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A62436	Loimotomia, or, The pest anatomized in these following particulars, Viz. 1. The material cause of the pest, 2. The efficient cause of the pest, 3. The subject part of the pest, 4. The signs of the pest, 5. An historical account of the dissections of a pestilential body by the author, and the consequences thereof, 6. Reflections and observations on the fore-said dissection, 7. Directions preservative and curative against the pest : together with the authors apology against the calumnies of the Galenists, and a word to Mr. Nath. Hodges, concerning his late Vindiciae medicinae / by George Thomson.	Thomson, George, 17th cent.	1666 (1666)	Wing T1027; ESTC R1148	61,518	210

aright for that reason they could never obtain such a favour from Heaven to be protected by Divine Preservatives from the stinking noysom Breath of this mortiferous Basilisk wherefore they maliciously backbite those that perform any thing above themselves calling that a Presumption that tends to the preventing a Consumption and Devastation of a whole Nation CHAP. VI. Some Medicinal Reflexions and useful Observations made upon this Pestilential Dissection STultus est ineptiarum labore to take pains and not to improve it for the benefit of our selves or our Neighbours may I confess be justly termed Presumption Folly Vain-glory and an affection of Singularity But to undertake any dangerous and difficult design that a particular Countrey Nation yea the whole World may be meliorated in its condition and enjoy some comfort therefrom deserves to be encouraged promoted rewarded and to have better appellations given than some spiteful persons commonly fasten upon it I acknowledge that I cannot acquit my self wholly of Philautie Kenodoxie Ostentation c. and I cannot help it for it is inherent and ingenite in me Homo sum nihil humanum à me alienum puto I am as prone as any other sine Gratia Dei anticipante to run into many enormous Crimes yet if I can judge any thing of my self and my Conscience doth not very much delude me I have alwayes set before my Eyes in my Function next Gods Glory chiefly and in the first place the preservation and sanity of my dear distressed Neighbour endeavouring to make my own By respects to follow in the Rear Wherefore I have often abhorred to take those indirect and oblique Courses that would advance my own private Interest but debellate and overthrow the publick prosperity of a people How sollicitous I have been to keep poor afflicted man from falling into the Pit of destruction is only known to the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Searcher of all Hearts Duram suscepi provinciam I underwent a very difficult Task these late Contagious Times performing it not perfunctorily by Fits and Girds by halves in a trifling manner expressing as some that I know such a fear in looks and gestures that was enough to bring the Plague into a House free from it but I followed what I took in hand vigorously to a purpose not ready to take my flight as soon as I was entered the doors like the Statue of Mercury on Tiptoe leaving behind a pitiful Recipe of Ellec Diascor Methrid Theria aq Theriar Syr aceto Citri and such like Trash and Trumpery but I continued oftentimes half an hour and sometimes an hour conversing with my Patients and giving them effectual Remedies prepared with my own fingers opening their Bubo's and cutting out Eschars of Carbuncles by the operation of my own hand All this while the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 beholding my upright intentions preserved me in health even in the height when the Pest was most grassant till such time being desirous to learn what might instruct me farther in the Nature and Cure of this abstruse Sickness after that I had conversed with the Living about it I entered into more than ordinary familiarity with a dead body Itum est in viscera I searched many dark Corners thereof to be taught something but I bought my Learning at a dear Rate and what the Cadaver could not teach me of it self was infused into me to my sad Experience Experto credite I shall now deliver to you the Physical Observations I made resulting from both dead and my own living Body Observation I. In the first place I observe that the Punctilio's Pulicar-like Spots those Stigmatick marks on the Skin with a Feaver do alwayes signifie a stop more or less put to the Circulation of the blood some Coagulation or Grumosity therein caused through a malignity and Gorgonian Venom that depredates sacks and confunds the Vital Spirits that are the chief instrument of Motion so that when they become Torpid and stupified part of the blood remains like standing pool prone in some short time to contract an evil odour Now if this Tartarous concretion be dissolved discussed or thrown out and lodged in an Emunctory or some by-place ignoble through the strength of Nature assisted by Art then all things succeed well but if this spissitude of the blood increase that the channels are exceedingly clogged and nothing is difflated ventilated and carried off by universal breathing sweats nor any morbifique matter discharged into any glandulous or external carnous diverticle conclamatum est that person may be judged in all likelihood to be lost Observation II. Whensoever these Cutaneous spots appear they always signify an endeavor in the Archeus to extrude that which is noxious but failing in the very act by reason of its own impotence the force of the virulent untameable matter carried out of the Capillary vessels as far as the skin it is there condensed by a preternatural coagulative ferment promoted by the ambient air into this round figure according as the sperical small drop is capable The annitence of Nature to make an expulsion from the Center to the Circumference may instruct the Physician to use all means to imitate her to assist her to keep the blood in continual Motion to weaken the strength of the poison to kill an Exotick ferment to rarifie and attenuate whatsoever is grosse and lentous and to keep the Pores open that there may be free perspiration of the whole body Observation III. When the Natural ferment of the Stomack in the Pest is so far lost that instead of white a black juice is engendered it is a certain sign of the abolition of the vital Spirit and consequently of approaching Death For I never knew any afflicted in this kinde whose strength failed that vomited an Excrement tinged black did escape where this blackness is there must needs be a privation of light with which our spirits symbolize they being luminous if so darkness the shadow of death must needs follow and doubtlesse great is that darknesse that seats it self in the spirit of light and life Observation IV. That which did first occurr most remarkable to my eye in this Dissection was the great alteration I found made principally in the Stomack in respect of the part continent and that which was contained therein In the continent certain Vibices Stigms stroaks of an obscure colour imprinted the inward coat being stained with colours different from the natural and a fluid matter conteined fuliginous pitch-like did sufficiently indicate to me that there the pestilential poyson did take up its chief residence Observation V. When I contemplate what a pure white substance was taken into this Youths stomack not long before he died and how strangely it was transmuted into another hue as black almost as Ink I cannot but smile to think on the vain Conceits of the Galenists that tell us of atra Bilis adusta retorrida black Choller made by a meer torrefaction or violent burning heat and

adustion according to their definition of a Feaver as if there were a fire no whit different from a Culinary in our Bodyes converting that which is white into black and black into white by a strong reverberating heat Suck like fond and foolish opinions have they harboured these Sixteen hundred years and upward for want of the knowledge of the Doctrine of Ferments which can never be so well illustrated as by Chymical Experiments which those Pseudo-Chymists boast they are acquainted with only I am certain in a formal manner sufficient to delude the world otherwise they would not deny the power thereof in their Actions If they did really understand how a little Leaven doth infect the whole Lump they would forthwith leave their bare beggarly Qualities in curing Diseases as Hot Cold c. Relollea as Paracelsus calls them things transient and momentany ebbing and flowing every minute according to the disposition of the Subject and insist more upon substances whose intrinsecal transmutation depends upon powerfull ferments Observation VI. What a Soveraignty and Influence the Stomack hath over the whole body may be proved by multitude of Instances and Examples that I could produce but this was eminently conspicuous that when any thing was taken in that disturbed the innate Archeus and required some difficulty to digest many horrid Symptoms did strait break forth as Vertigo Cephalalgie Delicium Phrensie Inquietude Dyspuoea Sopor defection of the Spirits a cohibition of Sweat and other cutaneous Fxcretions c. This was plainly apparent in this Stripling who having an indiscreet Nurse attending him suffered much damage when she offered him that which was by no means to be admitted as tolerable the natural ferment of the stomack being perverted by the pestilent Poyson And I doubt not but the period of his life was accelerated by the unwitting Dose of Milk which though it be the best Nutriment where it is well altered yet it often proves the worse corrupted Hereby we may learn not to ingest any thing into this noble Vessel but what may agree with the innate Archeus may increase the vital Spirit rectifie the enormous Ferment cherishing that which is genuine may be quickly altered and leave very little Dross and Recrement behind and such are those things that abound with noble Spirits as good Wine and strong Beer or Ale well brewed as for Flesh Broths Gellies Watergruel Ptisans Barley water and such like dull vapid things c. they are all to be abandoned and excluded from entering into this Palace where the sensitive Soul sits so long as such a grand Enemy stands in defiance of it and seeks to destroy it Observation VII In all parts I took notice of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a great coagulation and some small colliquation of juyces except in the Stomack where this Negro liquor did flote without any Concretion or Coaction whereby I gather That the kindly and familiar Ferment of the Stomack made to dissolve and open any hard tough food and to change it into a fluxible white Chile that the nutritive and excrementitious parts may be the better separated being now degenerate and hostile did still retain a property like the former though tending to Ruine tabefying and colliquating what it touched and changing it into a black instead of a white juyce On the other side the Ferments of the Fourth and fifth Digestions ordained lightly to incrassate thicken and to bring one portion of the blood to a moderate fibrous consistence and to subtiliate another becoming exorbitant and losing that primitive gift with which they were endued and acquiring a virulent Nature transcending their former bounds of Mediocrity and Modification of this red Balsom to be afterward assimilated doth now compinge and closely streighten the part thereof depriving it of that continual Circulation which is necessary for the generation of vital Spirits the immediate instrument of the sense and motion of every Animal and turns another small part into a venemous variegated Ichor or Serosity Observation VIII That whereas there is a power inherent in the Veins and Arteries to preserve the blood from Congelation even when the body is dead so great is the concretive force of the pestilential poyson that the blood is suddenly put to a stop and becomes grumified turning into Glotts in a living body with nigh as much expedition as the Spirit of Urine changes Spirit of Wine into a white thick lump Observation IX That a kind of glandulous substance like a Lambs stone should be found in the right Ventricle of the heart instead of an obscure clot of blood doth shew how sollicitous Nature though violently hurried away by a contrary Idea is to save it self from destruction sith that when the Haimopoietick power was lost she carries out of the stomack a small quantity of a rude Chyle passing a short way through some of the Sanguineous Vessels without receiving a rubicund Tincture into this noble Cavity and not able to give it the stamp and signature belonging to this vital Nectar was forced to yield it up to that impression which the exotick Ferment did make upon it Observation X. It being granted that blood doth make blood as I can demonstrate that it is in being before the conformation of the Liver and that when the Sanguis this pure defaecate sublimely graduated crimson juyce stands still and loses its virtue then the milky Chyle cannot receive a vital Character and be tinged as it ought How cautious should we be to exhaust and spend prodigally this treasure of Life as the Galenists who to satisfie their erroneous Documents without any solid Reason or approved Experiments rashly let it out in many trivial Diseases which might easily be Cured by proper Medicaments Observation XI Any Artificial evacuation of Blood except that which is performed by immediate Derivation being degenerate in the Pest Spotted Feaver Small Pox Meazils or any Malignant Disease whatsoever that hath alwayes in it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aliquid sanguinis congelativum somthing in it that doth condense and fix the blood is absolutely pernicious and brings certain perdition or at least great Calamity if thee be not present extraordinary vigour of Nature whatsoever the perverse Galenists pretend to the contrary that they empty an Athletick full Habit of Body and thereby cause Motion in the blood and so hinder the coagulation of it which opinion if rightly cavassed is notoriously false for they take a meer contrary course that diminish the good blood in this case which cannot be avoided when vent is given to a large vessell for out flies the best as well as the worst together indistinctly and hereby the Archeus must needs be disenabled to resist the poyson to attenuate profligate and tame any pertinacious viscous and noxious matter for I am sure if Hippocrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Helmonts Archeus i.e. the Vital spirit the principal Author and efficient Cause of Sanity be wanting nothing benevalent can