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A48394 A miraculous cure of the Prusian swallow-knife being dissected out of his stomack by the physitians of Regimonto, the chief city in Prusia : together with the testimony of the King of Poland, of the truth of this wonderfull cure : likewise the certificate of the lords the states and all the physitians of Leyden / translated out of the Lattin ; whereunto is added a treatise of the possibility of this cure with a history of our owne of the consolidation of a wound in the ventricle ; as also a survay of the former translation, and censure of their positions by Dan. Lakin, P.C. Lakin, Daniel, P.C.; Władysław IV Zygmunt, King of Poland, 1595-1648. 1642 (1642) Wing L200; ESTC R23085 101,722 162

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a small bullet shot into his bowells out of a brasse Trunke could have escaped safe which yet we read in Valleriola did thus happen unto one Lib. 4. obs Med. 9. So doubtlesse where Nature plaies her part well and the faculties are firme there 's no wound to be reckoned of any danger according to Galen but where they are infirme 10. Meth. Med. or some other cause also shall molest nature quickly failes even about a slender wound Now long since Hippocrates hath witnessed as much in his boy Philias to whom from but the denundation of the bone in the fore-head a feaver happened which the lividnesse of the bone received and by and by after death it selfe Some-what not unlike this fell out here at Regiomont for but some few yeares agoe a young Student of an excellent to wardnesse was by an idle knave wounded to the very bone on the fore-head nigh the Coronall suture the fourth day he felt the accession of a feaver and with a Prognostick given the seventh day dyed The Captaine of a great Ship as witnesseth Hippocrates with the Anchor having bruised his sore-finger and the bone of his right hand an inflamation and Convulsion followed after and the thirteenth day he dyed Lib. 7. nat Hist c. 73. Lib. 3. enarrat Med. p. 444. Out of Pliny we have it that Q. Aemilius Lepidus of his great Toe being quashed at the entrance of his bed chamber gave up the Ghost It is evident out of Valleriol of Ludovicus Vives that famous man that of a small wound and altogether despicable received in the palme of his left hand scarce piercing the flesh next the skin with a Convulsion that suddainely arose dyed The like you may see in Hildan Cent. 1. Obs 21 5. Obs 2. c. Porest lib. 6. Obs Medic 49.50 Gemm lib. 1. Cosmocritic c. 6. Matth. quest me● 27. Sennelt tr 6 Pract. p. 371. About some foure yeares agoe and more a Noble-man L. Marshall of of the field not far from Mount-Royall in Borussee in a Duell had given him from another Nobleman likewise a very small wound in the Abdomem without hurting the Ventricle and intestines but he before a little halfe houre quite spent presently gave up the ghost A certaine other Electorall Courtier in some brabbles received a small wound in the Legs but forth-with expired Such mischances alack doe almost every day fall out but in the explication of their causes many seem to be at a stay There are those that ascribe the successe of the unlookt for events to the peculiar disposition of the Stars and that also an unlucky issue followes after the evill Aspect of the Planets but after the benigne Aspect like wise the like effect But since this cause is both Vniversall and very remote it may easily be hindred with those that are more neare whereas in dying particular causes may prevaile Others with Matth. say ●hat the cause is in the condition nature of the open Air when from the coldnesse thereof a wound may easily receive alteration Hippocrates Lib. 5. Aph. 20. and else-where saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the cold is a biting enemy unto Vlcers whereunto Galen 5. M. Med. 12. subscribes which in the wounds of the head is not to be thought unreasonable for for that cause as Paraeus at Paris the wounds of the head are observed to bee more mortall than at Avignon Lib. 9. Chirur. and on the contrary with us the wounds of the shins are slighter than with them For at Paris the aire is cold moist but at Avignon the heat thereof more intense whereby the humours made liquid flow more downe-wards For the like cause the wounds of the head at Bologna are esteemed mortall which at Rome though are very easily cured and on the contrary the small wounds of the Legs are scarce curable at Rome which at Bologna admit an easie consolidation as witnesse Bald. Rons d. Scorb c. 1. vide et Cl. Senn. Tr. 6. Pract. 373. Amat Lusitan Cent. 6. Cur. 100. Thirdly many there are who suppose we are to cast one upon nature her self for say they if her constitution be laudable the naturall Balsame vigorous all things yet goe well and even incurable wounds usually gaine an happy issue But if Nature bee not of that good cheere the bloud exceedingly corrupt and nature her selfe seeme as it were for to dissolve there verily even the slight and superficiall wound is made mortall In these subitaneous chances I may say wee must have respect chiefly to the passions of the mind The aire can doe much but successively for neither will it cause a momentany alteration nor will the corruption of Nature her selfe so so much as be able to induce with the concourse of Symptomes a successive destruction but after a slight stroke or small wound scarce have they beene able to infer a suddaine death I altogether conceive that there are three affections of the mind that cause this mortality to wit violent anger exceeding feare as also suddaine terrour or affrightment Which way those three may alter a man otherwise in good health it is sufficiently manifest out of Physitians Bookes and daily experience doth teach as much Hildans conceite is not amisse Cent. 1. Obs 18. that of all the perturbations of the mind anger is the fiercest and a very fruitfull Nother of infinite mischiefes because as Galen hath it by too much exagitating the humours weakning the naturall heate convulsion of the Nerves stirring up of grievous fits in the body she doth not onely change the nature of man into a most cruell bestiality as it were but also expose the same to most eminent danger Indeed Galens opinion is that no man can dye of anger but not onely the examples alleadged in Hildan L c But there are more also that evince the contrary especially if on a man that 's too much enraged a wound be inflicted although it be but small not because as 't is commonly supposed Er hat im dat Oort des leb●ns getroffen You have taken life in that place as if in the body life did walke up and downe and that if that part where life then resides he wounded a man presently at that time must loose the same but rather because the h●mours and spirits being agitated by anger and the heat too much faintned yea by the affluxe of humours usually extinct the life must bee endangered for so the Physitians have observed that on such as were too impetuously stirred up with an impotent anger the Apoplex hath fallen and they suddainely have expired of whom there are many examples that I could reckon up which within these few yeares have fallen out at Regiomontium but it pleaseth to reserve these for some other Discourse Truely they chiefly are throughly sensible of a discommodity hence who have gotten too hot a temperature of the whole body either by nature or a disease for then the naturall heat● may more easily