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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26307	Physical reflections upon a letter written by J. Denis, professor of philosophy and mathematicks, to Monsieur de Montmor, counsellor to the French King, and Master of Requests concerning a new way of curing sundry diseases by transfusion of blood / by George Acton ...	Acton, George.	1668 (1668)	Wing A450; ESTC R21309	8,325	17

perfect state of health Van Helmont well acquainted with the excellent Medicinal use of the blood goes further and making choice of the most different sortes First tryes them by their analyses then by their virtues administring them prepar'd severally according to Art and finds them notwithstanding their diversity of colours of equal force in medicine so that this sort of divination by colour seemes full of uncertainty As Dyers out of the same vate and same tinging liquor at the same time give several colours according as the several peices are variously praedispos'd so perhaps the univocal liquor of the Stomack in its progression to the liver meeting by the way with several Ferments receives several tinctures without any Depravation at all of its Substance For proof of this the foregoing experiments may suffice Now as to the process the Arterial blood of the Lamb is immitted into the vein of the man the Patient finds a great heat all a long his Arm but not any further The reason perhaps why he finds a heat in his Arm and no further may be the impetuosity of motion in the narrow chanel of the Arm by the irruition of a quantity of fresh blood which entring by the subclavia into the large ascendant trunck of the Cava though quickening the motion there yet having more room and being more immerg'd the excessive heat ceases for no more new blood enters this great channel than pass'd the lesser besides motion of impulse is so much the quicker by how much it is neerer to the impellent Nor shall I doubt to assigne the cure both of his side and fever principally to the nimbler circulation of the blood of the Patient actuated as well by the extrinsick motion of the Arterial blood of the Lamb as by its tenuity for it may probably be suppos'd much thinner than the Venal blood of the Patient since naturally the Arterial blood is thinner and moves faster than the Venal Nature seemes to teach us not only the use but even necessity of a nimble circulation of the blood by stirring up quicker and stronger pulsations in the Heart and Artery during the crisis here I must forsake Gallen and not allow the principal use of the pulses to be Ad cordis refrigerium et fuliginum explosionem for the Heart and Arterie of a frog without need of refrigeration or fuliginous explosion because actually cold being dissected alive pulse as in other Animals whose blood is actually hott and if you will say that potential suffices It seemes absur'd to suppose a thing barely in Potentia Actu jam agere it is more likely then on the contrary to be Ad caloris augmentum and that for the most part but alwayes for the production of the vital Spirit and participation of it to the languishing mass and this by traction of Aire by the Arterial veine and venal Artery into the left ventricle of the heart for Gallen esteemes Air as it were the food of the vital Spirit and the learned Chymists not every distilling Mountebanck know how by the help of Air to volatize the most fixt Alkalious salts that the force of the most vehement Calcination can produce so then Nature seemes rather to intend Volatization than Refrigeration by the pulses for as Bartholinus observes in acute fevers and most violent Ebullitions of the blood the pulse is often weak and low which otherwise ought then to be strongest This being granted let us see in our case what probability of quickening the motion and volatization of our Patients diseas'd blood by this immission of the blood of a Lamb and what other benefit may occur by this commixion tending to a cure I have already shew'd how the motion of the Patients blood might be advanced by the Impulsion and Attenuation of the other there is yet a more natural way which is by the induction of a new Ferment This Hippocrates calls Divine and is the undoubted parent of natural motion Cum tendentia says the excellent Dr. Willis in his book de Fermentatione ad perfectionem vel propter mutationem in aliud Now the motion requir'd in our case tending to the Melioration of the blood and consequent cure of the fever is that it be throughly volatiz'd and dispos'd to an easy transpiration Hence Paracelsus and Van Helmont next to their great universal medicines conquering all diseases commend the volatil salt of Rosemary Sage Rue c. for the cure of fevers and the volatil salt of Tartar for the cure of allmost all diseases wee see how soon a little Spirit of Wine cheers and quickens the vital Spirit by mingling it self presently with it by reason of their Analogie but the Spirit of Wine is nothing but the solution of its volatile Salt for it may by the spirit of Urine or Salt of Tartar be corporified into a manifest and palpable saline concretion and indeed it is in this instance by contact of the Vital Ferment presenty turn'd into a volatile saline nature such as is the Vital spirit it self Now that the Vital spirit is of a saline nature seems evident by the testimony of Sense for if a part happen to be torpid or benum'd by any accidental prohibition for a while of the influx of the Animal spirit which acquires no formal transmutation in the medulla oblongata nor other difference from the Vital sane gradu perfectivo upon the return I say of this spirit to the succour of the part labouring we find a kind of stinging and pricking and infallible Index of its saltness as is its total difflation in healthful bodies of its volatility I mean here the Influous spirit which is continually restor'd not to the Insitous whose decay is naturally attended with irrepairable weakness and its total extinction or efflation with present death Let us now see if we can find such active principles in the blood of the Lamb thus emitted without diminution of its vital energie as may suffice for the actuating of the languishing Ferment of the blood of the Patient It cannot be deny'd but that the blood of Beasts as well as men is full of Vital spirit and volatile Salt Fernelius de spiritu viventium defines the spirit of all living creatures to be Corpus aetherium and Aristotle holds it to be of a Caelestial Divine nature answering to the Element of the Starrs There cannot probably then be so great a dissimilarity between the Vital spirit of the Lamb and that of the Man but that the first elaborated in its way to the patients heart by the Action of the Innate spirit implanted in every part and afterwards by the force of the Vital Ferment in the left Ventricle which Helmont calls Maxime vitale luminosum may easily be transmuted and assimilated into the latter and the Archeus of the Patient thus fortified might well overcome his disease Nature being her self if freed from impediment Morborum Curatrix Now as to the volatile Salt it may be esteemed the Balsome of life and preserver of the whole body from corruption upon whose Oeconomy depends the just Circulation and as I said the Difflation of the blood and upon these the preservation of the life of the Individual This Salt resolves the Congelations of extravasated blood opens Obstructions in the Veins resists and conquers Acidity Omnem Aciditatem quam attingit perimit saies Helmont but Acidity according to him out of the stomack is inimicous to the whole body Exorbitans Pestilensve impressio est in cruore si acescat ast si à venis spreta ejiciatur Apostema parit ubicunque id locorum contigerit Besides these more than sufficiently powerful Operations of the Vital spirit and Volatile Salt there are yet in the blood innumerable secret medicinal Virtues The blood of a sound man prepared according to Paracelsus is allowed by the consent of the most learned and experienc'd Chymists to cure Radically the Epilepsic Palsie Apoplexie exulcerated lungs and Pleurifie and if Faber deserve credit may worthily be esteemed amongst the greatest Arcana The blood of an Asse is said to cure a Quotidian Fever and of an Asses Colt the Yellow Jaundies The blood of a male Goate rightly prepar'd for as 't is found in Apothecaries shops it failes certainly cures the Pleurisie and Peripneumonia The blood of an Oxe is said to cure the Dysenterie The blood of a Cat cures the Falling-sickness and Herpes Of the blood of a male Deer is made a Balsom against the Gout The blood of a Fox is an excellent remedy against the Stone in the Reins or Bladder If then Blood extravasated be endued with so many admirable and powerful virtues what may we expect from it communicated as in this our Experiment without any loss at all of its mumial virtues surely such an addition of Vital treasure to the depauperated store must needs enrich it with new strength quicken all the Vital faculties and might with very good reason overcome our Patients Fever There is yet a consideration which perhaps may not seem vain to such as are acquainted with Hermetick Philosophy and 't is this a Lamb is esteemed to be the meekest and most peaceable Animal Nature has brought forth why then might not his blood sigillated with conformable Idea's by the imagination of the Archeus introduce such a pacation into the tumultuous blood of the Patient as was sufficient for his cure For thus certain Arcana prepared by secret Art unknown to all vulgar Chymists by inducing onely rest and in the Enormontick spirit are esteem'd by Paracelsus and Van Helmont and some of them known to my self for almost Universal Medicines Since then the practice of this new method of Healing by Transfusion of Blood seems to be warranted both by reason and experience I advise the curious Experimentor to make trial upon Animals of the longest life such as are Staggs Eagles Crows c. for the prolongation of life And in the cure of Diseases to make choice of such Animals as by their specifick proprieties are found to have curative virtues peculiar to several Diseases And thus I have given a guess at the reason of this new and till of late unheard of way of curing by Tranfusion of Blood which if I have err'd let it serve for my excuse that no man has gone before me to shew the way FINIS