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A35976	A late discourse made in a solemne assembly of nobles and learned men at Montpellier in France touching the cure of wounds by the powder of sympathy : with instructions how to make the said powder : whereby many other secrets of nature are unfolded / by Sr. Kenelme Digby, knight ; rendred faithfully out of French into English by R. White.	Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.; White, R., Gent.	1658 (1658)	Wing D1435; ESTC R27859	54,616	164

coming up the hill behind for having more men to carry my chair than they had I was there sooner It was not long that I might perceive the said fog descend gently to the place where I was and I began to feel a freshnesse that came over my face when I turned it that way When all my Troup was come about me we went descending the other side of Mount Cenis towards Suze and the lower we went we sensibly found it 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 Pass●ngers that were going up and we down they 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 lesser and lesser and touching our selves when we had come to the place where they said the wind blew so hard we found a kind of storm and it encreased still the lower we went untill 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 alwayes so if some extraordinary and violent accident did not intervene and divert his ordinary course which is that upon a certain hour of the day the wind doth raise it self to such a rumb or point when the Sun is come to auother point another wind riseth and so from hand to hand it changes the point till the Sun set which alwayes brings with it a calm if the weather be fair and that alwayes 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 whereof the reason is evident for the natural movement of every body natural doth encrease always in swiftnesse according as it moves forward to its center and that in an unequal number as Galileo hath ingeniously demonstrated I did it also in another Treatise that is to say that if at the first moment it advanceth an ell in the second it advanceth three in the third five in the fourth seven and so it continueth to augment in the same manner which proceeds from the density and figure of the descending body acting upon the cellibility of the medium And these smal bodies which cause a wind from Mount Viso are thick and terrestrial for the snow being composed of aquatical parts and of earthly united by the cold when the heat of the Solar beams doth disunite and separate 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 befel me when I was with my Fleet in the Port of Scanderon or Alexandrette towards the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea there they use to disimbark 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 battered by a great fight which I had had a little before against a formidable power which although I had obtained 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 road 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 unto them my design they were all of an unaminous opinion that the surest course was towards the South and to coast upon Syria Iudea Egypt and Africa and render our selves at the streight of Gibraltar and sailing so near the body of the earth we should have every night some small briezes of wind whereby 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 advise that they had great Fleets abroad to vindicate some things we had done in prejudice of them both those sixteen moneths that we remained Master of those seas therefore it concerned us to make towards some safe Port where we might both refresh our men and repair our battered Vessels My opinion was clean contrary to theirs for I believed our best course were to steer our course Westward and to saile along the coasts of Cilicia Pamphylia Lydia Natolia or Asia the Lesse and to traverse the mouth of the Archipelago leave the Adriatick on the right hand and passe by Sicily Italy Sardinia Corsica the Golps of Lion and so coast all Spain telling them that it would be a great dishonour unto us to forsake our best road for fear of the enemy for our chief businesse thither was to find them out and the protection which it pleased God to afford us all along in so many combats in going was cause to make us hope that the same providence would vouchsafe to guide us as we should be returning That there was no doubt but the road which I proposed unto them considered simply in it self was not without comparison the better and the more expedit to saile out of the Mediterranean sea and gain the Ocean because said I that although we have the briezes from off the earth as long as we were upon the coasts of Syria and Egypt we shall not have them at all while we saile upon the coasts of Lybia where there are those fearfull sands which they call the Syrtes which are of a great extent the said coast having no humidity for there is neither tree nor herb grows there for there is nought else but moving sands which covered and enterred heretofore at one glut the puissant Army of King Cambyses Now where there is no humidity the Sun cannot attract to make a wind so that we shall never find there specially in Sommer time any other wind but that Regular wind which blows from East to West according to the course of the Sun who is the father of winds unlesse some extraordinary happen either from the coast of Italy which lies Northward or from the bottom of Ethiopia where the Mountains of the Moon are and the source of the Cataracts of Nile therefore if we were neer the Syrtes the winds of Italy would be most dangerous unto us and expose us to shipwrack I reasond so according to natural causes while they of my Councel of war kept themselves firm to their experience which was the cause that I would do nothing against the unanimous sense of all for although the disposing and resolution of all things depended absolutely upon my self yet I thought I might be justly accused of rashnesse or willfulnesse if I should prefer my own advise

determine the possibility and truth of a matter which is doubtful I shall content my self because I would not trespasse too much upon your patience at this time to make instance in one onely but it shall be one of the clearest the most perspicuous and the most averred that can be not onely for the remarkable circumstances thereof but also for the hands which were above the Vulgar through which the whole businesse passed For the cure of a very sore hurt was perfected by this Power of Sympathy upon a person that is illustrious as well for his many perfections as for his several employments All the circumstances were examined and sounded to the bottom by one of the greatest and most knowing Kings 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 Sonne the late King Charles and the Duke of Buckingham their prime Minister And in fine all was registred among the observations of great Chancelor Bacon to adde by way of Appendix unto his Natural History And I believe Sirs when you shall have understood this History you will not accuse me of vanity if I attribute unto my self the Introducer unto this Quarter of the World this way of curing Mr. Iames Howel well known in France for his publick works and particularly for his Dendrologia translated into French by Monsieur Baudouin coming by chance as two of his best friends were fighting in duel he did his endeavour to part them and putting himself between them seized with his left hand upon the hilt of the sword of one of the Combatants while with his right hand he laid hold of the blade of the other they being transported with fury one against the other strugled to rid themselves of the hindrance their friend made that they should not kill one another and one of them roughly drawing the blade of his sword cuts to the very bone the nerves and mussles of Mr. Howels hand and then the other disingaged his hilts and gave a crosse blow on his adversaries head which glanced towards his friend who heaving up his sore hand to save the blow he was wounded on the back of his hand as he had been before within It seems some strange constellation raigned then against him that he should lose so much bloud by parting two such dear friends who had they been themselves would have hazarded both their lives to have preserved his but this unvoluntary effusion of bloud by them prevented that which they should have drawn one from the other For they seeing Mr. Howels face besmeared with blood by heaving up his wounded band they both run to embrace and having searched 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 Surgeon But this being heard at Court the King sent one of his own Surgeons for his Majesty much affected the said Mr. 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 prayed me to view his wounds for I understand said he that you have extraordinary remedies upon such occasions and my Surgeons apprehend some fear that it may grow to a Gangrene and so the hand must be cut of In effect his countenance discovered that he was in much pain which he said was unsupportable 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 because he would think it peradventure either ineffectual or superstitious he replyed That the wonderful things which many have related unto me of your way of medecinement makes me nothing doubt at all of its efficacy and all that I have to say unto you is comprehended in the Spanish Proverb Hagase el milagro y bagalo Mahoma Let the miracle be done though Mahomet do it I asked him then for any thing that had the bloud upon it so he presently sent for his garter wherewith his hand was first bound and as I called for a Bason of water as if I would wash my hands I took a handfull of Powder of Vitrol which I had in my study and presently dissolved it As soon as the bloody garter was brought me I put it within the Bason observing in the interim what Mr. Howel did who stood talking with a Gentleman in a corner of my Chamber not regarding at all what I was doing but he started suddenly as if he had found some strange alteration in himself I asked him what he ailed I know not what ailes me but I find that I feel no more pain me thinks that a pleasing kind of freshnesse as it were a wet cold napkin did spread over my hand which hath taken away the inflammation that tormented me before I replyed since then that you feel already so good an effect of my medicament I advise you to cast away all your playsters onely keep the wound clean and in a moderate temper twixt heat and cold This was presently reported to the Duke of Buckingham and a little after to the King who were both very curious to know the circumstance of the businesse which was that after dinner I took the garter out of the water and put it to dry before a great fire it was scarce dry but Mr. Howels servant came running that his Master felt as much burning as ever he had done if not more for the heat was such as if his hand were twixt coles of fire I answered that although that had happened at present yet he should find ease in a short time for I knew the reason of this new accident and I would provide accordingly for his Master should be free from that inflammation it may be before he could possibly return unto him but in case he found no ease I wished him to come presently back again if not he might forbear coming Thereupon he went and at the instant I did put again the garter into the water thereupon he found his Master without any pain at all To be brief there was no sense of pain afterward but within five or six dayes the wounds were cicatrized and entirely healed King Iames required a punctual information of what had passed touching this cure and after it was done and perfected his Majesty would needs know of me how it was done having drolled with me first which he could do with a very good grace about a Magitian and a Sorcerer I answered That I should be alwayes ready to perform what his Majesty should command but I most humbly defired him before I should passe further to tell him what the Authour of whom I had the secret said to the great Duke of Toscany upon