Oriatrike or, physick refined. The common errors therein refuted, and the whole art reformed and rectified: being a new rise and progress of phylosophy and medicine, for the destruction of diseases and prolongation of life / written by ... John Baptista Van Helmont ...; now faithfully rendered into English ... by J[ohn] C[handler]. Sometime of M.H. Oxon.

  • Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644.
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[1662]
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Credit: Oriatrike or, physick refined. The common errors therein refuted, and the whole art reformed and rectified: being a new rise and progress of phylosophy and medicine, for the destruction of diseases and prolongation of life / written by ... John Baptista Van Helmont ...; now faithfully rendered into English ... by J[ohn] C[handler]. Sometime of M.H. Oxon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I 7he Water, Blit although that one oir:ly Fountain now ceakd > nckher Lands being nciv icii afundcr, one alone was not enough, yet perhaps the lame entrance ot waters remaffi- cd. Becaure, in the fwcet Sea, bciwccn Loefeh, according to ths Table of Gothland , a Gulf of waters is dekribed hy OUhs^ wheieinto Ships,Marniicrsbeing not aware, and their endeavours being in vain,are kipt up.For indeed it is the moutii, into whichtiic waters of that Ocean do fall, and by-one oneiy pafTage, were before the Hoad, carried thence unto the aforelaid Fountain. But afterwards, that palFage like the hollow vein, was diverfly diftributed, and hedged in by a Rock, by fomc thou^ fands of veins ending upon the face of the from which, afterwards, the wa¬ ters being drank iip, do haften from far, unto their appointed offices. Moreover, that Whirle-pooie or Gulf, if it ougin to be any where, and Olans be a true Writer, or if nor, at Icaftwife, it is fitly in the Sca^ as well for the fweecnefs of the Sea, as for the long and round figure of the World, by me ftraightway to be proved. In the next pla^e, if one oneiy Fountain were for the moyftening ofkhe Earth, theaforefaid Whirle-poole fhall be fuificient, cfpcciallybecaurc the bottom of the Sea, hath the Sand Qaellem longly and largely laying open,which would be fuificient for the drink*' ing up the \vatcr. And the rather, bccaufe the Sea doth foinetimcs wafli upon^, and rince the earth on every fide, and thbrow many middle fpaccsd Therefore the Ska be¬ ing fupt up in thefaid Whirle-poole', it is by little and lictlb brought thotow ftony Channels, and hence by lefTcr pipes, thorow a great part of the earth. Notwithfiand- ihg they arc fcarce overwhelmed beneath the Soil but as often as the veins of the Whirle-poole do cut, or touch at the Queliem rifing up thorow middle pla¬ ces, and ruftiing forth into a Fountain, indeed the fwcet veins doperifh, and veins of Sea-Salr, arc produced. Otherwife the briny Liquor, if there be alfo any in the thlcJ^ Sea, dotli through the lively Archeus of the Earth, lofc by degrees, the nature of Salts: or if the Ferments oi Salts in places do tiny where cxifi, thofe very waters do put on the feeds as well of divers Salts, as of Stones andMettalls, and are changed into the fame fruits. For fo neat, gemme, nitre, aluminous, Vltriolated, Se.l, Salts do grow of the'water, they as it were promifing the firlf birth of the water to them- felvcs. And then kom hence they do decline ordeettyintoL-^^^;] or thefirftofF-fpring of Mineralis, and degenerate by thcmiidance ofthc feeds. .Salome fruits^of flic w'tltcr do hop up the paffages of their own Fountain; and by ripenejs, do attain the perFcftlon of thatMinerall, whofe appointmehtshlie feed $ did ^bcar before them, which were entertained in the Ferments of placcs.Moreovcr, al tiiat'Northcrn Whirle- poole or Gulf, doth alfo flip up Fiflics within ir, fo it fups up the fame exceeding fmail ones, the greater being detained within the Channels. Where oft-times,they are cither made Rockie, or wax filthy through putrifying, or alfo.are feafoncd with the Balfam ofthe foils, as alfo that Fiflies are oft-times found digged up,which the Husband-man, and others being amazed at, do think they were born in undue places, and without a. feed. Furthermore, whether the Conduits have received the water, or at lengrh have drunk up that fellem: the waters arc at leaf!:, thefe eiidewed with a lively and fe¬ minali property. For no otherwife than as a vein, even in a dead Carcafe, preferv- erh the blond contained in it, from coagulating or curdling (which is a corruption or the firft degree): truly by a ftronger Reafon, that right agrees to the veins of the earth which is not yet dead. Therefore the water is fupt and drawn within the lively foil of the Earth, whence it having gotten a conimon fife ( Come let w worfhtp the Kwg^ hy wham all things live') itknowethnot the Scittiatlons of places, it cafily afeendeth unto the tops of Mountains without trouble, togechcr with the that it from thence fend forth fountains without ceafing. Which tilings fiuely being unknown to the Schooles, they have left that place of the wife man Cphclcth, or the Prcacher,fcanty or barfen: where he faith,, all Rivers haften towards the Sea; thc“ which notwithfiandingdoth not therefore re-gorge them again.For truly, Rivers do** return to the place from whence they came forth, that they may flow agiiiii. Wh^h words, have been corrupted heretofore with divers modellings or qualifications. ^ Bc^ caufe fprings in the tops of Mountains, were not feen to proceed from the Sea, whitl^ they at length do riifh. Therefore Springs have been hitherto falfcly judged by the Schooles to take rhelr Beginnings and Caufes, from Air condenfed or co*thickncd by the force’ of cold, between the hollow places of Mountains, ready to fall upon each p** thcr.Thc which,I,in a little Book concerning the Fountains of the Spaw,prlnted in the year 1^24 at Leldon^ have fhewne, that they haVe themfclves afteC the'manner now delivered in this place.Therefore the true originali of true Springs being pianififtcd, ic hithetit