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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50413	Macis macerata: or, A short treatise, concerning the use of mace, in meat, or drink, and medicine In six sections, the fifth whereof containeth some hints at the signaturs of simples; and the sixth, is concerning the original and cure of wind, in mans-body. By Matthew Mackaile chyrurgo medicine.	Mackaile, Matthew, fl. 1657-1696.	1677 (1677)	Wing M147; ESTC R218643	24,208	110

from the fire and looke into it you will perceive the Atoms of the Mace continually ascending from the bottom to the top or superfice of the Liquor and immediatly descending again untill the Liquor be fully saturat with the spirituous and oylie parts after which none of the powder appeareth above which will come to pass very near also soon as the Stoupe being set by a little fire shall become so hot that one can only remove it speedily from the fire The consideration of this and the Observations following did perswad me to believe that as the World is circular in its figure and motion so also the most part of one motions therein whether naturall o● artificial are of the same nature As for the naturall doe we not daily perceive first the circular motions of the coelestial Lights round about us or ou●s upon and with the Earth about some of them And have not Astronomers demonstrated the motions of some of them round their own Centres Secondly The circulation of Water in the Macrocosm according to Eccles 1. All Rivers run into the Sea yet the Sea is not ful unto the place from whence the Rivers run thither they do return again Thirdly The circulation of Blood in the Microcosm and in the bodies of all creatures which have it Fourthly Vapours ascending from the Earth into the Air and descending again in Rain Snow c. The artificiall metions also we see to be for the most part circular as in Clocks Milns Spinning-wheels c. and such as are not are either directed by a circular motion as a Ship by the circular motion of the Rudder upon its hinges of the Cart in the Compass upon the Prick and of the celestiall-bodies or much facilitated and promoved by one circular motion or other Hence it is that Chain-Pumps are most usefull in great Ships and one Horss will draw a greater weight upon a Cairt or Wagon then upon a Slade Moreover whilst the Weavers-shutle is moving in a straight line from the one side of the Web to the other doeth not the Pirn move circularly within it Finally ● the most difficult mechanical operations are most easily done by instruments moving circularly as is evident in the boreing of Mettals or Wood with Drils and Wimbles and the moe blocks that be upon a Ships tackling the sewer men will serve to load or unload therewith The following Observations doe far her prove the Artificial motions to be circular tho no● sph●rical and very pleasant to behold First Dureing the action of pure Aqua fortis upon crude Mereurie in a tra●sp●rent Glass you will clearly perceive the continual ●scent and descent of the Mercurial-Atoms betwixt the superfice and bottom of the Laquor untill it be fully sat ●at with them Secondly I did lately observe this circular motion whilst the well defecat juice of Limons was dissolving very red fi●e Coral which being totally robed of its redness as the juice of its Aciditie the Atoms remaining were almost also white as this Paper Thirdly Dureing the operation of the Acidum Vitrioli wherewith I mixed some Borage water upon the Limatura Chalybis in making the Vitriolum Martis commonly called Sal-Chalybts there is no doubt the same circular motiō which tho it cannot be discerned because of the opacitie of the Liquors yet may be concluded from alse pleasant and considerable a motion which is this When these Liquors are affused to the limatura there ariseth immediatly such a heat and ebullition that it there be not near three parts of four empty they will boyle over upon the Table This ebullition concinueth but a little and the Liquor no sooner setleth than innumerable Aqueous Atoms do constantly ascend two or three inches above its superfice to which they descend again If this operation be done in a Cupping glass as I use to doe it many of those Atoms whose taste doth demonstrat them to be impregnat with the Atoms of the Chalybs will fall upon the outside of the glass where they will lye like dew in a Summers morning The action of the Menstruum being ended this pleasant shower ceaseth Were it not better for Professors of Philosophy to pry into such Experiments wherby they might be prompted with excellent notions and arguments relative to Matter and Motion than to spend so much time upon Ens rationis universale c. which can never be usefull in Medicin save to make a man Hypochondriack and so necessitous thereof or Mechanicism so as to gain one penny thereby Many such Curiosi●ies have been little noticed by many Artists who like covetous and ignorant Travellers to the City where they expect most gain take no notice of much more pleasant places in their jurney and intending only the purchasing of coyned money doe often overlook alse good lying in some small Springs and far less make it their business to search for the Mines themselves The truth of this is fully demonstrated to any who will peruse the most ingenious and learned Physic● Theological considerations about the possibilitie of the Resurrection written by the Honorable Robert Boyle wherein by such Curiosities by him accuratly noticed he demonstrateth the possibility of that great Article of our Christian faith viz. The Resurrection of the dead at the great day of general judgment for the further confirmation of which we may also consider the forementioned circular motion in relation to our own Bodies and Soules Seeing it is undenyable that we cam from the Earth and do daily return unto it by death and that our spirits doe then return to God who gave them Why should any rational creature doubt of the Soul its returning unto the Body its old habitation or of the return of both to God for ever seeing he who is Almighty hath given his Word for it I shall conclude this part of this Section with regrateing the custom of many who geting Wine that is decayed in its colour and taste and consequently as to its 〈◊〉 by burning it with Mace Cloves c. they exhaust the most part of its remaining spirits and the best of those in the Spyces and hen drink the worst of both For when the spirits are by distillation separated from the best of Wines that which remaineth in the Still is liker to fresh Vrine than to any other liquor It were then much better only to infuse those Spyces in such Wine and by all means to retain the remaing spirits by the clos●ess of the vessel Secondly Mace is medicinally made use of in a more compound way and that either intire or in its parts First Intire as a most excellent corrective of all Purgatives or mixed with other Aromaticks in a omaticall Powders Tablets Electuaries or Spirits Secondly In its parts and that either Internally or Externally Internally there is no better Oyle for mixing with Stomachick Cephalick or Splenetick Piles c than is its liquide Then what an excellent Elixir must it make when associa ●o

ever make use of the Oile of Cinamon or of any other Spyce so hot either alone or mixed with other things amongst Prisans or Iuleps for quenching of Thirst provoking of Vrine or deebstruating any part of the body whereas nothing is more ordinary to those who know a little above the common method than in such cases to use the salinous spirits of all sorts This effect of the Onion might also have been conjectured from its Signature for it may be well alleadged that by its round figure many Tunicles and spirituous effluvia's resembling the emission of rayes by which some alleadge that we doe see it resembleth the Eye the haires of whose Lids are also represented by the roots of the Onion whose Stem also resembleth the Optick Nerve From what hath been said it may be probably conjectured that it were better to contuse raw Onious and to mix them with Cataplasines for Schirrhous Tumors which is contrary to the common practise and to the learned and accurat Ioan. Vigerius who in his Armamentarij Medico-Chirurgici cap. 14. de Medicamentis Maturantibus writeth thus Cepa cruda acr is est mordax sed sub cineribus cocta acrimoniam amittit pus movet praesertim in his tumoribus qui agre suppurant Considering the most lamentable loss of our most accomplished Countrey Man Mr. Iames Gregorie Pofessor of the Mathematicks at Edenburgh who in October 1675 was suddenly seased with a Gutta serena having got cold by standing long bare-headed sub die after which he dyed within 14 dayes I thought the noticeing of the forementioned Observation might possibly prevent the like Disaster in some other person hereafter Secondly In a more ordinarie way Iames 1.17 Every good gift cometh down from the Father of lights c. gradually suggesting to our mindes that this Simple may be good for one Disease and that for another though not alwayes by the mediation of Signatures and so prompting us rationally cauteloufly to attempt the tryall of their Energies upon our selves when there was little or no ground to fear danger or upon Beasts when otherwise Thus empirically began Medicin which gradually made its progress according to the Proverb Facile est inventis addere and so became Dogmatical This sort of Knowledge in Man may be called Wisdom and Invention The second way how Man hath attained the discovering of the medicinall vertues of Simples was Imitation of Beasts which no man needs to cavil at seeing the Almighty challengeth men for not learning from their practises our duty to himself Psal 84.3.4 Isai 1.2.3 and 43 20.21.22 Ierem. 8.7 to all which no doubt their Creator hath given a competent knowledge of what may be good for or prejudicial unto themselves or their Masters which we may call Instinct as also a docibitie by Man for Iames 3.7 All sorts of Beasts have been tamed by man and Longa dies homini docuit parere Leones which in them may be called sagacitie and is most conspicuous in Dogs and Horses Yea I have been informed by verie credible Persons that some Dogs have offered to hinder their Owners from going to places of hazard or danger and when disobeyed have absented themselves from beholding it and that others have discovered the perpetraters of Murders committed upon their Masters which things are worthy of the disquisition of Divines and Philosophers For proose of what hath been asserted concerning Mans imitation of Beasts in the Medicinal use of Simples I shall only trouble the Reader with these few Instances First Celandin was first used for distempers of the Eyes because the Swallow was observed to apply its juice to the distempered eyes of her young ones for which cause also it got its name Chelidonia from the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth a Swallow Secondly I was informed by a worthy and credible Gentleman that his Brother in Law living six miles West from Edenburgh had a Dog subject to the Epilepsie for which when he found the Paroxism begining he did immediatly in the Summer run to the Medow where he snatched up some Herb which did preveent his falling if he reached thither and in Winter he got towards the Hay-stack with the same success As did my Informer so must I regrate that none did watch the Dog for discovering what the Herb was Thirdly It is sufficiently wel known that wilde Hawks doe swallow small white stones lying by the brinks of Rivers for to cause them vomite viscide humors oppressing their Stomacks for which cause Falconers give the same Medicin to their tame ones Moreover I knew a friend of my own who was much troubled with Colicall paines which were most eased by his swallowing 4 or 5 of such stones for they did purge him downwards severall times and did immediatly cure the paroxismes for which he did often make use of the same individual stones Before I conclude this Section I cannot forbear to mention Dr. Levin Lemnius his excellent Treatise which might be very usefull to Divines Intituled Similitudinum ac Parabolarum quae in Bibliis ex herbis at que arboribus desumuntur dilucida explicatio In which Treatise he sheweth that the dictating Spirit of God from the Signaturs tho not expressed of some Simples and the known Qualities of others doth teach us divine Lessons The consideration whereof doth fully refute the old Atheist who said Non rebus exiguis vacat adesse Iovi I shal only mention one viz. the Willow-Tree of which in his 8 chapter the summe wherof take in these few words The Evangelical Prophet Isai chapter 43. having foretold the ruine of Babylon alse easily as Tow is consumed by fire in the 44 chapter God comforteth his Church promising the affluance of all worldly comforts and particularly v. 4 That they shall spring up as among the grass as Willows by the water courses For this Tree by the Latines was called Salix à Saliendo from jumping or louping because it ariseth speedily and soon becometh a Tree And the Germans call it Willige hence Willow because it is prompt voluntarie in growing It was of that fort whose Leaves are whitish have a pleasant smell and do mitigat the heat of the Air for which cause the Hollanders doe therewith garnish the Beds of Sick-Persons Secondly According to Psal 137. the Iewes being c●ptives in Babylon and the Heathens in derision desireing them to sing one of the songs of Zion they wept and hanged their Harps upon the Willows and that appositely because this Tree is either barren or loseth its Fruit or Seed ere it come to maturitie Moreover it is bitter to the Taste neither so beautifull or pleasant in aspect as are the Plain Cedar and Cypress-Trees Wherfore Exyle is fitly compared to it SECTION VI. IN the next place I thought it would be very suteable to the Premisses by way of Conclusion to add a few lines concerning Wind or the Flatuosity in the Stomack and Intestines for the dispelling of which

the Mace is so much commended Having lately seen and perused A new and needfull Treatise of Wind offending Mans body In which is described the nature Causes and Symptoms of Wind together with its speedy and easie remedy By W. R. M. D. one of the Trinm-viri who translated Riverius his Practice of Medicin to whose Epistle to the Reader he hath subjoined a few pittifull Verses shewing who are Doctors and who not Printed 1676. I cannot but regrate that in this learned and accurat Age any pretending to Degrees should have obtruded upon his Contemporaries a fardle of such antique reasonless for the most part Assertions whose Errors have great need to be purged Ignorance corrected and Lameness reformed as will be evident to any who will but take notice of the few Instances after mentioned Er I proceed further I must here so far exercise your Candor and Patience as to tolerat a short Digression concerning this Book After I had perused it and taken notice of many things which cannot but offend the Eyes and Ears of any Person related to Medicin I did meet with a Gentleman who having accidentally also met with it in my Patients chamber he produced it to me with Ioannis Fieni Andoverpiani de flatibus humanum corpus molestantibus Commentarius novus ac singularis in quo flatuum natura causa Symptomata describuntur earamque remedia facili expedita methodo indicantur Telling me that the former was on ly a Translation of this which by comparing them we presently discovered without making any mention of the first Author which Plagiarie Act is rarely to be paralleled The Author or rather Translater being conscious to himself of this guile did in the Epistle Dedicatorie provide for himself a poor refuge from the deserved challenges of the Ingenuous in these words I shal not cease to hope but this translation and Contribution of this kinde of knowledge to the English and its humble Dedication will have a fair and kynd acceptation with your Wisdoms Not in the least supposing either the Subject being of Wind and Spirits or this discourse can be strangers to your generall reading A Critick did deservedly give this extemporarie Verdict of this Translation Fienus is my father and its a shame For such a Cox-comb to suppress his name For silly Beggers who possess no wealth Yet much disdain solely to live by stealth Before I mention any of the promised Instances I shall desire you to consider First That this Treatise is dedicated to one of the most learned and famous Societies viz. To the Royal Society the Virtuosi in the World which hath hudgely improven the Knowledge of Naturall Phylosophy and Medicin by many new Experiments for solveing many Phaenomena which puzled the Pates of our Ancestors Yet in all this Book there is not the shadow of an appearance that either the Author who is more excuseable considering the time when he wrote or the Translater did ever hear of the Fermentation of Humors Only it seems that some few Chymicall words have been Echo'd into their Ears for pag 80. he ordereth a Decoction to be made in B. M. pag. 104. Cinamon Water Aqua Vita Ol. Anisi pag. 106. the Oyles of Spike Nutmegs and Mace pag. 144. and the Ashes of a Fig-tree or Iuniper are mentioned which is all the Chymistrie to be found in this Treatise whose Dedication to the Royall Society is alse impertinent as if one should dedicat a System of Aristotelian-Phylosophie unto a Cartesian Society Secondly In the Epistle to the Reader which in the Translation is made up of the Authors two Epistles both these Blades doe pay their respects to the most deservedly famous and admirably ingenious Hippocrates in these words Of Wind Hippoc. hath written so that little benefit is to be gotten thereby he useth Arguments far fetcht and such as teach rather the wit of the Author than the knowledge or cure of the Diseases that come from them Who wrote on this Subject more learnedly than profitably But I am confident that all who are void of Interest and purged from the dregs of adhaerence to any thing but Trueth will be easily convinced that in all that long flux of Time betwixt Hipp. and us no one amongst the numerous swarm of Pathologists hath showen less Wit or spoken less to the business taken in hand than have these the Author and Translater from the contagion of whose unequall undertakeings the reputation of that most antient pillar of Medicin whose memorie hath been and still will be embalmed with the Elogicall commendations and admirations of the judicious and learned in all Ages will never suffer detriment disparagement or obscurity in this or any other matter which we hope some more judicious and elegant Hand will set about to demonstrat more fully then we have here only intended to hint at The first Instance which I mention is the lame description of Flatus or Wind mentioned pag. 9. which he calleth an abundance of vapours from spirits or meat or drinke of flegm or melancholy raised from a weak heat in the body Yet pag. 1. he sayeth That substance whether Air Wind or Blast is called a spirit Secondly pag. 16. Wind troubles such commonly that drinke thick sweet Ale Milk or Water betwixt Meals chiefly for that corrupts concostion and weakneth the action of the Stomack as if you should pour cold water into a boyling Kettle Thirdly Pag. 26 Galen saith all the faults of water are from its coldness by which it lyeth long in the Stomack and causeth fluctuations and turns to wind and corrupts and weakens the Stomack so that it concocts worse Fourthly Pag. 28. If you drinke presently after meat the concoction is interrupted there will be crudities which cause fluctuation and inflation of the Belly like a Drum The falsity of these three last Assertions as to cold water shall be shown hereafter Fifthly Pag. 29. Keep thy feet from cold which our High-Landers doe not for they use every morning to bath them in cold water for preventing of Diseases for Nerves go from thence to the Stomack and presently cool it and the Colick and all inflations are caused thereby This is alse excellent an Anatomical Notion cōcerning the originall of Nerv's as was that of anothers who affirmed that the Blood was first generat in the Brain tho the Assertor might more probably but alse falsly have affirmed that the Chile owed its originall to it Sixthly Pag 22. What oppresseth the naturall heat of the Stomack is the cause of Wind as Pulse c Boyle Beans alse much as you will they are windy but fry them or any other Pulse and they are not windy but very hard of concoction which must certainly be by their oppressing the natural heat which is the cause why they pass away slowly and make gross juice But any way dressed they swell the body Notable Contradictions Also all Summer-fruits are like these they are flegmatick and Windy O brave