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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    Adam, when he was to ftrive againft his Darknefs, whereby he as wail as thoii inicht havefubdued it. : ^ ’'■ V. > ■ ' j. '■ ’ ' /j lO' Mercurius > In no other thing, belides tliat Darknefs was increafed in man j' by the touching of the Fruits, and eating of the forbidden Tree > info much that Darknefs holds'the prize againft the Light, and doth now poftefs it, even A dam, the Light in did poftefs his Darknefs, and did illumb Date it before his Falk > ' _,u ^ to .'I; ; : - : Wife -Min >. How comes this, to.pafs 2 : i j / j jyll •n,’ .n MercuritessThis hath come to j^fs,through a permenting or Leavening,Con^ tagious, Darkfom ,,and Deadly or Deftrp^iye eating. , . '1 D: ' Wife Men i What wilt thoii^ liifinuate tli^by, explainthy felf by Sim(- litudeSi Vi , ■'?Vi Mercurius s As Darknefs was in the face of the deep, befdre that the Spirit of God was carried upon the Waters / in like manner, thpu lhalt find a certain Veflef, of place, which being Ihut up, or hoary and filthy ,^doth even m a very little time, render all that which is caft into it, alike ftinking or rank, and fur¬ ther to iiifedt it; neither doth anything ofthe.firft more principal Ferment and Filthinefs depart. Moreover, that it may be demonftrated, that this' filthy place is alfo darkfom , is well learned by thofe that pertain to Wine-cellarSi who being defirous to know and experience, whether a Hogs-head be fioairy or filthy, or no, do open its mouth, and by an End do let in a burning Candloi and when the Veflel fhall be clean, and infeded with no Muck or Filth, the Candle being let down athwart it, will remain burning, until its own beget- ting Vapour doth choak it felf: but if the Hogs-head be filthy, the Flame or Light, cannot pierce through the Orifice of the Hogs-head unto the thicknefs of the Wood. Therefore it manifeftly appears, that the darknefs doth alio uncloath or difeover it felf, and make other things darkfom, juft even as the Light doth operate, and that, when the darknefs doth overcome the Light, or the Light overcome the Darknefs: Thefe and the like Darknefles, mult needs be before all Light; and by how much the more liable they are,by lb much the more liable allb, is the Body arifen from thence. Now it is further to be not¬ ed, that as a temporal Light doth illuftrate out of it felf one thing more large¬ ly than another, according to their liability, magnitude, or increafing; in the like proportion and manner, the darknefs powers forth its Beams out of it felf^ as was firewn : alfo as a burning and conluming Fire, can by its Light,enflamei burn, and fttr up many Seeds into a growth or increafe, according to the rate of their more liable Nature , that which I take notice of, thou (halt evidently perceive by this Experiment i it is feen and felt, that by how much the nearer a Fire is kindled, by lo much the more it lliines or enlightens, and heats: now this heat and brightnefs is one and the fame thing, as long as it is in the Fire, as by a colledion ol thofe hot beams through the help of a certain burning glafs^ may be proved, whereby the hot beams are again collected, and are made like unto thofe which exift in the Fire, to wit, hot and burning ones: now when we permit a temporal, difperfed and decaying Fire freely to burn, we ftiall difeern by the Light which fhines forth through the Fire, that other cre^ ated Bodies are burnt at diverfe dlftances from hence, to wit, in the neareft Body