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A35573 The wards of the key to Helmont proved unfit for the lock, or, The principles of Mr. William Bacon examined and refuted and the honour and value of true chymistry asserted / by John Case ... Case, John, fl. 1680-1700. 1682 (1682) Wing C821; ESTC R37527 17,474 27

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bestowed on mankind as it is said in the Eighth Psalm Thou hast made him to have dominion in the works of thy hands and in Deut. 4. where God hath appointed the service of the Stars unto all people that are under Heaven but in particular to the business we are on now he hath made him King and Lord over three Kingdomes viz. Vegetable Animal and Mineral and by Vertue of these what cannot he do and how honourable are they that have the Command of these They may command Lead into Gold dying Plants into fruitfulness the Sick into Health Old Age into Youth and what not Prevail with Nature and the fair Diana of the Philosopher is at your service I you cannot prevail with Nature for the fairest of her Daughters viz. the Mercury of Philosophers Yet there is another of wonderful Beauty as are the Essence and Magister of Philolophers which are endowed with Riches Honour and Health for these you may more easily prevail with Nature This Art is more noble than all other Arts and Sciences and if it did once truly shine forth out of the Clouds wherewith it is Eclipsed it would darken all the rest as the Sun doth the stars or at least swallow up their Light This is that true Natural Philosophy which most accurately Anotomizeth Nature and Natural Things c. As you see in the first Chapter that Fire is the grand principle of Natural Bodies so by Fire and Heat we are able to subdue hard Bodies change and separate their Souls or Spirits from their Feces which are dull earthly mixtures which do but hinder the Efficacy they should have on sick Bodies but by the Art of Chymistry we take their purest part of their Bodies which will sooner shew their efficacies and power viz. to support and heal any of the four Humours which the Bodies of mankind are supported by we may by good Reasons divide Diseases into two parts Chronick and Acute Chronick by the Sun Acute by the Moon the Acute Diseases may be cured in a very short time but Chronick Diseases not so soon for they proceed from Obstructions or Stoppages in Head or Viscera but far sooner by our Chymical Medicines than those of the Gallenical Way Mr. Bacon is pleased to tell us in the latter part of his book strange things viz. that he Cures Chronick Diseases as continued Feavers Agues and such like in two or three Fits and also any considerable Disease or Sickness within six hours and also saith he all Pestilential Feavers Those that believe this certainly must be of a strange Faith and Opinion as to think that Mr. Bacon is able to alter the Creation of the World and to cause the Signs Circles and Stars of Heaven which God hath made fixed for him to make moveable and common surely not so methinks he is too hasty the only way in my Judgment is not to disannul but remember and agree with that wise saying of Solomon Tempus est ad omnia perpetrandra There is a time for the doing of all things which must be allowed of for it is that which brings things to perfection CHAP. IX The Character of a true Medicine SOme will say How shall we know how to distinguish betwixt good and bad That will be too large for me here to lay open to you all the ways to know a good Medicine from the bad for it is well known that it is very difficult to know some sorts of Medicines by an Oculary Judgment therefore it lieth and consisteth in the honesty and uprightness of the Operator or those that sell those medicines for there are some who buy of Chymists Medicines Cheaper than ordinary and the other sell for little profit when they know that it is not as it ought to be Therefore this lies and consists too in Experience Your best way therefore is to confide in an ingenuous and approved Chymist or an honest Apothecary Drugster or the like by which you will not fail There is one thing more which casts a great scandal upon our Medicines viz. A mistake of the Doctor or by his unskilfulness First in not Administring such of them as ought to be or in the quantity of the Dose and so it works not the expected Effects for which we bear the blame Secondly by unskilfulness for there are many who go under the Title of Doctor who know not what Humour or Disease they are to Cure neither can they give an accout of what they take in hand Si tu Cupis peritus esse in arte Medendi debes in hac Oratione sequenti id est de Medicina Astrologia gnarus esse Nam hic ad studendum satis tibi praebet Scilicit Sympathia Antipathia nec sunt Planulae quibus totum Medicinae Corpus vertitur Deducitur hoc fundamentum tibi datum est ad tuam erigendum Constructionem CHAP. X. A Word of Advice to all in general as well as to Chymists NAture hath given to Man no better thing than Death it is meant here that Death by which we fulfil the course of Nature Non deterret sapientem Mors quia propter incertos casus quotidie immanent propter brevitatem vitae nunquam longe potest abesse Death cannot terrifie a wise man which by reason of so many uncertain chances is always imminent and in regard of the shortness of his life can never be long absent The living Spirit is instanly Extinguished if it be deprived either of Motion or Refrigeration or of Aliment these three are the proper and immediate passions of the Spirit for all the Organs of the principal parts serve hereunto that these Offices may be performed And again all destructions of the Organs which are deadly bring the matter to this point that one or more of these three fails There are divers ways to death but they end in these three Now the whole Fabrick of the parts is the Organ of the Spirit as the Spirit is the Organ of the reasonable Soul which is Incorporeous and Divine CHAP. XI A Word or two how the Body of Man is supported BY these three Intentions First the prohibiting of Consumptions The perfecting of Reparation and The Removing of Oldness These three Intentions to those Operations First is the Operation upon the Spirits that they may renew their Vigour The second is upon the Exclusion of the Air. The third is upon the Blood and Sanguine Heat The fourth on the Juyces of the Body The fifth upon the bowels for their extrusion of Aliment The sixth is upon the outward parts for their attraction of Aliment The seventh is upon the Aliment it self for the Nutriment thereof The eighth is upon the least Act of Assimulation The ninth is upon the Intineration of the parts after they begin to dry The tenth is upon the purging away of the old Juyce and to the supplying it with new The four first belong to the first Intention the four next to the Second and