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A57952	A physical treatise grounded, not upon tradition, nor phancy, but experience, consisting of three parts. The first, a manuduction, discovering the true foundation of the art of medicine. Second, an explanation of the general natures of diseases. Third, a proof of the former positions by practice. By William Russell, chymist in ordinary to His Majesty.	Russell, William, 1634-1696?	1684 (1684)	Wing R2357; ESTC R218554	58,632	208

Digestion submitteth to it as an admitted Guest and ceasing to strive against it sends Superfluities as Nourishment thereunto This is apparent in every true Gout Before the Paroxysm begins Loathing at the Stomach and a restless Disposition is perceived for a Day or two and the Pain never approacheth till the Burthen be thence removed thô indeed the Torture which happens afterward doth many times cause as it were a Loathing Yet that is rather the Effect of Anguish than of Matter For whereas at the first these Universal Remedies work upon the Matter by Vomits Sweats Stools or Urine and when the Pains exist in the Joynts have no action at all yet when the Dolours are removed then they operate the same way again And this is a sufficient proof of the possibility of keeping even Hereditary Diseases from growing or increasing to any great height by General Medicines if seasonably applyed These General Dispositions of Medicines here treated of are singularly useful to keep Physicians from Error because Medicines of an Universal Tendency do manifest the Distempers of particular Parts and as with the Finger point at the Seats of Diseases beyond the Imagination of Any that have not proved them for they most sensibly act on the diseased Part. And where such Medicines are first administred there particular Remedies that are specifick to Parts have afterwards the greater efficacy because Nature being assisted in General doth readily dispose of the Particular according to its Gift also For althô they cannot cure every Disease yet their clearing the first Digestion by strengthening and removing the Evil thereof cause the particular Medicine to act without any stop upon the affected part And by this method it is that Distempers accounted uncurable have often been cured But the great Occasions of Errors committed in the Medicinal Faculty are 1. Ignorance of Nature what she is able to do 2. Want of Knowledg of the possibility of Remedies to be so universal in their nature as to do or leave undone as it most conduceth to Nature's help 3. The grand mistake of Practitioners touching the Causes of Diseases judging all Distempers to have their Original from Humorous filths and in the mean while never thinking of Venoms arising through Ferments much less of the Spirit that makes the Assault For althô they hourly see the Effects of Anger Sorrow Envy Fear c. yet when they apply Remedies the first obvious Cause that turns the whole frame of Man is not consider'd by them and only what they produce is the Subject against which their Medicines are directed As for Example When Rage kindleth Choler they seek to allay Choler that is only the product of Rage Choler maketh not Men angry but Anger conceived maketh that sensible For Nothing liveth but hath enough of that Juice so called to be in Rage sufficiently yet unless the Spirit be defiled by a wrathful Image there is no sense of it apparent So also when our thoughts are greatly exercised with a strong desire to attain what is unknown the Constringing Fiat presently ferments the Chyle with so great a sharpness through the Contraction of the Spirit in that Exercise that it is manifest in the Gust or sensible Tast and is in Nature the Cause of what is called Melancholy but if persevered in so long till Separation happen without great helps a certain distraction is produced or some violence that is worse Envy and Malice have not much different Effects for the former cause when they are conjoyned with a strong desire except that Madness hence does more rarely happen yet in that Cold dark harsh fire they impregnate the Chyle and induce great Leaness on the Body harshness and darkness in the Skin and Hair and are not curable any more than the other by any Means applied to the Humour For althô that be altered by the force of Physick to day and wholly separated yet if the Spirit strenuously persist in the same Design the Disease in the twinkling of an Eye is generated again because what is once done may be done a second time and needs not any intervening Agent Althô 't is true that Matter once generated augments the Evil and increaseth the Darkness so largely that the Spirit is thereby more materiated more exasperated and in greater Anguish Fear stagnizes the Blood brings Coldness Sighing intermittent Pulses Convulsions and if strongly persisted in sudden Death or great Stupidity Now it is true that in case the occasion of Fear be removed it is no hard matter to conquer the Effects And so it is consequently true in other Idea's but if continued in thô but in a mere dejection or sinking of the Life they are rendred more difficult to cure than the more evil and active Passions Sorrow is accompanied with debility of Faculties a pining away of the Body and a wasting of the Spirits and is a Causer of Pains in peculiar Vessels through the alteration of Chyle the Parent of manifold Evils yet if once overcome the Effects are not long in expelling thô they have altered almost all the Constitution Now in as much as 't is evident that Disturbance of the Spirit is the Generator of defects in the Body can it be thought that real Venomes whether Epidemical Endemical or Artificial shall less distast then the aforementioned Conceptions since they absolutely assault the Spirit and endeavour the Extirpation of Vital Light the former arise as well from feigned as real Objects the later only from real active and after a sort living Essences therefore in reason more perceptible and causes of greater Wrath Fear Stupor Sorrow or irregular Action in our Nature unless we think every thing is agitated by Necessity as Sparks fly upward and that there is no living Understanding and Election in Us. But if we bring these things to a sensible Test it cannot be denyed but that we feel the force of Anger Fear c. in our Bodies which if the Spirit in Us were not the Ruler could never be so Yet to come nearer to our Selves Do not trivial Errors even of Meats and Drinks Heats and Colds primarily affect the Spirit Who is there whom fulness of Meats and Drinks doth not affect with Dulness and Heaviness Do not Heats when overmuch cause Faintings and Languishments and doth not the Supplement of Cordials actual or potential supply that defect Likewise is it not apparent that Cold when offensive stagnizeth the Bloud giveth Cause for dolour in the external Parts to Imposthumous Humors or stirs up Disorders internally through the let of vital Separations and is usually the Begetter if the Spirit be not helped to perform its natural Separations of Vomitings Fluxes Feavers Coughs and what not through the obstructing of the vital Spirit Yet however this can be no more than the Occasional Cause the Efficient must be the Spirit erring in its own Acts that must constitute this formal part of distemperature and bring it to a Disease And doth any thing sooner restore Nature

Actions unto which she had no tendency and by taking her off from her own work to take part with the Disease The same Hippocrates long since declared that the Man who in all his Life brought forth nothing which was of Service or Benefit to his Neighbour deserved no remembrance among Men. Therefore if I have herein aimed according to my narrow Talent to be serviceable to Mankind I am thereby but a Disciple to that great Master yet if what is contained in this Treatise be of any advantage to Others the thanks thereof is not so much due to me as to my Opposers whose Provocations have excited me to this Vindication of my Proceedings like the Philosopher's contranatural Fire which in destroying the outward Form excites the inward Spirits to unite and concenter for their own Preservation to the begetting or bringing forth of some new Substance of another Species Charge not on me the Scribe's or Printer's faults Who see with Others Eyes but they whose Thoughts Vulgar Opinion governs are worse blind In me the Organ's dark in them the Mind The First Part. A Manuduction DISCOVERING The True Foundation of the Art of Medicine THE Practice of Physick being various and in the Judgment of most very uncertain because the Galenists have one Theory and Chymists another I cannot perceive any thing herein more serviceable to the Publick than to distinguish their Foundations and what use I have made of them The Galenists have 4 Humors 4 Complexions and 4 Qualities to raise their Structure on And when either of these exceed their due Temperament they judg a Disease present and to that apply their Remedies never so much as thinking of a Mover or first Cause of these Disorders The Chymists according to Paracelsus and Helmont establish their Theory on the first disturbance given to Nature in her own Inns and Acts not so much respecting Effects as Causes nor the Matter disturbing as the Spirit disturbed and to this they apply their Remedies This later Foundation with me under great trouble of Spirit at last overcame all doubtings and I readily adhered to these sublime Conceptions having for their Basis such perspicuity as the Light of Nature did really demonstrate and Hippocrates their allowed Patron doth attest saying Nature is the Physician and Curer of Diseases Yet upon Examination of their Remedies against this Spiritual assault or first being of Diseases I perceived they depended not upon any particular known Medicines but on universal Dispositions drawn from Metals Minerals Salts Animals or Vegetables Hence I began to despair of arriving at any certainty to attain Remedies so gifted as to be capable to reduce Nature to her Primitive Unity with and in the Faculties of the Body For I well knew that all the known Remedies of these Times were not the Medicines of our Famous Progenitors nor capable to answer to those Ends being the Products and Off-springs either of unfound Hearts or ignorant Heads too much devoted to Gain and Applause who having forsook the Substance embraced the Shadow and gave Names to Remedies as Paracelsick which have as much difference from his in Disposition as Light has from Darkness All their Medicines were either endued with particular Faculties and hostile Dispositions as Purging and Vomiting the Sound as well as the Sick or else curtailed by Fire and fiery Spirits and so rendred Diaphoretical under all which Considerations they became wholly unfit to answer that great End of Nature Curation I did not think those supream and general gifts were wanting in Nature but because I knew not the Artifice by which they might be attain'd they were to me as things of no value or concern having therefore suspended my thoughts till I better understood them I greatly bent my Mind to Animals Salts and Vegetables and from them endeavoured as far as in me lay to separate their Terrestreity and by Mistion their Specificality and having spiritualized them I found they were not unfit to be administred in any Case so far as communication of Strength was needful And so great a Blessing attended for some space of time that they seemed to answer the utmost desires of Nature Yet my Mind being not idle I allways feared that this Success might arise from the smallness of the Malignity or the happy Genius that prompted me to these Endeavours Nor was it long before my suspitions proved truths For when I found some Persons not cured thô the Principal Parts were not perished and that continual strife stirred up by Nature ended in her own Conquest I positively concluded that those Medicines that were fit to stir up Action if not also endued with a Vitality to keep Nature in Union with and in her own Organs to act unto the time of Death without loss of sensibility were far short of what a true Physician should endeavour to compass Now was I again bewildred my Grief renewed my Ignorance seemed greater then at first and my Labours I undervalued as things of no Moment Books could not help and Counsel at that time among Men was not to be hoped for Therefore I accused my self as rash in attempting that which seemed impossible to be attained and even despaired thereof But considering in my self that these my endeavours had not their Original in me by Education nor by any Consideration of Profit or Honour that might accrew from the pursuit of the same but from a natural Propensity strongly overweighing my other Inclinations which at that time to my outward Man were pleasing enough and not without great strife fully subdued I resigned my self to the good Pleasure of the Highest and endeavoured Stilness more then Understanding Indeed I plainly viewed all things but would not discuss them so far as to raise any Foundation therefrom or to bring thoughtfulness in my Self For I perceived a Disquisition of ought that stood not in Unity with all things would be particular uncertain and dangerous yea utterly unfit to answer the ends of Nature because I found it wanting to the attainment of true Healing and in this way of simplicity I was found of What I knew not how to search for Nature in stilness brought forth that which Reason without Light could never have acquired even under its most acute Scrutiny For it not being sensible there was no ground for Reasoning In this opening I saw that every Universal Remedy had its Root in the first or second Life of Minerals and Metals the last Life of them being either over-compact or venomous This Aspect was grateful to me and gave me strong hope that Time and Stilness might produce more Evidence Nor was I deceived for the way of destroying the last Life of some Subjects endued with an Universal Tendency was in the Properties of Nature made manifest to me Then did I see as in a Glass the wonderful Gifts implanted in Metals Minerals c. by the Pleasure of the Most High as a Relief to Mortals in this latter Age of the World wherein Diseases are

application of suitable Remedies adding Light to her to act by and Power to overcome the present Stagnization For in so doing the Scene is altered and Nature rendred capable with ease to remove That which before could not be removed without too great Molestation For the Wisest of Men upon the first Appearance of a Tumor cannot by any known Rule judge of Nature's Capacity or Propensity to determinate the Evil or whether it be more profitable to resolve or suppurate the same As is apparent in some Tumors where by attempting Resolution the subtillest or thinnest Parts being separated the Remainder is so indurated as not to be resolved or suppurated and so it becomes the same that Chyrurgeons call a Schirrus But in suppurating Tumors great Pains Anguish and different Symptomes in differing forms of Heats Colds c. often happen through the Distress Nature falls under by reason of the Largeness of the Tumor and the difficulty to bring such Evils to perfect Suppuration and at last unless they open themselves and be judiciously handled they are often changed from one thing into another For 't is evident that the Opening of some Tumors by Incision and keeping them open by cramming in of Tents a Practice too often used doth either change the nature of the Tumor or at least prolong the Cure Whereas in either Case viz. in Resolution or Suppuration if Nature be well minded no such Symptomes or Accidents happen Now if such Errors be committed as is daily obvious they are in External Imposthumes how much more in the Internal I mean not those that are internally caused by Contusion or other Acts of Violence because of them I have elsewhere spoken which are never seen or known but by their Effects thô in truth every Internal Imposthumation hath the same occasional Cause as the External have For they being also caused by the Relicts of Nourishment not separated fall under the Laws of a disturbed or sensible Spirit which makes so great Variety in them not sensibly to be discerned by the Physician that he must of necessity either refer himself to the help of such virtual Remedies as are capable to take off the Disturbance and fortifie the sensible Power of right Distinction in Nature or he can never arrive to so much Satisfaction in himself as Scientifically to declare how or which way the Disease is or may be cured This is by reason of the great Uncertainty of the Inclination of Nature in these Cases for sometimes shee seeks to resolve or maturate the Relict in the Place where it is which is a true natural Way at another time invirons the same with a Cistis in order to Suppuration and at another Season and in another Place sends forth Bloud out of the Veins intending thereby to separate that Retent without Digestion by the common Passages which if stopped or letted by the way quickly tends to Pus and then if in that form it be separated the Irruption is so violent that it sometimes proves mortal as is too frequently apparent by those Cataracts of Bloud and Matter that in such Cases issue out by the Nosethrils by the Vreters by Vomiting by Stools and by the Womb. Here Nature her self erroneously acts like those Physicians who inconsiderately attempt to purge out Retents before they are digested contrary to the Mind of Hippocrat●s and the known Rule of Paracelsus who saith Every Disease to which I add every Diseasy-Inclination ought to be cured in its own place For 't is evident that some Imposthumes are not wholly Sanguineous and the Retents being rarely such because the Veins as they have their own Valves so they have their peculiar Passages to evacuate Superfluities by the Bloud that attends them is rather in order to Resolution than Putrefaction provided Nature be in her own Path but if diverted therefrom either through the want of Light in her self to act by or the Physician 's Error in mis-application of Remedies those sad Effects above spoken of do inevitably follow For every Retent which Nature can neither resolve nor digest being forsaken naturally corrupts by the Heat and Moisture of the Place and so maketh a real Imposthume but Experience proves that those Actions of Corrupting may be prevented by a timely application of suitable Remedies as is apparent by the following Example Where Relicts of preceeding Feavers are there Nature sends Bloud to be materiated to maturate by putrefaction the offending Evil in order to its Expulsion but if prevented by due Medicines and Transpiration happens then no Putrefaction follows For where proper Means are used Bloud extra Vasa is not corrupted but kept from putrefying or otherwise resolved without Pus I my self having often seen Bloud after long extravasation coughed up dry and hard without the least Sign of Putrefaction Likewise every Vessel of what kind soever being over-filled and Nature not capable to separate the same by the Common Passages that Fullness by her forsaken becomes the Matter of Imposthumes Or if any Matter be stagnized that also is liable to the same Transchangement and produceth Effects as bad or worse than the former as is sufficiently witnessed by the Dry Belly-Ache in the West-Indies and by some of our Country-Men afflicted with the Scurvey in whom the Knots in their Nerves give a palpable Testimony not only of Siagnization but also of preternatural Congelation not much unlike to our knotty Gouis or Tophuses in the Lues which happen upon the Bones where for want of Internal Attraction of the Parts or External Separation from them the nutritive Juice of the Parts is indurated and thereby becomes the Matter it afterwards shews it self to be For when a floating Evil or Diseasy Spirit undetermin'd assaults the Life then Nature sends forth Bloud out of the Veins to encompass that Spiritual Evil to materiate the same and so makes Fiery Phlegmones and Diseases of like kind which are true real and natural Imposthumes proper Issues of her own Intentions Of Fiery Phlegmones in general and their Cure I forbear to write particular Examples of these Diseases because they are so numerous so frequently cured by my Method and so certainly known to the Patients themselves But in general the Tumors are large the Blood at first appearance uncorrupted yet it is not long before great Pains the Forerunners of Putrefaction discover themselves And thô at the first manifestation of these Tumors when only a weight and burthen upon the life is perceived letting Blood doth somewhat diminish the Tumor and prevent Pain yet if it have a diseasy Character that doth not hinder the foregoing determination of Nature towards separation but allaying part of her fury doth I acknowledge render the Suppurative Power less burthensome But if Quitter be begun to be made then Nature by Phlebotomy is hindred of her own Determination and being thereby weakened languisheth and labours to little purpose making those Distempers tedious in suppurating whereas had not that supposed Expedient been used

of an aged Lady cured of the Apoplexy 116 Lues and Scurvey the two general Evils 66 Lues materially contracted swiftly infects why 58 M. MAgnetic Attractives fruitless when 79 Medicines Natural work not by their own Power but by Nature's dispose 17 The Means to obtain such 40 Particular act rather against than with Nature in complicated Diseases why 27 General how they act in the humane Body their Safety and Properties 12 13 14. 18 19 Of Paracelsus and Helmont why of little Service to Us 41 Marcellus his Speech to the Engineers of his Camp 49 Man hath capacity of knowing Things in their Roots 47 Men void of much Discourse c. utter wonderful Things ibid. Method of the Ancients uncertain 43 Metals and Minerals their outward Life Poyson 11. 16 Their Virtues more concentrate than those of Vegetables 9 Not specificate to Person or Disease ibid. Their Gifts from GOD the Light or Ray of them true Medicine not changed in the Body but bring less Trouble than a spoonful of Wine their Virtues condemned why 10 Their Air and its Properties 11 Their Operation against acute Diseases 12 13 Their middle Life Medicine Antidote against Poyson c. 16 17 Miscarriages 147 Mola and its Cure 159 160 N. NAture Guide of the Vniverse 51 Physicianess and Curer of Diseases 2. 18. The only Actor and Curer of her Self 38 To be observed by Physicians 40 Naturally excites Man to his Cure 46 Brings forth both Medicine and the Physician 51 How restored to her wonted Actions 37 Her Incapacity to strive when 64 Negroes in Accounting excell 48 O. OCcasions of Errors committed in the Medicinal Faculty 32 Opinion that Physick is not fit for Children refuted 60 P. PAlsies fourfold their Cure by four Examples 102 103 104 Patients afflicted with the Plague and Remarks upon their Carelessness 81 In whom the Tokens appeared their State described 64 Paracelsus his Endowments 45 46 Pestilence how caused 63 Plague the last described different manner of Assaults therein and the Author's Method of Cure thereof 76 77 c. Antipestilentials of Ancient and Modern Physicians ineffectual 73 34 Persons Sick cured by their own natural Impulse 46 Phlegmones firey in general and their Cure 127 128 Physicians ought to be chary what they administer 38 Practice of Physic various 1 2 Things necessary to that Science 50 Practicioners their grand Mistake proved by Example 32 33 Q. QUartanes 144 Rage its Effects 65 Remedies general how serviceable Their difficulty to be obtained 14 15 Their dark part what their Properties Essential to true Healing 18 19. 22 Their general Dispositions keep Physicians from Errour 31 Remedies Particular when useful 21. 31 S. SCurveys whence they arise and their Effects 67 Of them in general 89 Their Cure by Ensamples 93 Seeds admit not of ought but Ideas 57 Spirit of Life or Archeus the Ruler why 36 How primarily affected ibid. Erring becomes the Efficient Cause of Diseases 37 Specificks not altogether useless 22 How made more general 23 Sorrow its Effects 35 Stupor its Effects 63 Surfeits their Foundation and Effects 61 62 T. TInctures open their singular use 73 Transpiration insensible how excited and the benefit thereof 20 The Medium thereof unknown 21 V. VEgetables not so serviceable as Minerals why 8 9 Venomes 68 Vertues of St. John's-wort and the Ash-Tree 176 Of Natural Subjects not conferred but only discovered by Art 10 Ulcer in the Womb and its Cure 157 Urine vented through the Fleshy Parts about the Kidneys 20 Use and Dose of the Author's Pouder 162. 169 Use and Dose of the Author's Scorbutic-Tincture 170 W. VVOmb tumifyed and its Cure 158 World waxeth old 8 FINIS