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A59200	The sixth book of Practical physick Of occult or hidden diseases; in nine parts Part I. Of diseases from occult qualities in general. Part. II. Of occult, malignant, and venemous diseases arising from the internal fault of the humors. Part III. Of occult diseases from water, air, and infections, and of infectious diseases. Part IV. Of the venereal pox. Part V. Of outward poysons in general Part VI. Of poysons from minerals and metals. Part. VII. Of poysons from plants. Part VIII. Of poysons that come from living creatures. Part IX. Of diseases by witchcraft, incantation, and charmes. By Daniel Sennertus, N Culpeper, and Abdiah Cole, Doctors of Physick	Sennert, Daniel, 1572-1637.; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.; Cole, Abdiah, ca. 1610-ca. 1670.	1662 (1662)	Wing S2541A; ESTC R221050	55,611	126

any other waies hurting as by sight hissing venemous breath or spiritual species Also venemous oyntments with which darts or swords are infected all these poysons are taken from Plants Animals or Minerals of which in order Chap. 2. Whether malignant venemous humours are bred in our bodies MErcurialis denies it Fernelius affirms it and they both bring unsatisfying Arguments But Rudius decides the controversie in saying they are properly poysons which are such of their own nature and not such as by conception become enemies to our bodies And true poyson is only that which is bred without the body Galen seems to favour Fernel against Mercurialis when he saies that poyson is bred in Dogs when they are mad which is very infectious and a pestilent venom breeds of dead carkasses and if poyson breed in a Dog why not in a man nor is the external agent only requisite for generation but the disposition of the matter is more then the outward acting Instrument Chap. 3. How are malignant and venemous humors bred in mens Bodies THerefore since poyson is bred in our bodies the difficulty is how it is bred Note first that all the corruptions of our bodies are not to be imputed to the matter alone or to the efficient Somtimes the efficient produceth it when the venemous quality or disposition is so fixed that it infects the humors that flow to it but usually venemous humors are bred in respect of the matter and they afterwards turn malignant Note secondly that there are divers concoctions in our body in which new mixtures are made nor is there a resolution as far as the first matter in every mutation or corruption but when any thing corrupteth only the form and the determinate temper of that form or the subjects with its accidents perish and others that are subordinate remain some with their accidents hence it is that often some form is manifest which lay hid before And what Hippocrates spake of the powers of humors I find true in the nature of poyson In man saith he there is bitter sweet salt and sour and six hundred more qualities which according to their plenty and strength have other faculties by mixture of the mutual contemperation nor are these seen nor do they molest but any of thes● are separated and is alone then it is evident and molesteth a man c. thus must we dispute concerning poysons A man feeds upon divers Creatures and Plants the Plants are fed by dung of Animals and showers or by floods and we may find every-where things contrary to our bodies in the dung and excrements of Animals in the earth rain and rivers which are carried with the nourishment into the body and there exercise their force Hippocrates gives an Example of this As when a Woman or a Goat eats wild Cowcumbers the child or the Kid will be purged because the milk is made purging And though it be first made chyle then blood and thirdly milk yet the purging quality is kept after so many changes when the infant hath suckt From whence it is easie to conclude that many things get into our bodies with the nourishment that have venemous and malignant qualities For how many men do feed upon Mushrooms Melons and the like which breed bad juyce How many malignant showers fall upon the Plants that feed the Cattel How many beasts that are mans food eat venemous Plants and Creatures The Stork eats Hemlock the Quail Hellebore the Ducks Toads which nourish them Hens eat Scorpions and Serpents and when man eats these meats it is no wonder if that poyson which feed them though after divers concoctions it took divers forms become hurtful unto man and be a kind of poyson in him Chap. 4. Of the Causes of occult and venemous Diseases that arise from Humors THese Causes are efficient or material As to the efficients in regard divers concoctions are made there must be divers excrements according to the variety of the parts one in the liver another in the heart another in the stones womb and the veins and arteries that contain blood and Spirits when they are distempered suffer the blood and Spirits to corrupt and they are distempered by excess or occult malignity by which the solid parts are often corrupted as appears in soul ulcers gangrens and sphacels This evil disposition is somtimes from the parents to the children and they produce evil humors which cause the malignant Scab or Elephantiasis Somtimes it is from meat and drink and venemous medicines that exceed in the first qualities and secretly hurt the body The Stars may do the same For though they usually nourish the earth with benigne influences yet by accident they may hurt this or that person by occult influences except they keep a proportion of which hereafter Hippocrates shews how much the air conduceth to the breeding of diseases saying That change of seas●ns doth chiefly breed diseases and they are either breathed in or sent into the body by the pores and the plague comes from the air Also imagination and passions may be counted efficient causes for frights and anger have caused great diseases And I observed about six times that when the plague was here where I live as Professor that many fell into the plague by anger which though it be hard to be explained is probable to me For many bodies are of constitutions subject to the plague either by the air or other cause rather then to another disease and if imagination fear or anger come upon them this disposition is easily brought into act and the good humors may be corrupted by those passions as Mercurialis shews Cardan mentions hatred among these causes it is a passion made of anger and sadness and corrupteth the humors The other cause that corrupteth the humors is material and makes them malignant or venemous and the plague is often bred from bad diet in time of famine which Galen saw under Commodus the Emperor Also Cowcumbers and Pompions produce humors as bad as poyson if they lie long in the body Also good meat not well digested in the stomach may cause bad chyle and good blood is never made of bad chyle but a humor or green choler which is burnt and corrupted in the liver and mixed with the blood and when it rests in the veins it is scarce perceived but when it is stirred by the motion of the body or mind it is worse and corrupts more and is separated from the good humors and brings great diseases and sudden death But meats that have in themselves a malignant venemous quality as Mushrooms Froggs do this much more Chap. 5. Of the differences of Diseases that come from the internal fault of the Humors THere are two chief differences of Diseases from internal humors The first are malignant but kill not onely cause greater Symptoms then the first qualities can produce with these a man may live long The second are such as presently kill and are