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A35976	A late discourse made in a solemne assembly of nobles and learned men at Montpellier in France touching the cure of wounds by the powder of sympathy : with instructions how to make the said powder : whereby many other secrets of nature are unfolded / by Sr. Kenelme Digby, knight ; rendred faithfully out of French into English by R. White.	Digby, Kenelm, Sir, 1603-1665.; White, R., Gent.	1658 (1658)	Wing D1435; ESTC R27859	54,616	164

before that of all the rest so we took that course and went happily as far as the Syrtes of Lybia but there our land briezes failed us and for seven and thirty dayes we had no other but a few gentle Zephirs which came from the West whither we were steering our course We were constrained to keep at anchor all that time with a great deal of apprehensions of fear that the wind might come from the North accompanyed with a tempest for if that had happened we had been all lost because our anchors had not been able to hold among those moving sands for under water they are of the same nature as they are upon dry land and so we might be in danger to be shipwrackt upon that coast But God Almighty who hath been pleased I should have the honour to wait upon you this day did deliver me from that danger And at the end of seven and thirty dayes we observed the course of the clouds very high which came from South-east at first but slowly but by degrees faster and faster insomuch that in the compasse of two dayes the wind which was forming it self a great way off in Ethiopia came in a tempest to the place where we rid at anchor and lead us to the place whither we intended to go but the force of it was broken before coming so long a distance Out of this Discourse we may infer and conclude that every where wheresoever there is any wind there be also some small bodies or atoms which are drawn from the bodiess which lye in the bodies whence they come by the virtue of the Sun and of Light and that in effect this wind is nothing else but the said atomes agitated and thrust on by a kind of impettiosity and so the winds do partake of the qualities whence they come as if they come from the South they are hot if from the North they are cold if from the Earth alone they are dry if from the Marine or Sea-side they are humid and moist if from places which produce aromatical substances they are odcriferous wholsom and pleasing As they say who come from Arabia Faelix which produceth Spices Perfumes and Gommes of sweet savour or that which comes from Fontenay and vaugirard at Paris in the season of Roses which is all perfumed as on the contrary those winds that come from stinking places as from the sulphureous soil of Pozzuolo do smell ill as also those that come from infected places bring the contagion along with them My third Principle shall be that the Air is ful throughout with small bodies or atomes or rather that which we call our air is no other than a mixture or confusion of such atomes wherein the aereal parts do predominate It is well known that in nature there cannot be actually found any pure element without being blended with others for the outward fire and the light acting one way and the internal fire of every body pushing on another way causeth this marvailous mixture of all things in all things Within that huge extent where we place the air there is sufficient space and liberty enough to make such a mixture which Experience as well as Reason doth confirm I have seen little Vipers as soon as they came from the eggs where they were ingendred being not yet an inch long which having conserved them in a large gourd covered with paper tyed round about that they might not get out but little holes being made with pins that the air might enter they encreased in substance and bignesse so prodigiously in six eight or ten months that it is incredible and more sensibly during the season of the equinoxes then when the air is fuller of those aethereal and balsamical atomes which gave them their balsamick virtue which they drew for their nouriture Hence it came that the Cosmopelites had reason to say Est in aere occultus vitae cibus There is a hidden food of life in the air These small Vipers had but the air onely for their sustenance neverthelesse by this thin viand they came in less than a year to a foot long and proportionably big and heavy Vitriol Saltpeter and some other substances do augment in the same manner onely by attraction of air I remember that upon some occasion seventeen or eighteen years ago I had occasion to use a pound of oil of tartar it was at Paris where I had then no Operatory Then I desired Monsieur Ferrier a man universally known by all such that are curious to make me some for he had none then ready made but did it expressely for me and for the calcination of tartar twenty pound may be as easily made as two without encrease of charge therefore he took occasion hereby to make a quantity for his own use When he brought it me the oil did smell so strong of the Rose that I complained that he should mingle it with that water in regard I had desired him to do it purely by exposing it to the humid air for I verily thought that he had dissolved the salt of tartar in rose-Rose-water he swore unto me that he had not mingled it with any liquor but that he had left the tartar calcind within his Cellar to dissove of it self It was then in the season of Roses therefore it seems that the air being then full of the atomes which come from the Roses and being changed into water by the powerful attraction of the salt of tartar their smell became very sensible in the place where they were gathered as the beams of the Sun do burn being crowded together in a burning glasse There happened also another marvailous thing touching this oyl of tartar which may serve to prove a proposition which we have not yet touched but not to interrupt the course of the story I will tell it you by way of advance It was that as the season of Roses was passed the smell of the Rose did vanish away from the said oil of tartar so that in three or four moneths it was quite gone But we were much surprized when the next year the said odor of Roses returned as strong as ever it did and so went away again towards winter which course it still observes Which made Monsieur Ferrier to keep it as a singular rarity and the last Summer I found the effect in his house We have in London an unlucky and troublesome confirmation of this doctrine for the air useth to be full of such atomes The material then whereof they make fire in that great City is commonly of pit coal which is brought from Newcastle or Scotland This cole hath in it a great quantity of volatil salt very sharp which being carried on by the smoak useth to dissipate it self and fill the air wherewith it doth so incorporate that although we do not see it yet we find the effects for it spoiles beds Tapistries and other houshold stuffs that are of any beautiful fair colour for the fuliginous air

tartar which Monsieur Ferrier made me whereof I spake before But me thinks that all this is but little compared to the attraction of air which was made by the body of a certain Nunne at Rome whereof Petrus Servius Urban the Eighth's Physitian makes mention in a book which he hath published touching the marvailous accidents which he observed in his time Had I not such a vouchy I durst not produce this History although the Nunne her self did cnnfirm it unto me and that a good number of Doctors of the faculty of Physick at Rome did assure me of the truth thereof There was a Nunne that by excesse of fasting of watchings and mental orisons was so heated in her body that she seemed to be all on fire and her bones dryed up and calcind This heat then this internal fire drawing the air so powerfully this air did incorporate within her body as it useth to do in salt of Tartar and the passages being all open it got to those parts where there is most serosity which is the bladder and thence she rendred it in water among her urine and that in an incredible quantity for she voided during some weeks more than two hundred pounds of water every four and twenty hours With this notable example I will put an end to the experiments I have urged to prove and explicate the attraction which is made of air by hot and ignited bodies which are of the nature of fire My sixth Principle shall be that when fire or some hot body attracts the air and that which is within the air if it happens that within that air there be found some dispersed atoms of the same nature with the body which draws them the attraction of such atoms is made more powerfully then if they were bodies of a different nature and these atoms do stay stick and mingle with more willingesse with the body which draws them The reason hereof is the resemblance and Sympathy they have one with the other If I should not explicate wherein this resemblance consisted I should expose my self to the same censure and blame as that which I taxed at the beginning of my Discourse touching those who speak but lightly and vulgarly of the Powder of Sympathy and such marvails of nature But when I shal have cleared that which I contend for by such a resemblance and conveniency I hope then you will rest satisfied I could make you see that there are many sorts of resemblances which cause an union between bodies but I will content my self to speak here onely three signall ones The first resemblance shall be touching weight whereby bodies of the same degree of heavinesse do assemble together the reason whereof is evident for if one body were more light it would ocupy a higher situation than the heavier body as on the contrary if a body were more weighty it would descend lower than that which is lesse heavy but both having the same degree of heavinesse they keep company together in equilibrio as one may see by experience in this gentile example which some curious spirits use to produce for to make us understand how the four elements are situated one above the other according to their weight and heavinesse They use to put in a viall the spirit of wine tincturd with red to represent the fire the spirit of turpentine tinctured with blew for the air the spirit of water tinctured with green to represent the element of water And to represent the earth the Powder of some solid mettal enamelld you see them one upon the other without mixing and if you shake them together by a violent agitation you shall see a Chaos such a confusion that it will seem ther 's no particular atomes that belong to any of those bodies they are so huddled pell mell altogether But cease this agitation and you shall see presently every one of these four substances go to its naturall place calling again and labouring to unite all their atoms in one distinct masse that you shall see no mixture at all The second resemblance of bodies which draw one another and unite is among them which are of the same degree of rarity and density The nature and effect of Quantity is to reduce to unity all things which it finds if there interpose not some other stronger power as the differing substantiall forme which doth multiply it do not hinder And the reason of that is evident for the essence of Quantity is a divisibility or capacity to be divided which is as much to say as to make it Many whence it may be inferred that Quantity it self is not many therefore she is of her self and in her own nature a continued extension seeing then that the nature of Quantity in general tends to unity and continuity the first differences of Quantity which are rarity and density must produce the same effect of unity and continuity in those bodies which convene in the same degree with them For proof whereof we find that water doth unite and incorporate it self strongly and easily with water oil with oil the spirit of wine with spirit of wine but water and oil can hardly unite nor mercury with the spirit of wine and other bodies of differing density and tenuity The third resemblance of bodies which unites and keeps them strongly together is that of Figure I will not serve my self here with the ingenious conceit of a great personage who holds that the continuity of bodies results from some small hookings or claspings which keeps them together and are differing in bodies of a differing nature But not to extend my self two diffusively in every particularity I will say in grosse as an apparent thing that every kind of body affects a particular figure We see it plainly in the several sorts of salt peele and stamp them separately dissolve coagulate and change them as long as you please they come again alwayes to their own natural figure after every dissolution and coagulation The ordinary salt doth form it self alwayes in cubes of foursquare faces salt-peter in formes of six faces Armoniac salt in Hexagons of six points as the snow doth which is sexangulary Whereunto Mr. Davison attributes the pentagonary figure of every one of those stones which were found in the bladder of Monsieur Peletier to the number of fourscore for the same immediate efficient cause which is the bladder had imprinted its action both within the stones and the salt of the urine The Distillators observe that if they powre upon the dead head of some distillation the water which was distilled it imbibes it and re-unites incontinently whereas if one would powre any other water of an heterogeneous body it swims on the top and incorporates with much difficulty The reason is that the distill'd water which seems to be an homogeneous body yet t is composed of small bodies of discrepant figures as the Chymists do plainly demonstrate and these atomes being chaced by the action of fire out of their own

seems there can be no default stop or interruption in their proceedings But we shall be the better fortified in the belief of their vertue and esticacy and how they come to produce the effects of so many fair cures if we consider that then when some is practised in one of these causes or in all of them together we see and perceive immediately an effect altogether differing from the former If I had not formerly seen a watch or clock I should be justly surprized and should remain astonished to see a hand or a needle so regularly mark the journal hours and motion of the Sun upon the flat of a quadrant and that it should turn and make its round every four and twenty howers there being nothing seen that should push on the said needle But if I look on the other side I see wheels ressorts and counterpoises which are in perpetual movement which having well and soberly considered I presently suspect that those wheels are the cause of the movement and turnings of the said needle although I cannot presently discern or know how those moving wheels do cause a motion in the needle of the quadrant because of the plate that lieth interposed betwixt them Therefore I reason thus within my self That every effect whatsoever must have of pure necessity some cause and therefore that the body moved there ought necessarily to receive its movement from some other body which is contiguous to it Now I see no other body which makes the needle of the quadrant to move and turn then the said wheels therefore I must of force be perswaded to attribute the movement unto them But afterwards when I shall have stoped the motion of those wheeles and taken away the counterpoise and observed that suddenly the needle ceased to move and that applying again the counterpoise and giving liberty for the wheel to turn the needle returns to her ordinary train or by making one wheel to go faster by putting my finger unto it or by adding more weight to the counterpoise the needle doth hasten and advance its motions proportionably Then I grow to be convinced and entirely satisfied and so I absolutely conclude that these wheels and counterpoises are the true cause of the motion of the needle In the same manner if interrupting the action of any of those causes which I have established for the true foundation of the Sympathetical Powder I alter retard or hinder the cure of the wound I may boldly conclude that the foresaid causes are the legitimate and genuine true causes of the cure and that we need not amuse our selves to make indagations for any other Let us then examine our businesse by that bias I have affirmed that the Light transporting the atoms of the Vitriol and of the bloud and dilating them to a great extent in the air the wound or place hurt doth attract them and thereby is immediately solac'd and eased and consequently comes to be healed by the spirits of the Vitriol which is of a balsamical virtue But if you put the bason or Powder with the cloth embrued with bloud within an Armory or into a corner of some cold rooms or into a cave where the light never comes nor fresh air which makes the place corrupted and to have ill smells in that case the wound can receive no amendment nor any good effect from the said Powder And it will fall out in the same manner if having put the bason or Powder in some By-corner and that you cover them with some thick cloth stuffing and spongie which might imbibe the atomes that use to come forth and which retain the the light and rayes which enter there where they are thereby stopped and quite lost Moreover if you suffer the water of Vitriol to congeale into ice or the cloth wherein t is dipped the party hurt shall be sensible at the beginning of a very great cold in his wound but when it is iced all over he shall feel neither heat nor cold in regard that congealed cold doth constipate the pores of the water which neverthelesse doth not cease to transpire and send forth spirits If one should wash the cloth spotted with bloud in vinegar or lye which by their penetrating acrimony transports all the spirits of the bloud before the Vitriol be applied it will produce no effect yet if it be washed but with pure simple water it may neverthelesse do something for that water carries not away so much but the effect will not be so great as if the bloudspotted piece had not been washed at all for then it is full of the spirits of the bloud The same cure is performed by applying the remedy to the blade of a sword which wounds a body if it come not to passe that the sword be too much heated by the fire for then it would make all the spirits of the bloud to evaporate and in that case the sword would serve but little to perform the cure Now the reason why the sword may be dressed in order to the cure is because the subtill spirits of bloud do penetrate the substance of the blade as far as the extent which the sword made within the body of the the wounded party where they use to make their residence there being nothing to chace them away unlesse it be the fire as I said before For experiment whereof hold it over a chafing-dish of moderate fire and you shall discern on the side opposite to the fire a little humidity which resembleth the spots that ones breath makes upon looking-glasses or upon the burnished blade of a sword If you look upon it athwart some glasse which makes the object seem bigger you shall find that this soft dew of the spirits consists in little bubbles or blown bladders and when once they are entirely evaporated you shall discern no more upon the weapen unlesse it were thrust a new into the body of a living person Nor from the beginning shall you discover any such thing but precisely upon the part of the blade which had entred the wound This subtil penetration of the spirits into the hard steel may confirm the belief of the entrance of such spirits into the skin of a woman big with child as I remind to have proposed unto you in my sixth Principle remarkable in its own place Now then while the spirits lodge in the sword they may serve as great helps for the cure of the Patient but when the fire hath driven them all away the remedy applied to the sword will not availe any thing at all Furthermone if any violent heat accompanies these atomes it inflames the wound but common salt may remedy that the humidity of water humectates the hurt and the cold causeth a chilnesse in the party wounded To confirm all these particulars I could adde to those I have already raccounted many notable examples more but I fear me I have already too much exercised your patience therefore I will industriously pretermit the mentioning of them at this time but I offer to entertain any of this Honourable Assembly therewith if they have the curiosity to be informed of them accordingly I conclude then Messieurs by representing unto you that all this my stery is guided and governed all along by true natural wayes and circumstances although by the agency and resorts of very subtil spirits I am perswaded my Discourse hath convincingly shewed you that in this Sympathetical cure there is no need to admit of an action distant from the Patient I have traced unto you a real Communication twixt the one and the other viz. of a Balsamical substance which corporally mingleth with the wound Now it is a poor kind of pusillanimity and faintnesse of heart or rather a grosse ignorance of the Understanding to pretend any effects of charm or magick herein or to confine all the actions of Natre to the grossenesse of our senses when we have not sufficiently considered nor examined the true causes and principles whereon t is fitting we should ground our judgement we need not have recourse to a Demon or Angel in such difficulties Mec Deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus Insiderit ΤΕΛΟΣ Books printed for and to be sold by Thomas Davis MAster Paul Bains his Practical Commentary on the Ephesians lately reprinted with Additions Fol. 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