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A93809	Natures explication and Helmont's vindication. Or A short and sure way to a long and sound life: being a necessary and full apology for chymical medicaments, and a vindication of their excellency against those unworthy reproaches cast on the art and its professors (such as were Paracelsus and Helmont) by Galenists, usually called Methodists. Whose method so adored, is examined, and their art weighed in the ballance of sound reason and true philosophy, and are found too light in reference to their promises, and their patients expectation. The remedy of which defects is taught, and effectual medicaments discovered for the effectual cure of all both acute and chronical diseases. / By George Starkey, a philosopher made by the fire, and a professor of that medicine which is real and not histrionical.	Starkey, George, 1627-1665.; Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699.	1658 (1658)	Wing S5280; Thomason E1635_2; ESTC R13346	111,247	400

c. and to make up a total reconciliation betwixt Empericks and Galenists are not now all vulgar preparations of Minerals prostituted in every Apothecaries shop and yet the Art of Medicine among our reverent Doctors reputed the same as of old What then O their method their method this is the hidden stone and secret mark which distinguisheth them where then the same method is used there is the same way professed but Mountebaks Quacks Old Wives and all that rabble use the same method in curing If it be objected that they have not skill to discern when this when that remedy is to be applyed this accuses their sufficiency not their profession It is not then the materials used but the preparation of the materials so as to be able to effect what the Physician promiseth and the Patient expects surely safely and speedily that distinguisheth a true Son of Art from pretending bunglers of which some are more crafty and cautious others more ignorant and rashly venturous yet both more distinct from true Artists then from one another If Nature had made true Medicines ready prepared to hand for every disease that it were no more then to pluck them as an Apple from the tree then indeed a distinction might be made of professors of the Art of Medicine according to the materials wrought upon But contrariwise it is sadly evident that very few Simples are endowed with a medicinal virtue without virulency and those also have their excellency obstructed with the gross feculency which growes together with the spiritual tincture and as a shell doth hiddenly contain the same so that without some previous preparations few things are worthy the name of Medicaments Now that preparation is usual for vegetal Simples only decoction or infusion or conserving with Sugar or Honey whereby the good is not so separated from the bad but that several crudities remain but of this Helmont hath at large treated I shall not repeat It would be a tedious Wild-goose chase to trace their medicines and refute them for that will be but to agere actum and I intend here an Apology not a charge a defensive not an offensive conflict I shall come therefore to state our Case for till that be done in is a vain thing to contend in words First of all we differ from the Goosquil Tribe in the Theoretical discovery of Diseases and secondly in our Practical cure of them Now as to the Theory of Diseases and the Philosophical contemplation of Simples it is not essential to a Physician for a man may know the remedies with which to cure all diseases and yet erre very much in the discovery of Causes for the remedy being to the disease as water to fire which will undoubtedly quench it as a man may know certainly by water to quench fire and yet erre in the Philosophical appre-prehension of the same so may a man by a proper remedy rightly and in due proportion applyed certainly cure the disease and be able to distinguish the same generally though he be not able to finde our and apprehend the manner of its original with its occasional causes progress and variations Nor let this seem a Paradox for it may easily be evinced against the most snarling gainsayer for consider the forementioned example of quenching fire by water and it may be made unquestionable What rustick that doth not know that water is for the quenching of fire and will give a very near guess how much water will quench so much fire and yet how many of owr School Philosophers can assign the true cause of that effect it is now water as water for milk whey wine-vinegar c. will do the same nor yet as cold for hot water and other hot liquors will perform it as well as cold nor yet as moist for oyl and oleaginous moistures being thrown on fire in one measure encreaseth it and in another measure will quench it as a week of a candle or lamp may be drowned with too much tallow or oyle So that in very deed the Philosophical speculation doth follow practical knowledge and experience denominates that science which else would be but bare opinion But of this I speak sufficiently in my large Treatise called Organu Philosophiae novum and shall not in this place repeat what there is sufficiently proved and confirmed Therefore the effects of diseases so far as they are obvious to every observer can instruct any who make it their work to be conversant therein that are of capacity so as to be able to judge and distinguish one disease from another and by the Symptomes to discover if or no it do proceed in the ordinary course of the same malady or if by complication it doth alter and how this is as much as is absolutely requisite for a Physician in the knowledge of diseases for this knowledge doth essentially conduce to the cure but to be able to unfold the quiddity of it its efficient and continent causes the material and occasionate with other curiosities which a Philosopher doth contemplate upon and in which the intellect is occupied this adornes but doth not constitute a Physician So then the absolute things requisite in one who would conscionably undertake the lives of the sick are first to know how to unlock those medicines which the Almighty hath created and to prepare them and after how and when and to whom to apply them and how to order and dispose the Patient so as them which by careful administration of them is expected Mistake me not I do not deny nay I confidently affirm that he who is endowed with wisdom from above to be so curious and so diligent in his search as to attain the noble medicines which the Lord hath created for mans relief and unspeakable comfort he if he prove but so observant in the administration as he was acute in the preparation cannot but so far be mightned from Natures light in these observations as to apprehend the causes of the diseases and their whole quiddity or being which may by arguments à posteriori be collected from their effects as likewise he may be able to demonstrate à posteriori the cause and manner of cures wrought by medicines a work most worthily performed by noble Helmont which contemplation will wonderfully delight a true Son of this Art but yet as I said before this doth follow and adorn not precede and constitute a Physician And this I shall adde that the soul which is a I may say ipse in homine homo when once an effect is apparent and so known as to become a mechanism doth no farther any more reap content from it unless it be in reference to some deduction it gathers from it to the finding out of some new hidden truth nor doth the soul ever feed on it more as upon its object originally directly and in an absolute consideration no more then in the knowing how to make a fire or that the fire will burn boyl dry c.

podagram How then You can cure you will say the running Gout speak sostly I pray lest some of your patients heart you and object this And why then did you not cure me 'T will be a serious check But I suppose you much mistake the name and nature of the running Gout the Gout properly and truly is an Arthritical pain affecting the joynts immediately and some nerves sometimes by a Deuteropatheia a nd according to the situation it is called Podagra Cheiragra and Ischiatica to these I shall adde two other species to wit Cephalagia and Odontalgia which are reall branches of the same disease the Head-ach affecting the Meninges of the brain and the Tooth-ach the Roots of the teeth which are in these two griest equlvalent to joynts The Head-ach if tedious and durable is called commonly a Megrim the Tooth-ach retains alwaies its name Now all thse kindes of griefs are either habitual or accidental habitual either hereditary or gotten by some disorder or other The Accidental sorts of these griess are of their own nature transtent as having no fixed root and are caused by unusual cold or fals or strokes of strains it s healed or dislocations ill set and restrored or stactures ill conglutinated or else through some or other intemperance in meat or drink For the Remedy of the Tooth-ach if it come to extremity there is one only capital remedy of pulling them out which oft proves but an insufficient alwaies a lame remedy but our age hath found the way of counterfeiting the teeth which makes the loss appear the less For the Tooth-ach there are a thousand not to say more applications and tricks used to heart and abate the present pain and those sometimes effectual sometimes not at all for they are only topical and therefore at the best do but ease for the time others use Spels Charmes and Magical enchantmens for this end and yet for all this how many thousands there are who in their youth have their Teeth most rotted out and corrupted with this grief and all for want of help Well and what saith the Doctor to this In very deed he is as contemptible as a Bag-piper every old woman and nurse hath as many and as good Medicines for it as he Fie on your worship good Doctor with reverence to your gravity be it spoken are you not ashamed of your own craft which know not how radically to cure the Tooth-ach You will say it is a thing too mean for your gravity which therefore you leave to every Barber he being the only man when all is done for what with oyl of cloves Origanum Peper Vitriol c. he cannot mend with his instrument he can end But good Mr. Doctor why is your worship so squeamish and yet it is not below your worth to toss a piss-pot for a groat and to tell the Patient a long tale of you know not what your self when perhaps the grief is far of less concernment then the Tooth-ach What them Even this is the Reason here the cause is apparent every one knowes it as well as your self here is not room to juggle but you must come to action which you are as willing to as Hocus pocus is to act a Puppet-play with the curtain drawn open In cases that are not evident you can advise them to bring their water and this you will view as a Fortune-teller the palm of ones hand and then you have your tale as ready as a Jugler that shews his sights in Bartholomew-fair and a Bill to the Apothecary you can give them if need be or they desire it or some good counsel you have in readiness which if the case were your own you would think on it twice ere you would take it once But in such cases which oft experience hath made as notorious to others as to you there the Urinal must be thrown aside and then you are at your wits ends according to the Adagy Stercus urina medicorum fercula prima How then Marry thus The Academies have dub'd you and declared you Doctors which though at the first admission you know to be but a formal empty shew yet you had the knavery to dissemble it and the title bringing honour you are willing to accept it and that you may not make your selves ridiculours are apt and ready confidently to pretend what you know you have not that is skill And as a lyar by oft telling a lye doth at last come almost to beleeve it himself so at last after along profession you claim prescription which that you may not expose to derision you will undertake any thing and be as busie about any sick man as Davus in the Comedy he shall scarse piss but you will toss it nor go to stool but you will put your nose to it and stir it nor have a mess of broth drest but you will have a finger in its direction and as though you scorned Nature should stand cheek by joul with you if the patient be sleepy as oft times he must be kept waking yea and that on pain of death Massanelloes commands right if his stomack be indifferent he must be curbed in his diet if he be droughty and thirsty you will forbid him drink in a word you are of Caesars minde in that Aut viam inveniam aut faciam so you Aut morbum inveniam aut faciam If his appetite be to any thing more then other be sure that he must be restrained of and bound precisely to your Broths your Julips your Barley-waters Gellies c. In a word if the disease by too soon drawing to a period prevent you not you will use all the Electuaries distilled Waters Julips Diet-drink Potions Tablets Species and Cordials as you call them all the Herbs Flowers Seeds and Roots which you can probably conj●cture may chance to do good or at least you hope will do no hurt But if you prevail not here then as the Poet by degrees came to his Sicelides musae paulo majora canamus And from them to his Arma virumque cano So if your Diaeticall Cookery prevail nor as seldome in doth though sometimes for Reasons hereafter to be shewn then you go a step higher to gently Purges and Vomits as you call them and if those fail then by Issues or Blecding or Scarification or the like and lastly if all fail then you resolve to cure a desperate disease with a desperate medicine singing with the Poet this Palinode Flectere si nequeo superos Acheronta movebo Them must poysons be used in good earnest Helleboro purgandum Caput is an acient Adagy Hellebore Euforbium must do what Cochipils will not Opium must do what Lettice posset will not but first it must be mixed up into a ridiculous Laudanum Colocyntida Scammony must effect what Manna Sene Rhubarb will not O brave Doctors O capita Helleboro digna yet you are the men that cry out against poysons As though Scammony Colocyntide Elaterium

of God in such cases or no what honour think you is Physician like to receive that when he is called to some Partient hath this shameful subterfuge it in not to be done Nor do there want examples sufficient to convince the truth of this if you were but as careful to minde true Artists and to incourage them as you are to hearken out all the vagabond and apostate Chymists and Empericks to make use of their ignorant rash adventures to the reproaching of true sons of Art Basilius Valentinus cures are beyond your cavils notorious so that he dared all the Doctors of his time to the field as I may say nor was he so contemptible a man to have exposed his credit so to derision in making such a challenge had not his cures been notorious Suchten a man of no obscure family and Georgius Phadro did both promise and perform the cure of diseases counted incurable Count Trevisan in his Treatise de Miraculo Chemico reckons up all incurable diseases which by his Medicine he affirmed that he had cured Paracelsus to the admiration of all Germany did both promise and perform the like as is beyond denial testified of him by an hounourable Prince of Germany in an honouble Epitaph for that end set upon his Tomb. Quercetan after him did effect most marvellous cures by this true Art whose testimony the quality of the man may make Authentical Yea so far was he from studying parties that his design was to supply the defects of Art in the common Apothecaries shops which he endevoured in his Pharmacopaea Dogmaticorum restituts in which he did exungue Leonem by those commoner things of Chymistry yet far surpassing the ordinary drugs do what he could to incite those who were diligent and judicious to a more serious search after secrets which because he would not prostitute he declared covertly yet nevertheless to a son of Art plain enough And in our Age the noble Helmont did perform the same to admiration and hath so satisfactorily written of the whole Art in his large volume every where extant that though many sharl and bark at him yet hitherto none hath appeared that durst take up the buckler against him What can you say to these men good Mr. Doctors are their testimonies true or no I suppose this question will prove to you as Christs in the like case did to the Pharisees and Scribes concerning the Baptism of John when he asked them if it were of heaven or of men If you confess it to be true then I aske you why you do not follow them why do you not beleeve them why do you reproach the Art so signally testified If you say it is not true the people will condemn you your own Chieftains-will convince you Sennertus Fernelius and many others have been forced to confess that of this Art in its commendation which would make your ears glow to hear it in English And to deal in good sadness How come you know any thing concerning the Art of Medicine Have you it not from testimony Are not Authors authorities your main pillars suppose your selves to be as you were before you had any practise yet you were dub'd Doctors and what was all your skill then but on credit are not the Herbals but so many collections of the Judgements of such Authors as have written on the subject And are the opinions of some men that you fancy to be believed before the absolute testimony of others What partiality is this What had Galen to induce credit more then Paracelsus Helmont Count Trevisan Valentinus Quercetan and those of his Art whose persons were noble whose learning not contemptible and who wrote not their placits but their experiences not what they thought but what they had done and could do Is a negation to be accounted as an oracle before a positive affirmation Away with this madness If you would desire a reason for the curableness of all diseases I answer the effect is to be the proof of the cause I suppose you are so good Logicians as to know that cause and effect do mutually argue each other If then all diseases in kinde have been are and may be cured then they are curable The assumption is proved by testimonies sufficient by experience and no obscure grounds from the Scripture CHAP. II. The insufficiency of vulgar Medicines is the cause why many Diseases are judged inourable BY the Catalogue of incurable Diseases it may appear what and how many diseases there be which the Doctor confesseth are without the reach of his medicines and method We shall take them at their word who grant indeed that they cannot cure them but that they are not therefore cureable that we have upon good ground denied Now let us consider the efficacy of their method and medicines in other cases which they do account curable and examine what they do perform there But first I shall adde a word or two of serious reproof to them in reference to the former number of incurable maladies in that they to me seem not a little culpable If they would candidly wave the cure of such griefs and deal ingenuously with the sick Patient it were commendable in them as honesty although they should much diminish their reputation thereby But yet though they I mean the ablest of the sect do confesse their unsufficiency to cure such and such maladies yet this notwithstanding if any through ignorance of their abilities come to them in any such case they will not turn him away verifying therein the sordid saying of an unworthy Emperor Dulcis odor lucri ex re qualibet And yet for this they want no a shift and a poor one too Although say they were know not certainly to cure it yet we know the causes of it what breeds it and what feeds it these we cannot totally remove but we can so diminish bad humors which is as fuel to it that it shall not be so dangerous nor so troublesom as else it would be also we can apply remedies to abate Symptomes and this Art will do These are good words which if they knew not how to give it is pity but they had been turned to plough when they had been first sent to the School But as good words alone will never satisfie a hungry belly so will it less profit in so difficult a case What our Doctors can do in abating the Symptomes of the Gout the Stone the Epilepsie the Palsie I desire to know and learn nay in a less case then those mentioned in the Quartan Feaver I confess that in the time of misery the Patient oft times will admit of any help real or only promised according to that old saying A drowning man will catch at a straw But the Doctors ready affording to them their help and counsel when called in such and other the like cases and performing nothing in lieu of great fees doth make them justly at last ridiculous so that the name of a Doctor is as

general use by so much is the deprivement of that knowledge intolerable and not to be rested in Therefore as he who not being able to intercept the light shall prevent mens injoyment thereof by putting out their eyes is worthily accounted most wretchedly cruell so he who shall with-hold or obstruct or pervert the means of knowledge in no less if not far more condemnable And on the contrary hand he who shall endeavour to clear those streams of that rubbish and trumpery which hath not only mightily stopt but also notably pudled the waters of this fountain as he attempts a work of more publick concernment so if he actually perform any thing real herein he will deserve no less of those who are herein concerned which all igenuous men are or else ought to be the Saul did of the Jabesh-Gileadietes who delivered them from the insulting Tyrant who would put out every mans right eye for a reproach unto Israel Now next unto that knowledge which is indeed life eternal namely to know God the only true God and whom he hath sent Jesus Christ which knowledge is of everlasting concernment the most noble is that which discovers the Creators wisdom in the Creatures so as to be able distinguish their natures and properties and to apply them to the use of Man namely to the restoring of the defects of decaying Nature and the overcoming of Diseases which even unto lamentation do waste and destroy almost in all places the poor distressed members of Jesus Christ under which many perish being in extremity of despair exposed to a sad spectacle comfortless to the patient and horrible to the beholders These diseases and miseries the fruits of sin inflicted most justly from the righteous Judge are yet curable by remedies which the Almighty hath created for which end the Father of mercies and God of compassion hath also created the Physician that he being an instrument of mercy in the hand of a merciful Father might make whole and binde up those whom the same God with his hand of justice hath wounded and broken This in brief is the use of medicinal knowledge the subject whereof is in the first place the Body and Nature of man to know it both in its integrity and defects and secondly all Creatures without man which are to be considered either more directly as they tend to the affording of mediciens for remedying and preventing defects or Collaterally as they serve to elucidate the nature either of defects or remedies This Art or knowledge of all Sublunary attainments is the highest it is the last and bringeth up the Reer as I may say unto all the rest so that though the Geometrician Arithmetician Politician Mechanist and the like are not to be despised yet they fall far short of that dignity which is due to the Physician whose objects is the most worthy of Creatures even Man who is made little inferior to Angles crowned with glory and honour under whose feer all things have been subjected yet he for sin is laid under vanity of which no small part are the distempers and maladies which his frail life and weak body are subject to This Art or Knowledge as it hath had continual and shall have perpetual used among men so God hath been pleased to discover it in some degree and measure in all Ages that in no generation there should be wanting a testimony as of his Justice so of his infinite and transcendent Mercy who is ready as with one hand to chastise and afflict so with the other to succour and relieve those who are chastised and corrected Those who have been endowed with this skill or science God endowed also with a Heart communicative so that they have out of compassion unto those who are in misery been free in the discovering unto posterity what they understood herein so far to wit as might conduce to the stirring up of the ingenuous to a personal further inquiry and also be a help to them in their search to discover those secrets which they who were before them found beneficial to the healing of this or that distemper Among whom Hippocrates one of the first and most eminent who left any thing to us upon record of usefull experimental practice whose attainments as they were in reference to the rudeness of his Age admirable so his Candor in discovering the same was commendable saving that what he left sincere hath through the abuse of times been much corrupted with the placits and invention of such who not comparable to him in reality would yet seem to excell him in appa●ency The excellent vertue of this man as it was alwaies maligned by Satan to whose malicious disposition it is natural to envie those things most especially which are or may be of greatest concernment for the good of Man either his spiritual or temporal life So through his policy it was soon forgotten by posterity and his renowned skill for which he was not without cause named Divine Hipporates after his death was so buried with him that in a short time there was nothing but the bare name thereof retained by his successors And as nothing strikes a more fatall blow to vertue and verity then a glorious shew thereof without any reality so by this policy Satan that he might if possible for ever keep in oblivion this so necessary a science for the use of man At length about five Ages or more from the death of Hipporates Galen comes in upon the Grecian stage who as if it were his design to rake up the glowing Embers of Hippocrates Art from under the ashes of forgetfulness wrote ample Tomes concerning this Art of medicine and that the memory thereof might be kept from future perishing digested the same into a Method whereby this Art might afterwards be communicated by verball Tradition in Scholastick Lectures and disputations Now had Satan brought his design unto a full head which being once on foot he ceaseth not to prosecute with all possible craft and diligence For as his chief aim is to sever the shew from the substance knowing that way to be of all other the most effectual for the fatal suppressing and smothering truth so this empty shadow was soon had in high esteem insomuch that being cryed up in the Schools it soon got footing all the world over insomuch that there was no civilized nation or people how different soever in Laws manners and customes but with one accord they all submitted to march under Galen his banner and counted it the glory of their studies and the crown of their labours to receive his Badge And to make this the more plausible the Schools invented their honorary Titles the more to allure Students to this their profession bestowing upon as many as had sucked out by their studies and disputations Galens Marrow and learned his Method so as to be able to read a Lecture or make a Commentary upon him the title of Doctors insomuch that they drewmultitudes after them all

Gunner to fire a Gun that is charged with good powder and he with a lighted linstock in his hand nor is it presumption in the one more then in the other but alas is it not evident that if a Doctor be called to a sick man though at the beginning of the disease and in his full strength yet he can promise nothing but to do his endevour as the man doth who according to the man doth who according to the Proverb thresheth in his cloak whence it appears that when ever any one recovers he doth it only through Natures benignity and not by any art of the Doctor who could not warrant the cure much less how soon it would be effected Fie on that Art which alone of all Arts in the world can not dare not will not warrant to perform what it undertakes when as the most hazarbable Art of all Agriculture and the Mariners Art are usually warranted yet we know that the winds which are the directors and accomplishers under God of the Mariners design blow where they list rarely trade and the crop of the husbandman if the early and latter rains do but fail either impared or else quite frustrated yet both one and the other are warranted by the undertakers on penalty of loss of all their labour and cost at the least and oft times a voyage by Sea is warranted by Merchants for a small inconsiderable gain to be paid to them at adventure in lieu of which they will repay the whole if lost only the Doctor is of another minde for he will be paid at adventure nor will he warrant any thing in lieu of his payment but to do his endevour which is a ridiculous cheat of the sick both of their money and lives If a Taylor when cloath is brought him should demand pay at a venture and yet not promise to perform his work but only to do his endevour even the Doctor himself would think him as well deserving his wages as they in Lubberland deserve twelve pence by the day for sleeping but especially if such a Taylor should spoyl the cloth so brought him by cutting it into shreds in stead of making it into a garment and do thus ten times for once making a garment and yet exact his pay how like a knave would his acting be and yet how like a Doctor who never doth otherwise Contrariwise a Son of Art he confidently undertaketh a disease and as certainly performes what he undertaketh he comes armed with powerful Medicaments and not with a simple impotent method which are as effectual to the person that is sick for his recovery as water would be for the quenching of fire not that he attempts any thing without the blessing of God for he acknowledgeth it a great mercy of him first to have provided such Medicines in Nature for such maladies and secondly in revealing them to him for the help of mankinde and lastly in bringing him to those who finde help by him for otherwise where God intends a disease shall be fatal to any he with-holds the means from him either totally or so long till it be too late to recover him For although the consequent which is drawn from the cause to the effect be ceitain and undeniable yet the cause amy acidentally be trustrated of its effect by accident yet so that the cause doth not cease to be a cause notwithstanding I might instance in all generations which by accident may be hindred the fire may not burn what is combustible if by accident that be made too wet so water will not quench fire if the quantity be too little so a man cannot be cured by a medicine if already death be possest of the principal parts or if the party be not sensible and so will not take it otherwise it cannot be but that a medicine indeed must work its effect alse it is no Medicine But here it will not be amiss to answer a cavil I doubt not but some adversaries will object to me as of old was objectd to Paracelsus Do you cure all Do none die of your Patients To these I shall answer that indeed all do not recover and yet the truth of what I say nothing infringed for against all discases there is a remedy but against death none that only is out of the reach of all medicines Now if God hath numbred a mans daies and finished them it is not to be objected to the disgrace of a Medicine that it cannot prevail against the irrecoverable decree If that were all that were to be objected against the Galenists method and practise we should never finde fault with them for it is appointed to all men once to die and all our daies are numbred every man is not to live ad aetatem decrepitam But with all this we say that thought our Medicines cannot triumph over death yet against the miseries of life They will prevail over the disease even there where recovery of life is impossible and therefore a true febrifuge will refresh abate Symptomes compose and bring to quiet even there where the seat of life is possessed by death which is a levamen thought not a Restanratio Sometimes the stroke of death deludes with the face of a disease at least shewing some of the common usual symptomes of a Feaver not easily to be discerned and that because it is as we say preter spem Not hoped for and so not so easily beleeved according to the Adagy Facile speramus quae fieri volumus facilius quod speramus credimus And so on the other hand what a man would not have he is not apt to believe Adde to this the commiseration we have to those that are afflicted and in sickness which would make us desire to be instrumental in any thing which is for their recovery And lastly if a man do doubt the worst yet it is not good to affright the Patient with his jealousies which leave a deep impression on his spirit and make the hope if any were oft times desperate To conclude as nothing is without a cause and therefore diseases are curable because Medicines are endowed by God with such a virtue so that some particular diseases are excepted from the rule of the generals there are particular causes of which it is most true Faelix qui poterit rerum dignoscere causas Yet a Son of Art by his Medicines is able to cure what is curable which all diseases are in their kinde though sometimes the disease being heightned almost to its utmost period before he is called so that death having conquered the chief places will not accep of any truce sometimes the party is struck with deaths stroke at first which causing a commotion of the Archeus disdaining to be so overmastered by its adversary doth appear like unto an ordinary acute disease yet without possibility of cure unless by his power who can raise the dead sometimes the patient hath undergone so much of the Galenical Tribes methodical Butchery that