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A25375	Chymical disceptations, or, Discourses upon acid and alkali wherein are examined the object of Mr. Boyle against these principles : together with a reply to a letter of Mr. S. Doctor of Physick & fellow of the colleg of *** : wherein many errors are corrected, touching the nature of these two salts / by Fran. Andre, Dr. in Physick ..., faithfully rendered out of French into English by J.W. ; to which is added, by the translator, a discourse of phlebotomy shewing the absolute evils, together with the accidental benefits thereof, in some cases.; Entretiéns sur l'acide et sur l'alkali. English	Saint André, François de, fl. 1677-1725.	1689 (1689)	Wing A3113A; ESTC R30709	47,738	222

also it is That fat persons are the smallest Eaters by reason of the lack of internal Heat But a little after the Doctor speaks yet more fully to the Purpose Qui sanguinem habent sale volatilizato bene suturatum ●i sunt minus Febribus obnoxii hinc etiam qui saepius sanguinem emittunt ad Febres aptiore sunt Thus far he whose single Testimony in sufficient And since it appears That it doth so little hinder the approach of a Feaver that it rather furthers it it seems impossible That it should absolutely and alone cure any Fever For it is granted by all Physicians That a Fever has a property to pollute the Blood and that this can be taken away à posteriori that is by withdrawing what is putrified and contaminated seems very absurd to think being contrary to that Philosophick Axiom Manente causa manet Effectus Besides It is generally believed That the material cause of a Fever do's not possess the Vessels about the heart but rather the Vena cava and therefore how can Blood-letting be supposed to remove either the efficient or material causes thereof Wherefore consequently it can be no true Remover of a Fever but only an Abater of one of its most troublesem Symptoms viz. Heat which it do's by impoverishing the Stock of vital Spirits which maitaining Contest with the Radix of the Fever does by that contentious Motion cause that preternatural excessive Heat and Ebulition of the Blood which is particularly affected therewith hence it is That old Persons whose vital Spirits are poor in quantity and consequently not able to combate so strongly with the Disease do not appear so hot in a Fever as those whose Spirits are stronger and in a larger quantity and other persons after a tedious Warfare with this cruel Disease some small time before Death the Spirits having given up the Victory as not being able any longer to oppose the same do seem to be totally freed from all the Symptoms of their Fever For as I said the Spirits by reason of their Paucity and Imbecility do then resign up their noble Members to the Mercy of the Disease whose truculent Forces quickly invades the very Royal Pavillion of Life it self and as suddenly subverts it by committing it into the frozen Arms of a drowzy Death Whence it is held as a dangerous Prognostick when a Fever abates in the Violency of its Symptoms without any CRISIS or natural Assistance or without any medicinal Aid or without any certain Signs of approaching Health as well as sure Tokens of Nature's obtaining the Victory over the Disease So that it is no Wonder why Phlebotomy seems to afford so great Refreshment to the afflicted even in the most troublesom Symptoms because by depriving Nature of some of her provoked Forces it compells the rest for want of Power to suffer patiently the Cruelty of the Disease which if it be not very malignant as those Fevers called Ephemera Synochus non putrida and sometimes in those putrid ones called Synochus putrida and the continual Quotidian Tertian and Quartan the Contention ceasing and the corrupted blood being partly let out and the rest by some proper Medicament being corrected and amended Nature doth with much Difficulty and with great Debility at length obtain a pleasing Health Now if Phlebotomy did only let out the corrupted Blood and left still behind those Spirits which used to flow with it then Blood-letting by partly removing the Effect might ease Nature of a great deal of that which she otherwise must with abundance more Toil cast out And Reason would tell us That the natural Forces being still the same in Quantity and Power and the Inimical vitiated Blood being diminished and partly let out Nature must needs be the better able to cast out and purge the rest But since we find that the Blood and Spirits are Correlatives and do issue out together the Spirits going forth in such Quantity and the Blood let forth could be Vehicle too This proves then That Phlebotomy as it doth take away some of the corrupted Blood so it takes away also those Spirits which might have assisted to its correction some better way thereby rather weakning than assisting Nature But Phlebotomy being used in any malignant Disease is utterly destructive without a Miracle for in the Meazles Small Pox Plague c. It most commonly obstructs Nature in her Intentions so much debilitating her strength that she oft proves unable to cast forth the malignant Matter but by its poison is wholly over-come and destroy'd or at least is not capable of making an exact Purgation and though with extream hazard she escape Death yet there is such a stock of malignant matter left behind secretly lurking in the Mass of Blood which will upon a small Excitation discover its presence there by untoward troublesom Symptoms unless by powerful Remedies it be dispossest before it has fermented it self to that height It has been the Audacity of some Physicians to prescribe Blood-letting even in the Small Pox and Plague supposing That in the first the corrupted Blood being partly let out it would be impossible that the afflicted persons should have so many of those deforming Pussles as they otherwise would have had and therefore Blood-letting in such Cases might be lawful if it were upon no other account but the preserving the threatned Beauty of a youthful Face 'T is true by allaying the Effervescence of the Blood and weakning the expulsive Faculty partly as they say by reason part of that Corruption is let forth which otherwise perhaps might have made some hundreds of those filthy Pussles There is if the Diseased escape Death a great diminution of them and thereby those sweet Features which they before possest are not wholy rased But that this cannot be performed without ●●nifest Hazard of the Patient's Life Experience and Reason hath shewen since so many great Persons have fell meerly to save a handsome Face The Spirits by Blood-letting being diminished and enervated so that they can no longer endeavour for their own Recovery for as Hippocrates saith Natura est morborum Medi●a●ri● Besides Phlebotomy generally by weakning the retentive Faculty produces a Diarrhaea which was ever accounted a dangerous Symptom in malig●●● Diseases but most particularly in the Small Pox and upon this Account it is That Phlebotomy sometimes by producing 〈◊〉 accident on the a simple Feaver But in the Plague they pretend That the opening of a Vein is necessary for Prevention sake Be●ause the less Effervescence is in the Circulation of the Blood the less obnoxious we are to the Contagion The most noted man of this Opinion I find to be the above mentioned Dr. Willis in his Book of Fevers pag. 157. Where he saies Vbi adest Plethora cum magna sanguinis Turgescentia ●ut quibus longa Consuetudine sanguis solenniter mitti solebat iis venam secare convenit quo enim sanguis minus effervescet sine tumultu in

least Harm yea be very Beneficial by accident in some Respects in some few Diseases of which the most noted are a Frenzy Quinsy Pleurisy an inveterate and stubborn Head-ach and in some Fevers which be in no wise malignant as also in Contusions Rheumatisms and Intermitting Fevers but it must be in young and strong Bodies if it be done without any cause of Fear and in some few other Diseases But especially it is most proper to temper the plethorick Bodies of our age who by an extravigant Destruction of vious Liquors cause themselves to abound in that pretious balsamick vital Liquor It helps a Frenzy by abating the Effervescence of the Blood in diminishing the Vital Spirits It helps a Quinzy by Revulsion and drawing back the Blood into the Veins which would have putrified there that it may supply the loss of that which was let out In a Pleurisy it obstructs also the Apostumation of the Blood collected in the Pleura and Intercostal Branches of the Aorta by Revulsion for that Blood there ready to putrify by reason of the great heat of the Parts and its own Disposition to Putrefaction does as the Blood is drawn out of the Arm repass into the Superiour Arteries and so becomes again circulated in them the Abscess thereof being thereby prevented It cures an inveterate Head-Ach by reason it appeases the Fury of the Spirits there and by reason it depleats the Veins and Arteries wherefore 't is they are not so distended and pained as before And as for Fevers I have told you already how it comes to be assisting to their Cure only intermitting Feavers accidentally are cur'd by altering the Cirlation and by putting Nature into a Fear of Death wherefore she musters up all her Forces to oppose it whereby very often the Root of the Fever is in this great Hurry and Commotion cut off and expell●● for as Duretius saith Animi act ones incidente aliqua occasione fortius agunt presertim in morturis Whence also in Swoonings and Aopoplectick fits it proves beneficial and hence also it is That great Fears have often been a means by stirring up all the natural Forces for their own Safety to rid some Persons of chronick accute and almost incurable Diseases as Experience has often manifested Rheumatisms it cures by Derivation and so it doth som Coughs by causing the sharp Lympha which Tickles the Lungs by its sharp pointed Corpuscles the which also afflict the Nerves and Tendons with accute Pains to be discharg'd from thence mediately into the subclavian Veins to supply the loss of the Blood let out and into the Mesenterial Glandula's to be mixed with the Chyle also to promote the speedy making the like quantity of Blood hence sometimes doth the Cause of a greedy Appetite proceed afte● Blood-letting and after the retreat of a sharp Disease for Nature being studious to repair her loss and especially When she has not been too much weakned by the Disease or Blood-letting do's manifest her wants by these hungry Symptoms It seems to assist the Circulation of the Blood when it is congealed by reason of the Obstruction of its Circulation in the small Veins which by the Contusion are so squeezed that they wholly deny its flux because it seems to afford it more Room for that Circulation but if we consider That the Blood is Conglebated only as I said in the smallest Veins and that the thinnest and most fluid Blood spins out at the Orifice we cannot think it can much further its quiet Circulation since fluidity is the greatest Promoter of it Lastly By its wasting the Spirits and depriving us of that pure nutritive Juice the Blood it keeps us back not suffering Nature to store up so much Nutriment to her self and thereby renders us equally as needy as if we put a greater restraint upon our Appetites and indulged them far less than we do To the former Advantages by Phlebotomy here is added by another hand this further Benefit viz. That it is of excellent use for Women whe● their Terms dodg with them and begin to leave them and to prevent the settling of them in their Limbs or in their own Vessels putrifying and causing Ulcers Sores Piles and Fistula's in the inferiour Parts c. to prevent all which Evils Women so affected ought to bleed once a month for 3 Months together FINIS Errores Phlebot p. 10. l. 18 Crebrò p. 11. l. 5. Fat. p. 12. l. 6. above p. 15. l. 5. as the. Advertisement All Dr. Salmon's Works are certainly to be sold by Tho. Dawks living on Addle hill in Carter-lane near S. Paul's Church-yard Also the said Doctor 's Medicines truly prepared are in his absence to be sold by his Wife at his House at the Blew Balcony by the Ditch-side near Holborn Bridge There is also preparing for the said Dawks's Press A Practical Discourse concerning Swearing Not only-sharply reprooving the vain false rash inconsiderate Swearer but also chiefly reprimanding the Over-wise Quaker in the midst of all his vain-glorious Shew of seeming Holiness proving that he most abominably abuseth all those Scriptures he brings for Refusing to take an Oath before Authority when the Law of God commands it and the Glory of God as well as the Necessity of his Neighbour require it c. Place this leaf last of all