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A48261 The art of physick made plain & easie by the learned D. Fambresarius ... ; translated out of his famous book De schola medecin by J.P.; Scholae medicae. English La Framboisière, Nicholas Abraham de, b. 16th cent. 1684 (1684) Wing L179; ESTC R35413 45,594 151

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that differing Faculties should exist in the same Part of the Subject I confess indeed that many times one of the Faculties is deprav'd without any harm to the other for there is in Galen an excellent Story of Theophilas who believ'd that the Musicians were playing by his Bed-side and order'd them to be put out of the Room tho otherwise he talk'd rationally enough so that there the Imagination was only deprav'd There is another Story of a Lunatic who having made fast his doors brought several Dishes to the Window which he call'd by several Names asking every one that pass'd by whether they did command him to throw them away Here the Reason was out of order Another Story we find in Thueydides of many that while the Pestilence raged in Greece were so forgetful of every thing that they neither knew their own Parents nor Acquaintance Here the Memory was only deprav'd But that proceeded from the various Constitution of the Body for the Soul being pure and without mixture according to the variety of the Temperament and structure of the Instruments cannot every where operate alike nor has an equal power in all things Some we observe by Nature excelling in Wit and Imagination tho of shallow Memories and Reason others that have great Memories without Reason or Judgment others to have a solid and natural Judgment whose Imagination is defective and Memory but small so that it is no wonder to see some whose Imagination is disorder'd with a Delirium their Memory and Reason untouch'd for the stronger Faculty more powerfully resists external Injuries the weaker more easily yields As therefore in one and the same Particle there are various natural Facuities the attractive retentive concretive and expulsive of which one is frequently disturb'd the other remaining sound and unhurt and yet no Physician will affirm them to be in several Seats the same with Galen I conclude as to the Principal Faculties Nevertheless the Arabians urge that Imagination is in the foremost Reason in the middle and Memory in the hinder Ventricles of the Brain upon an Inference drawn from thence That the foremost part of the Brain is softest and more fit to receive Idea's the hinder part harder and more proper to retain the Notions receiv'd But I deny the Consequence for what has been already said yet grant withal that the Principal Functions are more sudden in their Actions in the foremost Part of the Brain in the hinder Part more perfect because the one is harder the other softer as we see that if the whole substance of the Brain be somewhat dry the Memory prevails if moist the Imagination if temperate the Judgment The followers of the Arabians also further object by the Testimony even of Galen himself that there are several Cells the one more noble then another as being the Seats of the more noble Faculties But Galen prefers the hindmost Ventricle before the rest not that the Memory is there seated the Reason in the middle the Imagination in the foremost but because the Imagination and Reason are more imperfect in the foremost the Memory more perfect in the middle most perfect behind because there the Animal Spirit is brought to its Perfection They add that Galen the Imagination being deprav'd apply'd Topic Remedies to the fore-part of the Head as being the Seat of the Fancy But they do not observe that Galen took the same course in all Affections of the Brain as in Drowsiness the Apoplexy Phrensies and Melancholy not that the Seats of the Faculties were various but to the end the force of the Medecine might penetrate more swiftly to the innermost Parts of the Brain by reason of the thinness of the Scull and the Coronal Closure D. Most learnedly have you refuted the false Opinion of the Arabians concerning the Seat of the Principal Faculties Let us proceed to the Assistant Faculties What is the sensible Faculty C. It is that which from the Brain conveighs through the Nerves Sense into the whole Body by degrees D. What is Sense C. Here it is taken Metonymically for the Act of feeling but properly is a Faculty diffus'd by the Animal Spirit the sensitive Organ interceding by which things sensible are perceiv'd D. Of how many sorts is Sense C. Twofold Interior and Exterior D. Which is the Interior Sense C. It is that which distinguishes the Objects of the several Exterior Senses It is commonly call'd Common Sense for that all the External Senses are seated round about it into whose Organs the Branches of the Nerves are disperst by which the Soul powrs forth her Efficacy the Primary Sense as King and Judge has his Seat in the Body of the Brain from whence as from a Turret it contemplates all Idea's of things brought from without by the Administring senses and observes all the Actions of the Senses Galen comprehends the Imagination under common Sense D. How many are the Exterior Senses C. Five Seeing Hearing Smelling Tasting Feeling D. What is Sight C. A Sense seated in the Eyes which receives Colours through a Medium truly conspicuous D. What the Hearing C. A Sense seated in the Ears perceiving Sounds D. What is Smelling C. A Sense perceiving Scents convey'd through the Nostrils D. What is Tasting C. A Sense residing in the Tongue which judges of the several Tasts and Savors of things D. What is Feeling C. A Sense which being confin'd to no proper Organ but equally diffus'd over all the Body by the help of the Nerves observes all tangible Qualities and their Differences as Heat Cold Moisture Driness Hardness Softness Roughness Smoothness c. D. What is the moving Faculty C. It is that which gives motion to the Body by the assistance of the Muscles at the command of the Will D. Thus far of the Animal Faculty What is the Vital Faculty C. It is that which begets the Vital Faculty in the Heart and diffuses it every way through the Arteries for the preservation of Life from whence it derives its Appellation D. What is Life C. Life is the continuance of the Natural Heat glowing in the Primogeneal Moisture as Death is the extinction of that Vital Heat By Aristotle Life is sometimes defin'd The Continuance of the Vegetable Soul in the Body sometimes the Energy of an enliven'd Body By others sometimes it is said to be the Union of the Soul with the Body sometimes the continuance of a Body enlivened to the Term that it ceases to be as Death is defin'd to be sometimes the separation of the Soul from the Organic Body sometimes the substantial Corruption of the enliven'd Body D. How many Faculties are subservient to the Vital Faculty C. Two Respiration and Beating of the Pulses because the Vital Spirit is bred and distributed by the Assistance of Respiration and the Pulses But as Respiration consists of Inspiration and Expiration so the Pulse by Dilatation and Contraction D. Does not the Irascible Faculty by the Philosophers plac'd in the Heart belong to the