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A62438	Ortho-methodoz itro-chymikē: or the direct method of curing chymically Wherein is conteined [sic] the original matter, and principal agent of all natural bodies. Also the efficient and material cause of diseases in general. Their therapeutick way and means. I. Diætetical, by rectifying eating, drinking, &c. II. Pharmaceutick. 1. By encreasing and supporting the vital spirits. 2. By pacifying and indulging them. 3. By defacing or blotting out the idea of diseases by proper specificks. Lastly, by removing the extimulating or occasional cause of maladies. To which is added, The art of midwifery chymically asserted. The character of an ortho-cymist, and pseudochymist. A description of the sanative virtues of our stomach-essence. Also, giawo-mempsiz: or a just complaint of the method of the Galenists. By George Thomson, M.D.	Thomson, George, 17th cent.	1675 (1675)	Wing T1029; ESTC R222195	87,128	216

no sooner are they received into the Stomach but part of them are rapt into the Vessels being suddenly carried into the Heart and Brain whereby the whole Body is invigorated the Vital Spirits in a Moment encreased and illuminated hereupon the Peccant Matter disturbed is profligated by Sneezing Expectoration Sweating or Transpiration by some Effloresence or Eruption in the Skin as Pimples Spots Botches c. by Stool or Urine The Truth of this as I said before is confirmed by those who making long and dangerous Voyages recover of grievous Maladies as Calentures Scurvie c. by force of a quickning Drink called Punch made of Rack or Brandy whereas formerly they were turned off as fast as rotten Sheep through that Nonsensical Method of Healing which the Doting Galenists taught the Credulous World by Cooling and Moistning Juleps In such sort hath the Authority of these Dogmatists Domineered over Mankind for many Ages past yea doth yet endeavour to uphold the same amongst us that Millions have perished by this Absurd Doctrine of Heating in Cold Diseases as likewise Cooling in Hot. However many Intelligent Subtil Wits do discover the Falacy of their Corrupt Theorems or Axioms in Physick casting away their Slibbersauces do rather chuse to trust to Holsome Well-made Strong Liquors in Feavers than their Ill-contrived Insalutiferous Weak Drossie Mixtures or Compositions I heard a Learned Gentleman of Note declare that he was Cured of a Malignant Feaver by means of Brandy Wine well construed taken in a large quantity when the Methodical Doctor of the Colledge threatning his Ruine thereby caused him to desist but for one day and take his more Temperate Prescriptions which had like to have cost him his Life if he had not fallen to his former Spirituous Liquor again For my part I am of this Judgment that 't is better for the most part to Cure Feavers after the Maritine Mode than to walk in the Customary Road of Exhibiting Medicines according to the supposed Qualities described in the London Dispensatory I le maintain Hippocr 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 constant moderate sumption of Strong Liquors omitting Broath Gellies Water-Gruel Spiritless Pos●et-crink c. shall be more prevalent to rid away Feavers in general than that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hodg Podg of Supernumerary Ingredients jumbled together without Discretion or serious consideration of the congruity of each one with another without seperating the precious from the vile by a Pyrotectnical Analysis of every Concrete whereby the violent Ferine powers of some things are mitigated cicurated and made Friendly to our Constitution also the singular Medical Dowrie of other Concretes are explicated exalted graduated the clog of their Terrestrial Impurities discharged hindering their Activity Who that is experimentally Intelligent would not in a sudden Lipothymie or Defection of the Spirits rather confide in the Analeptical or Refocillating Efficacie of good Wine or well Distilled Brandy than in Diascordium Venice Treacle London Treacle or any of their Confections Elect. or divers of their Potions I cannot otherwise believe but that the Benign Creator pitying the sad Condition of Man made worse by the Doctrine of Galen who never saw Aqua Vitae therefore delivered to Posterity this Gross Fulsome Fruitless Means of Curing hath in this later Decrepit Infirm Age of the World detected by the mouth of Mariners and Rusticks the use of those excellently well Distilled Spirits which these Thermologists and Psychrologists a company of Delirous Disputants about Hot and Cold Diseaseases requiring as they say Instruments of a contrary quality thereto to be applyed neglecting the Essential Nature and Radical Cure of Diseases have Suppressed to the Infinite Detriment of Mortals for many Centuries of years Now can the Indigent Sick-man without fear of over-heating his Blood threatned by these Thermologists confidently swallow a due Portion of vegetable Spirit potent to augment sometimes to admiration the paucity of the Animals enabling them to exclude some part of the Spurious Juice offending the Body like a Thorn in the side Now both Country-Men as well as Sea Men take these Spiritouus Liquors withou● scruple that they may quench their thirst asswage Burning Feavers keep off a fixe● Delirium and procure rest to the confusi●on of the rotten Precepts of these Ignorantly Learned Galenists Away then with these idle fopperies of taking directions of curing from Heat and Cold hereby fancying ap●plications contrary to those Accidents wil● prevail seeing it is perspicuous all those endeavours come to nought unless the vital Spirit be animated to exterminate the occasional extimulating cause of Heat and Cold. It being then demonstrable that Spirits are best multiplied vigorously by Spirits with which they symbolize we ought to be solicitous concerning their preparation with a proportion to be allowed to the Archeus I find it frequent among the vulgar Chymists to boast how they can make vinous Spirits that in a considerable quantity will all burn away to the accension of Gunpowder in the bottome Having attained thus far in this process they think there remains nothing more in our Philosophy For all this if any study earnestly to 〈◊〉 as an able Physitian those Spirits made according to the common tract seeming to be re●ned contain in them an occult Impurity● some clandestine discommodity with some di●gustful tang sensible by the tast of our Vitals Although it be hard for the Plebeian to distinguish one from the other yet an expert Distiller knows the difference and happy effect of that which is really mundified above what seems to be so That Spirit of vegetables may be handled knowingly it behoveth the Naturalist to anatomize it pyrotechnicoôs that he may understand of what parts it consists and how useful it is According to our Philosophy an Aqua-vitae may be extracted out of all Herbaccous Plants i. e. Grass Blade Leaf Weed c. which contains an Alkali a Sulphur and some particles of an occult sub-acid Salt easily to be converted into Vineagar when it floats with a Tartareous Matter The vinous Alkali and Sulphur together exalted become a Balsamical Spirit of great force to preserve things from corruption Taken into our Bodies it is immediately changed partly into a vital Spirit suddainly conveighed by the Vessels to the Head and Heart part becomes Acid in the Stomach for the recreation or emendation of the Innate Ferment as likewise for a previous Disposition in order to a future alteration in the Intestines into a volatile Alkali by the eliquating or scouring facultie of the Gaul● afterward transmitted to the Kidneys it is turned into a Urinous Salt by a peculiar Ferment there implanted Lastly some portion runs into an Insipid Liquor called Latex or Lympha Thus is Salt and Sulphur of Plants which make up one Spirit pliable subactil or mutable above other ingested things into this or that form according as the Ferments of every shop of digestion please Moreover the Spirit of Plants if dextrously exercised is capable to be assimilated into all parts Continent

times Stigma's of their Malignity be●ind so that no Adeptus but will conclude The greatest part of them ought to be ex●unged with a supply made of better things ●nd what remains to be more discreetly ordered in their Manufacture How do the Galenists impose upon us first ●o Cry down most Satyrically even to the Persecution of certain Honest Ingenuous Friends to this Art those Meaner sort of Pa●acelsian Remedies now to make use of them ●o the detriment of many a Patient as well ●s to the keeping up the Credit of their Tot●ering Dogmatical Structure which must of ●ecessity have fallen ere this to the ground ●ad they not closely foisted in upon a pinch ●ome Spagyrical active Preparations stolen ●rom us at that time when their most Dull Mixtures would take no place then boast●ng they tell the Credulous that their own gross Compositions had the greatest share in ●he Cure whereas in reality they did no o●her than hinder it Upon this account how subtilly do some pretend to be Chymists stealing Theorem● and Chymical Notions out of Van Helm di●●guising putting them into an Elegant dress concealing the Authors Name Thus 〈◊〉 these Plagiaries own that filched from him whom in publick discourse they eithe● 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 ●●ovidence is pleased to allow of the means 〈◊〉 that end Having thus by solid Reasons offered to be ●●nfirmed by the true Touchstone of Expe●●ence acquitted our Chymical Pharmacy from 〈◊〉 Slanders of our Enemies viz. that our ●ateria Medica is so ill handled that it is ●o Hot Burning Dangerous c. I shall ●ow describe the direct Method of Curing ●ifficult Diseases by help of a sincere Chymi●●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 ●lso to pacifie indulge gratifie the Archeus 〈◊〉 Vital Spirit the Achitectonical contriver ●f our first Being the constant Conservator ●f our Well-being the Author of our Health ●nd Sickness Weal and Woe This 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Hippocr by its Impulse ●ets all the Wheels going If a Dysphonie happen in the Sphere of this Vital Aire there a●iseth forthwith a jarring in the Inferiour Orbs of the Microcosm The Second Principal Indication is the Ab●●tion of the Inward Efficient Cause and the Outward Occasional Irritating Matter which ●isturbs the Archeus putting it into Enor●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 certainl● Maimed Whatsoever encreaseth the Eutonie o● Strength of the Vital Spirit ought to have Similitude of Nature and Symbolize wi●● the same Spirit seeing Like doth readily ●●nite with Like embracing each other in●●●mately That we may find out a Compe● with the Archeus the Essential knowle●● thereof is to be enquired after The Vital Spirit is a most thin Aehere Breathing arising from the Blood perpet●●ally circulated in the Veins and Arteries ill●minated framed by Virtue of a Vital Fe●ment in the left Ventricle of the Heart of a Saline Balsamical Constitution by means o● 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

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