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.
Date:
[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 hf Canfes Hiid begiiim/l^s if tJiituriiJ thin^Si Dagger is more difficult, than a round one in tire flefh. But in Ulcers; the Fiftuia of tire tnndamcnt, or weeping Fiftula, are more laboiirfomc in healing, man any Ulcer ot the (hanks or Icggs, extended into a Circuicc. Indeed he thought, tang deceived with theapmefsot «.nks, the incarnating ot a wound to promote itldf onely by an external working Plaifter, and that outhdenefs. not onely to be m relation to the fu- pcrticics of our Body : butin a figural relpeet oHhe dilfaucc ot the lips of the womid, m order to its Centre. I wiU relate a Story. A Trooper infcSs his VVife with the Pox or foule Difeafe: but this through extream want of a remedy, enlarged it Iclt into an eating fore or Ulcer. One at leall I fow Wjdling the flefhy membrane or epate, from the Ear into the neck, (houlder and elbow, behiude thorow the Ihoulder blades, the wholelide of the ribs, .and breall. Which membrane, as it isfaner in Women, jo it contains a deeper depth. She faid (he had many other and Me fores, thorow the bot- tom of the belly into the legs, and Ihe flicwed a humane body, almolt without a skin. T KCman Ls carried gy my authority, into the HpfpitalofW fufing; but might prevailing, alfo fometimes for a while commands the Nnm. The chief Chymrgion, Tow being ttceped in /wr.with incrcdWe pain toucheth the quick mufcles, and fmites the houfc with a raifeiaablc Imwling. But pafling by, I ask¬ ed why he had done that. He faith, it is an ulcerated Cacner, and wholly lo, and by how much the foonct (he died, by fo much the happier (he would be. The complain¬ ing IV»» hearing that,faid,(he was not bound by the rules ot her houlc.to entertain the Cancer, Leproue, or Pox, tJ-e. Forthwith therefore before the twilight, they bring forth the Wonun to the Suburbs, and laid her on the Dunghill. But a poor Country man, pitying the unknown Woman, makes her a little Cottage of boughes , againit the Rain, but he applieth fome Colewort Icaves to the abc)unding or ninning hlthy matter, and to drive away the unkindenefs of the Air. He tells the chance to me, I 2 her the C°^dlate of Paracelfw^ prepared by the white of an hgge, and in twenty lix dayes fhe was wholly well. For the great Ulcers, with a haftened force, were co¬ vered with skin, fome exceeding fmall chaps, from the beginning, keeping a ion- ^ ger continuance. A little after, a certain Kinfman dying, bequeaths to this molt poor Woman, a Houfc and Land. Her Husband pcrilhcd bchindc the hedges: She marries the fccond time,,being how rich m a.Herde, a flock, and in Lands. For I having ad¬ mired in her Husband and the Chyrurgion, robbeisormiirderets: in the lighmefs; in the Countryman,thc and in Ae Woman, Iknew the God oijoh to be the fame, and the continual ^mighty Ruler of the Univerfc. From whom, although man hath privily ftolen the Tides of Majefty, Highncfs,Bxcellency, Clemency,and Lordlinefsjhe hath referved at lead one onely perpetual one to himfclf, which is that of Eternity. In refpe£t whereof, man is a Mulurome of one night, on Th?iMK 1m ffie Schooles know, that the Rules of the Mathematicks,or Learning I by demonltratfori,<loillfqiiarctoNaturc. Few man doth not mcafurc I^ature; but (he him. For neither (hall a Heathen man that is'ignoEant ot die wayes, ,(liew more the waves., than a blinde man, colours not feen before. Therefore, bclides the igno- ranee of Nature in its Root, and thinglinefs, or what it is ; tbe Schools have npe 'known the caufes, number, requiranceof thmgs. Laflly,'the Fluxes of ripcncflcs, flownelTes, and fwiftneffes. And likewife they have not known, .the compofures, and refolvings of Bodies, made as well by Nature as Axt. Likewife the neccfrities, ends or bounds, difpol(itions,defe(^s,rcftorings,dcaths,CDiifcqucnccs of Seeds,alio ot Fcrmaits, alfo their nearnefles and dependencies, for that they diligently taught the natural A- gent to be aforreincr and a flranger to things. Auo by wa)^ of comequence, they have I_r_*_c fz-wf-mo oe-jlfrt nf rhp nmDPrrif »; nrnCCedinS from thcnCC. In wtioie place tney nave cxpoicu ioLiuuc,vudiJi.v., which is infinite, although they ace all fttangers to Nature, and thofe thinp which did contain ridiculous Difeiplincs. Yea, they have followed the Authour, who bcliev^, the World to be extended from Eternity unto Eternit>t,by its own prowr forces or vir¬ tue, and he contradfeth himfelf, by denying an infinite. Since the nrft moreover, be¬ ing to abide for ever, to make all things iu his eternal power, doth necefiariiy in¬ clude an infinite. -