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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97281	The Britannian magazine: or, A new art of making above twenty sorts of English wines viz, of apples, pears, peaches, cherries, plums, sloes, damasins, quinces, figgs, goosberries, mulberries, currens, blackberries, elderberries, roses, carnations, cowslips, scurvy-grass, mint, and balm, &c. More pleasant and agreeable to the English constitution than those of France. With the way of making brandy and other spirits: as likewise how to make artificial clarets, rhenish, &c. The second edition. To which is added, the foundation of the art of distillation: or the true and genuine way of making malt into low-wines, proof-spirits, and brandy-wines, compliant to the late act of Parliament concerning distillation. By W.Y. M.D.	Y-Worth, W. (William)	1694 (1694)	Wing Y214; ESTC R230793	82,523	252

an Impostumated Seed and decayed Body from whence in the act of another Generation it stamps its Ideas or its Matrix from hence hereditary Diseases and the cause of so many weak and imperfect Children which also in process of time produce the same effects and so cause such other new complicate Diseases such as become the amaze and astonishment of Physitians for 't is not only the Diseases varying and divers symptoms thereof appearing but also some new ones are commonly yearly produc'd vastly different from the other And this is observ'd and for a truth generally agreed upon by most of the Learned and Curious observing Physitians that I have met with in my European Travels And indeed the craziness and imperfectness of Bodies in this our Age are much to be pittied and lamented for let the Physitian come where he will he can seldom fail of discrning some Symptoms and evil Effects thereof and 't is much to be fear'd that the Intemperance of this Age will cause such evil Fermentations as to produce yet worse Diseases which I pray God the Inhabitants may prevent by timely Repentance for I dread the soreness of the Judgment c. From what hath been said 't is easie to be conceiv'd that Intemperance hath been as a Procatarctick Cause of many Diseases staining the Spirits corrupting the Humors and many times the principal Vessels causing similar organick and common Diseases For we say that one original Cause may in different Bodies or Constitutions produce different Effects and the more different symptoms according as it hath its situation or power to assault the Synteresis of Nature We shall therefore state another Aphorism viz. That the Spirit being the first admitter of disseasy Idea's those also must be Spiritual and carry with them their own Seed and forming Power or else no specification of a disease could be made Now this being so we are to consider what those diversity of Forms are that produce diversity of Diseases For we see that in Epidemick diseases which thô generally proceed from corrupted venoms yet each of them cause different Characters on the Body The Measles one the Small Pox another the Swine Pox another the Spotted Fever another and the Plague another For that hath the most raging power or violent burning painful Blains Carbuncles or Bubo's as a test of Rage changing the same in and with the solid parts to the blackness of a Coal or stinking Pus c. Now by all of these the Life is eminently threatned according as the Form hath power immediately to work upon and prevail against the light of Nature This diversity of diseasie Idea's may not seem difficult to be conceived if we but consider that the general matter of all things was originally one and that the diversity of Species came in the World by and from the character and stamp of Form in the Animal Mineral and Vegetable Kingdom in all the kinds thereunto belonging For as the Apostle saith every Body hath its own Seed and every Seed it s own Body In the vegetable Kingdom the Body is Salt the Form Sulphur or Oil which are discernably different in Tast and Smell one from another which whilst the Texture remained had power to retain its Form in multiplication of its kind through the power of the universal Spirit In the Mineral Kingdom the Body is Mercury but that which gives the various Forms is Sulphur which through the Medium of the Universal grow and are multiplied In the Animal Kingdom the Body is Flesh but the Form is that which makes the diversity according as 't is pure purer or most pure the most pure is Man being animated with the Divine Light the Pure is Fish and Foul and the less Pure is Flesh in its divers and brutish kinds yet all live increase and multiply through the Medium of the Universal Spirit Moreover Man being a Microcosme an Epitomy of all Forms a Compendium of all Powers and System of Superior and Inferior Beings must doubtless be acted upon by all Forms For as Legions of Angelical Spirits are for ministring Comfort to Man by the Rays of Light so on the other hand Are there Legions of Diabolical ones stirring up their Instruments to dart and poison him with the black cloud of Leath Therefore we say that as the Spirit of Man is acted upon by the divers diseasie I dea's yet the Primary Matrix of Diseases one viz. a moist mercurial poisonous Air which we call the Anatomia Essata whose existence is in all the urinous Spirits in the Body and is fed by the same in which the different Idea's Act and Form several Species by the Medium of the Spirit in the little World even as 't is in the Spirit of the great World Wherefore we say that all kind or species of Diseases are produced by the Spiritual Action of the dismal Form and according to the nature of the Humor acted upon or of the Vessel Organ or Passage that 't is incorporated in and as 't is nearer or more remote situated to the Archaius For we see that in the Itch and Scabs the Blood is corrupted and infected as also in the Scurvy and Scrofulous Humors yet each of these are considerably different one from another and all different from the former which still demonstrate diversity of Forms in the specification of Diseases And again in the French Pox which having its rise from complicate Vapors produceth in like manner complicate Symptoms which have some or other resemblance of various sort of Diseases Now if the Form is of a Saturnal Nature dull and languid in Motion from thence Hypocondriack Melancholy and inveterate Obstructions hard to be removed Now the further operation of these sulphurous Idea's or black Clouds will be more fully shewn in my Spagirick Philosophy asserted where the Original of Diseases is more fully demonstrated These things being rightly known and consider'd we may be able to make proper Indications of Diseases whether produced simply from one Cause or compounded with different Forms whence proceed rebellious and complicate Diseases Ex. Gr. The corruption of the Grand Itch in one uniting in Coitu with the acid or muriatick Partiticles in another produceth or bringeth forth a venemous Vapour which may prove as a Progenitor to the Pox and especially when 't is heighten'd by a volatile Acidity in a second Action The manner of which ought truly to be known And again when the Scurvy after the same manner unnites with the grand Pox it may cause such a violent fermentation in the blood as to produce a Feaver some of which I have known so violent that death hath immediately ensued These and many more of the like nature produce such complicate Diseases as have before been touch'd at so that the most learned of Physitians at the first sight by the Diagnosticks and Aetiologicks are put to an onset how rightly to give their Prognosticks which we shall endeavour to unfold according

Original Nature Variation and Cure of Diseases may therefore as we before said be comprehended and understood in a three-fold respect First in the Knowledge of the Microcosmical structure and how Diseases arise in human kinds so as to assault the Animal Life and sensitive Soul for we find that all the Diseasy Idea's are conveyed in the vehicle of the Spiritual Juices to the constitutive parts Secondly In knowing the proper Indications of Diseases and how changes and variations are made in simple and complicate ones for 't is very necessary that the concurrences in the Nature and Eventual accidents thereof be praeominated Thirdly these being understood we may boldly insist upon the Cure of Diseases by a Judicious Administration of proper Medicines and by such variations as are requisit for removing the Cause thereof But before we proceed to lay down the Rise and Nature of Diseases we think it convenient to make our Intention the more plain first to define what a Disease is a Disease therefore is defin'd to be an assault made upon the Spiritual Life in human kinds in order to make a breach of its natural Harmony For 't is plain to us that Diseases have their first Existence in the very principles of Life and sensitive Soul by which they are conveyed to the Archaeus who is as we say the central vital Spirit exalted to the highest state in the Microcosm which distributes a vital ray of which Ares is Specificator to all the parts and Members of the body which being assaulted by the Diseasy Idea's whether Superior Influences Epidemick Venoms or other accidents causing Terror Fury and Amazement whereby Nature becomes unmindful of her own office and admits of Diseases and sometimes death without resistance Because by such preternatural actions the wrathful quality is stirred up which otherwise lay silent in the Centre of the body for as we have said in our Medicina Rationalis the feed of Life and Death is placed and originally existeth in the Center of every Body and of Man in order to subdue him to fear and reverence his Creator for as the Apostle saith From Adam death reigned upon all men Now this Archaeus hath such a pure Central Life that it is immediately put into fury and distraction by those clouds the diseases Idea makes which being antipatherical to its purity it cannot but oppose endeavouring so long to cast them off till enraged thereby and so neglecting its own office many times immediately admits of death but if not so soon these untoward guests take place captivating and destroying and as they have admittance assume Matter and become corporeal whence according to its continuance proceed chronick diseases or such as be of difficult cure For this matter as we have said in our Spagirick Philosophy asserted is by degrees dissolved and spread through the Body and so universally assaults the whole Fabrick or at least wise some principal part or organ thereof whence somtimes proceed Obstructions Hypocondriack Melancholy and many others for the Humors especially the predominant have thereby power to overflow thence Diseases from the inequality of Humors which often are remotely promoted by the six Non-naturals We therefore assert these to be the accidental not the original or Procafarctick Cause of diseases as many will have them and that by these Nature is deprived of her own State and Office and led into that which is contrary to her which prevails so long as the Anatomia Essata hath power to Dart forth her venom in order to extinguish the Fountain of Life We shall therefore state this as a general Aphorism in Physick that if the Spirit the Fabricator and Conservor of Human Bodies stands clear and undefiled being not infected by the clouds of Diseases the Body which is the Receptacle of the Spirit must needs remain in a vigorous activity for no morbifick Matter can exist therein but by the Spirits Error which afterwards forms Matter and becomes corporeal For as Christ says Mat. 12.28 How can one enter into a strong Man's House and spoil his Goods except he first bind the strong Man In reference hereunto the Spirit may be said to be a strong Man and the Arche as the Watchman of the Microcosme which examins all therefore must be first bound and captivated before the House or Body can be destroy'd Thus much in general concerning the Original of Diseases and their forms impress'd by the Diseases Idea on the Spirit through which they become corporeal we shall now consider by what Medium they act We say then as the external Air of the Macrocosm is the Medium between Heaven and Earth containing the universal Spirit by whose Power Life proceeds from Generation to Generation and by the deprivation thereof Death Corruption and Destruction for being darkned corrupted and infected with divers Spiritual Forms whether Superior or Inferior by exhalation of corrupted Fumes for 't is a Matrix that receives all till over-burthen'd or infected thereby it sends forth its venom both on Man and Beast as is too too evident in Pestilential times c. So 't is in the Air of the Microcosm where the Spirit acts that being the medium between Life and Death and consequently the effective Instrument of Health and Diseases for that being over-burthened either by the superior Influences or Spirituality of the different exhalations proceeding either from a subsequent Cause or the immediate Passions and exasperation of the Mind by Anger Grief Fear or the like or of the Body by suddain motion or Cold by which the Spirit is too much inflamed or contracted or from the superabundance of Meat or Drink taken For althô these are the handmaids and nourisher of Life yet when taken in excess they many times become the very instrument of Death like as the most choice Panacea which by a ray of its light is able to cure all Diseases yet too many rays thereof will overpower the natural one and so extinguish it wFor as Sandivogius says a great Fire soon extinguishes a small one and that many of the Philosophers have destroy'd themselves by not knowing the right use of the grand Panacea for we are to receive things in Temperance so as to strengthen the natural heat and not to overcome it as we have touched at in the Preface 'T is no wonder indeed why there should be such variation in Diseases and so many new and complicate ones arise if we rightly consider how great the excess and intemperance this age abounds with is for from thence proceeds a debilitation of the Spirit a defect of the Spiritual Juices and an inlet to cacochamick ones and from thence corruption and this being united with the Debaucheries receiving from each other the Spiritual vapour of their poisonous Venom 's the Grand Pox is contracted which being not timely cured corrupts and stains the Vessels with its Diseases Malignancy and is often sent forth to the superficies of the Body and internally stains the radical moisture causing