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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	cold_a	hot_a	moist_a	5,424	5	10.2024	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80002	Miscelanea medica, or, A supplement to kitchin-physick to which is added a short discourse on stoving and bathing : with some transient and occasional notes on Dr. George Thompsons galino-mempsis.	Cock, Thomas.	1675 (1675)	Wing C4793; ESTC R27091	11,889	68

Miscelanea Medica OR A SUPPLEMENT TO Kitchin-Physick To which is added A short DISCOURSE ON STOVING AND BATHING WITH Some transient and occasional Notes on Dr. George Thompsons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nec lex est justior ulla Quam necis artificis arte perire sua LONDON Printed in the year 1675. HIPPOCRATIS GALENI FAUTORIBUS Speciatim Erudito viro mihique observando Thomae Austen Armigero Mei amicissimo Necnon Egregiè Doctis J. N. T. S. Medicinae Doctoribus PEllae● Juveni Cultor non sufficit unus Duos igitur tanto Heroi diversi generis obtigisse memoriae traditur Craterum scilicet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hephestionem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ab eodem appellatos Quorum ille quidem Regem hic vero Alexandrum coluisse dicitur Mihi quoque in publicum prodeunti analogo quopiam multo magis opus esse quis dubitet Repertis enim libelli causae quam tractat justissimae patronis idoneis alios etiam Scriptoris protectores exquirendos facile persensi Nec mora Vos enim viri egregii illico mihi in mentem rediistis unde quidem ut verius dicam nunquam abestis qui me vestra familiaritate olim dignati sic me sic mea omnia utcunque tenuia estimatis vel laudare vel saltem excusare parati estis ut aliis hunc tractatum inscribere vel alios mei Defensores adoptare nefas duxerim De meipso more Chymicorum speciatim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 G. T. multa promittere modestia non patitur quamvis mihi non sum tam suffenus ut quidquam de me magnoperè pollicear in utraque tamen Academiâ educato exactis etiam viginti propè annis in studio praxi Medicinae Chymiae Anatomiae liceat mihi dicere me non prorsus ignarum esse plurimorum sive Dogmatum sive Experimentorum quae alicujus in hâc arte momenti sunt Quapropter navem solvendi hunc oceanum discurrendi copiam facile mihi dandam confido gratum aliquid utile humano generi exponere studenti Valete viri egregiè docti Accipite hoc offerentem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pergite mihi quod semper facitis indulgere meique patrocinium suscipere dignemini perpetuo favete Addictissimo Vestri T. C. Miscelanea Medica OR A SUPPLEMENT TO Kitchin-Physick The Second Part. ALL Physicians whom we ought most to confide in do conclude and have determined it as a most undoubted Truth to cure with contraries and preserve with Cordials according to that confirm'd Aphorism of contraria contrariis curantur Similia similibus conservantur Paracelsus Theophrastus Bombastus Van-Helmont and some of their late conceited Disciples without taking any notice of this distinction do morbum morbo curare and venture to attempt the putting out of fire with fire Or curing hot Diseases with hot Medicines and consequently cold Diseases with cold Hippocrates Galen and their more aged Off-spring on the other hand judge it more reasonable and practicable to put out fire with water and to subdue the cold effects of water by heat or fire and to this end if the Disease be hot and dry as a Fever they advise such Food and Physick as is cold and moist and hot and dry Meats and Medicines to subdue a disease that is moist and cold never neglecting as is supposed by the Chymist to supply Nature though not the Disease with convenient delightful and proper Cordials always remembring not to nourish but to oppose a Disease with things that remove or alter it by their qualities We are much beholden to the temperament and qualities of things for the preservation of our health and curing Diseases nor is there through the benignity and bounty of God any accident or distemper but hath its remedy assigned it by the matter form temperament or qualities of Medicines knew we but certainly how and when to apply them and therefore it is that Physiology and all the five parts of Physick are more absolutely necessary than the most exalted and accurate Medicines of the Chymist and though by some who know the vulgar neither do nor will know any thing but what is vulgar the Galenist and Chymist are represented as two distinct different and inconsistent things yet 't is certain they both serve but to make up one intire Artist And I could tell you Eugenius not only of some Physicians but some also of your own profession that can compare if not out-do the greatest Don and Heroes as they think themselves of the Chymical and Hermetick Sect And because you may depend upon it for a Truth that all Diseases and Remedies may as well and better be comprehended under some of the simple or compound Qualities than any other invented Idea Name or Notion whatever of the conceited Chymist to this very end the foregoing Chapters in the first Part have given you a practical account of such things as do preserve by their agreement with Nature and cure by their contrariety to the Disease and not to advise people to a Diet that is answerable to their Disease and Physick they are prescribed is to ruine them nor are they by any but conceited Practitioners and Humorists to be left at large to feed as they think sit on old Cheese Red-herring or to inflame themselves with the more subtil and penetrating Spirits of Brandy Punch and Aqua Vitae which though at first they seem to content Nature and exalt the Archeus or vital and natural heat of our bodies yet they so alter also the natural tone temper and ferments of the pancreas blood and stomach that in a little time they leave them languid faint and vappid By these things the Chymist may for a while seemingly make his Archeus or Nature blaze the better but like a Torch with often beating it will certainly burn out the sooner and 't is rare to find any accustomed Brandy or Aqua vitae Bubber when once sick ever to recover because the frequent use of such things make all other Cordials useless and invalid in time of sickness and when Nature should stand most in need of them Besides they either at first so inflame the vital Spirits as to produce such acute sharp and sudden Diseases as Fevers Apoplexies and the like or else in time as one fire puts out another they extinguish the vital heat and moisture and thereby occasion such chronick and fatal Diseases as Gouts Dropsies Palsies Hecticks Scorbuts Consumptions and death it self In short our blood and spirits may as well be too much agita●ed as idle and the volatil Salts may stand in as much need of fixing as the fixed Salts of volatizing nor is their less danger in one than the other and how the Chymist only with his hot fiery Cordial Spirits at one and the same time can serve two such different Masters I understand not and must herein submit to better judgements than my own and surely such a modest