times Stigma's of their Malignity beâ—ind so that no Adeptus but will conclude The greatest part of them ought to be exâ—unged with a supply made of better things â—nd what remains to be more discreetly ordered in their Manufacture How do the Galenists impose upon us first â—o Cry down most Satyrically even to the Persecution of certain Honest Ingenuous Friends to this Art those Meaner sort of Paâ—acelsian Remedies now to make use of them â—o the detriment of many a Patient as well â—s to the keeping up the Credit of their Totâ—ering Dogmatical Structure which must of â—ecessity have fallen ere this to the ground â—ad they not closely foisted in upon a pinch â—ome Spagyrical active Preparations stolen â—rom us at that time when their most Dull Mixtures would take no place then boastâ—ng they tell the Credulous that their own gross Compositions had the greatest share in â—he Cure whereas in reality they did no oâ—her than hinder it Upon this account how subtilly do some pretend to be Chymists stealing Theoremâ— and Chymical Notions out of Van Helm diâ—â—guising putting them into an Elegant dress concealing the Authors Name Thus 〈◊〉 these Plagiaries own that filched from him whom in publick discourse they eitheâ— condemn or slight were they any whit candid they would blush to do so This Crime may justly be imputed to the Author De Fermentat De Febri and others who make a great noise about Lac Sulphur Spir. C. C. Spir. Vitri Ens Vene c. enough they think to make them cryed up for rare Chymists whereas were these Men with their Prescriptions brought to the Test of Practice they would easily be discovered to be but smatterers in this Philosophical Science then would their egregious Defects be obvious to any knowing Person Hereby the Safety Innocence and Vital Preservation of Manufactures would appear as much transcending theirs in excellent Endowments as a Torch in its Bright Beams surpassing a small Tallow Candle Moreover we are able not only to justifie our Operations beyond theirs as free from hazard or dangerous Consequences but we dare maintain what we give to the Sick conduces to their future Welfare and lengthning out their Life according as Divine â—â—ovidence is pleased to allow of the means 〈◊〉 that end Having thus by solid Reasons offered to be â—â—nfirmed by the true Touchstone of Expeâ—â—ence acquitted our Chymical Pharmacy from 〈◊〉 Slanders of our Enemies viz. that our â—ateria Medica is so ill handled that it is â—o Hot Burning Dangerous c. I shall â—ow describe the direct Method of Curing â—ifficult Diseases by help of a sincere Chymiâ—â—l Legitimate Learned Art The chief Indication or Scope which the Well-instructed Physitian ought continually 〈◊〉 have an eye upon is to keep in vigour â—lso to pacifie indulge gratifie the Archeus 〈◊〉 Vital Spirit the Achitectonical contriver â—f our first Being the constant Conservator â—f our Well-being the Author of our Health â—nd Sickness Weal and Woe This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Hippocr by its Impulse â—ets all the Wheels going If a Dysphonie happen in the Sphere of this Vital Aire there aâ—iseth forthwith a jarring in the Inferiour Orbs of the Microcosm The Second Principal Indication is the Abâ—â—tion of the Inward Efficient Cause and the Outward Occasional Irritating Matter which â—isturbs the Archeus putting it into Enorâ—ous Passions and Perturbations These are the two Leggs by which Therapeutick or Healing Faculty is moved 〈◊〉 that is wanting in one of these is certainlâ— Maimed Whatsoever encreaseth the Eutonie oâ— Strength of the Vital Spirit ought to have Similitude of Nature and Symbolize wiâ—â— the same Spirit seeing Like doth readily â—â—nite with Like embracing each other inâ—â—â—mately That we may find out a Compeâ— with the Archeus the Essential knowleâ—â— thereof is to be enquired after The Vital Spirit is a most thin Aehere Breathing arising from the Blood perpetâ—â—ally circulated in the Veins and Arteries illâ—minated framed by Virtue of a Vital Feâ—ment in the left Ventricle of the Heart of a Saline Balsamical Constitution by means oâ— whose Bright Beams all Spirits generated a new diffused through the whole body receive their Light and Vivacity The Original of this Ruddy Juice where the Spirits first begin to flash and glister is from the Stomach where every thing ingested is dissolved by power of a Ferment partly ingenite partly derived from the Spleen or Arteries into a Whitish Acide Chyle This passing through the Pylorus or Neather Orifice of the Ventricle into the Guts called Duodenum Iejunum Ileon is there converted by a Lixiviate like property of the Gaul mixed with the Acid into a saline Texture denominated Chyme The more refined part of this Juice is conveighed through invisible Pores of the Guts into the Venae Lactae or Milky Vessels both trained by them and likewise impelled by the Peristaltick Motion of the Guts These Venae Lacteae carry the Milky Juice into the Liver Pancreas cava through whose Channels it runs Rubified into the right Ventricle of the heart thence it is driven out into Arteria Pulmon divaricated into the Lungs by means of the Centraction of the Heart then taken up by the Vena Pulmonica it falls into the left Ventricle where it is Flavefied by the Vital Ferment of the Heart by the force of whose Systole this Spirituous Liqor springs into all parts designed for Nutrition Procreation Sense and Motion Sith then 't is plain that the first Foundation of the Blood is laid in the Stomach according to whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon whose good and bad action future digestions depends so that if the Chyle be once depraved in the first shop the Chyme and Milky Juice cannot be made in every respect approved in the second or third Laboratories Consequently very laudable Blood and Spirits can never be Fabricated For as the Chyle is such is the Chyme Lacteous Liquor Latex or Lympha Cruor Sanguis and Spirits Sith then there is such a Concatenation Connexion continued File of the Albified Mass in the Stomach to the rubified Balsome in the Heart and so to the extreme parts every knowing upright Physitian ought to be sollicitous about the discreet Oeconomy or Order of this Noble part that defaecated Blood and Spirits may be created Wherefore that thing ought not to be taken into the Body which is any way offensive to the Archeal Ferment of the Stomach or the weakening of its Tone Whatsoever is Dull Flat Dreggy Fretting Rank Corrosive or Virulent must be avoided Things Active well purified 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in a just proportion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exquisitely mixed endued with an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fragrant smell Sympathizing with the Constitution of this Membrane Benevolent and Antidotal are to be assumed that Clean Bright Spirits may be multiplyed springing from this Vital Balsame Well-rectified Spirits of Strong Liquors I have always found to perform much tending to that end before proposed For
of a foul Woman have making use of one peculiarly wholsom found them Antidotarie giving interchangeably better for worse Ideas Thus great is the Benignity of the good Creator who hath not suffered Man to be destitute of Excellent Remedies contained in his own Body for the mitigation pessundation of the sad Calamities he hath and doth daily bring upon himself through his Exorbitant Lustful Phansie He hath also destinated other Creatures to be at his Service to regulate sufflaminate amend consolidate purifie and persanate his wandring Precipitate Maimed Corrupt Crasie Absurd Filthy Mad Imaginations turning Body and Soul continually off the Hinges I wish those Specificks I deliver upon trust were throughly explorated and approved by Learned Authors who I fear have taken up some of them too credulously for Truths as they came from the mistakes of the Plebeian without Examining them by the Test of Judicious iterated Trials I shall exhort therefore all hearty Lovers of Verity that they would make a severe scrutiny into some of those Concrets supposed to have a Gift bestowed upon them of Acting in a Spiritual manner upon vitiated Ideas For my part had I leisure were I not Importunately turmoiled with the accurate facture of Pharmacie I should long e're this have given a more satisfactory Account of the Operation of things sympathizing with our Nature preserving good sound Imaginations bearing an Innate hatred to those that are Morbous Crasie Vitiated extinguishing them I have thought none more fitting for this Work than those we call Virtuosi if they would lay aside their wanton little significant somewhat Impertinent as to the main matter of Sanity without which nothing can be done aright Periergies or over-busie Curiosities seriously setling themselves for the Well-fare of their Neighbour to the Inspection and Anatomy of Essential Energies of Spirits lodging in divers Bodies as they delight or are displeased when they meet with those of their own Texture nearly related or strangers thereto In that regard exert respectively their Ingenite Faculties producing Characteristical Effects of Health and Sickness If they will not vouchsafe to do this themselves let them encourage others thereto making a Collection of such Observations as other Practical Philosophers have really found true being ready to exhibit plain Specimens thereof to their Senses This were the direct way to advance the Sophical Tractation of Materia Medica and to rid us of that Lumber of Fruitless Farraginous Absurd Compositions which do but aggravate our miserable Condition Having shewn what Excellent Properties are comprehended in the Parts of Man for the Regulation of Noxious Phansies I shall now make a Progress of the Matter in hand Mustering such Animals with their Continents and contents reported either to sully deface blur or quite abolish the Idea's of Diseases whose Action in this kind is called Specifick being destinated ab Origine for that End to produce such an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Effect no Rational Computation of which can be given from the Praedicament of meer Qualities The Spiritual Endowments flowing from Animals Vegetables and Mineral Concrets as they are simply plain rudely or curiously prepared I shall set down as most of them are delivered to me ex fide trusting to the bare Traditions of some to the Authority and Integrity of others Therefore let no man think all the Ingenite Virtues attributed here to the Principal Triple Common-weal of Bodies to be altogether Authentick but let them take notice of my Grand Design viz. That they may come under a certain Modification with all Circumstances observed the Examination of Ingenious Experimenters who are able to testifie the falsity or verity of the same as they find them Swallows are commended as Powerful to obliterate by degrees the Falling Sickness Also an Elks Claw Castoreum The Gaul of a Sucking Whelp The Liver of Froggs prepared Castoreum Blood of a Turtle Dove The stone in a Carps Head are Specifick in the Appoplexie and Palsie Likewise Fox Grease The smell of a Fox Water Distilled from Ants. The Dung of a Black Cow taken while it is hot then Calcined and given to Infants newly Born to half a dram preserves them from Convulsion Fits and the Epilepsie Peacocks Dung conduceth against the Vertigo or Diziness The Brain of a Swine avails in a Phrensie and a Weak Memory A small Bone found in Snails without shells profits in Convulsions A Toad stops great Fluxes of Blood also the Hair or Downie substance about the Tail of a Hare taken in March blown into the Nostrils Cats Tail Asses or Hogs Dung are used for that purpose The Fat of a Pike applied to the Temples Composes the Phansie to Rest. A Succedaneum to it is the Water drawn out of the Worms found in the spongy Balls of sweet Bryar The Juice extracted out of the Liver of a Weasil instilled into the Eye removes the Idea of a white spot or Cloudiness in the Eye The same is declared of the Gaul of a Weasil or Hare The Blood of a Mouse And Water Distilled out of mans Dung. The Inward Skin of Egg-shells newly Hatched Powdered and Applied takes away the venemous Impress of a Cancer in the Eye Scarabees or Beetles dryed and pulveâ—rised repose the starting out of the Eye The Chrystaline Humour of the Eye oâ— an Ox Distilled Corrects the Infirmities oâ— the Eyes The Gaul of a Pike mortifies a Fistula The Gauls of most Fishes instilled into the Eyes change the dark Character of Blindness into the Luminous bright Image of Seeing The Gaul of a Pike is most famous for that End A Headless Fly rubbed upon a Wheal or Mattery swelling of the Eye-lid Cures it The Juice of Periwinckles instilled into the Ear profiteth against the Impress of Deafness The like is attributed to the Gaul of a Hare mixt with a little Honey The Claw of a Toad well dressed and held to the aking Tooth charms the dolorous pain The Tooth of a dead Dog Acts in the same manner as they say So doth as some affirm the Gum of Ivy and a Snakes Skin The Powder of Lizards put upon the Teeth maketh them to fall out The Blood of a Cocks Comb rubbed on the Gums of Children breeding their Teeth causeth them to break forth the sooner Oyl of Toads blot out Pimples and Wheals of the Face The Menstruous matter performs the like An Egg boiled hard laid to the Crown of the Head takes off the flaccidity and hanging down of the Uvula The Grease of a Pike rubbed into the Soles of Childrens Feet afflicted with a tedious Cough puts a stop to it Creatures fresh killed applyed to the Head have a Specifick Virtue to mitigate pains and watchings Crabs Dogs Dung Swallows and Swallows Nest. Boars Tooth marr the strangulatorie Image of the Quinzie Goats Blood Mumy Crabs Eyes conduce to the amendment of that deformed Figure of a Phthisis The Heart Liver and Lungs of a Calf distilled are of some Use for that purpose as they say Vipers River Crabs
Pearls Philosophically handled are doubtless of great Force So are Snails Ants Distilled with Honey in Spirit of Wine afford an Excellent Liquor appropriated for an Atrophie or Consumption to be used both inward and outward T' is delivered by some that a New laid Egg boiled in the Urine of a Consumptive Body till it be hard then perforated with a sharp stick that abundance of holes may be made reaching to the Yolk afterward this very Egg boiled again in the same Urine till it be quite evaporated At length buried in an Ant-Hill is available in an Atrophie for as it is consumed by the Ants eating it so is the Idea of the Consumption of the Body obliterated and the strength restored That frothy slimy Water slipping out of the mouth of Horses when they are Drinking being taken inwardly repairs decayed Nature Millepedes Cheslips Bezoar Orient Crocus The broath of an Old Cock are accounted powerful to asswage an Asthma or Tissick The Heart of a Partridge abates the Passion of the Heart The Heart of a Bird called a Wag-tail the Congelation of the Spirits The Arterial Blood of a Goat the Pizzle of a Stagg or Bull. Boars Tooth often given cross out the sharp pointed Character of a Pleurisie Also the bright shining Pictures in a Peacocks Tail cut into small pieces and given to Drink The fore-said spumous slippery Liquor gliding through the Horses mouths in Watering imbibed doth strangly alter the Pleuritical Impress The Skin of a Wolf Vulture Swan worn for a Stomacher help as they say Digestion Hard Eggs are reckoned for a Specifick in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Dogs Appetite The Powder of a Secundine of the first Born is recommended for prevention of mischief in the Pica a strange Idea of Longing in Women with Child A stone found in an Oxes Bladder of Gaul wipes off the Tincture of the Yellow Jaundies Goose-dung Earth Worms have the like Property Outwardly a Tench applyed alive to the Navil till it dye Likewise a Spider inclosed quick in a little Box hung about the Neck upon the pit of the Stomack till it dye The fore-said stone in an Oxes Bladder of Gaul prevails against Sadness The Spleen of an Ox is a Specifick against the Evils of the Spleen The Worms in Dog Rose mortifie the Worms in the Belly A Living Toad applyed to the Region of the Loyns cancels the Character of the Dropsie in the Kidneys The Gut of a Wolf dryed and the powder taken lulleth asleep the Torment of the Cholick The same is reputed of the Inward Ventricle of a Hens Craw and whiter part of Hens Dung Likewise the Testicles of a Horse The powder of the Inward skin of the shell of Eggs. Portion of the Navil string of a Child new Born carried about certainly prevents or mitigates the Torture of the Cholick The Blood of a Hare Cures the Dysentery or Bloody Flix Crabs Eyes The Jaw Bone of a Pike deface that ugly Petrifying Image in the Kidneys Scorpions are applauded by some for that purpose Cheesils Goats Blood produce the same Effect in the Stone of the Bladder Chrystal Glass often heated red hot quenched in very pure Water Acts rarely in this kind The Egg-shell of a Hatched Chicken powdered profiteth in the stopping of the Urine The Urine of a Lynx or spotted Beast give Relief in the Strangury also Oyl of Wax The like is said of the Pith in a Goose Quill Anima Halecis Goats Tallow put into the Navil Urine of a Goat Earth-worms The Juice of River Crabs disturbs the Formal Cause of an Inflammation of the Kidneys Not Inferior to the former is the Urine of a Goat newly made The Dung of a Yellow Coloured Hen mortifâ—es an Ulcer in the Bladder The Wind-pipe of a Cock torrefied The Bladder of a Goat A Fish found in the Belly of a Pike Invigorate the Retentive Faculty of the Bladder hindring the involuntary coming out of the Urine The Pizzle of a Bull or Stag corroborates the Atonie or Flaccidity of a Man's Yard stirring up Libidinous Images Boletus Cervinus or Stags Mushrom Scincus or Land Crocodile promote Venery The Ashes of Horse-Leeches The Ashes of a sucking Leveret are apprehended powerful to Cure the Rupture of the Guts A Cuttle Fish bone The Roe of a Red Herring are of force for the Running of the Reins Beetles infused in Oyl of Lin-seed stop the Exorbitant Flux of the Piles and the Falling down of the Fundament Mumy hath the like Credit Sponges growing in Bathing places The Ashes of Mouse-dung Purple shell-fish calcined applyed to the Fundament reform the mishapen knaps thereof Warts and other Vexatious excrescences The powder of the Matrice of a Hen helps Conception The Fume of a Dead Tooth of Man destroys the Idea of Sterility The Liver and Gaul of an Adder or Eel dryed and taken in Drink causeth speedy Delivery in Child-bed A Girdle made of an Adders Skin worn about the Loyns hath the same Virtue The Secundine torrefied and drank wonderfully dischargeth the After-Birth Powder of Cockle-shells Powder of Mother of Pearl Crabs Eyes Spiders Web A Fish called a Tench do all help to raze out the Image of Feavers The Spawn of Froggs technically Ordered appease the pain of the Gowt Swines Blood River Crabs take off in some measure the Impress of a Hectick Feaver Sal 🜹 seven times Sublimed Powder of Vipers The Heart of a Hare spoyl by degrees the Figure or Type of a Quartan To that purpose conspires a Living Spider Imprisoned in a little Box placed about the Stomack A Red or Pickled Herring eaten cures Hydrophobie from the Biting of a Mad Dog A Toad rightly prepared is a true Xenexton Preservative or curative in the Plague mortifying Pestiferous Phancies A Wolf's Tongue is extolled by Paracelsus as endued with the same Virtue A Lizard assists Nature to kill the Venom of a Carbuncle The Fat of a Wolf obliterates the Picture of a Disease called a Wolf in Mans Body Vipers Flesh frequently assumed doth overcome that filthy Species of a miserable calamity the Leprosie The Blood of a Hare extinguisheth the fiery shape of an Erysipelas The Fat of the same Creature extracteth a Thorn out of the Flesh. A Living Worm applyed close to the finger afflicted with a Whitflaw dissipateth it The Blood and Skin of a Mole performs the same The Mouse called a Shrew or Ranny cut up alive forthwith put to the part bitten heals the Wound Honey or the Bee it self cure the sting of Bees The Liver of a mad Dog eaten is an Antidote against his Poyson The Head of an Adder is Alexiterie against it's biting A Scorpion against it's sting A Toad stone agafnst the Venom of a Toad CHAP. XVI The next Class of those things which make 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are Vegetables as follow THE Root of Male Piony Missletoe of the Oak A shrub of Elder growing on a Willow taken Inwardly or worn as a Periapton are very prevalent for the deletion of the
through the whole course of our Life so that we Live no longer when the Heart and Lungs do quite give over the faculty of Moving Every one then ought to take singular care that Circulation of the Blood may be in no wise intercepted nor free Breathing be intermitted for that purpose the Exercise of the Muscles of the Limbs gentle and sweet Recreation of the Mind do avail Moderate Equal Diaphoretick Alterative and duly Excitative Labor joyned with pleasant variable admirable rare and desirable Objects doth Expand and Dilate the Lungs and Arteries whereby the Breast becomes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Arteries Emicant Nothing promotes these Actions better than cheerfulness or temparate Joy constant love of what is truly amiable never to be repented of A probable hope of some good not long to be deferred at length a sweet enjoyment of that which is durable and capable to usher in better things For I am of a very brave Man's Opinion The Comfort of our whole Life depends upon expectation of better things Also Magnanimity or Courage founded upon Virtuous Enterprizes aspiring to Noble Designs for a Publick as well as Private Interest do sweetly enlarge the Spirits quickning the Ferments causing an expulsion of Superfluities Yea just Indignation kept within its due Limits facilitates Respiration Transpiration and Pulsation On the contrary Fear Sorrow Melancholy Hatred Jealousie Envy contract the Diaphragme and the Muscles of the Breast hindering legitimate breathing occasioning an Immature Importunate Systole or a Supine Connivence in the Arteries It is not amiss sometimes to be transported beyond the common bounds of Moderation to be agitated with some Extraordinary passion of the mind and to sustain tedious Labor that the sweeter composition of Mind and most delightful rest of Body may follow sith one constant strict tenor pertaining to Diet is hardly to be obtained without greater damage whensoever we offend not to be avoided by any Man who hath a Publick Employment or a secular Interest to look after so that it is better to be accustomed to any Exercise or labour of Body and mind voluntarily least we be surpriz'd unawares unwillingly to our notable hurt I advise those parts should undergo most gentle Exercise which are weakest to walk oftner upon the lower Limbs when they are somewhat feeble to move rather the Arms and Hands when incident to a debility lest the stronger by motion defraud the weaker and so Alogotrophia or disproportion in the nourishment of parts follow I approve Frication of all parts especially three noted Emunctories the Groin Arm-pits and Neck with a course Cloath without curious superstition of rigtht oblique or transverse Directions Combing the Head every Morning is an exercise profitable for the Brain and upper Limbs encreasing their vigour and opening the Pores for the emission of Excrements engendred in the sixt Digestion which is not a little depraved by a superfluous covering so that the Brain through too much Heat becomes Effeminate Soft and Imprudent Let every man make choice of that Exercise or Recreation he is most inclined most agreeable to his Constitution whereby he is most relieved CHAP. VIII THe fifth inseparable Companion of our Life neerly related to Exercise and Motion is Sleeping and Waking These make almost a Divident of the Life of this Microcosm And happy it is for Man that the first was Instituted sith great are the Cares of miserable Mortals that he hath reason to bless his Creator that he can fall into a sweet Lethean Sleep which like a short Death deprives him of Sorrow and Anguish of Spirit Pax Animi quem cura fugit Albeit great is the comfort of a moderate Sleep as to the refreshment of Body and Mind whereby they are enabled to execute their Faculties and Offices more vigorously awake yet no small are the Discommodities brought upon us by excess therein as an Indisposition to follow Ingenious Arts or Sciences a Stupidity to comprehend the Truth of things Forgetfulness Supinity or Indifferences what becomes of our future State leaving Affairs in a confused condition Indigested and Desperate It heaps up Crudities flats the Archeus hinders the Expulsion of Superfluities makes the Body Woman-like Delicate Tender Wanton unfit for any Noble Enterprize accumulates Excrements yielding abundant Matter for all sorts of Diseases c. Excess also in Waking is accompanied with multitude of ill Consequents Impovrishment and Distraction of the Spirits Absurd Idea's Indigestion an Augmentation of A-aids Hypochondriack Fits Melancholy and Madness CAAP. IX THe last Inseparable Concomitant of Life to be Insisted upon whereby our condition is made better or worse according as we govern them well or ill is our Passions which if they move regularly produce a sweet Tranquility in the Mind and a Salubrity in the Body but if extravagant flying out beyond their bounds they confound the whole Oeconomy of this Admirable Frame The Stoicks seem to endeavour to deprive themselves of a Sensitive Life when they would have a man to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 This is all one as not to take notice of any thing adverse to Nature for it is impossible for a Man Apprehensible and Imaginable not to be moved by the Object he apprehends or Imagines as it is pleasing or distastful so he desires it or abhors it the Affections hereby set on work great reluctancy effervescence perturbation arise in the Spirits which sometimes strangly alter the Texture and Crasis of the Blood The Idea's or Images of Sorow Fear Anger Joy Jealousie Hatred Emulation are sometimes so fixed in the Animals that they become indeleble hence vain Imaginations of the whole Man Dotage Melancholy and Furie are Emicant neither do the absurd Conceptions and vain Imaginatiors of the whole Man only cause disturbance in the Stomack or Brain Storms or Tempests in the Universal Archeus but likewise the Spirit of every part frameth particular Images of Indignation Fear c. Any Spinous acculeating or pricking Matter in any particular part presently puts the Vital Spirit there into a passion the Archeus of the Eye is forthwith put into an indignation when an Extimulating Fretting Liquor is either injected into it or engendred in it through a fault in its peculiar Degestion whereupon the Lympha Latex or the Wheyish Humour is lured or summoned for the Ablution of this Blot or Defect which when it cannot perform the Ocular Water as well as the Nourishment thereof is depraved through the ringing Attrition of the Sensitive Spirit which ought by all means to be pacified The like Perturbation is observed to be raised in the Archeus of the Ear Nose Windpipe c. when any troublesome cause ariseth there 'T is certainly true Omne Vivens Mortui impatiens esse solet Whatsoever is alienated from Life engendred either within assumed or injected from without brings sometimes sooner or sometimes latter the Custos of the Whole or Part into an Inquietude For this reason Cantharides applyed raise Blisters in the Skin of a
deformed Venemous Epileptical Image Lilly conval the Flowers of Linden or Teil Tree Black Cherries Southern wood Valerian Oyl of the Wood of Hazel Balsam of Palestina Spirit of Tobacco Spirit of Camphire are according to tradition Specificks against the Epilepsie Appoplexie and Palsie Balm Black Hellebore prevail against mad Phancies White Poppy Nutmeg help to abate great Watchings Serpillum or Wild Thyme Vervein Regulate the Disorders of the Head The Flowers of Succory Rochet applied to the Nape of the Neck Celandine the green leaves of Tobacco mitigate the Inflammation of the Eyes Hieracium i. e. Hawkweed Eye-bright Fennel strengthen weak Eyes Wormwood Vervain diminish the tingling noise in the Ear. An Onion Pellets of Common Raddish put into the Ear have a property to help the difficulty of Hearing The Root of Gentian amends the Idea of an Ulcer in the Nose Majoram Hors-mint Restore the decay of Smelling The Juice of mil-foil the mushrom of a Birch tree the Flowers of Daisie the lesser restrain Haemorrhagies Flowers of Benzoe stalks of Nigella Romana or Gith Dissolve Congealed Blood Oyl of Box the Root of sharp pointed Dock Burdock are reckoned appeasers of the Tooth ach the Fume of Henbane killeth Worms in the teeth A Decoction of Veronica mas i. e. Fluellin the male is said to Cure the Aphthae the Thrush in Sucking Children The Root of Aron Bryony Valerian are Specified against Diseases of the Lungs Ground Ivy is powerful to do good in those who are Empical i. e. have Corrupt matter gathered in the Chest the Seed of Roman Nettle and the Root of Comfrey are also proper Horse-tongue Ladies Thistle appease the pains of the Side Wild Cresses take off the mark of Hoarsness upon the Lungs Zizipha lenifie a Cough Henbane-Seed the Root of stinging Nettle Fluellin Bistort Comfrey Burnet Sanicle check spitting of Blood The Lesser Housleek is of great force against a Quinzie English Saffron Scabious Garlick Horehound Spirit of Tobacco Benzoe deface the Character of the Tissick The Root of Mullein before it comes to Flower hinders the Impetuous Flux of the Latex to any part The like Virtue is attributed to mother of Thyme and Ground-pine Zedoarie Balm Anacardium give redress in Lipothymie or Fainting Fits Oyl of Cynamon in Palpitation of the Heart Hemlock Gum of Juniper afford succour in the Inflammations of the Breast Likewise Rhaeas or Wild Red Poppy Daisie Roots and Flowers The Juice of Ground Ivie the Flower of St. Johns Wort reform the mishapen figure of a Phthisis or Ulcer of the Lungs Hemlock Mint the Root and Seed of Fennel hinder an overplus of Milk and its curdling The greater Dragon Aron spoil the filthy shape of a Cancer Burnet Bryony Root Water of Vine branches abate the Phantastical Longing of Women hindering the mischief which commonly coms upon it Zedoarie is applauded as an excellent proper Stomachick Essence of Bread helps Digestion admirably well The Seed of Columbine Crocus Horehound Strawberry Leaves and Root alter the Dye or Stain of the Yellow Jaundice Elder Berries lenefies the vehemence of the Bloody Flix Essence of Persicaria is excellent against the Diseases of the Mesentery Gladiolus Sword-grass Fox-glove are of great importance in the Kings-Evil Black Hellebore Tamarisk Garlick Fern Epithymum Polypodium Seed of Roman Nettle are accounted Remedies for the Spleen Gratiola doth good in the Dropsie Anasarcha Tapsus Barbatus in a Tympany Garden Scurvy-grass well prepared Brooklime Lesser Celandine Horse-Raddish Herb two Penny the leaves of Pine or Firr help to Cancel the virulent Idea of the Scurvy Rupture wort Hippoglossum Pilosella Semen Sophiae Filicula Perfoliata are appropriated for the Cure of a Rupture of the Guts Herb Paris reduces the Inflammation of the Scrotum to an Eucrasie The dead Nettle Terebinth Ebulus much conduceth in a Gonorrhaea Satyrium Boletus Cervinus Cubebs the Root of Dogs stone Umbilicus Veneris quicken Veneral Phancies Oyl of Rue abates the Priapism Sweet Bryar Balls Alkekeng Juniper Berries Saxifrage Lignum Nephriticum Peach stones Lachrima Job the Liquor of Birch drawn from the Tree in March are commended for the stone in the Kidneys Decoction of Red Ciches avails in the Strangury Agrimony in Pissing of Blood Figg leaves Juice of Onions Aloe open the Piles Linaria the Ashes of Vine Branches remove the Warts and knubs of the Fundament Black Hellebore quilted with Cotten in form of a Girdle worn stops the Excessive Flux of the Piles The Root of Sloe bush restores the Falling down of the Fundament Down upon Quinces Maiden-hair Thapsia cause the Hair to grow Storks Bill called Gratia Dei Unites broken bones Persicaria Celandine the lesser Bryony take away black and blew strokes Hypericon Persicaria are excellent vulnerary Herbs The Root of Bryony steeped in Water with Oak Ashes destroys Worms in the Skin Gladiolus applyed fetches out Thorns and Splinters Mushroms of an Oak mortifie Carbuncles Strawberries are accounted a Specifick against the Leprosie The Bark of Birch Bladders on Elm leaves cleanse away Freckles A Bath made of Osier leaves refresheth Consumptive Limbs Lunaria is a special Remedy for a Cancer An Apple applyed to Warts and buried under ground mortifies them CHAP. XVII Lastly Mineral and Marine Substances Act upon the Idea's of Diseases by defacing or expunging them THE Legitimate Spir. of Vitriol Amber Terra Sigillata Red Coral Natural Cinnabar Cinnabar of ♠The Emeral'd scatter those black Clouds arising from the horrid Spectrums of the Appoplexie Epilepsie introducing instead thereof a brightness and splendour in the Spirits Our Bezoartick powder with ☽ doth notable things to this purpose It operates rarely well in Comatous Evils and Watchings Balsam of Saturn appeases the furious Commotion of the brain The Sulphur of Vitriol Cures the Vertigo or Diziness The pure Tincture of Tutia respects the Good of the Eyes causing the Species of Objects to be seen more plain Sal Punella Flowers of Brimstone made as they should be are doubtless of commendable use in the Quinzie and Tissick Tincture of Mars Lapis Haematites and Vitriol stop excessive Bleeding Antimonium Diaphoreticum is conducible in Imposthumes of the Lungs The Flowers of ♠fixed are so prized in an Empical Condition Bezoar Mineral dissolves blood congealed and is of great validity in a Phthisis but above all the Anodine Sulphur of Vitriol is to be preferred Coral Revives the Vital Image in Lipothymical Persons Powder of Crystal encreaseth Milk Spirit of ♄ amends the defects of the Stomack Emeral'd Coral Sulphur of ☉ are magnified for good Remedies in Cholera and Dysenterie Mars Saccharum ♄ Clarifie the Spleen Reforming it's peccant Idea's The Load-stone applyed to the Navil causeth Cholick pains to cease by destroying the Image of the Disease The Sea Spong Sal Gemm is much commended in Schrofulous Affects Sal Gemm Artificially prepared is extolled in Bubonocele and Enterocele Mercury destroys all sorts of Worms Essence of Amber Venice Borace Revives the Image of Virility extinguishing the ill-favoured type of sterility
persist to deny me this kindness of explaining things as they are in themselves they will constrain me to set forth a Catalogue of those Patients with the Names of the Physitians attending them whom as I 'le make appear by Analogism Examples or Instances agreeing in every respect possible to the Type of the Disease Ordered by them they have sent packing into the other World If they can as justly accuse me producing the same Evidence that I am guilty of such indirect Practice these 16 years I have here resided in London I shall willingly submit to be severely Animadverted Moreover I shall detect what a Considerable number of Sick brought to the brink of the Grave by their Galenical Orders some whereof I have urged to try further if they were able to relieve them utterly despairing of their Recovery Divine Goodness hath Cured by his weak Spagyrical Agent I hope his Majesty for the Love he bears to Chymical Truth the Benefit redounding thereby to himself and his Subjects out of a kindness to one who sincerely and Constantly suffered for his Royal Father will indulge this Honest Profitable Enterprize so far that if I can make good to the Senses that our Philosophical way is able according to Judicious Providence and Predictions to preserve his Subjects in Health of Body and Mind to prevent mischiefs to come and to restore them to Sanity better than formerly for many Centuries past Withall if it can be proved plainly by iterated Essays and Equal Tryals that the Galenical and Galeno-Chymical Method is an Imperfect Palliating Treacherous and Pernicious means to overcome or eradicate any great fixed Malady will be pleased to Erect a Learned Chymical Society which may be a President to Foreign Nations to imitate for which present and Future Ages will be bound to bless him The admirable Commodity and Benefits accrâ—ing to Mankind by this Heroick Enterprize of a Chymical Colledge are sufficient to move the Magistrate to force these Anti-Chymists to desist from their Evil Practice 1. Religious 2. Moral 3. Political 4. Medicinal 5. Mechanical I should not question by means of wholsome Chymical Physick to make Men of more sound 〈◊〉 Religion Atheism Hypoctisie Prophaness Debauchery might in some measure be lessened quailed and restrained by power of a Mastring Discipline of the Intellectual Soul made more apt to understand the Truth of things by means of the Organs of the Body Blood and Spirits well Clarified By Virtue of our Hermetick Physick the Head Heart and Hands of Hierophants might be purified Their Exemplary Dumb and Deaf Preaching up of Vice throughout all the World be Corrected Circumstances and Punctilio's in Religion lovingly calmly proposed debated and Accepted And those fierce Eager Altercations about Adiâ—phora laid aside By the powerful Operation of this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quakers Catabaptists Independents Separatists Schismaticks and multitudes of Phanaticks might be brought to more Integrity of mind in Religion be reclaimed far better than by any rigid Persecuting-Course whatsoever We should Entertain more frequent serious Contemplation or Divine Idea's of a Future World were not our Bodies consequently our Souls clouded by black Hypochondriack Meâ—eors and depraved by bad Physick In my Minority I have been a little amazed to hear the Religion of Physitians indifferently yea slightingly Ironically spoken of So that I have not without some indignation Vindicated it perswading my self that there were many who like Dr. Brown were able to assert it practically But coming to greater Maturity in the Observation of Things I found for the most part that really True which before I apprehended was precipitately spoken by the vulgar For I dare averr if a Man may judge of a Tree by it's Fruits or of the Nature of any Corporeal Existent by Signatures Impresses and Accidents Products Phaenomena and Effects so certainly may a Man censure most of the Galenical Tribe sitting to be Ranked among Plato's Classes of Atheistical Hypocritical Wretches not only Poysoning others by their Deletery virulent intoxicating Physick but also by their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 their Profane Loose voluptuous Intemperate Covetous Proud Blasphemous behaviour both in word and deed and most Obstinate Active Perseverance in their Lethiferous Method of Curing How in Truth can it be otherwise sith their Minds are Corrupted by their malignant Physick Through the want of a True Benign mundifier of their Vitals Besides how is it possible they should be acquainted in the least mith a Deity who are so grosly ignorant of the Aitiologie of things in Nature Needs must they be stone Blind as to any right apprehension of an Omnipotent Creator a Wise Supporter Disposer and Governor of all things Sith their Understanding is so extremely to seek concerning the Material Efficient Cause of all Corporeal Beings How can they who are so much mistaken concerning the Essence of Fire approach him infinitely transcending any consuming Fire How is it possible they should have any Understanding of the Father of Lights who know not whether Light be Accident or a Substance Had they been better acquainted with Nature the first Mover of all things would have Communicated himself more clearly Now sith they have wilfully blinded themselves through Vile Interest at the presence of that which is obvious to the Senses 't is but just they should continue in Cimmerian Darkness without the true Discovery of things invisible It hath been a Curse upon the Galenists 1600 Years not to be capable to Cure Radicated Diseases because they slighted him who is the great Healer of all our Infirmities Nam Deus creavit Medicum non Homo This considered 't is no wonder they are thus accused of Atheism If so the only way to make them Religious Proselytes and to bring them to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is to convince them of their Errors in Philosophy to demonstrate how miserably they are out of the way of Curing their own as well as others Evils What imperfect yea hurtful means they use to remedie their own Laesam Imaginationem by Bleeding Tabefying Colliquating Carharticks and duil Cordials c. and to indicare to them Ortho-Methodus fanandi Chymica that there may be an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Stomach Spleen and other parts 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a purity in the Blood and an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a firm Activity in the Spirits thus the Soul obtaining compleat Organs will act as it ought for aceording to Galen Animi Actiones sequntur temperamentum Corporis which is verified of the Spirits Thus when the Doctor is convinced many Discidles will follow his Example this will be the most assured way to make a Reformation in the World and to take us off from unprofitable Disputes in Religion The Abuses and extravagant Practices in Divinity and Physick being Chymically redressed the Corruptions Prevarications and unjust Dealings in the Law are like to be quickly voted out of doors For the Irregularities in Divinity and Physick confound the whole world Moreover I have