Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89713	Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent.	Nolle, Heinrich, fl. 1612-1619.; Vaughan, Henry, gent,	1655 (1655)	Wing N1222; Thomason E1714_1; ESTC R209619	34,855	139

abhor my judgements so that ye will not do my Commandements but that ye break my Covenants I also will do this unto you I will even appoint over your terrour consumption and the burning ague that shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart I will also smite thee in the knees and the legges with a sore botch that cannot be healed from the sole of thy foot unto the top of the Head I will make the Pestilence cleave unto thee untill it hath consumed thee from off the Land which thou possessest And in another place The Lord shall smite thee with a Consumption with a Feavour and with an inflammation and extream burning and with the Sword and with Blasting and with Mildew and they shall pursue thee untill thou perish And the Heaven that is over thy head shall be brass and the Earth that is under thee shal be Iron The Lord shall make the Raine of thy Land powder and dust from heaven shall it come down upon thee untill thou be destroyed Levitiâ— Cap. 29. 16. Deuteron 28. And in the new Testament that everlasting and blessed Physitian the Holy JESUS who came not to destroy but to save the world after he had healed the impotent man who had beene sick of his infirmity eight and thirty years he dismissed him not without this loving and gracious caution Behold thou art made whole sinne no more lest a worse thing come unto thee S. John Chap. 5. 14. and S. Paul also in his first Epistle to the Corinthians rebuking that new and sinfull custome which had crept then into that Church of prophaning the Lords holy Supper with their own intemperate feasts objects to them that sharp visitation by Diseases which for that very abuse God had punished them with For this cause saith he many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep for some of them had beene punished with death Thus is the just and all-seeing God the first and supreme cause of the Extrarious cause CHAP. 7. Of the excesse and the defect of necessaries which is the second cause of the Extrarious cause FXcess of Necessaries is to be considered first in Victuals where the offence is threefold 1. In superfluousness 2. In vairety 3. In our manner of receiving them We offend in superfluousness when that which is to nourish us is taken in too great a quantity whence follow frequent and unwholsome evaporations and belchings which so fill and oppresse the vessels and Organs of the spirits that they are hindered in their functions or the meat with its weight and quantity so indisposeth us that the inordinate operation and digestion is retarded Innumerable are the Diseases and molestations which proceed from this particular intemperance We offend in variety when at one dinner or supper we eate many and divers kinds of Meats and Drinkes for these having a great dissimilitude and enmity amongst themselves cause divers inconveniences by their various dissents and unequall digestion We offend in the manner of receiving when we eate hastily or swallow our meat before it be well chew'd and devour our Drinke like Whales as those are accustomed who drink healths as they term them at Meales taking off whole Bowles and Tankards {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} without so much as breathing time and thinke the excess very fashionable praise-worthy Another Excess in Necessaries happens about taking of rest and watching When the Animal spirits by too much sleep are by degrees habitnated into a certaine dulness so that they perform their functions sluggishly remitting still something of their due vigour until at length they lose all their activity and are naturalized as it were into an incurable stupidity Contrarywise by too much watching they are easily inflamed so that oftentimes they cause Maniacal fits and phrensies with divers others most desperate consequences A third excess of Necessaries happens from cold and heat Excess of heat happens either when the body is over exercised or when any other Extraneous heat hath too free an access to it and the innate fire of nature is beyond measure excited thereby so that inordinate exhalations are caused in the body which produce an excessive and dangerous resolution and weakness of parts Excess of cold happens either by a suddaine Refrigeration or cooling after Exercise or when we expose our selves too much to cold weather which hinders the evaporation of Excrementitious Exhalations by stopping the Pores and beating them back into the body where they lodge and remaine Whence it comes to pass that being of an Extrarious malignant disposition they afford matter and foment for many and severall kinds of diseases A like excess to this proceeds frequently from the hardness and thick Callousness of some peoples skins by which fault because little or no perspiration is performed the secret and the Ambient Aire of their bodies is intercepted so that there is no liberty for inspiration or exspiration Defect of Necessaries is first the want of meat and drink in their due time and proportion This is either famine or thirst Secondly The want of naturall rest according to the Verse Quod caret alterna requâ—e durabile non est The strongest body and the best Cannot subsist without due rest Thirdly The want of Refrigeration or coolness of aire which by its needfull community and permeation allayes and tempers the inward heat of the heart Fourthly and lastly the want of due and requisite heat by which the Excrementitious Exhalations of the body are vented forth and the animall spirits incited to their peculiar functions CHAP. 7. Of Fire the third Cause of the Extrarious Cause BY Fire in this place I understand not onely Kitchin-fire or any other fire that burns but also the celestiall fire of the Sun and the Sun and the native implanted fire of all the parts of â—â—ns body I. Externall fire is the producent of Extrarious Causes by its separative power or faculty by which it separates extracts them from other bodies communicates them afterwards to our nature II. The Internal innate fire produceth Extrarious causes when by digestion it separates the impure part from that food or matter in which it first resided whence our natural substance comes to be infected SO the naturall heat digests our meat and by the assistance of the innnate Salt dissolves it that man may retain or keep in his body that which is agreeable to his nature and joyne it to his essence but that which is contrariant he segregates from the other and casts forth at his proper Emunctories This Segregated matter or Excrement doth oftentimes mightily afflict the body and that it doth two manner of waies The first by being retained in the body or for want of evacuation The second by a noysome fâ—tid Exhalation and sent ascending from it to the nobler parts when it is so retained It offends by retention first when it is carried indeed to the naturall Emunctories or deijcient parts but the weakness of

of every radical morbid impurity whether hereditary or from the sinister use of food or by the force of externall impression THis universall Cure is performed by a naturall medicinall Balsame consentaneous to the nature of man which resolves discusseth and consumes the Seminary tinctures of all impurities and diseases but corroborates confirms and conserves the innate humane Balsame for as Paracelsus teacheth so long as the radicall humour keepes in its due quantity and proportion no Disease or indisposition can be perceived And in this way of Cure the pluralities particularities and orderly Rules of Symptoms and Prognosticks have no place for all Diseases what ever they be are universally perfectly cured by this one universall medicine It is not without reason then that Raymund Lullâ—e affirms that this onely one supreme universall medicine to which and in which the virtues of all other particular and specificall medicines are reduced and included may be safely administred unto all sick persons without inquiring what Disâ—ase they are sick of For wise nature by an instinct from her selfe hath given unto this her favourite medicine the prerogative and power to cure and absolutely to exterminate all naturall infirmities whatsoever yea and to rectifie and restore her own selfe when disordered and weakned There be four chief kinds of Diseases which if once confirmed or inveterate can be expelled by no medicine but the universall namely the Falling-sicknesse the Gout the Dropsie and the Leprosie To these Paramount Diseases all other inferiour sicknesses as to their proper fountaines and originalls have relation and affinity This universall medicine is a Jewel much to be wished for and worthy the looking after but few are they whom God blesseth with his favourite-secret Lullius adviseth all Physicians that diligently and faithfully labour for to search and looke after it because it is the infallible remedy against all infirmities and the greatest and most proper restorative and comforter of the spirits in their functions For in this medicine as in their onely and proper subject there is â—â—â—all and universall collection and conjunction of all the operative effectuall virtues of generall Physick coacted and united together by a natural method consent and design which virtues are otherwise according to the ordinary course and dispensation of nature confusedly dispersed and distributed amongst and through her * three great Families and he that hath such an Antidote against all bodily Diseases hath the gift of God which is an incorrupt incomparable and invaluable treasure in this life What ever infirmity cannot be healed by this competent natural medicine we may boldly and safely conclude that the finger of the great God of nature is in the Cause But the paine when we find it to proceed from his righteous hand is by much the more tolerable and we ought to beare it patiently and thankfully until the Almighty Physician himselfe will be pleased to heal us by those wayes and means which his divine and unerring wisdome shall judge the best III. 2. Next to the universall is the particular cure by which the roots of diseases and the Seminal tinctures themselves are not alwayes taken away but the bitter fruits of them the Symptoms Paroâ—isâ—es and paines are oftentimes prevented mitigated and so supprest that they cannot come to their exaltatâ—on or the worst passe as the common phrase is By this Cure the Physicall evacuation of Excrements is instituted and some considerable succours are communicated to opprest nature by the friendly consentaneous spirits of those medicines that are administred which spirits can onely rightly know and penetrate into the secret lodges and topicall residencies of the radicall morâ—ifie impurity NOw though this particular Cure performs no more than we have told you in the definition of it yet is it not therefore to be slighted nor rejected for it doth oftentimes in the most desperate diseases doe the work of the universal because the most mercifull God hath discovered unto us certain secret-natural universals of which some containe in them the nature of the whole Heaven others of the whole Air and some againe of the whole earth by whose help most Diseases are easily known and cured Moreover specifical appropriate medicines when they are rightly refined and spiritualized will emulate the virtue of the universal by consuming radical impurities strengthning the virtue of the innate humane Balsame Seeing then that we want the universal it will be happy for us if we may attaine to the anie knowledge of at least the particular subordinate specifical and individual kinds and means of cures Section 2. How a Physician ought to be qualified I. Every Physician that desires to cure sick persons well and happily must be a sound Christian and truly religious and holy FOr true and perfect medicines and the knowledge of them can no where be had but from God whom we can serve by no other means in this life but onely by piety and piety hath included in it fervent and incessant supplications unto God hearty and frequent thanksgivings for his gracious and free benefits with sincere and actuall love towards our Neighbours God is so infinitely good and kind that he doth dayly give and offer both to the good and to the bad all those things which are necessary both for their sustenance and their health but that we use those gifts to the glory of God and the good of our Neighbours piety alone is the onely cause Therefore if thou desirest to select and extract convenient and effectuall Medicines out of those Myriads of Creatures which by the secret power of their Creator dayly flow upon thee appear about thee Fear God and love thy Neighbour as thy selfe This being done I affirm it to thee thou shalt find those things which will fill thee with joy Thou maist easily apprehend by what I say that he is unworthily permitted to be a Physician whose practise hath no other aim then Covetousness and Usury and abuseth the gifts of God I mean his medicinal favours and discoveries to hoord up for himselfe the riches of this world They are all impostors and faithlesse Mountebanks who professe Physick and its great ornament Chymistry out of such a sordid uncharitable and unjust design II. He must be the servant not the Master of nature and according to the sentiment of Hippocratesand Calen he must be a profound Philosopher and expert or well vers'd in the Art of healing HE must be throughly seen in Philosophy because there be two sorts of Philosophers The one who are in truth but Philosophers by name after the common Doctrine of the Schooles inquire onely into the Elementary qualities of sublunary bodies but the other sort who are the true Philosophers indeed search into the most secret operations proprieties and performances of nature her most private Closers and Sanctuaries are ever open unto these whence it comes to passe that they have a perfect experimentall knowledge by the light of Nature and are indeed

administer no Medâ—cineâ— whose forces or operative virtues in taking away the disease he is not throughly acquainted with unlesse he be well assured that they cannot indanger nor prejudice a person that is in health by such trials he may safely and profitably discern what his Medicines can and what they cannot effect IV. He must administer nothing that hath in it a manifest poyson unlesse the venome be first wholly and actually separated or taken out V. He must before the administration of his Medicines remove all impediments that are likely to oppose or weaken their virtues and this must be done either by himself or by another viz. by a Surgeon HE must let blood take away all luxations set broken bones c. And afterwards apply his Medicines inwardly or outwardly or both wayes as need requires VI He must prescribe such a Dyet both of Meat and Drinke as will be agreeable to his Patients present exigencie and for the furtherance or assistance of nature and the restoration of health VII He must carefully observe a just Dose in all his Medicines with respect had to their operations and to the strength of the Patient VIII He must never administer any of his Medicines without sanctifying them in and with the blessed name of JESUS CHRIST Whatsoever ye doe saith the Apostle of the Gentiles in word or deed doe all in the name of the Lord JESUS giving thankes to God and the Father by him Colos. 3. 17. Section 7. How the sick man should behave himself while he is in a course of Physick I. Let the sick person acknowledge that he hath deserved and drawn upon himselfe the just anger of God by his frequent sinnes and that it is by his righteous permission that he is visited with sicknesse II. Let him by an unfeigned penitence and a godly sorrow reconcile himhimselfe unto God through the merits of his Saviour putting on an holy resolution to become a new man and afterwards let him draw near to the throne of Grace and intreat God for mercy and his healing assistance III. After reconciliation and invocation of the divine Aide let him send for the Physician and Physick being taken let him not doubt of Gods mercy and his own recovery THat is to say let him certainly believe that there is communicated and infused by the gift of God into the medicine which he hath taken such an innate vertue as is effectual and proper to expell his Disease If he doth this the event will be answerable to his faith and the Medicine will in all circumstances work successfully A firm credulity chearfull hope and true love and confidence towards the Physician and the Medicine saith that great Philosopher Oswaldus Crollius conduce as much to the health of the Patient yea sometimes more then either the remedy or the Physician Naturall faith I meane not the faith of Grace which is from Christ but the imaginative â—aith which in the day that the first man was created was then infused and planted in him by God the Father and is still communicated to his posterity is so powerfull that it can both expell and introduce Diseases as it manifestly appeares in times of infection when man by his owne private imagination out of meere feare and horrour generates a Basiliscum Coeli which infects the Microcosmical Firmament by means of the Imaginants superstition according as the Patients faith assists or resists To the faithfull all things are possible for faith ascertaines all those things which are uncertaine God can by no meanes be reach'd and injoy'd of us but onely by faith whosoever therefore believes in God he operates by the power of God and to God all things are possible But how this is performed no humane wit can find out This onely we can say that â—aith is an operation or work not of the Belâ—ever but of him in whom he believes Cogitations or thoughts surpasse the operations of all Elements and Stars for while we imagine and believe such a thing shall come to passe that faith brings the worke about and without it is nothing done Our faith that it will be so makes us imagine so imagination excites a Star that Star by conjunction with Imagination gives the effect or perfect operation To believe that there is a medicine which can cure us gives the spirit of Medicine that spirit gives the knowledge of it and the Medicine being known gives health Hence it appeares that a true Physician whose operations are natural is born of this faith and the spirit I meane this spirit of nature or star of medicine furthers and assists him according to his faith It happens oftentimes that an illiterate man performes those cures by this imaginative faith which the best Physicians cannot doe with the most soveraigne medicines Sometimes also this bare perswasion or imaginative faith heales more and more effectually then any virtue in the exhibited Medicine as it was manifestly found of late years in that famous Panacea or All-heal of Amwaldus and since his time in that new medicinall spring which broke out this present yeare in the Confines of Misnia and Bohemia to which an incredible number of sick persons doe daily resort No other cause can be rendred of these Magnalia or rare Physical operations then the firme and excessive affection of the Patient for the power which worketh thus is in the Spirit of the receiver when taking the medicine without any fear or hesitation he is wholly possessed and inspired as it were with an actual desire and beliefe of health for the rationall soule when stirred up and enkindled by a vehement imagination overcomes nature and by her own effectuall affections renewes many things in her own body or mansion causing either health or sicknesse and that not onely in her own body but Extraneously or in other bodies The efficacy of this naturall faith manifested it selfe in that woman with the bloody Issue and in the Centurion Hitherto are the words of Crollius IV. When the Patient is delâ—vered from his disease and restored to his former health let him heartily and solemnly give all the glory to the Supreme All-mighty Physician let him offer the sacrifice of Thankes-giving and acknowledge the goodness and the tender mercies of the Lord And let not the Physitian forget to performe his duty by a thankeful and solemn acknowledgement of Gods gracious concessions by choosing and enabling him to be his unworthy instrument to restore the sick And this he must do not onely because it is his duty and a most deserved and obliged gratitude but also out of a wise Christian caution to avoid those judgements which are poured upon the negligent and ungratefull by the most just jealousie of the irresistible and everlasting GOD unto whom alone be rendred by Angels and Men and by all his creatures All Praise and Glory and perpetual thanks in this the Temporall and in the eternall Being Amen FINIS * It was not long before the publishing of this peece that I was told by a very noble Gentleman that in his late travailes in France he was acquainted with a young French Physician who for a long time had beene suiter to a very handsome Lady and having at length gained her consent was married to her but his Nuptial bed proved his Grave for on the next morning he was found dead It was the Gentlemans opinion that this sad accident might be caused by an excessive joy and for my part I subscribe to it for a violent joy hath oftentimes done the worke of death this comes to passe by an extreame attenuation and diffusion of the animal spirits which passing all into the exterior parts leave the heart destitute whence followes suffocation and death Scaliger Exercit. 310. gives the reason of this violent effusion and dissipation of the Spirits Quia similia maxime cuprint inter se uniri ideo spiritus veluti exire conantur ad objectum illud exâ—ernumâ— atum ac jucundum ut videlicet cum eo vniantur Illudque sibi maxime simile reddant If any will suspect that together with this excessive joy there was a concurrency of the other excess mentioned by my Author I permit him his libâ—rty but certainly I thinke he will be deceived * Extrarious signifies such a substance that is quite another thing and of another disposition than ours is * I promise my English Reader that if God will blesse me with health and his performing assistance I will shortly communicate to him according to the Hermetic principles a most accurate Treatise of Meteors their Generation Causes qualities peculiar Regions and Forms what spirits governe them and what they signifie or fore-shew * Animalls Vegetals and Minerals â˜ž * The terme of life is moveable not fixed conditionall not positive as appears by that commandement which S. Paul observed to be the first with a promise and by many other reasons which cannot be inserted in this place

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