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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07320	A most certaine and true relation of a strange monster or serpent found in the left ventricle of the heart of Iohn Pennant, Gentleman, of the age of 21. yeares. By Edward May Doctor of Philosophy and Physick, and professor elect of them, in the colledge of the academy of noble-men, called the Musæum Minervæ: physitian also extraordinary unto her most Sacred Majesty, Queene of great Brittany, &c.	May, Edward.	1639 (1639)	STC 17709; ESTC S112479	20,668	50

were capable of And for them therefore not to shew themselves and who was their Father it is impossible Coelum est in terra sed modo terrestri Terra est in Coelo sed modo Coelesti Yea even putrid humours and materiall causes of diseases as being naturall things though corrupted are good and have their beames and their signatures in savours pustles bubos spots and tokens without of divers sorts according to the severall species of the humour putrified within or from the commixtion with other causes by which a Physitian is much instructed what is within and how to take heed himselfe and to come home to the very point and cause of all this Discourse we see in all kind of Animals in the world and I doubt not but your incredible desire to know and excellent naturall sagacity hath often observed that according as their arteriall blood is exalted such radij are in their Eyes as we see in some men more then others and in Cocks and in Serpents A Cocke hath an Eye whose radij are almost exalted to the beames of the Eye of a Serpent And doubtlesse such blood had this man and such spirits of an incredible heate or acrimony The Eye is an Index animi which cannot otherwise be then by the radij or spirits of it much more then doth it shew the blood arteriall upon which those spirits are founded and thus from the Eye I have made it evident that we may know much of the left Ventricle of the heart where the arteriall bloud is elaborated and made And thus in other matters if from the radij or signatures exterior we play the good Magitians and diligently consider them I am perswaded wee may have a singular helpe and insight to cure the most hidden and most dangerous diseases of all and such as otherwise cannot be known You see Sir I have founded my sentence upon God Nature and Experience and if it be hidden or not believed by any it is to them incredible who have grosse conceptions small skill as J am sure your great insight and wisdome will and can better confirme For what is that which makes some men wiser then others Magis sapiens est dicitur qui minus perceptibilia percipit de rebus earum conditionibus saith that wise man Alkindus There is no doubt therfore as the same man saith but that they who are informed with an holy desire of wisedome will labour much to comprehend the secret conditions of things as the antient Physitians did who with wonderfull sagacity searched for that skill which we injoy As for such as are neither wise nor have desire of wisedome I leave them to Ptolemey that other miracle of knowledge to instruct the world of them Reprehendunt insipientes quod non comprehendunt unwise men reprehend all that they doe not comprehend §. 9. IT remaines onely that something be said of the cure of such Conceptions if by any Physitian they be perceived in time Either by pulsation of the heart or by any externall signe or signature or Syndrome There are some who use no alterants nor other peice of art then to kill and dissolve such conceptions and they confide in this ℞ Succi Allij Nasturtij Raphani ana.ʒ.j. detur statim curabitur So Schenckins from Stockerus Others thus ℞ Tanaceti ramulum in umbra siccatum in pulverem redactum cribellatumque cui addatur pulvis sequens ℞ Rad gentian Rad. Paeoniae longae ana.ʒ.j. Myrrhae ʒ ss misce tere cum uti volueris ℞ ℈ .j. Et cum guttula aquae ut solum madefiat misce deinde inunge os lahra infantis aut patientis ter aut quater una cum caeteris medicamentis eijcientur So Schenckins This I grant is good for wormes that cause Epileptike fits in children but for such as lie deeper in the pericardium and the left Ventricle it is not likely they will be sensible of at so great a distance and inclosure I rather thinke that the use of some oyles which are more penetrative may do more good as some drops of Olei de Sabina in aqua juventutis Raimundi or Olei ex Baccis Iuniperi ob ejus penetrativam virtutem may with some continuance or with the successe before mentioned be more efficacious But why am I so large speaking to you But to lay some grounds of future discourses with you concerning both preservation and cure of such latent maladies rather then here to set them out §. 10. Yet for conclusion I have onely this one thing to note unto the world how that these which seeme so rare strange and incurable mischiefes might be more familiarly knowne and easily cured if it were not for a babish or a kinde of cockney disposition in our common people who think their children or friendes murdered after they are dead if a Surgion should but pierce any part of their skinnes with a knife by which it commeth to passe that few of those innumerable and marvellous conceptions which kill the parents in which they are bred as your selfe with admiration have knowingly spoken to me of their infinite number which are generated in mans body can ever be found out or cured so great a monster is begotten in the blood of fooles and fearefull people which destroyeth the common good of man-kinde in a very great proportion whereas that knowledge of their generations which Physitions have is commonly from the dissections of the bodies of Noble Personages and of the Gentry who with their friendes about them have beene bred to more fortitude and are more wise and communicative as most of our medicinall histories you know confirme and your selfe likewise hath told me of some All vertuous and heroick soules know that when their particle of divine perfection is returned to him that gave it that then their bodies are to serve the universe as that pious Bishop knew who when he had given away all besides his body at last gave that also for the good of the living when it should be found dead and therefore bequeathed it to the Physitians to dissect it but doubtlesse our Tradesmen their wives and children and our sugar-sop citizens are compounded of a rarer noli me tangere when they are dead then when they were alive And though Nobles and Princes may be cut in peeces yet is it piacular and the losse of grace for ever with them if a Phisitian should but intimate such a matter as decently but to open any part of their most intemerate Impes But what good more frequent dissections might doe what portentuous matters they might discover and how facile they might finde the causes and their cure you sufficiently know and in part others may by this history understand And although the learning and knowledge of some Phisitions of our age be singular and growne to such an happy degree of perfection yet there are by dissections every day something to be learned and how much the internall do simbolize with externall as in part I have discovered and J will yet give out one illustration more let but Phisitions well note their patients complections and colours for this time I will onely speake of the face and let them take afterward if they come to dissect them notice of their livers and if they be diligent in few dissections they shall be able looking into any mans face whatsoever to know the affections very manifestly of his liver Sir under favour and with you J have thus much freedome as to tell some of my brother Phisitions and Surgions that the inspections and dissections which they celebrate over the world are not to inable men to talke of names parts and places but to doe and to be able to judge of thinges hidden and secret that they may not be deceived touching the causes of mens diseases this is the chiefest end and yet how few study out of entrailes this learning I neede not intimate unto you The wayes of nature by which operations are effected as also the continuation of parts and vessels their communication and to finde the causes of sicknesses their epigeneses their metastases their apostases their palyndromyes The wayes of Simptomes reasons of revulsions and the like are the next and so much subordinate to the other and of lesse necessity as obuious inspections shewe this to be more facile and with lesse labour to be attained then that the other therefore not being so well perfected to our dayes I have by this extraordinary occasion and out of my good wishes ventured to speake a word by you unto such as are wise in our owne profession since Phisitians should be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as our dictators word is like Gods what is in us in good skill and good will for the safety of man-kinde that as it was said of his dayes so it may of ours in corum diebu raro animae descendebant ad infernum in their dayes soules seldome descended into hell if any at last forsaking divine grace shall descend yet that hell may gape a long time ere it receive them and that others may have time to shake handes with Heaven that our profession the noblest and wisest of all others I speake of professions which concerne this life onely not of professions supernaturall may still be esteemed divinest as the old Phisitians were crowned deservedly and related among the Gods above all others while by our meanes miserable men are restored to the onely blessing of this life health and as I said be preserved from that great and eternall gulph of infelicity Hell many of them not being in state of grace because sicke upon their sinnes and lastly made live till they be friends and sonnes of God and so rich as to come to Heaven our Saviour Christ crowning us with such happy mindes as to be made instruments and meanes of many mens eternall salvation by occasion of their temporall restitution FINIS