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A11920	The vveapon-salves maladie: or, A declaration of its insufficiencie to performe what is attributed to it Wherein also is described, 1. The severall wayes of making the weapon-salve. 2. The manner of vsing it. 3. Reasons of confirmation to justifie it. 4. Arguments of confutation to overthrow it. By the learned and judicious physitian Daniell Sennertus, Doctor and publique professor at Wittenberg. Translated out of his 5th. booke, part. 4. chap. 10. Practicæ medicinæ.; Practicae medicinae. Booke 5. Part 4. English	Sennerts, Daniel, 1572-1637.	1637 (1637)	STC 22232; ESTC S105181	15,432	35

which are not the cause of it so that as it followeth not While this man was walking it Lightened therefore his walking is the cause of the Lightening so it followes not This wounded man is healed and hath used the Weapon-Salve therefore the Weapon-Salve is the cause of his healing Vnlesse it may appeare that this effect hath necessarily followed from this Weapon-Salve Nor is the * When that is taken to be the Cause which is not the Cause fallacie of the Cause more frequent any where then in Physicke where oft-times the Cure of a disease is attributed to a Medicine when it proceeds not from it but from nature or some other salve eyther used before or together with it And indeed the reason of Physique is farre different from that of other Arts. For in other Arts the effect altogether wholly dependeth upon the Artificer and if any thing bee done eyther well or ill by him unlesse perhaps by reason of the unfitnesse of the matter and subject for Ex quolibet ligno non fit mercurius or by reason of the Instrument some fault may happen all is to bee imputed and ascribed to the Artificer seeing as I have shewed Instit lib. 1. cap. 1. the subjects of other Arts worke nothing but onely submit themselves to be wrought on but the subject of Physique hath a certaine inbred power whereby assisted by the Physitians help it doth for the most part of its owne accord tend to health whence it is that HIPPOCRATES sayth 6. Epid. Com. 5. Text. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Natures are the Physitians of diseases The point therefore is this that here the state of the controversie is not whether in the Cure of the wounded person now recovered the Weapon-Salve was applyed but whether the Weapon-Salve was the cause of the healing of which now wee are to make enquirie But seeing as it is sayd before Nature may be the cause of closing up a wound and not the vertue of any Medicine by what name soever it be called yea oftentimes wounds are cured with Lard or some other small thing layd to without the help of a Physitian or any other Medicaments Therefore in the cure which is thought to be done by the Weapon salve the closing of the wound is to be attributed onely to Nature as the next and principall cause Which since it is so and it can by no meanes bee denyed now the Question is whether in that cure the healing of the wound be ascribed to Nature onely or whether some efficacie of this Weapon salve doth concurre together with it The former seemeth to me to bee the more probable because it is certaine as was said even now that wounds are very often healed by Nature without the helpe of any Medicament This the inward wounds to which no Medicaments can bee applyed doe testifie and hither tendeth all that discourse of Caesar Magatus concerning the course of curing wounds of which is spoken in the precedent Chapter that the businesse be committed to Nature the heate and temper of the part which is an instrument be kept sound and not be troubled with Medicaments where there is no necessity and sometime such dangerous wounds are healed chiefly by the helpe of Nature and by none at all or else but slender Medicaments applyed so that it may seeme to be ascribed rather to a Miracle then medicaments The observations and examples whereof are every where well knowne Neither are the Patrons of this Oyntment so bold as to extend its power to all wounds seeing as was said Crollius and Groclenius except the wounds of the Principall members and also of the Nerves and Arteries and no man was ever yet found who durst use this Oyntment about such as have beene wounded by Gun shot And who is there that dareth deny that other smaller wounds may be healed onely by Nature yet if any thing fall out in the cure by the Weapon salve which may exceed the power of Nature take heed it bee not done by the helpe of the Divell drawne thereto by some implicite or explicite compact Seeing then Nature onely and immediately closeth up Wounds Salves as hath been shewed before serve for no other use then to conserve native heat and naturall temper of the part or to remove those impediments which hinder nature in its worke we are now to consider whether this Weapon salve can doe those things Where the first difficulty is this whether or no there is any salve at all that can doe any good not being annointed on the wound it self but on the weapon or some other thing stained with the blood out of the wound chiefly if the wounded person be absent and be distant from the weapon that is annointed the space of some certaine miles To prove it they use two reasons as is said before The first is that there is some actions from the occult qualities called Magneticall which worke at a distance and againe that the power of this Oyntment is conveyed to the wound by the Spirit of the world as the Sympathy and Antipathy of many things But neyther Argument proveth the thing they should For first of all though wee grant that there are such actions which mutually do worke upon and suffer one from another though they bee not alwayes united by corporall contact Notwithstanding wh●●her this happen in the Weapon salve or whether any vertue or force be brought to the wound from the annointed weapon through a great distance of place that is not yet proved Neyther doth it follow that because there are miraculous actions of other things therefore this Weapon salve should have such a vertue And that this is not so he who shall enquire into other the like actions of Nature which are done at a distance shall easily perceive Seeing that Operation doth follow the beeing of a thing It is necessary there must bee a certaine Conjunction and mutuall Contact betweene the Agent and the Patient And againe seeing that things betweene which there is action touch not one another with their bodies it is necessary they should touch some other way and that may be two wayes For eyther the thing which is sayd to work at distance sends out somewhat from its body and substance which the Ancients call effluvium seu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Over-flowing or Flux the Physitians where they speake of Contagion call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See our Lib. 4. de Febribus cap. 4. Institut Lib. 2. Part. 2. cap. 12. To wit where the smallest parts or atomes flow out of the bodie and the ayre or some other body mediating are transferr'd to another body and doe worke upon it by the vertue which they have common with the intire body from which they flow But such like little bodies and effluxes have no regular motion but are disorderly moved hither and thither according to the motion of the ayre and by any breath are variously dispersed as wee may see

in the smoake of a Candle and other lighted things being extinguished and put out Other bodies which are said to work at a distance send not forth any thing of their owne proper body which is carried to another body but only a Species or semblance after this manner bodies farre distant are affected or wrought by the Species sensibiles as by Light by Sound by Smell and it is probable that there are more such species or resemblances then are apprehended by our senses and this commonly is sayd to bee done by a virtuall contact Yet this vertue doth alwayes presuppose a subject out of which it flowes so the flame being out the illumination or enlightening of the things about it ceaseth Besides a fit subject is required by which it may bee propagated which if it bee not the action ceaseth So if a darke body be interposed between the light and our sight the illumination ceaseth Thirdly this vertue is diffus'd round about a certaine distance Philosophers call it the Spheare of Activitie which in some things is greater in some things lesse It is greatest in things that send out Light it is least in those that make Sounds yet by how much the greater the light body is by so much the greater is its Spheare of activitie Hence it is that Starres doe disperse light from themselves in the greatest distance and farthest off of all other bodies Now therefore the question is because it is certaine that the Weapon-Salve with which the Weapon is annoynted is corporally absent from the wounded person whether there bee any contact by eyther of these wayes a third way can not bee named Nor can it bee done by any accident or quality For an accident passeth not out of one Subiect into another neither can it diffuse it selfe into another and distant body I say it cannot bee done by eyther of these wayes Weapon-salve worketh not by any Corporall effluxe For first of all whereas corporall Fluxes can have no certaine motion but are inordinately carried hither and thither according to the motion of the Ayre how shall they directly come to the wounded person Neither availes it that any one should flee for answere to the similitude of their substance For although such little bodies doe in the end apply themselves to that which is of their owne kinde as wee may see in the Thunder and Lightening yet notwithstanding while they doe first breake out from their body they doe inordinately wander about here and there Much lesse is it availeable to flee to the Spirit of the world by which these little bodies may be conveyed from the annointed Weapon to the wounds For those things concerning the Spirit of the World are sayd but are not proved yea rather are opposed with sufficient strong Arguments Moreover seeing this Cure extends it selte farre off and as they will have it for some number of miles if it should bee done by the effusion of those small bodyes whereas but a very little of the Oyntment and lesse of the naturall Balsam doth adhere to the Weapon that Oyntment with the Balsam would easily turne into Ayre and vanish away and so the originall of the Cure being taken away the cure of it selfe should cease But if they say that this Action is done by Species or a magnetique action The Weapon Salve worketh not by Species they must first prove that there are such species in the Oyntment For Nature hath given the power of sending forth species or semblances of this kinde to some certaine things simple and naturall not composed by Art and then they must shew us what the Nature of these things is and what the Spheare is of their activity For neither is it credible that the vertue of this Oyntment should extend it selfe Orbicularly or every way round about for the space of 12. miles As concerning the Loadstone from whence those actions use to be call'd Magneticall the Loadstone indeed attracteth the Iron which is a little way distant from it but that which is very farre off and beyond the Spheare of its activity it attracts not which also is knowne to be done in other occult and magneticall actions of the same kinde The Loadstone also and other things of this sort put forth their vertue by a right line which notwithstanding is not extended in infinitum or without limits and oftentimes also is hindered by the interposition of other things So the Sun-beames are excluded by the interposition of a darke body Who therefore can beleeve that out of so little Oyntment and as little Blood so many little bodies or Species can breake thorough the Chest in which the Weapon annoynted is shut up to bee carryed a great distance even the space of twelve miles to penetrate Mountaines and Walls and directly to come to the wounded person shut up in his Chamber and goe through a great many Rollers in which the wound is wrapped and insinuate it selfe into the wound The Loadstone is put to the Iron it self but this Oyntment is not applyed to the Wound but to the Weapon The Loadstone applyed to the Iron attracts it after one manner but in the applying of this Oyntment aright how many superstitious wayes of annointing there are used hath bin already declared And in other respects too there is a great difference betweene the Loadstone and the Weapon salve for the Loadstone is a naturall Bodie and hath its naturall effects which it alwayes produceth after the same manner the Weapon salve is a thing by divers men compounded of different ingredients and made after a different manner as hath been sayd before This Oyntment also by these mens opinions is to produce divers effects and to performe all things that are necessary to the healing of a wound to keepe the wound free from paine and if it be not kept orderly or be soyled to cause paine For if it ought to performe that in the cure of wounds which otherwayes is the worke of nature it is necessary that it must doe many things namely it must digest that which is to be digested it must expell corruption and excrements and beget flesh and must doe both the offices of a Physitian and Salve too which are different For neyther are the bodies wounded alwayes of the same disposition but some are sound others are full of corruption and abound with vitious humours the parts are divers as Flesh Nerves Membranes which require salves of divers sorts the efficacie of all which this Weapon salve must containe And if one at the same time should receive divers wounds in divers places which oft times falls out from divers weapons is it enough to annoint one weapon for all And is the efficacy thereof carryed to all the other wounds Or must every particular weapon be annointed And whether will every particular Oyntment or Salve doe its proper office so that this goeth directly to this wound that was made by this weapon and that to that wound which was