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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51447	Themis avrea the laws of the fraternity of the Rosie Crosse / written in Latin by Count Michael Maierus, and now in English for the information of those who seek after the knowledge of that honourable and mysterious society of wise and renowned philosophers ; whereto is annexed an epistle to the fraternity in Latine, from some here in England.; Themis aurea. English	Maier, Michael, 1568?-1622.	1656 (1656)	Wing M287; ESTC R21726	55,939	168

of Hamech with others were compounded of many Simples which being after long fermentation well digested became most soveraign remedies and have been in use almost 600. years and have helped many thousands of people We deny not but these compositions are excellent and have been in great esteme in foregoing and latter Ages we likewise approve perhaps of six hundred more if they are grounded upon experience for they who first invented these Medicines did not consider whether the Qualities were hot or cold but to their Nature and Essence as they either resisted poison or conduced to the Evacuation of ill Humours in the body as in Treacle there is vipers flesh and many others of the same vertue Our discourse is against the vain extemporary ostentation in prescribing of Medicines compounded of Plants hot dry cold and moist in this and that degree We knew a Physitian who was wont to boast that he knew not any one particular experiment but all remedies were alike to him respective the first second and third Qualities and this surely proceeded from his ignorance of what was to be known but a wise and prudent spirit searches more narrowly and descends to particulars For indeed it is more easiy by general rules to passe a judgement of Simples then by experience to finde out the proper vertue of Specificks and the reason is because each Simple hath a peculiar property which distinguisheth it from another and sometimes contrary nay the Qualities do not onely differ in respect of others but the same Simple may have effects differing in it selfe as it appears in Rubarb which in respect of its first Qualities hot and dry it doth encrease Choler in mans body but in respect of its essence and specifick nature it purgeth it To passe by Opium and Vinegar with many others we see how the same thing in their first second and third Qualities have many times contrary operations so Runnet makes thinne thickned blood of the hare but if it be very fluid it thickens it so also Vitrioll according to its nature doth penetrate and is astringent yet it doth repel and disperse Lead outwardly applyed to it though Quick-silver is most weighty yet by the fire it i● sublimed and ascends and though it is a thick grosse body it may yet by Art be made to peirce any body and afterwards be reduced to its own native purity Many more proofes might be brought for their is nothing in the World how abject and low soever but it hath a stampe upon it as a sure seale of its proper vertue of which he that is ignorant hath hitherto attained but the huske and shell the outside of knowledge Lest therefore this errour in judgement should corrupt practice and mens lives thereby should be in danger we thought it a good peice of service to desire those who bend and employ their studies in the Honorable faculty of Medicine to seek more after a few rare and certain Specificks then to follow generals which so commonly deceive We ought not to shew our selves so impious and undutiful as being in honour having encrease of riches to scorne our poor parents so Experience is the mother of Art and shall we now contemn her as having no need of her Experience hath been stiled the Mistresse of Fooles and Reason the Queen of Wise men but in a different respect they ought not to be separated as many Experiments beget Reason so Reason maintains and adornes Experience CHAP. VIII That many Medicines because of their high titles and the fond opinion of men who think that best which costs most are in great esteem though others of lesse price proper to the Country are far above them in excellency and worth BEsides the abuses mentioned in the foregoing Chapter another is crept in the former were cheats in respect of Quantity and Quality here by this the purse is emptied for they fall in with mens humours who then think a thing good when they have well bought it Hence Galen concealed his Golden Emplaister for the Squinancy by which he got an hundred Crownes which indeed was in it selfe of little worth for there are many things of excellent use which if they were divulged would be foolishly despised because vulgar hands pollute whatever comes into them some reason may be why after they are not so succesful because the Imagination and Fancy works not so strongly and desponds as to the cure from such slight meanes and so hinders the operation for although another mans imagination hath little force upon me yet mine own much alters the body and either hinders or furthers a remedy in its working As this is cleare in many diseases so especially in Hypocondriack Melancholy called the shame of Physitians because rarely cured wherein the non-effecting of the cure depends upon the prejudiced imagination of the Pat●ent who despairs of help for cares greife and despair do alter and change the blood corrode the heart overwhelme the spirits that they cannot performe their offices if therefore these can first be removed there is very great hope of recovery Under this Cloak many cover their knavery and covetousnesse who seek nothing but gain by their practice for they call their Medicines by great names that the imagination of the Patient closing with so rich and precious remedies may promote the cure and therefore they compound their Medicines of rare Ingredients as Gold Silver Pearls Pezoar Ambergrease Musk and many more and then they christen them according to their birth They call them the Balsome of Life the Great Elixar the Restorative of Life Potable Gold Butter and Oyle of the Sun and who indeed can reckon up their tricks by which they draw in and delude such multitudes of ignorant people yet their great names are not altogether insignificant for by their Balsom of Life they meane that which maintains and keeps themselves alive But grant these costly Medicines to be good and useful yet they must confesse that others not so chargeable have greater vertues in them We may also question whether they deale honestly and do not sell a little salt for Gold and ranke poison for the Balsom of life we have known some at deaths door by their Mercury I speak this that others may be cautious think what would come of it when one mistaking administred Opium for Apium or Parsly thus they try experience upon mens bodies and kill one to save another Besides though these may be very excellent Cordials or Antidotes ye tae they not appropriated to the disease and so consequently little conducing to the greife Consider then the abuse the Patient pays a great price for that which is of small advantage to him and scornes those meanes which are at an easiy rate wherein also there is no danger as being by experience confirmed and by all hands received It is not hard to prove that each Country abounds with Simples suitable to the Diseases of that Count●y and that we need not go India or use Exotick