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A47663	The secret miracles of nature in four books : learnedly and moderately treating of generation, and the parts thereof, the soul, and its immortality, of plants and living creatures, of diseases, their symptoms and cures, and many other rarities ... : whereunto is added one book containing philosophical and prudential rules how man shall become excellent in all conditions, whether high or low, and lead his life with health of body and mind ... / written by that famous physitian, Levinus Lemnius.; De miraculis occultis naturae. English	Lemnius, Levinus, 1505-1568.	1658 (1658)	Wing L1044; ESTC R8382	466,452	422

and will not be so easily handled and made pliable A Simile from a fluxible thing so when the weather is cold the humours are hardly mel●ed and dissolved and it is proved because in winter men sweat lesse wherefore we must give such medicaments as will wipe away forcibly and open the pores For the filth and rubbish of the humours stick no lesse to these mens bodies than the lees and dregs do to vessels which must be soked with salt water or pickle A simile from rubbing of vessels and rub'd with beesoms to make them clean and take away all ill smels from them Otherwise whatsoever is put into them will grow sowre and be spoiled Wherefore Hippocrates seems to me to have spoken very right Impure bodies the more you feed them the more you hurt them L. 2. Aphor. 12. For the food corrupts being mingled with vitious humours and so the disease lasts the longer or if at any time by the Physitians skill or force of nature the disease begins to abate it will grow again by the least occasion For new corruption is bred in the body and a filthy smell accompanies it as we may perceive by the breath and this diffused in the body vitiates the spirits and extinguisheth natural heat for want of transpiration To this belongs that sentence of Hippocrates If there be any remainders in the body or reliques L. 2. Aph. 12. the diseases will grow again for the nutriment taken in doth not strengthen the sick but corrupts by mingling with ill Juice and increaseth the disease as we see in quartans and bastard tertians when the Patients will not be ruled by the Physitian not use a good diet Now these Feavers are with Intermission because the humour is without the veins and farther from the heart Whence comes intermission in Peavers But in continual feavers men are tormented constantly by reason of the sharp biting vapours of blood and choler inflamed within the veines which when they cannot freely get forth and breathe out they immediately offend the heart and liver and do more hurt by their corruption arising from stopping Blood subject to corruption than if they were without the veins For when there is great plenty of humours and the corruption is vehement and the proportion of this is great for putrefaction for blood is of a hot and moist quality and soon corrupts it falls out that these feavers alwaies rage and soon come to their state Whence Hippocrates maintains that such diseases dure not above fourteen daies L. 2. Aph. 23. and sometimes where the matter is surious and swels they end on the fifth seventh ninth or eleventh day The causes of Feavers that come by circuits and at set times are contrary for they come from some force bred in the humour and by reason of place and time whence it happens that they come with intermission that they anted are the time or come slower and later that they are unstable and unconstant and the fits last longer sometimes Feavers grow stronger and come sooner where the humours are increased and more inflamed Anticipating Feavers or where some errour hath been committed or there hath been some intemperance in meat and drink Feavers that come later But Feavers come later and more gently when the matter decreaseth and the stopping and corruption being discussed it abates and decayes sensibly Instable wandring feavers But when one humour takes upon it anothers nature or changeth its place or is mingled and confounded with another the fits come in no order but with uncertain motion and no certain time is observed by them Long Feavers A long fit is made by a plentifull humour and vapour and that is diffused all through the body and that which is clammy and grosse For as moyst green wood is long a lighting and burning A simile from green wood and old flesh and as Ox beef if it be old requires long seething so a clammy humour must be longer a steeping and grow soft by concoction and made fluxible that it may be fit for excretion But since we shew'd before that humours corrupting without the veins and when they are inflamed in any other part of the body Intermitting Feavers cause intermitting feavers than give us time to breathe yet of times we observe that these will more continually though they be without the veins both by reason of plenty of humours and from the sharpnesse of them As we see in parts that are inflamed as in carbuncles bubo's Carbuncles without the body cause continual feavers and all contagious and pestilent Impostumes In which a continual feaver and not an intermitting is kindled though the venome break forth without the veins and be far from the heart for the pestilent venemous force penetrates to the heart and hurts the principal parts infecting both the naturall and viral spirits Whence it is that these diseases are numbred amongst acute diseases because they soon come to their state and the change to health or death is very sudden For the like befalls those bodies as happens to a City besieged A simile taken from a City besieged which is so stormed without intermission by the Enemy with Guns and other engines of war that it can hardly stand out any longer against the violence of the enemy and looks every moment to be subdued unlesse it can with Ordnance and Engines make opposition or can sally out and beat the enemy away For to yeild and to make an agreement for life and safety as they do that fight faintly against an enemy or a disease were ignoble and commonly very hurtfull for the Conquerours of times will not stand to agreements but will break their words so in acute diseases it used to fall out that the sick cannot endure violence of the disease and cannot live above fourteen dayes if they can hold out so long unlesse nature be strong and well assisted by the Physitians art and can conquer the disease which being obtained she can hardly recollect her forces As the assaults of enemies so diseases must be driven off and cannot presently recover what she hath lost by violence but recovers her forces by degrees and to reedifie and fortifie her batter'd walls CHAP. V. Of those that come forth of their Beds and walk in their sleep and go over tops of Towrs and roofs of houses and do many things in their sleep which men that are awake can hardly do by the greatest care and industry IT happens that some in their youth and flourishing years for old men want vital spirits and are to weak too undertake such things Whence it comes that some men walk and cry out in their sleep and are slow in venerious actions will leap out of their beds at mid night or about break of day and do such things that men that are awake can hardly do and to do it with so little danger that all that see it admire

the mind with pleasing words For as the Proverb saith A good speech is a Physitian for a sick mind A simile from Wild beasts enraged and such men must be dealt withall as the occasion serves as the habit of their body is and the qualities of the humours require For as wild beasts are tamed by mans industry so their minds must be pleasingly drawn that will be enraged with harsh and ruff words Yet sometimes as for the diseases of the body incisions causticks and burnings are usefull so sometimes we must be more violent and bridle such wicked actions by wholesome correcting speeches unto which at sometimes when the noxious humour boyls over they are wont to be tempted And there must be no lesse care taken for the body But let him remember that undertakes the cure that he do not raise that humour with violent medicaments but by degrees and easily and with as great dexterity as possibly he can for it is not good to exhaust that sink all at once For that humour stirred breaths forth a kind of ach in the back and ill savour that disturbs the brain incredibly that the mind conceives strange things But first the spirits must be raised with sweet smels and nose-gays and the body must be fed with juice of the best meats and they must sleep on soft beds But wine nourisheth the soonest of all things and doth least offence to nature Yet in giving wine though it be the chief help to discuss sorrow there must be choice used and care must be had to prescribe it seasonably and as each man's age Choice of Wine custome of life and the Country requires For wine doth not alwayes drive sorrow from Melancholique people but sometime it increaseth it and exasperates the disease especially where the body is full of ill humours Wherefore the body must be first emptied and purged with fit remedies before any manner of dyet be prescribed Aphor. For impure bodies the more you nourish them the more you hurt them For since the nature of wine is various Ill Wines trouble the Mind and there be many kinds nor are all wines alike strong you must observe to give the best wine to drink and that as is seasoned with no offensive thing for in Taverns and other such places where wine is sold they are sophisticated to the great disadvantage of mens health with quick Lime Gyp Bitumen Clary Rocket and wild Myrtils So some kind of wines are so far from ●uting melancholy that they make it grow more and be worse than it was Hence our Country people by drinking wines from Pigic●●● that send sharp vapours to the brain become wayward sto●ard angry implacable that they will be alwayes angry and will oft-times beat their Wives which when they have drank Rhenish wine or some strong wines they hold it Religion not to do for then they are more pleasant and more ready to kisse than to fight with them Wherefore Melancholique weary thirsty people that are dry of bodies by Horace his Rule L. 1. Ep. 15. Must drink what 's good and pleasant for to drink That may abate all cares whereon they think And entring in the veins may raise their mind To lofty thoughts and make their speech so kind That they may among Virgins Lovers find To which may be added that of Pliny L. 22. Ch. 25. all sharpnesse of mind is abated by some sweet juice it softneth the passage of the spirit and makes the way more easie Every man may make experiment upon himself For there is no man but sometimes he is much troubled with sorrow anger grief So when a man is weary thirsty hungry or hath watched too long he is more prone to anger In Cur. So hunger and delay as Plautus writes makes a man take pepper in the nose but so soon as he hath eaten his meat he growes quiet and is still Hunger kindles ●nger Hence it is that men that are full are lesse subject to anger than those that are empty Because the body moystned with meat and drink is not so dry and the native heat being warm'd the body is lesse subject to wax angry For the natural faculties are busie about concoction and yellow choler that useth to boyl over where men are fasting is qualified by the humours mingled with it So Cauldrons Frying-pans and such utensils grow more hot and smell more offensively when the liquor or fat that swims on the top is consumed by immoderate heat For all things that want moysture or oyl will stick to the pot or send form offensive vapours so that men say usually Rost and boyl'd are taken out of the same pot A common proverb w●e●e meat is ill digested Wherefore lean people and such as are of dry tempers should do well not to fast over-long but eat something to refresh natural heat For the body growes dry with unseasonable fasting which consumes the radical moysture Fasting ill for lean folks of which we spake elsewhere CHAP. XVII Herbs are subject to change and will lose their forces and form Herbs will degenerate and change unlesse they be dressed continually MAny Physitians complain that the descriptions of Plants are false and their vertues are uneffectual and that there were many Plants obvious and common in former times that if we compare them with these of our times ours will answer to them neither in name nor descriptions and therefore they say they are other plants though we call them still by the same names So our Hyssop Beans Cinquefoil Valerian Tyf wheat Provender Rie Amelcorn they think not to be the same because they do not exactly agree with the descriptions of the Antients For as I would defend no mens errours that are deceived in the choice and knowledge of Plants so I think that some men do not sufficiently measure all things by the squre of reason For though in so great a change and variety of herbs all of them cannot be ranged into a certain Classis nor can we give them a fit name that may answer the description of the Antients yet we must not think that they are other plants than what were described by the Antients or of other operations than such as they set down For Nature it self gave a cause for this Variety if there be any which daily changeth the form Natures arifice in Plants and is luxuriant in producing new manner of plants that they seem to differ from those they come from To this may be added the cunning of Herbarists and Gardeners that by mingling feeds and by using art about them have learned to make them grow more fair and lovely to sight Hence comes that variety of colours in Plants and Flowers Gelliflowers in th● lo●● co●atrey● 〈◊〉 v●●y beautifull whic● is especially seen in Clove-gelliflowers that by the Gardners art grow so full of variety that they are nothing like to the descriptions of the Antients and therefore

made with hands eternal in the heavens Which God provided for this end that by rising again we might enjoy the glory of immortality and God hath given us his spirit Gal. 4. as an earnest and pledge thereof who doth by his presence confirm to us our hope and highest confidence of things to come Colos 2. For by his spirit alone we are certified that he who raised the Lord Jesus from death will by the power of him raise us also and make us partakers of his glorious Resurrection CHAP. XVII The Inconveniencies of Tippling and drunkennesse and what things will resist and cure it THere is an old custome of force amongst the High and low Dutch that they care for no mans friendship or familiarity but such as can drink strongly with them In Curcul piss stoutly Wherefore I thought I should do something considerable to relate some things that will resist drunkennesse that every man in that contest may look to himself either not to be overcome with Wine or to be offended but little by it At first let no man drink too much and be too ready to take up his cups but let him civily refuse and draw back pretending that he is not very well Sometimes you must find out some stratagems to deceive those that aim at you to make you drunk and that most endeavour to prevail over you And you must take occasion cunningly to steal forth to make water or to take away the cup but you must be very crafty and subtill in doing it with great dexterity For if the company find your cunning they will ply you the more abundantly Yet every man may easily find out some shifts to avoid and wittily to cosen his fellow drinkers In the mean while let every man consider well the reward of this inveterate and unworthy custome and errour and he shall see as clear as day what hurt it doth to his body and soul and spirits to be given to much drinking For first it not onely hurts memory the most pretious faculty of the mind Intemperance in Wine hurts the memory and makes it weak but totally ruines it making the eyes dark and causing blindnesse the cheeks are blabber'd and the limbs tremble and reel and many other inconveniencies accompany immoderate drinking of wine and they are all cold distempers Nor as Galen saith De Temp. l. 3. doth it alwaies heat a man but when he drinks more than he can conquer it causes cold diseases For the natural heat is extinguished and choaked just as when you powre abundance of oyl at once upon a little flame I do premise this that no man should faslly judge that do give occasion or open the dore for such wickednesse For it is my chiefest desire that men would either drink moderately or if there fall out an extraordinary occasion to drink much for as the Proverb is A Proverb at bankets these solemnities cannot stand without it that they may not want helps to drive away drunkennesse amongst which I set down bitter things and as many such means as will purge away watry humours by urine For by this way the fumes are derived from the head and the Wine is hindred from going into the veins Bitter things hinder drunkennesse also by their bitternesse they dry up moisture So five or six bitter Almonds taken before supper will perform it effectually Peach kernels have the like quality with them and the juice of Peach-leaves pressed forth and a little taster full thereof drank fasting hath the same vertue also the infusion of Roman-Worm-wood and nutmeg For all these open the passages and make them wide and loose as also oyl pressed forth of Olives or two ounces of oyl pressed forth of the seeds of Sesamum drank in the morning before Sun-rising for it makes the belly slippery and extends the urinary passages so that drink staies not in the body but passeth away continually if so be a man do not burden his stomach too much with eating 'T is naught for drinkers to eat overmuch For he that is forced to drink must eat meat but sparingly but if he shall eat a morsel of bread dipt in honey he shall do well For honey takes away the force of wine and blunts the sharpnesse of the fumes Cabbage is better than them all Cabbage hinders Drunkennesse which Cato commended exceedingly it is vulgarly called Caulis because no plant hath a greater stalk But of this there are many kinds and the red cole is best to resist drunkennesse if you chew the leaves in your mouth and swallow down the juice or eat them boyl'd for the first dish at table Yet the sea-cole Sea-cole-worts and sea-purslane that grow plentifull by the sea in Zealand are far more effectual which we use in sallets and sauces to sharpen appetite For they make a man very hungry and thirsty by their imbred faculty Hence it comes that no fumes or vapours of the wine can rise to the head for they are purged out by siege and urine There are many other things of this kind that resist drunkennesse that a man may not be overcome but I cannot reckon all But if any man chance to be drunk that is not provided with these helps For wine as Habakkuk saith Ch. 1. Eccl. 31. deceives the wise he must be helped by vomit which the wise man also gave counsel for If thou art compelled to gorge thy self go forth and vomit Vomit is good After this the testicles and genitall parts must be soked in cold water and wrapped up in a wet napkin but womens breasts must be so wetted For presently the vapours being turned away all drunkennesse is discussed In the mean time sharp and sowrish things and good juicy Apples must be eaten As Oranges Citrons Cherries Peaches Barberries Verjuice Cornels and all things that are of a cooling and repercussive quality and have some cutting and abstergent faculty For though drunkennesse ceaseth either by sleep or vomiting Head-ache from yesterdays wine yet the head will ake the next day and is offended by vapours Festus Pompeius calls this effect Helucus which word signifies as much as half a sleep and a gaping from yesterdayes wine Helucus is the head-ache from drunkennesse Tertullian useth this word for that affection whereby men are made sleepy by the drinking much the day before when he saith The vertue of Ivy is to defend the head from this drowsinesse The force of Ivy in dispelling drunkennesse by its discussing and drying quality whereby also it is thought to keep men from being drunk if it be applyed outwardly to the head or by taking before-hand some of its berries that are yellow-colour'd CHAP. XVIII Intemperance of drink is worse than of meat SOme say that men are lesse hurt by drinking than eating if a man do take either immoderately and above the strength of Nature L. 2. Aph. 11. Moyst things soonest