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cause_n	death_n	life_n	see_v	3,263	5	3.5236	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15052	The tree of humane life, or, The bloud of the grape Proving the possibilitie of maintaining humane life from infancy to extreme old age without any sicknesse by the use of wine. By Tobias Whitaker Doctor in Physick of London.	Whitaker, Tobias, d. 1666.	1638 (1638)	STC 25356; ESTC S119853	23,147	94

I meane to ebriety but as a medicament rightly and properly judicated Thus they made use of wine rather then any other medicament because of its familiarity with the Principles of humane Nature Well knowing that ebriety as it is simply into xication may be effected by other medicaments aswell as wine and if not wine then wee are inforced to use the other for soporificks and the like So that by this time I hope the doubt is cleere the ancient Phisitians reconciled and my selfe moving towards the next objection grounded upon Scripture There are a sect in the world and in this Region that stiffely defend the fatality of mans life and that no man can bee preserved prolonged or restored That diseases of every kind are or else to bee inflicted by an inexpugnable necessity determined of God and immutably fixed And these Ignaroes have base and meane thoughts of those which defend the contrary supposing it to bee a superfluous curiosity to avoid contagion to seeke remedies for diseases or to arme themselves against their enemies because God foreseeth death of this kind or the like And the Almighty foreseeing death of this nature and at this time and to this or that individuall Ergo it is not to bee avoided though the Lord shall say every mans perdition is of himselfe Dangerous and impious must this opinion needs bee for if it be granted what needs the Church or any private person put up any prayer to the Almighty for the restauration of life and health and preservation out of danger and to what end or purpose was the gift of healing dispenced to the Phisician if death and dissolution of every kind bee predestinated so as by no meanes it can bee shunned or prevented Nay to what end should wee pray for our daily bread or health c That we may therfore expurge this pernicious and intolerable mistake concerning the divine providence of God some things about his celestiall administration of universalls are more highly to bee taken into consideration and repeated by which the dignity and eximious utilitie of medicine may bee fully shewed That therfore the vicissitudes of humane actions and things happen not by chance or fortune but by the ordination of the Almighty ought to bee embraced by all Christian pious people and that God is the omnipotent and eternall builder of the Universe and framed it of nothing as is proved by divine testimonie This building being thus powerfully framed is also by the same efficacie conserved who hath also constituted to every particular created thing by its selfe a beginning and an end of subsisting and moving and doth take notice not only of principall but also of subsequent causes of things as if the Lord did governe moderate dispose and order them according to his free will and yet all this government is void of fatall violence and most commonly commeth to passe mediatly and by deputed causes which the vulgar call second causes which the divine Majestie doth use as the instruments of his will while hee doth so manage all things which he hath created as also himselfe may suffer them to exercise their proper motions for the will of man by divine ordination is the beginning of humane actions freely choosing what seemeth best to its selfe especially in externalls And according to Aristotle the nature of motion is the cause of this or that thing in which it is primarily per se As for example in the Sunne perpetuall rotation in weights of their inclination to Center Yea the causes so answer the effects as if the effects bee necessarie the causes are also necessary and of contingents the causes are also contingents nor doth the presence of God which is certaine and cannot bee deceived take away the contingency of naturall events But the future effect is disposed as it were by a divine providence necessarily or contingently Nor is it so that the Creatour is bound to the necessitie but moderateth all things freely according to his free-will and pleasure As did plainely appeare when hee caused the Sunne to stand still a whole day And when hee caused the Sea to divide it selfe and stand like firme walls about the Israelites As also in the case of Daniel The three children in the fiery furnace And Duffus Milcolumbus King of Scots who being cruelly murthered Anno Dom. 961. neither Sunne or Moone was seene for the space of sixe moneths after And although hee can thus dispose of causes and life and death absolutely at his own pleasure yet it behoveth us rightly to take that constitution of tearme of life not absolutely for a fatall determination but for a divine ordination of servient causes by their naturall power of sustaining or corrupting life For since life as the Philosopher speaketh is nothing but a duration of heate conjunct with moisture and duration of vitall heate and extinction of the same are naturall effects depending in like manner upon naturall causes which without doubt for the various internall disposition of naturall heate and moisture as also externall causes not only the quality but also the quantity of life it selfe may bee varied For it doth attaine the internall condition of lively Principles so long as the heate and moisture are so united in Animals as one is not destroyed by the other and so long they live but either of these separated each from other perish And in whomsoever innate is more vegetious and strong and radicall moisture more pure in substance copious in quantitie and also temperate in them life is more long Thence it commeth to passe that our ancient Fathers by reason of puritie in the internall causes of life have exceeded the age of nine hundred yeares Succeeding ages departing from that puritie of Principles by little and little are come downe to shorter ages And in these our ages the Countesse of Desmond and Thomas Parre are extraordinary examples For ordinary old age is Threescore and tenne if more it must bee by the extraordinary power and purity of the radicall Principles For radicall heate is the principall Agent of generation in the liquid substance of seed and bloud in the first conception soone after renders it more dry and exhibits the rudiments of every member and by drying still more doth publish the exact species Then it doth augment after it is come into the world and bringeth it to perfection Hence by the continuate efficiency of the sameheate all the parts being exiccated above measure are lesse able to administrate their offices whence followeth a necessitie of decay and extinction at last of naturall heate and this is a naturall death according to Galen Which by decrepid old age by siccity and defect of nourishment without sense of paine according to nature is extinct And is unnaturall and violent when by any other internall or externall cause or injurie it is put out before decrepid age For so with care and skill it may bee prolonged For as I have plainly argued and yet not

dry The fift age is virile or manly and the constant media betweene flourishing young age and old age Yet doth it not so participate of either as that it is intemperate or infected thereby it beginneth at Thirty five and is extended-to Fourty nine The sixt and last is Old age which with the exhaustion of naturall heate becommeth cold and dry in temper but excrementitiously moist by reason of languishing heate This last age also as the first doth admit of division into these three parts The first is fresh old age beginning at Fifty and extendeth to Sixtie and all this time may doe the Republique good service and execute offices as other men The second age is a media or middle old age beginning at Sixtie and extending to Seventie and in this Classis by reason of naturall imbecillity they cannot deserve of the Common-wealth The last is decrepid age and this concludeth our life and being in this life it beginneth at Seventie and is extended ordinarily to Eightie And further according to the purity of naturall Principles These are the periods and differences exactly of mans age The first ingresse hot and moist the last egresse cold and dry the middle temperate sight and touch being sensible witnesses of this truth Holy Iob testifieth with mee that man springeth up like a flower and continueth not long in one state Thus having circled out mans life à puncto ad punctum it will appeare very probable that mans life may by art be preserved free from any disease arising out of the mixture of naturall principles from the infant age to decrepid old age except the Principles be cast impure from whence proceedeth weaker tempers and many distempers which wee call hereditary diseases And these also by art and the artificial use and application of Wine may be much altered and life beyond all expectation prolonged For the nature of Wine is so agreeable and familiar with the naturall principles of man as if by the Phisitian it be directly applyed it shall so strengthen the weakest temper as shall make it subsist against a forcible distemper conveyed in materia spermatica The best opportunity of performing or acting this duty is ab incunabulis to take the child from the mothers brest and from temper to temper to proceed otherwise the temper universally may be spoyled before or so injured by unskilfull application of medicaments as may cause to faile in the understanding Yet much time may be gained in any such case and that which is counted the shame of Phisitians and puts them so often to their wits ends viz. a Consumption hereditary or accidentall and universall of the whole body is no way to be cured better than by the right use of this plant All Phisitians in this case have hitherto flone to milke of Asses and the like But what is milke comparatively with this juyce which indeed is fit for Princes to receive and Phisitians duly to study upon that they may learnedly and rightly apply it For as Kings are the life and soule of the Republique and State so for this cause great care and judgement ought to be urged for their safety and the extension of their lives to extreame age healthfully which in many hath beene shortened by Outlandish devices and kickchawes But if the learnedest Phisitians shall throughly contemplate this subject they shall soone see where the extension of Kings lives is involved Experto crede Roberto I speake not phantastically or from any palate-pleasure For my owne sickly temper durst not within these few yeares so much as taste Wine til time and study enabled my judgement better and now I take it daily and by the concurring benediction of the Almighty and not thinne and extenuate as formerly I have beene but sound and strong as any of my yeares that hath had so many violent sicknesses I could also speake of strange effects I have wrought in others but lest I should be challenged for ostentation I will forbeare it being also a thing somewhat unjust to publish persons and their imperfections to the world which were privately committed to my care Nor is testimony in this case needfull since I have proved the probability of effecting these or such like by reason and argued the nature and mixture of this subject philosophically and upon this ground I defire rather to bee credited then upon any other And so I will returne from my digression and take up my subject againe and see if I can fit it now to all ages The Infant age is the first and most difficult as some thinke to reconcile because Galen saith vinum Infantibus sit nocivum by reason of their temper which is hot and moist And so they understand Galen to speake of the qualitie but hee was not so weake a Philosopher or Logician as not to understand that mixt bodies are maintained preserved and nourished by their Simile Nor did hee ever argue against ijs nutrimur quibus constamus which is to bee understood of mixt qualities rightly applyed that such are most apt and disposed in their owne nature to assimilate with their like as is this mixture in Wine to our materiall Principles of nature So that Galen cannot bee understood to speake of the quality but rather the quantitie exceeding just proportion with the manner of application as if by the excessive quantity you will adde so much oyle to the Lampe as shall extinguish it or at such times when it shall disturbe it by moving of some other heterogeneall with time of it selfe with the helpe or secret and insensible motion of Nature will consume But had the mixture in it selfe beene hurtfull there would appeare but little reason in Hippocrates which dyeteth children which are hereditarily subject to the stone either of the bladder or reines with white Wine rather then with milke Now hee was not ignorant of diseases hereditarie that they are conveyed to the children in the Principles of Nature and that Wine in it selfe was most agreeable to maintaine their constitutions without any alteration of it to move affectedly my selfe also have advised it and not only in the same case but also in Consumptions and many other affects with singular successe And in truth if Wine hurt any temper the discretion of the Agent is to bee questioned not well observing or knowing the true specificall differences each way By these expressions I hope those that understand beleeve also that the first is set at libertie to make use of Wine now I must present a health to the next which wee called Pubertie this temper is more hot and lesse moist then the former So that by way of contemperation of the heate and humectation of the moist the same Wine is still usefull and most proper But when and how long and how much and how fitted is only knowne to the Phisitian and hee guided by his judications Adolescency which is the media or of a middle temper neither hot nor cold may not feare