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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