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A47931	A discourse on the principles of chiromancy by monsieur de la Chambre, counsellor to the king of France in his counsels, and his physitian in ordinary ; Englished by a person of quality.	La Chambre, Marin Cureau de, 1594-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing L131A; ESTC R43338	30,491	99

fever and impostume which was formed in her bowels brought her to her death Whence we may conjecture that a portion of that humour which was in the Spleen discharged it self on the finger as on a part which had connexion and consent with it and that this little discharge afforded her some ease but because all the cause of the ill could not be contained in so small a room the rest of it caused the imposthumation whereof she died yet to speak freely these are but conjectures which we bring in parallel with the foregoing observations which seem demonstrations of the Truth which we seek Article XIV ANd it were to be wished that we had the like to shew distinctly the rest of those sympathies which the other interiour parts have with other parts of the Hand But from the negligence men have had to finde them we are obliged still to speak truth that since those of the Heart and Liver are not to be doubted the rest must needs be so although they appear not so manifestly unto us and that not onely the Brain and other parts which have a publick and principal function as well as the Heart and Liver but also the Spleen the Stomach the Lungs the Kidneys and perhaps others also have every one in the Hand their proper and affected place with which they have consent and communication Article XV. SO that we may affirm and for a proof of this secret intelligence which the parts have one with another and for the honour of that whereof we discourse that the Hand and the Face contain an abridgement of all the parts of the Body for this is an Epitomy of all the outward Members having no part which hath not its particular and manifest relation with some one of them as that also hath of all the interior parts having no place which hath not its colligation and sympathy with some one of them And without doubt it s one of the principal reasons for which they have both had a constitution of hides altogether particular and that the skin which is every-where else separate from the Muscles is so united to that that its impossible to be separated Nature which hath destined those parts to be as it were Looking-glasses wherein all the rest ought to be represented would in them have the flesh joyn to the hide that the impression which it receives of the neves veins and arteries which are shed abroad in them might the more easily communicate it self and appear the more readily outwards That which is also to be found in the Soles of the Feet which in some manner participate the same advantages which the hands have whereon Podomancy hath been established which promiseth the same things that Chiromancy doth but with less success for those reasons which we shall deduce Howsoever it be it s an admirable thing and in my opinion not enough considered that there is none of the marks on the Face which we commonly call Moles but another is to be found in some part of the Body certain and determined which particularly answers thereunto for if any be on the forehead there will be another on the brest and according as that is in the middle high or low on this or that side this will have the same difference in its situation for one on the cheeks you shall have another on the thighs if on the brows another will be on the shoulders if on the ears another on the arms and so for the rest Now we cannot say that this correspondence is simply in those marks since all of them are formed of the same matter and that consequently they cannot have more relation one with another but they must be in the very same parts and that the society which they have together must be the cause that the one cannot be marked but its correspondent must at the same time suffer the same impression we see likewise that besides the secret consent which they may have together a sensible and manifest relation in the situation and in the structure which they have for the breast which is that part of the body which is below the head the most flat bony answers directly to the fore-head which hath the same qualities the thighs which are on the sides and are very fleshy relate to the cheeks which are even so the brows to the shoulders by reason of the eminency which both of them have the ears to the arms being both advanced and as it were without the work and so of the rest Yet all this signifies not that this resemblance is the true Source of this sympathy it s neither just nor exact enough to produce such like effects and its necessary there should be some secret bond which binds these parts one with another and which must be the principal cause of this wonderful har mony which is amongst them whereof these natural Characters are unreproachable witnesses Article XVI BUt it is not onely betwixt the exterior and manifest parts that this society is to be found there is yet another which is more general which was known by Hippocrates and serves for the ground-work of that ingenious division of the veins which he hath made in his Book of Bones for that admirable person having considered the several transports of humors and change of diseases which so often happens of some certain parts to others hath observed those veins whereby it might be effected and which were to be opened for their cure and to observe a method which might avoid confusion he established several Heads and as it were divers Articles in which he began the distribution of those vessels for he placed the first at the Heart the second at the Reins the third at the Liver the fourth at the eyes the fifth at the Head whence he makes four pair of veins to issue which afterwards spread themselves into several places Article XVII NOt that he did beleeve that those were the first Sources whence the veins draw their origine as Aristotle Galen and almost all their Sectators have imposed it on him since he knew that they were all rooted in the Liver whence they distribute themselves to all the parts of the body to convey nourishment unto them as in pursuit he makes it appear in the distribution which he makes of the Hepatick vein what he hath also reported in his second Book of Popular Diseases but it was to remark the consent which there was betwixt those five parts with the rest and those sicknesses and symptomes which they mutually communicated to one another So when he says that the left eye receives a vein from the right eye and this one from the left this must not be litterally taken as if they truly took their origine from those parts but it s to shew that the diseases of one eye are communicable to the other as if they had veins which carried them directly thither It s truely by the means of veins that this communication

to the hands and feet in respect of the other parts but if we add hereunto the advantage which the higher situation hath above the lower the excellency of the parts there placed and those particular cares which Nature takes of them as we have shown it will make it apparent that in this distribution of spirits and of vertue the hands have had the greater share and consequently that they have more communication with the noble parts then the feet or any other member whatsoever Article VIII BUt besides this communication which they have with them by means of the veins arteries and nerves there are others more secret which have more obscure wayes and passages and yet more clearly discover the truth which we seek for if it be true that the lines in the hand observe the length and the shortness of life according as they are long and short as Aristotle and experience teach us There must not onely be a greater relation and a stronger tye of the principles of life with it then there is with all the rest of the parts where these marks are not to be found but it s also necessary that the noble parts which are the Sources wherein these principles of life are shut up should communicate unto it some secret influence which can have no relation to those common and manifest vertues which it receives from them since the blood nor the spirits the heat nor motion which they distribute unto it serves not at all to render those lines long or short or to mark the length or shortness of life Article IX THat secret Sympathy which is betwixt the hand and the noble parts being then presupposed until we can more fully prove it by more just and particular observations we must establish it for a certain principle that Nature never confounds the vertues principally those which are formal and specifick which have never so little opposition amongst themselves and that she ever as much as she can separates them for without producing the maximes of Astrology which hath divided Heaven into so many Planets and Stars into so many Signs and Houses different in vertue there is no order of things in the Universe wherein this truth is not acknowledged Amongst perfect Animals the qualities which are necessary to generation have been divided into two Sexes in every of them the faculties which govern life have every one their particular seat and all the Sences have their proper Organs and their functions separated Examine Plants Minerals and Stones and you shall finde the same distinction and without troubling our selves to sever them as we might It will be sufficient to observe in the Load-stone where it is so sensible that without blindness of stupidity we need not doubt of it for in a Homogene body whose composition is every way equal and wherein it seems that all the parts ought to have the same power yet it s certain that there are some which have been partakers of magnetick qualities and that there are two Poles where they have been separately placed and if what hath been lately pretended to have been observed is true that there is a first Meridian in this stone all the rest must be so too and consequently they must every one have a different inclination So true it is that Nature loves to separate Vertues as it is that she hates Confusion and Mixture In effect did she not exactly observe this order things would often be done contrary to design one quality would destroy another and effects would not answer their causes nor the end they are destined unto Article X. IF this be so and if there are particular Vertues which the noble parts communicate to the Hand they must not confound themselves together they must not be placed in the same part and therefore there must be a place destined for that of the Liver another for that of the Heart and so for all the rest But the greatest difficulty is in what parts and particular places these influences are received for although Chiromancy assures us that the fore-finger hath a sympathy with the Liver the second with the Spleen the third with the heart c. Yet it produceth no convincing proof of this truth and what experiences so ever it produceth to maintain it they still leave those in doubt who will not be satisfied with their reasons and they seem often to be fancies and grocesios in the Minde forged only by humane curiosity and of a truth who ever could well have established this sympathy by other observations then those which are fetched from the stock of Chiromancy and had Medicine or some other part of Physick furnished them he might have boasted to have discovered the Mistery of this Science and to have found the onely foundation whereon the truth of all the rest was grounded for my part I pretend not to produce all those which are necessary to make a full proof thereof yet I beleeve I have some which may commence it and which having demonstrated one part will leave an invincible presumption for all the rest with hopes that a man might after a diligent observation of what happens to that admirable Organ perfect the same Article XI THe first which we therefore ought to propose is to shew the consent and sympathy which the Liver hath with the fore-finger called the Index and this is drawn from Physick which teacheth us that Leprosie hath its Source and principal Seat in the Liver and that one of the first signes whereby it is first made known appears on that finger for when all the Muscles of the hand and even all the body are sull and juycy those which serve for the motion of that finger are dried and withered principally that which is in the Thenar that is to say in the space which is betwixt that finger and the thumb wherein all what is fleshy wasts it self and nothing remains but the skin and fibres which lie flatted to the bones Now this cannot thus happen but that there must be some Analogy and some secret commerce betwixt the Liver and that part since it is one of the first which resents the alteration which is made in its substance it being truly said that there is no disease which so much corrups the nature of the Liver and destroys not onely its vertue but even its substance as this which for that cause is called the universal Cancer of the Liver and of all the mass of blood Galen was without doubt ignorant of this sympathy which ratiocination alone could never have discovered whereas to have been instructed therein it must have been revealed to him in a dream for he reports that having been assaulted by a violent grief which caused him to fear an impostune in the Liver he was in his sleep advised to cause that Artery to be opened which runs all along that finger and that this remedy in an instant appeased the grief which he had resented for a long time before which