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virtue_n	draw_v	iron_n	loadstone_n	1,525	5	13.0457	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

done by another weapon A reason also should be given why the Oyntment should not worke the same effect being in the box which it will doe being annointed on the weapon Neyther can it be as they say that the force of this Oyntment should bee carryed to the wound by the helpe of the Balsome which is in the blood For if that blood it selfe should be reduced into Atomes it were not able to reach through such a great distance Neyther yet they proved that the blood can send forth any such species and if by the benefit of the blood the power of this Salve is carryed to the wound why then should it not carry to the wound the efficacy of other things on which the blood of the wounded is divers times shed which we see is not done As for those things which in particular they alledge of the Secundines and first menstruous blood of Maides and determine that if any abuse bee done to them the women also suffer those things are to be ascribed to the Superstitions of women For if in mankinde the Secundines of women being cast into some sordid place doe annoy the party why is it not so in Brutes when their Secundines are cast into the mire and rot Besides in what place soever these Secundines be buried yet they doe putrifie notwithstanding Why doe not the exuberant lumps of flesh which women burne doe hurt to the women Why doth the first menstruous bloud being burnt annoy the Virgin and not other that commeth after Therefore these things being so wee need not seriously to dispute what power is in this Oyntment for the cure of a wound seeing hitherto we have sufficiently proved that none commeth from the Oyntment to the wound and if this have any power eyther of preserving or cherishing the temper of nature or heate of the part which they call Balsome or drying up excrements they might better apply it to the wounded part then annoint it on the Weapon Moreover if the power and strength of this Oyntment consist in the Fat or bloud of man as some would have it why then doe many of them apply it to the wounds of some Beasts for example of Horses For how great a difference is there betweene a Man and a Horse But now whereas Crollius and some others that I omit not their conceit draw the power of this Oyntment from the Heavens and therefore would have it made in some certaine Position thereof neyther doth this further their cause For they have not yet proved that there is any power of healing eyther in the Heaven or in the Starres or if there were that they so communicate it to this Ointment that it beeing as it were shut up and kept close may bee carried up and downe and when they please bee produced into use Moreover for the manner of using this Oyntment it hath no ground neyther is it without Superstition For first when they make the whole cause of the Cure to bee that the power of this Oyntment is convayed to the wound by reason of that naturall Balsome which is in the blood why then doe they annoint that weapon with which a man was wounded or another weapon or a piece of wood besmeared with the bloud of the wound and doe not annoint the shirt or some other garment of the affected person or a stone or any thing else upon which the bloud is powred if there be not some implicite compact contracted with the Divell And then if the wound bee made by a Stab or point-wise they annoint the weapon on the point towards the Hilt and if with a blow from the edge towards the back and if it may be seene how farre the sword hath penetrated the wound then they annoynt it so farre as it hath penetrated if not they annoint it all which things are superstitious whereof no reason can be given If the power of this Oyntment bee Naturall what effect doth that manner of annoynting produce whether doth it adde any new power or quality If the vertue be naturall there needs no Ceremonies as appeareth in all naturall things The Loadstone draweth Iron and the Iron touch'd with the Loadstone maketh towards the Pole without using any Ceremonies Moreover some annoynt the Weapon once every day some annoint it every other day some every third day some onely once others lest they should faile in the annointing of it doe for a perfect Cure bury the Weapon or a Sallow sticke that is instead of it in the Oyntment which is left in a Boxe but they neglect the Weapon who wholly cover it or that which is instead of it in the Oyntment Others when they have annointed the Weapon keepe it in some temperate place others shut it up in a Chest and all of them take care that the Weapon be not in a place too hot or too cold and that it bee not soyl'd with any durtinesse For if this happen it hindreth the Cure and brings great paine to the affected and wounded person All which things are frivolous and superstitious For seeing that it hath beene sufficiently proved that there is no action of this Weapon salve on the wound being farre asunder from the wound neyther can it cause any Griefe And therefore if it happen according to the desire of him that useth the Medicine it is done by the helpe of the Divell Doubtlesse the bloud of wounded persons is not alwayes spilt in cleane places but sometimes in foule ones it is frozen in Winter the bloody Rags are wash'd in warme water Sticks sprinkled with the bloud are burned and yet the wounded person feeles no hurt Finally they ascribe very impossibilities to this Oyntment and such operations which in one naturall medicine cannot be found For they affirme that all Wounds made with a stab or with a blow by a fall or by a throw may bee cured by this Oyntment But great is the diversity of Wounds according to their severall circumstances and so not one onely Salve but divers are requisite to their Cure A Wound made with a sharpe-pointed weapon is cured without the generation of much corruption But in that which is bruised whatsoever is bruised must needs turne to corruption There is great diversity also in the parts A wound in a fleshy part especially in a sound and well-temper'd man is easily cured but farre more difficult is it to cure a wound given in the Braine Nerves Sinewes Ligaments especially the great Ligaments as those of the Hams They promise also to cure wounds without any Paine which in every part to performe is impossible Verily if a Nerve be prick'd no man can performe that the Patient shall not be pained And therefore to conclude this businesse the cure of a wound which is ascribed to the Weapon-salve is for the most part the worke of meere Nature which not onely cureth small wounds but very great ones which appeares from this that there are such divers descriptions of this Weapon-salve and that some instead of this compounded Weapon-salve use onely Lard or Hogs-grease and yet neverthelesse have cured wounds which the fore-cited Iohan. Colerus in his Oeconom in the place before cited affirmeth hee hath seene But if by the application of this Oyntment any very great wound bee cured so that it seeme to surpasse the strength of Nature this Cure is atchieved by the helpe or power of the Divell himselfe drawne thereto by some close or open compact Neither doth it take away the suspicion hereof will some say namely that all the simples used in the composition of this Oyntment are meerely naturall and that no Characters Conjuratians or Charms are used in the making or using thereof For the Divell can conceale his compact not onely under Characters and Consecrations and a set forme of words but also under naturall causes if at his command things naturall which are used in the first and explicite Covenant to the which covenant others implicitely which use the same things may unawares interpose themselves are us'd to another use then they were created of good and so Magicall and divelish actions are covered and shifted in under the vaile of Magnetique actions It being granted then which for the most part we affirme to be done by the benefit of Nature that the wounded person is healed by this Oyntment it is not impossible but credible that the Divell may some way helpe the body that he may destroy the soule Seeing he is mans greatest enemy and by every way that he can is ready to hurt him and therefore as much as in him lyes he draweth man from God our bountifull Creatour and from meanes ordained by him to things full of Superstition FINIS

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