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. ...

FOR AN ARGUMENT Of the book, a Poet hath thus sung against the Humourists, thirsting after Christian blood.

MOst famous Captain, why in many Doctours doth thou trust, It's much thou can'st confide in one; the other rout [unjust] Do hurt, dost thou not see the veins throughout the body empted, This cut's, that burn's, and so by Art, the maladie's incensed: Who ere of daubing Galen doth in ought the counsel take, They all against one body fight, and B' Art a slaughter make. A rout of Medicine professors slew an Emperour, Dost thou believe that Physick Doctours have a healing pow'r? He was a Belgian Prince by blood, but Phisick't by that rable After the Spanish mode: to th' Dutch that mode's unprofitable. I'le adde a little to his Tomb: here lays a Captain best, O're whom Mars could not ought prevail while blood was in his breast: What bloody war could not perform, Physitians could by lance, Thus less than Hippocrat's himself, Mavors is made [by chance.]