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. ...

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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. ...
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Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644.
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London :: Printed for Lodowick Lloyd ...,
1664.
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Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Fever -- Early works to 1800.
Plague -- Early works to 1800.
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"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. ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a43285.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2024.

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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. 524

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  • ...
  • ...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

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