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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41127	Some kindling sparks in matters of physick to satisfie some physicians who are of opinion that spirits (which they call hot things) do burn and inflame the body / written formerly to a friend by Albertus Otto Faber.	Faber, Albert Otto, 1612-1684.	1668 (1668)	Wing F70; ESTC R37760	5,662	9

SOME Kindling Sparks In Matters of PHYSICK TO Satisfie some Physicians who are of opinion That Spirits which they call hot things do burn and inflame the Body Written formerly to a Friend BY Albertus Otto Faber London Printed in the Year 1668. To the Reader THou shalt not read here any great matter for there are but toucht two or three strings of a well tuned Instrument that gives more Sound then Harmony yet enough to judge whether the sound be good We expect a fundamental reformation in this matter as well as in other things For when the season is at its birth it will come notwithstanding the weak contrivances and oppositions of men Nature her self is weary with furnishing her matter to such as are ignorant of its use according to her intentions For though she cries Trace me trace me yet men are deaf and self-endedness cannot see the Sun it self although she gives here and there light evident enough Therefore at last she will arise and dash gainsaiers to confusion Some kindling Sparks in matters of PHYSICK A Physitian is to be considered in his place as a Minister to the life of Man as to the health of his Body There are therefore four things to be observed here 1. Life 2. Health 3. Body 4. Man 1. What Life is Note that a Body without Life is cold hard and stiff that is dead but when it is alive it is warm soft and nimble As for instance The Earth which is the great World in Winter is cold hard and frozen that is dead But when in the Spring the Sun enlivens it then it revives becoming warm and yeelding a living motion of vegitation So also Man who is accounted the little World or Microcosm when dead his Corps is cold hard and stiff because it is deprived of life But when Life springs up therein then he quickens and grows warm giving in all actions and doings evidence of life Therefore like as the Sun that revives the Macracosm or the Earth and warms it is a heavenly Fire known by his effects So the life of Man is a Microcosmical Sun viz. a Subcoelestial Fire reviving warming and moving his body to the end he may be enlightned 2. Health is a cumulative influence of well-being proceeding from life throughout the Body By the word Cumulative is to be understood a mutual concurrence of life and health in part of the Body in so much that life and health can never subsist separately no more than the Sun-shine can subsist without the Sun it self and the Sun cannot be without his shining or light As for Example When a Man is wounded in his foot then health being disordered life is also weakned 3. The Body is the vessel of life and health so exactly fitted and proportioned as a Watch that the least Atome crossing its Structure is able to bring both life and health into a confusion yea to total ruine 4. Man is as to his material form a compound of life and body which being well or ill influenced is healthful or sickly So having declared that a Physician is a Minister to the Life of Man as to the health of his body it appears plainly whether unto the Life Health or Body he ought to make his applications when Man is at a loss As to the Body If we consider it either as it was in the beginning before it received life by divine inspiration or as it is after the life has left it and the applications of a Physician thereon were attempted they would be as ridiculous as fruitless no less than if they were applyed to an Image of Wood Brass or Iron As to the Health the thing in question which is lost and absent there can be made no application As for instance When a Husbandman has intrusted a Shepherd with a flock of Sheep and one of them is gone astray He for the recovering the lost Sheep doth not apply himself to the Sheep lost and absent which to the flock is as in a state of privation but to the Shepherd to demand it at his hands To the Life therefore as to the Shepherd of health a true Physitian makes his applications for its recovery which is in statu privationis Now the Life being a fiery principle of Man as before is demonstrated which enlighteneth the Body and makes it active we must know when such a principle becomes defective weak and helpless with what kind of things to supply the same which supplies are called Medicines wherein lies the skill of a Physician But that being of a large consideration for want of the Adeptive Science which might shorten all those many particular preparations I shall at present speak only something in general And first of all to conform my expressions to the mean apprehensions of the unlearned note this instance That when thou intendest to kindle a Fire thou dost not pour Water upon it but something of its nature viz. some Sparks of its kind that is Fire must be kindled with Fire and not with Water And likewise if a Fire be kindled and grows weak thou usest the same means to encrease it as thou didst to kindle it or something homogeneous to it viz. by putting Fewel as Wood Coals Oyl c. to it to strengthen feed and relieve it But if thou puts thereto Water Stones and such like thou wouldst sooner quench then restore thy Fire Hence the Maxime is to be understood We are nourished with that of which we are made The Heaven the World or Earth and Man correspond mutually together The Sun taken as the life of the Heaven shining into the Water reflects its own Image as in a Looking-glass it doth the like on the Earth which being not diaphanous makes it not appear as the Water doth Yet the Earth being the Mother of Corporification the influences from above keeps the said Image closer and makes it substantial appearing in a body as being the earthly Sun and it is called Gold In like manner the Body of Man being so far prepared in the womb that it is capable of life then by the all-overpowring Sun in a moment as Brimstone or Spirit of Wine it conceives Fire viz the Image of the said Sun and makes it substantial to its nature which then is called Life he thus being Lampas vitae Hence this Maxime Sol homo generent hominem Thus even as the Heaven the Earth and Man So the Sun Gold and Life are knit together by influence which may be sensibly perceived when there happens either almost or a total Eclipse of the Sun and many find themselves breathless through the obstruction of the Sun's influence The Life of Man therefore being either weak or otherwise defective its proper Remedy would be Gold as to relieve Fire with Fire But as is abovesaid it cannot easily be dealt withall and must be laid aside for the Adepti So there remains nothing but Wood Coals or the like combustible matter which however they are in