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Botanologia
Author
Salmon, William, 1644-1713. Other Author(s): Dawks, Ichabod, 1661-1730, Rhodes, Henry, Taylor, John, bookseller.
Date Added
10 January 2014
Language
English
Publish Date
1710
Publisher
London : Printed by I. Dawks for H. Rhodes ... and J. Taylor ...
Source
Botanologia
Alternate Title
the English Herbal, or, History of Plants : containing ... : Adorned with Exquisite Icons or Figures, of the most Considerable Species, Representing to the Life, the True Forms of Those Several Plants : the Whole in Alphabetical Order
Topic
Botany > Pre-Linnean works. Botany, Medical > Early works to 1800. Plants > Dictionaries > Early works to 1800.
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of that wonderful Spirit, and great .Mall, Paracel-
fus: who not, onlvjhew’d the wcahnef: of Empi-
ricifm, cf Galenick Medicines, and Medicallers,
but unvailed and brought the Art: of Medicine
out of their Rubbifh, and fet them in a true light,
for thegeneral Good ofManhind.
.' v1. IF ‘lT BE OByECTED, that Chy-
onijt‘ry wa: in being long before Paracelfus, war -
,Born. To this we an wen, [0 war the Circula-
lation of the Blood be are our Great Harvey: But
at it war Harvey, who hrjt brought the Circulation
’ to Light, for the reforming, and more [all eluci-
dating the Art of Phyhch, ht we [it], t at it wot
Paracell'us who brought the Light e’fChyrnijhy to
arife and .”)lllt in our Horizon; and let us- into
ire-Secret Regine, [heating u: all its hidden
Treofurer, and brought them forth for the Glo-
of our Art, the Increafe of true Medical
% owledge, and on’ Univerfal Good.
VII. TET WE DO NOT SA T, that the
01d Phylick is- wholly to be fall away : There
are many (tho’ Siniple) excellent thing: in it,
which by a Skilful and Prudetft Phyfician my be
excerpted, and colletledctogether; ,ond which if
conjoined with the Chymical, open into a great
Field of Knowledge , and wonderful Prodtifliom,
that'not onhijhew 'ur the Gentziis, but, al 0 Ana-
lylis'of all natural thing: ; and with what an
amazing 'Harmony they [vmhathize with illuntan
Bodier, and how admirably they conjpire to Ope-
' rate in Mankind, to the extirpation of Difeafet,
and fupyort of Life, againll whatever may be ap-
jiffte‘ to‘liealth, ,and the well-being of a Living
on J ‘ ' ' ‘ ' .
VIII. THE NEXT thing then which the Phyjcian
had in bi: View,- well the Competition andStrutiure
of the Human Frame, that thereby he might [mow
how the Body grew, and war noitrijhed, 'and by
what 'ntean: it might fall to decay, and fa fail.
' And fince the Growth and Nourilhntent aid: from
the Matter received in by the Mouth.into the
Stomach, they confidered that there that an innate
Property tn that Vifcus, viz. Natural Spirits,
to convert the received Food into a hind of nou-
rijuoig‘forcambuo‘ibe GrEeks (our from.
ficionr) were ileafed to call Chylus, which ,being
moredperfetle in the Entrailt, was thence con-
dutle by propercVeg'elr, and conveyed to the
Heart, where being converted into Blood, it too:
thence by the Arteries .diji‘ributcd over the whole
Bod , to contribute to ttr, encreafe of Magnitude,
an ‘nourilhntent if all It: Pom, that it might
not fall to decay. The Meandershor li’ayr,‘by,
which thir Eloo y fuiee raft and mallow eItY-L
coveredb ,Diffeftion of the Human Careafe, how
it paft‘iihhm the Hearti by the Arreriesl-toi alana
' revcryi' individual Part'af, the Body,: for.tt‘:'.Att;
tritton ,iaudjhow, whatvilwgza“ more than war-5f;
for thatanurthc, waryeturned by the ,Vigins'mo
the. Heart again; which, for that reafon 12011:,
to bathe Ezuntaia of ”the Vital Spiritstonl ' fa by‘.
a perpeludl Circulation, ‘lcbaferve: the Alicroceynr
. in a habitudl1’State‘of Life'cand Strength. And
by the fame Art , they came to a difcovcry 0f
the Nervous SyIiem, (whofe Original is in the
Head) by which the ‘Animal Spirits, generated in
the Brain, were conveyed .thro’ the whole Man,
giving Senfe or Feeling, Life and Motion, to every
part of the fame. ‘.
rNTRODUCtrONi
XXIII,
1x. note THE Body no to dogwood, were
the, neeronjidcration, which way either, I. By
bxternal Accidentr, by Blow, halls, Curr, Pun-
l't‘urcc, Gunfhot, 81c. from whence came Contuftb’tr,
Woundr, hluxe: of Blood, Ulcer:, Ft'ai'urcr, Lux-
atton:, thtnetnbringr, and lo]: of Subfianec, which
diret't'ed then: to Topichr, or External Applica-
ttont, whence from along Series of Experiencer,
arofe the Pra6lifc and Art ofChirurgety. IL 0r
Internal, from a defel? of Natural S irits in the
Stomach and Bowels, whereby their one, or' in-
nate concolTive Property being hurt, they either 1.
generated a bad Chylus, which did not A’curijh a;
It oughtJo do, but either prqt‘iigated the Blood and
Lymplm , by depauferating them; or othcru‘tfe
created a tartarou: hind cf Mucilage , by which
not only the'Vefelx thro’ which it war to raf: were
objirulled, but the Vifcern alfo lhlillfh’lvt’: were
perturbed in their Operationr, by glutinou: Slime,
Sand, Gravel, Stance, Bic. 0r 2. They generated
'not Chylus enough to nourijh and fujlain the
External Man, whereby, the'Body fall: into La]]i-
tude: or WeakneJes, Piningt, and a lingering Con-
fumption ; which if not prudently remedied, and
that -in time, reduce: the poor Patient to a nteer
Shelton, and [0 making, him‘ [loft hope: of Cure,
fendr hint decently to hit Grave. An indigelled
Cirylus,'or defeElive In its quantity, or it create:
a depauperared Blood and Lympha, fo it tool-e:
either weak Vital Spirits, or‘a deficiency of them,‘
whence corner Fointncfc, Languijhingt, and the like,
and’an univetle decay; of the Strength of the
whole Alan, And according to the poverty cf the
Blood and Lympha, fueh al 0 are the Animal Spin
tits proceeding from it, from whofe icealcncfr-or
decay, proceed all the Nervous Difcafer whiting
the Body, a: Tretnblingr, Nuinbntyr, left of
Strength and Motion, Convulhont, Palfer, 81c.
X.'-TH E BOD T being that: aflit't'ed with
Difmfes , it too: natural to believe, that they
could not be without their proper Signs, by which
they might be known, a: alfo feverol attendant
Symptoms, all which muji arife from fame, certain
Caufe, or Caufes;'the Sign: of which Caufec,
(which they c'all.DiagnoIiicks) they daily learnt
from Obfervation. Thefe Caufes, whetherOriginal
or Accidental, they gradually fearched out, that
the. Source: whence ”they‘vwcre derived," thigh! be
at length difcovered. All- which war abfolutcly
neceJory toward: the invejitgation 8' the Cure .-
for that without the Caufe mu hnown and remo-
ved, the Efellr thereof, ‘viz. the Difeafe, could
not ceafc, or be taken away. .tlr Difeafcs then
appeared in the World, they olyierved the Signs ac-
corn'parg'ing them, and the Symptoms which many
time: accrued’, which they fet down in Writing,
under the Names cfthtye [everol Diffszifes. And
eng‘uiring into the Courfe of the Patient: Life,
and what Accidental Matterr might olfo happm1 a:
the‘intr‘oitum of the DifealE, theantecedem Comics
1, oftheviiiiltlldx, became; in‘ nine tneJureEtnanifeli.
IIthne'e‘ by ,a great‘nutaber of Remarks, not only
theciAntecedent and chmote;Caufes,-catne to be
,dtyjovaretl, but alto the CQn-lolIlFQI-I and near; Cau-
Tasha”? at,lengtli (brought to Light : Front whence
the Dia‘gnoilick part ofthe Art, received it: lllu- ‘
firatian. ‘Again, frcfm'thc Greatnel‘s or Lightnefs
of-‘the Czitifes; from" the impending Symptoms,
a: they feent’d more or left donger'oar; and front
attenthng to the end of the Difcnfe, ‘thro' a long’
Series of Obfervatipns; being all rationally confi-
. dered together, 'thefrognol’tick Prccepts were eda- ,
ced. And if the.‘Difeafe we thought C‘urable,1 tdhe
n' l.