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That the y.of d this 1^37

an Smbrion of this forme and dimentions, as is here deicribed was found in the left Ventricle of the heart of uhn Ptnnant Gentleman, of the age of 21. ycares, or thereabouts. Wee who faW it teflific under out hands :

edw4td May Doftor of Phyfick, Jacob Hejdoft Surgeon.

SU^betn Herrin Aunt unto the faid John Pennant.

^orathy pennant Mother to the faid John Pennant*

Rfcard Berry.

M". Gentlemans markc. This is my wives marke I teftify. Geer^ Gent I tutan.

MOST CERTAINE

AND TRVE

RELATION

OF A STRANGE MON^ SrE% 0%SE%EE:h(T

Found in the left Ventricle of

the heart of loHN Pennant, Gentle-

man, of the age of zi.yeares.

By Edward May Dodor of Philofophy and Phyfick^ and profejfor Eleftofthm^ in the CoIIedge of the Academy of Nohle~men,caUed the Mufxum Minervxi Phyfitian alfo extraordinary unto her moft Sacred Ma/efty,,^tff»? of greM ’Britt Any

LO'^BON, .

Printed by george Mifier, MDCXXXIX.

TO THE

right HONOV- rable lord and

ihi^hlv renowQC^i P cere of this

FJngdome , E T> IV

f arleof Dotfet,i5’c. Knight ofthe moft ^oble order of the garur » Lord

. ■ High Chambetklne unto her moft Soveraigne M3jefty,QVEENE of ^reat Brittaue.dcc. And one

* ofthe Lords of his Msjelties moft honourable pvwy Councell.

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Bdxvard wifbeth all health and glory.

L 0 B D) ^ -r r 1

- OR this Treatije IfeeU

no patronage^ for if the Relation and the Author cannot defend then/s* [el^es-, let them both fuffer. A flies

bitter then aS^me, though his toinghe

me npiitic ucdicatory,

phoje ?a &PauI^

Qhurch of ly}

Dffcription of mine begood^ or great ^ ft or thy or otheryo/fe^ it is not dedicated to your Uo^ nour as a matter prefuming toyoards your worth, or prefence y but as a puhliKe obliga^ tion in the face of the worlds of my fume and more [olid gratitude : Touharve honour edme before the Noble Peeres, andhighefl Coun-- ceUors of the Kingdoms ; TouhayeotherwJfe done me reaQ favours ^ yphat am J^or what is in me that you hanoe not conquered! and not by tbefe benefits to me only^ but thefemany yeares myobfer<vatms ofyourmoft Noble nature, your more then humane partesy your yaft and incredible comprehenfon of aU thingsy both efentiall and accidental to your place and dignity • Tour innumerable merits and that uniioerjall acclamation -of all men whatfoeyeryhayemade me y more your hm- ble ferrvm then you knoyty andyohen after a (bott fpace Godfballgiue me to ft a little quU et, tending mine ownaffaireSy your Lordjhip Jball f ^e, not by m} ytritings but by my doings y that I am more your Lord/hips then any French or thrice deyoted feryant, A «

A Preface to the Reader .

Cmfervation of the workcs- of

Hat my dcfignes arc in the^«l- Itjhing of this the

Reader may finde (iye«y:W?iere in it, to be no other theri the

God, and nature, and frefervatim oi mcn i but for the Printing of it in Englifh, have neither end nor intent For thefe two. y cares it hath beene negledled by me, and perufed up and downein the hands of the beft, and beft learned, who-have defired fatisfadiom touching fo rare an oftent : for the young Gentleman in whom it was found, deceafed thc*6‘. of October, in the yearcof our Lord, 1537. My intention in this Delcription was for the Continent^dnot for our Hands only, wherefore J flayed my hand till fome oppor¬ tunity to publiih fome other Lattine Treatifes of mine ownc with it*, which many ycares have beene defired ; But now this being ftill out of my hands, and licenfed for the prefTc before any notice given me^for the faf isfadion of our own nation, and for the benefit of them who defired the printing of it, I have freely given way topleafiireany who fhall defirero read it; wherefore if Platonic Jl and fpeci- ficall Ideas doe correfpond : and the readers honeft mindanfwcr my fincerc truth and good

wi fhes j 1 have my end * A 3

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1 he. Contents.

Ht Prefacff,

Blflory itfeife,

' ^.^•The Occajian” ef this defiriptian}

and ifvho were prefent.

derjipody who /aid that the heart was not fnhjeB to any ’di^ekfe > as alfo an enmherationdfdifeafes of the heart.

4,5 . Hoid fuch Monjiers are begotten or bred in the

heart. '

That thefe flrange generations are caufedbj thf TemperamtHt individuall. r>r4»7< light and helpe men may have by fuct) Htations^'and fuch refolution of this dificnlty as in the former Paragraph is fet downs: and how that in latent cemfesfome exterionr (Ignatnre^ or beames difc over the dyeafe, ; ,

8. That all creatures, things iU the world, and «//- [safes have their T&dijy asweU as the Starres of Hea^ even: praovedbj Frier Bacon, andthat mo fl learned Philofopher Ki^mdus, arid by reafens and experience, and that there is ^o^aBion bfit per rndipSj«i»^j that there is no aBion immediatione fuppofiti, bsn onely imme* diatiohevirrntis.

§.p. How fonts Phiftians have preferibed againfi Qtch difeafes .

5,10. Onereafon why thefe of cult maladies are [9 feldeme found, and never curedithe many benefits of fire-

i^uent dijfeBionSi

EffMtd.

Pas;i».lin. i2,pHtinto. p.4. Ijy readcCaprizant.l.jS.opcn. p hontjp.t 4.1.i<5.yct.p. 1 9 1.3 .convtmu eevd^iata.p iy,liS l{/rii)imSehp,2 8.1 7, iifeowred-j 2.1,14 fi0SaiMl»j.tftvriat«r.

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TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLLSia. THSOTiO^g MAIHS'R^S

knight, CHIEFE PHY-

SIT I AN UNTO HIS MOST Soveraignc Majvfty>KlNG cf griat Brittany i &c.

EdvPArd CA'la), jvifliethall health.

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~ ''ongthofemany favours ou have afforded me, ourDrivate,fweet^ moft

familiar and long Collo- quies with me have been lingular :Whileyou lay-

i ing afide important af¬ faires, out of an admirable candour and love to Learning, (in which few excel! you; vouchlafe {omctimcs to trcatc with me

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concerning occult and moft facred

medicines : In one of which meetings, ns I had laid open what I had found in the Sini^ j?^yr^r/V/eofthe heart of a young Gentle¬ man, which you defired me to deferibe while the Species were yet freih in my memory, as others many both Phyfitians and Friends have done alfo : So here I have done it : And do firft communicate it unto your fcife, as a fmal of my certainelsnowledgeof your

great; and admirable pcrfe<5tions in many, Sciences, nececelTary him who is Phyiitian to Princes ; and of my lingular eftimation of them ; As alfo to fow fome feeds of future Difeourfes, both new and worthy of that fa- ving and divine Magick which we both pro- feflc: Well knowing that good ufe. may bee made of this Hiftory by all Phyfitians, and profit unto many, as I have partly declared in the Subfequents.

It is an oftent and prodigy, ftrangc and incredible which] am to paint: And if in many Phyfitians of beft efteeme, and fince- rity I had not found Relations very like it, mineowne heart would not have given credit to mine owne eyes and hands when firft I found 'it : But you have found one like it inthe heart of a Noble Lord; but when you have feen this, I Ihallknow whether fo grown, or of this forme,or otherwife: Let the V ulgar and Ignorant, belceve if, or not believe it , Phyfitians and knowing meir (asyou^do) will

receive

receive k:'. And therefore briedy the certain^e Hiftoryaod trHe Relation is this. ; . .r

6. 2.

He feventli of 0^/ohr this yearc cur^ rent, 1 537. the Lady Herr /if wife un-

_ _ ^ toSi^ Francis Herr is Knight, came

unco me and defired that I would bring a-S'/zr- geon wich me, to diiTcdl the body of her Ne¬ phew John Ftnnant^ the night before decea- fed, to fatisfie his friends concerning the cau- fes of his long ficknelTe and of his death : Andthat his mother, to whom my fdfe had once or twice given hdpe fome yeares before concerning the Stone, might be afeertained whether her Sonne died of the Stone or no < Upon which intreaty 1 fent for Mate Heydon Surgeon^ dwelling againft the Cafile Taverne behind S^. Clements Church in the Strand, who with his Man-Servant cameun- to me : And in a word we went to the houfe and Chamber where the dead man lay : We dilTedcd the naturall Region and found the bladder of the young man full of purulent and ulcerous matter : The upper parts of it bro- kea» and all of it rotten: The right kid¬ ney quite confiimcd, the left tumified as big as any twokidBics,and full of fanious mat¬ ter: All the inward and carnofe parts eaten a- way & nothing remaining but exteriour skins.

No where did we find in his body either

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Sfonc or gf avcll. The Spleen and Liter not af- fe(5led in any difcernable degree, only part of the Liver was growne unto the Coftall meoi- * Here thofe t>ranes, by reafon of his writing profeifion. men may be Wee afeendingto the Vitall Region,found handfomeiy the Lungs rcafouable good, the heart more ^wbofayLt globofe and dilated, then long 5 the right thepuifeis no- Vcntrlclc of an afhe colour fhrivclled, and !he"^]m ^ulfe"^ wrinklc'd like a leather purfe without money , o/bn"" into and not any thing at all in it : the Pericardium^ the Arteryes or and Nervous Membrane, which conreyneth thehca?t)what that illuftiious liquourof the Lungs, in which was become of the heart doth bath its fclfc , was quite dried thepuifeinthis jiifo; The left Ventricle of the heart, being wSe tiut^the ^elt by the Surgions hand, appeared to him whole blood to be as hard as a ftonejand much greater then fmTthc thejig.ht: which upon the firft fight gave us here wLeiS fomecaufe of wonder, feeing ( as you know ) a living man the right Ventriclc is much greater then the Tr ^pX Witt : wherefore I wiflied M. Heydon to out the syftoic make incifion, upon which ilTued out a very of the heart, great quantitV of blood ; and to fpeake the the 7r*tct«t- whole verity, all the blood that was in his ceive where body Icft, was gathered to the left-Ventricle, b.tcS'V°andcontaynedinit *

or how could there be pulfe where was no impulfc into the arteryes? The puife then doubtleflc is from another caufe, and is afatre othtr matter then moll men conceive ; for there are in a found man 44.50 pulfations in an lioure, in a ficke manforr.enmcs in fome perciitc fevers and difeafcs above 55600, and more, which cannot be from fo many feverall exprelTions and receptions of bloodj for iris impofiiblc the heart fliould make comprefBon, and the arteryes apertion, fo often in thrtfpace. Nay xnDicrot ^ Capi^ant. and other inordinate pulfes, diverfe pulfes ftrike in lefie fpace then the mouth of an artercy can goc, much more then m Iciie times then it can open, ftiut,anJ open againe, which 5, ads arercqu'.fite to the beginning of a fccond pulfc. But of this I hayc largely treated in my j^Bookc 7)e Febribiis, No

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No fooner was that Ventricle emptied^ but yi.Heyden ftill co'ti plaining of the great- neffc and hardnefleofthefame, my felfc Tee¬ ming to ncgle(5l his words, becaufe the left Ventricle is thrice as thicke of flefh as the right is in found men for confervation of Vitall Spirits ; I direded him to an other diT- quifition: but he keeping his hand ftill upon the heart, would not leave it, but faid againe that it was of a ftrangc grearnefic and hard- neffe ; whereupon I defired him to cur the Orifice wider : by which meanesweprefent- ly perceived a carnoufe Tubftancejasit Teemed to us wreathed together in foldcs like a worme or Serpent, the Telfc Tame forme cx- prelTed in the firft Icmography : at which we both much wondred, and I intreated him to Teperate it from the heart, which he did, and wee carryed it from the body to the window, and there layed it out, inthoTc juftdimenfi- ons which arc here exprefied in the Tccond figure.

The body was white of the very colour of the whiteftskin of mans body; but the skin was bright and fhining, as if it had bccnc var- nifhcdover ; the head all bloody, and fo like the head of a Serpent, that the Lady HerrU then fhivered to fecit, and fince hath often fpoken it, that file was inwardly troubled ar it, becaufe the head of it was fb trucly like the head of a Snake,

The thlghes and branches were of fiefh

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colour>asalfo allthcfe fibracs,ftrings, nerves, orwhatfocvcrclfc they were. . ' I ' After much contemplation and conje- iftures what ftrangc thing that part of the heartliad brought forth unto us^ I refolved to try the certainty, and to make full explora¬ tion, both for mine ownc experience and fa- tisfajftion, as alfo to give true teftimony to others that fhouldheare of if: And there, uponifearchedall parts of it, to finde whe¬ ther it were a pituitofe and bloody Col. Icdion, or the like : Or a true organicall body, and Conception ; J firft fcarched the head and found it of a thickc fubftance, bloody and glandiilous about the nccke, fomewhat broken, ( as J conceived ) by a fudden or violent feparation of it from the heart, which yet feemed to me to come from itcafily enough.

The' body I fcarched likewife with a bodkin betweene the Leggs or Thighs, and I found it perforate, ' or hollow, and a folid body, to the very length of a filver bodkin,, as is here deferibed: At which the Spedatots wondered. And as not credi¬ ting me, fomc of them tookc the bodkin after me, made triall themfelves> and re¬ mained fatisfied, that there was a gur, Vcine or Artery, orfome fuch Analogical! thing that was to ferve that Monftcr for ufes naturall: Amongft whom the Lady Herrk and the Surgian made tryall after me with

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their oWne hands, and have given theft hands that this RelatijofI is c rub. This La¬ dy dwelleth at the figne of the Sugar loafc in S. lames ftreet in the Convent Garden,

THis Grange and monftrous Embryon borne in the faid Ventricle, which as Hippocrates faith is nourifhed neither with meats nor drinkes, Sed pur a ^ iUufiri ftantia, taking aliment from the blood puri¬ fied out of the next Cifterne; made mec ( importuned with other occafions then ) to leave this new and rare Spedlacle in the charge of the Surgion, who had a great defire to conferve it, had not the Mother defired that it fhould be buried where it was borne 5 faying and repeating. As it came mth him, fi it JhaM goe with him : Wherefore the Mother flaying in the place departed not till fhee had feene him fow it up againe into the body after ray going away.

Which as foone as I heard, I prefently deferibed the forme of it at home, inter rarl- ora a mereperta : And thus this Hiftory had alwayes beene buried from the World, (the Mother havingthus buried the Creature) if your felfeand others hadnotdeffred a figure and narration of it, which caufed me to cake the hands, ahd'mmdes of fbmeofthbihWho

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were prefcne : Who being ocareft the young man, were moft liloely to fay the beft, and therefore bang befidcs people of good fame and reputation might bee credited 5 confidc- ring that they would fay nothing at all ei¬ ther againft their owne houfe, or againft ve¬ rity more then what apparent and clearc truth fhould necelfitatc them unto : Which from thcmfelves and under their hands,hcie I have done.

There were alfo divers others, fuch as dwelled in the houfe, and fomc that came in^who beheld it,aftcr whom I have no Icifure to enquire : But fuch who will fcarcc believe their Creed, or any true mans word, or that men have fenfes (which have alwa'ics bcene reputed incorrupted WitnefTes, ) may goe into the high buildings upon the Street in Saint Giles Parifli, and at the corner houfe next the greenc Dragon where the Young-man died s they may make further inquifition.

Since which time the Mother hath remoo- ved hcrfelf^ into Bloomesburj ncarc unto the houfe of oneMaftcr who dire(5i:ed me to her lodgings 5 a man wcllknownc in all that Region.-

Miftris Gentlemdn dwelleth neare unto S, Clements Church in the Strand, and the Chirurgion, or his man can diredtthem to the houfe.

Moreover chat day all of us thac were pro-

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fcftt at this fight related to our friends, wives, . of husibands what we had founds as the^ vs^ill

tcftific. . ^ , . ' . - j

The Hiftory therefore being verified

byasmuchteftimony as humane [perfwafion need require: Except nothing but oath will xontent fome, which if it (hall be found necci- faiy to Authority : It will moft readily come foith ■ alfo and obey ; It is moft requifite that fomething be (aid of this or any fuch like matters generated in mans heart, both for the manner of their generation and the way of their cure»and by what means fuch rare and incredible caufes of death may bee found out in time and taken away.

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Uch matters as thefe were worthy of layout felfc, and a manof yourlongcxperi- cnce. Yet becaufe this ftrange generation was found by me, I will confult with y our learning, rather then by any hafty refolution,

determine and difeourfe a little to flare a que-

ftion of no fmaldifficultysfinccHf/^/^^^r4m firft

hath given the occafion, which was thisj Cor TiuUo tHorho labor heartlaboorethofnb di- {€2i(c:Si.VnnccJ'vkerf,(or longinqttum ameumen' r^,the heart is farr remote from dangers. And vet contrary to thefe : V cry many Phyfitians enumerate thefe difeafes of the heart ; the murafmui^ Syncope, the Cor alack

Hip de morbis ^vieenl-i’ Jen

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'Lypdfhymfy i^poJfems; VlcetSy B other dUy Correfm o^Sithlimatei and I dire adde, dif- cafes which afflidrhe heart by reafbn ofdiftil- lauons" from the head in fome w'ho have had the un(5lion r ■ Ttemors alfo and palpitations of the heart; 2& Peter Ebanm in his Booke dc Venenis : 'And the' Paralyjts of the heart , as old Aurelianm in his fecond Booke of Slow- papons : After Harophylue and ErafiBrdtue have obferved.

And nowbf late Skinkim and others have found wormes in CordU capfuls, which is the Pericardium : But I fpeake more pre- cifely and puntolly, that now in the left Ventricle of the heart, this Worme or Serpent hath bcene found : Which the Mother of the Young- man faith, was at lead of three yeares growth, for fo long he complained of his breaft, and as (hee faith would never button his Doublet in the Mor- ning,butbeopcnbrcafted inall weathers, till he had wafhed his hands and face,and was fub- jed to palpitations.

Now then that wee may judge whether Hippocrates, and Avicen dired their fpeeches ; thele reafons are to be admitted.

Firft, from the fituation of the heart, i/t medio medij pethris^ faith y^vicen ; in the middle of the middle of the breft : which Ma¬ thematically is not true: for fo thebafisor upper part , or caput onely is placed in an Equidiftance from the diaphrdgma ( the in-

feriour

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ferioU£/«'f«^» I- iHClMmUi i and the

fMUtfU fitptrinr ) and bcuxcenc the rertdrx oithehidicand the anterior Sterm».

The Second is, that the heart dwelleth in a 5.

ftrong pannicle, and fuchanone, that non iit~ corL^ ■ venitar fannicultes compar ei in jpifitudi^, nt ^ CtjpeUf tntajnen •* that no pannicle is comparable unto it, that it may be a (hield and

defence, untothe heart.

Thirdly, r./^w'cwaddeth, that the heatnt felfe is created of ftrong flefti, that it may be Unnnqmm anocumemts, in qao contexts fmt ihecies ‘viUarum fortium : Divetfe ftrong firings admirably woven together do bind and ftrengthenthe heart, and give it aptitude for motion, and reft fiance. fflnoeratcAot^g before K^vicen faith the fame, and things of greater confequence : Cor eft mnfttilia finis,

&c.- The heart is afirongmufclie,»r»»ets;a, feddenftute carnu & conftrieime . not by his Mi(.uH fufrt. nervous nature, but by folidity of flcfli and conftriaion : And in the ^heart. there lye hidden diverfe skins like fpidets webs ex¬ tended, which do fo bind and fhut the codes of the forts, that no man ignorant, knowes

howtot2outtheheart,butwilltake_upone

for an other. Neither, can water or wind pe¬ netrate into the heart: and more; Car

cam habet cirenmdatm, & eil ,n tpfahumr mdteue, &c. Vt cer fanum in enftodtafloref- tat : hahet autem humidttatem tantam quanta

fat is e(i a kuanti in medeUm : hmc kffmsrem cor f J ^ Q 2. emungtt

emsngh hlbeH tO afjhmtns ^ e&iifum:ns, fulmo^is nlmiram ptum hmhtns : H- fp-akes further of chccov^r called the that

nothing may enter that way but what is con¬ venient 5 So that feeing the heart is fortified with fuch ftrength of ribbs ; with fuch co¬ vers, fuch skins, fuch fortitude offubfiance, fuch denfity of Hefh, fach excellence of li- quour, fuch curious filaments, that nothing can cnte>> hurt, or come neere the heart to make it ficke : but that it is able to defend it felfe, both by its ownc fituation, ftrength, and happy condition in very many rcfpe<fts, and keepe out or put backe whatfoever alfo by force (hall come neere unto it: It remaineth that the heart is nor, neither can be fubje(ft to any difcafe,or at leaft not eafily.

Yea thofe other men- who enumerate the difeafes oftheheartj grant, as chiefely CU4 de 7 bar ant 4 and the \^rabians all confefle that a hapneth, or elfe death as foonc

asany difeafe approachcih, orhurt toucheth the fubftance of the heart 5 alfo K^vicen, Pe¬ trus de Ebane rebte that the forementi-oned difeafes kill as foone as any of them touch the fubftance of the heart : Herofhyltu

coefeffed that fudden death followed if a Pardyfis once furprized the heart : And for Bothers OX PhUgrridSi or Erijipelas or the like they fay that they arc dileafes of the heart witiative only 2nd- mi fubjecH've^ to dwell there anl5? time.

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And indeed lam fully; perfwaded that the heart fuflereth a pyiv4UvB, by ne¬

gation of due tranfmilTion from other parts, rather then that marcor fhould follow cordis JuhJiantfd ariditatem for if any part have good fubftance in k, the' heart hath^ and therefore Hippocrates faith, that ^jstaftde femes refic^atl fuerint homo moritur : that the Ven¬ tricles have the laft humidity in them: where¬ fore Galen feemeth to defert his Maker in ikying, a cordis ariditate incipere malum. Viz, veram feneHutem intent urn naturalem.

Whereas hee Ihould have faid the contrary : that the aridity of the heart followeth the deficcation and want of due tranfmillion of other parts: Yee if J may fpeake my mind freely, Hippocrates is not to be taken finrpfy, that the heart cannot be any way es affefted j but perhaps in the fenfe of Galen, that the heart fuffereth little or nopaine by reafbn the fubftance of the heart hath but little' fenfation , having but one little nerve for feeling from the fixt Conjugation,^ and that is fomewhat obfeure alfo. Or if hee meane , as indeed I am fure hee doth , that difeafes doe not aflFc<3: the heart ’; hee is to bee underftood that or¬ dinarily they doe not, but very fcldome, by reafon of the carnous parts. Cor folidum ac denfum ut ab humort non agrotet, ^ propi terea null us snorhus in corde aberitur, caput autem Splen maxim} fimt morbis ab~

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0O}C(d,rli\s fpecch is evidently comparative; elfc wee fee very often that which hee never faw in all his long life and experience ; And indeed we fee now very frequently the heart ,affe<fted with ImpofthiimeS, with Wormes, with AbfccfTcs, with Fleamy con¬ cretion both in the Eares of the heart and Vciitricles,yeaand now with a Serpent : And yet men live divers yeares with them, and many other difeafes both fer ejfcntiam dr C#;?/e»y^jw,allkindcofdiftenipers both cquall and unequall, of which the Ancients have left no memory nor mention unto us, with which the Books of late Phyficians are re- pleate. Wherefore the propofitions of the Ancient Phyfitians muft have a friendly inter¬ pretation; or elfe mens hearts now a daies arc more pafifible and obnoxious unto difeafes then in former ages, which by me as yet can¬ not cafily be admitted : Wee are forced therefore to conclude that the heart ferejfen- primaho fulfje^i've m2.y he wicha difeafcandcaufcof death, and it can¬ not otherwife be conceived^ feeing fuch crea¬ tures are begotten in it;yct doubcles exteriour difeafes kill fooncr then innate.

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“nUtthis then begets agreater queftion, how Jjthis Monfter or fuch as this fhould bee bc^ gotten or bred in the heart, fo defended, as

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hath beetle faid, marc then all the body, and in the moft’defended part ofthc hcattythe left Ventricle three times thicker of flefliand fub- ftance then the right ^rasalfoof what matter f feeing that Cell is poflefTed and replenilhed with thcbeftjpurefta'nd moftilluftrious liquor in the body, the blood Arteriall and the vitall fpirits.

There arc who conceive that pervious paf- fages may be found for little Wofmes and the like to enter into the heart: but they muft give a better way then any that J have yet fccnc doe, as al fp the Wormes muH be very little. Others fay^ that fuch matters arc caufed by the ill habit of the heart 5 by ^ which if they meancthefubftanceof the heart, it is not to be receaved, till the heart hath beenc hurt by ill diftributionsand tranfmiflions which in ourcafeisothervvifc : for balfc of the heart, the left Ventricle, ( the Matrix of this Ser¬ pent j was folid and ftill good : Where¬ fore it is nor in the ill habit of the fubftancc.

Others thinke that thofc Wormes which create fometimes the mat della luna , as the ItalUm terme it, living in the fericardium, and gnawing the heart : Of which there are innumerablcStories,

HebenJlreitUb.defefiettlUth us'one^ of a Priftco to whofe heart a fehite' Wormes

j w as found cleaving with a jharf and horny

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uUeth m of an other : and To CMath:. Corvar: lih2,c.?.S. Confult:med.

In Stowe’s CronnicU ad annum 1585. iLElizabeth, a matter of this nature^ in an Horfe is recorded as a memorable thing in thefe wordes, ■

'The Seventeenth day of March, a franco thing banned, the like whereof before hath riot beene heard of in our time, MaHer Dorington ^Spaldwiclc^^ the County of Hummgion Efquire , one of her Ma- )efi ies G ent lemen Tentioners', * had an horfe which died fuddenly^ and being ringed to fee the caufeofhts deaths there was found intheboledftheheartof the fame horfe, a ^ Worme which lay on a round hea^e in a kali

or skinny ofthelikeneffeoJaToade- which

being taken out and ff re ad abroad, was in forme and fa/hion not eafe to be de- t feribed The lengt h of which worme divi- I ded into many graines to the number of ffty {fpred from the body likethe branches of a Tree) was from the from to the end of - thelon0 graine feventeene inches, having foure if ues in the graines from which drop- fed forth a red water : The body in big- nefe round about was three inches and a \ haife} thecolour whereof was very like a j ■ Mackerel, This monjirous worme found 1 ' in manner aforefaid, crawling to have got j away, was ftabbed in with a dagger and X died which being drytd was frewedn

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- Chronicled, how. much moic may this be memorized for Pofterky Or i that which you have, or that which you . told me was found in the heart ofthc hox^Bedew.

By reafon thefe were found in Men, that in ’an Horfe : and this found by me of greater lengths and more certainc forme, then that which they could not

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As alfo thofc pecccs of black flcfli gcnct!a- ' ted in the kfiVemiiclc, .o£which ^<'wVw^ hiftorizeth onc,”C.35. dedditisy in forme a Mcdler, upon the Artery : and VefdtMjtb.

de humm cerforis jAbrica, fpeakethot a m'oft Noble and . learned Perfonage, in the left Ventricle of whofc heart, two pounds of blacke glandulous flefh were found ; the heart extended like a pregnant

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)thcr matters, fo often fecncin thelcftycn-

ricle, by NeretM Neretius that famous Phy-

hthn o£ Florencgy and Eraftf^,p4rt.$. dijpur

\at.defcb. putrid: may be generated in the

^ericArdium^ either by drinkes of lU condition

diding into the r and fo into the Ar-

:eriesr and the heart: and fomctiaacs fomc

fmall feedes or attomesor creeping creatures, dtvms which C#w/»w Gtmmd fettethforth fufficient- 4har»<,mfmi.

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ferns of Grange formes; and it is a common fayirtgof the Pedemntanes, and fuch as drinkc the w^rs oithc'Aifes '^ that every fuch man borne hath a Frog to his brother. Such things may pafTe into the ftomak'v bu: rarely intothe heart. ' - ^

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BUt that which I have to fay, is this 5 that thefc ftrange and extraordinary genera¬ tions are caufed from the temperament indi¬ vidual! , for you well know that there is a double temperament; the one Spccifieall, the other. individual! ; the one \% fixum and unalterable-, the other is temperdmentum fiuxum, and .accidentall;

As for -the Specificafi temperament al- thoi^h the vitall ai^sceafe, ytt the fpecif call a(^ is never changed 5 for you fee that the parts of this or that animall , rctainc their Jpeclfcall vertuc when they are dead; as herbes, or thofe partes of herbes, as leave', feedes or rootes, kcepe their property, and retainc their owne heates or favours, when they, are cut away , - or ^ taken up from the ground : Yea and there are certaine fpecifike atoms which alwayes continue after putre- /. fa^ion, -and extreame drincfic in the fixed

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icTto t^mpcramerrti is prop^ every creature: for Man hath his tern pcramenf, the Lyon his, hyfopp his, and the rofc his ownc ;'For God made every thing, fecmdtm fpeeies fr.th & genere fit& froducat aqm m jpecies & om^e volatt/c fecntjdim genm

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Dei^ fecit beJltA^ juxtd fpecies ftas omm ifi gemre fmj ^ prsds^cat tens 'mimAmin gencre fiO.Scc,

Wheriore the Spccificall temperament of Socrater doth not di&r from die temperament olHifpcrdteSyTlatd, Cdto, or any other man: which may be well put againft Arifiotle, who thought the foules of men did diff<^ in no¬ bility one from an other : which difference can no way be founded upon the tempera¬ ment fpccifically, but rather upon thejndi- viduall, which is but the accidcntall confti- tution oftheindividcialls of the famej^mw 3 which followeth fome peculiar determina¬ tion of tfr horofeopant 3 or clfc upon fome other fpcciall hclpe, or hindcrance3 as from the Angular feite of Heaven , afeention of Starres, arpc(5i: in flux, the aliment of pa¬ rents, either more or Icffe elaborate $ and

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mtny other tn liters every creifure bornie hath according to the felicity ot infcUcit/ of his generation : ' efpecially Man, who of all other creatures is houriflied with naoft variety of meates and drinkes : We alfo fee every day that fuch men are more hot, and vivacious, who are borne cither in the Starres of or

the Sun orient tail : they alfo to be of more fuculent habit, who are born within thcfccond ^Wr<iftfoftheMoon:and fuch to be leaftviial, who are born in the filcnceof the Moon,herbs alfogathered the Moon, decrcafing, have IcfTc force:&thc very foilc often doth either fo aug¬ ment, or dwarfe plants, andherbes, and give them fuch ftrange conditions, that they are found degenerat,and fcarcely the fame herbs: As for the prolifick matter, it breedes ( as Phyficions fay) a male, or female, as it is more or IclTc concodted : There arc alfo di- verfe conjundl matters, which hclpc or hin¬ der gencration,as fuch matter doth which dif- fererh much d fun^is ffeeijieU , ov a femncy for the fperma may be much, which is matertd Augment dtiv A, but the feed is fo little of which a giant is generated’, that as nevum lumen faith: it can be no greater at firft moment of conception, then in proportion to the 8 loo. part of a graine of whca^c 5 which confirmeth that of Ariftctlcy that the fortieth day after conception, hme formica nen major •y from which augmentative matter it is (which is made of various arid alterative aliment ) that " r, " children

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children differ fo much from bofh their owfic parents: hence one fweaccs and fwcarcs at the fight of a Cat : and an other forfakesthc table acthe fight of aPigg^or Goofc 5 the rca- fons of which antipathies and divcrfitics, are founded in the latent matter fpermatike^ as if the Mother of one , fbmewhat before her Sonne was begotten, had eaten a moufe; and the ot her fed upon the cares of a Jew.

All which is faid to iiruftratc, that there is in many men, a ccrtainc connate matter and obedientall, fufceptible of divers difeafes, and infelicities : Wherefore it was not fo an¬ ciently, as worthily faid 5 Ftelici^imum efi bene rtdjci, it is a moft happy thing to be well borne.

And from this Diatbefes and ill difpofitions may many a ftrangc fickneflc in after ages fpring, as time, diet and other accidents doe alter or intend i he heat, cold, or acrimony of the humour and blood, or fome other qua- lity.

L pray Sir^ note well the faithfull Rchtioti ©famoftimderftandingandfincere mao, M. jehnWhi filers one of the Be»"chers of Gmes^ Jmmnd Recorder -of Oxftfrdi who upon my Karration of this Hiftory of lahn Pedant ( the very fame day, or the next that I found thcScrpentjjtold me that in his youn- gcr dales himfclfe was a great Cock- Mafter, and one of his old fighei^ Cocks beginrjrg todroope, he thought it bcti to’cut off his

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hcid> . whlc^ as roonc as it wa$ done, there appeared and fhot out b«jveene the-skinn® another head and neck,' like-char of his Cock, butkwasakinde of gelly (as hec conceived) wicha very fine skin uponir, with a bill and a little combe: The reft was not fearched, 'which perhaps wasbred of fome Egg in the body of the Cock,, which.kind of Concepti¬ ons are very rare, yerthe facred Scripture ma- keth mennon of CcckatrUff i: Which doubt- leflp cannot be bred but offome hunsour or blood exalted to fome extraordinary and pre- tcrnaturall degree of hear, cold, or fliarpc- fiefle, orfome other quality: 7 Which fi/ft the naturall heat and valour of that bird proo- veth : Secondly his martiall profcflion and terrible battclh performed almoft to dearh,all his life long 5 as alfo being begotten of fuch like Anceftors, himfelfe alfo exccllingln heat and fiery fpiritsaccidcntall.

Com pare this Young-mans flatc alfo with this hiftoryjhis right kidny wholy confumed* hisleft tumifiedasbigasany twajeidnies or three, full of ulcerous matter: So likewife his bladder full of ulcer, and roccennelTe, and not^ginhisbady fo be found the caufeof this : , n, Wherefore the fliarpneflcand extraor¬ dinary heace of the blood or fome fuch like quality was the caufe of the Ulcers, and fo alloconfequcntlyof that extraordinary pro- dudion in the heart : ,For nothing els appea- rcth whatfoever may be conceived ; And this

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accidental! temperament of the blood > I take to be the caufe Q^b|s which we found in the heart ; For in the heart (if any where) was the greateft hcaf> and if in any part of the heart in the left Ventricle, the principall r«- ccptacle of arterial 1 blood and fpirits i And ■Ihave moreto confirme me in this opinion, having certaine knowledge both of the diet of his Mother and Grand-mother alfo, and of his owne : Which I am not willing to raake- publique; but to make private ufeofitto my felfe.

All which flial] not by me bee intended to prejudice any other better judgement concer¬ ning other like conceits 3 byreafon that paf- fages to that Ventricle may be fometimes per¬ vious ,although very rarely : Buttoinformc you of fome peculiar knowledge that I have of this mans Hiftory 3 which may give us great light concerning others of like condi-

tion. . . . '

I could here difeourfe how the imagination -produceth ftrange things in men 3 and wor- keth not only in our owne bodie-s, but alfor> hyle mmdi, as Bacon prooveth, tk

Prince Avicen : But this Twill not acterape, (s* mvaiG except you (hall jiidge this Relation may be bencficrall to any> and then I fluli difeufle it out at krge. ' ’ . r

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BtJ^o mcthcrerolutionof this matter fee- meth very profitable ro know how thefe things may be bred in men, for I Tuppofe, men from hence will take fpcciall care to alter the accidental! temperament of humors,if they find them excell in any high degree of hcatt, ' cold, fharpnesjOrthe like, fuch as have in them incohvenience and danger, and to deale with learned Phyfitians in time.

So alfo is the knowledge of fingular ufe and benefit to know when mcn areaffe^acd with a- ny fuch difeafe^and how they may be cured.

As for the knowledge of abftrufc and fc- crctaffe(5Uons, whereperhaps no dolor gives certitude«ofthc pJace afFe(5led, as in difeafes byconfent, when fomeother pans arc more afflidcd,fuch skill is worthy of a Phyfitian, and at any rate to be procured : But how or where (hall we have it ^ Whowritethofitf Whohathfomuefi as ever dreamed of any fuch helpe to mankinds For mine ownepart I never yet read of any fathogmmomca

of any fuch difeafe: Neither ^doc I know whereto find one graine of inftriidlion in this, as alfo In divers other difeafes (which I can nominatej morethenfrom raineowncobfer- varion and care. Wherefore if I fer dowce one thing which is not common nor els where to be fgund.I hope you will take it as my good

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wifli Unto the Confmm-wtidth of PhylifianSjand I will lay my ground upon two Hiftorics of mineownrthe one was in Deceml;er,amo.L6^^. For being fent for to a yong gentleman whofe

Buckmdge Ton unto M.^r- thur Buckcridge now oiTottenham Gentleman, v/ho wasfickof that kind of pox which our Country people call the Flocks, which were many, flat headed, white,and wrought along, asifwormeshadmadc certaine crooked fur- ro-wes among them, which when at firfl: I be¬ held, I wasvery diffident in my felfe of do¬ ing any cure, becaufe I never knew any of thatdifeafe and manner faved; Yet while rhe friends of the Youth declared unto race what an ingenious child and fchollerhc was, and what hopes alibis friends had of him : I ftill beheld the variegation, or vermiculation ofthatkindofw/W.«; Andbecaufe noPhy- fitianinall my reading ever gave me the Icaft light or helpe to cure them : J more ftudioufly fcarchingtbccaufeof their forme, ftrongly apprehended that that outward work and waving could proceed from no caufe, but from putrefadl:ioncaured of worms-, and that God and nature did afliftinfo greatadifficulty, fhewing by this external {ignacurcchc internall caufe, taking therefore my Jndkame from the Con]undiivt{^% Galen counfellcth very well} J preferibed chiefly againft wormes and inward putrcfadion,and in very fliortfpacc he was re- ftoredtohis health r And while I write thefc

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thiDg%thcyodg-man(whomJ never rawfince) comtneth in to my houfe to (earch after me, and to give me thanks To long after, being fliortly to goc for Oxford: Wherefore to conlirme this Hiftory I fent unto the Young- mans Apothecary to fee what was yet upon filejtoafccrtaine what I fay 5 and it is retur¬ ned me, thattvvoof my bils are yet there re¬ maining : Asalfo onehonefl Gentleman re- membreth well that I then cxpreflcd as much and told his friends that I intended to preferibe againft the worms principally.

The other Hiftory was of this I ohn Pennant, whom wc diffeded 5 who was well known unto me, as his friends and others well can af¬ fine it* in whom as is likewife fufficiently knowne, I very often noted this, that he had an excellent Eye, but extraordinarily fharpe, and like the Eye of a Serpent and fo much I have fpoken of it, that divers Gentlemen and good Schollers did make an- fwer unt® me that heard of his long difeafes of thefuppofedftone, or ulcer of the bladder ; that pains and griefes did fharpen mens a^pe<^^s : But finding what we have feenc irt him, thus much fhall mine owne obferva- tion teach me everj Let others doe, or be¬ lieve as licf leas they plcafe, that /eeret, unu^ fuall and ftran^ in ward difea fa , doe fend forth fime radios, or fignatures from the center, o/- nalpgicall to the circumference, hy which we may finds the caufes if we he di ligent and care^

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full : And this is that which I would com¬ mend of which I know no man that hath written one word as yet : Which although athrftKfccmcth.new, yet if men will well coniidcr it and what I fliall fay I doubt not but they will be confirmed, that it is an accurate and a moft necclTary obfervation, and a chiefe Window to fee into the moft fecrcc di- feafes and Clofccs of the body and heart alfo.

And fir ft as an introdudion Co belicfc what helps Phyfitians may have from beames and fignaturcs. All learned Phyfitians will thus farre goe vvith me, that this was that admirable way of the old tJi'tagitiam to find out the natures of medicines, from their peculiar beamsjfignatures and fimvlitudes,and tlut there is no Simple or medicine Specif cd (as they fay)or excellent for any difeafe or ve¬ ry few, but we arc able to make the radij or fig- natures to appcarc, from which thofe learned MAgl did, or might find out the properties and virtues of thofe Simples or mediciRes,and this you know to be true, and this way you all Y^Q'sjiji\x2XSpmfaSol(S onht Kirarntdes of the Syn4s w^nt,as that book of the King o^Perfia Ihewcth, which I lent unto you; and you have no doubt many volumes of Phyfitians as well as others who have written of this argument. Wherefore feeing it* is fo cleare that figna- tures and beames have fo excellently and clcarely difeovered the virtues of all medi-

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clnes latent and abftrufc. Shall we conceive that God and Nature arc deficient in affor¬ ding outwardly fome helps to know the in¬ ward, fccret and ftrangeft maladies ^ It can-f' notbe:Fortowhatpurpofcis ic, that the Sim¬ ples have virtues medicinal!, and for every difeafe, if fome difeafes may not be dif- vered, and how can they bee difeove- veied within, to. which no eye can come f from which nothing is received, as in fome other dikafes. Some are knownc by time, as Feavers, keeping Period : Some by place or part affe(5i:cd, nsCholick, K^ngwcy Stone in the reynes, and the like. Some by cx- cretions,as DHTcnterics. Some by fuch like and others more or Icffe : But there is no meaneS 'to difeover fuch a thing as this that hath given occafion of all this difeourfe, for nothing wascxccrned ofit any waies, ,or from if that could give any light:- No topicall griefe fo great as that in his reynes and bladder, he did complainc of his bread and of a beating there fometimes 3 but Pdfttatit cordis is Jignum commme did this man

complainc as he did alwaies of his other affe- <Siions. Neither can it beimagined how fuch a fubftance growing and receiving daily aug¬ mentation in his heart could bedifeoveredby the wit of man, but by fome outward thing fingular and unufuall, as a fpcciall radm of what was within. '

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that the Eaft fince his time, or long before hath brought forth unto the world : that every thing hath his ra^os froprm^ as well as rh e ftarres of Heaven have : his

wordes are thefe, in his Treatife deradtjs^ as a-firmc conclufion, and fufficiently thereby him confirmed ^ K^gite ergo cum mmdm 'Ekmentms fit exemplummundiy ha qupdqu^- Itbet res in ipfo contenta ipfitis jpeciem contmet:: Manifejluw efi quod omnis res hu]U4mmdi five ft fubfantia, five accidens^ radios ftchfito modo dd tnUarfiderum^ altoqmn figuram mmdi fyderci ad plenum non haberet. But this we willma- nifeft to the fenfe in fome few ( faith hce ) the fire tranfmitteth his Beames to a cenaine diftance : the earth -fends out her beames of colde, ofmedicincj and ofheakh*, and me- - dicincs taken into- the body, or outwardly applied, diffufe their-bcames through the - wholebody of him that receives tliem*; the collifion of foiid bodies makes a found which diftufeth it fclfe by the beames of the thing

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moved : and every coloured body fendeth out his beamesjby which ic is perceived, and this is fubtely knowne in moft other things : by. ^^j/hich by njwt reafon « is <ertaincly knowne ro.be true in all rhiagsjtaking -this therefore for truth wee fay, that every thing which hath a(5luall exiftence in the elemen¬ tary world, fendcs forth his beames, which £U .the elementary world afrci-their manner, whereupon every place of this world con- tayneth the beames of all things which are atShrally exiftent in every place ; And as every thing differeth from others fothe beames of evciy thing do differ in ejfFe<^ and n tture from the beames of all other things, by which it comes to paflfe that the operation of the beames is diverfcin.alldiverfethings; Thus farre, and much more Ikindm to the fame

and like'cffe^.* Yet I will ad fome few in- Aances more. The feverall fmclles of all things in the world, are their feverall r^d'^ whieh doc difeover thendelves unto us, and we perceive them to be, many times where wc fee them not: Wee. fmell Rofes, Musk, Civit? Amber, Quinces, Apples> Plantes and herbesofall fortes, and very many other thinges inroomes or boxes, before wc come ncere them v and’we are moft times aftured of fuch things to be ncere us, by their proper and peculiar emanations, or irradiations, which are their fpecifick beames, darting out and diffufing themfclvcs from one cen-

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ter, imto a Certaitic diftancc , according^to the vertue of the fpecies or his. proper nature^ which may doubt leffc alfo be intended, or remitted, or varied, and fo makeftrong pro- jedion , according to the redtitude of line, or clfe be debilitated according to the pro** portion of obliquation: but this I infift not upon.

^ Petted things alfo have their radtes^ accor¬ ding to their owne proper nature, and thei’e is the fame reafon of them in all points accor¬ ding to their fpecies : The colours of other things are alfobeames: andthe very truth is, that as all thinges in the world have their pro¬ per radios : fo all the adions that they have is by vertue ofthefe .* and as Alkindia faith, by thefe bcames is excrcifed in cm- jundium localiter, out in feperatum : which th« Schoole-men call tmmediatio virtutis^ orim- mediatio fippojiti : in both, nothing is done Jine radijs^ nor truly knowne : As for exam¬ ple, If two men come clofe togetheri one cannot ftrike another, Jmmedutione fappefttiy except the animaUs radij aduatethc nerves and mufclcsof the hand, and therefore imme^ diatio w/<s^/^isfuppofed. Thefe fpirits arc the radij dnimaUsy and by thefe every adioo arbitrary or not arbitrary is cfFedIcd in or by man, and every other creature.

And as cleare to us is that adion which is performed immdiatmt wmis \x\ other creatures^ for wefee an Adamant to draw

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yi!oia a! a diftance : A looking Glaflfe to -re- prefcnt the Images of things fepacated from the glalTe : And this we know muft bee by fomc EmilHon or proje(5bon of beames one towards anorher; as well as by thcEmiillon of the aniniall fpirits from the braine into the nerves. And a mar¬ vellous wonder it hath beene to me to fee how Mineral Is purified and defecated from heterogeniallmxwxxzsj^nd^mg themfelvcs free doeftrike outthcmfelvesin any liquour into ■branches and Starrs, as is acknowledged by Phyfitians, calling them medtcinats fteUntas^ as mtercurius Stellatm : Regulas Stellatdf, &c. and not onely Uiiimrals doe thus, but the Salt of vegetables, and animals I have made fo, that they will doc the like: 6othat it is evident that every thing in the world hath his beames 5 and it cannot, nor ought not to be othervvire,fith the nine times moftblclTedandmoft glorious EiTenfator of allthings who hath beene fo diffuiive, as to branch out himfelfc into every thing vilible and invifible, that any thing fhould not have fomelikenefle unto him who made all things fummaraticne, and with as great perfections as their feverall fpecies were capable oE And for them therefore not to Ihcw them- fclves,and who was their Father, it> is impof- fib^e.

. Ccelum in urrd/ed medoterreflri :

T^rraefl n C^kyfid modoCoelefii :

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" Ycci even puttid hi’tnouiS? and materiall “caiifts of difeafes, as ‘bcirg natiiraJl things though corrupted are good : and have their'beames and their fgnatures in favours, puftks, bubos, fpots, and tokens without, of divers forts according to the feverall fpe- cies of the humour putrified within, or from thecommixtion with other caufes by which a-Phyhtian ismuch inflrudicd, what is with¬ in, and how to rake heed himfelfe^ ana to come home to the very point, and caufc of all thisDifeourfe, we fee in all kind of Animals in the world f and doubt nor- but your incrediblc' dcfire to 1<noW and ' excellent naturail fagacity hath often obferved ) that according as their artcriall blood is exalted , fuch are in their Byes^ as we fee in fome men more then others, and , in Cocks, and in Serpents : A Gocke hath an Eye are almoft exalted to

thebeamesof the Eye of a Serpent : And doubtleffc fuch blood had tliis man, and fuch fpirks of an incredible heate o r acri- « mony : The Eye is an l^afex cannototherwife bethen by the or fpi- ritsof it, much more then doth it lliew the blood artcriall upon which thofe fpirits are founded^ and thus from the Eye I have made k evident, that we may know much of the left Ventricle of the heart where the artcriall bloudis' elaborated and made : And thus

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exterior we play the good and dili¬

gently confider them : I am perfwaded wee may haveafingularhelpeand infight to cure themoft hidden and moft dangerous difeafes of all, and fuch as otherwife cannot be known. You fee Sir, I have founded my fentence upon God, Nature, and Experience, and if it be hidden or not believed by apy, it is to them incredible who have grofic conceptions, fmall skill, as J am fure your great infight and wifdome will and can better confirmer For what is that which makes feme men wifer then others ^ Magis fapiens eft ^ dicltur qui minus ferceftibilia percipit rebus dr esirum condithnibus , faith that wife man Alkindus : There is no doubt ther- fore (a^the fame man faith) but that they who are informed with an holy defire of wifedomcwill labour much to comprehend the fecret conditions of things,as the an- dent Phyfitians did who with wondcrfull fa. gacity fearched for that skill which we in joy ; As for fuch as are neither wife nor have defire of wifedome, I leave them to Ptelemey that other miracle of knowledge to inftrucS: the world of them 3 Reprehen^ dmt inftpientes quod mn comprehendunt , unwife men reprehend all that they doe not comprehend.

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IT rcmalnes onely tharTotnahiBg be faid of the cure of fuch Conceptions if by ' any Phyfician they be perceived in tirtie : Either by pulfation of the heart or by any cxternall figne or (ignature, .or dromz^.

There are fome who ufeno alterants nor o- thcr peice of art then to kill and diflTolve fuch conceptions : and they confide in this. \\,Succi AlUjiNaftHrtijyRafham^ ana.%-), detur flatim curaUtur, So Schemkins from S t ocher fu. Others thus. Rr. Tanacetiramdum in umbra Jiccatftmjn pt^lvercm reda^um cribella- iumj^fCui addaUir fnlvis Jequens, l^c.Rad gen¬ tian. Rad. Pdonin longAy ana.%d\* Mprrhsy ^.15. rmfie,tere ^ cum utt volueris. €umgtfttulaaqu£ ut folum made(iat mifce-^emde inungC' es & lahra inf antis aut faticntis ter aut qunter, ^ una cum c&uris medtcamen- iis eijcientiir. So Schencktns. This 1 grant is good for wormcs that caufe Epikptih fits in children, but for fuch as lie deeper in the pericardium and the left Ventricle, it is not likely they will be fenfible of, at fo great a di- ftance and inclofure : I rather thinkc that the ufe of fome oylcs which are more penetrative, may do more good, as fome drops of olei de Sabina in aqua jmjentutis, R^mundi or olei ex Baccis luniperl^ob eqws penetratham virtu-

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tern, maywith Tome continuance or with the fucccfic before mentioned be more effica¬ cious: But why am I fo hrge fpeaking to you i But to lay fomc grounds of future dif* courfcs with you,conccrning both prefcrvaci- on and cure of fuch latent maladies, rather then hereto fet them out.

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Yet for conclufion I haveonely this one thing to note unto the world : how that thefe which feeme fo rare, ftrange, and incu¬ rable mifchiefes , might be more familiarly knowne , and eafily cured , if it were not for a babifli,. or akinde of cockney difpofi- tioninour common people, who think their children or finendes murdered after they are dead, if a Surgion fliould but pierce any part of their skinncs with a knife; by which it comracch to paflc , that few of thofe innu¬ merable and marvellous conceptions, which kill the parents in which they are bred, (as your fclfc with admiration have knowingly fpoken to me of their infinite number which arc generated in mans body ) can ever be found ouf, or cured : fo great a monficr is begotten in the blood of foolcs, and fearc- full people, which deflroyeth the common good of man-kinde in a very great propor^ tion ; whereas that knowledge of their generations, which Phyfitions have, ia

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commonly from the difTciSlionsbfthebodics of Noble Pcrfonagcs, and of the Gentry, who with their fricndcs about them have bccne bred to more fortitude , and are more wife and communicative, as mod of ourme- dicinall hiftories, you know condrme , and your fclfc likewife hath told me of fbme. All vertuous and heroick foules know that when their particle of divine pcrfe(flion is returned to him that gave ir, that thentheiV bodies are to ferve the univerfe ( as that pious Bidiop knew ) who when he had gi¬ ven away all befides his body, at lad gave that alfo for the good of the living, -when it diould be found dead, and therefore bequea¬ thed it CO the Phydeians to dided it : but doubtlelfc our TradcfiTicn, their wives and children, and our fugar-fop citizens are com¬ pounded of ararer, mli met anger are dead then when they were alive; 'And though Nobles and Princes may be cut in peeces, yet is \i fuetdar ^ and the lode of grace for ever with them , if a Phidcian^ fliould^but intimate fuchamattcras decently but to operr any part of their mod intemcrate impes.

But what good more frequent dideedions might doe, what portentuous matters they might difeover , and how dicile they might finde the caufes, and their cure , you fuffi- ciently know , and in part others may by this hiftory underdand : And although the

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Jcarning and knowledge of- feme Phifitions of our age be fingular, and growne to fuch an happy degree of perfe<Jiion, yet there are by dilTedions every day foinething’ to be learned : and how much theinternall do hm- bolize with external^ as in part I have dif. covered , and J will yec give out one il- luftration more : let but Phifitions well note their patients comple<Sions , and colours (for this time I will onely Ipeakcoftheface) and let them takeafterwarej if they come to difiedt them notice of their livers, and if they be diligent, infewdifie<5iioiisthey /hall be able, looking into any mans face what- foever, to know the af^e<^^iofls very manife/l- ly of his liver. Sir, under favour, and with you ] have thus much frecdome as to tell forae of my brother Phifitions and Sur- gions^ that the infpedions and di/Tedi- ons which they celebrate over the world, arc not to inablc men to taike of names, parts and places , but to doe , and to be able to judge of thinges hidden and fecreCj^that they may not be deceived tou¬ ching thecaufes of mens difeafes: this is the chieM end, and yet how few ftudy out of cntrailcs this learning, I neede not intimate unto you. c

The wayes of nature, by which opera¬ tions arc c/Fc(5tcd, asalfo the continuation of parts and vclTcls, theif communication, and 10 findc the caufes of ficknefles , their epi- I genefes.

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genefes, theif metaftafcs.theit apoftafc$,their pdlyndromyes. • , . : c

The wayes of Simptomcs> rcafons of re- vulfions and the like, are the next : and fo much fubordinatc to the other, and -of lelTc nccelTity , as obiiious infpetaions flicwc this to be more facile, and with lefTe labour to be attained then that i the other therefore not being fo well perfeded toourdayes, I have by this extraordinary bccafion, and out of my good wifhes, ventured to fpeake a word by you, unto fuch as are wife in our owne profcfliion, fince Phifitians ihould be ifTcOes/, asourdi(5tators wordis, like Gods ywhat is in us in good skill, and goodwill, for the fafety of man-kinde ; that as it was faid of his dayes, fo it may of ours, eorum dkbm

raro amm£ dcfcendebAnt ad infer mm : in their dayes, foules feldome defeended into hell, if any at laft forfaking divine grace fhall def- cend 5 yet that hell may gape a long time ere it receive them, and that others may have time to (hake handes with Heaven, that our profelfion,- the nobleft and wifeft of all others, ( I fpeake of profeflions which con- cernc this life onely, notofprofe^onsfupcr- taturall ) may ftill be efteemed divineft ( as the old Phifitians were crowned defervedly, and related among the Gods, above all others) while by our meanes, miferable men are reftored to the onely blefiing of this life, health; and (as I faid) be preferved

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from that great and eternall gulphofinfeiici- ty, Hell ( many of them not being in ftate of grace, bccaufe fickcupon their finncs ) and laftly, made live till they be friends and fonnes of God, and fo rich as to come to Heaven: our Saviour Chrifi: crowning us with fuch happy mindes,as ro be made inffrn- ments and mcancs of many mens eternall ralvation,by occafion of their temporall reftitution.

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