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A50778	A new treatise of natural philosophy, free'd from the intricacies of the schools adorned with many curious experiments both medicinal and chymical : as also with several observations useful for the health of the body.	Midgley, Robert, 1655?-1723.	1687 (1687)	Wing M1995; ESTC R31226	136,898	356

full and absolute Cure or partly which allays the violence of the Distemper But without doubt or contradiction the true Antidote of the Plague is changing of the Air or correcting of it by good Scents which being attracted within us together with the Air do attemper and correct it and their Corpuscles do check the impatience and the too-free motion of the emancipated Atoms The Poison of a Mad Dog is very hard to be cured and as that sort of Madness is accounted incurable and is publickly attended with a very deadly and fatal issue we are forced to bind those who are infected or suspected and at length to smother them between two Feather-beds The ordinary Remedy is to send them to the Sea to throw them into it several times Experience teaches us that that kind of Remedy is not altogether useless but is to be accounted amongst those which are most safe though it be not altogether infallible The antipathy of the Sea-water hath no room here and it were vain to alledge it in the confirmation of this practice Therefore I say that according to our Principles the emancipated Atoms proceeding from the spittle of the mad dog while they penetrate the substance of the Brain or at least begin to penetrate it or to be turned round its foldings to enter into its Cavities are interrupted in their motion so that they cannot enter into the Cavities of it nay and they are thrown partly out by those struglings which the Patient must necessarily suffer when he is cast into the Sea I do not nor will not deny but that there are Atoms or Corpuscles proceeding from the Froth of the Sea which entring into the Patients body thro' the Pores made open by the agitation or by breathing in of the Air and being comunicated to the blood do with their cubicular figures fix and withstand the emancipated Atoms which produce the madness or nearly dispose the body to it To comprehend in a word all that can be said concerning this matter whatsoever can heal or give ease to a Distemper so dangerous it does it only by hindring the Motion of those loosed Atoms or by quite expelling them out of the body The same thing may be said of the third sort of Poison that is the Venerial which is called the French disease That also hath its general and specifick Antidotes Quick-silver is commonly used for this business and that by reason of that antipathy which is betwixt it and the disease it is most certainly held to be the one only Remedy for it Others use Sudorificks as Guajacum Salsaparilla or animal or Mineral Bezoar or the salt of Vipers Others are only contented with one Remedy which is Mercury perfected by Nature and radically divided by Art also the more industrious do use Philosophical water prepared from the Beams of the Sun and Moon But tho' we may provide an excellent Remedy against this Distemper nevertheless it must be confessed that it is not radically taken away but by the help of those things which expel the Venerial emancipated Atoms from the Centre to the Circumference whether it be done by sweat or by an insensible transpiration this doth not happen by Antipathy or some occult quality but by the motion of the Particles of the Medicine which strike against these miserable Atoms and drive them out by those most convenient ways that is the Pores of our Body Therefore let us proceed to those Antidotes which are opposite to Toxicks not by Antipathy or some occult quality but by their different figures Therefore who will say that Milk hath an aversion to Sublimate or Arsenick though it be a most speedy Remedy and that no less than Oyl which doth resist Poyson because descending into the Ventricle and in its passage touching the Gullet and the orifice of the Ventricle as well as Milk doth lessen the motion of the Corpuscles of the Poison and blunts the sharp points and corners of them and defends all those Parts But of all things a Vomit is most useful in this Case being assisted with the help of Milk or Oyle Slackning the Tunicles of the Stomach and making the Passage more easie For if a Vomit should be given without smoothing and besmearing the Passage the Venome in coming out would Excoriate all the parts that it touched by its sharp-pointed Saw-like and Hooked Particles which are covered by the Particles of Oyl or Milk going out with them and are so prohibited and hindred from hurting In the Conclusion of this Chapter I do observe that Corrupt Humours in our Body as Physicians do affirm to us do degenerate into Poisons and Toxicks but they are silent as to the Reason of this Confusion and all the manner of avoiding it First they ascribe this Corruption to External Causes or to inward Occult and Maligne Qualities or to the excess of certain Qualities as Cold Hot Dry Moist or to certain unwholesom Diet and to ill Digestion or lastly to Obstructions hindring the necessary distribution of them But truly it is not demonstrated from thence that crude and an undigested Diet or Corrupt Humours do degenerate into Poison therefore the true Cause of this thing and the solid Reason of it must be enquired into To this purpose I do suppose that the Humours or Nourishment being any manner of way divided may be said to be Corrupted because I acknowledge no difference between a division and a corruption of a thing but in a separation which is not total there remain some Bodies which are neither Poisons nor Toxicks though they Oppress and Obstruct the Parts and hinder the intercourse of the Spirits as it happens in Phlegm Melancholly and Slimy Humours which are joyned with the Earthy part of the Excrements Besides these Bodies there are other Corpuscles which with their Hooks Sharp points and Stings do pierce prick and penetrate Man's Body and the Membranes of it as also the Veins Muscles and Nerves and do Corrode the Stomach and in the same manner with Poison do occasion Ulcers Imposthumes and Pustles These are those which the Physicians do call sharp biting and Chollerick Humours whereof that I may end this Tract concerning Sympathy and Antipathy and the Actions depending thereon and without these Occult Causes assign a true and an Efficient Cause of all our Distempers I am compelled to treat in a Chapter by it self and in that which follows shall be delivered the General means whereby the Causes and Roots of all Diseases may be Removed CHAP. XV. The True Cause of our Diseases THe Effects of our Diseases are pernicious and have their Origine either from within or without the Causes of them sometimes are so obscure that the Original of them cannot be discovered and though we define a Disease to be a disposition against Nature or an inordinate Constitution of those Qualities which are Constituent of a Right Temperature yet for all this we are not Wiser or more Learned than we were before Therefore after

little Grains which are called Manna From this same Matter Sugar is made in the Madera-Islands and in both the Indies where it is found inclosed in Reeds Lastly after the same manner Pearls are formed and nourished in Shells He that studies to know the wonders of Dew and the vertue of the Spirits it contains may extract from thence admirable secrets for health but for nothing else that I know of CHAP. XIII Of Winds Tempests and Whirl-winds WInds are the same thing in the Air as Billows are in the Sea or as Floods are upon Land. And indeed they do sometimes disturb and move the Air so violently that the best rooted Trees and strongest built Houses are now and then pulled up by the Roots and overturned by them And yet Winds are nothing but Air agitated nor Tempests but Air floods or violent Agitations of the Air. Some Philosophers seek for the Causes of these Agitations of Air in the Rarefaction and Condensation of Bodies and to illustrate this Effect they bring an Experiment of Air rarified and going out with great force out of a large glass Bottle and of Air condensed in another Phial or Glass in which the least opening being made the external Air breaks in with great Force and Noise of both which Experiments I with others have been an Eye-witness We took therefore a great round Bottle and placed it in a cold place and then covering it with a double Skin made wet it was placed to a gentle Fire which by degrees being thorowly hot and the Skin prickt with a Needle the Air or Wind broke out from thence with so much violence that it blew out a Candle two Paces distant from it more than once The same Tryal was made with another Bottle in which Pease were put and the Hole shut with the Thumb which afterwards being taken away the Air immediately with the Pease burst out with so much Violence that they like Pistol Bullets entred into a Deal-board A second Eperiment was likewise made a Bottle was placed in a hot place and well stopped with Leather which being brought into a cold place and the Skin pierced through the external Air for half a quarter of an hours time rushed into the Bottle with so much noise and hissing that it seemed to indanger the breaking of it I confess these Experiments have left us an Idea of Winds and their vehemency but there always remains this one difficulty to wit what should be the Principle of this rarefaction and condensation of the Air for in the first Experiment refrigerated Air is shut up in the Glass Bottle and dilated with heat and then it goes violently out of the little hole that is made but how can Cold condense and Heat rarifie and dilate this Air Lastly what is it that presses it and forceth it with violence to seek its Exit And as to the second Experiment in which rarified Air is condensed in the Bottle how being rarified can part of the Glass remain empty And lastly from what Cause is the external Air forced to break in with so much precipitation All these things I mention that it may be seen that these difficulties do not escape me As to the first instance I say that Cold condenses Air in as much as it makes the vacuities dispersed through it lesser and more closely shut together so that there is ●uch more of matter in refrigerated Air than in the same made Hot But that this Doctrine may be rightly apprehended we must know in What Heat and Cold consists for when Cold condenses the Air and presses it together it performs it by its close solid heavy and plain particles as shall be treated of elsewhere Secondly Heat rarifies Air by an introduction of its Corpuscles which are almost destitute of all solidity by which the vacuities of the Air are increased and enlarged Thirdly the Air rushes forcibly out of the Bottle because their Corpuscles are compelled to dilate themselves which they cannot do nay from hence they break the Glass Bottle unless a hole be made in the skin It is true also that the Air going out of the hot Bottle is altogether Cold for they are the Corpuscles of Cold which go out and the noise with which they break out proceeds from the plain figures of the Corpuscles of Cold which cannot pass through the litle round holes without being entangled together and dashing one against another besides these Corpuscles being plain they are subtile also like little Razers thus in the Winter time we see the hands and feet of such as are tender hurt with Chops and Cliffs To the second Experiment I say that the Air in the Bottle being rarified by the help of Heat is afterwards compressed and condensed by the help of Cold passing through the substance of the Glass and breaking of it if it be not looked after Secondly the cold entring in drives out or into the sides the particles of Heat and the Glass on the part of its Orifice remains without Air and the disseminated Vacuities are gathered together into one Vacuum Thirdly the external Air enters with precipitation because it is pressed against its Nature by this great Cold and finding a place where to betake it self it possesseth it immediately We must here observe that rarefaction is never made on the one side but condensation is made on the other and so on the contrary and this is the first or immediate Cause of Winds when the Air is rarified by heat in subterraneous places and Caverns of the Earth and breaks out with violence or when it being condensed other supervenes with violence rushing towards it Another Cause of Winds or rather of Tempests and Storms by Sea and Land are the emancipated Atoms of which we have spoke already and which by justling one another more agitate the Air from divers parts diversly opposite from whence comes the reciprocal meeting and incursion of winds in the Region of the air which when they happen near the Earth they cause fearful and dangerous Whirl-winds This Opinion concerning the emancipation of Atoms supposes that in the dissolution of greater Bodies the lesser Particles and Atoms are emancipated and procure themselves liberty so that enjoying their own power they run through the Air and easily and vehemently move it These emancipated Atoms in the great World are not only very much to be feared where they use greatest violence but also in the little World where they produce most Diseases as are Horrors Fits of Feavers and their duplications Translations to the Brain Diliriums or Light-headedness and Phrensies To Cure which Sudorifick Medicines opening the Pores and driving out those sharp-pointed Atoms are chiefly to be commended CHAP. XIV Of Thunder Lightning and the Thunder-Bolt THunder Lightning and the Thunder-Bolt would be more stupendious were it not that there is something on Earth from whence we learn the manner how these things are done above us The first thing which gives us light concerning these three