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spirit_n	body_n	natural_a	spiritual_a	7,840	5	7.3369	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03119	A modest defence of the caueat giuen to the wearers of impoisoned amulets, as preseruatiues from the plague wherein that point is somewhat more lergely reasoned and debated with an ancient physician, who hath mainteined them by publicke writing: as likewise that vnlearned and dangerous opinion, that the plague is not infectious, lately broched in London, is briefly glansed at, and refuted by way of preface, by Fr. Hering D. in Physicke. Reade without preiudice; iudge without partialitie.	Herring, Francis, d. 1628.	1604 (1604)	STC 13248; ESTC S116668	27,376	51

that Region so neere vnto the most principall Part. Next what reason is there of any such Euacuation when we labour to preserue them that are sound And if they be tainted with any venemous matter how shall we be perswaded that Arsenicke will by blisters expell the same and not rather ioine hand in hand with it to ouerthrow Nature hauing by them entrance and accesse especially if we consider the old Maxime Simile simili additum fit magis simile Besides the best learned who haue receiued these Amulets hold that Arsenick by a similitude of substāce doth draw the poison of the plague vnto it selfe and not expell it which must be done by an Antipathy and contrariety for that Arsenicke should strengthen Nature and helpe her to expell it since it is an vndoubted and deadly enemy to Nature is improbable if not insensible As no man doth affirme that all blisteres are poisons because of that effect and therefore you might haue spared labour in proouing that which is not denied so it is euident that diuers poisons doe produce that effect and therefore are the more dangerously applied neere any principall part because heereby they doe open as it were a doore or window to conuey into the body their infecting noisome spirits The cause why Garlicke Mustarddo blister the outward skinne and yet taken inwardly haue no such operation is as I suppose because their heat is an agent being applied to the outmost skinne which is a cold and membranous part and so hauing no resistance doth rarifie and dissolue his continuity But taken inwardly they are Patients the inward heat subduing them and scattering their spirits so as they can not vnite to performe that action But Arsenicke is of a farre other Nature whose pestilent heat will not be commanded by Nature whether he be outwardly or inwardly vsed but doth subdue and extinguish naturall heat And this I take vnder correction to be the solution of this your Proplem Whereas in the words following you affirme that it is manifest both by Experience and Reason that things outwardly applied haue action and work into the Body by cōmunicating their spirituall qualities to the Spirits of our Bodies by meanes of the warmth that openeth our Pores and ratifying the subtill parts of the medicine is the cause of a reciprocall action and passion and hereupon inferre that it may seeme strange that Arsenicke and such like strong Poisons hauing so strong poisoning Spirits should not poison our Spirits wheresoeuer they meet you acknowledge that these are strange works and woonders in Nature First that such poisonfull spirits should mingle with our Spirits and not offend them Secondly that they should strengthen them helpe them to expell infection These indeed are strange effects therefore if we be readier to wonder at them than to beleeue thē hastily I hope you will pardon vs. But let vs heare how you satisfie vs vnlose this Gordian knot First therefore you set downe this Maxime or Principle Arsenicke and Orpmint are no wayes poisonfull or hurtfull to Nature but by their corrosiuenes or fretting qualities otherwise they are as good both Preseruatiues and Curers as any other most in vse and therefore so long as they are kept from corroding or fretting they can do no harme but may do much good in that kinde which they do respect that is to say in all Arsenicall Diseases as the Plague the Plurisie Noli me tangere Cankers and Fistulas If Arsenicke be a strong Poison as you acknowledge and Poisons be as hath beene shewed Toto Genere Substantia Naturae contraria The deadly Foes and irreconcilable Enemies to Nature then your Principle and Ground must needs shake and will prooue no good Foundation to build vpon which maketh it onely hurtfull to Nature by his corrosiuenesse or fretting qualitie If to be offensiue to Nature by excesse in some qualitie or other be sufficient to proue and make a Poison then are Scammony Turbith Colocynthis c. Poisons and not Medicaments for these all offend Nature in qualitie You must therefore either make these Poisons with many moe to consort with Arsenicke and then we shall haue good store of Poisons For all such things as are in the 4 Degree of cold or heat must be put into this ranke or els bring backe Arsnicke from the cense of Poisons into the Classe of Medicaments for which I suppose you will haue small warrant These indeed by reason of their excesse in qualitie are sayd propè accedere ad venena and are called Maligna or Venenata but Venena Poisons they can not properly be called or accounted ●ction passion according to Arist. 1. de Gen. 50. 51. Fit inter contraria qua sub vno eodemque Genere comprehenduntur Therefore an Agent according to qualities shall affect the qualities of the Body but an Agent in the whole substance altereth the substance of our Body Now it is manifest that Arsenicke doth not onely worke vpon the Qualities but that he corrupteth the very temperament and substance of the Body If you meane by Arsenicall Diseases such maladies whose Curer and specificall Antidot is Arsenicke then are we beholding greatly to you who haue found out an appropriat Alexetery for the Plague whereunto the greatest and most profound Philosophers and Physicians could neuer attaine For it is generally confessed by all That the specificall Antidot of the Pest is yet vnknowen Thucidides sayth That that Malady did Superare Humanas vires or rather Humanam imbecilitatem And the learned Masters of our Profession with one voice proclaime that forasmuch as the speciall weapon to kill that Monster is not yet found out we must Pugnare contra illam Beluam communibus praesidijs remedijs aliorum Venenorum But I rather suppose you call those Diseases Arsenicall because they haue in them a malignant poisonfull and pernitious venim resembling the poison of Arsenicke How then shall Arsenicke be their Curer when all Diseases are cured by their contraries vnlesse you will maintaine that dotage of Paracelsus for so I must needs call it against Galen That Diseases are cured per similia by their like And then if the Body be emptie exhaust and extenuat we must exhaust and emptie it more and not restore and repaire it If it be too ful and plethoricke we must fill it more and not euacuat if it be stopped and obstructed then we must ramme and stuffe it vp more and not de obstruct and open if it be too hoat we must lay on more wood and not put out the Fire either by taking away the fuell or quenching the flame If there be Solutio continui we must not vnite but disioyne the parts sic in cateris If I thought that this vncouth and vnscholarlike Paradox would be mainteined it were easie for me to make the Point as plaine as the Kings high-way But I muse much how the Plurisie commeth into the Tribe of these Arsenicall Diseases vnlesse