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A35986	Of the sympathetick powder a discourse in a solemn assembly at Montpellier / made in French by Sir Kenelm Digby, Knight, 1657.; Discours fait en une célèbre assemblée, touchant la guérison des playes par la poudre de sympathie. English	Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.	1669 (1669)	Wing D1446; ESTC R20320	50,741	64

OF THE Sympathetick Powder A DISCOURSE IN A Solemn Assembly AT MONTPELLIER Made in French BY Sir KENELM DIGBY Knight 1657. LONDON Printed for Iohn VVilliams 1669. A DISCOURSE OF The Cure of WOUNDS BY THE POWDER of SYMPATHY My Lords I Believe you will remain all in one mind with me that to penetrate and know a Subject 't is necessary in th● first place to shew whether the thing be such as it is s●pp●sed or imagined to be For would not one unprofitably lose both his time and labour to busie himself in the re-sea●ch of the causes of that which peradventure is but a Chim●ra with-any foundation of truth I remember to have read a place in Plut●rch where he proposeth this Question Why those Horses who while they are Colts have been pursued by the Wolf and saved themselv● by force of runing are more fleet than other H●r●es Wherto he answers That it may be the scaring and aff●●ghtment which the Wolf gives the young beast makes h●m try his utmost strength to del●ver himself from the danger that follows him at the heels therfore the said fright as it were unknits his joy●ts and stretches his sinews and makes the ligaments and other parts of his body the more supple to run insomuch that he resents it all his life afterwards and becomes a good Courser Or perhaps says he those Colts which are naturally swift save themselvs by flying away wheras others who are not so are overtaken by the Wolf and so become his prey and so it is not because they have escaped the Wolf that they are the more fleet but it is their natura● swiftness that saves them He affords also other reasons and at last concludes That it may be the thing is not true I find it not so fit my Lords to reply hereto at a Table D●scourse where the chief design of conversation is to pass away the time gently and pleasantly without medling with the severity of high fetcht reasons to wind up the spirits and make them more attentive But in so renowned an Assembly as this where there are such Judicious Persons and so profoundly learned and who upon this rancounter expect from me that I pay them in solid reasons I should be very sorry that having done my uttermost to make it clear How the Powder which they commonly call the Powder of Sympathy doth naturally and without any Magick cure wounds without touching them yea without seeing of the Patient I say I should be very sorry that it should be doubted Whether such a cure may effectually be perform'd or no. In matter of fact the determination of the existence and truth of a thing depends on the report which our Senses make us This business is of that nature Wherin they who have seen the effects and had experience therof and have been careful to examine all necessary circumstances and satisfied themselves afterwards that there is no imposture in the thing nothing doubt but that it is real and true And they who have not seen such experiences ought to refer themselvs to Narrations and Authority of such as have I could produce divers wherof I was an ocular witness nay Quorum p●rs m●gna fui But as a certain and eminent example in the affirmative is convincing to determine the possibility and truth of a matter in doubt I shall content my self because I would not trespass too much upon your patience at this time to instance in one only But it shall be one of the clearest the most perspicuous and the most averred that can be not only for the remarkable circumstances therof but also for the hands which were above the Vulgar through which the whole business passed For the cure of a very sore hurt was perfected by this Powder of Sympathy upon a Person illustrious as well for his many perfection● as for his several employments All the circumstances were examined and sounded to the bottom by one of the greatest and most knowing K●ngs of of his time viz. King Iames of England who had a particular talent and marvailous sagacity to discusse natural things and penetrate them to the very marrow As also by his Son the late King Charles and the Duke of Buckingham their prime Minister And in fine all was registred among the Observations of the great Chancelor Bacon to add by way of Appendix to his Natural History And I believe when you shall have understood this History you will not accuse me of Vanity if I attribute to my self the Introducing this way of Cure into this Quarter of the World Mr. Iames Howel well known in France for his publick Works and particularly for his Dendrologia translated into French by Monsier Baud●uin coming by by chance as two of his best friends were fighting in D●el did his endeavour to part them and putting himself between them seiz'd with his left ●and upon the Hilt of one of the Comb●●ants while with his right he laid hold of the Blade of the other They being transported with fury one against the other strugled to rid themselvs of the hindrance their Friend made that they should not kill one another and one of them roughly drawing the Blade of his Sword cut to the very bone the nervs and mus●les of Mr. Howe●'s ●and and then the other di●ingaging his H●lt gave a cross blow on his Adversaries head which glanced towards his Friend who heaving up his hand to save the blow was wounded on the back of his hand as he had been before within It seems some st●ange Con●●ellation reign'd then against him that he sho●ld lo●● so much blood by parting two such dear Friends who had they been themselvs would have h●z●rded both their lives to have preserved His B●t this unvoluntary effusion of blood by them prevented that which they should have drawn one from the other For they seeing Mr. Howel's face besmear'd with blood by heaving up his wounded hand both ran to embrace him and having sea●ch'd his hurts they bound up his Hand with one of his Garters to close the Veins which were cut and bled abundantly They brought him home and sent for a Chyrurgeon But this being heard at Court the King sent one of his own Chyrurgeons for his Majesty much ●ffected the said M ● Howel It was my chance to be lodged hard by him and four or five dayes after as I was making my self ready he came to my House and pray'd me to view his wounds for I understand said he that you have extraordinary remedies upon such occasions and my Chyrurgeons apprehend some fear that it may grow to a Gangrene and so the hand must be cut off In effect his countenance discover'd that he was in much pain which he said was insupportable in regard of the extream inflammation I told him that I would willingly serve him but if haply he knew the manner how I would cure him without touching or seeing him it may be he would not expose himself to my manner of curing

Lords to inlarge my digression a little further by re-accounting to you a marvailous accident known all over the Court of England in the confirmation of the activity and impression which the Imagination of the Mother makes upon the body of the Infant in her womb A Lady that was my Kinswoman she was the Neice of Fortescu the Daughter of Count Arundel came to give me visits somtimes in London she was handsome and knew it well taking great complacency not only to keep her self so but to add that which she could further wherefore being perswaded that black Patches which she used gave her a great deal of ornament she was careful to wear the most curious sort But as it is very hard to keep a moderation in things which depend more upon Opinion than Nature she wore them in excess and patched most of her face with them Though that did not much add to her beauty and I took the liberty to tell her so yet I thought it no opportunity then to do any thing that should give her the least diftast since with so much civility and sweetness she came to visit me Nevertheless one day I thought good in a kind of drolling way so that she might not take any disgust and Ridentem dicere verum quis vetat to tell her of it so I let my discourse fall upon her great-belly advising her to have a care of her health wherof she was somewhat negligent according to the custom of young vigorous women which know not yet what it is to be subject to indispositions She gently thank'd me for my care herein saying That she could do no more for the preservation of her health than she did though she was in that case You should at least I reply'd have a great care of your Child O! for that said she there is nothing can be contributed Yet I told her see how many Patches you we●r upon your face are you not afraid that the Infant in your womb may haply be born with such marks on his face But said she What danger is there that my child should bear such marks though I put them on artificially Then you have not heard I reply'd the marvailous effects that the imaginations of Mothers work upon the bodies of their children while they are yet big with them therfore I will reaccount to you some of them So I related to her sundry stories upon this subject as that of the Queen of Ethiopia who was delivered of a white Boy which was attributed to a Pictu reof the Blessed Virgin she had near the teaster of her bed where bore she great devotion I urged another of awoman who was brought to bed of a child all hairie because of a pourtrait of St. Iohn Baptist in the Wilderness when he wore a coat of Camels hair I re-accounted to her also the strange Antipathy which the late King Iames had to a naked sword wherof the cause was ascribed to some Schotch Lords entring once violently into the Bed-chamber of the Queen his Mother while she was with child of him where her Secretary an Italian was dispatching some letters for her whomthey hack'd and kill'd with naked S●ords before her face and threw him at her feet and they grew so barbarous that they had near hurt the Queen her self who endeavour'd to save her Secretary by interp●sing her self for her skin was rased in divers places Bucanan makes mention of this Tragedy Hence it came that her Son King Iames had such an aversion all his life time to a naked Sword that he could not see one without a great emotion of spirits and though otherwise couragious enough he could not over-master his passions in this particular I remember when he dub'd me Knight in the ceremony of putting a naked Sword upon my shoulder he could not endure to look upon it but turned his face another way insomuch that in lieu of touching my shoulder he had almost thrust the point into my eyes had not the Duke of Buckingingham guided his hand aright I alledg'd to her divers such stories to make her apprehend that a strong Imagination of the Mother might cause some notable impression upon the body of her Child to his prejudice And 'pray consider said I how attentive you are to your Patches how you have them continually in your imagination for I have observed that you have look'd on them ten times since you came to this room in the Looking-glass Have you therfore no apprehension that your child may be born with half-moons upon his face or rather that all the black which you spot in several places up and down may assemble in one and appear in the middle of his forehead the most apparant and remarkable part of the visage as broad as a Iacobus and then what a grace would it be to the Child O●mee said she rather than that should happen I will wear no more Patches and while I am with-child therupon instantly she pul'd them all off and threw them away When her friends saw her afterwards without Patches they demanded how it came to pass that she who was esteem'd to be one of the most curious Beauties of the Court in point of Patches should so suddenly give over wearing them She answer'd that her Uncle in whom she had a great deal of belief assured her that if she wore them during the time she was with-child the Infant would have a large black patch in the midst of his forehead Now this conceit was so lively engraven in her imagination that she could not thrust it out And so this poor Lady who was so fearful that her child should bear some black mark in its face yet could not prevent but it came so into the World and had a spot as large as a Crown of Gold in the midst of the forehead according as she had figured before in her imagination It was a Daughter that she brought forth every way very beautiful this excepted 't is but few moneths since that I saw her bearing the said mole or spot which proceeded from the force of the Imagination of her Mother I need not tel you of your Neighbour of Carcassona who lately was brought to bed of a prodigious Monster exactly resembling an Ape which she took pleasure to look upon during the time she was with-child for I conceive you know the story better than I. Nor of the woman of St. Maixent who could not forbear going to see an infortunate child of a poor passenger woman that was born without arms and she her self was deliver'd afterwards of such a Monster who yet had some smal excrescences of flesh upon the shoulders about the place whence the arms should have come forth As also of her who was desirous to see the execution of a Criminal that had his head cut off according to the laws of France wherof her affrightment made so deep a print upon her Imagination that presently falling in labour before they could carry her to