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A66518	Two discourses concerning the soul of brutes which is that of the vital and sensitive of man. The first is physiological, shewing the nature, parts, powers, and affections of the same. The other is pathological, which unfolds the diseases which affect it and its primary seat; to wit, the brain and nervous stock, and treats of their cures: with copper cuts. By Thomas Willis doctor in physick, professor of natural philosophy in Oxford, and also one of the Royal Society, and of the renowned college of physicians in London. Englished by S. Pordage, student in physick.	Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.; Pordage, Samuel, 1633-1691?	1683 (1683)	Wing W2856; ESTC R219572	452,754	252

the whole Body and Parts not only many and distinct but after a manner dissimilar But that some object that the Soul of the Beast because it perceives or knows that it feels to be immaterial for that Matter seems to be incapable of Perception that indeed had been likely if that Perception should pass beyond the limits of Material things or higher than what inspires them which things are usually attributed to Natural Instinct or Idiocrasie or peculiar Temperaments that I may omit Sympathies and Antipathies But who should be the Betrother I profess the great God as the only Work-man so also as the first Mover and auspiciously present every where was he not able to impress strength Powers and Faculties to Matter fitted to the offices of a Sensitive Life The Pen in the hand of the Writer Disputes Intreats gives Relations of things and is in the mid'st between things past and things to come and why should we not believe that greater things than any of these may be done when the Skill of the Deity is present Lastly If any one shall affirm that most subtle Substance and wholly Etherial which serves for the Vital Oeconomy or Government to be immaterial for that it enters upon the sluggish Disposition of inanimate Bodies let him remember to be indulgent to me if by chance I call it material for that it subsists very much below the Prerogatives of Reason But I shall not stand upon these things for truly I have prepared a far othergates defence to wit I speak not from the Tripos like an Oracle nor from the Chair but as one of a low form I play not the Prophet or Dictator but the Philosopher neither do I plant an Opinion but propose an Hypothesis and open my Iudgment Geometry has its Demonstrations in it self we are Skill'd in that part of Philosophy where it aboundantly suffices to have brought Logical Proofs Surely he only certainly pronounces who professes his Errors and whil'st he Philosophizes about Man remembers himself that he is a Man But that according to the Adage that I should declare some to be rather sick in Soul yea first and chiefly than in Body otherways than the Schools of Physicians which refer the Primary Seats of all Diseases into solid Parts Humors and Vital Spirits or innate Heat I say from our Hypothesis to wit that this Soul hath a material Subsistence extended equally with the Body and pecul●ar Parts Powers and Affections may be concluded that it is found obnoxious also to preternatural Diseases and not seldom wants Medical help Moreover That the Corporeal Soul doth extend its Sicknesses not only to the Body but to the Mind or rational Soul which is of an higher linage and that it often-times involves it with its sailings and faults I think is clear enough in our Pathology or Method of Curing Further for the proving these two distinct Souls to be together and subordinately in Man as much as Authority and the force of Reasons can I think is there proved which Opinion is so far from that I need to fear it should be censured for Pernicious or Heretical that on the contrary we hope it is altogether Orthodox and appears agreeable to a good Life and Pious Institution from hence the Wars and Strivings between our two Appetites or between the Flesh and Spirit both Morally and Theologically inculcated to us are also Physically understood for that I see and approve the better things and follow the worser and this The Flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the Flesh. So generally comes to pass in us for as much as the Corporeal Soul adhering to the Flesh inclines Man to Sensual Pleasures whil'st in the mean time the Rational Soul being help'd by Ethical Rules or Divine favours invites it to good Manners and the works of Piety Further from hence the chief Arguments is brought against Epicurism and Atheism for that it is moved by the force of Reasons our Sensitive Soul even as that of the Brutes miscarrying the other perpetually survives for truly being perswaded of an after and Eternal State why doth it not make it its whole business that it may live more happily in it or at least not miserably But also that it may be objected that there cannot be therefore two Souls in Man because many forms cannot actuate at once the same Matter It may be answer'd that the Supream form of the same Subject doth sometimes subordinately include many others but specifies it only a Compound Also the Corporeal Soul being subordinate to the Rational subsists immediately in the Humane Body and this Superior is in the same that mediating It would be a much more difficult solution of this hard Business if the Inferior Soul of Man common to that with the Brutes should be also affirmed to be immaterial for by what knitting together can two independent Souls subsist in the same Body being from thence separated and Combined by no common Bone into what place can they depart severally Certainly as to reason it is more probable and to the Humane government more agreeable to affirm that one most subtilly Corporal Soul is joyned immediately to the Body and is intimately united and that by the intervention of this Soul another immaterial residing in its Bosom inhabits the Body and is the supream and principal form of the whole Man But that after Death the Corporeal Soul being extinct this survives and is Immortal That the Corporeal Flameous and lucid Nature of this Soul and its Parts and Affections may be the better known I have thought it necessary to describe the Vital Organs both of all Kinds of living Creatures by the Action of which the Lamp of Light is maintain'd and also to shew plainly laid open even to their intimate recesses and least and secret Passages the Brains both of the more perfect Brutes and also of Man The Anatomy of which being manifold not being able to perform it only with my own hand and Skill being also almost continually interrupted by my Practice the Famous and Skilful Anatomist and Physician Dr. Edmond King was much helpful to me by his assiduous and notable assistance and labour Also that learned Man and my most intimate Friend Dr. John Masters Skilful in Physick and Anatomy imployed much of his Labour and Diligence in the same Business Out of his various Zootomie or Anatomy of the more perfect Beasts and many-flower'd dissection the wonderful things of God are very much made known for as much as in every the smallest and vilest little Animals not only the Face and Members but also the inward Parts as it were the Hearths and Altars for the continuing the Vital Fire shew them to be of a most Elegant and Artificial and plainly Divine Structure As to our Pathology or Method of Cure I must confess that in delivering the Theory of Diseases leaving the old way I have almost every where brought forth new Hypotheses but what being founded upon Anatomical

being Medullar are marked with strait Fibres B. The Nates one of them being Derased in which the strait and thickest Medullary streakes are stretched forth towards the Brain C. The Medullary Hedg or Mound dividing the Natiform Prominences from the Optick Chambers and from which one Medullary Process is carried into the Basis of the streaked Body and the other into its Cone D. One Optick Chamber scraped that its straight and most thick-set streakes stretched forth towards the streaked Body may appear E. The hinder Border of the streaked Body receiving the Optick Medullar streakes and other Medullary Processes F. The streaked Body decreased whose little Medullary Nerves and Passages are explained in the 5th Table G. The foremost border of the streaked Body H. The Bosome leading from the Mamillary Process into the Ventricle of the forepart of the Brain I.I. The Hemisphear of the Brain opened and seperated by it self The rest here described are explained in the former Figures CHAP. V. The Beginnings and Increase of the whole Corporeal Soul also some Innate Habits and Inclinations of it are noted FRom what has been said concerning the Hypostasis and Members of the Corporeal Soul or of the more perfect Brutes which is also the inferiour Soul of Man it will be easier to trace out the Original and the Increase of the whole From hence also we may collect its figure and dimensions as also the proportion habits and inclinations of its parts in respect of it self and the members of the Body together with its Various ways of acting and suffering As to the first beginnings or original of the Corporeal Soul this like as a Shell-fish forms and fits its shell to its self exists something a little sooner and so more nobler than the organical Body Because a certain heap of animal Spirits or most subtil Atoms or a little Soul not yet inkindled lies hid in the Seminal humour which having gotten a fit cherishing or Fire-place and at length being inkindled from the Soul of the Parent acting or endeavouring or leaning to it as a flame from a flame begins to shine forth and to unfold it self a little before the Foundations or first ground-work of the body is lay'd This orders the web of the conception agitates and inkindles the applyed matter disposes and by degrees forms the Figure designed by the Archetypal Law of Creation In this stupendious Fabrick together with its bodily bulk being daily increased and Imaged into the due Species of each animal the Soul also takes its increase and still renders it self like to the Body which it forms For when as the more thick particles from matter continually put together are bestowed in the Corporeal Organs in the mean time the more subtil and spirituous being loosned and more rarefied by the burning of the others they dilate the Hypostasis of the Soul and together with the Body unfold and equally extend it But that after this manner the Seeds of the Soul being laid from the beginning together with those of the Body do rise up to a due figure and bulk in either it ought not to be attributed to the fortuitous concourse of Atoms nor to the proper Energie of the Soul it self but the beginning of all things proceeds wholly from divine Providence directing Generations to the Ends and Ideas of Forms according to the original Types primitively ordained by the same Secondly As the Increase of the animated Body and the first marrying together of the Elements proceed from this Soul informing and disposing the matter so the duration and subsistence of the same Soul is the Bond of its Mixture o● Concretion For the flame of the Soul being extinct or the inkindling and motion of the subtil particles ceasing presently the frame of the Body it self begins to be dissolved and loosned so that in a short time the Elements being loosned and laxed one from another fly away and by degrees break their Concretion wherefore this Soul as it were salt or pickle preserves the fleshy bulk of the Body from putrefaction yea the ●ame is almost in an animated Body as the Flower or Spirit in Wine which indeed being present and unfolding its spirituous Particles thorow the whole the Liquor continues still generous and flourishing but as soon as this Spirit of the Wine flies away forthwith the remaining water or liquor degenerates into an insipid and dead thing Thirdly So long as this Soul subsists in the Body according to an ancient saying of Hypocrates It is always Born even till Death In which respect also it seems to be most like flame or rather the same thing which is continually renewed almost every moment Some parts of eithers subsistence in like manner are consumed by burning and fly away and others in the mean time are laid up anew from the Food continually laid in For as the more Crass or thick Particles of the nourishing juice wrought in the Viscera fill up the losses of the Corporeal bulk so the more subtil make up the layings forth or wastings of this Soul which as they come to the blood are as it were Oyl to a Lamp and being perpetually inkindled within its bosom restore to the Soul both Flame and Light which would otherways perish For whilst the purer part of the nourishing Liquor cherishes the flame of the Blood and sustains it the most spirituous Particles falling off by its burning are instilled into the concavity of the Head which there propagate and nourish the other part of the Soul to wit the Sensitive So the making of Blood is owing very much to Chylification or the making of the Chyle and Animality or like to this notwithstanding which offices the Animal Function payes back to the Vital and both to the Organs of Chylification for as much as the Animal Spirits bestow a pulsifick force to the Heart and Arteries whereby the Blood may be agitated and carryed about to the places of accensions or inkindlings yea the Viscera of Concoction receive heat which they want from the flame of the Blood and a motive and sensitive virtue which they have need of for their Offices from a Constant afflux or flowing in of the Animal Spirits so the Brain is indebted to the Heart and both of them to the Stomach yea and on the other side this Region to that and both to the third To the end that the Hypostasis of the whole Soul might the longer continue the Tributes of all the Parts are Compensed with mutual Offices one to another and so at once the members both of the Body and of the Soul being conjoyned by a Circular necessity they desire and shew their mutual Labour Fourthly The Soul of the Brute as it is Fire according to Philosophy has these two innate Dispositions by the Law of Creation to wit that it should defend it self or delay its proper inkindling long for whose sake it is still careful of taking of food and also that it might

in a proper Broth. Take of the Syrup of Steel four ounces take of it one spoonful twice in a day in a proper Vehicle Take of the Extract of Steel of our Steel prepared with a proper Decoction three drams of the Powder of Ivory of yellow Saunders of Lignum Aloes each half a dram of the Salt of Tartar two scruples of Ammoniacum dissolved in the Water of Worms what will suffice to make a mass let it be made into small Pills let three or four be taken every Evening drinking after it three ounces of the water of Apples or of Cowslip flowers Whey if it agrees with the stomach being drunk very plentifully for many days for the same reason as Spaw-waters viz. by washing out the Salt and Sulphureous particles of the Melancholick blood is often given with success Whey with Epithimum infused in it or boiled in it is highly praised by some Let Broths be made of a boiled Pullet with the roots of Polypodium Chervil Fenil Butchers Broom and the leaves of Ceterach Harts Tongue Scolopendria c. take a draught of it in the Morning and at five of the Clock in the Afternoon in which dissolve of the Vitriol of Steel six grains to ten of the Salt of Wormwood and of the Cream of Tartar each a scruple The Iuices of Herbs and their expressions bring sometimes notable help to the taking away the Discras●e of the Blood Take of the leaves of Borage of Water-Cresses each six handfuls two Apples pared the Pulp of two Oranges and of white Sugar one ounce let them be all bruised together and pour to them of the best Cyder a pint and an half make an expression very strongly and let it be kept in a glass The Dose is four ounces twice or thrice in a day In the summer time a Bath of sweet water for that it wipes away the filth impacted in the Pores of the skin and moves transpiration insensibly is very profitable to some Because Melancholick persons sleep but badly and from long and frequent waking become worse therefore Anodynes and sometimes the more gentle Hypnoticks when there is need may be prescribed to be taken late at night for this end are convenient a Decoction of Cowslip flowers or of the leaves of Lettice or the water of red Poppies or the Syrup of the same Further Emulsions of the Seeds of the white Poppy of the Syrup de Meconio and others that are only agreeable and cherishing of the Spirits As there is an infinite Company of Melancholicks as well as of Fools therefore we shall illustrate our Hypothesis with two Examples only in one of which the Disease begins from the sensitive part of the Soul or the Animal Spirits and the other from its Vital part to wit from the Blood Sometime since a noted person about forty years of Age of a florid countenance chearful and nimble about any business being afflicted in his mind by reason of a certain affair and very much dejected he became thereupon very sad Melancholick and with a dark and cast down countenance When I went first to visit him he complained of a manifold hurry and distraction of thoughts which were so many that he was bus●ed in his Phantasie almost night and day continually he lived without any sleep Nor were these cares concerning the commonweal or the proper business of his Family nor about the health of his Soul or of his Body was he at all solicitous but was rather troubled perpetually about small matters and of no moment He was so fearful of all things that he presaged loss or death immediately to happen to him upon every small accident And lastly he was so sad as if he would contend in wee●●●● with Heraclitus Further he laboured with such a straitness of Heart and so g●●●● a constriction that he seemed to feel all his Praecordia to be drawn together like a Purse and he thought that there still lay there an immense burthen and mighty weight under which he imagined he could not go unless stopping towards the Earth Whilst he talked and discoursed with his Friends this constriction of the Praecordia and the weight did somewhat remit but then again they were wont to be repeated more vehemently shaking for fear at any unaccustomed object Nor did he labour only in his Praecordia but with a certain constriction in his whole Body besides and as if a certain burthen lay on the region of his Loins and also on his shoulders and arms The reasons of these Symptoms are clear enough from our Hyphothesis As to the Cure after various Medicines being given without any success I at last perswaded because it was then Summer time that she should drink of our Artificial Spaw Waters for a fortnight Therefore first two quarts of Spring-water being poured upon half a dram of our prepared Steel for a night and afterwards as much in four quarts of water the sick man every morning drunk the clear liquor and within four or five hours he rendered the greatest part of it by Urine He took besides going to sleep and early in the morning a Dose of an appropriate Electuary such as is above described with a Cephalick Iulep within two months he became much better and afterwards by degrees returned to himself Whilst I was writing these a young Noble man being lately returned from his Travels beyond Sea and becoming unhealthy put himself upon our care This person being formerly indued with a Sanguine and chearful temperament splendid in his appearance as also with an acute wit and of a ready ingenuity whilst he travelled in the Countries abroad but one Summer living in Spain he felt a great alteration in himself from the great heats in that place for first of all from the frequent heatings of his Blood he became obnoxious to an heat arising in the palms of his hands and in the bottoms of his feet with prickings over all his body which in a short time vanished Then he found him self very bad as to his Appetite and Sleep moreover being dull and sad he began not to mind yea sometimes to avoid any pleasant business or the converse of his Friends At length his indisposition daily increasing without any evident cause or real trouble of mind he became Melancholick so that being ever thoughtful fearful and sad nothing could delight him for his studies exercises travelling conversation with learned men or any other thing which he before delighted in now became to him a trouble and a terror After this manner being distemper'd for two years he was so changed from himself as if he were another Man For his Cure he had consulted the most skilful Physicians in Spain France and Holland and lastly in England and had tryed several methods of healing almost without any benefit The Melancholick distemper of his blood at first contracted by the intemperature of the Air still remaining and afforded to the Animal regiment Spirits