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A43285	Van Helmont's works containing his most excellent philosophy, physick, chirurgery, anatomy : wherein the philosophy of the schools is examined, their errors refuted, and the whole body of physick reformed and rectified : being a new rise and progresse of philosophy and medicine, for the cure of diseases, and lengthening of life / made English by J.C. ...; Works. English. 1664	Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644.; J. C. (John Chandler), b. 1624 or 5.; Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699.	1664 (1664)	Wing H1397; ESTC R20517	1,894,510	1,223

such a Balsam which not but by its own Phantasie becomes also Medicinal Magnetical and is also an attractive of all the strange quality out of the Body whose fresh Blood I say abounding with Spirit is carried unto it whether it shall be that of a Man or of any other living Creature The Phantasie therefore is a returner or reducible and Ecstatical from part of the Blood that is freshly and most newly brought unto the Unguent but the magnetical Attraction begun in the Blood is perfected by the medicinal Virtue of the Unguent But the Unguent doth not draw the infirmity of the Wound unto it self that it may be made a Pandora's Box but alters the Blood newly brought unto it in its Spirit makes it Medicinal and stirs up the Power thereof From thence it hath a certain medicinal and magnetical Virtue which returns unto its whole Body to cure its Cousin German the Spirit of the Blood throughout the whole Man To wit it sucks out the sorrowful Impression from the Wounded party and expels it being ready to perish by its medicinal Power and commands it forth which medicinal Virtue being the conqueress of the Malady is stir'd up partly in the Blood and is partly also generated in the same by the Unguent to wit by the Spirit hereof thus commanding over the Spirit of the Blood by its own Phantasie that is by its created Endowment Otherwise the Blood putrifying with its entire Faculties or Vigours under the enclosure of an Egg-shell and the Spirit thereof being now as it were freed from its Fetters through the foregoing Putrefaction drawes by the mediation of the Mummy of a Dog and really translates the Grief which sits in the Phantasie and astral Virtue of the Filths of the Sick into the Dog himself that eats it Indeed for no other Cause than because the Magnetism is not perfected without the interposing of the Balsam of the Oyntment We have also observed that if a wounded Man happen to have received many Wounds at once it is sufficient that Blood be had only out of one of his Wounds and indeed that by that one endeavour the rest of the Wounds are cured also because that Blood keeps a concordant Harmony with the Spirit of the whole and draws forth from the same the offensive quality communicated not only to the Lips of the Wound but also to the whole Man For from one Wound the whole Man is wont also to grow Feverish I have hitherto deferred to make manifest a great Mistery namely to shew to our hand that in Man there is placed an essicacy whereby he may be able only by his beck and Phantasie to act out of himself and to imprint a virtue a certain influence which afterwards perseveres or constantly subsists by it self and acts on an Object at a very far distance by which onely mystery those things which have been spoken hitherto concerning the Ideal entity conveighed in a Spiritual fewel and departing far from home for to execute its offices concerning the Magnetism of all things begotten in the Imagination of man as in that which is proper to every thing and also concerning the Magical superiority of Men over other Bodies will come to light It is a clear truth and manifest without controversie that of Steel is to be made a Needle which by the touch of a Load-stone shews the Pole or North-Star to Sailers but in vain is the Steel hammered into a Needle and placed on the Marriners Compass to point out the Pole if a due rubbing of the Loadstone upon it hath not gone before Which things seeing they are undoubtedly true it is now convenient to frame a Marriners Needle onely by a Magnetical beck On the Anvil therefore whereon the Needle is hammered out of Steel let the North Point be marked out and that in a straight Line then stand thou the Vulcan with thy back towards the North that when the Steel is drawn under the Hammer for making of the Needle thou mayest draw it towards thy self and the North. I say therefore that such a Needle so made shall without any other help observe or point out the Pole and that indeed without any wonted variation which is a great Mystery Moreover the Needle which is made upon the said Line by chance and without the knowledge or intent of the Workman is void of that quality and doth not observe the Pole From hence it consequently follows that the Imagination of the man that frames it doth as it were in that moment of the Needls Nativity when as now indeed the greatest heat or glowing of the fire hath ceased and as yet under an obscure redness of the Steel imprint this kind of Magnetical faculty and that indeed on the Steel or an appropriated subject But not that the Heaven doth then make that impression because then it also should influx it self into the Steel without the intention of the Smith which is false for if the Heaven should give forth its influence at a certain Hour and Position now might the Characteristical or Notary and Sigillary or sealing Science of the Stars triumph which we pass by But the Constellation which flowes into the Steel and perhaps every Seal or Impression flowes from the Microcosmical Heaven that is from our Olympus or the Heaven in us Therefore in vain have been those Seales which were not stamped by the Magitian exalted in his Phantasie or Imagination for inferiour Entities and Phantasies are constrained to give place to ours Whereby a wise Man shall bear rule over the Stars to the command of whom the Parent of things hath subjected whatsoever is concluded in the Circle of Heaven What things have been alledged concerning the Phantasie making this Impression on the Marriners Needle I have learned from the Testimony of many also from my own experience and shall be confirmed ten thousand times to be true by the experience of every one that is willing to make trial thereof So indeed Asarabacca and the tops of Elder hearken to the commanding Imagination of the Cropper who imprinteh on the plant but this Magnetically on the absent leaf seeing otherwise the leaf being boyled as the Needle that was re-heated in the fire and administred as a Potion the virtue of the Phantasie imprinted on it would perish if the Magnetism were not cherished from the entire plant That blood which is boyled and ready to be eaten doth as yet contain the Soul is true But that virtue consisteth not from the impression of the humane and external Phantasie but from the proper endowment of its own Phantasie After this manner also a Nail Dart or Arrow that is thrust into the heart of the Horse withholds the Spirit of the Witch and conjoynes it with the Mumial Spirit of the Horse whereby they may be roasted together that by that torment as by a sting the Witch her self may be bewrayed and that at length she that is offensive to God destructive to mortal men may by the

a Pose and what afterwards 37. An Argument from an impossibility against the Cause of the Cough of the Schooles 38. The orginal of matter in affects of the Lungs is demonstrated 39. The vanity of Remedies from Ignorance 40. That the drinks of China Sarsaparilla c. do not dry up Excrements as neither hinder the generations of the same 41. Some Absurdities caused from hence 42. What we must diligently heed in affects of the Lungs 43. The Doctrine concerning the motion of the Lungs is false 44. The use of the Lungs is not known in the Schooles 45. One and Twenty peremptory Reasons against the motion of the Lungs 46. The Error of the Schools concerning the use of the Diaphragma or Midriffe established eight Reasons 47. Seven conclusions issuing from thence 48. Why the Remedies of Physitians are of no worth 49. That preventions for the restraining of Catarrhes are old Wives Fictions 50. Galen in his Books of the Preserving of Health is wholly ridiculous 51. The Ignorance of the Schooles is to be pitied and bewailed 52. The dissecting of a live Dog hath deceived the Schooles 53. A new Error about Ecligmaes 54. They suppose a falshood 55. Some proofs 56. Whence the Error of Catarrhes or Rheumes was brought in 57. A refuting of a mad perswasion 58. What it may be which is felt to cause the mask of a defluxing Rheum 59. What the future and succeeding matter may be 60. The ignorance of the humour latex hath confirmed Catarrhes 61. A prevention 62. The torture of the night 63. The unconstancy of Paracelsus 64. Liquid things which are not yet vitial in us do not talk with the Stars 65. The Marrow is not among Liquors IT is now a seasonable time to shew that the great heap of Diseases which hath been dedicated to a Catarrhe or Rheume flowing down from the Head even into the very top of the Toes without let or hinderance is an old Wives Fiction not invented but by the enemy the troubler of mankind to wit lest the causes of Diseases being known the Remedies of the same should also be made known However it be at least wise from thence it is manifest that the Schools are even unto this day misled by the errors of the Heathen in the generating supposing defluxion manner way or passage matter means places instruments of a Rheume and likewise in its revulsion or pulling back and Remedies indeed it is false and absurd whatsoever thou shalt build upon one absurdity or impossibility Whence likewise the vain hope which is placed in Cauteries or searing Remedies falls to the ground even as I shall demonstrate in its own place Natures themselves are the Physitianesses of Diseases but the Physitian is their Minister or Servant according to Hippocrates But that is concerning Diseases which nature cures of her own free accord But when she hath failed so that she cannot renew her strength a Physitian chosen by the bounty of the Lord and with whom all Diseases are almost of the same esteem for such a one is he who hath obtained some universal Medicine among many of the like sort he remains no longer a Minister or Servant but a prevailing Interpreter Ruler and Master Let the Name of my Lord Jesus be exalted for ever who doth alwayes bestow his bounty on his little Ones who are base or dejected in their own humility For nature being the chief receiver of the diseasifying impressions of the sick and the sensitive Soul a mover on the opposite part likewise where entertained Diseases do prevail man dies or at least wise liveth for the future more miserably than death it self unless he be restored by the Physitian into his former state Yet it doth not happen to every Physitian to go to Corinth unless to him that is called elected exercised and commissioned or entrusted For the universal perfections of healing which contain in them the tune or harmony of nature had not yet been made known to the age of Hippocrates for they are as yet scanty and derided by the common sort of Physitians unto this day therefore Hippocrates deserves pardon if he thought that the whole businesse of a Disease was to be finished by nature as a Mistris Moreover I have said elsewhere that even forthwith from the beginning of the Young an implanted spirit doth sit president over every member as an assisting Ruler but that the other being an inflowing spirit doth issue from the heart being the awakener and comforter of the implanted one the which notwithstanding is neither limited nor individually disposed unless it be first subdued by the implanted spirit I have also taught elsewhere that every member doth grow or flourish according to the virtue of the implanted ferment and so that neither is a transmutation to be hoped for for a new generation unless by a ferment mediating Consequently it is from thence understood that all growth is made by the spirits and so that a weakened digestion of the members doth depend on the diminishing of the spirits and of the ferment of these according to that saying My spirit the sheath of the ferment shall be diminished therefore also my dayes shall be shortened So as that a member which in health doth produce even no visible excrement doth make much thereof and that without ceasing if it shall be wounded hurt diminished or hindered in the vigour of its ferment In the next place it also from hence follows that through a hurt and the variety of things hurting a disagreement and undue proportion of excrements is bred Not therefore from one Fountain to wit the Head of man whence indeed the Schools do devise all Catarrhs or Rheums to rain down but from an own proper affection or suffering or from the proper indisposition of every part brought upon it by local ferments do Diseases arise For so wounds which are cured do suffer a relapse do oft-times bring forth Ulcers and Imposthumes And the axle of the winds being turned they wax fresh and grieve again a long course of years after So indeed Coughs Pleurisies spittings of blood and Erisipelasses do return For a mountain cold exceeding a mean or any other sudden cold suddenly invading the night Air a fenny Air or Gas of Mines belched out do oftentimes by one only on-set tread the ferments of the Brain and Lungs under foot that for the whole life-time after they are made shops for divers excrements Truly after this manner excrements not indeed snivelly ones from the Brain are made in the Eyes Ears Teeth Jaws by an error of their own So Coughs and Asthmaes do at first begin and persevere by a continued ferment Not indeed through snivel flowing down from the Head but generated within the Lungs by the violated ferment of the place For the Lungs are most easily affected or disturbed by an external thing rushing on them before the other members because it is the first of the members which waxeth old and dieth As is manifest by the