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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

his Maker his Neighbour and himself to the utter misery and perdition of his soul For every disease is an expiatory penance and by this divine affliction correction and rod of judgement is the patient called upon and required to amend his life or else by this fatherly visitation and imposition of the Crosse which every child of God in imitation of his blessed Sonne must patiently bear he is purposely exercised to be an example of piety submission and perfection unto others for God doth oftentimes permit some particular persons to be afflicted with many and grievous Diseases whom the cheerefulness and health of the flesh with their dayly continuation in sins if left without rebuke had cast at length into some desperate spirituall malady to the manifest hazard of their eternal welfare for health without holinesse and a penitent resentment of of our frequent infirmities is no token of Gods mercy but rather of damnation and the portion of this life Moreover sinnes by weakning the forces and activities of the soule make her impotent and unfit to govern the body so that the principall part being sick and unapt to rule the bodily faculties are profusely wasted and abused and so death is hastned on and with it a total and a finall destruction At least by this yoke and bridle of sicknesse as by a wholsome kind of purgatory men will be retained in the ordinary offices of piety and though they be but few who are effectually reclaimed or converted by it yet this detainment of their health which i● still left to them they had still abused will in some measure restrain and cut off from them both the liberty and the power of sinning Hitherto the most learned Crollius Thou wilt now perhaps object that seeing all Diseases are not curable it is consequently absurd to terme any Medicine universal I answer That is termed universall not becaus it takes away all diseases at all times in all Causes for that it cannot do but because it being but one can expell and cure all those diseases which by all other particular or specifical Medicines whatsoever can or have been healed and eradicated yea and some diseases which by no appropriated particular medicine can be healed as the Gout the Falling sicknesse the Dropsie the Leprosie c. Therefore it is termed universal because it hath in it real and effectually all the manifest and occult virtues of all other specifical medicines that eminently or by way of transcendency so that all other medicines are subordinate and accomptable unto this Section 6. How Medicines ought to be administred to the sick and after what manner the Physician must behave himself in their administration and generally in his practise I. Every professor of Physick when he is furnished with convenient effectuall and rightly prepared medicines before he enters into practise must be conversant with and acquire the friendship of some learned and well experienced Physiciar whose advise and assistance in his first attempts he must make use of not omitting his own observations FOr in the multitude of Counsellours there is safety and a more exact judgement is given of the Patients present condition and the wayes and meanes to restore him are better and surer laid By this Course that opprobrious German Proverb which sticks too fast to some young Adventurers Ein newer Arkt Ein newer Kirch-hoff A new Physician must have a new Church-yard would be easily refuted and quite abolished This very Course after serious and needful considerations I did heretofore propose to my selfe and to effect it throughly I procured and entred into mutuall and friendly Covenants with a certaine Doctor of Physick who was not unlearned and that I might by this meanes proceed farther in my Chymical discoveries I conversed with him by frequent Letters and other more familiar wayes And this I did because I supposed him at that time to be a true Philososopher but I could never receive one line from him that was not wholly dictated by the spirit of pride and arrogancy At length when it fortuned that after a most loving invitation I could not for very moving and extraordinary reasons attend upon him he rail'd at me though altogether innocent with most horrid imprecations and virulent language terming me an unsanctified villaine and laboured by all meanes to vilifie my studies and person that by such clamorous and publique discouragements he might force me to desist and give over my profession But none of these things shall move me for God will yet give me such friends with whom I may freely deliberate and advise about Physical operations and the healing of the sick too much knowledge is oftentimes foolishness True Philosophers walk wholly in the plaine path of nature What profits learning where pride beares the sway and blinds the owner I have ever judged the modest knowledge to be the most divine It is true indeed we are not all equalls but let him that hath more of the light walke in that shining path with modesty I confesse indeed and it is true that he was my superiour by many degrees but had he beene moved to this harsh dealing by a meer conceit of his superiority in learning perhaps he would not have cast me off so as he hath done God resisteth the proud and gives grace even to the humble Yea the most wise and the blessed JESUS did humble himselfe in the very forme of a servant that he might familiarly live and converse with the most obscure and inferiour sort of people and he was not ashamed nor disdained to teach those poore spirits not a sublunary transient knowledge but the glorious and permanent mysteries of the Kingdome of heaven I love still the learning of so eminent a person because others whom I love commend it unto me But that great knowledge which he abuseth to an injurious scorn and undervaluing of me I heartily hate God Almighty it may be for some secret respects which his all discerning spirit onely knowes would not suffer me to impart any longer as we were mutually bound my private affaires unto him Therefore from henceforth let him live to himselfe onely I would have him understand by this which is published that his vehement and bitter Letters made me very sad But to returne to what we have proposed in the Contents of this Section A Physician that would practise successfully must First and before all things find out the disease and what the cause of it is For in vain wilt thou either seek or apply remedies if the cause of the disease be not perfectly knowne unto thee the beginning of the Cure is a right knowledge of the Disease but the disease cannot be known without knowing the cause For then are we confident that we know the matter and effect when we have discovered the cause or efficient of it II. He must apply and appropriate his remedies to the root and originall apparent cause of the d●sease and not otherwise III. He must

after she would remaine sound and unimpaired so that nothing of her Homogeneous essence and perfection could be saved from her by any Extraneous fire then without doubt both the way to and the miraculous Energie of this onely true and undeceiving medicine were in thy hands Section 5. Why Medicines cannot alwayes restore sick Persons to their former health O●waldus ●roll●us a cruly learned and expert Physician in his Preface to his Basilica Chymica doth most fully and judiciously handle this point His words are these It is observed sometimes that sick persons by the most convenient and effectual Medicines cannot be healed for some one or more of these eight subsequent reasons The first is because their appointed time or terme of life is come which by no humane wit or Medicine can be prolonged For there is no remedy upon earth by which our corruptible bodies can be freed from death the decreed penalty and the wages of our sinnes But there is one thing which if we add holinesse to it will keep back and restrain corruption renew youth and lengthen our short life as heretofore in the Patriachs Now though our life may be shortned and * prolonged yet because of the punishment for sinne we must by the immutable decree of the eternal Law unavoydably die for a conjunction of different Natures and things suppose a Spirit and a Body must necessarily induce a dissolution else we should state a Pythagorical Metempsuchosis or a revertency in ages as Plato did And in this Case the use of our universall and supreme Medicine will prove as vaine and ineffectuall as an old womans Recipe● because the Marriage of souls and bodyes ordained by an inevitable necessity for divorcement and separation can by no industry of Artists nor Ayds of nature be rendred perpetuall for the statute Lawes of the present things and their great Law-giver are inviolable It is impious therefore to seeke and impossible to find out such a Medicine that will carry us alive beyond those bounds which the very Father of life will not have us to transpasse The second reason is Because that sick persons are too too often brought to such a lamentable passe by the ignorance of unlearned Physicians and their pernicious Recipe's that the best and most virtual medicines can doe them no good their bodies being utterly poysoned and made immedicable by those fatal Tormentors and Executioners of mankind In this desperate ●ase most commonly is the Chymicall Physician called upon but then would I have him to call to mind that saying of Trophilus in Plutarch which affirms that man onely to be the compleat Physician {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and not to cast away but of vaine-glory their soveraigne and undeserved medicines to ●alve the credit of such detestable villaines whose infamy is past cure {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Let them beware also that they suffer not their Medicaments to be mingled with the sluttish and venemous compositions of others lest the ill consequence of such doings be laid to their charge and the success or good event if any comes to passe be arrogated by and ascribed unto those impudent and clamorous impostors for such a perverse and execrable envy possesseth these Medicasters that to disgrace those that are more learned and expert than themselves and to keep up their owne decaying repute they will if they can have that opportunity cast those Patients which are curable and towards recovery into an incurable and hopelesse condition Hence it comes to pass that amongst the common sort of people who suffer most by them they are publiquely saluted by the most apposite Title of Profest Poysoners The third reason is Because the Physician is called upon too late when nature is quite mastred or orecome and the disease hath got his full sway otherwise if convenient or proper medines were seasonable that is to say in a time of prevention by resisting the beginnings and first attempts of diseases administred no doubt but with Gods blessing and assent the consequence and effect would be happinesse and health The fourth reason is because the sick person will not punctually observe the Physicians prescriptions for it happens too often that Diseased people charge the Physician or his Medicines with those ill events which by some omission or irregularity contrary to that golden Law of the Locrenses in Ael●anu● they have drawne upon themselves The fifth reason is because the nature or peculiar propriety of some persons are not inclinable or adapted to health as we see some timber to be so tough and knotty and out of a certaine natural defect to degenerate into such an untowardnesse that by no force or Art it can be cleft or wrought And it happens very frequently that the time chosen for healing together with the indisposition of the Stars oppose the Cure for what ever Disease is unseasonably that is to say immaturely heal'd the party will be ever after subject to a relapse because it is the seasonablenesse or fulnesse of time that like harvest gives a firme and a fixed health A ripe Pear will fall off the Tree spontaneously but if we seeke to have it off while it is green we must either bruise the tree by shaking it or with more violence break off the bough Therefore if these considerations be neglected especially in the Cure of Astral diseases we shall but lose our labour and come off with prejudice Physicians also must religiously provide that the remedies they give prove not worse then the Disease therefore let them never advise their Patients to any impious course nor consent to doe those things which by salving the sore destroy the soule and the body too let it be their chiefe care not to hurt if they cannot help By doing so they will keep a good conscience which is a continuall ●east but for a bad one there is no medicine The sixth reason is because the disease is come to that pitch or confirmation from whence there can be no regress by the Laws of nature as in perfect absolute and confirmed bituminous massie sandy and stony coagulations for in such consummated Diseases no medicines can availe nor in a native deafnesse or blindness for what nature her selfe hath once deprived us off that cannot be restored by any Artists no more then corporall disproportions and birthmaimes or transpositions can be amended The seventh Cause or Reason is the sordid tenacious parcimonie of some rich Patients which makes the Physician for no Money is better disbursed nor more honestly gotten discontented and carelesse sometimes also the diffidence incredulity and suspition of Patients though the Physician be never so faithful and diligent hinders the operation of the Medicine and is a great impediment to the Physician himself The eighth and last reason is the wisdome and the goodnesse of God who without further toleration takes away the Patient lest being recovered he should commit more and more heynous offences against