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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	cold_a	heat_n	hot_a	2,925	5	7.7399	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26305	A letter in answer to certain quæries and objections made by a learned Galenist against the theorie and practice of chymical physick wherein the right method of curing of diseases is demonstrated, the possibility of universal medicine evinced, and chymical physick vindicated / by George Acton ...	Acton, George.	1670 (1670)	Wing A449; ESTC R6585	9,915	18

Quotidian Tertian and Quartan continual from the same humours putrefying in the Vein may be all cured by one Medicine In answer to this First We deny your Humours as most repugnant to reason that under one act of Sanguification and in the same Vessels four different Humours should be produc'd and that naturally in sound and healthful Bodies these Humours should be the efficient causes of future Diseases For this were to suppose Nature always to erre etiam in suis finibus Sense likewise assures us that although there be a Liquor swimming upon Blood emitted and cold of a yellow colour yet that it is not therefore yellow Bile for that it is not bitter to the taste And though the Yellow Jaundies staining the whole Body with a yellow colour and the Urine with a deep tincture of Red seem prima faciè to prove your Hypothesis of Humours yet upon an exact Spagyrical examination you shall find the contrary for if this tincture of Urine were à flava bile there must be found in it by Distillation at least some bitterness either in the Liquor that comes over or in the Hypostasis or Caput mortuum but there is found none nor could a small quantity of yellow Liquor tinge a large quantity of Urine with a colour deeper than its own So that we say Nullus in natura Humor noster nisi Cruor Latex Secundarius Now sometimes this Latex sometimes the Chyle from the Errour and contagion of degenerated Ferments and pre-disposition of the matter receives various tinctures and puts on the disguise of your supposed Humours But granting you a Quaternary of Humours yet we deny them to be truly the efficient causes of Diseases for manente causa non tollitur Effectus but very many Diseases we see daily cured by Amulets Plaisters Laudanums Anodynes Magneticks c. without any evacuation of Humours at all so then the truly Efficient and conjunct Cause is Spiritual and such a Medicine as can quiet the Archeus and reduce it to its natural state shall easily cure all these Distempers without any regard had to the Purgation or carrying away of Peccant Humours for the Jusitous Spirit being strengthened and the local Ferments restored to their proper Energy your peccant Humours shall soon by the power of these be either subacted and compell'd into their genuine perfection or driven out by the ways most familiar and easie to Nature truly acknowledged by Hypocrates to be Morborum Curatrix and in my Opinion the reason why meer Galenists seldom perform any considerable cure in obstinate Diseases is for that they wholly prosecute evacuation and by that means oftentimes disable Nature especially by Phlebotomy from doing what she would be able oftentimes of her own strength to perform never aiming primarily and directly but thus only by accident at the re-establishing of Nature and no marvel since this way of Healing is not performable without the help of such Arcana as are only known to Chymists and of them only to the Adepti not every vulgar Professor of Chymistry But you urge a necessity in the right Method of Healing of having respect not only to the expulsion of Peccant Humours but also to the extinction of praeternatural heat by cooling Medicines and refocillation of cold by heating ones as for Example in the cure of Anasarcha which you say is from an immoderate refrigeration of the Liver and Veins of a Fever which is from a praeternatural heat kindled first in the Heart and thence diffusing it self through the whole Body of Bradypepsia and Apepsia from the coldness of the Stomach of Boulimia from an extraordinary heat of the Stomach suddainly precipitating digestion and causing almost a continual want of aliment and likewise in implicite and compounded Diseases that are contrary to each other as a hot Liver and cold Stomach whatsoever Medicines should by their heating quality be proper in the Cure of Anasarcha Bradypepsia Apepsi and cold Distemper of the Stomach must in respect of that heat be quite contrary in a Fever Boulimia and hot Liver I answer still with the Adepti That Heat and Cold as I said of Hmours are not the efficient Causes of Diseases but the Antecedent and therefore though their consideration be Diagnostick yet not Curative non calor frigus says Hypocrates sed acidum acre amarum ponticum c. sunt morborum causae Heat and cold praeternatural are indeed an effect of the enraged vital Spirit which being once quieted the natural temper presently returns and as for the hot Liver and cold Stomach which so much puzzles you that you know not which way to direct your curative intention as appears by your Method Impliciti compositique morbi si dissentiant nec prorsus huic nec illi sed utrique mediocritate quâdam succurendum which is in effect but a needless kind of despair of a Cure whereas I am able to assure you that if for the future you can find out such a Remedy as can re-invigorate the languishing tone of the Stomach and Liver restore their deviated Ferments and appease the Archeus which may be all done with one Medicine without any regard had either to the cold of the one or heat of the other you shall quickly safely and pleasantly cure both and by the like Method all other Diseases vulgarly ascribed to Heat and Cold. You attribute Concoction to the Heat of the Stomach and to the diminution of this Heat want of Digeston and all Diseases happening thence but that Heat is not the efficient Cause of Digestion seems manifest For 1. Fishes digest without any actual Heat and to say that potential sufficeth is scarcely consonant to Reason that a thing barely in potentia should actu jam agere 2. There ought to be as many Degrees of Heat specifically different as there are specifical differences of Concoction in the Stomachs of Animals of different species for whatsoever is produc'd specifically different ought likewise to have the efficient Cause of that difference specifically different otherwise Quidlibet generetur à quolibet indifferenter which I think no man will affirm Besides What degree of Heat must we allow the Stomach of an Ostrich easily digesting Leather Cloth and even Nails of Iron what degree of heat in Boulimia for the Digestion of the coursest Food in so large a quantity and so fast that the Stomach is scarcely ever to be satisfi'd Riverius confesseth this cannot possibly be from a more intense Heat since Meat boiled in a Pot with the strongest Heat that can be invented and continued for many days cannot by this means be resolv'd into a Chylous Liquor much less Bones as in the Stomach of a Dog in the space of an hour I know you shift this off to a peculiar faculty but a faculty cannot act without an Instrument so that you are constrained to flie to the Idiosyncrasie of the part which you teach to be a certain proportion of first qualities but of all