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A59191	The Art of chirurgery explained in six parts part I. Of tumors, in forty six chapters, part II. Of ulcers, in nineteen chapters, part III. Of the skin, hair and nails, in two sections and nineteen chapters, part IV. Of wounds, in twenty four chapters, part V, Of fractures, in twenty two chapters, Part VI. Of luxations, in thirteen chapters : being the whole Fifth book of practical physick / by Daniel Sennertus ... R.W., Nicholas Culpepper ... Abdiah Cole ...	Sennert, Daniel, 1572-1637.	1663 (1663)	Wing S2531; ESTC R31190	817,116	474

the natural bowels somtimes the Liver by its heat elevating many vapors and somtimes the stomack naturally cold and affected likewise with an Adventitious humidity corrupting with a more crude juyce the aliment of the whol body and filling the head and then withall the Spleen and obstructed Mesentery sending upwards many fumes So that the flegm heaped up in the head partly by its great plenty and its own weight maketh it self a way and passage unto the parts lying underneath and partly thrust forth by the strength and act of the expulsive faculty it rusheth unto the mouth and stomach looseneth the teeth in the Gums and besides exciteth and causeth very much trouble and pain in the swallowing The same being much encreased in the stomach by reason of its own proper distemper causeth in him the loss of his Appertite and from the agitation and weakness of the heart it produceth extream windiness as also a pain of the Intestines with a Costiveness of the belly by reason especially of the hindered contraction of the transverse fibres distended by windiness by which said Contraction the descent of the Dreggs is very much furthered But the hotter habit of the adust blood and both the Cholers arising from the Liver and the obstructed places greatly disturbeth his sleep especially in the night time by which it cometh to pass that from the ret●●ing of the Spirits and the blood unto the internal parts the Evaporations become so much the greater Neither it is any wonder at al that somtimes likewise there is kindled a Feaver not only an every day Feaver by reason of the vehemency of the pain but also a Periodical Feaver resembling the Nature of a spurious Tertian in regard that the obstructions being somtimes augmented great store of excrements and those very different one from the other of al sorts mi●gled together one with another are very easily corrupted And moreover also the smal sand and gravel may very wel happen to grow together from this manifold filth communicated unto the over hot Kidneys and there retained by the wasting of the more thin parts by the ex raordinary great heat and the Nephritick pain may likewise be generated by the abundant matter impacted in the Uterers and not having an easie and speedy motion But of the occult and hidden Diseases some of them are simply such touching the existence whereof we may very wel doubt and others of them are occult only in regard of their Essence and Nature since that it is not in the least to be controverted whether or no this illustrious Lord be afflicted with them a truth so obvious and manifest Simply occult is that Witchcraft of which this illustrious person hath very rational and probable grounds to suspect that it hath been practised upon him in regard that as he relateth there have been often found in his bed strange and admirable Magical Figures of Bones of Wax and of other matter as also such like Signs and Characters as Enchanters and Wizards are wont to abuse in destroying those they bewitch and in regard likewise that he had most powerful and most implacable Enemies by whom he doubteth not but that his ruine and destruction hath by al kinds of wiles wicked arts and inventions been attempted Since therefore it is confessed by al that by Witchcraft bodies may in a various manner be changed and that thereby there often happen the very same effects that are wont to follow likewise upon the natural motions of the humor in the body ill affected hence it i● that Physicians can have no proper signs whereby they may constantly discover and absolutely determine whether there be any Witchcraft practised or not And this is now altogether the case of this most illustrious person For there is non I suppose unless he be ei●her a mere Dolt or one that hath no good opinion of Christian Philosophy that will dare to doubt whether or no the related suspicions may not frequently accompany Witchcraft so that hereupon that there is in this present case no practice of Magick and Enchantment can by no evident Argument possibly be convinced But if haply any one shal object and say That the aforesaid doubt is altogether needless and impertinent since that al those Accidents that the Patient suffereth may very wel be referred unto the various and those likewise sufficiently manifest vices of the humors let such a one know that such as are variously affected from a supernatural Cause although the effects proceeding therefrom may seem to be natural yet notwithstanding they cannot by the aid and assistance of the Physitians so easily be corrected and kept under as those may that are vitiated and derive their depraved power and violence from some Natural and sensible Cause so that albeit the knowledg of Witchcraft maketh not much for the attaining of the next and immediate Cause of the Disease yet nevertheless it helpeth very much in foretelling the facility of the Cure and presaging the issue and event of the Disease I would to God that this noble person were altogether free from this infection which doth indeed render the Cure of the Disease most pertinacious in al respects and most intricate and difficult But there are two other occult Maladies with the which I plainly affirm that this noble person is affected to wit the Scurvey and the Plica the Nature of which Maladies as it is abstruse and hitherunto never sufficiently demonstrated by any so the accidents therein happening are most manifest And in very deed that so for brevities sake I may pass over the many other notes and signs al men generally acknowledg and confess that the Plica ariseth from the inexplicable and intangled Locks of the Hair but yet they are altogether ignorant of the proper Cause thereof although they speak somwhat that is probable touching the common Cause which yet nevertheless cannot be sufficient for the constituting of the perfect Cure of the said Malady But certain it is that their hairs are conglutinated frizled and entwi●ted from some dull and sluggish excrement of the third Concoction of the head sweating through the Sutures and Pores which being restrained and kept in by the cutting off the hair the Air more freely getting into the said open pores there ensue thereupon most grievous Accidents It is also certain that by the drinking of vitious Waters or else from exhalations mingled together with the Air after a long abode and continuance therein this Malady may at length be contracted and therefore it is that this evil is almost Epidemical unto the Inhabitants of those places that abound so much with these like Fountains and Rivers that are so wel known unto this noble person Neither can it be doubted that such as have weaker heads are sooner and more grievously infected But of what kind that excrement is and with what poyson infected that seemeth a thing altogether occult and hidden as likewise for what reason it doth infest the head rather than

are performed and whether by a Natural Cause or by the assistance of the Evil Spirit But now unto any one that shal accurately and exactly and without any prejudice weigh and consider the whole business it wil very easily appear that these vertues and effects cannot proceed from any Natural Cause For two things there are in those Seals the matter it self and the Characters engraven upon it unto neither of which this virtue can be ascribed for the matter is from Nature and hath in it no such virtues and this they themselves see a necessity of confessing And here therefore for the proving of the efficacy of these Seals they betake themselves to Amulets and pretend the virtue of them But be it so indeed that all things whatsoever are written touching these Amulets are true as most certain it is that very many of them are yet what is all this unto these Seals in which if we consider the Metals Characters and the like it is without all doubt that those things have in them no such virtues And Paeony the Hoof of the Beast Alx and the like do shew and put forth those virtues that they have albeit there be no Characters at all engraven upon them and the like also Galen in the place before alleadged tels us that he himself had by experience found to be true of the Jasper-stone And then as these Seals have not their virtue from the matter so neither from the Characters that are from the Artificer and cannot have any such virtues either from the Artificer or from themselves For why these Characters are from an Idea in the minde of the Artificer which doth not work any effect upon things external And of themselves they are nothing else but Figures But now there is no power nor efficacy at all in Figures for the working any effect in regard that they are nothing else but only qualities of a quantity For all virtue and power of acting is principally from substance which by its qualities is efficacious and operative Action is between Contraries of the same kinde and such are not Natural and Artificial among which are these Characters Neither do things Artificial work upon things Natutal nor alter or affect them as they are such but they Act and work upon them as they have a Natural matter And so on the contrary things Natural do not Act upon Artificial things by altering or affecting them as such but as they consist of a Natural matter And therefore Images or Names engraven upon matter can of themselves perform nothing and the matter if it be at all affected by the Heavens is equally and as much affected if it hath not any Image or Figure at all engraven upon it and as for Characters Figures and Words engraven upon the mater they have in them no peculiar virtue of receiving the Influences of the Caelestial Bodies neither can they give any such virtue unto the Matter The truth is that Rodolphus Goclenius the younger doth indeed endeavour to give an Answer unto this objection whilest in his Magnetick Synarthrosis page 101. he thus writeth It is not the Statue saith he as a Statue neither yet the Seal nor the Image and figure as such that can affect any other Statue or quality For the very truth is that these Artificial Seals do acquire no virtue at al from Art but the virtue is instilled and infused into them from Heaven and the Stars I say again that this same Celestial Ray and Astral spirit that is sent down hither and here hath its influence in this sublunary world doth not only Accomodate it self unto the Metalls Stones and those plants aforesaid but doth likewise secretly and imperciptibly insinuate it self into their very substance with the which even from the very first Creation it hath obtained a Mutual and sympathetick familiarity connexion and continuation But now this spirit hath its influence without any adjuration Consecration and invocation of Devills but altogether in a Natural way But all that he answereth is nothing worth For this is that very thing according as it is in the Question which he ought to prove to wit that upon Metals and papers ignorantly engraven and Lettered there can any such like virtue as is attributed unto these Seals be derived from heaven and the Stars For although we do not deny that the Stars have their secret influences upon these inferiour bodies and therefore he hath taken much pains to very little purpose in proving of it to wit that the Stars do act upon these inferior bodies not only by their motion and light but also by their occult influence yet nevertheless two things there are especially of which there is great question to be made The first is this whether the Stars have in them any such virtue of producing fortuitous Events and meer casualties and such effects as are not Natural but wholly depend upon the will and good pleasure of Men. And the other is this to wit why they do not communicate those their influential virtues unto Metalls as they are of themselves but only unto such of them as are engraven with Characters For what have those Characters to do with the Stars And what hath Mars in the Heavens to do with the image of an Armed man Or what hath Saturn to do with an old man holding the plough And so of all other the Planets And the very same is likewise to be sayd the case standing al one touching the signs of the Zodiack and the rest of the Asterisms unto which Names have been given by Men according to their wills and pleasure for the teaching and instructing of others in the grounds of Astronomy who could if they had so pleased have given some other names unto those Asterisms which we now from them call Pisces or Sagitarius Like as the Hollanders even in our Age have most freely and according as they thought good imposed names upon all those Meridional signs that they observed in their Navigations to the Southerly parts And so the signs and figures likewise denoting those Asterisms have been imposed according to the wills and fancies of Men and therefore we conclude that there is no Necessity at all why the virtue of any Star should insinuate it self into any such Character as is imposed meerly by the wil and fancie of Men although it be engraven and inscribed at such a certain time the Star being then in such or such a position And therefore the whole controversy at length returns to this that from a Naturall Cause there can no such virtue be ascribed unto Seals and such like Characters and if there be any for of this very thing there is great doubt to be made and many things without question are much talked of and boasted which indeed were never yet experimentally found to be true as Paracelsus Arnoldus de villa Nova Thurneiserus and other of our more Modern Authors produce many things to this purpose I say if any such

with his own Eyes he beheld while they took out of an Impostume ful of filth and opened in the Calf of a Mands Leg a certain round substance or Globe such as is to be seen in Weavers Shops And Wierus in his Book of the Devils impostures Chap. 13. relates that in the incision of an Impostume on the left side of a certain G●● above the Spleen there was taken forth an Iron Knife and after it there issued out abundance of filth and corruption The like whereunto Langius also hath observed in his first Book and thirty eighth Epistle Now if any such strange thing chance to happen the Vulgar People are wont to ascribe it presently unto the Sorceries Spels and Charms of their Devilish Neighbors But there is no necessity why for all things that are evacuated out of Impostumes besides purulent matter we should by and by have recourse to such Causes as these or rank them among the supernatural Causes of humors seeing that many of these contingents may be generated out of the humors erewhile rehearsed For whenas Experience makes it manifest that in most parts of mans Body smal Stones Sand and Gravel Hairs or such like and also divers kinds of Worms may be produced out of the excrementitious humors and that likewise not only in the Body of man strange and wonderful kinds of Worms and other little Animals may be bred out of the Corruption of others it should not seem any great wonder that the matter in Tumors especially if it be naught and hath been long there shut up and deteined doth admit of those various and strange mutations happening by means of its rottenness and putrefaction But yet notwithstanding if such things be found in Impostumes that are come to a suppuration and likewise in Tumors which cannot be generated in mans Body by nature or at leastwise by Natures strength alone without the concurrence of Art such as are all things formed of Metals Bodkins Knives Iron Nayls and the like then indeed they cannot be referred unto natural causes but may upon more than probable Grounds be imputed unto the Impostures subtilty and power of the Devil But as for the manner how such things may be either generated in the Body or covertly conveyed into it is not my purpose here to determine I therefore proceed to dispatch what I have further to deliver touching the rest of the causes of Tumors that take their rise and original from the humors So then Tumors how caused by congestion or the heaping together of humors as for what concerns the causes remote be they what they will for their kind they may easily be known if we do but enquire into the manner how Tumors come to have their first being and withal take notice from whence and after what sort or by what means that humor which hath rightly gained to be stiled the containing Cause comes into the part affected Now therefore that humor which is the nighest and containing Cause of a Tumor is either insensibly and by degrees heaped up in the part or else altogether as in a heap which the Grecians express by the word Athroos flow into it The matter is gradually and by little and little gathered together in the part affected primarily and most especially by reason of somwhat amiss in the member to wit when either the concoctive power is grown weak and therefore cannot as it should digest the nutriment but generates more excrements than it ought to do or else when the expulsive faculty doth not cast out all the excrements as it ought to do and this may come to pass either through its own weakness or otherwise because the way by which those excrements should be ejected is not sufficiently open And again a humor is likewise then heaped together in the parts whenas the food it self is naught and unwholsom for hence it happens that either so great abundance of excrements are caused that the expulsive faculty cannot cast them al forth or else that they are so thick that Nature cannot easily expel them But upon what causes these causes do depend hath been already declared in its proper place nor is it requisite that we should at large repeat what hath been spoken Only in a few words take this That the weakness of the faculties wholly depends upon the intemperies or distemper of the parts and the decay of their native heat The passages are obstructed by overmuch and thick matter which happens to be condensed by the vehemency of cold Meats of an ill juyce produce store of excrements Now what these meats are Galen gives us to understand in his Book touching meats of a good and evil juyce A Humor then flows to some part this being in truth the more usual cause of Tumors when either it is drawn by that same part tumors how caused by an afflux How by attraction or transmitted unto it from some other place Attraction primarily proceeds from heat caused either by overmuch motion or from the heat of the Sun and Sun-beams from the fire or lastly from any sharp Medicine taken in For the parts so soon as they are heated by these causes draw unto themselves humors from the rest of the body although there be not therein any excessive store of humors and yet I deny not but that the more the body abounds with humors the greater is the store of them that is attracted Moreover Pain likewise frequently enough excites Tumors by attracting the humors unto the part aggrieved Yet we say not that pain of it self draws the humors but that this is done by some other means and commonly it is said to draw for these three causes First because Nature while she attempts to relieve the suffering part sends in an extraordinary supply of blood and spirits to the part in pain and this she doth with an endeavor more than usual so that by this means she over fills and hurts the parts she intended to succour Secondly the grieved part by this time grows hot from that abundance of blood and spirits transmitted thither by Nature and hereupon fals to drawing more than before by reason of this adventitious heat And lastly pain weakens the Members Now the Members once weakned if they attract not yet they readily receive and in the least resist not the matter flowing in upon them from several parts Secondly A Tumor is caused by a defluxion when as the humors are transmitted unto some part although they be not drawn by that part For whereas there is in every part a faculty not only of attracting al things familiar and agreeable unto it but also of expelling and casting out whatever is superfluous and burdensom hence it is that being stir'd up and provoked by the excess or offensive quality of the excrements and humors it expels and thrusts forth unto some other part whatever is useless or at least burdensom unto it Where if it be not digested or evacuated by transpiration it is thence

parts are as I may so say embrued with blood yet notwithstanding there is a certain order observed to wit that some of the parts should sooner receive the fluxion and others of them not til afterward until that at length all of them come to be replenished and distended by the humor Now this kind of order wholly depends upon the natural distribution of the greater Vessels conteining the blood For whereas the Veins and Arteries when they first of all make their entrance into the aforesaid Vessels are evermore the larger and by how much the deeper they are distributed thereinto so much the less they are all this while there ariseth no Inflammation unless it so chance that the blood be emptied forth into those smallest Veins and again happen to fall out of them And this that hath been said manifestly appears unto those that by an exact and accurate inspection take a right view of those very little and almost imperceptible Veins that are branched forth and extended unto that Tunicle of the Eye which Oculists usually call Adnate or Conjunctive For these indeed do evermore convey blood unto the Eye for its nourishment and yet notwithstanding whilest that the Eye is free from distemper they are so exceeding smal that they can hardly be discern'd by the sharpest sighted Eye But then so soon as the Eye is inflamed those slender Veins are preternaturally replenished with blood then they shew themselves and become very conspicuous And it is most agreeable to truth that thus it should be also in al other Inflammations whatsoever they be But as yet there is no Inflammation present albeit the lesser Veins are even filled up with blood until that at length by and thorow them the blood be derived into the remaining substance of the parts which may be done two waies For in the first place the blood is emptied forth by those very smal and most inconsiderable orifices of the Veins by which the Veins do as it were gape open themselves into the surrounding substance of the part that so thereby the blood may through them the more easily drop forth for nutrition or nourishment Moreover likewise it strains and sweats through by the Tunicles of the Veins for even the Tunicles of the Veins are in like manner so framed by nature that they are not without their pores through which if not the blood it self yet certainly the ferosity or wheyiness thereof and its thinner part is ex●udated or sweated forth by a kind of percolation From what hath been hitherunto spoken the distinction of the conjunct cause from the cause meerly antecedent in an Inflammation is sufficiently apparent For the blood which we have asserted to be the cause of a Phlegmone doth in a double respect take upon it self the virtue and Nature of a cause For either it is the next conteining and conjunct cause of which we have hitherto discoursed to wit as it hath already flown into the part and is irremovably impacted therein so far forth that it actually elevates that same part into a Tumor or else it is the antecedent foregoing cause to wit The antecedent cause of an Inflammation as by reason of its abounding in the body it hath a power of slowing into and by its influx of lifting up the part into a Tumor or Swelling The which antecedent Cause in an Inflammation like as also in other Tumors fals again under a twofold consideration to wit either in regard of the Affect simply considered as it is to follow upon this cause which it hath a power to excite although as yet it hath no being in the body And so a Plethory which is an extream and overgreat fulness of good and laudable blood is very frequently present in the body albeit an Inflammation doth not instantly ensue thereupon Or else secondly it is considerable as preceding and foregoing the affect that already hath a being and is already actually existent in the Body to wit when as the Blood now floweth to the exciting and augmenting of the Tumor Which to speak truth is more rightly stiled the antecedent cause then was the former since that this latter hath respect unto an effect already present but the former relates only unto an affect which hapneth in the future time But this antecedent cause that it may flow together unto the place affected it is thereunto moved and stirred up by other means whilst that it is either transmitted from some where else or else attracted by the part it self for those very causes we have hitherto been treating of and explaining But now for those Causes which we commonly term Procatartick The remote Causes more remote and primitive they are such as either conduce to the breeding of a copious and a plentiful blood as do al meats of good and much juyce an easie and idle kind of life and other such like requisites Or else they are such as render the blood more acrimonious and sharp as do all things that cause heat al acid and tart aliments wrath watchings stirrings and exercises in the extreme or else such as excite and stir up the blood to move unto the part affected as doth the overgreat heat of the part pain proceeding from a wound from a fall from contusion or beating from a fracture from disjoyntures and the like causes or else the weakness and imbecillity of the part affected receiving compared and considered in reference to the vigour and strength of those other parts which transmit the abundant store of hot blood unto the aggrieved part Notwithstanding an Inflammation never happeneth to be generated by a leisurely and gradual storing up of blood but it is evermore bred by a sudden and thronging affluence and influx of the said blood For although it may so chance that some kind of Humor may sensibly and by degrees be collected in some one part which being heaped up as aforesaid may afterward begin to excite a certain kind of pain in the part yet notwithstanding al this an Inflammation is never produced until such time as the pain gives cause sufficient that a more plenteous store of blood should forthwith and very easily make its approach Notwithstanding we are to take notice That although the Blood be the containing and antecedent Cause of an Inflammation yet notwithstanding we say that a Cacochymy or a depraved ill digestion and more especially sharp and cholerick humors are the prime and principal cause that the blood be moved unto the part affected in those Inflammations which are excited without any apparent cause as Wounds Contusions and such like For so it is That when Nature is twinged and pulled by such like Humors and yet notwithstanding is unable altogether to expel them out of the body to the end that she may free the principal parts from the danger impending by reason of them she assays to thrust them forth unto the external and less principal parts the which when it is not able to accomplish

a top is to be taken off with a speon and whatsoever sinke to the bottom throw it away Then afterwards Take of Earth worms washed in Wine or Water two sextaries let them be put for a while into the Bakers oven in an Earthen pot covered where as they must be baked so you must have a great care that they be not burnt and after this beat them into a pouder Take Of this Pouder the dryed brains of a Brawner Red Saunders that smells sweet Mummie and the Haematites or Blood stone as he calls it of each one ounce After this Take Vsnea or Moss from the skul of one that died a violent death let this Moss be cut off from the skul in the increase of the Moon and she being then in a good house as that of venus if it be possible but not of Mars or Saturn the weight of two filberds or thereabout And all of them being bruised together and well mingled with the fat let there be an unguent made according to art and then in a Glass vessel stopt or if you think good in a Box let it be carefully kept for use If after long time the unguent happen to be over dry it may be a new moystened and softened with the aforesaid fat or virgin hony Let the Vnguent be made the Sun being in the sign Libra The Vse of this Ungruent Now as touching the Efficacy and use of it he thus writeth This cure is performed by the Magnetick attractive virtue of this Medicament caused by the constellations which thorow the medium of the Air is brought unto the wound and Joyned therewith that so the spiritual operation may be drawn forth into effect It s wrought I say by means of the Astral and Elementary conjunction There are therefore three things that by this unguent cause so admirable an Effect 1. The Sympathy of Nature 2. The influence of the heavenly Bodies perfecting their operations by the Elements 3. The Balsam which being endued with a virtue of healing is naturally applyed unto any man without any difference With this unguent are cured all Wounds by what weapon soever they be inflicted and whatsoever the s●x he and yet so notwithstanding that neither the Nerves Arteries nor yet any one of the three more principal members be hurt so that the Weapon may but possibly be had although the patient be many miles distant from us And in regard that it is of a Couglutinating Suppurating and renewing Nature it doth not permit if it be rightly applyed any hurtful symptom to follow upon it The manner of applying the Unguent or Weapon salve First Let the Weapon wherewith the man is Wounded be anoynted every day once if necessity require it and the wound be great but otherwise it will be sufficient if the Weapon be anoynted every other or third day and then let it be kept in a Clean Linen Cloth and in a place a little warm but not over hot lest that any damage should thereby be brought upon the Patient We must likewise be very careful that the Weapon fall not down from on high neither that the wind blow upon it in a cold place for if this should happen the Patient wil run mad Secondly Before you anoynt the Weapon Consider whether the Wound were made with the point by pricking and if it were let the Weapon be first anoynted upwards and not below and so descending toward the point thereof for otherwise much hurt may be brought upon the Patient Thirdly But if thou canst not certainly know how deep or in what manner the Weapon entered into the flesh thou mayst then anoynt it all over but otherwise it will be sufficient to anoynt that part of the Weapon wherewith any one is hurt Fourthly There is no Necessity of sewing the wound together after the manner of Barber Surgeons but every day only to bind it up with a clean linen Cloth first wet in the Patients Vrine Fifthly That day that any one anoynts the Weapon let him abstain from Venery Sixthly Before the anoynting of the Weapon let the Wounded persons blood be with al speed stanched Seventhly In fractures and ruptures of bones you may add unto the unguent some of the powder of the greater comfry or the roots of black Hellebor Having the weapon wherewith the Patient was hurt if thou be desirous to know whether the Patient be likely to live or to die of his Wound thou art to make the trial in this manner Take the weapon and make it hot over the coals so hot that thou can hardly endure thy hand upon it and then sprinkle upon it some powder of Red Sanders and the blood stone and if the Weapon then sweat drops of blood the patient will die but if not he wil escape it But if we would know whether the Patient order himself aright in his drink and other Requisites this may thus be known if there be in the weapon spots of blood he is disordered but if no such spots then the Patient ordereth himself aright We are moreover to take notice first that if we have not the Weapon or instrument whatsoever it were yet nevertheless that any violent opening of the Skin and hurting of the flesh by which any Blood goeth forth may be Cured with this unguent so that a little piece of Sallow Wood be moystened in the bloody opening and after that the Blood sticking thereto be dryed not by the heat of the Sun or the fire but of it self and own accord it be then put into the above mentioned Vnguent kept close covered in the Box and there left Secondly If the Wound should be great and deep it may then be cleansed every morning and bound up with a new Linen Cloth without any other use of Extraneous Oyls Vnguents and the like and then this wound how ever it were inflicted will heal of it self and it sufficeth that the little piece of Wood once only moystened in the opening of the Bloody wound be then put into the Box of Vnguent as aforesaid and there left to remain until the Wound be perfectly Cured Thirdly But yet notwithstanding as oft as any new Wound is to be healed there is alwaies required a new piece of Wood. Fourthly But if it be so that the Wound wil not bleed it is then with the Wood so long to be scarified until the blood flow forth and so likewise in the curing of the Tooth-ach the pained Tooth is so long to be scraped with a Pen-knife until it bleed and then the Pen-knife after the blood is dryed up it to be anoynted with this Vnguent and so the pain is presently asswaged If a Horse be prickt with a Nail in his Foot let the Nail be first of all drawn forth and anoynted with this Vugment and the Horses Foot shall immediately be cured without any suppuration at all And so in this same manner all living Creatures having flesh and Bones may be Cured The description

unto that Woman out of whom they flowed Although they do not likewise here sufficiently and cleerly explain themselves For Crollius writeth that this Cure is performed by the Magnetick attractive virtue of the said Medicament caused by the Constellations which virtue say they by the Medium of the Air may be brought unto the Wound and conjoyned therewith and then immediatly he addeth that there are three things that by this Medicament Cause so admirable an effect 1. The Sympathy of Nature 2. The influence of the Celestial Bodies performing its operations by the Elements 3. The Balsam that being endued with a healing virtue is Naturally put upon any one whatsoever without any distinction of either Person or Sex Reasons against the defenders of the Weapon-salve But in very truth that we may briefly open unto you and shew you our Opinion touching this Unguent that which in the first place rendereth it very suspicious is this that they give us not one only way for the composition of this Unguent but very many and in some of them those things are omitted and wholly left out from which others derive al the virture of this Medicament as is apparent from the many descriptions above mentioned And so Wittichius leaveth out of the Composition the Vsnea or moss the Fat and Blood of man which yet nevertheless others make the very Basis and Foundation of all the virtue of this Medicament and it is with them the principal part thereof And yet nevertheless they will all of them promise you the very same effect and every of them extolleth his own as sit and proper for al Wounds whatsoever the Weapon be wherewith they are inflicted and whether they be by pricking or by Cutting or by any thing cast at the party or by a fal albeit that Goclenius indeed and Crollius do except those Wounds that are in the Nerves Arteries or any of the more principal Members as the Heart Brain c. What others object against the Composition of this Medicament to wit that the Authors of this Unguent require the Vsnea or Moss that is cut off from the Skul of a Man hanged as also joyning therewith Mummy Mans Blood a little warm and Mans fat and that in the Mans Blood and fat they think the marrow and pith of the whole business that is to say the whole virtue of this Unguent to consist wh●ch these Judg to be superstitious this Objection I no waies own neither will I defend it it being so well known that Mans fat and Skul Mummy and Vsnea are made use of by other Physitians without any superstition in the Curing of Diseases And yet notwithstanding of this I must here admonish you that seeing that Magitians and Wizards as will appear out of Apuleius upon the 2. and 3. B. of Ovids Metamorphosis and Nicolaus Remigius in his 1. B. of Daemonolatry and ●6 Chap. and 2. B. Ch. 1. and others also that have written of witches and Sorcerers seeing I say that these are wont in their sorcery to use mans Blood and Flesh and other parts of Mans Body every one ought to be careful who will make use of such Medicaments that he do not superstitiously use the said Medicament for the procuring of a Natural effect and so thereby gratifie the Devil who is the enemy of Mans both Soul and Body and so unawares do him Service which may be done if he use such Medicaments for those effects that are not in the Natural power of those things and therfore if those effects shal follow they are to be imputed and ascribed unto the Devil by such like superstitious practises laying snares for mankinde rather then unto the thing it self As touching the effect of this Medicament that it doth not evermore answer the desire and expectation we are shewn by Guilbel Gabricius in his third Cent. and 25. Observation And be it so that as many great and eminent persons have testified divers who have made use hereof have recovered yet nevertheless these can attest no more but this that the person was wounded that unto him there was administred this kind of Cure by the Weapon-Salve and that this person recovered but that he recovered by the virtue of this Medicament this they cannot testifie For there may be oftentimes many things conjoyned with some effect that are not the Cause thereof And therefore as it doth not follow that such a person walking it Lightened therefore his walking was the cause of the Lightening so no more will it follow this wounded person was healed and he applied the Weapon-Salve therefore the Weapon-Salve was the cause of the cure unless it be demonstrated that from the said Unguent this effect necessarily followed And in nothing indeed is the fallacy of the cause more frequent then in Physick where oftentimes the healing of some Disease is attributed unto this or that Medicament whereas the truth is it proceeded not from the said Medicament but either from Nature her self or else from such other Medicaments as were administred before together with or after the said Medicament whereunto the Cure is ascribed And a very great difference there is between Physick and other Arts. For in other Arts the effect being upon somthing that is solid dependeth wholly upon the Artificer and if there be any thing well or ill done by him all this is to be imputed and ascribed unto the Artist unless it so fal out as happily it may and often doth that by reason of the unfitness of the subject matter for as we use to say a Mercury or Statue is not made of every piece of Wood or else by reason of some fault in the Instrument somwhat may happen to be done amiss since that as we told you before in the first B. of our Institutions and 1. Chap. the subjects of other Arts do nothing at all but only obey the will of the workman whereas in Physick the subject matter thereof hath a certain innate power by which being assisted by the Physitian for the most part of its own accord it tendeth unto health from whence it is that by Hippocrates 6. Epid. Comm. 5. Text 1. they are said to be the Curers of the Diseases of Nature So that the whol business in short comes to this that the State of the Controversie here is not whether in a person wounded and recovered again the Cure were done by the Weapon-Salve but this whether or no the Weapon-Salve were the Cause of the healing of the Wound touching which we are now to make a little further enquiry Now it being so that Nature as we shewed you above is the Cause of the Wounds Conglutination but without the virtue of any Medicament under what Notion or Consideration soever and that oftentimes likewise even by Lard or some other thing of no great moment laid on many Wounds without the help of any other Medicaments or any assistance from the Physitian have been Cured therefore in the Cure likewise that is by