Van Helmont's works containing his most excellent philosophy, physick, chirurgery, anatomy : wherein the philosophy of the schools is examined, their errors refuted, and the whole body of physick reformed and rectified : being a new rise and progresse of philosophy and medicine, for the cure of diseases, and lengthening of life / made English by J.C. ...

On the WORKS of the Noble and most Famous D. J. B. HELMONT. A Verse of the Noble and most Ho∣nourabl-Lord, Janus Walhorn. D. Coun∣sellour to his Majesty.

SHut up thy Schools, O Galen, for, enough of Men are slain, Ho, now it is Sufficient; full Graves do ring again! For Blood and Clyster are thy Medicines: nothing oftentimes Thou giv'st: but to a Critick day thy hope alone confines. In touching of a vein, the while, and eke of parched tongue, And in the Urine wholly th'art dismayed, and so in Dung. A Med'cine's to be got for him, this helps not the sick man: No need of tests of the Disease; but of a Physitian. Yet thou expect'st a great reward, after the man's enshrind. So doth the Dog look for and love, the Cattle sickly kind. Helmont is one, who able is by his Apollo's art To snatch from th' jaws of Death whom t'oher left to dye in smart.