakness of Nature 4 Diseases of Love give an unequal and inordinate Pulse But herein let none mistake my Author for though Diseases of Love give alwaies such a 〈◊〉 it doth not therfore of necessity follow That such a Pulse alwaies shews Diseases of Love An Hermetical Consideration of the pulse 1 The Pulse is felt in five several places for it is not enough to feel it in the Wrest as Physitians now a daies do that care not how little they do for their money Let it be felt then first in the Hands and Feet then in the Breast then under the Armpits and last of all in the Temples If these agree together all wil go wel enough if not mind these things that follow 2 The Pulse hath four Vertues 1 Of Tartar which causeth a Pulse either hard circular or slow 2 Mineral which is either subtil or obscure 3 Of Health which is equal and mean 4 Of Disease which shews either Tartar or Mineral 5 Strange giving signs either of Heat or Coldness NOTE 1 When all the Pulse beat at one and the same time it is a laudible sign 2 Health is not only found out by the feeling of the Pulse but also by the color of them 3 When the Pulses are wel color'd it is a good 〈◊〉 Evil if discolor'd 4 When the place of the Pulse is hotter than the rest of the skin the Body is diseased 5 If the Pulse be Mineral put a little cold water upon the place and if the Pulse stop for a while it is a good sign 6 If the Disease come of heat of Blood you may know it thus Wet a piece of Silk in Role-water and lay it upon the Pulse that part of it upon the Pulse will sooner dry than the other part 7 If the Pulse be hard in one place and soft in another the Disease is Chronical 8 When the Body is near Death the Pulse is strongest in the Fore-head not so strong at the Neck weaker in the Hands and weakest of all in the Feet for the lower parts of Men die first 9 IN al Apoplexies the stronger the Pulse is the worse 10 In Frenzies Falling-sickness and Madness it is a good sign when the Pulse is the same out of the Fit that it is in the Fit 11 In Bloody Fluxes and all other Fluxes of the Belly though the Pulse remain as it did in Health give no credit to it for in such Diseases the Pulse remains til Death and somtimes a quarter of an hour after You have the Consideration of the Pulse The Consideration of the Urine follows LIB III. Of Vrine 1 URine is the Wheyish part of the Blood separated by the Vertue of the Reins 2 In it consider the Inspection Signification and Difference 3 In the Inspection of Urine consider the Acception and Caution 4 Cautions are 1 The Causes changing the Urine as Temperament Sex Age and Diet. 2 The Urines of Beasts or somthing else brought for the Urine of Men which is easily known by Smel The Significations and Differences of Vrine 1 It discovers the Constitution of the Parts by which it flows as the Reins Ureters Bladder and 〈◊〉 2 It shews the disposition which is in the Liver and Veins 3 It shews the disposition of those parts by which the peccant matter can be sent to the Veins or Urine 4 In Urine consider the Liquor it self and the things contained in it In the Liquor it self consider the substance quality and quantity 5 In the substance consider the Body and cleerness 6 The Body of the Urine is either 1 Thin in color white Saffron like Gold or Reddish 2 Mean of the color of Gold Saffron or reddish 3 Thick which is a Mixture of al colors and somtimes Oyly 7 The Perspicuity of the Urine is either cleer or troubled and it is of three sorts 1 Such as is cleer when 't is made and troubled afterwards 2 Such as is troubled when 't is made and cleer afterwards 3 Such as is troubled when 't is made and so continues 〈◊〉 The quantity of Urine is either Moderate Much or Little 9 The quality consists in smel or Color The smel of Urine is either sweet or stinking 10 In the Color consider the Causes and Difference 11 The Cause of the Color of Urine is the heat of the Bowels and mixture of other Humors and it is either white citrine subcitrine of the color of Gold or Saffron red and bloody green blue and black which is the worst of al. 12 Things contained in the Urine are either Essential or Accidental 13 Essential is 1 Towards the bottom of the Urine which being white light and equal is very good but being black is very bad 2 In the middle of the Urine which being white light and equal is indifferent if it
be black it is dangerous 3 Clouds on the top of the Urine are but 〈◊〉 seen and when they are seen they portend but little good and the blacker they are the 〈◊〉 they are because they carry the Image of Death 14 Accidental is double for either it 〈◊〉 an incertain or certain place in the Urinal 15 Such as occupy an incertain place and somtimes fly up and down in the Urine and somtimes settle in the bottom are somtimes like Bran somtimes like scales of fish and somtimes like thrids 16 Such as keep one certain place are either in the bottom as red and white gravel little clods of blood worms thick flegm like snot or else in the top as wind fat and things like Cobwebs Hermetical 〈◊〉 of Vrine 1 Urine is Salt separated from undigested 〈◊〉 2 Of Urine some is Exterior some of Blood and others Mixed 3 Exterior Urine is that which comes of what we eat or drink that is of our Nourishment neither hath it any other Indication than what belongs to the Stomach Liver or Reins It is called also the Urine of Tartar because it comes of congealed Tartar or 〈◊〉 4 It is two-fold Sound or unsound Sound is when there is a Tincture of Sulphur with it and yet notwithstanding it is not alwaies of a Gold Color but somtimes redder and somtimes paler 5 The Urine of Tartar is known by the Circle which if it be only of a 〈◊〉 color it shews Tartar and the separation which is made in the three Members Stomach Liver and Reins 6 The Salt Sulphur and Mercury may 〈◊〉 be discerned in Waters For the Bottom shews the Mercury The Settling neer the Bottom the 〈◊〉 And the Tincture the Sulphur 7 The Urine of an unsound Man is two-fold 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and of Nourishment 8 The 〈◊〉 of Tartar is three-fold 1 Alcolita which signifies Congealation and the Tartar of the Stomach 2 Scatea signifies Putrefaction and the Tartar of the Liver 3 Tremula which signifies stopping and the Tartar of the Reins 9 The Urine of Nourishment is Dreggy and signifies a failing in the Attractive Vertue 10 The Urine of Blood is when a Circle is in the 〈◊〉 of a different Color and it tends commonly to Redness and is the messenger of grievous 〈◊〉 11 The substance of Urine is three fold Thick Cleer and Diaphanous or like Cristal You have the 〈◊〉 the Symptomes follow LIB IV. Of Symptomes 1 SYmptomes taken more generally are an effect shewing the strength of Nature More specially they are an Accident proceeding from the Disease 2 In Symptomes we are to consider the 〈◊〉 and Causes A Symptome is either Primary or Secundary 3 Primary is a hurting of the Actions or Functions 1 Either of the Animal in respect of sence or motion 2 A lessening or depravation of the Vital in Quantity or Quality 3 A corrupting of the Natural 4 Secundary is either a change of the Quality or a vice of the Excrements The change of the quality is two-fold either Common to al the Sences or Proper to one Common to al are the Bigness Number Figure Motion or Rest changed 5 Proper are the Simple Effects of the Body and they are either to be seen as the color in the yellow Jaundice or to be smelt as a stinking Breath or to be heard as noise in the Ears or to be tasted as bitterness and saltness in the Throat or to be felt as the heat in a Feaver 6 Excrements offend either in substance or in quality or in quantity in manner or in time 7 The Causes of Symptomes are either the first or arising 〈◊〉 the first The first are a hurt of the Functions either of the Animal as the Brain Sences and their Organs or of the Vital as Diseases that afflict the Heart and Lungs or of the Natural as such Diseases as afflict Nourishment and Generation 8 Arising from these are the change of qualities whether arising from the Simple Affects or the vice of the Excrements 9 The Causes of the Simple affects of the Body are the hurting of the Natural Functions namely Attraction Retention Digestion Expulsion from whence vicious humors arise 10 The Cause of vicious Excrements is these vicious Humors which offend in quantity quality or substance 11 Thus you have the Common Affection of Pathalogia The Special remains which are Aethiologia and Nosologia LIB V. Of the Aethiologie of Diseases 1 AEThiologia is that Art which declareth the Causes of Diseases 2 The Causes of Diseases are either General or Particular 3 The General are the Theological or Physical 4 The Physical are either bred with us or come afterwards 5 Those that are bred with us are either Natural or against Nature through fault either of the Seed or of the Mothers Blood 6 Those which come afterward are either External or Internal The External Causes of Diseases 1 The External Causes are either more necessary or less necessary 2 More necessary are the six things not Natural namely Air Meat and Drink Sleeping and Watching Exercise and Rest Fulness and Emptiness and Affections of the Mind 3 Air begets Diseases either by Inspiration or Respiration and changeth our Bodies by a Quality manifest or hidden and that according either to the Heaven or the Wind. 4 Nourishment changeth our Body according to its Quality Quantity and convenient Use. According to its Quality Intemperancy Matter or Substance 1 According to Intemperancy when it is hotter colder dryer or moister than agrees with our Bodies 2 According to Matter when it is either too thick or too thin of Juyce 3 According to Substance when it is 〈◊〉 before it is eaten 5 According to quantity when we eat so much that we over power the Vessels or so little that our Bodies want Nourishment 6 Sleeping and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when they are 〈◊〉 or not taken at 〈◊〉 times 7 Exercise and Rest 〈◊〉 1 In Quantity when they are either too much or too little 2 In Time when they are taken 〈◊〉 8 Fulness and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Emptying offends either when it is 〈◊〉 or when it is too much 2 Retention offends the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and that in respect of either 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Seed 9 Affections of the Mind stir up 〈◊〉 when they grow immoderate as Anger joy 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 10 Causes of Diseases less 〈◊〉 are four 1 〈◊〉 things as compass us about as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 2 〈◊〉 things as we take in as Minerals 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Living Creatures not wel prepared 3 〈◊〉 Evacuation of Blood and immoderate 〈◊〉 4 External Motion as Running Riding c. Internal Causes of Diseises 1 〈◊〉 and all his Apes deny any containing 〈◊〉 of a Disease 2 Internal Causes are either Containing Contained or such as cause violence but most properly things contained 3 All Heredetary Diseases come from Causes containing Things contained as they are causes of Diseases are against Nature as Humors Vapors or Wind. 4 The Internal causes are either by themselves or by accident
Manifold 2 Singular is either Simple or Compound Simple is either by it self or with company 3 Manifold is either Implicite Joyned or Disjoyned 4 Joyned is when the Effect of one is the Cause of another 5 Disjoyned are such as lie in 〈◊〉 parts 6 Implicite Diseases are when divers parts conspire together to afflict one Function as a Pleuresie and an Asthma both afflict the Lungues and by the Lungues the Breathing 7 The Substance of some Diseases is like a Tenant at will quickly removed the Cause being taken away as Feavers Others by tract of time are become Habitual to the Body as Hectick Feavers Diseases according to the Place 1 According to the Place they are taken either from the Subject or adjunct Those which are taken from the Subject are taken either from the Parts or from the Constitution of Man Those which are taken from the Adjunct are taken in respect of the Region and Air. 2 The Diseases of the Body are either Universal or Particular Universal as Feavers or Particular to some parts of the Body as pain in some particular Member c. 3 A Disease by reason of the Constitution of a Man is taken 1 From the Nature of the Man and so is more familiar to one Complexion than another 2 From the Age and so is most familiar to Child-hood Youth Manhood old age 3 From Sex and so is most familiar to Men or Women 4 In respect of the Region 1 Some are scattered up and down here and there and are called Sporadical 2 Others are Common and are called Pandemical 3 Some are proper to one place as Agues to Fenny Countreys and are called Endemical 4 Others rage at some particular times and are called Epidemical Diseases according to Time 1 They are taken in respect of the Time of the Disease or the Time of the Yeer 2 The time of the Disease is taken according to the parts of the Disease or the Disease it self 3 The parts of a Disease are the Beginning Encrease Station and Declination 4 The Disease it self is to be taken in respect of its Continuing 5 The Continuing of a Disease is either short Long or Chronical Short is either with danger or without danger and in both it is either very Acute or Acute and in these either Symply or by Degeneration 6. In respect of the Continuance of it it is either Continual or Intermitting 7 In both these consider their Beginning Encrease Station and Declination 8 In respect of time some Diseases are most frequent in the Spring some in Autumn some in Summer some in Winter Diseases according to Custom 1 They are taken according to the Nature or according to the Event of the Disease According to the Nature it is either Gentle or Malignant 2 According to Event it is either Healthful or deadly curable incurable or threatning relapse Diseases according to Magnitude 1 A Disease is either great or smal 2 A Disease is great either by it self or by accident By it sesf three waies 1 In respect of its kind proper Essence or Cause 2 In-respect of its active Power 3 In respect of its ill Conditions or ill Symptomes A Disease is great by Accident 1 In respect of the part afflicted if that be Noble as a Disease in the Head is greater than one of the Toe 2 In respect of the Faculty of the Body that is hurt by the Disease and so deprivation of Sences is greater than the Tooth-ach Diseases according to Cause 1 They are caused either Essentially or according to Consent 2 Some are inbred or Hereditary others not Hereditary but advantitious 3 Advantitious are of Blood Choller Flegm Melancholly and each of these are either Internal or External 4 Thus much of Nosologia in the General the Special follows 5 Special Nosologie is that which Numbers up al the special Diseases which afflict Nature 6 These arise either from Natural Causes or External 7 From Natural Causes are either Universal which occupy the whol Body as Feavers Or such as occupy only particular parts of the Body Of both which in order LIB VII Of Feavers A Feaver is a heat against Nature proceeding from the Heart to the rest of the Body 2 Its Considerations are 1 The common Affections namely the disposition of the Body and the Signs 2 The Differences of the Feavers 3 The Disposition of the Body is either Internal or External Internal in respect of Temperament Sex and Age. External in respect of Heat either of the Fire Sun or Bath drinking Wine use of Spice and hot Meats or heat of Air. 4 The Signs are General as swift Pulse and frequent heat of Body and failing of strength 5 The Differences of Feavers are taken 1 From the Quality of the Subject 2 From the Quantity 3 From the Essence 6 Feavers from the quality of the Subject are taken 1 From the Feeling as such as come with cold fits at the first or without cold fits 2 From the Sight as with red high color or swarthy color 3 From the Tast as such as proceed of salt Flegm 7 Feavers from the Quantity are either continually great mean or but light short or long most violent in the night or in the day 8 A Feaver from the Essence of the Subject is either common to al as Pestilential Feavers Or 9 Proper only to those that keep ill Diet. 10 A Pestilential Feaver is caused by breathing in a Venemous and Malignant Air. 11 The Causes of Feavers properly to be considered are 1 Of the Heart as a Hectick Feaver 2 Of the Spirits joyned to the Heart as one day Feaver 3 Of Humors joyned to the Heart as a continual Feaver 12 The Degrees of a Hectick Feaver are four A Consumption 1 Of the Fat of the Heart 2 Of the Moisture between the 〈◊〉 and the Heart 3 Of the strings of the Flesh consuming 4 Of the strings of the Flesh consumed and is called Marasmus And this is two fold First Of Cold and Driness as happens to all people that die with Age. Secondly Of Heat and Dryness which is contrary to Nature and the disease now mentioned 13 Feavers that have their Original from the Spirits are 1 One-day Feavers 2 Such as last three daies as Synochus non putrida 3 Such as encrease from the beginning to the end called Achmastica 4 Such as decrease from the beginning to the end called Parachmastica 5 Such as stand alwaies at one stay as 〈◊〉 14 Of the Humors ariseth Synochus or a continual Feaver either of Inflamation or Blood or Blood which is not putrefied or of Choller which is putrefied 15 A putrefied Feaver is either Primary or not Primary 16 Primary is either Continual or Intermitting 17 Continual is 1 Without Remission coming of thick Choller as a continual burning Feaver 2 With Remission which is 〈◊〉 ordinate or inordinate and so you have either a Remitting Quotidian Tertian or Quartan Feaver which are 〈◊〉 according as the Chollrer is in heat or thickness
there is in the Tartar the greater is the pain for in Tartar is contained all the species of Salt which is that which causeth the biting or paining quality of all Minerals and Plants as common Salt Allum Vitrial Salt 〈◊〉 Sal gem Sea Water Aron Nettles Ars-smart and therfore it is no wonder if the differences of Tartarial Diseases be so manifold 12 The Diseases of the Stomach arise from the impurest parts of the Tartar for if a Bolar Muccilage which is tough viscuous and alluminous possess the sides of the Tunicle of the Stomach there ariseth a stoppage of the vital Spirits which are the Authors of al Natural actions whereby they being taken Prisoners they cannot execute their Office in separating the pure Nourishment from the impure and so the digestion comes to be weak flow and as faulty as either And if these Tartarial Spirits be very strong they easily overcome the inbred Spirit of Man If they be mixed with much Salt they turn into 〈◊〉 and stone if pure of themselves without much Salt they cause Consumptions and pinings away if impure they are changed into another Nature they turn Antimonial and cause Vomiting if Aerial they cause Corrosions and Pains especially in the Stomach if Vitrial they cause a Dog-like Hunger because by the swiftness of their motion they catch and consume what is given for Nourishment for according to the Opinion of Severinus it is the Spirits that cause Hunger draw concoct and coagulate whatsoever is taken into the Body of Man which the stronger they are the more swiftly they perform it the purer they are the better they perform it 13 As for Diseases coming by Celestial Influence Quercitanus affirms they come through the breathing in of the Air but if you ask him how the Air comes afflicted he gives you Ignoramus instead of Billavera He and Fernelius say It is a Hidden Matter 't is somthing but they know not what But Severinus a man that waded a little deeper than the addle Brains of vulgar Physitians could reach to in his Book of Celestial Influences proves That they come from the several Constitutions of Heaven the several Influences of Stars arising from the several Conjunctions with the Malevolents 14 To make all a little plainer in the winding up that so we may be the better understood The Diseases in Man are three fold First Such as come from Fire and Air which are the two Elements that generate the Spirit of Man 〈◊〉 whence come all Epidemical Diseases and such as come by the Influence of the Heavens Secondly Such as come of Air and Earth which two Elements cause the Tartar and all Diseases which we noted before to proceed therefrom of which the Ancient Physitians wrote little knewless and practised none Thirdly The Seed of the Parents which contains in it 1 The Course of the Elements from whence arise al acute Diseases 2 The Courses of the seven Planets from whence come Chronical Diseases which last as long as the said Course of the Planets remain uncontrouled by others and this may be known by the Government of the Planets themselves as the Sun governs the Heart the Moon the Brain Saturn the Spleen Jupiter the 〈◊〉 Mars the Gall Venus the Reins and Instruments of Generation and 〈◊〉 the Lungs And all Diseases whatsoever keep their Court in one of these places 3 The four Courses of the Humors which Alchymists cal Salts Cabalists Humors and so do Galenists for fashion sake 4 The four Courses of the Qualities or Complexions namely Heat and Moisture Cold and Moisture Heat and Dryness Cold and Dryness You have the Theorical part of Medicine The Practical follows TOME II. Of Practical Medicine 1 PRactical Medicine is that which tends to and endeavors at the end of Medicine namely the Health of Man 2 The Parts of it are Hygiena and 〈◊〉 You shall have the Interpretation of both words when you come to the Explanation of them Tome II. Part I. Of Hygiena 1 Hrgiena is the first part of Practical Medicine which teacheth the right use of the six things not Natural for the preservation of Health 2 To the causing of Health belongs a good temper of the Similar Parts a due conformation of the Instrumental Parts both which are attained by a due use of the six things not Natural 3 The signification of the word Hygiena is a defending of Health it consists chiefly in Diet. Diet belongs both to the Healthful and to the Sick in both of them to the Knowledg and Method of using the things not Natural 4 Things not Natural are in a Medium between things Natural and those against Nature For neither do they constitute our Nature as things Natural do neither do they afflict it as things against Nature do being well used they are good ill used they are bad 5 The knowledge of things not Natural consists 〈◊〉 this 1 That we know how many they are 2 That we know what Efficacy they have 6 Things not Natural are six 1 Air. 2 Nourishment 3 Exercise and Rest. 4 Affections of the Mind 5 Sleeping and Watching 6 Fulness and Emptiness or if you will Casting out and retaining in These Galen reduceth to three Heads 1 Of taking in As Nourishment and Air. 2 Carriage of the Body As Exercise and Rest Sleeping and Watching Affections or Perturbations of Mind 3 Casting out as the Excrements both of the Bowels and Bladder Sweat and Seed in Copulation I. Ayr. 1 Air either preserveth the Body of Man or changeth it Wholsom Air preserveth it unwholsom changeth it That which preserveth the Body of Man is 1 Temperate in the first 〈◊〉 namely Heat Cold Driness and Moisture 2 Pure and the more Trees there is the purer is the Air because the Leaves of the Trees correct the Air though my Author leave it out give me leave to put it in 3 Cleerness of the Air. 4 Air moved by gentle Winds 5 Watered by gentle Showers 2 The Body of Man is corrupted by the Air two waies 1 By Accident 2 By itself First By Accident as corrupted Vapors Fens the Propinquity of the Sea which fils the Body ful of Salt Humors Jakeses and stinking Ditches as also by dead Carkasses Secondly By it self or its own Distempers being too Hot too Cold too Moist or too Dry. 3 The Air 〈◊〉 the Body of Man 1 By breathing it in 2 By an insensible drawing of it through the Pores of the Skin and that 's the Reason the skins of people of divers Regions are of divers colors 4 The Constitution of the Air changeth our Bodies five waies and by them you may know if you have but wit enough how to 〈◊〉 a Discase by changing of Air. 1 Consider the Scituation of the Place whether Hilly Level or Fenny 2 The 〈◊〉 of the Earth whether 〈◊〉 or Barren Woody or Champion 3 The variety of Winds 4 The Neerness either of the Sea or Lakes 5 The Seasons of the Year II. Nourishment 1
Preparations are pleasant LIB V. Of the Common 〈◊〉 of preparing Medicines by the Art of the Apothecary 1 IN the Preparations of Medicines are to be considered The Cause and Effect The Cause is either Efficient or Final 2 The Efficient Cause is either Active or Instrumental Active is either Primary as God and Nature Or Secondary as the Apothecary 3 The Apothecary acteth by Heating Insolation Cooling Quenching Moistning Nourishing Infusion Softning Melting Dissolving making salt colouring perfuming preserving cutting clipping filing rasping washing beating rubbing scraping pressing straining boyling putrifying sifting Extracting scumming clarifying distilling by Asconsion and Desconsion 4 The Instruments of an Apothecary are Stills Mortars Knives Shears c. 5 The End is double 1 The Preservation of Health and restoring it being lost 2 The Preservation of Beauty and restoring it being lost 6 The Effects consists in the Remedies prepared which is 1 In the Substance 2 In the Adjuncts As the Form Order Time of during and Shop they are kept in 7 From the manner of the Substance Compound Medicines are some for Health some for Ornament Those which regard Health are either taken inwardly or applyed outwardly The Method of Curing is First to take away the Cause Afterwards to correct the Symptomes 8 Such as are taken inward are some Fluid and some not fluid Such as are Fluid are either more or less Fluid 9 Such as are more Fluid are Waters Wines Decoctions 〈◊〉 Vinegars Less Fluid are Syrups Julips c. 10 Such as are not Fluid are either Moist or Dry. Such as are Moist are Balsoms Electuaries Conserves Preserves Lohochs Rob Muccilages Extracts 11 Such as are Dry are Pills Lozenges Troches Powders c. 12 Such as are outwardly applyed are Oyls and Oyntments Bathes Cataplasmes and Plaisters c. 13 Such Medicines as either preserve or restore Beauty are either Moist or Dry c. LIB VI. Of the Chymical Preparation of Medicines 1 ALchymy is an Art perfecting Medicines reducing pure Essences from mixt Bodies That so the 〈◊〉 may be the purer healthfuller and safer 2 The Object of Alchymy is a mixt Body which is Dissolvable and subject to 〈◊〉 3 Mixt Bodies are of Three kinds 1 All kind of Plants and all their Parts as Roots Barks Branches Flowers Leavs Fruits Seeds Gums Rozins c. 2 The Seven Mettals All Minerals and Stones both Precious and not Precious Salts and Juyces 3 Living Creatures either whole or their Parts or that which comes of them as Milk Egs and Cheese 4 In Alchymy is to be considered the Signification of the Words and Medicines and the preparation of them 5 In the Preparation we are to consider the Composition and Preparation it self Of the Composition or Mixture of Medicines we have told you before what Opinion Alchymists have The Requisites of Composition are Measure and Dose 6 In Preparation consider the Cause and Effect The Cause is Efficient or Final The Efficient is acting or helping Acting is the Alchymist who acteth by Solution and Coagulation 7. The Parts of Chymycal Operation are two Solution and Coagulation or if you please Corruption and Generation 8 Solution is the First part of Practical Alchymy which takes a part the Compositions of Medicines and attenuates them 9 It consists in Calcination or Dissolution Calcination is done by Corroding or Burning 10 Burning is done either by Combustion or Reverberation Combustion is turning into ashes or into Glass Reverberation is either shut or open which is done by the Fire of the Furnace 11 Dissolution is when Bodies are dissolved and it is either Subtil or Fusive Subtil is either Microcronical or Macrocronical Microcronical is either Elevation or Descention Elevation is Dry or Moist Dry is called Sublimation Moist Distillation 12 Distillation is either Right or Oblique 13 Descension is either Cold or Hot. Hot is that which is usually called Distillation by Descention Cold Descention is either Deliquium or Filtration All things that are dissolved by Cold are coagulated by Heat 14 Macrocronical is Exaltation or Digestion Exaltation is Circulation and Ablution Ablution is Imbibition or Cohobation 15 Digestion is either Putrefaction or Extraction Putrefaction is to change the old Nature of a thing into a new 16 Fusion or Liquefaction is Simple or not Simple and performs its Office either by Ashes or Antimony 17 Coagulation is the second part of Alchymy which by privation of Moisture reduceth moist Bodies into Solid 18 It is Cold or Hot. To Coagulation is referred Fermentation and Fixing 19 You have the Efficient Cause acting The Helping follows viz. Place and Fire 20 The Place or the Subject of the Matter is either that which receives the vessels as a Furnace Or that which receives the Matter as vessels 21 In the Furnace are to be considered the Parts and Differences The Parts of a Furnace are four 22 The Differences of Furnaces are various according to their different Uses of which some are open some shut 23 Such as are open are called either Probatorius Domesticus or 〈◊〉 24 A shut Furnace is either Simple or Compound Simple is either for Calcination or Dissolution For Calcination is either Cementatory or Reverberatory 25 Dissolving is either by Ascention or Descention By Ascention is either Dry or Moist By Descention is that where by we dissolve the Matter by driving the moisture downwards 26 Compound Furnaces are First 〈◊〉 which is also called Phylosophicus and Arcanus Secondly 〈◊〉 where by one fire and little labor divers Furnace are cherished Others called Piger Henricus 27 To these are added Instruments which Alchymists use as Iron Tongs Iron Plates Bellows c. 28 You have the Subject receiving the Vessels into it The Vessels which receive the Matter follow 29 Of the Vessels some are put to the fire some are not Those which are put to the fire are either made of one Matter or else of divers 30 Vessels made of one matter are either of Glass or Mineral 31 Of Glass is either a Phial or Circulatorium Glasses are used in Solutions and Coagulations 32 The Circulatoria are of divers kinds of which three bear away the Bell A 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Phylosophical or Hermetical Egg. 33 A Mineral vessel is either Mettal or Earth Mettal serves either for Subtillation or Infusion For Subtillation is made either of Brass or Bladder For Infusion is a Funnel 34 Earthen Vessels contain either the Matter it self or other vessels 35 They which contain the Matter it self are either Fusory or not Fusory 36 Those which contain other vessels are Kettles Cauldrons Earthen Pans Crocks Trevets 37 Vessels which are chosen according to the pleasure of the Workman are made of Earth Glass Mettals c. Some of these are Superior some Inferior Superior as Alembicks Inferior as Retorts c. 38 You have the Instruments and the Place Heat and Fire follows 39 Heat is Natural or Artificial Natural is by the Beams of the Sun 40 Artificial is Simple or Mixed Simple is by Digestion or Separation 41 Digestion is by Anthannor or Horsedung or Hay or Straw 42 Heat separated is either gentle or strong Gentle is of a Bladder or Ashes Strong is either Impedited or Free Impedited is of Sand Filings of Iron 43 Free heat is of Coals either with flame without flame or Reverberatory 44 A mixt heat is that which serves both for digestion and separation and is called a Bath Baths are two sold Balneum Mariae and Balneum Roris namely when the Vessel is heated by the Ascending Vapor 45 You have the Efficient Cause The final Cause of Preparation is The preservation of Health and other uses belonging to the Life and Ornament of Man 46 You have the Cause The Effects follow which consists in the Order of preparing Medicines and their application to Dileases 47 From the Substance some Chymical Medicines conduce to Health others to Ornament Such as conduce to Health are either fluid or not fluid Fluid are Waters Spirits Tinctures Oyls and Quintessences c. Such as are not fluid are Balsoms Extracts Salts Flowers Sublimates 〈◊〉 Glasses Regulus and Chymical Pouders c. 48 To my God alone in Trinity and Unity be all Honor and Praise for ever and ever Amen FINIS