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A69834	Galen's art of physick ... translated into English, and largely commented on : together with convenient medicines for all particular distempers of the parts, a description of the complexions, their conditions, and what diet and exercise is fittest for them / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent. ...; Technē iatrikē. English	Galen.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.	1652 (1652)	Wing C7517; Wing G159; ESTC R22670	55,815	130

which keeps his Court in the Spleen Thus you see how Elements Complexions and Humors are subservient the one to other even as the Spirit Soul and Body are if we may reason a minore ad ma●u● in the Microcosm 5. Me●b●●s or Limbs are Simple or Compound Principal or Subservient First Simple Members are 1. Bones 2. Cartilages 3. Ligaments 4. Veins 5. Arteries 6. Nerves 7. Tendons 8. Panides 9. Fat 10. Flesh 11. Skin Secondly Compound Members are 1. Head 2. Heart 3. Liver 4. Lungs 5. Legs 6. Arms 7. Hands Thirdly Principal Members are 1. Brain 2. Heart 3. Liver 4. Testicles Fourthly Members Subservient are 1. Nerves to carry the Animal Spirit 2. Arteries to carry the Vital Spirit 3. Veins to carry the Natural Spirit 4. Spermatick Vessels to carry the Procreative Spirit 6. Vertues are that whereby these act the Body and they are Vital Natural and Animal I forbear writing of them there being a Treatise of them Astrologo Physically handled by me already at the latter end of my Ephemeris for 1651. 7. Operations of these upon the Body of man are First The Animal Vertue causeth 1. Imagination Apprehension Fancy Opinion Consent c. in the two former Ventricles of the Brain 2. Judgment Esteem Reason Resolution Disposing Discerning in the middle Ventricle of the Brain 3. Calling to mind what is to come Remembrance of what is past in the hinder Ventricle of the Brain Secondly The Vital Vertue moveth 1. Joy Hope Mirth Singing by dilating the Heart 2. Sadness Sorrow Fear Sighing c. by compressing the Heart Thirdly The Natural Vertue 1. Altereth Food into Chyle Chyle into Blood and Humors Blood into Flesh 2. Joyneth formeth ingendreth encreaseth and nourisheth the Body of Man And now you see what Galen intends by a Healthful Body namely such a one where all these keep a good and orderly decorum CHAP. 5. Of a Body Vnhealtbful 1. A Body is simply unhealthful which is born mutilated by Nature as wanting some Members or some Operations or sences that is not perfect in respect of those Seven Natural things before mentioned as that cannot See Hear or Smel or is a Fool c. 2. According to time a Body is unhealthful that is at present sick in Body or distemper'd in mind or his Body broken or bruised in any part of it whether internal or external that hath an accidental distemper in any of the seven Natural things This is so cleer it needs no Comment CHAP. 6. Of a Body Neutral THis as we told you before carries a threefold signification 1. As things partake of either extremety swerving from the Rules of Healthfulness 2. As they partake of both of them together equally 3. As somtimes the one exceeds somtimes the other in resp●ect of time 1. Taken in the first Sence it is an exquisite medium between healthful and unhealthful Bodies And that First Naturally or Simply as many people are born of unhealthful or sickly Constitutions so that the Nativity as a cause produceth such an effect in every age Secondly According to time when the Body is neither perfectly in Health nor yet sick such a one as the proverb saith Is neither sick enough to lie in Bed nor well enough to follow his Imployment 2. Taken in the Second Sence A Neutral Body is such a Body as partakes of diverse contrary qualities either in one part of the Body or in diverse when there is an opposition between them and this concerns either the Formation of the Body or the Endowments of the mind or temperature of the parts when one contrary appears healthful the other unhealthful and this also 1. As it appears generally in al the ages of the Life 2. As it appears but particularly at some certain times 3. Taken in the third Sence it is when the ages of a mans Life Differ in respect of Health and Sickness as a man may be healthful in his Childhood and unhealthful in his youth and the contrary viz. sickly in his infancy and healthful in Youth c. Culpepers Comment The First of these needs no explanation the other two are somthing Obscure as in the second Galen saith a man may partake of contrary qualities in the formation of the Body Viz. A man may have a H●ad too big and feet as much too little a man may have a Nose exceeding the common bigness and Eyes as much less than the common proportion and the like 2. In the Endowments of mind as thus A man may have a very good Apprehension yet a bad Memory a man may have very good Judgment in ordering a Battel and yet be a Coward 3. In the temperature of the parts the Liver may be ●oo hot and yet the Brain too cold you may understand the rest by these examples which are sufficient to explain Galens meaning To the third When the Ages of a mans Life differ in respect of health and sickness saith Galen which is no more than thus to give you one example A Childs Body or any part thereof may be too hot by reason of sucking a Chollerick Woman in youth either the whol Body or the same part of it may be too cold imagine the Liver Brain or the like it may be too hot in Manhood too cold in Age or the contrary to these Thus much for Bodies we come now to unfold the Signs CHAP. 7. Of SIGNS OF these some indicate present health others proclaim health to come a third sort put us in mind of health past In the same manner likewise some unhealthful Signs shew present Sickness others give fair warning that sickness is coming other indications call to our remembrance the sickness past Imagine the like by Neutrals some shew a present Neutral condition foreshew it coming call it to mind being past and shew a disposition as well healthful as sickly The use of the First and Second of these is admirable the last is not so absolutely useful And thus have we shewed you what Signs are we come to treat of them particularly CHAP. 8. Signs of a very good Constitution OF these some are deduced from the Reason or Essential Cause thereof or from necessary consequen which follow such operations and cases of which the first are called Essential the othe● Accidental Such as are Essentially of good Constitution are such in whose Bodies heat coldness driness and moisture are equally tempered the Instruments of the Bodie are composed in every part of due bigness number place and Formation Culpeper I shall here for the benefit of yong Students intermix my Comment with the Text Whereas Galen saith a good Constitution consists of heat cold driness and moisture equally tempered you must not imagine they are so all over the Body but according to place for the Heart is and should be hotter than the Brain c. but each part exceeds not its due proportion in these the Brain is not hotter colder drier nor moister than it should be judg so by the Heart

if they be sick but if it be natural to them it is very hairy they are full of action hasty in all things angry and Tyrannical Culpeper Herbs Medicinal for such as labor under this Infirmity are Borrage Bugloss Sorrel Woodsorrel Lettice Purslane c. these and Syrups or Conserves made of them also let such drop four or five drops of Oyl of Vitriol or Spirit of Salt in their Drinks and shake it up and down before they drink it Chap. 34. Signs of a hot and moist Heart IF moisture together with heat predominate at the Heart the Mans Breast is not so tough nor hairy they are quick enough to anger and Action but not so cruel in their anger as if driness prevail their Pulse is great soft swift and frequent If the Breast be large they draw their Breath very deep if narrow very thick and their experation or letting out their Breath is done with more swiftness than their inspiration or drawing in their Breath such Bodies are mighty subject to Diseases of Putrefaction of Humors Culpeper Things Medicinal for such are Conserves of red Roses Syrup of Violets of Bawm and of Citron Pils as also of the Juyce of Citrons and Lemmons Preserved Citron Pills c. As for Simples Citron Seeds Rue Bawm Angelica Roots and Leaves Woodsorrel the Flowers os Roses Borrage Bugloss and Violets above all sweating and Bleeding may be commended in this infirmity Harts-horn Ivory Scorzonera Roots and Roots of Butter-Bur c. Chap. 35. Signs of a cold and moist Heart INdications of the Heart when coldness with moisture abounds are softness of the Pulse Fearfulness of Mind slowness of Body he hath scarce Spirit enough to be angry much less to fight as for such things as belongs to the Breast and the rest of the Body you may distinguish them as you were taught before Culpeper Much exercise is very convenient for such Bodies I suppose there were but few troubled with this infirmity in the Spartan Common-wealth in Lycurgus his time Thrashing and cleaving Loggs is good Physick for them For Medicines Aromaticum Rosatum and Aromaticum Caryophillatum Confectio Alchermes Mithridate c. For Simples Rue Angelica Roots Nutmeg● Cinnamon Saffron Marigold Flowers Bettony Bawm Alicampane Rosemary Leaves and Flowers Cum multis aliis quae nunc praescribere longum est Chap. 36. Signs of a cold and dry Heart THe Heart being cold and dry renders the Pulse hard and small yet respiration if the smalness of the Breast answer to the coldness of the Heart is moderate if the Breast be very Broad 't is ●are and slow above all men these are least prone to anger but once anger them and they will never care for you more there is not one of a hundred of them that hath any Hair of his Breast Take this common Notion in all this we have written or shall write concerning this Subject That we when we speak of the Conditions of Men speak of them barely as they are Natural and ingrafted in Man not as they are amended by Phylosophy or Education Culpeper Conserves of Roses Borrage Bugloss and Rosemary Flowers is very good for such as also Marigold Flowers Saffron green Walnuts preserved Juniper Berries Bettony Candied Citron Pills c. Chap. 37. Signs of a hot Liver THe Indications of a hot Liver are bigness of the Veins abundance of red Choller viz. Choller addust the Belly and Bowels are rough and the Blood hot also the whol Body is distempered with heat unless the coolness of the Heart hinder Chap. 38. Signs of a cold Liver THe coldness of the Liver is known by narrowness of the Veins abundance of Flegm the whol Constitution of the Body is cold idle and lazy unless the Heart be all the hotter the Bowels and Belly Viz. The Region of them is smooth Chap. 39. Signs of a dry Liver A Dry Liver causeth thick Blood and but a little of it the Veins a●● hard the whol Body is dry and needs must if the Liver that makes the Blood which nourisheth it be so Chap. 40. Signs of a moist Liver A Moist Liver gives abundance of Blood but there is much water amongst it the Veins are soft and so is all the Body unless the Heat of the Heart withstand it Thus much for the qualities of the Liver considered as Simple by themselves and not commixed with one another Chap. 41. Signs of a hot and dry Liver THe Indications af the Liver when it is hotter and drier than it ought to be are The Bowels are rough the Blood thick and dry soundly pestered with Choller it is yellow Choller in youth but black or addust Choller in age the party is subject to dry Scabs the Veins are large and hard and although the Heat of the Heart may withstand the coldness of the Liver yet cannot the moisture of the Heart withstand the driness of the Liver for the driness of the Heart is sooner overcome by the moisture of the Liver than the driness of the Liver by the moisture of the Heart Culpeper Herbs Medicinable are Liverwort Strawberry and Violet Leaves R●isons of the Sun Endive Succory Fumitory Water-Lillies Lettic● Purslain Nightshade these or any of these or others like them in operation are excellent to boyl in clarified Whey in the Summer time Also the Compounds of them Syrups or Conserves made of them as also Dandelyon Scabious Devils bit Scurvy-grass Groundsel Peach Leaves Dyers Weed Furs Flowers c. Chap. 42. Signs of a Hot and Moist Liver IF the Liver be hot and moist the Bowels are not so rough as when it is hot and dry they abound exceedingly with Blood their Veins are large the habit of their Body hot and moist unless the heat of the Heart spoil all If these two Qualities surpass the Bounds of Nature and Mediocrity presently comes a Disease of Putrefaction of corrupt Humors if moisture abound more than heat of adustion of Blood if heat abound more than moisture Culpeper This Temper of the Liver keeping a due decorum makes a pure Sanguine Complexion as the former did a Chollerick for all Complexions or at least such as people call Complexion comes from the Liver If the qualities of the Liver abound Bleeding and Sweating is your Cure afterward if your Liver be too hot you may cool it as you were taught before if too cold you may heat it as you shall be taught hereafter Chap. 43. Signs of a Cold and Moist Liver THe Indications of a Liver colder and moister than it ought to be gives smooth and slick Bowels the Veins are narrow the colour pale and the Blood is filled with Flegm the whol Body if the heat of the Heart hinder not is full of Flegm lazy idle dull fat and plump Culpeper Here you have the Description of a Flegmatick Complexion wherein if you perceive Flegm exceed the due limits of reason you may thus correct the cold and moist temper of the Liver that so it may breed better

I am now come to my last point Affections of the Mind and they are but two Content and Discontent In Content consider 1. What it is 2. Its Effects 3. Its Differences First By Content I mean such affections as are pleasing to the Nature of Man as Hope Joy Lové Mirth c. Secondly By their Effects 1. They dilate the Heart and Arteries 2. They distribute both Vital and Natural Spirit throughout the Body 3. They comfort and strengthen not only the parts of the Body but also the Mind and that in all their actions Thirdly Their Differences are two and no more 1. Moderation which comforts both Body and Mind 2. Immoderation which hurts both Body and Mind First By Discontent I mean such affections as disturb the Body as Anger Hatred Fear for things to come Care for things past Sorrow Grief of Mind c. Secondly The Effects of it are 1. They devert the Vital heat from the Circumference to the Center thereby consuming the Vital Spirits drying the Body and causing Leanness 2. They are forerunners of Evil 3. They are Destroyers Overthrowers and Murderers both of Body and Mind 4. They hasten old Age and death by consuming Radical Moisture Thus much for my Comment upon this Chapter which if it light into the Hands of a wise man I have written enough if of a Fool too much Chap. 86. Of Venereals THe Opinion of Epicurus was that it was Unhealthful for man to come to the School of Venus but indeed and in truth the Exercise is beneficial if a due interval of time be observed And this you may know if the man find himself the better and not the worse after the Act. As for the time to such business Let not the Body be too full nor too empty too hot nor too cold too dry nor too moist and if you must err in in one of these err as little as you can And because usually errors are in such case let the Body be rather hot than cold full than empty moist than dry Before you come to the School of Venus go to the School of Mars namely Exercise your Body before you take councel of the under sheet and so exercise it that you do not tire it If your Constitution be good you need not fear the Exercise of your Constitution can be otherwaies If there be deficiency in your Body it is no wonder if you reade it in your Child We have given you notice how you may know the deficiencies of your own Body and we have spoken of them severally in other Works of ours If the Temperature of the Body differ from Health the effects of the same Temperature must differ as much from the desired end and in that take a few Rules to help your selves Hot Bodies desire hot Nourishments cold Bodies cold Nourishments dry Bodies dry Nourishments and moist Bodies moist Nourishments and the reason is because every like is maitained by his like Therefore Whereas Motion want of Nourishment Watching a Loosness and Discontent dry the Body and procure Diseases thence coming the contrary to these moisten the Body for likes rejoyce in their likes and keep the Bodies in their Temperature and this we speak concerning Bodies Healthful The inequality of these is the breach of Health in the Body of man the way to correct which we have spoken of before only somthing we shall now ad If the Body be offended by much Idleness we ought to correct it by Exercise but this is to be done by degrees for Nature abhors all sudden change Understand the like by a Body weakned by too much Exercise as also by other things not natural which we spake of in the last Chapter Also it may so come to pass that the Stomach may be colder than it ought to be and yet the Brain at the same time hotter than its due temper in such a case you must remedy them both with Medicines proper for them Do the like by other parts of the Bodie when they are hotter colder drier or moister than they ought to be Culpeper By what means to do this you have before in my Comment Chap. 87. Of Healthful Causes of the Instrumental Parts AS concerning Healthful Causes of the Instrumental parts of the Body some consist in want of error in Formation others in want of error in Magnitude Number and Scituation In Formation many errors happen both in the fashion of the part and if there be any Cavity in it when it differs from the Golden Mean in the Passage Mouth Roughness or Smooth●ess these if they differ but little from what naturally they ought to be may deserve the appellation of Healthful but if much they may safely be called Unhealthful but if the difference be so great that the part cannot perform its operation it may truly be said to be sick Also difference must be made in the Quantity of the Defect as also in the Number whether one or mo●● or how many of the parts be deficient as also what the Scituation of the deficient part is The Differences then of these are four 1. Such whose Instrumental parts are in a due Decorum 2. Such as differ but little from it and therefore may also be called Healthful 3. Such as differ more and therefore are Unhealthful 4. Such as differ most and therefore are sick As for such Members as offend in Figure or fashion viz. such as are crooked or the like while the Child is yet yong and tender they may be reduced to their Natural habit by binding or such like means but when once the Child is grown up and the parts hardened 't is impossible to reduce them and indeed all errors in the Body are easier to be amended whilst the Body grows than afterwards for then according to the Opinion of most Phyfitians there is no place left for Remedy As for such Members as exceed their due proportion in bigness may be reduced by resting and convenient binding of them also Members may be encreased by motion and moderate rubbing for that calls the Blood to the place All defective parts which have their Original through Blood are not impossible to be corrected or restored but such parts of the Body as are Spermatical or have their Original by Seed are either altogether impossible to be restored or very neer the point although a callous matter grow in their places which performs the same office they did In all these Nature is the Work-woman and the Physitian but her Servant Also somtimes two or three Vices may accompany one and the same Part as in him that we told you before that had a smal and round Stomach and neer the Diaphragma for in him both Magnitude Formation and Scituation were depraved and the greatest Artificialness in the world could never bring this to a natural habit for if his Stomach were never so little full difficulty of breathing followed therefore his only Remedy was to take little meat and drink at a time and