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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53048	Natures picture drawn by fancies pencil to the life being several feigned stories, comical, tragical, tragi-comical, poetical, romanicical, philosophical, historical, and moral : some in verse, some in prose, some mixt, and some by dialogues / written by ... the Duchess of Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.	1671 (1671)	Wing N856; ESTC R11999	321,583	731

The second sort that were to visit her were PHYSICIANS And after a short time they asked her what made a good Physician She answered Practise and Observation Then they asked her What made the difference between Pain and Sickness She said Pain was caused by cross perturbed Motions and Sickness by distempered Matter and the overflow of Humours Then they asked her Whether the Mind could be in pain or be sick She answered No but said she the Mind is like the fire it can put the Body to pain but can feel none it self likewise the Motion is like fire for the more Matter it hath to work on the quicker it moves and when the Mind is as it were empty it grows dull and the Head is filled with nothing but smoaky Vapours Then they asked her What difference there is between the Soul and the Mind She answered As much difference as there is betwixt Flame and the grosser part of Fire for said she the Soul is only the pure part of the Mind Then they asked her the difference if any was betwixt the Soul the Mind and the Thoughts She answered As the Mind was the Fire the Soul the Flame so the Thoughts were as the Smoak that issues from the several Subjects that the Mind works on and as Smoak so the several Thoughts many times vanish away and are no more remembred and sometimes they gather together as Clouds do and as one Cloud lies above another so the Thoughts many times lye in rows one above another as from the first to the second and third Region Then they asked her What was the best Medicine to prolong Life She answered Temperance and good Diet. Then they asked her What Diet As for Diet said she to Healthful Bodies Meats must be well and wisely matched but to Diseased Bodies such Diets must be prescribed as are proper to cure each several Disease As for the mixing and matching Meats said she they must be after this description following All Flesh-meats are apt to breed Salt Rheums and being roast breeds Cholerick Humours which Salt Rheums and Cholerick Humours causeth many times Hectick Fevers enflaming the Arterial Blood and Vital Spirits and drinking out the Radical Moisture and Salt Rheums penetrating into the Vital parts cause excoriations and ulcerations As for white Meats as Milk-meats and the like they are apt to breed sharp Humours also the gross parts cause many times obstructions of the Noble parts and the sharpness is apt to corrode especially the Uretaries Guts and Stomack producing Bloody-waters from the one and Cholicks in the other Also sharp Humours cause Cankers Fistula's and the like eating through several parts of the Body making several holes passages or wounds to pass through and Obstructions cause ill digestion ill digestion causes corruptions corruptions cause several Diseases as Feavers Small-Pox Imposthumes Boils Scabs and Leprosies if the Corruption is salt or sowr As for Fish and also all sorts of Pults they breed Slime and Slime in hot Bodies causeth the Stone and Gout in cold Bodies and all sorts of white Swellings as the Kings-Evil Wens and the like also the Brains Feet or any Sinewy part of any Meat doth the like as also Sweet-meats As for all sorts of Fruits Roots Herbs they breed thin crude Humours which causes Wind Wind causes Cholicks Cramps and Convulsions by griping and twisting the Guts Nerves and Veins as also all swimming and dizzy Diseases in the Head likewise Head-akes caused by a Vapour arising from the crude and raw Humours also in hot Bodies it causeth the Sciatica the heat over-rarifying the sharp Humours caused by Fruit makes it so subtil and searching that it doth not only extend to the outmost parts of the Body as betwixt the skin and flesh but gets into the small Thread-Veins As for all Sweet-meats and Comfits they are in some Bodies very obstructive and in all Bodies they breed both sharp and hot Rheums and I have heard said she that Sugar makes the most sharp and acid Vitriol As for the matching of several Meats Fish-meats do well agree with Roots Herbs and Fruits if they be stewed roasted boiled baked or the like otherwise the rawness hinders the concoction of the Meat but if they be drest as aforesaid they temper the saltness and quench out the heat which the over-nourishing strength doth produce Also Fish may be mix'd with Flesh-meat although all Physicians are against it for certainly the natural freshness and coldness of Fish doth temper and allay the natural heat and saltness that is in Flesh-meat mixing it into a good Chyle and tempering it into a Juicy-Gravy which encreases the radical moisture and nourisheth the radical heat also it supplies the Arteries fills the Veins plumps the Flesh smooths the skin whenas strong drinks mix'd with strong meats over-heats the Body enflames the Spirits evaporates the radical moisture burns the radical heat scorches the Arteries drinks up the Blood sears the Veins shrinks up the Nerves dries the Flesh and shrivels the Skin White Meats and Pults agree best as being of one and the same degree as it were of heat for all strong Meats curdle all sorts of Milk which causes obstructions and corruptions and turns it sowr being of a nature so to do which makes such sharpness in the blood and body as causes Tertians Quartans Quotidians and the like Diseases Pults and all sorts of Milk-meat being of a spungy substance digest as it were together when Meats that are solid mix'd with Meats that are more porous and spungy do hinder each other Small drink is best with white Meat but when Pults is eaten without Milk it may agree better with stronger Liquor Roots and Milk-meats agree as being both easily dissolv'd from the first forms into Chyle Nor do Fruits and Pults disagree for the sharpness of the Fruits doth divide the clamming of the Pults and the sliminess of the Pults doth temper the sharpness of the Fruits but Fruits and Milk-meats are enemies which when they meet they do exasperate one another So that Fruits and Pults and Milk and Roots do best together Roots having no sharpness in them but there is of all sorts of Flesh Fish Milk Roots and Herbs some being hotter than others and grosser as the most watrish Fruits are the hottest as having most Spirits in their acute Juices Likewise all Roots or Herbs that bite as it were the tongue or are bitter to the tast are hot although Druggists Herbalists and Physicians are many times of the other opinion but certainly all that is sharp salt or bitter proceeds from a hot nature and most commonly produces hot effects having a fiery figure and motion but because they find many things that are sharp or bitter to qualifie Feavers or the like hot Diseases they think it is the natural temper of the Drugs Herbs Roots Fruits or the like but a hot Cause may produce a cold Effect as for example Obstructions cause heat in the Body but sharp things do

Weakness as two Ambassadors to present her Affection but Life would not give them audience Whereupon Death sent Pain who had such a perswasive power that made Life yeeld to Death's embracements And after they were agreed the Wedding-day was set and Guests invited Life invited the Five Senses and all the Passions and Affections with Beauty Pleasure Youth Wit Prosperity and also Virtue and the Graces But Health Strength Cordials and Charms refused to come which troubled Life much None that Death invited refused to come they were Old Father Time Weakness Sickness all sorts of Pains and all sorts of Diseases and killing-Instruments as also Sighs Tears and Groans Numbness and Paleness But when Life and Death met Death took Life by the Hand then Peace married them and Rest made their Bed of Oblivion wherein Life lay in the cold Arms of Death Yet Death got numerous Issues and ever since whatsoever is produced from Life dyes Whereas before this Marriage there was no such thing as dying for Death and Life were single like Batchelors and Maids But Life proved not so good a Wife as Death a Husband for Death is sober staid grave discreet patient dwelling silently and solitary whereas Life is wild various unconstant and runs about shunning her Husband Death's company But he as a loving and fond Husband follows her and when he embraces her she grows big and soon produces young Lives But all the Off-spring of Death and Life are divided half dwelling with Life and half with Death At this Wedding old Father Time which looked the youngest although he was the oldest in the Company and danced the nimblest and best making several changes in his Dances he trod so gently and moved so smoothly that none could perceive how he did turn and wind and lead about And being wiser than all the rest with long Experience he behaved himself so handsomely insinuated so subtilly courted so civilly that he got all the Ladies Affections and being dextrous got Favours from every one of them and some extraordinary ones for he devirginated Youth Beauty Pleasure Prosperity and all the Five Sences but could not corrupt Wit Virtue nor the Graces But Nature hearing of the abuse of her Maids was very angry and forced him to marry them all But they although they were inamoured of him before they were married yet now they do as most other Wives not care for him nay they hate him rail and exclaim against him that what with his peevish froward and cross Wives and with the jealousie he hath of Sickness Pains and Mischances that ofen ravish them he is become full of wrinkles and his Hair is turned all gray But Virtue and Wit which are his sworn Friends and sweet Companions recreate him with their pleasant free honest and honourable Societies Of the Indispositions of the Mind THE Mind was very sick and sent for Physicians and the first that came were Divines who disputed so long and contradicted one another so much that they could conclude of nothing One advising the Mind to take a Scruple of Calvin's Institutions others a Dram of Luther's Doctrine some two Drams of the Romish Treacle or Opinions some of the Anabaptists Water others to take some of the Brownists Spirits But there were some quite from these Opinions and would advise the Mind to lay some of Mahomet's Pigeons at the feet cutting them with the Turkish Scimitar then bind it up with his Alcaron others would have the Mind bind the Head with the Talmud of the Jews But the Mind grew sicker and sicker insomuch that it was almost at the last gasp whereupon the Mind desired them to depart for said he your Controversies will kill me sooner than your Doctrine will cure me The Mind being very sick sent for other Sects of Physicians who were Moral Philosophers who being come set round a Table and there began to discourse and dispute of the Diseases of the Mind One said Grief is a Lethargie No said another Stupidity is a Lethargie for Grief rather weeps than sleeps O but said another there are dry Griefs that sweat no Tears Pray Gentlemen dispatch said the Mind for I am in great pain One says Hate is an Apoplexy for it is dead to it self though it lives to the Beloved No said he but Hate is a Dead-Palsie No said the other Ignorance is a Dead-Palsie but Hate is an Apoplexie caused by the stopping of the Spirits either Animal or Vital the Vital Spirits being Compassion the Animal Spirits Generosity You are most strangely mistaken said another for all the Spirits are composed of Fortitude the Vital Spirits are active the Animal are passive But they disputed so long upon this point that they had almost fallen out and the Mind prayed them not to quarrel for wrangling noise did disturb him much Then one said That Spight and Envy were Cancers the one caused by sharp Humours the other by salt Another said That Spight was not a Cancer but a Fistula that broke out in many several places and that Envy was the Scurvy that speckled the whole Body of the Mind like Flea-bites The Mind prayed them to go no further in that dispute Then one of them said That Anger was a Hot Burning Fever Nay by your favour said another Anger is an Epilepsie that soams at the Mouth and beats its Breast strugling and striving and will be often in Cold-Sweats and as pale as Death Then another said That an Ague in the Mind was Doubt and Hope the Cold Fit being Doubt and the Hot Fit Hope A second answered That Agues were Fear which caused Shaking-Fits A third said That Jealousie was an Ague that had Cold and Hot Fits Nay said a fourth Jealousie is an Hectick Fever that is an extraordinary Heat got into the Arteries which inflames the Spirit of Action drinks up the Blood of Tranquillity and at last wasts and consumes the Body of Love A fifth said Jealousie is the Gout which is a burning beating pain never letting the Mind be at rest Said a sixth Jealousie is a Head-ake caused from an ill affected Friend But there grew such a Dispute upon this as whether it was the Head Heart or Arteries that the Mind was forced to threaten them they should have no Fees if they did dispute so much As for the Wind-cholick in the Mind some said It was an overflow of Imaginations and Conceptions others That it was strange Opinions others said It was wild Fancies others That it was the over-dilating of the Thoughts and many more several Judgments were given whereupon they were ready to fight To which the Mind replied That it is impossible you should prescribe effectual Medicines if you cannot agree about the Disease Then another said Slander was the Spotted-Fever Another said A Spotted-Fever was Malice Says another A Spotted-Fever and the Plague have near relation but the Plague said he is Discontent that is caused by Envy Slander Malice and the like This Plague of Discontent breaks out

dry and have a corroding quality their corroding quality is caused by the sharpness and their heat by their corroding and their driness by their insipid nature and though they are actually cold they are virtually hot their virtues are only on cold and moist bodies or diseases as those that have obstructions caused by raw cold flegm or swellings caused by cold clammy Humours or Ulcers caused by cold corrupted Humours or Rheums or Dropsies caused by too many cold moist Humours or the like Diseases caused by cold Humours and in my opinion said she they would be excellently good for all outward Ulcers or old Sores or Wounds being washed and bathed therewith by reason they have a cleansing drying faculty not only inwardly taken but outwardly applied Also they may temper the inflamations that most commonly attend all Ulcers Sores or Wounds not only by cleansing and drying up the putrefactions but being actually cold especially outwardly applied for though they are virtually hot being inwardly taken and digested into the blood or as I may say the Mineral rubbed or wrought into the body yet they are actually cold that is cold to touch But to return to the interior Maladies All those Diseases that are produced from hot dry and sharp causes are as bad as poysons They are so for such obstructions that proceed from hard-baked dry Humours or Dropsies caused by hot dry Livers Spleens or other parts or Consumptions that proceed from salt sharp Rheums or hot dry Lungs Livers Spleens or the like parts or all Swellings caused by hot dry or sharp Humours or interior Ulcers caused by hot dry or sharp Humours or Apoplexies caused by hard crusted flegm or dry black melancholy or burnt dry thick blood which stops the natural passages of the spirits or Epilepsies or Convulsions caused by sharp Humours which shrivel and knit up the Nerves or Veins or Joints of the Body or hot Winds which work and foam and as I may say yeest the natural Humours in the body distempering the body therewith Likewise it is an Enemy to all melancholy bodies being full of sharp Humours like Aqua-fortis which are bred in the body or as a sharp green Humour which is a poisonous Verdigrease bred in the body which Humour is the cause most commonly of the Disease called Epilepsis or Falling-sickness and oft-times is the cause of Convulsions but this Humour is a certain cause of the Stomack-Cholick that is to say a Wind in the Stomack and Sides Also they are Enemies to the Gout by reason that the Gout proceeds from a hot-baked dry salt or sharp Humour It is a bitter or sulphureous Humour or a limy chalky Humour that causeth the Gout and indeed it is a calcined Humour which makes it incurable For the Stone they may work good Effects although my Reason cannot perceive but that the Minerals may contract and confirm humours into stone as well as dissolve stone for thought their acuteness is penetrating and so may dissolve yet their driness is Contracting Uniting Combining and they are not only dry by the insipidness of their nature but by their sharpness for all sharpness is drying more or less and though sharpness is actually dissolving by corroding yet it is virtually drying by heating for corroding is the cause of heat For whatsoever is rubb'd or grated hard or swiftly grows hot even Stones or any Metal which is the hardest Matter we know but looser Matter as Wood will be set on fire Wherefore if Wood Stone and Metal will become actually hot by rubbing or grating actually thereon well may soft flesh especially the inward parts that are most tender And as it is the nature of sharpness to corrode and the nature of corroding or rubbing to heat so it is the nature of heat to drink up moisture and make all things dry And as sharp things may cleanse Ulcers by eating the filth therein or may be good to take off superfluous flesh call'd proud-flesh in Sores or may dissolve some hard Humours moderately taken or applied so they may make Ulcers Sores and Wounds and contract and confirm humours if immoderately or unnecessarily or wrongfully applied But as I said the Mineral-waters may as well cause the Stone in the Kidneys or Bladder as dissolve it and may also ulcerate as soon as cleanse but the Mineral-waters do rather make a passage and send forth Gravel by the quantity that is drunk and passes through the Uretories which like a stream doth wash and carry all loose Matter before it and not so much by the virtue of dissolving But to conclude concerning Mineral-waters said she I cannot perceive but they may breed more Diseases than they cure and those Bodies they are most proper for must be purged and empty before they take them lest the weight and quantity of the Waters should carry obstructions to the parts open and free by carrying too suddenly or forcibly or pressing or thrusting too hard Then they asked her about the nature of Purging-Drugs She said All Purging-Drugs were full of Spirits which was the cause they were so active and quick in operation for said she whatsoever hath most Spirits is most active which shews saith she that Birds have more Spirits which is innated Matter than any other sort of Animal-kind for they are always hopping and flying about also chirping whistling and singing which shews them not only to be more active as having more vital or sensitive Spirits but also more rational as being fuller of Animal Spirits But to return to Drugs said she they seem to have more of the Sensitive spirits vulgarly called Vital Spirits which work upon the grossest Substance than the Rational Spirits which are vulgarly called Animal spirits do with which spirits Cordials seem to be full as working upon the finer parts for Cordials do cheer and do revive the Soul or Mind making the thoughts more cheerful and pleasing which alacrity doth help to abate and qualifie the disorders in the body Then they asked her What was the best study for such as would practise Physick She said Natural Philosophy for said she those can never be good Physicians that are not good Natural Philosophers and if they would study Natural Philosophy more than they do there would be more frequent Cures for if they do not study Nature that makes the Body they shall never know Remedies to cure the body for those that do not understand the Works of Nature cannot mend a fault or prevent a danger to come but they must study Nature's Creations Dissolutions Sympathies Antipathies in Matter Motion and Figure but said she it is a difficult study and requires a subtil moving-brain to find out the several motions although they be the plainest vulgar and grossest much more the subtil and intricate ones And had Aristotle said she studied the motions in Nature or Natural motions as he did the parts of Nature or Natural parts he would have been a far more learned Man than he was but his study