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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80002	Miscelanea medica, or, A supplement to kitchin-physick to which is added a short discourse on stoving and bathing : with some transient and occasional notes on Dr. George Thompsons galino-mempsis.	Cock, Thomas.	1675 (1675)	Wing C4793; ESTC R27091	11,889	68

Miscelanea Medica OR A SUPPLEMENT TO Kitchin-Physick To which is added A short DISCOURSE ON STOVING AND BATHING WITH Some transient and occasional Notes on Dr. George Thompsons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nec lex est justior ulla Quam necis artificis arte perire sua LONDON Printed in the year 1675. HIPPOCRATIS GALENI FAUTORIBUS Speciatim Erudito viro mihique observando Thomae Austen Armigero Mei amicissimo Necnon Egregiè Doctis J. N. T. S. Medicinae Doctoribus PEllae● Juveni Cultor non sufficit unus Duos igitur tanto Heroi diversi generis obtigisse memoriae traditur Craterum scilicet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hephestionem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ab eodem appellatos Quorum ille quidem Regem hic vero Alexandrum coluisse dicitur Mihi quoque in publicum prodeunti analogo quopiam multo magis opus esse quis dubitet Repertis enim libelli causae quam tractat justissimae patronis idoneis alios etiam Scriptoris protectores exquirendos facile persensi Nec mora Vos enim viri egregii illico mihi in mentem rediistis unde quidem ut verius dicam nunquam abestis qui me vestra familiaritate olim dignati sic me sic mea omnia utcunque tenuia estimatis vel laudare vel saltem excusare parati estis ut aliis hunc tractatum inscribere vel alios mei Defensores adoptare nefas duxerim De meipso more Chymicorum speciatim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 G. T. multa promittere modestia non patitur quamvis mihi non sum tam suffenus ut quidquam de me magnoperè pollicear in utraque tamen Academiâ educato exactis etiam viginti propè annis in studio praxi Medicinae Chymiae Anatomiae liceat mihi dicere me non prorsus ignarum esse plurimorum sive Dogmatum sive Experimentorum quae alicujus in hâc arte momenti sunt Quapropter navem solvendi hunc oceanum discurrendi copiam facile mihi dandam confido gratum aliquid utile humano generi exponere studenti Valete viri egregiè docti Accipite hoc offerentem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pergite mihi quod semper facitis indulgere meique patrocinium suscipere dignemini perpetuo favete Addictissimo Vestri T. C. Miscelanea Medica OR A SUPPLEMENT TO Kitchin-Physick The Second Part. ALL Physicians whom we ought most to confide in do conclude and have determined it as a most undoubted Truth to cure with contraries and preserve with Cordials according to that confirm'd Aphorism of contraria contrariis curantur Similia similibus conservantur Paracelsus Theophrastus Bombastus Van-Helmont and some of their late conceited Disciples without taking any notice of this distinction do morbum morbo curare and venture to attempt the putting out of fire with fire Or curing hot Diseases with hot Medicines and consequently cold Diseases with cold Hippocrates Galen and their more aged Off-spring on the other hand judge it more reasonable and practicable to put out fire with water and to subdue the cold effects of water by heat or fire and to this end if the Disease be hot and dry as a Fever they advise such Food and Physick as is cold and moist and hot and dry Meats and Medicines to subdue a disease that is moist and cold never neglecting as is supposed by the Chymist to supply Nature though not the Disease with convenient delightful and proper Cordials always remembring not to nourish but to oppose a Disease with things that remove or alter it by their qualities We are much beholden to the temperament and qualities of things for the preservation of our health and curing Diseases nor is there through the benignity and bounty of God any accident or distemper but hath its remedy assigned it by the matter form temperament or qualities of Medicines knew we but certainly how and when to apply them and therefore it is that Physiology and all the five parts of Physick are more absolutely necessary than the most exalted and accurate Medicines of the Chymist and though by some who know the vulgar neither do nor will know any thing but what is vulgar the Galenist and Chymist are represented as two distinct different and inconsistent things yet 't is certain they both serve but to make up one intire Artist And I could tell you Eugenius not only of some Physicians but some also of your own profession that can compare if not out-do the greatest Don and Heroes as they think themselves of the Chymical and Hermetick Sect And because you may depend upon it for a Truth that all Diseases and Remedies may as well and better be comprehended under some of the simple or compound Qualities than any other invented Idea Name or Notion whatever of the conceited Chymist to this very end the foregoing Chapters in the first Part have given you a practical account of such things as do preserve by their agreement with Nature and cure by their contrariety to the Disease and not to advise people to a Diet that is answerable to their Disease and Physick they are prescribed is to ruine them nor are they by any but conceited Practitioners and Humorists to be left at large to feed as they think sit on old Cheese Red-herring or to inflame themselves with the more subtil and penetrating Spirits of Brandy Punch and Aqua Vitae which though at first they seem to content Nature and exalt the Archeus or vital and natural heat of our bodies yet they so alter also the natural tone temper and ferments of the pancreas blood and stomach that in a little time they leave them languid faint and vappid By these things the Chymist may for a while seemingly make his Archeus or Nature blaze the better but like a Torch with often beating it will certainly burn out the sooner and 't is rare to find any accustomed Brandy or Aqua vitae Bubber when once sick ever to recover because the frequent use of such things make all other Cordials useless and invalid in time of sickness and when Nature should stand most in need of them Besides they either at first so inflame the vital Spirits as to produce such acute sharp and sudden Diseases as Fevers Apoplexies and the like or else in time as one fire puts out another they extinguish the vital heat and moisture and thereby occasion such chronick and fatal Diseases as Gouts Dropsies Palsies Hecticks Scorbuts Consumptions and death it self In short our blood and spirits may as well be too much agita●ed as idle and the volatil Salts may stand in as much need of fixing as the fixed Salts of volatizing nor is their less danger in one than the other and how the Chymist only with his hot fiery Cordial Spirits at one and the same time can serve two such different Masters I understand not and must herein submit to better judgements than my own and surely such a modest

the temperaments of Aliments and from our Aliments come the four humours call'd Choler Phlegm Blood and Melancholy and out of these humours the parts and from those parts the whole or what we call a humane body and when any of these four temperaments or humours are extinct deprav'd or hurt in Quantity Quality or Motion then follows Sickness and Death So that in effect Life and Death and every mans temper and constitution depends more or less upon the Aliments he feeds on and the humours themselves are nothing more than the effect of food v. g Choler is the fomes of blood made of Aliments over digested and concocted and serves to ferment agitate or brisk up the constipated Ideas of the Archeus Flegm is made of Food for want of natural heat not enough concocted and bridles choler and keeps the blood and humours from burninig tames and fixes the Spirits and makes the body cool fat moist and soluble Blood is made of Food perfectly elaborated to augment and nourish the parts good Food makes good Blood and good Blood makes good Flesh So that in effect Flesh and Blood is only good Food Melancholy is the Terra damnata The Devil the thick and drossie part of Food and Blood and was intended by Nature to bridle the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the fomes or froth of sperm and spirits to temper rage and lust to compose the thoughts and imaginations but being deprav'd it works contrary effects as we see in our friend Mempsis From this little representation of man an intelligent and considering person may find out as easily as by the Idaeas Atomes or Magots in the Archeus how we come by Diseases our dissolution and death and also how necessary a direct and due diet such a diet as may answer to the four temperaments and humours of our bodies choler phlegm blood and Melancholy how necessary this I say is for the preventing and curing Diseases as might be farther amplified but that I must avoid prolixity that the Book may not be too chargeable for the poor Or else it might be made evident that a diet may be collected not only to heat cool dry and moisten but also to Bind Thicken Lenifie Relax Thin Revel Restore Deobstruate Resist Poyson And all things else that Pharmacy it self can necessarily lay claim to towards the conservation of man But this will not consist with a short essay and therefore as concisely as the subject will permit I shall only add a description of the Nature Use and Vertues of an Artificial Bath and stove hereunto annex'd with which our Ambrosiopaeas and a proper Diet may be performed as much as can reasonably be expected from the means What a help it is to Nature to throw off by sweat those saline acid sulphureous and corrosive particles of blood which are the root of all Diseases is manifested by the daily experience of such as are daily relieved by it in Gouts Scorbuts Hecticks the Evil Palsies and the like as it helps thus to discharge the Serum Salsum the salt sharp and watery parts of blood by the skin how far this I say may extend it self both for the preventing and curing many potent Diseases when Diet and other Remedies are deficient and cannot do it I leave to the bounty of a prudent and liberal conception It is so contriv'd that 't is impossible for the patient to take cold to faint or sweat beyond their strength and own inclinations nor is there any nuissance in it that is incident to Stoving or sweating in other Baths Place here the Figure AN APPENDIX OR Practical Cautions AND DIRECTIONS To be observed about STOVING AND BATHING STtoving and Bathing are two different things the first may not improperly be call'd a dry Bath the other a wet and when ever you meet with the word Bath you are to understand sweating in something that is liquid as luke-warm Milk Milk and Water or only warm water or water prepared with ingredients proper for the diseased person Note also that a Bath with very hot water drys more than it moistens and contracts the skin and pores rather than relax or open them and serves to supply the intention of a cold Bath or bathing in cold water with such parts persons as cannot safely go into cold water But a Bath of heated tepid or warm water is of so great a latitude that it extends it self to most Diseases and serves to use the words of a learned Author on this subject Dr. J. F. effectually more than any thing Physick is prescribed for to defecate the blood and humours to mollifie the hardness of the Spleen and bowels to moisten cool and nourish a hot and dry constitution and liver to rarifie and resolve also all cold congealed humours and to prevent Barrenness and miscarrying that is occasioned by any intemperies of cold heat or dryness When you meet with the word Stove you are to understand sweating as in a Hot-house without any thing that is moist and liquid You will also sometimes find the word Vaporarium used in this Appendix the meaning of which will be known hereafter The Romans were most addicted to Bains or Baths the Lacedemonians Russians Germans and most Northern Nations to Stoves The Turks French and Italians use both Baths and Stoves and as soon as they come out of the Stove they enter into a Bain or Bath of warm water to wash away the recrements slime mador or mud as it were that stoving without bathing is apt to leave upon the skin By this means also the skin is not only made pure clean and smooth but also plump and fleshy and according as the Bath may be dulcified and prepared it will nourish feed and refresh the limbs and musculous parts more than food nor is there any thing to be done by the natural Baths at Bathe but may be also performed by artificial Baths of Sulphur Bitumen Nitre c. and being advisedly used they do as manifestly answer the expectation of the patient as any remedies whatever in order to which observe these few Directions 1. Never Stove when the blood wants ferment or according to the Notion of the Chymist when the fixed salts of the blood have over-ruled the volatil as in Dropsies and some sorts of Scurvies But when the Sulphur of the blood is too much exalted the fomes of most acute diseases or acrimony and acidity has insinuated it self into the Mass and yet the blood not vapid then the Stove is a proper and most effectual remedy Or more plainly according to the significant apparent and practical meaning of the Galenist Stoving is not so proper and beneficial for weak lean hot hectick dry cholerick maciated melancholy and squalid bodies as bathing nor bathing for cold moist fat corpulent plethorick phlegmatick hydropick constitutions and diseases as stoving The Stove is most proper for the Spring Autum and Winter the Bath for the heat of Summer the Vaporarium is neither bathing nor stoveing