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A50447	The mystery of curing comprehensively Explained and confirm'd, by exemplar of the Catholic medicine. Powerfully impregnated, and accuratly formed; to assist the regent principle, disabled, or impeded in vital government. Enabled hereby; more vigorously, and constantly to execute; the functions and daily operations; necessary to health, and life. For support of human bodyes, variously declining; and recovery out of a diseased state. The most useful, efficacious, and comprehensive expedient; (preventive and curative) against the painful diseased, and decays of human nature. By E. Maynwaringe. M.D. Jan. 11. 1693/3. Imprimatur. Edm. Bohun.	Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699?	1693 (1693)	Wing M1506; ESTC R217894	13,756	17

THE Mystery of Curing Comprehensively Explained and Confirm'd by Exemplar of The Catholic Medicine Powerfully Impregnated and accuratly Formed to Assist the Regent Principle Disabled or Impeded in Vital Government Enabled hereby more Vigorously and constantly to Execute the Functions and daily Operations necessary to Health and Life For Support of Human Bodyes variously Declining and Recovery out of a Diseased State The most useful efficacious and comprehensive Expedient Preventive and Curative against the painful Diseases and Decays of Human Nature By E. Maynwaringe M. D. Spes adhuc Spirantibus Jan. 11. 1692 3. Imprimatur Edm. Bohun LONDON Printed for the Booksellers MDCXCIII THE MYSTERY of CURING Comprehensively c. FIRST give me leave to Premise this necessary Information That the Primitive Professors and Fathers of Medical Science were all diligent Preparers of their own Medicines And their Successors likewise for many Hundred Years after continued Industrious in that Work many urgent Reasons requiring that most necessary Duty which I forbear to recite waving also the great Imprudence in exposing Patients to Hazards by revolting from that secure knowing and most hopeful Practice Physitians then of the greatest Repute were ambitious of acquiring some Medicine extraordinary most useful and advantagious to the Publick and it was their Glory account●d to have their Names Celebrated thereby as Promoters of a general good But of latter times the Learned making an unhappy Defection and changing that laudable Custom for the vanity of Pen Practice Illiterate bold Quacks have stept in and personating the Physician have imposed their Cheats and Trifles upon unwary People which hath brought a Scandal upon publishing any thing of this kind and thereby barr'd the Publick from the benefit of Successful Labours of some Learned and most Ingenious Artists Thus much to obviate the Censure of undiscerning weak Heads and stop the mouths of malevolent men of opposite Interests I proceed now to the matter proposed and satisfaction promised That a single Medicine may be endowed with a Power of Vniversality properly and efficaciously to oppose many and various Diseases in divers Persons is what I have undertaken to prove The Possibility and rational Probability whereof will fairly appear if you rightly understand as followeth I am now going out of the common beaten Road of Physick and the vulgar Methods of Physicians into unknown Paths but leading a nearer and safer way you must not therefore expect my Discourse to comport with the common Notions and Opinions of Writers yet consentaneous with Reason and justifiable thereby confirmed also by matters of Fact For your clearer Apprehension I have digested the Discourse methodically into three Parts wherein three things presents principally to be considered The Agent the Works and the Instrument The First Part sets forth the Capacity of the Agent The Second contains the Difficulty and Facility of the Work The Third shews the Hability or Fitness of the Instrument The First Part. THE Capacity Power and Dexterity of this Agent the vital Principle eminently appears First in the wonderful Draught and Portraiture of Formation Secondly in the daily course of Conservation Thirdly in the Exigencies and Attempts of Curation In the first Performance of this Plastic and Architectonic Principle take notice that simple Spermatic Humour was the single matter out of which and of which only the Stamina or rudiments of the Stately Fabrick of Human Body was formed and framed with different Spermatick Parts Bones Cartilages Ligaments Tendons Membranes Fibres c. From thence proceeding to Organize and compleat this wonderful Machine The Second and continual Operation of this governing vital Spirit is maintaining and supplying the many different Parts of Human Body with various suitable Liquors derived from a simple alimentary Juice wrought in the Stomach called Chyle The third Performance of this diligent and dextrous Operator is repairing mending and reducing into order this Workmanship when decaying or discomposed By the Instrumental means of Medicine The first and second Operations of this Agent are wonderful in producing such various strange effects out of single and simple matter as Sperm and Chyle by a transmuting and transubstantiating Power Now to make some Remarks from hence and reduce these considerables to our Purpose Here is the wonder of Fabrication And the daily wonder of Nutrition and Conservation by single matter Then why not the wonder of Curation and Reparation by single Medicine which last Operation is not so wonderful as the two former when I come to shew you the rational Possibility and fair Probability thereof by comparing the Efficient and the Instrument with the Work to be done The first and second Performance of this great Architect and Conservator no Reason can demonstrate or explain yet Fact proves them both and undeniably are confest by all Why then is the third Performance so incredible and difficult to be admitted that may be comprehended by our Reason as the sequel of the Discourse will make manifest This curious Architect that built the Fabrick of Human Body and formed all the various materials thereof by Transmutation of single matter with no Instrument can probably and with facility repair and mend this Workmanship when out of Order with one exquisite Instrument egregiously contrived for Catholic use This vital Principle called Nature sometimes is a Catholic free Agent daily performing various offices and contrary motions in Human Body yet all conspiring harmoniously for the use and welfare of vital Government This Governour and Supporter of the Microcosme operates universally variously and contrarily yet consentaneously usefully and necessarily Binds and loosens opens and shuts moves upward and downward liquifies and coagulates rarifies and condenseth transmits and retains transmutes and transubstantiates alimentary Matter into various forms and Substances And all these different and contrary Actions are performed efficienter by the vital ruling Principle materialiter with a single alimentary Juice digested in the Stomach to supply and enable every Part of the Body differing in Organization Temperature Texture and Office to execute their various Functions If this supreme Agent can perform various and contrary Actions with single Aliment Then probably that same power may cure various and contrary Diseases with single Medicament Can the Vital transmuting Spirit of Bread and Water make Chyle Blood Nervous Juyce Sperme and Milk various Liquors for divers uses of the same alimental matter Can this transubstantiating Principle make Blood here Flesh there and Bones in another place of the same Food If this vital Spirit can maintain and feed all the different Parts of the Body with one alimentary Juice Chyle Then probably and very reasonably it may mend and Cure all those Parts with one Medicine If Nature can do wonders with single Aliment very likely she can do wonders with single Medicament 'T is undeniable that Wonders are wrought in Man 's Body every Day tho in Health But you are hard to believe that Wonders may be wrought by a Medicine in Sickness or a diseased

you Purge and not Purify much of your labour is lost The Catholic Medicine is no such Deceiver but a faithful Servant that keeps sweet and clean all the Apartments Canals and Offices in the Body Opens all the August Obstructed Dictures and private Recesses lets no Filth abide in any place to annoy or impede the Vital Spirit in diradiating its Influence to all the Regions and Parts thereof which will save the daily labour of dressing stinking Issues that many are constrained to for a discharge of putrid Humors And farther we may rationally expect from thence a more Sound and Healthful Progeny in the World than these latter Days do produce from Parents of degenerate and corrupt habit of Body There can no better Expedient in Physick be contrived to Preserve Bodies from Diseases and to Help them out of Diseases than this secure wholsom Medicine that so truly and effectually performs the two grand offices of Apertion and Abstertion For these two eminent Virtues purely united in one wholsom Composition they always are attended and adorned with other Consorts of great worth which follow one another inseparably the one making way for the other Apertion leads foremost Abstersion follows and introduceth Purity this ushers in Healing and soundness to come after then Roboration and vital Vigour follows at the heels of these Praecursors And after this manner Infirm Diseased Bodys and Parts thereof are restored to their Natural State and made able to execute their Functions by the strength of this Chain of Virtues link'd together in dependency to produce great effects Thus the Catholic Medicine assists the Life to perform many and various Operations and rationally it may be expected that many and various Diseases should be corrected and conquered thereby And therefore it is not so improbable as some do imagine that a single Medicine should have so large a capacity and comprehensive Power to command and subdue many different Diseases in divers Persons since it is endowed with such a complication of the choicest Physical Virtues The Vital Principle being thus disintangled and freed from obstructing matter and humoral Impurity recovers Strength and Vigour thereby and conquers the many various Diseases arising from Debility laxation of Parts and Stimulating matter which includes a great number of Diseases if by Name particularly they were reckoned Wherefore it is not so strange that a Medicine should be designed Catholic for curing divers and contrary Diseases since the same Causes in specie do produce different and Contrary effects in several Persons or Subjects they operate upon that which begets Obstruction and Astriction in some produceth Debility of Retention and Laxation in others Quicquid recipitur recipitur per modum recipientis The Sun hardens the Clay but softens the Wax This Radical Instrument applying to Causes for their removal in all Bodyes which being subtracted their various effects do vanish also whether they be contrary or consimilar Which unfolds the Mystery of curing comprehensively Diseases being the product effects are multifarious when causes producing are not half so various Consider also that the variety or multiplicity and difformity of Diseases do not proceed so much different and dissimilar from the diversity of fluxile humoral and degenerate Matter as from Structure and Fabrication from the Diversity of Organs and the Difference of their Offices Therefore one and the same depraved matter as it perambulates or lodgeth infesting several Parts of the Body does thereby beget Diseases of various Names differently appearing and differently molesting what then shall hinder the Catholic Medicine from performing its universal Office in Curing Now observe who it is that manageth this comprehensive Instrument The Vital Principle A Cathosic Agent of ubiquitary Presence in the Machine of Human Body That operates variously and contrarily at one and the same time in several places yet consentaneously for the whole Opens and Shuts expels and retains Liquifies and Coagulates c. in the daily Course and Administration of Government Consider also the multifarious Qualifications of this Physical Expedient Not forcing and compelling but flexible and gentle complacent and complying with the Regent Principle to be conveyed here or there materialiter vel virtualiter and is made useful as the Case requires yielding up such Virtue as Nature Morborum Medicatrix stands in need of In like manner as the same Aliment is converted to various uses so one Catholic Medicament is applyed to various purposes Nature directs and hands the Medicine here and there to work what and how she pleaseth And now I have proved sufficiently and explained this Mystery that Catholic Adaptation rightly instituted for Diversity of Persons and Diversity of Diseases is the safety of the Catholic above the Appropriate that it is a Tryed and well proved Medicine with many But the Appropriated to a single Person and Case is an uncertain Chance Medicine because not experimented by any but conjecturally presumed at a Venture being designed and formed for the occasion presenting And yet this is esteemed a safe and learned Invention for the great and the rich to trust their Lives with Let the World dote on and the Sham be their Help when they need Let Ignorance and Errour manage their Cures sic Populus vult decipi decipiatur I need not tell you now all the Diseases by Name that this Medicine is proper for and effectual Sufficient it is and more satisfactory that I have shewed you how it opposeth the most of them in their Nature and Causes whereby you may trust your own Reason and not my bare assertion But some sort of People that know nothing of Diseases but their Names will say you have not told us what Diseases this Catholic Medicine will Cure To gratify the Desire of those weaker understandings I shall give in a particular Account of many by their Names commonly so called For the Vertigo Epilepsy Apoplexy and Convulsions a proper effectual Remedy applying to their Causes Allays Pains of the Head or Limbs Rheumatism and Gout And is the most secure Anodyne because it draws off morbific matter and frees the Body from acrid sharp and corroding Humors Corrects and amends ill Digestion of the Stomach sharpens a blunt Appetite removes Nauseousness and fullness For Asthma's Coughs Wheesing and short Breathing very prevalent Against unweldy Corpulency Dropsys Scurvy Jaundice inflation of the Spleen Hypochondriac Melancholy hard and big Bellyes approved and applauded herein Takes away fullness and foulness of Body dischargeth gradually safely and cleanseth effectually A certain Preventive against the Production of Worms in Human Bodyes By purifying and evacuating Verminous putrid matter of which they are bred Also the best curative Remedy to kill Worms already generated and to bring them forth They often being the cause of dangerous Sickness Gives speedy ease in the Colic and Gripes of the Guts Restrains all violent and contumacious Fluxes The most certain Help above all Methods and Medicines in this Case For if any Physical means