wine operate for feare of some concealed snake under the hearbes And doubtlesse the moderat use of wine for the animation of the soldiers the inlivening of the Magistrate and recoverie of women is profitable Especially in hystericall sits according to Hippocrates Hipp I denatura Mulierum And my transision now shall be to the tempers of humane bodyes in generall the wynes generally agreeing with those tempers and then more particularly to this or that individual Temper it selfe beeing the reason of mixture or the harmony and consent of the prime qualities in Elements and by the Exuberancie of each simple quality these foure symple tempers are created as hot when the heat predominateth over the cold and yet of siccity and moisture remaineth an equallity and so of the rest as cold dry and moist besides these foure conjugate tempers which proceed from the exuberancy of the two first qualities as hot and moist hot and dry cold and moist cold and dry which are the foure compound tempers their fixation consisting in that oleaginous humour which wee call innatum calidum and this innate so utile and necessary as a cause with out which mixt bodys cannot subsist 't is also fomented and supported by fluent heat contracted in the heart veines and Arteries as their proper Channels consisting of spirituall blood preserved in the heart as the middle of the body which by a lively consent doth maintaine support innate heat and perfect the universal temper of the body even as the Sun inliveneth and inlightne h the great world so doth the heart ejaculate a fluent heat to the vivisication of the microcosine or little world of humane bodys refreshing every part and exciting every particular function to its proper motion so as the innate or fixt spirit doth very much respond the fluent and such resiprocall concordance is as necessary as circulation in the sun whose motion being stopt or influence extinguished but one hower would be the ruine of the whole world and if such a cause may be admitted as some call causa sine quâ non then this comerce between fluent and fixt heat may be so accepted for otherwise all naturall actions are quiet and extinct therefore these beeing the prime existence and subsistence of humane nature and such powerfull agents in conformation and nutrition their spheare of motion may be more or lesse adapted by external meanes either homogeniall or heterogeneall And for tempers or distempers in generall there can be no aliment or medicament so convenient and agreeable as wine for the smallest wine if pure is a more neat clear pabulum to the fluent spirits then recent egges or milke sucked from any creature they all onerating nature with some excrement after concoction and in concoction must be some expence both of fluent and fixt heart which is so much an abbreviation to a naturall beeing but is of such puretie and spirituality as doth receive a sudden mutation and in its alteration addeth both light heat to the foresaid principles as the oyl of those natural lampes Fernelius apprehendeth much danger either in meat or medicine which are onerous to the principles of nature and therefore will have all cold diseases admit of a more safe remedie then hot distempers because in the regular way of cureing by contraries the application of hot remedies to cold affects doth foment maintaine naturall heat contrarily in the application of cold remedies in hot distempers to extinguish preternatural heart the naturall heate doth suffer much and many tymes is extinct with praeternaturall or febrill heat but in both cold and hot affects the application of wine upon proper indication is the most Excellent and in ofensive remedie And that it is such a remedy I shal pro duce som probable Arguments to make it more apparant to vulger intellects after this subsequent mode If it were by the most learned Auntients in Medicine adhibited as a safe remedy in fevers then it acounted proper in hot distempers for thus it hath been administered by them as hath been demonstrated in our former discourse and wil be more apparant in our following of the particular and most grand affects of humane bodyes And if it hath also been derected and ordained by the same authoritie in cold distempers then it is a proper remedie and approved in both And if we perpend the specifical differences of wines then wee shal make it a regular remedie according to the rule of Contrariety for Wyne that is generous moveth in all tempers from the Centure to the circumference and other Wynes in their proper nature more apperient open obstructions and in a Galenicall sense all oppilations are efficient causes of putrefaction and putrefaction of fevers so that opening being a contrary motion to obstruction Wine is a contrarie remedie per se in oppilation Et per accidens in putrid fevers Now I shal descend to particular and difficult effects controverted amongst the Most learned and where I find them differ in this poynt shal endeavour to reconcile them for the satisfaction of greener students and practicers less perite which after industrie wil effect not but his undertaking would better become a more learned pen and Person of a more settled condition then a person so many yeares Exiled with his deare soveraigne and patient Master yet I shal proceed in the first place to that affect which wee nominate a Frency which in truth is more properly the termination of al discourse it selfe being the privation of discourse conjunct with a fever and in this case whither wine may be commonly adhibited is the difference amongst the ancient Hippoc. lib. de affect intern some commending others doubting Hippocrates affirmeth the use of wine convenient in all perturbations of the mind Tralianus in the same condition where the spirits are Spent the ventricle cold and debil and upon the appearance of some concoction in vigilancie or defect of rest because of its narcotique qualitie which is most sure agreable to humane nature and for this special reason Epicurus hath taken it in large proportion not only in all painfull affects but also in the article of death in a palsie also which affect obtayneth amongst the Grecians many appellations Galen 2. Gal. 1. Scil Paralisia and Gal paraplexià by the major part of Phisitians to be apprehended of the same signification and that all the tearms signifie privation of sense and motion in a sensible moving part Whither wine be useful in this affect is much controverted Halyabbas and Avicen in this case appeare Hydroposians or water drinkers and render this reasō for the non adhibition of wine in this affect because say they Wine is a proper vehicle of humors to the nerues by its sharpnes or pungent qualitie doth enervate and by consequent foment the disease To which I answer that no kind of wine moderately taken and with out any mixture can or doth enervate quatenus vinum because it
differences would be of litle consideration because Galen wil have all acute diseases to be simply putrid feavors Galen 3. Cap. 8. de differ respir lib. 1. de different sebr Cap. 3. or conjunct with them and it is a received opinion of the ancients that al feavors except Ephemerall are putrid Hippoc. l. de vit Medicina and Hippocrates will have neque Calidum neque frigidum per se to be the cause of feavors sed aliquid amarum acerbum but a quality of salt or bitter or sharp predominancie therefore his sense is that all febrile heat proceedeth from the predominate motion of and alteration of pure humors to impurity Galen Plato Athenaeus are al of this fence therefore it doth behoove Physitians to perpend not only the universal cause and nature of putrefaction but also the reason of correction which is my scope at present therefore with the ancients I apprehend putrefaction to signifie a mutation of perfection or puritie to imperfection and impuritie Galen lib. 10. Meth. 8. as when wine is changed to vinegar Galen conceiveth putrefaction to be a mutation of the whole putrefying substance and effected by external ambient heat by which mutation Aristotle understandeth corruptiō by Galen I suppose understood a mutation to corruption therefore bodies are lesse putreable in winter then in summer because external ambient heat is then more minute both in ayre and water What reason wee shall render of cure is the expectation of the reader who wil as suddainly take notice of my indication properly extracted or deduced from the nature of putrefaction which according to Galen is the corruptible disposition in humors from a cause either internall or external and accordingly doe present for a remedie omniquaque dilute wine not such as is mixed with water but such as in its own nature is more or hath more of the aqueous then vinous qualitie and yet so naturally complexioned as will appeare a corrective or alterative to praeternaturall siccity and impure humidity ergo the consequence must be a roduction to harmony quia Sanitas est nil nisi harmonia as also an apt prevention of putredinous distempers which according to the judgement of the ancients doe proceed from oppilation nothing being more moderately aperient then such wine nor more tartarous therefore I have made observation of such persons accustomed to the use of wine according to their age and clime or without such acception not to have bin subject to putrid feavors nor can any person demonstrate wine per se and specifically ordained ever the mother of such mischief though many have suffered distempers fro excesse which is the vice of the best aliment and the worst yet such accidents fell not from the nature or quality of wine though in excesse but from the present soporisique quality vvhich vvith out prevention must succeed and vvith cure for the best for sleep stoppeth all evacuation except sweat vvine naturally moving from the center to the circumference and their negligent posture in the ambient closing the porosity of the body universally by this povver conjunct vvith the endeavour of nature to deliver it selfe of a burthen doth by its violent motion in flame spirits consequently this febril distemper putrefaction in this place and case is excepted according to vulgar sence nor can the subtilty of logique being an incommodum upon this vinose remoedy Galen 2. de acut Galen dot maintain the rationality of it as a remedy in putrid feavors therefore commended the Italian mode in adhibiting in al feavors Vinum Sabinum and confesseth in the same first book Cap. 40. that himselfe was accustomed to cure putrid feavors after the same manner and if any wil take notice of Hîppocrates not only in his book de acut but in others they shal find my boldnes in this practice grounded upon himselfe whose soul I could desire above all terrestriality not that I desir ōly to act or cloath my self with a part or habit of a Physitian as players doe the Persons of Kings and noble Persons no sooner disnobled disrobed but rogued I am not ignorant of the diversity of Medicall sects not doe condemne any but mounters but from this digression I shal transire to those strict Physitians which doe condemne the use of wine not only in this case but in al feavorish distempers but because they render no reason I cannot judge their sect for Methodists argue with reason and Empericks a particulari though not the best Logick yet if it be possible to bring them into the sect of rationalists I shall assist thē with this exception in Galen Galen Meth. 11. 12. ad Glauc which is against the use of any wine in these foure subsequent cases first when the feavor is vehement secondly when there is a conjunct payne from the head the third is in delirio which is a deception of reason and lastly when the origo of this putrid feavor is from or doth follow an inflammation Under favour the differences of wine observed wil respond all these objections as small dilute wine in all inflammations and more liberally or in a larger dosse prescribed doth abate if not abolish all vehemency and by its soporifick quality doth coligate the senses and reconcile sleep which is the diminution of all vehement symptomes delyration and sharpest paynes of the head which imperite Physitians more dangerously force by opiate preparations and I shall conclude with the same Authority I began this discouse Galen 11. Meth. 9. Galen l. 1. de Antid 3. and render the affirmation of Galen that this kind of wine is most convenient in putrid causes to provoke urine and concoct crudities or semiconcocted humors and wil not admitt the mixture of water more then it receiveth from the plant and this is the determination of the question concerning the application or use of wine in feavors Now I shal proceed to various affects about which the most learned Modernes have consulted whither the use of wine in them might be conducible to cure because some are hot the others cold distempers and begin with a Iew that laboured with Melancholy his temper hot dry from a vitious predominancie over the blood his body leane colour black indisposed to sleep prompt to all action prone to anger of an excellent witt and discourse but at this present Mute and hath bin so these six dayes his temper thus agreed upon with his distemper by a counsell of Doctors they now fix upon two scopes of cure the one moistning the other opening obstructions and in both wine is concluded a proper remedie There was also another great consult about a Cannon of Rome labouring with a feavor whither wine might be prescribed about this point was much controversy but concluded and adhibited the remedie Nor doe I read of any other Medicament in all this consultation sutation In the next place I present a young Gentlewoman labouring with
subsist but either of them seperated each from the other perish and in whom soever innate heat is more vegetious strong and radical moysture more pure in substance and exceeding in quantety recipient of a just temper which is temperamentum ad justitia in such life is more durable and permanent and if any inquiery shal be made into causes of long life in the fore-fathers to the years of nine hundred and more they wil graunt the internall purety of principles to be the causes of such extension of life and successively abreviated by time in which matter suffiety decay as not possessive of the prime purety therefore in these ages the countesse of Desmond and Thomas Parre are extraordinarie exemples for ordinarie old age is threescore ten if one climicterick more it must be effected by the extraordinary power purity of radical principles for radicall heat is the principall agent of generation in the liquid substance of seed and blood in the first conception soone after renders it more dry and delineateth the rudiments of every member and by a farther siccity doth publish the exact species and after its production into the world it doth bring it to perfection and by the continuat efficiency of this heat the parts are so exiccated above a moderate proportion as doth render them lesse if not unable to performe their proper functions by which there doth follow a necessity of decay and extinction of naturall heat and this is a naturall death according to-Galen which by reason of extream siccity and non nutrition this naturall progresse to old age without any sense of payne vanisheth in a regular motion from generation to corruption and decay and is unnaturall and violent when by any other internall or external cause is extinct before this naturall motion to extreame old age which by a skilfull order may be prolonged against internal causes except a depraved wil which destroyeth many individuals which no reason can deny in capeable of extream duration one story I remember of a discontented gallant which drowned himself and being much lamented by the spectators for youthful comlinesse amongst them was one of this erronious sect which was pleased to read a lecture to them of the inevitable dicree of the Almighty and not by him to be avoided nor by them lamented Ayong man of the contrarie education gave hir a great blow over the face which made hir challeng him of base Cowardice and as great incivillity to the femenine sect who returned hir in answer that it was the in evitable will of God it should be so and a truth according to hir own doctrine which caused hir to stagger in hir opinion leaving this digression I must returne to my Phylosophicall discourse of heat and moisture so united as waisteth no otherwise then by their own natural motion with out disorderly injuries of physick or dyet therfore doe proceed upon the simile of Hippocrates by which he compareth the life of man to a lamp or candel preserved in a temperate place free from any tempest in such a place the candel wil extend to the last sparke of fire or moisture otherwise by any tempestious or violent assault of any kind it is extinguished before it be half lighted or if its halbe moved gently in a large though not tempestious aire yet that motion being more immoderate will cause it to blaze out some howers before otherwise it would in a temperate posture the like injuries and praeternaturall assaults to humane bodies are plagues wounds and al other distempers some peracutes suddainly extinguishing life others abreviating the least and mildest distemper obteineth such immoderate motion of spirits as in such a digre doth expend a portion of natural heat and moisture as doth according to that digree abreviate life the first violence compelling nature suddainly to yeeld up all power of motion the latter effecting the same cunctando I cannot but confesse as matter admitteth generation so is ther a compulsive necessitie of suffering corruption nor can the heart be made moister being extreamely excicated by its motion to old age yet no sober spirit can conceive it a point of wisedome or religion in a careless negligent or desperat way to render up their being in this life before an irrisistable necessitie for this is like beasts to be led or fooles to lead ourselves to slaughter Thus have I done my in deavour to clear this last objection to discharge the fatality of mans life of all future quaestion nor the extention of it by care and counsel to extreame old age and by no such naturall meanes as wine and if I should proceed further to every cercumstance conducible to the practicall part it would be a work of long tyme which I cannot spare and of exact judgement wherein I could be content to receive directions from guides more quick sighted and learned then my selfe That which I have now written is according to my own reason and desire to give more satisfaction to the world concerning the use of this vinose subject which hath been doubtful and in al ages quaestionable both in respect of the life of man whether or not it may be extended or whether it be extensible as also in respect of wine whether their proper nature be so extending as in all the former dicourse hath been my laboure to demonstrate by arguments both a priore a posteriore and by such argumentatiō to in counter those fantastick sculs that either cannot or will not conceive the medecinal art to be established upon any other ground except conjecture and that the best conjecture is the best Physitian not understanding that pathognomik symtomes demonstrate the affect as plainly as any other shadow doth either man or beast none that hath eyes will take the shaddow of man for a horse nor of an oxe for a rhinosoros or a lyon for a bear to such as these I doe not direct this my Phylosophy nor can I conceive where there are such infinities of faces their should not also be a varietie of opinions therefore I cannot hope to satisfy every fancy nor doe I intend to be understood of the vulgar but leav my justification to the naturall sonnes of art and to such are these my indeavours presented an oblation after the manner of those divote children which where accustomed once every year to offer a sacrifice to Iupiter but at the accustomed time being by an inexpected inundatiō prevented both of their altar and Sacrefice instead of a beast they offred a lemon which Iupiter accepted in that necessitious condition so also those that have read my precedent Tract of waters cannot conceive my head free from washing nor my braynes from such inundation as consequently may not dilute my wine and render it more weak and impure yet if my devotion may be acceptable to Iupiter let it be blest to the world and where as like the dogg of Hercules I have be smeered my lips with the Crimson juce of the grape other Herculian braines may vent it in more pure and plentifull in substance and measure by which every sense shal be refreshed every capacity filled and every intellect really delighted ERRATA Pag. 63. line 8. preternaturalie for preternatural p. idem l. 20. volentus for volvulus p. 79. l. 4. indian Physitians for Cnydian Physitians p. 83. l. 2. cure for care p 94. l 15. facible for forcible p 96. l 16. Breasts for Beasts p 98. l 23. then for elce p 104. l 7. her for the p 108. l 4. vetrickle for vehickle FINIS
Galen will have the sweetest wine to be the most moyst of all other liquids and though it doth heat 't is calefactione temperata which is no praeternaturall or intemperate caliditie and both Galen Hyppoc salut diaeâ—… 30. and Hippoc testifie small dilute wine doth quench or extinguish thirst much more in a small quantity then fountaine-water in a large measur of one time or by often repetition for these reasons because dilute wine is cold moist ergo most proper to correct hot and dry and extinguish thirst there is also a more penetrative power in wine then in water and as humective there fore doth sooner determine thirst and my self have many yeares observed in the highest feavors one draught of dilute wine to effect more then many flagons of water or such like cold decoctions nor can any Physitian satisfie such thirst with water and not tumble upon this rock scil extinction or debilitation of naturall heat with praeternaturalie in illeo or the twisting of the bowells which affect sometime is a consequent of the collique by which they are often strangled a disease not frequently noted in Medicall books Celius Aurel saith that the Pythagoreans in Sicile Cal anrel l. 3. de acut passionâ—…s were accustomed to nominate this disease Sepimentum as if there were a hedge separating the bowells others call in Volentus or rowling of the bowells over each other Scribonius Marcellus doth name it a Phlegmon or inflammation both of small and great guts others call it tormentum acutum illiacam passionem and these appellations will be acknowledged for no sharpe payne in my opinion can be inflicted upon a sensible body whither Wine in this grand inflammation may be conducible will prove a quarrell between Hippoc Hop 3. de morb and Caelius the one ordayning the drinking of generose wine in this case the other absolutely damning it in the whole course of cure by which doth appear a grand misunderstanding in my last Author concerning Hippoc and a rash censure because Hippoc in that place forementioned doth conceive this affect to proceed principally from a cold cause and such humors are more reasonably dissolved by generous wine then any other and mine owne reason of this remedy is grounded upon the non passage of excrements in this disease and the necessity of nutriment by which it will appeare that from this remedy can proceed no oneration of the body with excrements because it leaveth none or any that passeth thorough any Port or passage but the bladder and for aliment no other succus so speedy and inoffensive The antecedent affect being the disturbance of the receptacles of dry excrements it wil not look like a disorderly motion to commit to every consideration such affects as doe molest the receptacles of moist excrements principally the obstruction of the Rhenes which parts were dedicated by nature to no other use elce but to separat serososhumores froÌ„ the blood conveigh them through the body by those ducts channells according to the universall opinion of all Phisitians since therefore this is their office and that this percolation is hindered often by oppilation from severall causes producing various affects the most common cause being the Stone and that in the cavity of the Rhenes though other affects are subjected in the substantiall parts thereof The Question now is whither the drinking sulphureous waters or wine doth most conduce to the cure of this affect Avicenna adjudgeth the drinking of Thermall waters either in a smal or great quantity to procure great difficulty in pissing and though the grand compression of such waters in a large proportion may force a stone into the pot yet not without exceeding difficulty and agitation of settled humors from which violence forced motion proceedeth excoriations ulcers and various distempers as dangerous and troublesome as the former obstruction therefore in this case white subtile wine that is not astringent is better approved then such waters therfore in the right regiment of dyet in this distemper white wine is to be preferred before incertayne mineral tinctures and if they were certainly known and perfectly separated yet cannot the practice be justified safe because Natura non patitur afflictionem and many rules admitt exception so doth this except against violence to nature mineralls therefore being in their own nature more heterogeneall to animals then any vegetall must though most exactly prepared offer violence to natur as for the stone in the bladder I shall joyne with Paracelsus his nil nisi cultrum prescribe no other remedy but the knife For other medicines of several formes and matter though Capevactius drew me over his discourse with many score probats yet is forced with this parenthesis to conclude Sed ingenuè fateor me nescire quid potest lapidem vesicae frangere Mercurialis in a flux of blood from the Rhenes adviseth abstinence from Wine omnino in the place ordayneth calybrate water which is a poore corroborative in a grand flux and expence of spirit continually nor is it incrassative or corrective of acrimonie tenuity and sharpnes of humors being the principall causes of such distempers except eruption or perforation of the urine therefore under favour I shal as boldly and more reasonably I suppose ordayne the use of black thick wine not only to incrassate and dulicifie the humor in the first causes but as a better sanative in eruption of the urine and for the refreshment and refection of spirit more reasonably to be adhibited then any calybeate vvater though better prepared vvith the juyce of pomegranats and quinces In our subsequent discourse vvee cannot avoyd the bladder as one of the forenamed receptacles of liquid humors and having before determined the only cure of the stone generated in this part by a petrefiring quality conferring thereunto I shall diluci'dly with out prolixity render my sense concerning the suppression difficulty stillicide or voiding urine by drops these being proper diseases of the bladder though diversly contracted from other vicine parts causally but subjected in the bladder as subjectum bene dispositum to receive such confluences the number and differences of such causalls vvill offer too much prolixity for this short undertaking for an iscuria or suppression of urine admitteth of very much dispute in medicall scholes about the causes essentiall and accidentall therefore I shall only passe to the proper remedies of such affect so caused Hippoc â—… Aph. â—4 Hippoc telleth me that all cold qualities are enemies to the bladder from whose testimony those remedies which are applyed to that part must be potentially hot and if wee consider the membranous substance and exanguitie of the part wee shall soon apprehend his reason that all cold is highly offensive to nervie substances nor can there appeare to my intellect any more then one scope of cure in all the forenamed diseases and that is diereticall or such meat or medicine as doth
not violently provoke but gently move urine else one affliction is added to the other therefore I shal present pure wine as the most convenient dyaretique and without dispute if the cause be as cold as the part In order of place the next Lecture must be of the diseases of the penis the word needeth no other interpretation there are not only such affects as labefact the bladder but also such as vitiate the action of the penis I shall therfore relate those affects which hinder the proper action of this part for although it be dedicated to conveigh urine out of the bladder yet most properly for the propagation of the species which cannot be effected without erection and ejaculation the first may appeare without the other and then propagation cannot succeed which is demonstrated in this affect which wee call Priapismus which is an extension and erection of the penis without desire of Venerie Concerning the tractation of this disease wee cannot but take notice of the name as also the nature the name I could never find in Hipp Galen 6 ◅e loc afect Cap. ◠nor any other ancient writers except Galen by whom is rendred the derivation of the name from Priapus who was much noted for the magnitude and extension of this virile member Gal 14 ◅ethod ◅ap 7. 't is also nominated Satyriasis by Galen and AEtius leaving the reader to take notice of the difference amongst writers concerning these tearms as to prolix especially when they may receive better satisfaction from Egineta and Cal. Aurel therefore the nature of this affect shall be my principall consideration which consisteth in extension and erection of the member without power of ejaculation though it doth proced both from a seminal as well as a flatuent stimulation this being the nature of the infirmity I cannot conceive the moderat use of generous Wine for recovery to be improperly indicated because it abolisheth all crudities and indigestions which are causes of flatulency and doth generate a lively blood which doth effect powerfull matter others there are which extract this affect from externall causes both hot and cold taking the ground of their opinion from brutes which generally forbeare coition or copulation in the winter and height of Sommer and because universall temper of women is more cold then of men therefore their desires are lesse in winter men more in Summer apt to Venerious action in both these causes Arist 4. Preblem the use of the fore named Wine is necessarily indicated because the excessive heat doth dissipate the Central spirits to the circumference by which the concoctive facultie is so debilitated as can effect nothing but such crudities as are causes of flatulency oppilation and putrefaction which radicall and fluent spirits vagrant are retracted to the center by Wine and the parts enabled to execute their offices in the other case when the spirits are allmost extinct with excessive cold the moderate use of this juyce is the cordial refreshment The paynes of the joynts which are called Antriticall will beget a great dispute or controversie with vulgar practicers whither or not Wine may be granted in such doloriferous affects in the joynts confisting of the juncture of bones with nerves which nervy substance is the sole capacity of these paynes as being the principall organs of exact sence and that sence of payne so extractive as ordinarily doth move both spirits and humors with such violence as doth inflame themselves by the common received opinion Wine cannot but more inflame and such vulgars doe as often and erroniously nominate these paynes of the bones though the bones are no more sensible of payne then the nayles or hayre in clipping according to Arist Galen and Avicen in many places Arist de part animal 9. Gal. l. 16. d. use partium Hippoc. l. de affectis The causes internall of these articulate paynes move upon one hinge of Hippocrates which he calleth humors and they must be congested extra locum and in themselves are more or lesse vitious flatulency in this affect will have no share by the consent of Mercurialis and for my own sence of Hippocrates in that place it cannot expresse any other humor then yellow choller or atred or a mixture of both for phlegme by its viscosity and crassitude cannot penetrate such sensible sparts nor can it effect any pain nisi dolor gravis which cause being granted I shall make very good use of Wine contra omnes gentes for where there is any complication of phlegme by reason of its crassitude and gravitie it abateth much the punctorious payne of the article but doth effect more permanency of payne because it cannot passe through the pores by so quick exsudation whither wine in this condition may be conducible to the cure when is the subsequent discourse and a knowne controversy in this case therefore I shall rneder the sence of the most exact writers and then take boldnes to present my own Mercurialis with alothers agre that in the beginning of this distemper from a cholerique cause no kind of wine can be granted convenient yet in the declension of the disease they with Avicen doe permitt the use of it how this declēsion is to be apprehended under favour is ambiguous for I cannot understand this declination to be such as doth fully determine the affect for then their opinions signifie nothing quia omnia Sana Sanis and no rationall Physitian wil forbid the moderate use of wine after a perfect recovery of the distemper let it be of what nature soever therefore they must be understood of declension in statu morbi yet the proper wine that doth correct that hot and bilious humour and with more celeritie open the porositie of the parts affected cannot except puritanically be ojbected against neither in the beginning State nor declination of the disease arising from the foresayd bilious cause as for the complicate cause I doubt not of the consent and samenes of fence in approbation of the moderate use of Spanish wine that is subtill and old but in the thinner acrimonious cause I have adhibited pure whit wine and in a large quantitie not only to correct that which was fixed but to evacute that which was fluent both by urine and sweat and by its narcotique quality to moderate the intollerable paine of the part but where viscosity carrieth to the part only a tincture of choller there I shall present Spanish wine and it is the ordinance of Rhasis in the gout of the feet proceding from such cause Hipp. alloweth Vinum dulce in a bilious predominancy but that Hippoc. l. de affect intern but that book is taken from an ascript of the indian Physitians who never were excellent in the diaeteticall part of Physique I shal now conclude all these disputes with a putrid feavor and then give some accompt of the best moderne consultations in particular cases both hot and cold The tractation of feavors in their
by their own practice and self custome affirming it to recreat the animal faculties reconcile sleep provoks urine and sweat dissolve superfluities and a certaine cure in a quartain fever with many other distempers circumstances conducible observed which circumstances I have given notice of in the precedent discourse and resolved to entertaine this time with substance only take notice of custome to be in a latitude or some consideration substantial because it over ruleth or comprehendeth as a second nature both time and clyme and there are some as necessary accommodations to the right use of this aliment as condiments are to ntritive substances of an other condition as principally the direction of and consult with the Physitian for let the temper or distemper be of any nature except gangranous or wounds vicerat by his right and proper application they shal sensibly perceive a refreshment and prolongation of life without which nothing is pleasant to universall nature for what is aliment with out an appetite or land when the owner can not trample it or any other delight to an incapacity The chimical sect urge the pleasantnesse of their extract as a grand beauty in their medicine but heere I present a safety and pleasantnesse transcending all minerall opperations and effected by an undoubted regiment of fire and to be preferred Prince of all other vegitalls excesse in this juce may be more easily repaired and the distemper more speedely and inoffencively reduced to harmonie the principal difficulty wil be in obteining pure wine with out sophistication for which cause I can cordially kommend as much as desire the Scotish severity established amongst the English nation and that the Sophisticatiors of wine may suffer punishment above any ordinary theef as not onely picking the purse of all nations but with a secret venene mixture paynfully afflicting them often irrecoverably no vetrickle being so proper to conveigh any malignity or venemous quality to the universall spirits of any creature then wine if I shall dispute further some may take me up for prolixity and others stop me for a non visitavit well knowing that Galen with his commentary upon the Aphorisimes translated urgeth that wine as venus doth debilitate innervate and Frambesarius will according to the Frensh mode exalt a messe of pottage Frensh beyond a chine of English beefe and therefore addeth these insignificāt Scil vinum venusque nocent eodem modo if hee or any other understand or undertake Galen in that literal sense they must confute him beyond Iohannes Argenterius with whom I left Ranchnius his Countriman at foyles and leave it to those of leasure or standers by to divulge the victory but if in that litteral sense apprehended the objection I confesse is instar ommium whether it be taken for the use or excesse of wine and in the first sense it wil affront greater artists and in the second opposite to the Arabians which hath told the Graecians and other opposits that their Countty is their disgrace and those ostentators a disgrace to their Country Avicenna Rhasis and Averrhoes advise it usque ad Ebrietatem the challeng is high and whither they have measured their weapons I know not but if Galen be not understood to speake of Ebriety then neither the use of wine or women can either debilitate or be abnoctious for both in their orderly mode are of much utility and concernment the one to preserve the individuall the other the propagation of the species the first hath been largely disputed the last which concerneth propagation not to be effected but by an act venerial which Avicenna in a melancholick predominance condemneth but in his 20 and 3 chap Avicen 1. Tract 3. Cap 4. de juvamentis Coitus saith that the use of venerie doth most help the melancholist which opinion was accepted before from Paulus Aegineta in his first book de rebus veneriis by which it will appeare in Avicen contradiction of himselfe and to redeeme him out of such incommoduments let us perpend some passages of Galen Galen 6. Epid. Coment 5. Text 25. where he affirmeth mixtion to restraine diseases in fieri or in their motion and Galen will not admit of any other interpretation of Hipp but that mixtion and Coition are of the same signification and amongst other affects doth digitate melancholie affirming moderate Coition or use of venerie to be a specifick remedy especially proceeding from vapors of combust humors and with out question upon this consideration the moderate use of Venus is a considerable adjuvant but if wee understand or accept those fit subjects of such remedy as are affected by pungent vapors from a predominancy of naturall melancholie this flatulencie beeing more cold though provocative in this sense the use of venerie doth prove verry adverse and in this sense I understand Avicen and the exception in Galen principally to reflect upon both quantity and quality unseasonably applied both in respect of tyme and temper as when the wine is inspecificall to the temper or quantity exceeding a naturall capacity and upon an empty body ubi vacuis committere venis nil nisi lene decet and then immoderately to exercise the act of venery after such a mode both wine and women are innervations and great consumptives of sixt and fluent spirits and where Plato and Ambrosius have an exception I apprehend it only of the nimium which is intoxication or ebriety in a voluptuous course which doth obnubulate reason and sense rendring the person inferior to a meere animal a vice reproved by all rationales not only as it is pernitious to the body inflaming the blood debilitating the nerves and afflicting the head but as a privation of reason which is the forme of man and by which he preceadeth all other terrestriall creatures but I am not of opinion that those Arabian Princes did ever use wine in such a voluptious manner themselves or advised it to others but medically as will appear by their monthly prescription upon proper indication preferring wine before any other medicine because of its operate power so familiarly respondent to nature This objection beeing cvleared I shall move to the last extracted from sacred scripture There are a prevalent sect in England and other places where they have gayned permission that stiffely defend with inconsiderable logick that the fatality of mans life actions and such considerations are but as the judgement of men which is foolishnesse with God because say they no man can be in life or fortune preserved prolonged assisted or restored to either because diseases with all their Concomitants are or must be inflicted by an inexpugnable necessity determined of the Almighty and immutably fixed and the closest councel of God have such close clipt considerations of their opponents as if with out spectacles they could not see their lowsy Crownes or not discerne them ridicalous to intellectual persons and pernitious to all Kingdomes and just people therof upon this pretended ground of