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A94421	The hidden treasures of the art of physick; fully discovered: in four books. 1 Containing a physical description of man. 2 The causes, signes, and cures of all diseases, incident to the body. 3 The general cure of wounds, tumours, and ulcers. 4 A general rule, for making all kind of medicines; with the use and nature of distilled waters, juyces, decoctions, conserves, powders, elestuaries, plaisters, &c. To which is added three necessary tables, 1 sheweth the contents of the four books. 2 Explaineth all the terms of art which are used in physick and chirurgery. 3 Explaining the nature and use of simples, what they are, and where they grow. A work whereby the diligent reader may, without the help of other authors, attain to the knowledge of the art above-named. / By John Tanner, student in physick, and astrology.	Tanner, John, ca. 1636-1715.	1659 (1659)	Wing T136; Thomason E1847_1; ESTC R203798	295,583	577

Sanguine Tumors p. 422 chap. 8. Of cholerick Tumors p. 429 chap. 9. Of Phlegmatick Tumors p. 432 chap. 10. Of Melancholy Tumors p. 439 chap. 11. Of Ulcers p. 444 chap. 12. Rules for Vomiting and Purging p. 448 The Contents of the Fourth Book CHap. 1. Of Distilled Waters page 452 chap. 2. Of Syrups p. 464 chap. 3. Of Decoction and Juyces p. 484 chap. 4. Of Lohocks p. 486 chap. 5. Preserves Conserves Sugars and Lozenges p. 489 chap. 6. Of Troches p. 493 chap. 7. Of Pills p. 501 chap. 8. Of Powders p. 510 chap. 9. Of Electuaries p. 519 chap. 10. Of Oyls p. 534 chap. 11. Of Oyntments p. 534 chap. 12. Of Plaisters p. 539 CHAP. I. A Physicall Description of Man THe omnipotent and wise Creator having created all things out of nothing and out of a rude and undigested lumpe or masse according to his will and by his word brought all things into a decent frame and comely structure out of a confused nothing wrought the Heaven and the Earth out of that which was darke and voide he created light he seperated the Waters from the Earth and gave bounds to the unruly waves and indued the dry and barren Earth with a prolificall virtue richly adorning it with grasse hearbs and Fruit-Trees he made the Sun Moon and Stars to divide the light from the darknesse to enlighten and rule both day and night to be for signes to distinguish seasons dayes and yeares by his word he created every living thing that moveth in the Sea and in the Earth Having thus farr I say proceeded in his so excellent and admirable workmanship of Creation he made Man a Summary of the Worlds Fabrick a small draught of the Divine Nature he was made after other Creatures not only as the most perfect but as the super-intendent master of all things created Qui dominetur in pisces maris et in volucres coeli et in pecudes in universam terram atque in omnia reptilia reptantia super terram to rule over the Fish of the Sea and over the Foule of the Aire and over the Cattle and over the Earth and over every Creeping thing that creepeth upon the Earth In man he closed up and ended his work on man he stamped his Seal and figne of his power on him he hath imprinted his image and superscription his armes and his portraiture Dixit deus Faciamus hominem ad imaginem nostram secundum similitudinem nostram God said Let us make man in our image after our liknesse In the Creation of man God seemeth to deliberate and take Counsell with himselfe how to epitomize and gather together all his works in so small a compasse to contract his so large book of Creation into so small a volume He is called the Microcosm or little World the recapitulation of all things the ligament of Angels Beasts Heavenly and Earthly spirituall and corporall things the perfection of the whole work the honour and miracle of nature He created him naked being a pure neat and delicate Creature made up of thin subtill well tempered and seasoned humours innocent and far more beautifull than the rest He was created upright but-little touching the Earth quite opposite to the vegetable Plant whose root is therein fixed far different also from the beast who is a meane between a Plant and himselfe and goeth downward his two extreames tending to the bounds of the Horizon This upright gate belongeth only unto man as the holiest and most Divine Creature his head tending to the Heavens on which he looks and there beholds himselfe as in a glasse according to that of Ovid. Os homini sublime dedit coelumque videre Jussit erectos ad sydera tollere vultus Which I English thus He gave man lofty looks and upright gate To view the Heav'ns and thereon contemplate His body being thus formed of pure subtill Earth as a house and habitation for the Soul God breathed in him the breath of Life and he became a living Creature So in the ordinary generation and formation which is made of the seed in the Womb nature observeth the selfe same order the body is first formed as well by the Elementary force which is in the seed and the heat of the matrix as by the Celestiall influence of the Sun according to the Adagy Sol homo generant hominem the Sun and Man do engender man which is don according to the opinion of most in such order that the first seaven dayes the seed of the man and woman mingle and curdle like cream which is the beginning of conception The second seaven days the seed is changed into a formlesse bloody substance and concocted into a thick and indigested masse of flesh the proper matter of the Child The next seaven days out of this Lump is produced and fashioned a grosse body with the three most noble parts viz the Liver Heart and Braine The fourth seaven days or neare thirty the whole body is ended perfected joynted and organized and becometh a body fit to entertaine the soul which invests it selfe into the body as some think about the seaven and thirtieth or fourtieth day at the third month or there abouts the Infant hath motion and sense at the ninth Month is brought forth These times cannot be so exactly prefixed but that by the strength or debility of the seed or matrix it may be either hastened or prolonged But I shall forbeare further discourse of the soul it not being my taske to act the part of a Divine and come to a more particular description of Man yet not so as to act the part of an Anatomist CHAP. II. A more particular description of the Body of Man THe body of man consists of above two hundred bones and as many Cartilages which are as the basis and upholding Pillars of the whole building the joynts are compacted with many Ligaments and cloathed with innumerable membranes the members are supplied with above thirty paire of sensitive Nerves as with little Cords and all besprinkled with as many arteries like water-pipes conveighing vitall spirits to all parts The empty places are filled up with almost four hundred Muscles and flesh of divers sorts as with flocks all covered over with skin In him are the temperament of all Creatures Some there are who have the stomack of an Ostrich others the Heart of a Lion too too many have the Heart of a Dog not a few conditioned like a Sow and many by nature very like to the Asse Man for whom all things was made is nourished by the Balsamick Spirits of Vegetables Animals and Mineralls and therefore doth consist of all these faculties that spring up as a token of health or sicknesse Balme Violets and Germander produce fruit in man viz the Spirits of the Heart Braine and Liver Likewise the nettle Aron and Crowfoot as Scabs Sores and Pushes Minerall seperations also may appeare in man of vitriall Allum Salt and Tartar c as the