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Wherein the operations and effects of this Vnguent * 1.1 brought by the Vnguentaries, to prove the sympathy, and to approve the Cure, are alleadged and confuted.
THose which deny a sympathy betwixt the annointed Weapon and the woun∣ded party, may easily be convinced, by the strange operations and effects of this oyntment. For if the cold ayre come to the
Weapon, the wounded party will incurre an A∣gue, or if the Weapon be bound hard with a coard, the party feeles it in his joynts and limbes. And the Weapon being put into the fire, the wounded parties body will be blistered. What is the reason of this, but the sympathy betwixt the Wound and the Weapon, caused by emission of the spirit of the blood? what greater and more de∣monstrative evidence can be of a sympathie?
To which I answer. This reason is no reason. Therefore I will say of it as Tully did of an unreaso∣nable * 1.2 reason. Cujus rationis non est ratio, ci rationi non est ratio fidem adhibere: Where the reason hath no reason, there a man hath no reason to give cre∣dit to the reason. For there's no sympathy betwixt * 1.3 the Wound and the Weapon, as hath already been declared. For another substitute weapon, if the very weapon which inflicted the wound cannot be had, will doe the feat as well as that, so it be drawn through the wound. Where then is the sympathy betwixt the Weapon and the hurt, when another Weapon will doe the feat, which never caused the hurt? Nay, a Sallow sticke will doe it (say these * 1.4 Vnguentaries) if some blood of the wound bee but sprinkled on the sticke, and then the sticke be left sticking in the Vnguent pot. Nay, some have cu∣red * 1.5 the wound by applying the Salve to the Hose, Doublet, or Shooe of the wounded party, nay, to a stoole which hath hurt a man, nay, to a stoole which never hurt him. Where is then the sympathy be∣tweene the Wound and Weapon, when it may as well be applyed to any thing, as to the Weapon?
Besides, this Salve is not made alike by all men.
Reade Paracelsus, Cardanus, Crollius, Baptista Porta, Goclinius, D. Flud: so many severall Authors, so ma∣ny severall Receits of this Vnguent. Some put in Mosse growne on the Scull of a Theefe hanged. Others say it may be of any man taken away by any kind of violent death. Others prescribe Mosse growne upon the Scull of any dead man, whether he came by his death violently or naturally. Some prescribe blood warme, as it comes from mans bo∣dy. Others, blood indefinitely, whether warme or not. Some put in Oyle of Line-seeds, Turbinthine and Roses, others none. Some blood-stones bea∣ten to powder, others none. Some put in Hogges∣braines, others none. Some wormes washed in Wine and burnt in a pot in a Bakers Oven, others none. Some Bole Armenicke, others none. Some Muske, bdelium, storax, and other Gummes, others none. Some appoint the Fat of a Bore, and the Fat of a Beare, others none. Some say the fat of the Bore, and the fat of the Beare, must be the fat of a Bore and Beare killed in the act of generation; o∣thers however killed. Some allot Buls fat to the making of this Salve, others none. Some Honey, others none at all. I thinke it is no matter what the Salve be of. For when men goe about such un∣lawfull Cures, the Divell (delighted therewith) is ready to helpe them, so they put beleefe in the Salve, whatsoever the Salve be. For some, saith Doctor Ioannes Roberti, have performed the Cure, * 1.6 onely with Auxungia porcina, Hogges-fat. Nay, the same Doctor tels us, that he knew a Noble¦man, which, having entred into a perswasion of this Cure, made his Salve of such ordinary herbes as
grew in his Garden, and it performed it as well as all the mosse, mans-fat, warme blood and Mummy in the world: and indeed Cardanus reckons nine * 1.7 herbes said to goe to the composition of this Salve. Where is then the sympathy? where's the Bal∣same residing in the Mosse, Mummy, and Mans fat? Where is the Magneticall operation? Where's the spirit of the blood? where the occult quali∣ties? where's the invisible line carryed in the ayre? Surely all in the Divell. Hee is all in all in the busi∣nesse, and for my part to him I leave it all.
〈…〉〈…〉ero ad 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉▪ 4.
See Me••. b. 2. art. 2.
Croll. G〈…〉〈…〉▪ & c.
V〈…〉〈…〉 R〈…〉〈…〉 ••eau••.
D. Ioan. Ro∣berti. G••••len. Heau∣ton. Sect. 19. ••ng. Arm. compositio.
Cardanus ut〈…〉〈…〉 supra.