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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50436	Inquiries into the general catalogue of diseases shewing the errrors and contradictions of that establishment with a new scheme representing more truly, and essentially, the various diseased state of humane nature / by E.M. Med D.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1691 (1691)	Wing M1496; ESTC R5399	10,560	8

and subdue Diseases if they stand not right in the general Catalogue there to be found and truly distinguished inquiries after them and means intended against them will be disappointed Setting forth Diseases in their due Classes is the Basis of Practice if the first general divisions be false the subdivisions contained under them must needs be wrong and such Errors runs through and perverts the whole Practice of this Art as will appear when we examine the Diseases of the several Regions of the Body and in them the Diseases of particular Parts Nor is it barely an Error of denomination but a fundamental Error making that a Disease which is not and the whole Prosecution Erroneous Morbus Similaris there is no such thing in Nature nor praeter naturam This first division therefore of the General Catalogue containing Similar Difeases I must strike quite out as not being capable to stand amongst the number of Diseases being not of that Tribe but appertaining elsewhere and otherwise denominated more truly and thus one third of Diseases have injuriously been added But to sentence the Judgments and Approbations of former Ages and the concurrence of the Learned of this present time without sufficient Reasons and good Proof would incur a censure Res praeter naturam sunt tres Morbus morbi causa Symptoma There are three things preternatural most considerable and rightly to be distinguished else great Errors in Practice will arise from thence viz. The Morbific Cause the Disease and the Symptom The Morbific Cause generates a Disease the Disease beg ets Symptoms All Preternaturals are comprised under these three Heads or reduceable thereto Then Qualities Preternatural must fall into one of these Classes but to which of them they belong to is the question in hand If Qualities preternatural do affurge from Morbific Causes and Diseases as the Effects thereof then Qualities cannot be Diseases But Qualities preternatural are so produced ergo the Major Proposition needs no Proof the Minor appears plainly thus Qualities being Accidents have no existence of themselves separately but are dependant upon Substantial Causes both in their Natural and Preternatural State So that Qualities act not but by the vertue and power of their Substances on which they depend and issue from Therefore when they are unduely exalted preternaturally they are instrumental subsequent and attendant upon Diseases and Morbific Causes as the product thereof Secondly That which is but a Symptom of a Disease is no Disease But Qualities preternatural are Symptoms Ergo the Minor Proposition I prove from the definition of a Symptom Symptoma est Accidens praeternaturam Morbum sequens velut umbra Corpus In this definition are qualities preternatural comprised Cui convenit definitio ei convenit definitum as properly belonging to the Tribe of Symptoms and that they are so I shall single out one of your Principal Similar Diseases Intemperies calida a hot Distemper and shew you that this Quality in excess is plainly a Symptom assurging from and depending upon a Substantial cause Natural Heat is a signal of humane Life and quite cold is one sign of a dead Body So that Heat appears and disappears as the Life is present or absent and shewing the State thereof If that be temperate the vital Principle which is the Life is placid and quiet but when intemperate Heat appears the vital governing Principle is disturb'd in its oeconomy aestuates and grows hot as offended by some Morbous cause So that Heat riseth and falls with the state and condition of the vital Principle and is a Symptom and effect thereof signally declaring Intemperies calida this hot Intemperature is not cannot be called a Disease but is the Symptom dependant upon and the Effect of a Disease or Morbific Cause irritating the vital Principle which is the Fountain of Heat for so soon as the life is extinct the Heat vanisheth totally 'T is daily obvious to those who are conversant with the Sick that most Diseases have Preternatural Heat attending them and this as a Symptom giving notice that the Governour Spiritus impetum faciens and the oeconomy or government is disordered and disturbed by some Morbous cause requiring the Physicians help which heat not to be regarded otherwise than as signal but the Morbific cause to be inquired after and the Disease planted thereby and to them Medicines must level at So that Heat and Cold Moist and Dry these Symptomatical Qualities are cured of course when the Diseases are cured on which they depend But if you begin with curing these qualities abstractly from their dependencies you begin at the wrong end and such ways of curing are like to have no end at least not by such your endeavours If this be not allowed for truth the Doctrine of Symptoms is destroyed which is rational and useful in Practice and the preternatural triplicity Morbus morbi causa Symptoma is made void and fictitious To spare farther arguments in this matter if I prove qualities preternatural to be Symptoms by the same Authors that before made them Similar Diseases then I need no farther Proof but their own contradiction and I find it so in that part of Pathologia called Symptomatica where Symptoms are generally divided into these three parts Actio laesa excretorum retentorum vitium qualitates mutatae In this third Branch of the Division I find Qualities preternatural and in their due place But why Authors that made them leading the Van amongst Similar Diseases should now make them bring up the Reer of Symptoms how comes this about Qualities are not of that Protean nature to appear Diseases in one place and Symptoms in another that cannot be especially without respect to some particular and extraordinary case I wonder this false Doctrine of Similar Diseases should pass through so many Centuries of years and through the Hands and Heads of so many Learned Writers without a reform and why the intemperature of Qualities should be so confined to the Similar Parts only to make Diseases there and thereby denominated and not in Dissimilar Parts also I know no reason and they can give none but on the contrary I know that such intemperate preternatural Qualities does spread and affect Dissimilar Organical Parts also both the first and second Qualities which latter are peculiar to the Organs of Sense You see plainly that Similar Diseases are improperly so denominated and to be expunged out of the number of Diseases and thus the first division of the Catalogue is set aside as injuriously put forth which mischiefs more evidently will appear in Practice when I come to treat of particular Diseases and Symptomatical affects As for the Occult Qualities also accounted Similar Diseases if I knew where to find them I shou'd put them into their right place But since we know not what they are nor where they are let them pass at this time until you give me a better account of them I must remark from hence that whereas this first Division