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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43289	A ternary of paradoxes the magnetick cure of wounds, nativity of tartar in wine, image of God in man / written originally by Joh. Bapt. Van Helmont and translated, illustrated and amplified by Walter Charleton.	Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644.; Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707.; Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699.	1650 (1650)	Wing H1402; ESTC R30770	135,801	208

ascribed to him as if he had been the grand Author of them That material nature does uncessantly by its secret Magnetism suck down forms from the brests of the superior Orbs and greedily thirst after the favor and benign influence of the celestial Luminaries you willingly concede and moreover that the stars in exchange attract some tribute from inferior bodies so that there is a free commerce and reciprocal return from each to other and one harmonious concord and conspiracy of all parts with the whole universe And thus Magnetism in regard it is vigorous and pregnant in every thing hath nothing new in it but the name nor is it paradoxical but to those who deride all things and refer to the dominion of Satan whatsoever falls not within the narrow circle of their own understanding In good truth this kinde of wisdom is never to be found by him that seeks it with derision But I beseech you what of Superstition hath the Armary Unguent whether because it is compounded of the moss blood mumy and fat of man Alas the Physician uses these inoffensively and to this purpose the Apothecary is licensed to sell them Or perchance because the manner of using and applying the Medicine is new to you unaccustomed to the vulgar but admirable to both must the effect therefore be Satanical Sub due your passion and calm your rage ere long you shall be more fully satisfied For the manner of its application contains in it nothing of evil First the intention is good and pious and directed onely to a good and charitable end namely the healing of our sick languishing neighbor without pain without danger and without the consumption of his purse And do you call this diabolical In fine the remedies themselves are all meer natural means to which we shall in the progress of our dispute by convincing arguments demonstrate that this generous faculty was peculiarly given by God himself Our wishes are that your self had by so firm evidence ratified your negative position viz. that God the supreme Good did not in the Creation confer upon the ingredients of the Unguent any such natural vertue and mumial Magnetism This Magnetical remedy can on no side be laid open to the encroachment of suspect since both in the confection and use it hath no superstitious rites performed it requires no mysterious words no characters or impresses no prestigious ceremo●…ies or vain observances conjoyned It presupposes no planetary hours or punctilioes of constellations it prophanes not sacred things and what is more it forestals not the imagination requires not a confidence or implicit faith nay not so much as bare leave or consent from the wounded party all which are ever annexed to superstitious cures For we account that properly to be Superstition when men relie upon the single power of an implicit faith or imagination or both concurring above any particular vertue which of it self is not sufficient or by the primitive intention of the Creator not destined to the production of that particular effect By which it is clearly manifest that our Magnetick cure hath none the smallest tincture of Superstition Do thou therefore O Divine great with a sarcasm with design at least to detect and deride the Devil make an experiment of the Unguent that so thou mayest destroy and totally abolish that implicit compact with him nevertheless thou shalt volent or nolent without either direction from or obedience to thy will finde the same effect result from thy application of it that usually does upon ours which does not at all succeed upon the conjunction of superstitious causes Whoever reputes the Magnetical Sanation of Wounds to be Diabolical not because it is performed by unlawful means or directed to an unwarrantable end but because in the manner of its operation it progresses in a path which his reason cannot trace He also convicted by the same argument shall either give the quidditative and peculiarly express causes of all those admirable effects of the Loadstone which in the sequel of my discourse I am to mention or confess that those rare operations of the Loadstone are the impostures and the legerdemain of Satan or shall compulsively concede with us which indeed will be the safer way that in nature there is a Magnetism that is a certain hidden property by this appellation in reference to the conspicuous and confest prerogative of that stone distinguisht from all other abstruse and to common heads unknown qualities A Loadstone placed upon a thin small Trencher of wood floating on water does instantly in one determinate point australize and in the other septentrionate That extreme which by its verticity regards the Southern Pole when by touch it hath impregnated a piece of steel or iron will immediately steer it to the North and the other extreme which looks upon the Northern Pole having invigorated a needle of steel will incline it to the South By its Septentrional point which is its belly it attracts iron or steel to it and by its Australe end which is its back it thrusts iron or steel from it The Aquilonary side by friction of the point of a Compass needle positionally from the right hand to the left endows it with a vertical or polary faculty whereby it is directed to the South But if the friction be ordered in a quite contrary position from the left hand to the right the direction of the point of the needle will also be contrary and neer to the North. Thus also the Australe side of the Loadstone according to the variety of locality or position in friction varies the polarity Nay what carrieth a neerer face of miracle if a Loadstone by its affriction hath invigorated and excited a piece of iron with a magnetical activity that is a power to attract another piece of iron the same new made Magnetical iron if inverted upside down and in that Antipodean position a second time rub'd upon the Loadstone will in the same moment be devested of its magnetical infusion and clean forget it s lately acquired power of attraction All which various and admirable effects of the Loadstone thou mayest if thy judgment relish them finde made good by multiplied observations by William Guilbert not many yeers past a Physician in London in his Book De Magnete Of which subject no man ever writ more judiciously or experimentally and by whose industry the variation of the Compass may be restored The needle which now points directly upon the North coming under the Equinoctial Line staggers to and fro hovers from Pole to Pole and in a trembling unconstancy fixes on neither But once brought over the Meridian nimbly wheels about and fixedly applies it self to the South I shall annex this Medical vertue of it the back of the Loadstone as it repulseth iron so also it retrudeth the gut by reason of too wide an expansion of the process of the Peritonaeum prolapsed into the Scrotum cureth the