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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

undigestions as they do contain strange or forreign things But they do not therefore materially contain Duelech in them altbough they do occasionally destroy digestion do imprint a rockie middle life whence the enfeebled vegetative faculty of man puts on that wild inclination But that makes nothing for the Author of Tartars For truly it is a far different thing to be made stony occasionally from a stonifying virtue of the middle life of things imprintingly and sealingly introduced into the Archeus and to be made to have the stone from Tartar melted and resolved in waters which at length in the period of dayes may re-assume its former coagulation in the drinker For this latter to be in Nature I deny but the former I affirm to be among ordinary effects But as concerning Strumaes or Kings-Evil-swellings in the Neck and swelling pimples in the face many think that they proceed from mineral waters being drunk also Paracelsus from the use of waters of an evil juyce or disposition But I could wish according to the mans own Doctrine that he may shew by the fire those evil juyces in waters whose property it is to be coagulated onely in our last digestion nor elsewhere than about the neck or throat-bone But I know that he never found in waters such a Tartar Therefore he may be condemned by his own Law wherein he gives a caution that none is to be believed but so far as he is able to demonstrate that thing by the fire I confess indeed that there is in the water a middle life whose property it is to stir up the Archeus and to infect it in the exchanging of good nourishment but not of a forreign Tartar existing in it materially into a Rockie hardness But unto Strumaes a matter is required which by the property of its own Archeus may be bred to stop up our jawes and as it were to strangle us and that without the tast of astriction or an earthly sharpness or harshness for otherwise this tast sticking fast in the bosom of the matter being ripened by the first digestion dieth and which being transchanged into nourishment and retaining the antient virtues of the middle life performs its power more about the throat than elsewhere which power being left to it by an heredicary right in nourishments and from hence in the venal bloud doth convert the nearest nourishment of solid Bodies into a Rockie excrement which goes unto the throat by a strangling faculty of the directer And I narrowly examining that thing in Germany have found Mushromes to be strong in the aforesaid poyson of strangling and that those do often grow out of the Root of a Fountain the Fir-tree and Pine-trees in steep Rocks toward the North where black Agarick an Heir of the same crime is often in the Trunk or Stem I have learned therefore that the whole Leffas or Planty juyce of the Earth is there defiled with a Mushromy disposition Therefore I have believed that hard swellings of the Neck are bred by the use of Herbs and waters which have drunk in this sort of Leffas Furthermore that an Archeal power of the middle life in things doth beget Strumaes but not a reviving ill juycy Tartar of the water the thing it self doth speak For otherwise a Struma should bewray it self no lesse in the bottom of the Belly and Liver nor more slowly than in the throat For River or ill juicy waters do not respect the throat nor should promise so great hardness Not surely should the hard swelling of the neck or throat dissolve by an astrictive and earthy Remedy whereby I have many times seen very great Strumaes or hard swellings of the Neck to have vanished away in one onely month and the strangling suddenly brought on people by a poysonous Mushrome to be cured which Remedy is on this wise Take of Sea-Sponge burnt up into a Coal 3 ounces of the bone of the Fish Sepia burnt long Pepper Ginger Pellitory of Spain Gauls Sal gemmae calcined Egg-shels of each 1 ounce mix them with the stilled water of the aforesaid Spongei and let it be dried up by degrees Take of this Powder half a dram with half an ounce of Sugar the Moon decreasing that it being melted by degrees may be swallowed Or make a Lincture or Lohoch It shall also disperse Botium or the swelling pimp●● in the face Others for want of the Sponge did take the hairy excrescency growing on wild Rose-Trees very like to the outward Rhine of the Chesnut rough and briery or hairy the powder of which alone they did use succesfully Likewise I have used an unction in Strumaes and Schirrus's Of Oyl of Bay not adulterated by Hogs-grease 8 ounces of Olibanum Mastich Gum Arabick Rosin of the Fir-tree of each 3 ounces distil them then distil them again with Pot-Ashes If therefore the hard swelling of the Neck or a hard Scirrhus elsewhere should grow together from a forreign Tartar it should rather wax hard by hot Remedies neither should it be so easily dissolved Therefore the Struma is a defect of the Archeus the transchanger and not through the coagulation of Tartar even as concerning Duelech or the stone in man I have more clearly and abundantly demonstrated For the Archeus transchangeth every masse subjected unto him unless being overcome by a more powerful middle life he shall give place Therefore the Strama is of good venal bloud on which a strangling power of the middle life is felt And Botium or the swelling pimple of the face a remedy being taken perisheth which is not for dissolving a Rockie matter if it were of Tartar brought over thither otherwise it is altogether impossible that Tartar if there should be any should conceive a breathing hole of our life be made lively be co-sitted to the members and be admitted inwards unto the last digestion conceive a ferment of the Arterial bloud but to be discussed or blown away by an unsensible transpiration as also Schirrhus's bred of vital venal bloud the aforesaid Remedy being administred But besides the contention is not about the Asses shadow for truly it is not all one to have denied Tartar to be materially in meats and drinks and likewise to remain throughout the shops of the digestions and therefore at length to be coagulated in miserable men and it is far remote from thence to admit of a thing in us to be transchanged out of a good Cream Chyle or venal bloud into an evil one by virtue of the middle life transplanting the directions of the Archeus For as there is one order of generation so also is there every where another of fore-caution and healing Therefore there is no foundation truth appearance or necessity of tartarizing For which way doth it conduce to devise Tartar to be the stubborn Prince of coagulations which oweth his Birth to a fiction For truly the dispositions coagulations and resolutions of things do depend on their own Seeds Duelech is made no lesse of the purest

they being extolled by them for the same purpose The sisters of huckstery seething and tempering or seasoning are adjoyned Therefore the Dispensatories described by the Schools and used by Physitians are commended for expedition and promptitude or readiness indeed for this cause Promptuaries or store-houses have their name but not for property and necessity To wit they having only general and universal intentions with a substituting and dispensing one thing for another Whence they are called Dispensatories In all and every one whereof the concourse and confounding of crude Simples do afford a conjectural event For the sick man is on every side for his money deceived indeed as well through the belief and deceit of the Apothecary as by the oath of Doctorship He thinking that he cannot erre deceive or be deceived who swears that he is admitted as a skilful and sufficient Physitian Ah I wish that Magistrates may prevent so great deceiving of Patients and fraud of Physitians I in the first place do greatly admire a sincere composition in Simples which is made by Gods compounding For I find in the greater Comfrey a full Remedie of a broken bone it having all things whereof that hath need Whereto if thou shalt admix Bole Vinegar or any other forreign things even as I have admonished above out of Paracelsus thou hast now corrupted the mixture ordained of God Yet as oft as any particular things have not there intent I do forthwith admit of adjoynings if the things do couplingly attain that by their conjoyning which they had not in their singularity Which is hereafter to be confirmed by a teaching experiment An example whereof is most evident in Ink and Tinctures or Dies For indeed at the time of repenting me of my studies I often considered that seeing there was in nature a certain proportion of matter unto matter and of form unto form the same proportion of properties unto properties and by consequence of effects unto effects was also kept But the composition of Simples presently taught me the defect of these where their interchangeable courses do presently enter after the co-mixt beginning of the Seed and do for the most part demolish themselves no otherwise than as the Seeds of many things being bruised and confounded together do exclude a seminal hope I afterwards knew by many labours and expences that the mattes of Remedies being advanced to a more noble dignity only by their preparation did ascend unto a degree of perfection liberty subtility and purity and did far excel the Decoctions Syrupes and Pouders of the Shops co-heaped under Honey For whosoever is well instructed in the exercises of the fire doth cleerly behold with me that there is no Medicine to be found in dispensatories which may not contain more hurt than profit For the Schooles which profess Hippocrates if they acknowledge that Diseases do proceed from sharp bitter salt or soure may see that they do wholly mask and season all things with one honey and one only sugar and do blunt the properties of Remedies otherwise weak enough in themselves as though the one and alone Medicine and top of all Diseases did stand in sweet For they answer That laxative Medicines do operate nothing the more unsuccessfully although sugared as also because they are the more acceptable to the palate and thirdly because they are thus preserved from rottenness and corruption As to that which concerns the first I grant indeed that poysons have an equal effect whether they are accompanied with sugar or are swallowed alone For truly the power of laxative things is wholly sealed in the melting of the Body as also in the putrifying of that which is melted and so that it ought to be of no credit or esteem with poyson Therefore the answer of the Schools by poysons is impertinent unto the question concerning the Remedies of Diseases as bitter sharp c. Unto the second I say that it is a frivolous answer while there is not satisfaction given unto the first They know not therefore as yet that the virtues of Remedies are changed and blunted by sugar That to many the taste of Aloes is more grateful than that of honey In the next place that those who desire to flatter the tongue yet cannot the stomack which only by the beholding abhorreth Medicines covered over with the deceit of sugar That a thing is more easily taken in some liquor in a few drops and is more freely digested or concocted within than being seasoned with plenty of sugar Again that things being immingled with a convenient liquor do the more fully or piercingly enter than being overwhelmed with much sugar That sugar although it be grateful to healthy persons yet it presently becomes horried unto sick folkes being hostile in most Diseases of the stomack and womb but that in other Diseases it oft-times makes the help of the adjoyned Medicine ridiculous or vain For sugar is diametrically opposite to the soure ferment of the stomack and therefore it causeth the more difficult digestions For sugar is clarified with the Lixivium of Calx vive and Potters earth For if the Schooles had known the sharpness of the spirit of honey and the stinking dregginess of sugar they had been content with a more sparing use of them among the sick Lastly unto the third I say that the Schooles herein confess their ignorance that they know not how to preserve Medicines from corruption without a pickling and gelding of their virtues The deceit therefore of Syrupes is sufficiently discovered which are made onley by boyled Simples honey or sugar being added Hitherto at length that tendeth that Vegetables do only lay aside their juice and muscilage by boyling in waters Which crude and impure things do impose their troubles on the stomack before that they being digested with the honey do appoint us to be heirs of their virtues Especially because the gumminess of herbes is fryed with the honey and sugar becomes ungrateful and troublesome to the stomack and by boyling a notable waste is made of its virtues I praise my bountiful God who hath called me into the Art of the fire out of the dregs of other professions For truly Chymistry hath its principles not gotten by discourses but those which are known by nature and evident by the fire and it prepares the understanding to pierce the secrets of nature and causeth a further searching out in nature than all other Sciences being put together and it pierceth even unto the utmost depths of real truth Because it sends or lets in the Operator unto the first roots of those things with a pointing out the operations of nature and powers of Art together also with the ripening of seminal virtues For the thrice glorious Highest is also to be praised who hath freely given this knowledge unto little ones I also seldom use Remedies fetcht from beyond the Seas or from the utmost part of the East as knowing that the Almighty hath made all Nations of the earth capable of

Bloud putrifies yellow Choler is made and that it is false that a Cholagogal or Extracter of Choler for examples sake cures Cholerick Diseases and that it is a deceit in those who say Choler is drawn out if the other three also being first corrupted are ejected together with it Certainly there is none studious of the Truth who may not from hence presently understand That the Foundation of Healing of the Antients goes to ruine as well in respect of Humours as of the Selection of solutive Medicines Truly I admire even to amazement That the World hath not yet taken notice of the destructive danger of Laxative things The which otherwise so suddenly well perceives any wiles or subtle crafts extended over their purse For truly it is not to be doubted but that Laxative Medicines do carry a hidden poyson in them which hath made so many thousands of Widowes and Orphans For neither do they draw forth a singular Humour after them The which I have demonstrated in a singular Treatise never to have been in Nature except in the Books of Physitians For increase thou the Dose of a Laxative Remedy and a deady poyson will bewray it self Come on then Why doth that your Choler following with so swift an efflux stink so horribly which but for one quarter of an hour before did not stink For the speedinesse of flowing forth takes away the occasion of putrefaction as also of stink For it smells of a dead Carcase and not of Dung. Neither also should it so suddenly borrow such a smell of stinking dung from the Intestines Therefore the stink shewes an efficient poyson and a mortified matter drawn out of the live Body The which I prove by way of Handicraft-Operation If any one shall drink a dram of white Vitriol dissolved in Wine it presently provokes Vomit But if presently after drinking it he shall drink thereupon a draught of Ale or Beer Water c. he indeed shall suffer many stools yet wholly without stink Scammony therefore and Vitriol do alike dissolve the bloud of the Meseraick veines This indeed by its violent brackishnesse But that by the putrefactive and strong smelling poyson of Laxatives From the consideration whereof alone purging ought to be suspected by every one as a cruell and stupide Invention For if according to Galen the bloud when it putrifies is made yellow Choler therefore the stinking and yellow Liquor that is cast out by Laxative Medicines and which dissembles Choler is generated of putrefied bloud And by consequence that Laxative Medicines themselves are the putrefactives of the Bloud The which is easily collected out of Galen against the will of the Schooles For he chiefly commends Triacle because it most especially resisteth poysons He also affirms also a discernable sign of the best Triacle to be that if together with Laxative Medicines Triacle be taken undoubtedly stools shall not follow Do not these words of Galen convince that Laxatives are meer poysons To wit all the operation whereof is evaded by Triacle the Tamer of poysons unto which suspition the effects do agree Because a Purging Medicine being taken the sick and healthy do equally cast forth Liquors of the same colour odour and condition Wherefore it requires not a offending Humour before an unoffensive one but it indifferently defiles whatsoever it toucheth upon Moreover the Schooles also oppose the selective Liberty which they attribute unto solutive Medicines For if any humour of the four be putrified in Fevers and naturally betokeneth a removall of it self But if Laxatives do selectively draw out a humour from the Bloud yea in healthy persons as they will have it do cause sound flesh to melt that they may thereby obtain their scope which is to pour forth a putrified ot stinking Liquor which the paunch casts out At leastwise Laxatives shall not have the like Liberty in Fevers for drawing forth of the offending and putrified excrement For that which is corrupted hath no longer the former essence and properties which it had before its putrefaction For if the Loadstone attracteth Iron it shall not therefore draw rust unto it And therefore if a purging Medicine resolves the flesh and bloud that it may thereby extract Choler which it drawes bound unto it self by a specifical property it doth not therefore likewise draw stinking and putrified excrements included in the veines which should be the cause of Fevers Surely none should ever dye by Fevers if the two Maxims of the Schooles were supported with Truth To wit if putrified humours are the cause of Fevers And likewise if they depart selectively through purging things Besides it should be a mad Caution That purging Medicines be not given in the beginning of Fevers before the matter be troubled or rise high To wit before the maturity and Coction of the peccant matter From whence it is sufficiently manifest that loosening things should otherwise be hurtfull But if they are given after that the matter of the Disease be now well subdued the aforesaid Caution conteines a Deceit Because it attributes the effect procured voluntarily and by the benefit of Nature unto the loosening Medicine From which surely an honest Physitian doth then also more justly abstain Because it then disturbs the Crisis induceth the danger of confusion and of a Relapse For a loosening Medicine doth alwayes and by it self draw out things not cocted no otherwise than those which are afterwards called cocted ones because it is on both sides alike cruel and poy sonsome But after that Nature hath overcome the Disease it brings on lesse dammage neither is the deceit of a Laxative Medicine then so apparently manifest And so if then a loosening Medicine be given the Physitian shall seem to have conquered the Disease by his own Art But besides if all particular Laxatives should extract their own Humours by a Choyce they should of necessity also be of concernment at every station of the Disease because they are those which alwayes draw out the same Liquor and that alike stinking but they disturb as much as may be as long as Nature shall not become the Superiour Which victory of that Disease the Schooles have called Concoction Not indeed that Nature attempts to digest or Coct any thing which is vitious orwhich fals not out for her own use or profit because she is that which is governed by an un-erring Intelligence Let these Admonitions suffice concerning both the Universal Succours in Fevers I concluding with Hippocrates unto Democritus That every Solutive Medicine robs us of the strength and substance of our Body CHAP. VI. The Consideration of a Quartane Ague 1. A Quartane hath deluded the Rules of the Schooles 2. Why they know not how to cure a Quartane 3. That the wonted excuses in other events of Diseases do fail 4. A presage from a Quartane in other Fevers 5. The examination of a Quartane according to the account of the Schooles 6. The weaknesses of Galen himself 7. Failings noted in Physitians 8. Constrained