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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

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

Galen's Art Of PHYSICK Proemium CHAP. I. ALL the order and Method of Physick so far as concerns Order may be reduced to these three Heads 1. The first consists in Notion which is done by Resolution 2. The Second consists in Composition of those things which are found out by this Resolution And 3. The Third of the Dissolution of Definition This Third contains not only the Dissolution of Definition or defining Diseases but also an explication Resolution Division Explanation or Exposition upon them this is the Basis of our Work at this time and indeed this laies down the Way and Order to the whol Practice of Physick and truly excels the other two as much as the Light of the Sun doth the Light of the Moon and we have drawn it into a very short Compendium that so we may benefit your Judgment and not burden your Memory we have devided it into an hundred Chapters whereof this is the first each of the rest contain easie Rules of Definition yea so easie that a Child of seven yee●s old may understand them and so short that they will not be burdensom to the weakest Memory and although some of the Chapters be very short yet they contain very necessary Rules distinct f●om the rest and he knows nothing that knows not this That Order and Method help the Memory much But put all the Chapters together and they compleatly contain the Definition and Explanation of the whol Art for from these do all Diseases arise and in these doth the very Essence of Physick consist As for the Contemplative part of Physick that hath been largely pe●formed by us in many Treatises which any that pleaseth may make use of We come now to the matter it self only we desire you to take notice that these Heads are more largely discoursed of here and there in other of our Treatises only we drew them up here in this form to satisfie the desires and inform the Judgments of such as intend to study Physick CHAP. 2. What Medicine is MEdicine is the Knowledg of things Healthful not Healthful and Neutral This Definition is nothing else than if you should say Medicine is the Knowledg of things belonging to the Sick 't is not one whit more nor less The Name of the Science which is Medicine is common and can in no wise be taken in a proper sence but things healthful unhealthful and neutral carry each of them a threefold signification viz. As a Body as a Cause and as a Sign For 1. A Body which naturally is apt to live in health and a Cause which is able to effect this and to preserve it being effected and a Sign which is able to s●ew and indicate which way this is to be done all these the Grecians customarily call things healthful 2. The Body surprized and seized by a Disease the Cause which causeth and continueth this Disease and the Indications or Signs which give testimony what this Disease is they also term things unhealthfull 3. In things Neutral they are guided by the same Rules of which we shall speak more in the Third and Sixt Chapters And here we must also make a difference between Science and Action or if you will between the Theorical and Practical part of Medicine For 1. The Theory regards first the Cause of things Healthful then of things Unhealthful Lastly o● things Neutral After this of Bodies first Healthful then Unhealthful and in the last place Neutrals and it walks by the same Rules in Signs or Indications But 2. In Actions or Practice The knowledg of the Body is the first thing which is minded and this is found out by the Signs and the last search in respect of time is after the Cause CHAP. 3. How many several waies A Cause may be said to effect a Sign to give Indication and a Body to receive BUt s●eing that a Cause may be said to effect a Sign to give Indication and a Body receive two waies 1. Simply 2. According to time We must know that the Art of Medicine comprehends them both Simply they do it two waies viz. Alwaies and for the most part both these the Art of Medicine handles But as for things Neutral they are to be considered both in respect of Body Cause and Sign and in those both Simply and according to time under a threefold Consideration and the Reason is because things Neutral partake of Contraries somtimes of one somtimes of the other and somtimes of both together and this last is twofold for somtimes it participates of contraries equally somtimes of one more than another There is in all this Definition if we dilligently heed the words a certain doubtfulness or ambiguity which knot ought to be unloosed that so all things may be made cleer and we may not seem instead of teaching people to lead them into ignorance as the Colledg of Physitians doth and that we may so do we will devide the business and speak of them all particularly We told you Medicine was the exact Knowledg of things Healthful Unhealthful and Neutral and each of these to be considered as a Body as a Sign as a Cause we shall now address our selves to handle 1. Such Bodies as are Healthful Unhealthful and Neutral 2. Such Signs as are Healthful Unhealthful and Neutral 3. Such Causes as are Healthful● Unhealthful and Neutral In all these we shall be both as brief and withal as plain as we can CHAP. 4. Of Healthful Bodies 1. A Body is Simply said to be healthful when it is in good natural temper when the seven Natural things viz. Spirits Elements Complexions Humors Members Vertues Operations keep a good decorum then is a Body Simply said to be in Health 2. A Body in Health according to time is taken not according to the Natural inclination of the Body as the former was but when it is in such a Natural temper as we shewed before only for the time being the former is proper to the Body this but accidental Thus Galen Culpepers Comment I shall here explain a little Galens meaning in those words of his Seven Natural Things 1. Spirit Taken in a Physical sence is an airy substance very subtil and quick dispersed throughout the Body from the Brain Heart and Liver by the Nerves Arteries and Veins by which the powers of the Body are stirred up to perform their Office and Operation 2. An Element is a Body pure simple unmixed from which all Natural things have their Original they are held to be in number four Fire Air Water Earth their Operations are Active as heat and cold Passive as driness and moisture 3. Complexions are the Operations of these Elements upon Mans Body as when the Fire prevails the body is Chollerick when the Air he is Sanguine when the Wa●er he is Flegmatick when the Earth he is Melancholl● 4. Humors are 1. ●holler whose Receptacle is the Gall 2. Blood whose Seat is the Liver 3. Flegm placed in the Lungs 4. Melancholly