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A48394	A miraculous cure of the Prusian swallow-knife being dissected out of his stomack by the physitians of Regimonto, the chief city in Prusia : together with the testimony of the King of Poland, of the truth of this wonderfull cure : likewise the certificate of the lords the states and all the physitians of Leyden / translated out of the Lattin ; whereunto is added a treatise of the possibility of this cure with a history of our owne of the consolidation of a wound in the ventricle ; as also a survay of the former translation, and censure of their positions by Dan. Lakin, P.C.	Lakin, Daniel, P.C.; Władysław IV Zygmunt, King of Poland, 1595-1648.	1642 (1642)	Wing L200; ESTC R23085	101,722	162

of Histories yet relates none that men may dye of Anger the truth is to be suspected The passion of Anger and the rest are simp'e passions not mixt with any other as guilt is which is mingled both with feare and anger and therefore cannot properly be call'd a passion but as the suddaine ebullition of the spirits causeth a drawing unto the heart by abundant heate which naturally attracts the spirits disperst into the Arteries and Veines in the service of the body so doth it as readily drive them out againe to execute what the mind in such rage shall either conceive to be a revenge a satistaction or remedy insomuch that the parts of the body not left destitute of heate for many minutes cannot perish by an Apopler unlesse the matter was prepar'd and lurking in the braine that labour'd under such a griefs which this short deprivation of heate may occasion as our Author affirmes Next feare is of a more killing nature since it is a distresse that liveth in the body for much time as the occasion shall enforce besides as it is properly seated in the heart which man sensibly seeleth although the animall spirits in the braine by their faculty through knowledge of the cause and event presents it and makes it available so it defuseth an evill se●nper into the bloud and naturall spirits quenching their vigour also procuring a vile alteration by extinction of the conserving flame of the body which at last forsaking the bloud leaves behind it an inveterate griefe which seiseth on nature by a kind of infiring in every member even to perishing but this is after some time Further sudden terrour of al the rest is most apt to bring forth such lamentable events for this passion not onely seiseth on the heart with a strong power of feare whereby as it were crushath it to pieces but by a necessary and furious calling backe the vitall spirits sent abroad into the channells of nature to its aide it threatneth a stifling in the proper Vessells of the heart Besides in arger there is a boyling of the arteriall bloud by which their quality of heate is maintayn'd which bursting forth meets the flowing of the spirits and thrusteth them backe to their seate duties and reviveth them by piercing through them but in this assaulf there is no such elaboration but a dulling even to insensibility without any quickning whereby followes a greater freezing of them in their fountaine and place of arrivall so that they returne not if in part they doe yet it is with an irrecoverable feeblenes Further scare hath its expectation and can Iudge of the conclusion which may a little refresh but in this there is neither not through reason but the passion afflicted and ruling in its extremity the differences thus farre open'd I leave it to the courteous and Iudicious Reader Moreover whereas our Author attributes but a successive power unto the care to beget such hurts or to make stight wounds difficult or mortall I thinke hee is in an errour concerning this poynt the passions of the mind effect without any materiall but I hope he will conclude the ears to be a subtill one since it is receiv'd into our veines and arteries and according to its impurities and corruption leaveth there its tincture and condition these pestiferous seasons are witnesses with the allo wance of all grave Writers besides many chronick evills with have beene cured by the onely benefit of the aire but of this enough Position 10. ALthough this Position admits of tents to the depth of profound wounds yet I conclude that it is not so strong an Argument as to be followed or approved but rather that the tents should not passe too farre or too much beyond the membrana carnosa The workes of nature are the safest and most acceptable in which amongst her examples of memory her defence from the hurts and oppressions of contraries are not a little to be admired I will not Muster up a Legion of Histories to repeate unto the wise her common labours but as our present occasion invites will onely search the truth of this position It is assuredly confest that to lodge in the confines of nature any thing that is contrary to her being must be an offence and a disease we must also consider that what is not of her must be offensive as we see by things violently carried into her bowells which hath and doth frequently so employ the skill and care of the Chyrurgions to draw forth or free nature of we may further know that what hath beene so left especially being either in bulke and forme terrible hath beene the cause of lamentable events even to destruction Then I would know by what Rule these times use the stuffings in of great Tents or dossells of toe into the broken members of the body to extend and wound the muscles and sensible parts by unnecessary dilations Doth the Artist seeke to extract offensive things by which onely nature is freed and will hee presume to thrust them or the like into her entrailes doth nature labour the dissolving of griefes and will the Surgeons hand produce dolor did the afflicted Patient suffer the paines of the wound in the receipt by Gun shot or the like violence the torment of incisions to enlarge the Orifices of the wounds the better to convey in Instruments for the pulling forth of what is against her will or sufferance there lodg'd and after all these endurings will the Phys●tian cram in all bad evills as he drew forth in passing flannulas and Tents through and into the tender compositions of the members of our body whereby there is a writhing and punction of those parts of exquisite sence produc'd and no profit Object if they that affirme such Tents necessary should say that they cause healing from the bottom as they commonly dispute I reply Refutation a pretty Argument to make good an errour it is the providence of nature to effect the benefit of such healing since t is her labour from thence to expell in which Vertue with a sweet and unwonted heate without such Tents she doth perfectly the worke of Incarnation which imperfect heate must needs impediat Reason 1 and where there is paine such imperfect heate must consequently be what else is her common ejections of Apostumes even from the profoundest parts of her composition what else is her thrusting forth of bullets Arrow heads splinters lost in her fabricke to the hand of the Chirurgion and convaid through many secret waies in her frame and sent out to our amazement Is it not her duty in such hidden passages to enwrap those offensive materialls afflicting her in such measure with slimy compulsions in which as in a Coate Armour Reason 2 yet as if it were made of soft pillowes she cloathes them that their shape or substance being either sharpe or hard should not in her progresse with them to some convenient sinke of her emptyings or open and fit place to

furnished with innumerable Ideas of things to be gotten spreading into a many formed matter usually produceth in our body things to bee admired the reason of the causes whereof seemes not to bee much discovered every kind of Vessels every cavity likewise whatsoever the secretest part bringeth forth not onely stones of a various kind but also Mettalls Wormes and other little creatures horrible to see to which chiefly is observed in Steatom●taes Atheromata●s and the like Apostumes as witnesseth Galen when hee saith Lib. 2. ad Glaucum c. 7. If a● sometimes there shall continue humidities in any Accident of the body they have many fashioned alterations for oftentimes there are found to be contained in the Abscesses bodies like to stones Sand Shells pieces of Wood-coales Mud and the filth of a Bath Dreggs and Lees and many such like Howbeit usually either cast out or after death wee see many things found which exceed all naturall beginning and are supposed not produced in the body or into the same insinuated but by the Art and malice of the Divell for who will deny that the Divell hath great power yet is it limited and depends upon the pleasure of the most High and Omnipotent God since otherwise by his owne power he is not able to beget even a lowse the vilest creature But why God allowes him so great power and ability to hurt men because of sinnes committed in Divinity it is more than enough apparant With such a like History Gemma supplies us Lib. 2. Cosmog c. 4. for a certaine wench of Lovaine did by stoole first throw out a live Eele then by vomit aboundance of haires not to bee numbred and of a fingers length with a purulent matter like shat of putrefaction in which filth too there appeared pieces of wood and thin shavings of skinnes moreover the pieces of wood were so lively they seemed to bee chipps unequally chipt from old stumpes of Trees broken off after that there followed also a ramentosous vomit wherewith were secue issuing every day Coales indeed grownd very small and in a heape to the quantity of two or three pound and very often with such abundance of haires that a Wall-nut could not hold them by stoole likewise very many stones of a notable bignesse as also a chippe of Wood bigger and thicker than ones thumbe Moreover a Triangular bone solid without but within hollow spungious c. the generation of all these none will dare to refer them to the ranke of naturall causes for howbeit no man will be able to deny a generation of haires in divers parts of the body for so the Naturalists have observed a hairy heart a hairy tongue and that by Vrine haires have beene elected yet so great aboundance of haires fragments of wood and other things as abhorrent doe sufficiently declare that the Divills Art there was very strong Benevent Lib. De admirand mo●bor caus reports that a certaine woman being possessed with a wicked spirit whiles shee was distracted with intollerable torments of the Ventricle and that the Physitians could bring no helpe of a sudden shee spewed up long and crooked nailes and brasse Needles bundled up toge ther with haire and waxe and last of all did cast up a piece of flesh at breakefast so great that even a Giants throat could not have swallowed it And so Langius reports of a certaine Husband-man Lib. 1. Epist me dic c. 38. who being strucke with cruell dolorous torments upon the left Hypochondrium suddenly catcht hold of an Iron naile that was under the skin unhurt which being extracted by the Balneator but the griefe still raging hee out of the weaknesse of his mind laid violent honds upon himselfe in whose Ventricle being opened were found a long round piece of wood foure steele knives partly pointed and partly with teeth like a Sawe and two Iron tooles each of them more than a span long Who would not affirme that these things were throwne in by the craft and subtlety of the Divell Who could say that Sorcery was not here The last summer likewise there came unto me a certaine Poland Souldier declaring how hee had beene for many yeares detained a Captive by the Muscovites and when to him and to other Captives too there was granted a regresse and dimission by the meanes of a most glorious peace obtained by the victorious Armes of our most August Uladislaus my exceeding Clement Lord there was for him and the others prepared by the Muscovites a potion which when it was exhausted they underwent most grievous paines and canciations in the bottome of the belly with his most unmeasurable vomitings and that there withall not without trouble hee had elected divers kinds of Newtes Now and then too that enemy of man-kind useth a kind of violence and hath thrust into the mouth many things to be devoured as the sequent History recorded by Rulandus doth informe Cen● 4. Cu●a● Empyric ●5 a certaine Girle of eighteene yeares of age one night returning home alone a certaine man all in blacke to wit the Divell overtooke and sate upon her tooke her by the lockes drew backe her head and stopt her nostrills where the wench being so handled with exclamation opened her mouth whereinto some what he enforced which as she endeavoured to relect by the lawes he repressed it to the Gullet that in spight of her teeth she might swallow it which done he leaveth her who presently waxeeth dumbe and being returned home remained so for eight dayes afterwards of her owne accord began to speake and for many daies did vomit up with very great and direfull torment things never to bee forgotten as needles pinnes divers kinds of nailes lockes of haire small pieces of mony buttons whole egge-shells thréeds knives and many other things which were reserved by the beholders and standers by and showne to me c. the like examples and of these and their manners how see more in the most famous Sennertus But the History of our Rustick Lib. 6. Pract. de morb occul 〈◊〉 1. part 9. we shall not bee able to reduce into the ranke of these for this immission of the knife into the mouth was voluntary a free and naturall tickling however the swallowing was unawares why because beside the knife there was found not any nor the least thing in the Ventricle But whether a melancholy imagination might have troubled him that wee must looke into Indeed it commonly happens that by reason of adust and melancholy bloud either begotten in the braine or of fume and exhalations from some other place trans-missed the mind is darkened the brain over-cast no otherwise than if they were evening night darknes which trouble terrifie the minds of them that are often in them whence it is that the reason waxeth blind and being enclosed with thicke clouds is deprived of her light and altogether up and downe erreth in her discourses and is deceived But as there is diversity of

be no argument to feare what doth not appeare thereby to move the pouring in of many ill relisht medicaments with intent to let what may bee yet doth shew it selfe but to suspition onely or to infuse what it is naturally possest of or to hinder what in its owne strength it labours to doe and that most effectually excelling the hand of Art in our best provisions Cap. 6. More able Reasons in briefe collected witnessing the Cure of these wounds FUrther to answer this possibility of Cure wee are to consider whether the part be the very seat of life as the heart and liver or so necessary to life as the Gullet Wind-pipe Lungs spleene gall kidnies c. or so violent in their accidents with their necessity of being whole and perfect in the service of noble parts since that they beget furious accidents that assault the whole body as the nervous part of the stomacke Diaphragma braine especiall medall c. or so unfitted with the matter of unition as the small Guts upper part of the Bladder c. Besides in their duties they cannot be spared or whither the remedies may arrive and remaine to the comfort of the sufferer and receiver and not be denyed by the naturall expulsion of the part or sunke from the place divided by reason of a large capacity b●neath All which considerations in the wounds of the bottome of the stomacke returne us a hope since it is not the Throne of life as the Heart Liver c. nor so absolutely necessary in regard of its office to Nature as the Gullet and Trachea arteriato be unhurt as Lungs Spleene Gall and Kidnies c. The first utterly denying the receipt of nutriment the Lungs and Wind-pipe respiration and refrigeration of the Heart the Spleene Gall Kidnies c. being the puryfiers of the bloud not onely in their owne substance but also in their duties failing must be mortall as consequently in respect of the fordid matter thither suckt and sent would deny knitting together neither in the symptomes must follow as in the nervous part of the stomacke braine S●ptum transuersum which hath affinity and derivation from the Periton pleura pericard or spinall marrow c. which by condulsion would rend wounds in themselves as the Midriffe and upper part of the ventricle or by domittings paralysis Fever generall contraction of the nerves paines c. as in all being the Originall of nerves and parts compact of them bring the sufferer to death neither in the substance unfit to conglutinate as in the small guts bladder c. the bottome of the ventricle being paniculous and fleshy for although the ventricle is made of three Coates in some Authors but two the utmost derived of the per●on the middle membrane fleshy of its owne proper substance the inward nervous yet the sensible matter of this composition is so spent and enwrapt in fleshy filaments that it is not of that exquisite heate as the voyce of this kind of making threatens but to proceed Neither in the defect of arriving or naturall expulsion being the pit and lowest part having no capacity belonging unto its proper making onely beneath it and of all members I meane when there is a change of things received if there be any agreement in the medicine the stomacke is most apt to retaine it of which medicines both of their composition vertue and consistance is discourst in the next Chapters Cap. 7. Of Medecines necessary and convenient in the wounds of the Stomacke IF Experience the mother of sound reason giveth us in knowledge that Vicers are made more fordid by fatty medicines which have not in them a causbicke quality and quicke power how much more may wee conclude that parts afflicted by evills are to bee considered in their natures and remedies agreeable to bee administred whereby the member shall from what is applyed receive a double refreshing by a comfortable quality in the medicine to the member as it lives in its owne proper composition and by a force and strength in the remedy to extirpe and finish the griefe under which the part languisheth thus much is expedient to use our meditations in the sufferings of the extremities that carry in themselves ability to endure the workes of errour in this case how much more are wee thén to consider parts of more excellent delicate and sensible Creation and so notable in the service of life yet since to treat of all parts in this matter would require a Volumne brevity being here intended to serve the present occasion with a pa●cell of that which future time GOD willing may beget is thought sufficient Cap. 8. The Medicines most efficient and congruable in wounds of the Stomacke and why I Have observed intermixt with the rest two notable affections of the Stomacke that it delighteth in heate and abhorreth to bee refrigerated I meane being without Disease and although heate actually in it self consumeth moysture and that the body would wast under such heate even to perishing if the benevolent bumectings were not sed yet that the Ventricle in its owne will derived from its proper being is cherisht with drynes though in moyst bodies given cannot bee denyed as in old Wines and stale liquors is manifest which by heate dryes and doth hinder the begetting of moysture in dispatching superfluities and procuring unto the noble parts a firmenesse and stability since humidities onely relaxe and destroy those vertues Therefore in the wounds of the stomacke in what forme soever th●y are blended either in liquid or fast the applications must bee hot and dry in the first and not exceed the second degree unlesse there be an excellent coherence with the medicine and the part a temper in all such medicines and for all wounds most commendable Next the common thro●●ings in of remedies of doubtfull and earthy substance is to be avoyded in such perillous divisions when the injections are expedient and the extraction of Seedes and Flowers by infusion or B. M. rather to be chosen then of greene Rootes and Heathes of grosse base growth by decoction the one from odoriferous bodies pulls an equall excellently mixt heate and the other corrupt and imperfect but how usefull the one and distastfull the other is in such Cases the Artist shall know when he comes to the necessity of them It may be acceptable to some to set here downe what I have used in the like extremities and as the place and season afforded provisions from which example they may give birth to others according as the distemper shall inst●●●t as it appeares in the part hurt R. Fol Rosarum rub M. S. Flo. Anthos Lavendula An● p 1. Summitatum Thymi Marjor ani Ana. ps Flo. Hyperici p. 2. Meliloti p. 1. Spec. Aromat Rosat 3.1 Infusand in vino Odorat ℥ 6. Aq. Melissa Ana. ℥ 4. per Spatium XII Hor. deindè in B. M. Coq Ad Consump ℥ 1. Colat. Clar. ad Sir de absinth Mel. Rosarum Ana.

is if in the noble parts or parts serving yet equally dangerous or other waies or whether the griefe hath implanted it selfe in one more or in all parts serving by its owne proper quality and venime as in pestilent Fevers c. or accidentally The second needfull enquiry is of the Cause whether that hath power from the defects and want of nature in it selfe or by accident and disorder The naturall failings are either spermaticall or age parentally conferr'd or by the common Devourer Time out of which Causes are thrust forth many branches to the Iudicious most evident The accidentall are innumerable and from different meanes the disquiets by disorder are likewise many but commonly our owne The third quaere is the strength and estate of the afflicted body totally as in Fever c. from one Cause or totally from accident as in Symptomes or member simply without accidents or els compositively with or partly as in Apostumes c. or totally as in Sphacelus or corruption of the whole flesh and bone in all which we must carefully consider whether the body or member be of ability to assist a medicine of force able to root out the evill by concocting it without trouble or languishing underits violence or no or else to endure the assaults and rage of the distemper till it selfe by paroxysmes and those commen evacuations in their endings ensue shall wast it selfe and not eate up the treasury of strength or no These circumstances are so needfull that without their knowledge we cannot promise to the sicke any hope of their recovery being never so apparent but the Physitian shall be puzled with many varieties which will shift his reason into a labyrinth of idle doubts neither can he if hee bee ignorant of these advise himselfe by the Index of nature whether it be safe to attempt Ex irpare aut morbum palliare haec enim opera in verâ causae et virum consideratione constant et indicata sunt The Histories he hath numbred related of many that have lived without some principall part in some measure supporting the throne of life I cannot altogether so fit to my beleefe as to conclude them worth repetition yet of this anon What he mentions to happen by Disease carrieth some shew of possibility History In my knowledge a man suffering under lues venerea had Os frontis by the cruelty of the Disease perforated like a spunge out of which issued abundance of malignant quitture by fits ejected as the Arteries upon his breathing were fill'd with aire History After his Decease his Cranium being dissected it was manifest that the braine was notably consumed and totally infected also a Greeke woman dwelling in Scio of the age of twenty sixe yeares having for thirty moneths expectorated a rotten stinking purulent matter after her decease her Thorax being open'd her Lungs were almost wasted her Liver dryed up for assuredly from the Liver that quantity even to admiration of matter is violently pull'd into the corrupted capacities of the Lungs and se ejected by which it commeth to passe the body doth so suddenly extenuate for it may be presumed the Arteries in the want of those moyst dewes which engirt their tunicle may let loose the vitall bloud which may sweat through their Coates and he diffused into the fouldings of the Lungs which being empty of naturall humidity to quench their flame and thereby made hot by them without remedy this exhausting of Radicke moysture must follow which by the pestilence of the sicke member suddenly alter'd intomalignity the function of the breast as readily exonerates There is often made a cista out of the pannicular enclosings of the Lungs or brest fill'd with this matter or corruption which having there a place of receipt and in some measure by conversion into so vile a quality continually vexeth with a sharpe and violent cough together with ejection of that filth which cough and expectoration miserably extenuating and disturbing the body ceaseth not untill that Bagge be separated partly by rottennesse in its owne root or uniting and partly by violence of the breast in its unvoluntary motion thereby dis-uniting it and till then is ever without remedy this to many happens Yet that the heart should so be spent I cannot relish a consent to beleeve it since all other parts as it were from a necessity depend upon it but the heart hath no necessary derivation but from it selfe the Liver Lungs and Ventricle c. ordained to serve as all Creatures doewait in their duties the occasions of man But whereas he reports of some that have lived without a Liver or Spleene from their birth is most fabulous can a substance bee begotten of nothing or can a thing be without its matter no more can these bodies of ours be without Livers they being the well springs of bloud and the food of all members the Liver is the Aliment of the heart and the food of that vitall fire the dewes of the braine and the milke of the fleshy members articulations and bones but if without a Liver without a Spleene Object since that is occasion'd in nature by the Liver What may be objected that other Creatures have being without Livers Reply as some Fishes Wormes c. I answer they are gotten from their like next the aire in which man breaths requires heate and moysture as the Liver is possest of which the earth and waters hold not in an agreeable mixture Next Creatures of base birth as Flyes Maggots Spiders c. as they are rais'd from a corrupt matter so they end and have necessity of no part and indeed that Women have lived without a wombe caryeth some shape of tr●th and cannot want a reason since it onely serves for conception being the seat and is the utmost Gate of the naturall purgings some never have them by a hot and dry intemperature of the Liver by which they are consumed for out of the superfluities of the Liver they are begotten and by their naturall moysture c. many are barren and seeme to have no use of it for an eye eare or other the like member may challenge as great need to be as it but not with such danger wounded because the Matrix hath affinity with sensible parts and is made of them in the following Section he speaketh of medicinable Herbes boyld in his broth which I will adde to this Chapter Excellently was those medicamentall Herbes boyled with his alimentall broth being both sustenance and medicine by which nature not onely receives a medicinall quality to finish the evill but also a nourishment to the enfeebled body so necessary to both that without it the wound had beene more perillous in two notable respects ● Respect First what is in the shape of medicine our will doth naturally loath and although in our knowledge we conclude a necessity of the receipt yet our affect ous hurt with a kind of a●horring makes what is administred most ungratefull and lesse