concerning wounds of the Ventricle worke the same effects to keepe in darkenesse such truths by their onely power holding backe such happy attempts in the like misfortunes which perchance the strength of nature in such neglect by Fistulous closings hath labour'd to make manifest Have not many griefes contrary to expectation even of the most learned arrived unto happy successe in healthfull conclusions which then passing the test of a serious examination the errours have beene found to arise from the meere censure and allowance of some learned Physitions without any mention History or memory of their experience to affirme such deliveries for â—â—â—truth on whose precepts and by whose example posterity hath also rear'd to future times their workes but further and more chiefly to let passe this kind of search when I consider the infinite mercies of God in such and the like miraculous Recoveries and how apt and willing nature is to preserve the prerogatives of health inviolate from the hurt and invasion of Diseases and being wounded with any griefe how provident she is to keep her selfe from greater evills and laborious to free her fabricke from the present affliction I cannot then so much wonder at as not to beleeve such great workes of nature made able by divine Providence and assisted by Art as this fore-going Treatise maketh mention of and experience witnesseth Cap. 2. Wherein some things of notable regard are discourst of very pertinent to this matter with a necessary digression AMongst many considerations in these Cases the diligent and expert hand of the skilfull Physition in whose knowledge lives that depth is required in dangerous causes is to bee provided to direct the will and power of nature to benevolent uses and to let her hurtfull and unnecessary promptnesse otherwise in her owne bounty she would destroy the good intended as in many desperate solutions through want of knowledge in the Physitian shee doth since the heaping of so many fluxions together is but a suddaine and aboundant freedome in nature to send all aides thither to redeeme the distrest member or part to a naturall quiet and proportion which concourse of humours are converted to greater burthenings and oppressions for it would bee vaine to thinke malignity of humours lurking in the body are altogether the immediate and sole causes of those bad symptomes are frequent with profound and perillous solutions since they are of different natures some begotten from actuall emptyings and some proceeding from naturall repletions and accidentall rottennes neither doe I condemne that opinion since the sharpenesse of some inflamations farre exceed others which must proceed from a violent malignity of humours in the bloud Note which being thrust out of the bowells of conserving heat alter into Pus and beget the souler putrifaction for it is a notable signe that if after a digestive alteration of those heapings paine and induration continue A necessary digression that there is a bad constitution to be handled and therefore the greater evacuations to bee presumed necessary I will a little digresse Since thereby a laudable pulling backe from the member afflicted is brought to passe by bleeding and purifying of the bloud by purgings is effected for in all the duties and intentions of healing the aboundance and bad qualities of bloud is very carefully to be respected and hindred for without such effectuall corrections there will bee but vile healing of wounds of small danger and none produced in divisions of perill and profundity because bloud is the Author of healing being directed and assisted by and with the skill method and medicine of 〈◊〉 expert Physitians I meane in parts to bee united and derived from bloud and yet with great care must this be done since some bodies cannot to the precepts of Physicke forsake their ordinary diet or bee strictly kept and handled as the Rules of Art would enforce without perill as in its proper Chapter shall bee showne Thus much briefly touching the excellency of nature in will and power the Art and skill of the Physitian to bring such wounds within the lists of possibility and Cure in guiding that Will and Power and the necessities of generall and particular evacuations urged from the cause appearing or threatned Chap. 3. Wherein is toucht some other considerations concerning this matter OVr next consideration must reflect upon the part which we must examine to know if it be so necessary to life as not totally in some functions or a portion of their functions to be spared without dissolving of the whole frame and here indeed are some questions concerning the present occasion to bee answered Some may obiect that in such wounds there must be a ruine of nutrimentall matter and substance partly produced through the visible griefe of what was and should bee united and partly by deprivation of the vertue faculties of the stomacke since parts of grosser composition and much lesse use to life suffer under such and the like causes of the same effects Stronger reasons being added to the former since in this Treatise we must consider that the Incision was made by the hand of the expert Physition with large premediations where when and how to bring his attempts to good event the Patient having much time before drunke a balsamicke Oyle thereby to infuse a quality of healing into the part and to enable the member against this suffering which in other wounds accidentally given we cannot alledge These causes and helpes to encourage us to proceed and strengthen our hopes and that such balsamickâ— Oyles and medicines would in time of the wound being administred enlarge fever through disturbance and their owne power in heate by provoking vomits not easily by an able and unhurt stomacke to be digested but by adding its owne flame to that is kindled in the veines by the griefe â—ive a second and more dangerous fire unto the evill To this may be replyed Cap. 4. Wherein is gathered part of a full Answer to the Objects in the former with some pertinent additions THough the duties of the Ventricle bee altogether necessary to maintaine life Nota. and strength by the elimentall fuell yet such a quantity may keepe the fire of life yet glowing and for much time although the strength decay in some measure or bee largely exhausted by such wants of supply To assure this the heate of the stomacke by which the digestion is wrought both actually and potentially in the first alteration is derived from the Heart Liver Arteries Veines c. and Muscles of the abdomen as from the Fountaines Channel 's and seates of all heat and spiriâ—â— by whose fire that excellent change of what we receive is potentially perfected and actually by the Omentum and Muscles of the belly keeping the Ventricle warme and defending it from the outward oppressions of cold Now the stomack being hurt by solution of ioynd parts is not so aboundantly deprived of this heate being not in it selfe or but a small portion of
then their braines in desiring the advice of the more able Next Temerity answering the first definition is a prompt Excutioner of evill Selfe counsell and of the two is the most dangerous it is a sodaine disposer of of thingâ— worthy a carefull examination and in its best worke and ablest resolutions is alwaies to be suspected but most commonly ends in destroying it neither regards constitution customs congruity age or season to all which the expert and carefull Physitian that takes in charge his owne conscience as well as mens lives least that he willingly wounded more perillously then the afflicted Patients body must have a wise regard first respecting in view of the Patient constitution either of body or member to which the medicine must haue a congruable force quality and substance a force not to overthrow but helpe a quality agreeable without violence a substance apt to be receiued Secondly custome we must question for when that Idea of nature hath ruled that the Physitian must labour to imitate for what hath bin of long continuance cannot be alter'd even i disease enforcing such alteration without had euents and perill in this discourse I will onely remember some Histories In the time of my seruice to the Emperour of Morocco and chancing after the ouerthrow he received from Humeâ—-ben Booker the Saint at the river of Weâ—labid neare the foot of the mountaine Atlas many Moores there dangerously hurt and with my selfe by flight escaping visited me at my house in the City of the Iewes where all Christians have residence imploring Cure I receiving some that I judged curable though not profitable into my care and in my proceedings for their recovery with such Medicines the Country afforded and instituting them a spare dyet and change of fare their food being rude viz. made of stower and some other course mixtures moulded into small cornes like Coriander seeds and throughly heated by the steame of their Flesh pots which they terme Cuscosuâ— and much they being greater eaters even to gluttony to which â—â—â—nder life they were not easily perswaded but by enforcing since if they would not follow my order I denyed in nothing to assist them with regiment when they had consented to but some few daies vigilantly observed I found that a suddaine languishing without reason which if it had continu'd would have bin without remedy also afflicted them at last examining what might bee the cause of this extenuation attended on by â—â—â—x and fever without the least successe in their wounds by which afflictions faintings ensued even at every dressing and sensible touch of their griefes which hindred the due applications I consider'd the cause might be in the want of their accustom'd sustenance since the quality alter'd to such whose bodies even from their births were sustain'd by one sort of Aliment must needs beget a distemper as also the quantity since being used to labour and thereby still to bee furnisht with good appetites and they to be satisfied with fulnesse as also commonly rising from meat to lye downe to sleepe in the want of which custome they rather enduied a famine then an Order I returned upon this consultation with my selfe to them their liberty of feeding both in quantity and quality whereby their strength was suddenly restored and their wounds recover'd the disgestive power more commendably even to consolidation and siccatrice all things happening to my expectation delicate bodies using change of dyet sometimes quickned and likewise dulled in the desire of food as the disposition of the stomacke or nature of the vyands presented shall invite or refuse are best able to stoop profitably to the strict institutions of Physicke by reason such change as is said in the second Chapter and survay of the fifth Position is their custome Thirdly Congruity both of medicine and part must be enquired after in the defect of either there may follow inflamation or stupefaction and from both different and fatall endings or extenuation or some Hydropick dispositions either in body or limbe or from both to both a certaine ruine Fourthly Age must be diligently question'd and in that ability which neglected the power of a Medicine may suddenly extinguish the naturall beate either by suffering or benumming for aged bodies full of rheume by much suffering and dolour are easily enflamed and by narcoticke remedies are as readily stupified even to extinction if they exceed in the least ability which errours youth would wrastle with and overcome Lastly season must employ our Iudgement since it both monethly by the Moone and conjunction of Planets as likewise parts of the yeare quarterly presents us with many varieties worthy our note and observance and if fitly applyed in the scope of our intents are both pertinent and profitable Next Rashnes in the application of Medicaments is an Argument of weakenesse knit to a kind of impudent boldnesse the effects sometimes are to extirpation of life frequently to amputation of a limbe and that operation is by such often attempted and done with a barbarous rudenesse where topicall remedies with Iudgement administred would have promised a restauration and have brought to passe so excellent a duty a lamentable worke and to be deplored Of this ranke of Practitioners are Tooth-drawers Mathematicall Fortune-tellers and that rabble of women which strut up and down with their skill in their pockets which they purchased from the Chyrurgions boy for some Garment trifle when the events of their lusts their diseases and poverty thrust them into the Hospitall to bee patcht up for this employment by those worthy houses of charity neither will they omit to boulster out their wickednesse with some shew of ability to those whose misfortunes and sottish ignorance hath throwne them into their hands and their owne beds in depraving the worth of so many worthy gentlemen the Physitians and Chirurgions of those two free Mansion-places for the poore and maimed whose knowlenge and care meete in one Center and are equall both great and each one the cause of the other and inseparably united Furthermore whereas he saith the passions of this Position of Anger or Feare in superficiall wounds should altogether be the cause of such deplorable conclusions I cannot approve his testimony certainely the vitiousnesse of humours flowing to wounded members often times the abundance â—onely is of strength to produce or bring with them lamentable accidents and begetting strange alterations in tender natures whereby Fever is incited by erosion and inflamation and such humours kindling and putrifying in the Veines by such heate may be the chiefest cause of such mischiefes although the Discourse in this Position allow it but a second and succeeding meanes being derived yet made more able by the violent motions of the mind Indeed they are of a powerfull quality dail experience witnesseth in the suddaine alteration of the Visage the spirits and bloud being pulled backe with a kind of violence in all these passions viz. Anger Fâ—aâ—e and suddaine Terrour but whereas he speakes
Temperaments wherein these melancholick fumes doe domineere even so there doe arise various and diverse spices of Melancholy that chiefly annoy vitiate and corrupt the smagination nor can at any time occurre any thing never so foolish or absurd that melancholy men though sound dreame not to bee such and stoutly beleeve it to be most true Hence you shall find saith Galen Lib. 3. de cor affect 6.7 that some thinke themselves made of Potters earth and therefore avoyd the touch and propinquity of men others that suppose themselves to bee of Glasse Aetius reports of one that was fallen into such an errour that he conceived himselfe shattered in the head and so be walled it abroad untill that an Iron Helmet of great weight being put upon his head he was removed from this phantasie Trallianus writes that hee saw a woman that strongly affirmed shee was eaten up of a Serpent but by vomitory medicines and a Serpent secretly put up by a Brasse Tunnell shee was restored to health There have beene those that have deemed themselves to be birds so that they never stirred themselves but with armes moved like Wings did thinke they flew Moreover many imagine that they foster many things in their body that are exceeding troublesome Hee in Platerus imagined that for many yeares he nourished in his body a live Frog In observ pag. 40. Others dreame that they have within themselves Serpents and the like The like examples as they are oftentimes observed in practice so looke among some of them Quercetan in Diaetet Poly. Hist pag. 154. Forest. lib. 10. Observ 12. Marcel Donat. lib. 2. mirab c. 1. Schenck lib. 1. observat 245. seque Plater lib. 1. obs Senn. lib. 2. Inst par 3. S. 2. c. 4. lib. 1. practic par 2. c. 8. Camerar Horar Succis Cent. 1. c. 72. Indeed some one perhaps might at first have guessed that our Rustick was over-whelmed with the like melancholy had not presently the certaine relation of others and his owne declared it otherwise He was sent for to come that his temperament might be seene in no wise to bee melancholicke for although after he had taken Mars his morsell his visage sometimes were more sad yet must it not bee ascribed to his naturall constitution or melancholy but feare rather because of the doubtfull successe of the extraction and Cure even he had before showne himselfe very iocund in merry meetings and conversations nor did he carry in his countenance any signe of a melancholy Temperament Wherefore even the Physitians easily gave him credit and consultation for his cure was appointed Of the Physitians their Consultation The 2. Section THis the most miserable condition of the afflicted Rusticke moved the hearts of many unto pitty first therefore the Consul of Landiberg Master Martin Hartlein my honoured friend who had beene to see him and had demanded every even the least thing of him came to me and with the History it selfe and the sicke mans estate layed open implored my counsell to whom I gave this answer That it was a matter of great moment and that scarce two such chances were to be found in the observations of Physitians and having declared a History of the Pragensian Swallow-knife I advised that the Rusticke should be sent over with the soonest that by the whole College of Physitians deliberation might be had what were best to bee done for in the more difficult workes of Art Hippocrates will not have us overmuch to trust our owne knowledge but to call other Physitians into Counsell that by common counsell it might be concluded what were to bee done and what undone A little while after this the chance it selfe by Letters from a most noble gentleman is laid open to the famous Mr. L. Crager a colleague and beloved friend and at last the Patient himselfe with commendatory Letters sent over to submit himselfe to the cure of the Physitians who yeelded himselfe to be viewed and handled by them These Physitians after they had considered what was to be considered and examined the things that were to be examined concluded that there was not here any hurt of the phantasie or imagination but that a knife indeed was swallowed and lurked within the body The twenty fifth day of Iune therefore was indicted for a meeting of the Physitians which was celebrated in the Garden of Master Doctor Lothus the prime and senior Professour and chiefe Electurall Physitian at that time sicke in the place of the Deane and others the master Physitians So that every one to the purpose might freely open his mind and speake his opinion First then having found the strength of the Patient to be yet very firme which in great operations must especially be considered how the sicke man might escape the danger that the strength boing weakned the Physitian labour not in vaine Secondly the place affected must be considered for the Abdomen that was to bee opened and the Ventricle to be wounded for extraction of the knife Thirdly the necessity of the operation which here very greatly urged least that either strength should faile or the Patient himselfe not well brooking delay be disposed to impatience at last I say it was with unanimous consent concluded that the section should be before the Dog daies yet premising those things that seemed needfull for preparation likewise that Balsamick Oyles should bee first inwardly used whereby the dolors of the Ventricle might be asswaged and the Patient himselfe imbibe a Balsamick vertue But the Balsame called the Balsame of Spaine was to be preferred before any other that was named and used as advised our most experienced Senior Master Doctor Lothus to whom the rest of the Physitians readily assented and did not mislike the imposition of the Magnetick Emplaster after the example of the Pragensian cure But since for certaine causes this Balsame may be very much altered especially for the greater efficacy in a wound of the bottome of the belly abounding with many humours 't is good to subioyne the description of them both 2. Oper. Châ—r part 2. cap. 7. pag. 805. Hierome Fabritius ab Aquapend hath it thus I cannot saith he passe over in silence a medicament most excellent for wounds in the nervous parts whose description I received from a very credible Spanish Priest who told me too that in Spaine it was not lawfull to compose it because men greatly trusting the vertue of it made nothing of it to enter the lists and fight And 't is thus R. Olei vetustiss unc 4. Terebinth purae unc 8. Frumenti integr unc 1. Sem. Hyperic unc 2. Râ—d Cardui Ben. Valerian Ana. unc 1. Thur. pulveris unc 2 Let the rootes and heathes be grosly bruised put into a Pot and so much Wine super infused as may submerge all the ingredients and having made the infusion for two dayes adde the oyle and wheat and let them seeth all to the consumption of the Wine By and by after
a small bullet shot into his bowells out of a brasse Trunke could have escaped safe which yet we read in Valleriola did thus happen unto one Lib. 4. obs Med. 9. So doubtlesse where Nature plaies her part well and the faculties are firme there 's no wound to be reckoned of any danger according to Galen but where they are infirme 10. Meth. Med. or some other cause also shall molest nature quickly failes even about a slender wound Now long since Hippocrates hath witnessed as much in his boy Philias to whom from but the denundation of the bone in the fore-head a feaver happened which the lividnesse of the bone received and by and by after death it selfe Some-what not unlike this fell out here at Regiomont for but some few yeares agoe a young Student of an excellent to wardnesse was by an idle knave wounded to the very bone on the fore-head nigh the Coronall suture the fourth day he felt the accession of a feaver and with a Prognostick given the seventh day dyed The Captaine of a great Ship as witnesseth Hippocrates with the Anchor having bruised his sore-finger and the bone of his right hand an inflamation and Convulsion followed after and the thirteenth day he dyed Lib. 7. nat Hist c. 73. Lib. 3. enarrat Med. p. 444. Out of Pliny we have it that Q. Aemilius Lepidus of his great Toe being quashed at the entrance of his bed chamber gave up the Ghost It is evident out of Valleriol of Ludovicus Vives that famous man that of a small wound and altogether despicable received in the palme of his left hand scarce piercing the flesh next the skin with a Convulsion that suddainely arose dyed The like you may see in Hildan Cent. 1. Obs 21 5. Obs 2. c. Porest lib. 6. Obs Medic 49.50 Gemm lib. 1. Cosmocritic c. 6. Matth. quest meâ— 27. Sennelt tr 6 Pract. p. 371. About some foure yeares agoe and more a Noble-man L. Marshall of of the field not far from Mount-Royall in Borussee in a Duell had given him from another Nobleman likewise a very small wound in the Abdomem without hurting the Ventricle and intestines but he before a little halfe houre quite spent presently gave up the ghost A certaine other Electorall Courtier in some brabbles received a small wound in the Legs but forth-with expired Such mischances alack doe almost every day fall out but in the explication of their causes many seem to be at a stay There are those that ascribe the successe of the unlookt for events to the peculiar disposition of the Stars and that also an unlucky issue followes after the evill Aspect of the Planets but after the benigne Aspect like wise the like effect But since this cause is both Vniversall and very remote it may easily be hindred with those that are more neare whereas in dying particular causes may prevaile Others with Matth. say â—hat the cause is in the condition nature of the open Air when from the coldnesse thereof a wound may easily receive alteration Hippocrates Lib. 5. Aph. 20. and else-where saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the cold is a biting enemy unto Vlcers whereunto Galen 5. M. Med. 12. subscribes which in the wounds of the head is not to be thought unreasonable for for that cause as Paraeus at Paris the wounds of the head are observed to bee more mortall than at Avignon Lib. 9. Chirur. and on the contrary with us the wounds of the shins are slighter than with them For at Paris the aire is cold moist but at Avignon the heat thereof more intense whereby the humours made liquid flow more downe-wards For the like cause the wounds of the head at Bologna are esteemed mortall which at Rome though are very easily cured and on the contrary the small wounds of the Legs are scarce curable at Rome which at Bologna admit an easie consolidation as witnesse Bald. Rons d. Scorb c. 1. vide et Cl. Senn. Tr. 6. Pract. 373. Amat Lusitan Cent. 6. Cur. 100. Thirdly many there are who suppose we are to cast one upon nature her self for say they if her constitution be laudable the naturall Balsame vigorous all things yet goe well and even incurable wounds usually gaine an happy issue But if Nature bee not of that good cheere the bloud exceedingly corrupt and nature her selfe seeme as it were for to dissolve there verily even the slight and superficiall wound is made mortall In these subitaneous chances I may say wee must have respect chiefly to the passions of the mind The aire can doe much but successively for neither will it cause a momentany alteration nor will the corruption of Nature her selfe so so much as be able to induce with the concourse of Symptomes a successive destruction but after a slight stroke or small wound scarce have they beene able to infer a suddaine death I altogether conceive that there are three affections of the mind that cause this mortality to wit violent anger exceeding feare as also suddaine terrour or affrightment Which way those three may alter a man otherwise in good health it is sufficiently manifest out of Physitians Bookes and daily experience doth teach as much Hildans conceite is not amisse Cent. 1. Obs 18. that of all the perturbations of the mind anger is the fiercest and a very fruitfull Nother of infinite mischiefes because as Galen hath it by too much exagitating the humours weakning the naturall heate convulsion of the Nerves stirring up of grievous fits in the body she doth not onely change the nature of man into a most cruell bestiality as it were but also expose the same to most eminent danger Indeed Galens opinion is that no man can dye of anger but not onely the examples alleadged in Hildan L c But there are more also that evince the contrary especially if on a man that 's too much enraged a wound be inflicted although it be but small not because as 't is commonly supposed Er hat im dat Oort des lebâ—ns getroffen You have taken life in that place as if in the body life did walke up and downe and that if that part where life then resides he wounded a man presently at that time must loose the same but rather because the hâ—mours and spirits being agitated by anger and the heat too much faintned yea by the affluxe of humours usually extinct the life must bee endangered for so the Physitians have observed that on such as were too impetuously stirred up with an impotent anger the Apoplex hath fallen and they suddainely have expired of whom there are many examples that I could reckon up which within these few yeares have fallen out at Regiomontium but it pleaseth to reserve these for some other Discourse Truely they chiefly are throughly sensible of a discommodity hence who have gotten too hot a temperature of the whole body either by nature or a disease for then the naturall heatâ— may more easily
of Histories yet relates none that men may dye of Anger the truth is to be suspected The passion of Anger and the rest are simp'e passions not mixt with any other as guilt is which is mingled both with feare and anger and therefore cannot properly be call'd a passion but as the suddaine ebullition of the spirits causeth a drawing unto the heart by abundant heate which naturally attracts the spirits disperst into the Arteries and Veines in the service of the body so doth it as readily drive them out againe to execute what the mind in such rage shall either conceive to be a revenge a satistaction or remedy insomuch that the parts of the body not left destitute of heate for many minutes cannot perish by an Apopler unlesse the matter was prepar'd and lurking in the braine that labour'd under such a griefs which this short deprivation of heate may occasion as our Author affirmes Next feare is of a more killing nature since it is a distresse that liveth in the body for much time as the occasion shall enforce besides as it is properly seated in the heart which man sensibly seeleth although the animall spirits in the braine by their faculty through knowledge of the cause and event presents it and makes it available so it defuseth an evill seâ—nper into the bloud and naturall spirits quenching their vigour also procuring a vile alteration by extinction of the conserving flame of the body which at last forsaking the bloud leaves behind it an inveterate griefe which seiseth on nature by a kind of infiring in every member even to perishing but this is after some time Further sudden terrour of al the rest is most apt to bring forth such lamentable events for this passion not onely seiseth on the heart with a strong power of feare whereby as it were crushath it to pieces but by a necessary and furious calling backe the vitall spirits sent abroad into the channells of nature to its aide it threatneth a stifling in the proper Vessells of the heart Besides in arger there is a boyling of the arteriall bloud by which their quality of heate is maintayn'd which bursting forth meets the flowing of the spirits and thrusteth them backe to their seate duties and reviveth them by piercing through them but in this assaulf there is no such elaboration but a dulling even to insensibility without any quickning whereby followes a greater freezing of them in their fountaine and place of arrivall so that they returne not if in part they doe yet it is with an irrecoverable feeblenes Further scare hath its expectation and can Iudge of the conclusion which may a little refresh but in this there is neither not through reason but the passion afflicted and ruling in its extremity the differences thus farre open'd I leave it to the courteous and Iudicious Reader Moreover whereas our Author attributes but a successive power unto the care to beget such hurts or to make stight wounds difficult or mortall I thinke hee is in an errour concerning this poynt the passions of the mind effect without any materiall but I hope he will conclude the ears to be a subtill one since it is receiv'd into our veines and arteries and according to its impurities and corruption leaveth there its tincture and condition these pestiferous seasons are witnesses with the allo wance of all grave Writers besides many chronick evills with have beene cured by the onely benefit of the aire but of this enough Position 10. ALthough this Position admits of tents to the depth of profound wounds yet I conclude that it is not so strong an Argument as to be followed or approved but rather that the tents should not passe too farre or too much beyond the membrana carnosa The workes of nature are the safest and most acceptable in which amongst her examples of memory her defence from the hurts and oppressions of contraries are not a little to be admired I will not Muster up a Legion of Histories to repeate unto the wise her common labours but as our present occasion invites will onely search the truth of this position It is assuredly confest that to lodge in the confines of nature any thing that is contrary to her being must be an offence and a disease we must also consider that what is not of her must be offensive as we see by things violently carried into her bowells which hath and doth frequently so employ the skill and care of the Chyrurgions to draw forth or free nature of we may further know that what hath beene so left especially being either in bulke and forme terrible hath beene the cause of lamentable events even to destruction Then I would know by what Rule these times use the stuffings in of great Tents or dossells of toe into the broken members of the body to extend and wound the muscles and sensible parts by unnecessary dilations Doth the Artist seeke to extract offensive things by which onely nature is freed and will hee presume to thrust them or the like into her entrailes doth nature labour the dissolving of griefes and will the Surgeons hand produce dolor did the afflicted Patient suffer the paines of the wound in the receipt by Gun shot or the like violence the torment of incisions to enlarge the Orifices of the wounds the better to convey in Instruments for the pulling forth of what is against her will or sufferance there lodg'd and after all these endurings will the Physâ—tian cram in all bad evills as he drew forth in passing flannulas and Tents through and into the tender compositions of the members of our body whereby there is a writhing and punction of those parts of exquisite sence produc'd and no profit Object if they that affirme such Tents necessary should say that they cause healing from the bottom as they commonly dispute I reply Refutation a pretty Argument to make good an errour it is the providence of nature to effect the benefit of such healing since t is her labour from thence to expell in which Vertue with a sweet and unwonted heate without such Tents she doth perfectly the worke of Incarnation which imperfect heate must needs impediat Reason 1 and where there is paine such imperfect heate must consequently be what else is her common ejections of Apostumes even from the profoundest parts of her composition what else is her thrusting forth of bullets Arrow heads splinters lost in her fabricke to the hand of the Chirurgion and convaid through many secret waies in her frame and sent out to our amazement Is it not her duty in such hidden passages to enwrap those offensive materialls afflicting her in such measure with slimy compulsions in which as in a Coate Armour Reason 2 yet as if it were made of soft pillowes she cloathes them that their shape or substance being either sharpe or hard should not in her progresse with them to some convenient sinke of her emptyings or open and fit place to