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A86183	Deliramenta catarrhi: or, The incongruities, impossibilities, and absurdities couched under the vulgar opinion of defluxions. The author, that great philosopher, by fire, Joh. Bapt. Van Helmont, &c. The translator and paraphrast Dr. Charleton, physician to the late King.	Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644.; Charleton, Walter, 1619-1707.	1650 (1650)	Wing H1398; Thomason E601_6; ESTC R202434	67,180	88

Apostem in the parts adjacent why doth it frequently when one tooth is pulled out find a new channel and drive against another Doth the evulsion of the first tooth turne the course of the stream upon the second Doth the conductor of the rheum grow blind and can no longer find its way to the remaining nerve of the drawn teeth or at least to the carnous excrescence that succeeds the tooth or can it with more ease drill a hole through a second firme tooth then passe the spongy flesh that ariseth upon the ejectment of the former why can it not constantly keep possession of that Current which it self digged And so conserve an outlet for it selfe before the new tenant of flesh take livery and seisen Miserably insooth is this rheum deluded by the Chirurgeon which thinking according to its custome to invade some one Tooth and finding it removed must be constrained to return back by the same way it came and execute its malice upon some more noble part which it torments in revenge of the affront done by the Chirurgeon No tooth therefore aketh by reason of a Defluxion but because upon a detection of the Gum it becomes too sensile or that in another case the matter of its ultimate or most depurated Aliment being defectively assimilated conceives putrefaction at the root of the tooth and hence that intolerable Paine 31. For the Digestion of the Teeth and Nayls is distinct from the Digestion of all other parts in this particular that the Digestion of those is performed in domestick vessels or the very interior substance of each particular part but of these in vessels onely contiguous to their roots 32. But that no Catarrh can fall down upon the Inwards the Stomack Lungs Liver Kidneys c. is in part already manifested from that generall evidence alleaged against the possibility of its materiall Cause waies of transportation and manner of production and may in part be evinced from this that nothing can fall down upon the Palat much lesse into the Stomack contrary to our will but what may instantly be ejected by exscreation For we never swallow down the naturall Muccus ordinarily dropping from the head upon the root of the tongue but unawares nor is any Catarrh so far participant of the power of election as cunningly to lie in ambush till we are lockt up in the arms of sleep and then assault us when we are unfit to endeavour its evacuation May all Fables and Dreams of impossibilities be henceforth utterly exiled from the Confines of the sacred Art of Healing 33. Whatsoever therefore is distilled from the head upon the jawes is the Muccus or ordinary excrement of the brain either in its naturall and due constitution or altered from it into various irregularities respective to the indispositions of the Custos or Praesident of those parts But this Muccus is in totality of essence distinct from that Excrement expectorated from the Lungs by Cough And then what means this rash inadvertency of the Schools when they direct that by exact inspection we examine the spitle by Cough whether it be watery frothy diaphanous liquid white concreted yellow ash-coloured or tawny whether round globular of a consistence fit for impetuous defluxion To what purpose say I doe they command us to make our augurie and explorations of the Diseases of the Chest and Lungs if as themselves opinion those excrements we spit up be Catarrhs and originally derived from the head For so a rheum following upon some constipation of the os Ethmoides or spongy bone by the Muccus ordinarily descending into the nostrils would be diluted with a crude and aqueous Muccus for this cause that provident Nature would hither send a plentifull torrent of the Latex for the ablution of that whose thicknesse and viscidity caused the obstruction And if the materiall cause hereof be primitively deduced from the stomack why when the spongy bone is obstructed doth the stomack of a man perfectly in health grow outragious play the tyrant and oppresse the brain with too great a charge of vapours How can those vapors when condensed above the palate arrive at the odoratorie Nerves seated in the forehead and there put on the form of a salt water to wash and rince away the obstruction from the spongie bone From whence can vapours of their own nature insipid and harmlesse in their short passage only acquire so much salt which they should melt and precipitate downwards together with themselves and by this new acrimonious impraegnation introduce frequent squinancies and other inflammations of the throat and jawes 34. Why doth this rheum elevated formerly from the stomack and by no other transmutation but only a bare Condensation into water which is demonstrated by the mechanick experiments of Pyrotechny to be necessarily insipid and gentle changed from its primitive consistence of a vapour when once it falleth upon the stomack occasion so many and grievous mischiefs therein which yet not long before during its commixture with other parts of the Chyle was gratefull and benefieiall to the same Whence can it obtain this Hostility What from the Brain one of the most noble parts of the body and richly endowed with vitall principles And if this Vapour hath only touched upon the lowest Plane of the brain as themselves affirme and instantly fall down from thence so soon as it multiplies up to the quantity of one single drop and since no third place can be found to deteine each successive drop therefore can this perversity or evill tincture arise unto this rheum neither from the momentany stay in the plane of the brain nor from the Contagion of any malignant part nor finaly from any seminality or infusion of depravity received from thence Unlesse perchance they shall be able to give in evidence that besides the bare condensation of the vapour into rheum there intervened some Third causality from which the Acrimony saltnesse and virulency of the Defluxion was derived which hitherto they have neglected to prove 35. But since the numerous Comments concerning Catarrhs and Pulmonary maladies have grown up into huge Volumes Councels and Dispensatories I conceive it my proper businesse to declare that no theory of the Schools was ever more full of negligence absurdity and danger then this of Defluxions on this account that hitherto they have esteemed no sinne more veniall then Homicide committed out of incogicancy and circumspection provided that the earth cover over their Crimes and they become excused of murder upon the allegation of some Axiomes of vulgar tradition And hence amids my compassionate meditations have I thought that the Devil * Moloch fits Doctor of the Chair and hath down to our daies infatuated the world with the whimsey of Catarrhs Whose materiall Cause Nativity Place of conception Efficient manner of Generation receptary progresse and collection are equally unwarrantable by truth because absolutely impossible in nature These absurd doctrines therefore none hath broached and promulgated but the old

Serpent the Father of lies with designe to depopulate Humanity For whatever distils from the head is the native Muccus and pure Excrement of the brain generated within its proper confines and no forreigner brought in from the stomack 36. This Muccus is constantly white thick viscid and innoxious while the Custos or Lord President of the head continues sober well disposed and conformes its dominion to the wholsome Statutes of its primitive trust but when it degenerates into exorbitancies and irregular operations and the powers committed to its administration are perverted into abuses then doth the Muccus grow unnaturall wild watery acute salt sharp yellow tenacious c. and like a virulent torrent shower down upon the palate from the funnel of the brain by the most convenient and obvious floodgate 37. For that matter which in the beginning of a cold or pose in the head trickles down in the form of a thin water is not simply and meerly the muccus but salt Latex wherewith nature endeavours to rince away that excrementitious Phlegme which as a forraine adversary hath encroached upon the spongie bone bordering upon the brain and obstructed its sluices as I have already hinted Nor is that matter which comes yellow and viscid in the declination or exit of a Cold the same with the first Latex nor any the smallest measure of time deteined and inspissated in the same place as the Schools notwithstanding confidently teach since if so the whole cavity of the skull though all the brains were taken out would not suffice to the reception of so vast a quantity of Excrement but this new kind of Muccus is freshly created every successive moment and differs from the naturall and healthy Muccus in diversity of colour stinke viscidity and acrimony Besides its ridiculous to apprehend this putrid Muccus under the notion of an excrement well concocted and inspissated out of the former Latex which is accidentally advenient praeternaturall and depends upon a forrein vitious causality Now that the Latex makes the first flood in a cold is manifest from this observation that alwaies for two daies in every cold the belly is more slow in the exclusion of its excrements and the quantity of urine much diminished which clearly evinceth that the salt current is in part diverted upon the brain Again this Latex evaporated in a convenient vessell by a gentle heat containeth nothing in its consistence that can be inspissated into a thicknesse equall to that of the Muccus but how much of the Muccus the Latex shall dilute and rince away from the spongy bone by its thinner stream exactly so much and no more of a mucilage or glutinous substance may be found in it 38. But however it be and whatever that be which slides down from the Brain upon the Palate and root of the tongue yet cannot the least single drop thereof enter into the Lungs but before it descend so low it must endanger the life by suffocation For if one drop of liquor slipping down the aspera Arteria or Wind-pipe unawares whilst we are drinking threaten the deplorable Fate of Anacraeon * what would not so great a quantity of rheume as is frequently rejected by Cough even to the filling of severall basons in a very short time doe as to the inference of suffocation And far from the sober and rationall waies of Probability must his credulity wander who can submit to a perswasion that the sleep of a few short houres can insensibly convey whole basons full of rheume into the Lungs and that so impetuous a flood of Phlegme can run down through the narrow chink of the Epiglottis or Flap of the Larinx without the manifest hazzard of praefocation In the daies of yore I ingeniously confesse being deluded by the sophistry of the schools during my pedantisme and credulous pupillage I disposed my patients afflicted with affections of the Lungs into such a posture as that laying their faces downward upon their pillows they might sleep in a prone position with designe that the rheume forsooth might run out by the Nostrils which would otherwise have flowed into the Lungs and upon this score I promised immunity from the perill of Defluxions But the following morne derided my ignorance and folly with an argument borrowed from the constant perseverance of the Cough and exscreation of rheum For then did I discover that an Orthopnaea or extreame difficulty of Respiration which constrains men to fetch their breath in an erect posture put but a slight valew upon the doctrine of Catarrhs and amply convinced it as frivilous and inconsistent with truth Since I observed many to be strangled in that prone and horizontall position which yet was with great gravity and confidence prescribed by the Schools as the only barracado or damm to intercept the antecedent matter of the Catarrh Upon which observation I first built this justifiable position that every particular member of the body once disaffected doth forge and coyne a very great quantity not onely of its naturall and ordinary excrement but also of new alien and adverse 39. Thus from the eyes according to the variety of their disaffections trickle down continued rills of a purulent effluxion or of salt and corrosive tears let forth with out the key of passion and when the Throat is blockt up by a squinaney there continually hangs downe a rope of viscid Phlegme from the tongue And upon this root grew that branch of my judgement that the Lungs are equally subject to the same law with other members So that as often as they are assauled irritated injured wounded oppressed or tainted by any inquination of the aer or contagion of malignant vapours belched from the sulphureous and bituminous bowels of Mines so often must they produce various testimonials of their present langour upon the credit of their own irregularities and not that upon any such occasion those so destructive and venenate excrements can fall insensibly from the brain whose integrity of constitution remains for the most part in such Cases inviolate and be received amongst the slender Conduits of the Windpipe And hence grew my Wonder also how the Schools could observe that the matter running from the nostrils in a Cold did in the declination or Catastrophe much degenerate from what it was in the Prologue and first act and imitate the proper and ordinary excrement of the brain and yet at the same time not discover that the same perversion or abuse of power lay in Common to the Lungs aswell as to other members of the body According to their rule whatever is avoyded from the he Lungs must be fathered upon the brain must thence fall downe insensibly ridiculous into the Windpipe there by a certain pepasmus * or maturation be stewed into a consistence more sit for its future exantlation and all that while be lodged in the small-bored pipes of the Lungs without causing any intense Anhelation or difficulty of breathing When alas

disquisitions or further explorations but onely to order their Cures according to the antique and thredbare Theorems of Physick And though they cannot but observe their Practice shame their confidence and the successe fall short of what their specious Canons promise yet doe they not blush to veile over their bloody ignorance nor feel compunction at their inhumane resolve that they had rather their afflicted Patients should still remain suspended betwixt the calamities of the Disease on one side and the more murderous tortures of their Purgers on the other then take the pains to study and explore any more rational and probable means of their redresse And sober truth makes me confesse it so many Myriads of Incogitancies and Absurdities could never have thus long continued in the Schools consisting of men so acute judicious prudent and experienced among whom I as willingly as justly confesse my selfe the most despicable and unworthy had they been pleased to abate any thing of their implicite subscription and recede the lest step from the Axioms of Pagans But alas they are closely besieged by the grand enemy of primitive truth who holds them captived to the tyranny of his Delusions by the chain either of Arrogancy Incircumspection Cruelty Avarice Lazinesse Stupidity or in fine of shame to be reformed Good Jesu when wilt thou be pleased to cast this devil out of the Schools when will the measure of these fatall evils be full and the Vintage of these soure Grapes come that at length by the comfortable sun-shine of thy truth this Aegyptian night may be exhaled and this mist of horrid calamities that sits heavy on the heads of all the wretched sonnes of Adam be dispelled Thy answer is there can be no remedy for his blindnesse who wilfully and stubbornly shuts his eyes against the light of a confessed verity Therefore Just God! all things are just thou dost approve Thou unmov'd Rule of Truth and Font of Love But since we scorn'd thy wiser Lawes t' obey Wee 'r made to Fools a Scorn to Quacks a Prey 54. Some Anatomists there are who have dissected a living Dog and when they came to the Larynx drenched him with milke or other broth tinged with Saffron or Bole Armeniack to the end they might perceive whether any part of the liquor entered the lungs and found that a very small quantity thereof gave a tincture to the sides of the Aspera Arteria On this they cried out that there must be an insensible and ordinary descent of excrements from the brain into the Lungs and enacted for an establisht truth that Lambatives since they are carried immediately into the Larynx and thence slide down into all the most slender and remote tubes of the Aspera Arteria must be the sole and extreme remedy of Consumtions and the most prevalent means to Consolidate Vlcers in the Lungs An experiment in troth of very much cruelty to the Dogge but of farre more cruelty and unhappy consequence to Man since at the perswasion hereof the Schools have delivered it from hand to hand * down to posterity as an impraegnable verity and making erroneous and unjustisiable inductions upon mistaken and onely imaginary positions have subscribed unto fopperies so pernicious For First what can they expect that Syrups and Lambatives should doe in the slender branches or divarications of the Aspera Arteria more then inevitably introduce the mischiefe of obstructions To what end therefore should these fulsome Loochs naturally and ordinarily affect that way of descent into the lungs or be transmitted thither or there entertained since in that place they can neither be digested nor changed into good and nutritive or balsamicall juyce nor yet conduce to the cure of either the purulent effluxions from ulcers or viscid Muccus expectorated And further if some part of our liquor should ordinarily drop into the lungs then would the ordinary spitle of healthy men savour of the broths eaten or syrups lickt down And although our first spitle sometimes relish of the syrups or other liquid remedies newly swallowed down yet such ariseth not from the Lungs but Palate and other parts seated in vicinity to the jawes nor doe the succeeding salivous rejections for that reason confesse an inquination or tincture of such Lambatives as in another case the succeeding spitle returns fuliginous exhalations or fumes received into the Lungs a good while after their first admission Again were this feazible then would any man who should lick up severall ounces of Syrup in one evening be ere many minuts reduced to the bosome of his cold grandmother by the inevitable destruction not onely of an Asthma but even of suffocation ensuing for a part of those Syrups must fill up and choak the great pipe or cavity of the rough arterie Seriously our wonder may be excused if we stand amazed how the Schools seduced by so blew and dull an experiment of a Dogge have baulked the observation that this coloured broth or Milk died with Saffron was rapt down in the Larynx not by the ordinary way of Deglutition but unawares and preposterously the poore distracted animal howling amids his torments and so opening the Epiglottis Not that the same is done of custome in healthy or frequently observed in rheumatick persons For precisely if a man in an extreme fit of the stone endeavouring to make water doth chance unwittingly to open the porthole of his arse and confront an Irish man must it therefore be the proper function of the Sphincter of the bladder when it relaxeth it selfe and gives way to the efflux of the urine ordinarily also to unlock the sphincter of the port Aesquiline For t is no rarity for parts of the body when their oeconomie is infringed and disturbed into tumult and confusion by excessive pain and torture to perform their functions depravedly and draw other parts also to which they are allied by vicinity of situation or connexion into the same disorder and irregularity Their beliefe had been more securely placed upon that History of one suffocated with a small fether and of another with a haire unfortunately slipping into the rough arterie For so had they stood confirmed without dispute or haesitancy that the Lungs can never admit any forraigne intrusion or receive the smallest grain without considerable dammage and hazardous anxiety nay that such as are afflicted with difficulty of respiration can by no means endure so much as fragrant suffumigations for reasons alledged by us in our discourse de Blas humano * If therefore Suffumigations and aromatick exhalations such as promise a gratefull succour to the Lungs in their oppressions be injurious and burdensome what will not grosser and slimy Lambatives do though we grant them to arrive at the lower vessels of the lungs with all their vertue and efficacy about them No man that ever saw but one dissection will deny that when ever any thing is swallowed down into the stomack at the same instant the Larynx is shut close by the