Ortho-methodoz itro-chymikē: or the direct method of curing chymically Wherein is conteined [sic] the original matter, and principal agent of all natural bodies. Also the efficient and material cause of diseases in general. Their therapeutick way and means. I. Diætetical, by rectifying eating, drinking, &c. II. Pharmaceutick. 1. By encreasing and supporting the vital spirits. 2. By pacifying and indulging them. 3. By defacing or blotting out the idea of diseases by proper specificks. Lastly, by removing the extimulating or occasional cause of maladies. To which is added, The art of midwifery chymically asserted. The character of an ortho-cymist, and pseudochymist. A description of the sanative virtues of our stomach-essence. Also, giawo-mempsiz: or a just complaint of the method of the Galenists. By George Thomson, M.D.

CAAP. IX.

THe last Inseparable Concomitant of Life to be Insisted upon, whereby our con∣dition is made better or worse, according as we govern them well or ill, is our Passions; which, if they move regularly, produce a sweet Tranquility in the Mind, and a Salu∣brity in the Body: but if extravagant, flying out beyond their bounds, they confound the whole Oeconomy of this Admirable Frame. The Stoicks seem to endeavour to deprive themselves of a Sensitive Life, when they would have a man to be 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. This is all one as not to take notice of any thing ad∣verse to Nature: for it is impossible for a Man Apprehensible and Imaginable, not to be moved by the Object, he apprehends or Ima∣gines; as it is pleasing or distastful, so he de∣sires it, or abhors it, the Affections hereby set on work, great reluctancy, effervescence

perturbation arise in the Spirits which some∣times strangly alter the Texture and Crasis of the Blood. The Idea's or Images of Sorow, Fear, Anger, Joy, Jealousie, Hatred, Emula∣tion are sometimes so fixed in the Animals, that they become indeleble: hence vain Ima∣ginations of the whole Man, Dotage, Melan∣choly and Furie are Emicant: neither do the absurd Conceptions, and vain Imaginatiors of the whole Man only cause disturbance in the Stomack or Brain, Storms or Tempests in the Universal Archeus, but likewise the Spi∣rit of every part frameth particular Images of Indignation, Fear, &c.

Any Spinous, acculeating, or pricking Matter in any particular part, presently puts the Vital Spirit there into a passion, the Ar∣cheus of the Eye is forthwith put into an in∣dignation, when an Extimulating Fretting Liquor is either injected into it, or engen∣dred in it, through a fault in its peculiar De∣gestion: whereupon the Lympha, Latex, or the Wheyish Humour is lured or summoned for the Ablution of this Blot, or Defect, which when it cannot perform, the Ocular Water, as well as the Nourishment thereof, is depraved, through the ringing Attrition of the Sensitive Spirit, which ought by all means to be pacified. The like Perturbation is observed to be raised in the Archeus of the

Ear, Nose, Windpipe, &c. when any trou∣blesome cause ariseth there. 'Tis certainly true, Omne Vivens Mortui impatiens esse so∣let. Whatsoever is alienated from Life, en∣gendred either within, assumed or injected from without, brings, sometimes sooner or sometimes latter, the Custos of the Whole or Part into an Inquietude. For this reason Cantharides applyed, raise Blisters in the Skin of a Living Body: from the same cause do vi∣rulent Animals, Vegetables or Minerals, ta∣ken inwardly, Purge violently; for as much as the Sensitive Spirit falls into an indigna∣tion at the presence of that it abhors, so makes a confusion of the holsome Juices by Colliquating, and Putrefying them. Hereup∣on so little benefit arises from things meerly loosening the Body: the Principal Agent be∣ing exasperated by what is contrary to its Texture and Nature. After this rate did I be∣gin my Practice, being taught no better, than to give many Stools or Vomits, with∣out indulging or pleasing this great Presi∣dent, which, as I have often proved, is the Supreme cause of Sanity and Infirmity. But afterward instructed by a far more able Tu∣tor, than the Schools, I began to correct my former Traditional Error, following the sure Thread of repeated Experiments; so that at length I never gave any Solutive not fitting

to Corroborate the Stomach, not friendly to the Ferments and Vitals. Before I took this course, all frequent Laxatives were fruitless, because they did anger and enrage the Ar∣cheus, stirring up Storms and Tempest in the Microcosm, instead of a sweet Tranquili∣ty. By this means the Idea's of the Phantasie ingeneral were rectified and clarified, after that the Spirits in particular places were com∣posed aright. He that desires to be free from absurd Melancholy thoughts, furious passi∣ons and perturbations, let him take Eustoma∣chical Benign, Benevolent Remedies, suffici∣ent always to cleanse away Impurities, with∣out causing Hatred, Frowardness or high Displeasure in Nature, whose genuine course is to be observed without putting her to any violent stress, or compulsion.