with the which he fell downe halfe dead vpon the place yet he was cured and afterwards slaine at Blois in the yeare 1588. History of HENRY the 3. The Seigneur of Saint Iean One of the stable to King HENRY 2. at a Turney before the house of Guise receiued a blow with the splinter of a Lance within his viser of the length and bignes of ones finger vnder the eye which ranne three fingers into his head I had him in cure being assisted by many Learned Physitions and Surgions and although the wound through the violence of the blow were very dangerous yet he was cured with the helpe of GOD. M. AMB. PARE lib. 9. Chap. 9. A seruant of the Seigneur of Champagnes a gentleman of Aniou was wounded in the throate with a sword so as one of the ingular vaines was cut with the Artier of the winde-pipe by meanes whereof hee had a great flux of bloud neither could hee speake at all vntill his wound were sowed vp and drest Whilest that the medicaments were liquid he drewe them through the stitches and put them out at his mouth So as considering the greatnesse of the wounde and the nature of the parties that were wounded especially of the Artier of the winde-pipe and of the ingular vaine the which are spermatike cold and drie and there hard to ioyne togither againe besides also that the Artier is subiect vnto motion which is made in the swalloing by reason of the inward filme the which holds to that of the asophage which is the passage for eating and drinking the one obeying the other by a reciprocall motion con◅idering also the vse of the sayd parties which is that the Artier serues for respiration the which is necessary for the symmetry and vital heat of the hart that the ingular veine is very necessary for the norrishment of the superior part Moreouer hauing regard vnto the great quantity of bloud which hee had lost by his wounde the bloud being the Treasure of nature the preseruer of naturall heate and of the vitall spirits and other accidents I did conclude that hee was but a dead man yet I can assure you that he escaped the which I beleeue happened rather through the grace of GOD then by any helpe of man or medicaments M. Amb. Pare lib. 9. c. 31. Being at Thurin in seruice with the deceased Lord of Montiean I was called to dresse a souldier called L'EVESQVE borne at Paris who being then vnder the command of Captaine Renouart had three great wounds giuen him with a sword whereof the one was on his right side vnder his pappe running into the emptinesse of his brest from whence there had falne great aboundance of bloud vpon the Mydriffe which stopt his respiration neither could he speake but with great difficultie hauing a very violent feauer and with a cough he cast bloud at the mouth saying that he felt an extreame paine on that side that was hurt The Surgion who had drest him first stitcht vp his wound in such sort as nothing could come forth the next day I was called to visit the patient where being come seeing the Accidents and death approching I was of opinion to vnsowe the wound in the Orifice whereof I found congealed bloud so as I caused the patient to be lift vp often by the legs his head downward leauing a part of his body vpon the bed leaning with one hand vpon a stoole that was lower then the bed Being planted thus I caused him to shutt his mouth and his nose that his lights might swell and the Mydriffe rise and the muscles betwixt the ribbes of the vpper part of the belly together should retyre themselues that the bloud fallen into the stomack might be cast out by the wound and the better to effect it I thrust my finger deepe into the wound to dissolue this congeled bloud so as there came forth nere seauen or eight ounces alreadie stinking and corrupted Then I caused him to be set in his bed making iniections into the wounde with barley water in the which I had caused Melrosarum sugarcandie to be boyled then I caused him to be turned from one side vnto an other and againe I made him to be lifted vp by the Legs as before Then they might see come forth with the said Iniection little gobbets of bloud This done the accidents decreased and by little little did cease The next day I made him an other Iniection to the which I added Centory worme-wood and Aloes to clense it the better but the patient hauing tould mee soone after that hee felt a great bitternes in his mouth had desire to cast I found that these bitter Iniections profiting one way did hurt an other so as I did not continue them but intreating the wound more mildly the patient was cured beyond my hope The same Author lib. 9. Chap. 32. M. PETER SOLERY a famous Physition of Aurillac being pursued during the first troubles by certaine horsmen which sought his life and ouer-taken a quarter of a league from Argentat in Limosin as hee thought to saue him selfe with others hee receiued many dangerous wounds and yet was myraculously cured as it was verefied by such as did visit dresse his wounds first he had a shot with a Harguebuse hitting him aboue the thigh boane and passing to the other side then he had an other shot vnder the left arme foure fingers from the shoulder which carried away a peece he had a pistoll shot vpon the same shoulder sloping downe-ward and an other in the face taking him vnder the eye and passing vnder his chappe He had foure wounds with a sword vpon the left arme from the elboe downe-ward he was stabd with a dagger vnder the left pappe the which meeting with a rib past no farther hee had an other shot with a pistoll almost in the same place running betwixt the skinne and the ribbes comming forth behind and a great wound with a sword aboue the eye and an other vpon the head Being thus wounded and left as it were for dead these murtherers hauing taken away his purse and three gold rings hauing cōtinued about two houres vpō the place in the end he did rise and as he labored to creepe he espied a soldiar cōming towards him with a naked sword of whom hauing demanded helpe in GODS name it mooued the soldiar to do him no harme but seeing him in this estate hee fled as if an enemy had beene behinde him Herevpon creeping forward a little as well as hee could hee meetes with a young Sonne of his owne beeing but eight yeares old who flying also had strayed in the fields who supporting him of the one side as well as hee could hee conducted him vnto a village where all the releefe that hee could get was that they did not make an ende to kill him although that hee were in this pittifull Estate and that this poore Infant with teares and lamentations did offer
the Mother had also giuen him the like councell to escape but GOD by his power did so staie him as hee had no power to flie Beeing carried to prison and examined at the first hee couered his parricyde accusing his Father that hee had slaine himselfe But his excuses beeing found friuolous hee was condemned to haue his right hand cut off then to bee pinched with hot pincers and in the ende hanged by the feete vpon a gibet and strangled with a stone of sixe score pound which should bee hanged at his necke A wicked counterfet beeing prisoner with him aduised him to appeale vnto Paris But hauing freely confessed the Parricide hee reuoked his appeale and was executed The History of our times Of the Heart of man Diuers Histories thereof in our time HAuing perced an Impostume grown of a long time vpon the seauenth turning ioynt where through the venom of his corruption it had made a great ouerture and gnawne the innermost membrane of the heart those which were present beheld one part of the heart which I did shewe them A. BENIVENIVS in his booke de abditis causis Chap. 42. Two Bretheren gentlemen falling out at tables the one of them gaue the other a wound with his knife iust on the seege of the heart the hurt gentleman bleeding exceedingly was carried and layed on a bed whereas all signes of death appeered Beeing sent for I applied that to the heart which I thought â—…it to strengthen it The patient hauing beene as it were at deathes doore vntil midnight beganne to come to himselfe and hauing vsed all the meanes possible I could deuise for his preseruation at length I sawe him cured whereby I knewe the heart had not beene perished as at the first I doubted but the filme or Capsula thereof called PERICALDION by the Greekes was lightly tainted The same Author Chap. 65. We haue seene ANTHONY ALâ—…IAT hurt and hauing his Pericordian vntoucht True it is that hee did sigh very much and lowd The internall parts beeing hurt bring death foure waies either through necessity of their function and office as the Lunges or by reason of the excellency of their nature as the Hart or through much losse of bloud as the Liuer the great arteries and veines or through the malignity of Symptomes and accidents as the neruie parts the ventricle and bladder Although some parts be incurable yet are they not mortall of absolute necessity otherwise death would ensue vpon the incurable hurts of boanes gristles and lygaments The Pericordion then is not mortall of it selfe but because it is impossible to attaine it without offending many other noble parts CARDAN in his Commentarie on the Aphorismes of Hipocrates booke 6. apb 18. Anatomizing a Scholler of mine dead in the Vniuersitie of Rome I found that this yong man had no Pericardion by meanes whereof in his life-time hee swounded very often and seemed as one dead through which defect at length hee died COLVMBVS booke 15. of his Anatomy A certaine Theefe being taken downe from the gallowes where he had bene hanged and not quite strangled was carefully looked vnto and recouered But like an vngratious wretch as he was returning to his old trade againe hee was apprehended and throughly hanged Wherevpon we would needes Anatomize him and wee found that his heart was all heary Which is likewise reported among the Grecians of Aristomenes of Hermogenes the Rhetorician of Leonydas of Lysander and others namely of a dog that ALEXANDER the great had This haire denotes not onely promptitude of Courage and peruerse obstinacy but many times valour contemning all danger BENIVENIVS in Chap. 83. de Abditis causis Vpon a certaine time making the Anatomy of a man at Ferrara wee found his heart cleane couered ouer with haire and indeede he had beene all his life time a desperate ruffian and a notable theefe AMATVS the Portingale in Centur. 6 Cur. 65. Being at Venice and present at the execution of a very notorious theefe the hangman that quartered his bodie found his heart meruailous hairye M. A. Muret booke 12. of his dyuers readings Chap. 10. I haue seeâ—…e the sepâ—…um that distinguisheth the ventrycles of the heart to be a gristle in some mens Bodies in others the left ventricle wanting or so little as it could hardly bee discerned Columb booke 15. of his Anatomy I found in two mens bodies that I opened a boane in the rootes of the great artery and of the arteryall vaine CORN GEMMA in the 2. booke of his Cyclognomia pag 75. In another I found a little boane betweene the gristly circles of the heart the chiefe artery and arteriall veine like to the boane which is commonly found in the heart of a stagge CORN GEMMA in the 1. booke Chap. 6. of his Cosmocritif Doctor MELANCHTHON in his first booke of the Soule testifies of CASIMIR Marquise of Brandebourg a Prince greatly afflicted in his life time with sundry griefes and consumed with long watchings that beeing opened after his decease the humor enclosed in the fylme of the heart was â—…ound quite dried vp and the heart so scorched that it was like a peare burnt in the fire TH. IORDAN in the 1. booke of signes of the plague Chap. 16. Not long since a Romaine gentleman died after hee had languished along time Being opened no heart appeared neither was there any part of it but the fylme left the vnmeasurable heate of his long sicknesse hauing wholy consumed it BERN. IELASIVS in the 28. Chap. of the 5. booke of the nature of things A young Prince being sickly and very much troubled with a payne at the heart assembled a great many Physitions togither for to consult of his dissease Among others there was a young practitioner who declared how he had read in certaine notes that the vse of garlick euerie morning expells a kinde of worme that feedes vpon the heart But both the remedy and the young man that propounded it were despised Not long after this Prince died and his body was opened by the commandement of his Father for to see the cause of his sicknesse death The dissection made they found a white worme hauing a sharpe bill of horne like a pâ—…llets gnawing the heart The Physitions tooke it aliue and layd it on a table in a circle made of the iuyce of garlick The worme began to writh and wriggle euery way still eschuing the iuyce that compassed it about Finally surmounted by the strength and sauor of the garlick it died within the circle to the astonishment of those that had despised so easie a remedie I. HEBANSTEIF in his treatise of the plague It is not long agoe that in the great Duke of Tuscans Court a certaine Florentine beeing assistant at the merry conceites of a pleasant iester was suddainly seized with vnexpected death whereat the company and his friends being much abashed for their better satisfaction after he was knowne to bee starke dead they had him opened and there was
the Common-wealth of Genâ—…way pag. 787. 788. Nature changed IT chanced in our time at Breslaw in Silesia that a certaine young Maide hauing beene present with many others at the execution of a Theefe which was beheaded shee was so troubled there-with as shee fell to haue the falling sicknesse They applyed many remedies which did her no good A certaine Gossip according to the vsuall custome gaue her aduise saying If they gaue this Maide Cattes bloud to drinke the paine would cease Those which gouerned her following this foolish councell made her to swallow some But soone after the poore Mayde changed her naturall disposition and some-times tooke vpon her the nature of a Catte wauling leaping and running as those Beasts doe and watching softlie for Rattes and Mise in euery corner of the house trying by all meanes to catch them Shee continued in these Cattish exercises vntill the vehemencie of her fitte was past Maister MARTIN VEINRICH in his Commentarie of the beginning of Monsters Wonderfull Natures THere was a certaine Gentle man that could not endure an olde woman should looke vpon him and as it happened once that at a banquet there were certaine that had beene inuited vnknowne to him the which could not but looke vpon him his apprehension was so great as hee dyed sodenly In the same Commentarie of Monsters Cattes offend many with looking on them so as some hearing or seeing a Catte tremble and are much afraide the which I beleeue doth not proceed alone from the venome of Cattes but also from their disposition that doe see or heare them for they haue by Nature this influence from Heauen the which is neuer moued to doe her proper action vnlesse the contrarie obiect present it selfe I haue seene many of this minde and disposition in Germanie and some remaining in Goritzia If this proceeds onely of a naturall quallitie which is in fewe they that are subiect vnto it shewe it plainlie For beeing in Germanie and supping in the Winter time in a Stoue with very good company one of the troupe was much subiect vnto that humour The Hostesse knowing the disposition of the Man shutte a little Kitlin which shee had bred vp into a Cofer with-in the Stoue least this man seeing it should be offended But although hee did neither see it nor heare it yet a while after hauing smelt the ayre of a Catte his disposition enemie vnto Cats beeing stirred hee began to sweate growe pale and trembling to crye out not without amazement to all the companie that there was a Catte hidden in some corner of the Stoue MATHIOLVS vpon the 6. Booke of DIOSCORIDES Chap. 25. I haue knowne a Princesse adorned with all vertues of the minde and body that could not endure the sight of a Catte beeing other-wise of an actiue spirit and armed against all the difficulties of the world Shee imputed the cause of this feare to that which happened to her Mother beeing with Childe with her for on a time a Catte did so terrifie her as shee sounded and was long sicke of this accident Cattes did not feare her before that time when as shee did see them but this falling sodenly as it were in her lappe shee was much amazed THOMAS ERASTVS in his Disputations HIPPOLITVS LANZON a Mantouan Gentleman did so abhorre to see a Hedge-hog as if hee were not sodenly drawne away hee would sweate and faint MARCELLVS Dâ—…NATVS in his Admirall Physicall Histories lib. 6. Chap. 4. I haue knowne a Peasant in Normandie that had neuer eate Bread Flesh Fishe nor Cheese Egges were his onely foode and cheefest nourishment BRVGEMIN in his first Booke of Meate Chapt. 24. Wee haue also seene IHON de la CHESMAYE a Parrisien Secretarie to King FRANCIS the first who did so detest and abhorre the smell of fruit or Apples as hee was forced to rise from the Table when any one was brought And if they came but neere vnto his nose hee presently bled If hee did see any by chance and could not retire himselfe he sodenly stopt his nostrils with peeces of bread Wee haue heard that many issued out of the noble familie of CANDALES in Guienne haue bin of that disposition not to endure the smell of Apples The same Author IAMES of FARLI an excellent Phisition in his time doth testifie of him-selfe that it troubled him as much the eating of Garlike as if he had drunke poyson and he added that the same fittes which appeared in them that had drunke poyson came vnto him hauing eating Garlike Some learned men hold that this hatred proceeds of an opinion which wee haue conceiued that those things which we detest are bad eyther to all in generall or to vs in particular The same There was at Chauny in Picardie a Maide of an honest house about sixteene yeares olde the which vnto that age had neuer fed of any thing but of Milke She could not endure the sent of bread and if they had cast neuer so little of the crumme into her Milke shee smelt it a farre off the which I haue seene with mine eyes and carefully obserued The same BRVGERIN lib. 2. chap. 6. I haue knowne a man hating Cheese so much as if they did put neuer so little in his meate hee presently smelt it and did cast vp his gorge after a strange manner MARCELLVS DONATVS liâ—…er 4. of his Physicall obseruations There was an Italian Earle had a foote-man who if hee had eaten an Egge his lippes began presently to swell his face lookt of a purple hew markt with blacke spottes in diuers places foming at the mouth as if he had taken poyson The same Author An Italian Lady faire and vertuous named FRANCISQVINE wife to Count MATHEVV FRANGEPAN a Noble-man of great power and worth was foureteene yeares old before she could euer be drawne to eate any flesh A certaine Cardinall did abhorre the smell of Roses Late Physitions say that there was a whole familie at Milan to whom the vse of Cassia was so contrary as if any one of them tooke it hee dyed The number of those that cannot taste nor drinke any kinde of Wine with-out offence is infinite I haue a Sonne which doth abhorre Colewortes I my selfe if I see Pourslaine I lothe it Euery man hath some particular affection SCALIGER in the 153. Exercitation against Cardan Sect. 10. I haue knowne an olde woman that did flye the vse of Melons in a whote Countrie hosding that meate very agreeable to others of the same place but for them of her age the worst in the world My Father could neuer swallow any parte of a Hare nor of any Fowle Not long since a Noble-man of accoumpt dyed who could neuer eate nor swallow any meate if it were not some-what Salted MARANTA lib. 3. of the Methode to know Simples The youngest Daughter to FREDERIKE King of Naples a worthy Princesse whome I had some-times in cure for that cause that shee could not eate any flesh no not taste it If shee did but put