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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
A91895	Endoxa, or, Some probable inquiries into truth, both divine and humane: together with a stone to the altar: or, short disquisitions on a few difficult places of Scripture; as also, a calm ventilation of Pseudo-doxia epidemica. / By John Robinson, Dr. of Physick. Translated and augmented by the author.; Endoxa. English	Robinson, John, M.D.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1700; Thomason E1821_1; ESTC R203377	61,732	159

its utmost Borders whatsoever it findeth refractory to its Laws let us examine a contusion without where the Blood being provoked out of its proper Vessels is of all hands necessarily granted to be corrupted yet we see that by unperceptible Pores Nature doth evacuate this First in blew then green Last a yellow colour till she hath expelled whatsoever is noxious and restored the part to its former Crasis Doubtless Natures operation within though of lesse sense yet is of greater subtilty Whence may be concluded that though nature never entreth into league with any thing corrupted which they urge continually upon us that never denied it yet after the exile of her Enemy reneweth amity with its rescued remainer Finally the long Experiment of the concording Practitioners with the confirmation of Myriads of Patients confessing the suddain refreshment by bleeding often before the Chirurgeon getteth to the door when the Blood is peccant either in quantity quality or motion may confirm the usefulness yea necessity of Phlebotomy If Empirical practise doth agree with rational and Methodical Art He who will not believe these two faithful Witnesses is not worthy to be believed himself CHAP. X. Of Telesmes Whether Averruncation of Epidemical Diseases by Telesmes be faisable and lawful Quest THat this hath been effected and that lawfully upon the Warrant of God's Edict is Exam. evident in the curing of the biting of Serpents by erecting a Brazen Serpent in the Wilderness Which together with their Sacrifices the mimick Heathens have translated into Superstition the Aspect whereof I confess did cure at a distance Here was no mummie of the Wound nor Mundane Soul required as being transcendant beyond the Effects of Nature Though the Rabbins do contend that the matter of the Telesme must not be contrary to the Disease as they imagine Brass to be against the biting of Serpents Yielding some Latitude to the Word I shall commit no Solecism if I say That the Rain-bow hath a Telesmetical signification for the preservation of the Universe from Inundation which Rain-bow I see not why it should be the first much less a miracle seeing it depended upon manifest secundary causes Morning and Evening every Eye opposite to the Sun's Beams will receive a proper Rain-bow when a Horse pranceth in the Water What if it were granted never to have been seen before Were therefore the first Discoveries of Load-stones Prospectives Gunpowder c. to be canonized for Miracles That the Ekronites did make their eight Golden Mice and five Emrods and put them in a Coffer by the Ark 1 Sam. 6. 5. for averting Apotelesmatically their Epidemical Diseases is clear As also those blinde and lame 2 Sam. 5. Jo. Gregory A. M. on the place 6 8. were the Jebusites Telesmes erected in their Idol-Temples And Humane Writers do often concenter in this truth In which Art Apollonius Thyaneus by the testimony of several Authors of all the rest did obtain the Lawrell Insomuch that Justine with others can afford him a laudible Encomium But how lawfully this was done or the like now might be practised is not obvious to my capacity I am not afraid to exhibite many simples the effects where of I cannot so readily reduce to manifest causes Else were I to abandon and utterly divorce all Magnetick Electrick and Antimonial Medicines especially being ignorant by what faculty the purging Simples do electively attract their adequate humours yea Light and Fire the Effects whereof are in view of every vulgar Eye their proper forms à priori being retired from the acquaintance of most judicious men But that the Forms of these sublunary things are answered with the like Celestiall Figurations and that the Ideas of all terrestrial Beings are as in a Copy in the fixed Heavens by man to be distinguished I cannot be easily perswaded to believe no more then the Rabbinical Letters in the Firmament or the too occult Gamahes of our new Philosophers Gaffarel Some Phantasticks especially if there be a tincture of Melancholy mixed with it will imagine upon an old Wall Flame Grass c more Regular Forms and better-shaped Let ters But I will lay down some grounds 1 The Signs within the Zodiack or beyond the Tropicks were made in an arbitrary or fortuitous way because such a Sidus whether animal or artificial would best contain the most eminent Stars of that Constellation For the Hebrews Originally did decifre them by their Alphabetical Letters the lying Grecians did afterward reduce them into Figures 2 There be many glorious Sidera which can have no response with things here on Earth neither are they to be ranked among natural things as Lyra Crater c. 3 Some are duplicated as Corona Triangulum Canis and that within the same Hemisphere as Vrsa 4 There seemeth a defect at least it is hidden from us of Stars adequating the Vegetables in the surface of this our Habitable Earth 5 There is a gross mistake in the placing of them For Nature enduring no leaps proceedeth by steps When the Sun is soaked with the moist and cold temper of Cancer then to leap into Leo the hottest and dryest Sign is too subitaneous an alteration of extream 6 The lascivious Aries and the fiery Taurus whose Eye with them is Martial are so near together that there would be a fear of the conflagration of the Heavens a quotannuall Phaetontick combustion but that our March Winds and April Showrs do prevent it They neither agree together nor asunder 7 The slow proreption of every Sidus out of his proper Sign almost unto the subsequent whether in the eighth or ninth Sphere it mattereth not doth overturn the grand Pillar of Stochelomatical Art So that if I were to cure the biting of a Scorpion this way I should rather take the time when the Moon is in Sagittarius and make the Sign or Figure of a Centaure then a Scorpion which hath crept 28 degrees out of his own Sign The reason of parcelling these Signs to the several parts of Humane Body is no less ridiculous Because Aries excelleth in Horns and Taurus in Neck The one they make superintendant to the Head The other to the Throat The Shoulders being branched into two must have the Gemini for their tutelary Angels Because the Crabbe creepeth upon his Breast to him is committed the charge of the Chest c. But the sole reciting of them would endanger a smile from dumpish Democritus When the Sun is in Leo because of the fierceness of the Beast it is very hot and on the contrary Object when it passeth Aquarius and Pisces their Nature being cold the Sun doth symbolize with them the like of the rest Leo is coldest Aquarius and Pisces hottest to them which live beyond the Southern Tropick Answ 1. and yet the same Signs with us They that dwell between the Arctick and Tropick Circles have on each side the same temper both of Sun and Soil yet under divers Constellations which