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A91017	Popular errours. Or the errours of the people in physick, first written in Latine by the learned physitian James Primrose Doctor in Physick. Divided into foure bookes. viz. 1. The first treating concerning physicians. 2. The second of the errours about some diseases, and the knowledge of them. 3. The third of the errours about the diet; as well of the sound as of the sick. 4. The fourth of the errours of the people about the use of remedies. Profitable and necessary to be read of all. To which is added by the same authour his verdict concerning the antimoniall cuppe. Translated into English by Robert Wittie Doctor in Physick.; De vulgi in medicinâ erroribus. English.	Primerose, James, ca. 1598-1659.; Primerose, James, ca. 1598-1659.; Wittie, Robert, 1613?-1684.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.	1651 (1651)	Wing P3476; Thomason E1227_1; ESTC R203210	204,315	501

inbred propriety of nature Hence the * Marsi and * Psilli were not hurt of serpents and Pyrrhus his finger was not burnt by fire And hence it is also that some even in a most raging plague remain free from all hurt and some are infected upon the least occasion By the same occult quality it happens that what is poyson to one is wholsome a remedy yea and sometimes meat to another Seeing therfore that the natures of bodies are unlike very different thence it is that some are overcome and infected presently but others not without much difficulty For no cause can act without a disposition of the patient otherwise all that dwell together under the same Sunne Lib. de flat should be alike sick of Feavers or otherwise alike affected Hippocrates saith one body differs from another one nature from another and one temperament from another And for that cause the same things are not profitable or hurtfull to all To this concurres also a moderate diet a healthfull body voyd of corrupt humours of free transpiration temperate dry rather than moyst Lib. 7. cap. 50. cold rather than hot Therefore Plinie hath observed that old men are not so soon infected with the Plague as young men because of the coldnesse of their bodies and especially if they use a moderate diet and exercise CHAP. VIII Whether it be lawfull to fly in the time of Plague or no. THe second was whether it be lawfull to fly The Turks fear not the plague and withdraw a mans selfe out of danger although the Plague be defined to be contagious The Turks as Prosper Alpinus relates in his first book of Egyptian remedies doe not regard the Pestilence because they thinke that God hath destinated to every one his manner of death so as he that must perish in warre cannot be killed with the Plague of which opinion are some Christians also It is the office of Divines to enquire more diligently into that whether it be lawfull for a Magistrate or a Master of a Family or Children and such as be bound to others by a naturall or civill right to fly and in what cases I will only adde thus much that holy men seeme to have feared death because never any man hated his own flesh for both Elias and Moses fled Abraham chused rather to expose his wives Chastitie to hazard than his own life Yea and it is lawfull to avoyd all dangers Though GOD send a Famine for the punishment of our sinnes yet it is lawfull yea it is necessary to shunne it for he is guilty of his owne destruction who doth thrust himself into present danger Who will not shunne the raging enemy who will not avoyd flaming fire who is he that in swimming if he can will not save himselfe from present drowning Ought no man with clothes and fire to drive away cold because it is a punishment of God or being wounded or sick entreat the help of the Physician God promises long life as a blessing it shall therefore be lawfull by any meanes to preserve it from eminent danger The end of reason Therefore reason is given to man not that he may promise to himselfe the immediate help of GOD but that he may wisely and discreetly make use of those means which he hath created and ordained What man that is in his wits will expose himselfe to a roaring Lion and will not rather provide for himself by flight or some other means But the Pestilence as Galen teaches is as cruell as a wilde beast L●b●de Theri ad Pisonem sometimes depopulating whole Cities Wherefore if a mans calling hinder not no man will suffer himself to be perswaded to stay among those that are sick of the Plague Which policy I see many do wisely follow neglecting the rash pietie of some For that Christians ought not to feare death is to be understood that they must not bee daunted in courage with the fear of death nor yet are sins to be committed that death may be avoyded And lastly in death if by no meanes it can be avoyded they must not despaire And therefore Hippocrates saith it is the safest way Hippocrates his counsell to fly soon and farre and to returne late Yet it is not expedient for all to fly for some are to be appointed to provide things needful for them that be sick But they to whom it is not granted to fly let them take heed to themselves by alteration of the aire and by Antidotes CHAP. IX What kinde of death may be prevented by the help of Physick THe Turks as we have already said out of Alpinus doe rush adventurously into all dangers because they are strongly perswaded that there is destinated unto every man a certaine manner of death either by Famine or Warre or Water or Hanging or by a Disease or by Age. Yea amongst us there are some so superstitious A superstitious conceit and I have known many such who would have a certain number of daies assigned to every man that it is not possible for the life to be prolonged beyond it and if any man chance to perish by the default of the Physicians or of the by-standers they excuse them because it is impossible to save him whom GOD calls to himselfe Thus word by word I have expressed their opinion Which absurd opinion doth very much favour some mongrell Physicians who at hap hazard without any art attempt the cure of diseases For thus the choice both of Physicians and Medicaments is taken away nor matters it whether to a learned or unlearned to an experienced or ignorant man the life of man be committed seeing of necessity he must have dyed whom the rashnesse or ignorance of Physicians or by-standers or some other mischance hath taken away God can doe whatsoever he pleases But because he doth usually work by the help and means of secondary causes except a man make use of them he hastens his own death as he that hanged poysoned or otherwise killed himself made his life shorter which might have been longer The art of Physick doth not promise any man everlasting life for at the length wee must all yeeld unto Fate as the God of Nature will have it who therefore made the principles of our bodies passive that at length by causes internall and externall they may be overcome Nor yet doth it excuse the Physician by whose default the sick doth perish but it keeps off the eminent dangers of our life lest it perish before the time and before mature old age Who knows not that the body is shaked and weakened by the violence of diseases and that it is patched up againe by Physick and that by the neglect or unseasonable use of remedies it doth at length sinke under the burden Who knowes not that a man by a fall or a stroake or by some other way may be wounded and that he may die thereof unlesse it be well cured who otherwise might have lived longer

There is a certaine naturall death Naturall death and its causes proceeding from the principles of life exhausted in extream old age which God hath appointed for all men which therefore no art can keep back And those terms of life are divers in respect of the diversitie of temperaments and other causes therefore some live longer some shorter some wax old sooner some later but every one when his innate heate is spent dies in his own time appointed by nature as the flame of the Lampe dies out when the oyle is spent For there is an order of all things in nature and every time and life is measured out by circuit 2. De gen corrup cap. 10. as Aristotle sayes to whom all Philosophers and Physicians doe consent There is another death violent and untimely What kinde of death is to be prevented by physick which is caused by Feavers and innumerable diseases and other chances against this it is that a wise skilfull faithfull Physician goes forth and by the right administration of wholesome remedies hee calls back into the breast the life that was ready to depart For what else is it for a sick man to be delivered from a dangerous disease then for death to be deferred The Squinancie Apoplexie Plurisie Pestilent Feaver and other such acute diseases may by their own nature bring death unlesse they be driven away by remedies What else is it to prevent diseases then to keep back old age and death which is incident to it Naturall heat weakned many waies How many sundry causes do weaken our naturall-heat as a corrupt diet surfeiting want watchings troubles cares which doe call in untimely old age But a good manner of living according to the direction of Physicians doth prevent these that the substance of the body be not too soon dissolved but that it may come to extreame old age which old age hath its appointed limits in nature known to God alone which may indeed be hastened from divers causes but yet by taking away all the causes that alter heat it cannot be put off or prolonged any further and such a death happening in extreame old age is very rare For who ever led such an exact course of life that he never harmed himself by those six things which physicians call non naturales For they that doe not keepe a wholesome manner of life dye sooner then nature hath appointed as saith Galen 6. de sanit tuendâ CHAP. X. Whether intermitting fevers commonly called Agues becurable or no. MAny are of opinion that against intermitting feavers which they call Agues there is no remedie but that they doe transcend all force of Physick But seeing experience shewes that to be false Agues curable for men may see them often cured by Physicians we need not say much of this matter They proceed from divers humours cholericke plegmaticke melancholick If they be exquisitely cholericke they are easily cured Aph 59. lib 4. For an exquisite tertian in seven fits is judged the longest therefore it will be much shorter if it be helped by remedies seasonably administred And it stands with reason For if other diseases that arise from the same humours may be cured why not also intermitting feavers Onely this is it that deceives the people because some of them continue very long and become chronicall as doe some bastard tertians and quartanes Neverthelesse that takes not away the possibility of curing them seeing that these diseases have been often cured although not alwayes in all that have them otherwise it might be said also that al continuall feavers are mortall Diseases are of 3 sorts because some have dyed of them Diseases are by some Physicians divided very well into such as by their owne nature tend unto health such is the one day feaver secondly into perpetuall and incurable A sort of leprosy such is the * elephantiasis and lastly into those which are sometimes cured sometimes doe kill of which sort are very many diseases among which intermitting feavers are to be reckoned which in some haply are soone cured but others doe continue a long time for all diseases of the same sort have not alwayes the same times and the same end but some doe end sooner some later Some diseases are longer some shorter and why some are cured and some doe kill according to the diverse disposition of the peccant humour in quantitie thicknesse toughnesse acrimonie malignity according to the state of the patient and and his strength time of the yeare country temperature of the weather manner of diet constitution of the noble parts diligence of the Physicians others that be conversant about the cure and other circumstances the explication of which belongs not to this place 4. aph 4 3. Hippocrates saith that Feavers after what manner soever they intermitte are not dangerous at all They are therefore curable by a wise and learned Physician although perhaps unskilfull fellowes by a preposterous way of ministring Physick may make them incurable aph 25. lib. 2. Thus summer quartanes are said to be short but Autumne long especially those that reach unto winter That in some men many diseases remaine incurable for divers-causes it is not therefore to be thought that they are such by their owne nature nor is it to be concluded to the dishonour of Physick that they cannot be overcome and conquered by art Neverthelesse men should not give credit to the boasting words of some moungrel-Physicians who feare not to try and spare not to promise any thing and yet performe but little If they chance with a doubtfull remedie to cure a hard disease not well knowne of them with what words can the glory of so great a miracle be expressed with what reward can it be requited But if the cure succeede not well they lay the blame not upon themselves but upon the negligence of the patient or the by-standers or on the wilfullnesse of the sick CHAP. XI That the heat of the liver cannot be known by the heat of the palme of the hand IT is an ordinary thing with many when the palme of the hand is very hot to thinke that they are affected with a preternaturall heat of the liver which notwithstanding is not very certain although some Physicians also have been of the same opinion For what greater sympathie is there of the liver with the hands then with any other part No extraordinary sympathy between them Galen in Arte parvâ writes that if the liver be hot the whole bulke of the body is not likewise unlesse the heart doe hinder it and in like manner the whole body is made hot by the heart if the liver hinder not and therefore it ought not to be attributed to the hands onely Againe that unusuall heat of the hands doth rather proceede from the heart which communicates to the whole body hotter spirits and warmer blood then the Liver Moreover Galen in his booke against Lycus proves