AN INDEX OF THE TREATISES Set forth by John Baptista Van Helmont.

• 1. Prophesie concerning the Author, expressed in a Poem.
• 2. The Authors Promises. pag. 1
  • Column, 1. 2
  • Column, 2. 5
  • Column, 3. 6
• 3. The Authors Confession. 8
• 4. The Authors Studies. 11
• 5. The searching out of Sciences. 15
• 6. The Causes and Beginnings of Natural things. 27
• 7. Archeus Faber or the Master Workman. 35
• 8. Logick is unprofitable. 37
• 9. The ignorant Natural Phylosophy of Aristotle and Galen. 41
• 10. The Elements, 47
• 11. The Earth. 50
• 12. The Water. 53
• 13. The Air. 57
• 14. The Essay of a Meteor. 63
• 15. The Gas of the Water. 70
• 16. The Blas of Meteors. 78
• 17. A Vacuum of Nature. 81
• 18. An irregular Meteor. 87
• 19. The Earth-quake. 92
• 20. The Fiction of Elementary Complexions and Mixtures. 104
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• 21. The Image of the Ferment begets the Masse with child of a seed. p. 111
• 22. The Stars do necessitate; not incline, nor signifie of the Life, Body, or For∣tunes of him that is born. 118
• 23. The Birth or Original of Forms. 128
• 24. Magnum Oportet, or a thing of great necessity or concernment. 148
• 25. Nature is ignorant of contraries. 160
• 26. The Blas of Man. 175
• 27. Endemicks. 188
• 28. The Spirit of Life. 192
• 29. Heat doth not digest efficiently, but excitingly onely. 198
• 30. The threefold Digestion of the Schools. 203
• 31. A sixfold Digestion of humane nourishment. 205
• 32. Pylorus the Governour. 222
• 33. A History of Tartar. 229
• 34. A History of Tartar of Wine. 232
• 35. The rash invention of Tartar in Diseases. 235
• 36. Nourishments are guiltlesse of Tartar. 240
• 37. Tartar is not in drink. 249
• 38. An erring Watchman or wandring Keeper. 254
• 39. The Image of the Mind. 262
• 40. A mad or foolish Idea. 272
• 41. The seat of the Soul. 283
• 42. From the seat of the Soul unto Diseases. 289
• 43. The authority of the Duumvirate. 296
• 44. The compleating or perfecting of the Mind. 310
• 45. The Scab and Ulcers of the Schools. 316
• 46. An unknown action of Government. 324
• 47. The Duumvirate. 337
• 48. A Treatise of the Soul. 341
• 49. The Distinction of the Mind from the sensitive Soul. 344
• 50. Of the Immortality of the Soul. 346
• 51. The knitting of the sensitive Soul and Mind. 351
• 52. The Asthma and Cough. 356
• 53. The humour Latex neglected. 373
• 54. A Cauterie. 380
• 55. The Disease that was antiently reckoned that of delightful Livers. 386
• 56. A mad or raging Pleura. 392
• 57. That the three first Principles of the Chymists, nor the Essences of the same, are of the Army of Diseases. 401
• 58. Of Flatu's or windinesses in the Body. 416
• 59. The Toyes of a Catarrh or Rheum. 429
• 60. A Reason or Consideration of Diet. 450
• 61. A Modern Pharmacopolium and Dispensatory. 456
• 62. The Power of Medicines. 469
• 63. A Preface. 483
• 64. A Disease is an unknown Guest. 486
• 65. The Dropsie is unknown. 507
• 66. A childish Vindication of the Humourists. 522
• 67. The Author Answers. 524Page  [unnumbered]
• A Treatise of Diseases.
  • 68. A discernable Introduction. 528
  • 69. The subject of inhering of Diseases is in the point of Life. 531
  • 70. A proceeding to the knowledge of Diseases. 534
  • 71. Of the Idea's of Diseases. 539
  • 72. Of Archeal Diseases. 547
  • 73. The Original of a diseasie Image. 552
  • 74. The passage unto the Buttery of the Bowels is stopped up. 555
  • 75. The Seat of Diseases in the sensitive Soul is confirmed. 559
  • 76. The Squaldron, and Division of Diseases. 565, 566
• 77. Things Received that are Injected. 568
• 78. Some more Imperfect Works. 574
• 79. In Words, Herbs, and Stones there is great Virtue. 575
• 80. Butler. 585
• 81. Of Material things Injected. 597
• 82. The manner of entring of things Darted into the Body. 604
• 83. Of things Conceived. 606
• 84. A Magnetical or Attractive Power. 614
• 85. Of Sympathetical Medium's or Means. 616
• 86. Of things Inspired. 617
• 87. Things Suscepted or Undergon. 619
• 88. Things Retained. 620
• 89. A Preface. 631
• 90. Of Time. 633
• 91. Life is Long, Art is Short. 645
• 92. The entrance of Death into humane nature, the grace of Virgins. 648
• 93. A Position. 652
• 94. The Position is Demonstrated. 661
• 95. Of the Fountains of the Spaw: The first Paradox. 687
• 96. A second Paradox. 691
• 97. A third. 693
• 98. A fourth. 696
• 99. A fifth. 699
• 100. A sixth. 702
• 101. A numerocritical Paradox of Supplies. 704
• 102. The Understanding of Adam. 711
• 103. The Image of God. 714
• 104. The Property of External Things. 724
• 105. The Radical Moisture. 726
• 106. The Vital Air. 731
• 107. A manifold Life in Man. 735
• 108. A Flux unto Generation. 736
• 109. A Lunar Tribute. 740
• 110. Life. 744
• 111. Short Life. 747
• 112. Eternal Life. 750
• 113. The Occasions of Death, 752
• 114. Of the Magnetick curing of Wounds. 756
• 115 The Tabernacle in the Sun. 794
• 116. The nourishing of an Infant for Long Life. 797
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• 117. The Secrets of Paracelsus. p. 799
• 118. The Mountain of the Lord. 806
• 119. The Tree of Life. 807
• Unheard of little Works of Medicine.
  • 1. Of the Disease of the Stone. 827
  • 2. Of Fevers, 935
  • 3. A passive deceiving and ignorance of the Schools the Humourists. 1015
  • 4. The Plague-grave. 1073