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Aimatiasis, or, The true way of preserving the bloud in its integrity, and rectifying it, if at any time polluted and degenerate wherein Dr. Willis his errour of bleeding is reprehended, and offered to be confuted by practice and frequent experiments : and certain opinions of Dr. Betts in physick rejected and proved dangerously false ... / by George Thompson ...
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Thompson, George.
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Tarantula Mad dog or Rattle snake break the skin touching the vital juice This Archeus forthwith frames Idaeas of indignation fear sorrow c. According as the Nature of that which vulnerates it such such symptoms are evidently contriv'd by this quick sented and tasted spirit which nimbly apprehends what is nocuous and what is harmless to the life This Custos I say is ubiquitary in the body carefully watching for its preservation but it is in an extraordinary manner concentrate where the first preparation of the sanguine mass is made here the Apoplexie Epilepsie Palsie Convulsions Lethargy Scotomie Delirium Melancholly Madness Phrensie Phthysis Quinsie Peripneumonie Incubus Asthma Dyspnaea vexatious Coughs Syncope Lypothymie griping of the Guts Diarrhaea Dysuria Arthritis Gout in several parts Cachexie Dropsies the Scurvy Hypochondriack Passion all sorts of feavers continual or intermitting mild or malignant the small Pox Measils spotted Feaver the Plague Marasmus Erysipelas Phlegmous Haemorrhoides c. In this Mint they are all first coined receiving an Impress Schem or Figure according to which they act uniformly upon the Scene of this microcosm That which makes a difference of Feavers and other Diseases is the first mover extimulated from an extraneous matter Impatient withall of the Local Possession of the same for as it relisheth Excrements so it is affected fashioning in the Hypochondries 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the pourtraiture of that Ens Mâ—rbosum analogous thereunto and were there not a Discriminating fancy in the vital spirit whereby a disease is determinated to this or that kind and made to be Hoc aliquid Specificum there would necessarily be a great confusion in the Catalogue of infirmities that none could rightly and distinctly understand the Diganôsis the true Knowledge of them but in a preposterous manner should mistake one for another becoming uncapable to applicate and appropriate Remedies according to the Nature of what infests us Sith then it is otherwise that the symptoms of the falling sickness Lethargy Peripneumone Asthma c. do constantly evidently discover the species and essence of the Disease this can never be but from an efficient material cause or Principle above the four humours of the Galenists or the three principles of Paracelsus and his Sectary Dr. Willis who adds to Sal sul and ☿ Water and Earth But how far from solid truth we shall ere long examine As for the former opinion it is at this day exploded by most Scient Philosophers who have rejected that consuming Ens which they would have to make up one of their four Elements and consequently the four humors as a meer fictitious conceit fetched from the Utopian Elemental Region of fire immediately next the Moon This latter opinion borrowed from the Chymists I confess seems to be plausible and very taking as if it contained some verity notwithstanding narrowly searched into and put to the fiery tryal of experimental Philosophy the infallible Lapis Lydius or touch-stone of our Works whetner they be allowed or Reprobate it will appear expresly that those so called five Chymical principles of which all bodies as Dr. Willâ—… asserts have their initiated Synthesis Cuncretion or Composition and into which their Analysis Dissolution is made are not the essential efficient and materil cause of diseases I cannot subscribe to what Dr. Willis positively delivers as a truth in capii de ferment that Corpora quaevis è Spiritu Sulphure Sale Aqua Terra constare i. e. Every body consists of Spirit Salt Sulphur Water and Earth and according as is the different motion and measure of these in Concretes so is the beginning and end of every thing with the diversity of their fermentations to be considered I would willingly know of Dr. Willis as expert an Anatomist as he is in the dissection of Nature when ever he discovered visibly all these five principles in any body whatsoever without the torture and corruption of the whole If these can be otherwise extracted and demonstrated to me by him I shall become more inclinable to his opinion but sith I am sure he cannot I have very good reason to maintain that these parts separated from Bodies by the fire were never actually pre-existent in them but are fabricated by Vulcan and so instead of being Principles or Elements of things they become no other than Products Moreover if ever the Doctor beheld with his eyes shewing to us the same for to putatitious notions of the Brain we give no credit sith being an experimental Philosopher we hope he will not impose any thing upon us barely because he saith it these five supposed fundamental Principles produced in any living body by any heat whatsoever I shall forthwith submit to his judgment and Cure diseases according to this Hypothesis Till then he must excuse me if I tell him that the stately touring structure founded upon this Quinary Doctrine of Principles easily captivating those that look only superficially upon truth will undoubted fall to Ruine 2. These supposed quinta prima cannot be disgregated from some bodies by the fire any Art or sublunary machine of man witness Mercury which being a Homogeneous similar Ens not conspurcated or fouled with any strange matter cannot by any devise of man whatsoever be brought into the foresaid parts It may indeed be disguised several ways by additaments deluding the eye in the form of an Oil Water Salt Sulphur and Earth but they are only momentany dresses which this Proteus hath assumed no whit Real sith it may in a short time be made to retrocede to its primitive Individual Substance and Consistence Our great Philosopher Heimont declares absolutely Ex Arena silicibus saxis non calcariis sul aut ☿ nunquam trahi posse That 't is impossible to fetch out of Sand Flints and all sort of stones except Lime stones Sulphur or Mercury But he could by means of his Liquor Alkahest never to be attained by Dr. Willis or any Galeno-Chymist who dare not believe it hath an existence least it should be expected they should spare time take pains and be at Charges to acquire it he was able I say by means of this great Dissolvent to convert Sand or Stone into salt aequiponderat to its former Bulk which mechanical Probation gives more satisfaction to any intelligent Person concerning this truth than any tedious Argumentation to the contrary contrived never so subtilly and plausibly Again what spagyrical hand did ever Analyse Water not impregnated with a seed that the Quinta Prima might be made manifest The Tria Prima according to our Philosopher may be said to be in it Analogicôs but in no wise really existent therein 'T is true we often use the Etymon of 3 Prima for the distinction of those parts that have a disparity in them created by the fire yet this doth not conclude that they had their integral being in that body out of which they were extorted anamolôs No more than a Charcoal can be said to be revera in Wood Glass in
it worth my labour to collect some useful observations from this History 1 None but the absolute Spagyrical Philosopher can give any assurance of his Patients recovery in a high malignant feaver seldom erring if he come in any seasonable time neither can any but one so instituted give any certain prediction of the variety of Phaenomena several Scenes to be acted in this microcosm when ere it is put out of order and what will be the conclusion of al his sanative endeavours 2. The Spagyrist can in a shorter space with confidence without fear of a relapse remove a Pleurâ—sie or any pain of the side without bleeding far beyond the other executing the same 3. It is all one to him who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 endued wiâ—h the gift of healing whether the sick bodies veins be fuller or emptier turgid or flaccid Sith he knows it is gross preposterous folly to think to dry up a River without obstructing the fountain to save a ship from sinking neglecting to stop a great leak therein The like madness it is to draw out of the Limbs a great deal of excessive bad bloud and not to have recourse to the efficient cause thereof concentrated in the Trunk 4. The most upright genuine regular immediate way to take off the exorbitant commotion and tumult in the Archeus in the bloud so thereby to reform it is to eliminate with all expedition that sordid apostatized yellow green clammy filth adhering to the Tunicles of the stomach like Bird-line or transmitted from the parts circumjacent especially the spleen to open the passages of the Hypochondries obstructed to carry off through all the Emunctories of the whole body whatsoever is not under the Guardian-ship of Life This is to be done by that which Antimalignant cleansing away 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whaâ— is really excrementitious not what is so made in great part by deletery Laxatives of the shops 5. The only noted sluce through which the poisonous matter of all malignant feavers passes away is the universal memorane the skin on the which the stomach hath no small influence governâ—…g this Catholick Coat at its pleasure â—n so much no successful sweat or eruption can be expâ—cted as long as the Duumvirate lies prostrate under any insulting calamity Wherefore the arch design of the Pysician is to cherish corroborate and remove all impediments of this eminent part that it may protrude explode or ejaculate from its bosom to the utmost limits whatsoever is virulent closely supplanting the fortress of life Now whether bleeding be any competent Medium to achieve this let any one infferently versed in the knowledge of the Pest be judge wherein no honestable Artist dare open a vein because it will attract the miasm inward hindring the extrinsecal motion of the Archeus for the expulsion of what is mortiferous Albeit our Phlebotomists do extenuate the matter setting a fair gloss upon it by their sophistical evasions pretending that in malignant feavers of the inferiour Class Plethorick or cachomchymick indications do manifestly require their utmost assistance before that inconsiderable venom lying occult I must by their favour be bold to tell them they will never solidly and speedily make a sanation of any great feaver or any other disease till they handle it in some manner proportionable to the plaugue For there is quiddam Deleterium a certain venenosity in most maladies as I can prove ex facto Had a vein been opened in this Plethorick Cachochymick Merchant when I first undertook him as I make no question most of that Sect would have strait consented thereto they had infallibly destroyed him sith all their medicines could never have expiated their first Crime of retraction and fixation of that within which by the Dowry of prevalent Remedies afterward appeared without Moreover I deliver it faithfully I have not acording to these ten years strict observation seen any one firmly evade a vehement feaver unless there hath been an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 efflorescence or breaking forth of something in the surface of the body which cooling Julips Posset-drink made only with small Beer Barley Water c. repress 6. The great offence the Galenists still lay to my charge is that my Medicines are too hot and violent where the sulphureous particles are advanced preter-natural fermentation promoted and so the feaver encreased This they would fain have granted without any proof thinking it enough for their purpose to buzz it continually into the vulgars ears easily seduced by their Authority How many by this false allegation have been deterred from making use of the right means I am not a little apprehensible Me thinks these men should be ashamed to censure that rashly of which they are ignorant nor will be instructed in by any clear experimental probation For if I do not ratifie by Art before my Lord Bacons Disciples that what of my Remedies they call too hot burning enflaming and violent are effectually temperate amiccable to Nature gentle in operation and far from any excessive quality in no wise causing any Dyscrasie in the bloud although they be given in a treble quantity let me be forthwith made an exile from all Artists Now upon this stumbling block of a mis-conceit that such or such things are extream hot they do infinitely err in the oblation of one part of that whereof ten ought to be given where the state of the Paâ—…ent is very hazardous as it was in the fore-menâ—…oned sick man to whom the Dr. sent for to consuâ—t with me after a gust of a spirituous Liquor advised a srcuple to be gâ—ven for one Dose of that which I gave some ounces otherwise I dare maintain he had perished By this it may appear how ridiculous and incogitant it is for any one to detract vilifie anothers Arcana's or impute any evil effects to that which they neither know how to make or use neither will be convinced by the Touch-stone of tryal how far its virtue and dose extends 7. I am satisfyed by the late example with some hundreds beside that sulphur clarifyed by a Philosophical hand likewise volatiles prepared as they ought I mean not the ordinary spâ—rits of Harts-horn yet of very good use have a gift bestowed upon them to subjugate atrocious feavers if they be given according to substantial not an accidental method depending upon poor beggarly momentany Heats and Colds 8. A true judicious Prognostication of the progress state and termination of a disease begets in the Patient a strong perswasion of the ability of his Physician and the sufficiency of his Remedies this invites him to take liberally of of them this large sumption of what is efficacious will in a short space alter the sad scene suggesting his restauration if he be capable thereof neither will there be need to stand gaping for a Crisis sith that may be anticipated and all secured before that time if there be a regular procession For instance this person took the greatest quantity of my remedies