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A35986	Of the sympathetick powder a discourse in a solemn assembly at Montpellier / made in French by Sir Kenelm Digby, Knight, 1657.; Discours fait en une célèbre assemblée, touchant la guérison des playes par la poudre de sympathie. English	Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.	1669 (1669)	Wing D1446; ESTC R20320	50,741	64

OF THE Sympathetick Powder A DISCOURSE IN A Solemn Assembly AT MONTPELLIER Made in French BY Sir KENELM DIGBY Knight 1657. LONDON Printed for Iohn VVilliams 1669. A DISCOURSE OF The Cure of WOUNDS BY THE POWDER of SYMPATHY My Lords I Believe you will remain all in one mind with me that to penetrate and know a Subject 't is necessary in th● first place to shew whether the thing be such as it is s●pp●sed or imagined to be For would not one unprofitably lose both his time and labour to busie himself in the re-sea●ch of the causes of that which peradventure is but a Chim●ra with-any foundation of truth I remember to have read a place in Plut●rch where he proposeth this Question Why those Horses who while they are Colts have been pursued by the Wolf and saved themselv● by force of runing are more fleet than other H●r●es Wherto he answers That it may be the scaring and aff●●ghtment which the Wolf gives the young beast makes h●m try his utmost strength to del●ver himself from the danger that follows him at the heels therfore the said fright as it were unknits his joy●ts and stretches his sinews and makes the ligaments and other parts of his body the more supple to run insomuch that he resents it all his life afterwards and becomes a good Courser Or perhaps says he those Colts which are naturally swift save themselvs by flying away wheras others who are not so are overtaken by the Wolf and so become his prey and so it is not because they have escaped the Wolf that they are the more fleet but it is their natura● swiftness that saves them He affords also other reasons and at last concludes That it may be the thing is not true I find it not so fit my Lords to reply hereto at a Table D●scourse where the chief design of conversation is to pass away the time gently and pleasantly without medling with the severity of high fetcht reasons to wind up the spirits and make them more attentive But in so renowned an Assembly as this where there are such Judicious Persons and so profoundly learned and who upon this rancounter expect from me that I pay them in solid reasons I should be very sorry that having done my uttermost to make it clear How the Powder which they commonly call the Powder of Sympathy doth naturally and without any Magick cure wounds without touching them yea without seeing of the Patient I say I should be very sorry that it should be doubted Whether such a cure may effectually be perform'd or no. In matter of fact the determination of the existence and truth of a thing depends on the report which our Senses make us This business is of that nature Wherin they who have seen the effects and had experience therof and have been careful to examine all necessary circumstances and satisfied themselves afterwards that there is no imposture in the thing nothing doubt but that it is real and true And they who have not seen such experiences ought to refer themselvs to Narrations and Authority of such as have I could produce divers wherof I was an ocular witness nay Quorum p●rs m●gna fui But as a certain and eminent example in the affirmative is convincing to determine the possibility and truth of a matter in doubt I shall content my self because I would not trespass too much upon your patience at this time to instance in one only But it shall be one of the clearest the most perspicuous and the most averred that can be not only for the remarkable circumstances therof but also for the hands which were above the Vulgar through which the whole business passed For the cure of a very sore hurt was perfected by this Powder of Sympathy upon a Person illustrious as well for his many perfection● as for his several employments All the circumstances were examined and sounded to the bottom by one of the greatest and most knowing K●ngs of of his time viz. King Iames of England who had a particular talent and marvailous sagacity to discusse natural things and penetrate them to the very marrow As also by his Son the late King Charles and the Duke of Buckingham their prime Minister And in fine all was registred among the Observations of the great Chancelor Bacon to add by way of Appendix to his Natural History And I believe when you shall have understood this History you will not accuse me of Vanity if I attribute to my self the Introducing this way of Cure into this Quarter of the World Mr. Iames Howel well known in France for his publick Works and particularly for his Dendrologia translated into French by Monsier Baud●uin coming by by chance as two of his best friends were fighting in D●el did his endeavour to part them and putting himself between them seiz'd with his left ●and upon the Hilt of one of the Comb●●ants while with his right he laid hold of the Blade of the other They being transported with fury one against the other strugled to rid themselvs of the hindrance their Friend made that they should not kill one another and one of them roughly drawing the Blade of his Sword cut to the very bone the nervs and mus●les of Mr. Howe●'s ●and and then the other di●ingaging his H●lt gave a cross blow on his Adversaries head which glanced towards his Friend who heaving up his hand to save the blow was wounded on the back of his hand as he had been before within It seems some st●ange Con●●ellation reign'd then against him that he sho●ld lo●● so much blood by parting two such dear Friends who had they been themselvs would have h●z●rded both their lives to have preserved His B●t this unvoluntary effusion of blood by them prevented that which they should have drawn one from the other For they seeing Mr. Howel's face besmear'd with blood by heaving up his wounded hand both ran to embrace him and having sea●ch'd his hurts they bound up his Hand with one of his Garters to close the Veins which were cut and bled abundantly They brought him home and sent for a Chyrurgeon But this being heard at Court the King sent one of his own Chyrurgeons for his Majesty much ●ffected the said M ● Howel It was my chance to be lodged hard by him and four or five dayes after as I was making my self ready he came to my House and pray'd me to view his wounds for I understand said he that you have extraordinary remedies upon such occasions and my Chyrurgeons apprehend some fear that it may grow to a Gangrene and so the hand must be cut off In effect his countenance discover'd that he was in much pain which he said was insupportable in regard of the extream inflammation I told him that I would willingly serve him but if haply he knew the manner how I would cure him without touching or seeing him it may be he would not expose himself to my manner of curing

the earth which is moistned either by rain or the dew of the night his beams raise a Mist which by little and little ascends to the tops of the hills and this Mist doth rarifie according as the Sun hath more force to draw it upwards till at last we lose the sight thereof and it becomes part of the Air which in regard of its tenuity is invisible to us These Atomes then are like Cavaliers mounted on winged Coursers who ride on still till the Sun setting ●akes from them their Pegasus and leaves them unmounted and then they precipitate themselvs in crowds to the Earth whence they sprung The greatest part of them and the most heavy fall upon the first re●●eating of the Sun and that we call the Serain which though it be so thin that we cannot see it yet we feel it as so many small hammers striking upon our heads and Bodies principally the elder sort of us For young persons in regard of the boyling of their blood and the heat of their complexion thrust out of them abundance of Spirits which being stronger than those that fall from the Serain repulse them and hinder them to operate on the Bodies whence these Spirits came forth as they do upon those that being grown cold by age are not guarded by so strong an emanation of their Spirits The Wind which blows and is tossed to and fro is no other than a great River of the like A●omes drawn out of some solid Bodies which are upon the earth and so banded here and there according as they find cause for that effect I remember to have once sensibly seen how the Wind ●s ingendred I passed over Mount Cenis to go for Italy towards the begining of Summer and I was advanced to half the Hill as the Sun rose clear and luminous b●t before I could see his body because the Mountains interposed I observed his rays which gilded the top of the M●untain Viso which is the Pyramid of a Rock a good deal h●gher than Mount Cenis and all the neighbouring Mountains Man● are of opinion that it is the highest Mountain in the World after the Pic of Tenariff in the Gran-de-Canary and this Mount Viso is always cover'd with Snow I observed then that about that place which was illuminated by the Solar rays there was a Fog which at first was of no greater extent than an ordinary Boul but by degrees it grew so great that at last not only the top of that Mountain but all the neighbouring Hills were canopied all over with a C●oud I was now come to the top of Mount Cenis and finding my self in the straight line which p●sses from the Sun to Mount Viso I stay'd a while to behold it while my Servants were coming up the Hill behind for having more men to carry my chair than they had I was there sooner It was not long e're I might perceive the said Fog descend gently to the place where I was and I began to feel a freshness that came over my face when I turn'd it that way When all my Troop was come about me we went descending the other side of Mount Cenis towards S●z● and the lower we went we sensibly found that the Wind began to blow hard behind our backs for our way obliged us to go towards the side where the Sun was We met with Passengers that were going up as we down who told us that the Wind was very impetuous below and did much incommodate them by blowing in their faces and eyes but the higher they came it was l●sser and lesser And for our selves when we were come to the place where they said the Wind blew so hard we found a 〈◊〉 of Storm and it encreased still the lower we went till the Sun being well advanced drew no more by that line but caused a Wind in some other place The people of that Country assured me that it was there always so if some extraordinary and violent accident did not intervene and divert the ordinary course viz. at a certain hour of the day the Wind raises it self to such a romb or point and when the Sun is come to another point another wind rises and so from hand to hand it changes the point till the Sun set which always brings with it a calm if the we●ther be fa●r and that always comes from the Mount Viso opposite to the Sun They told us also that the daily wind is commonly stronger towards the bottom of the Mountain than towards the top wherof the reason is evident For the natural movement of every body natural encreases always in swiftness according as it moves forward to its center and that by the unequal numbers as Galileo hath ingeniously demonstrated I did it also in another Treatise that is to say if at the first moment it advances an ell in the second it advances three in the third five in the fourth seven and so it continues to augment in the same manner which proceeds from the density and figure of the descending body acting upon the cessiblility of the medium And these small Bodies which cause a wind from Mount Viso are thick and terrestrial for the Snow being composed of watry and earthy parts united by the cold when the heat of the Solar beams disunites and separates them the viscous parts flie with them while the terrestrial being too heavy to fly upward fall presently downward This makes me remember a very remarkable thing which befell me when I was with my Fleet in the Port of Scanderon or Alexandretta towards the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea there they use to dis-imbark when they go to Aleppo or Babylon I had done already what I had intended to do in those Seas and happily compassed my design so it imported me much to return to England as soon as possibly I could and the rather because my Ships were batter'd by a great Fight I had had a little before against a formidable power wherin although I had obtain'd the better yet in so furious a dispute my Fleet was in some disorder and my Ships full of wounded Men. To advise therefore of the most expedient Course to come to some Harbour where I might repair my Ships and be in surety I assembled all my Captains Pilots and Mariners the most experienced of my Fleet and having propounded to them my design they were all of an unanimous opinion that the surest course was towards the South and to cast upon Syria Iudea Egypt and Africa and render our selves at the streight of Gi●raltar sailing so near the main Land we should have every night some small briezes of wind wherby we should in a short time make our Voyage And besides we should not be in any great danger to meet either with Spanish or French Fleets For England was at that time in open War with both those Kings and we had advice that they had great Fleets abroad to vindicate some things we had done in prejudice of