Hermetical physick: or, The right way to preserve, and to restore health. By that famous and faithfull chymist, Henry Nollius. Englished by Henry Uaughan, Gent.

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2. Next to the universall, is the particular cure, by which the roots of diseases, and the Seminal tin∣ctures themselves, are not alwayes taken away; but the bitter fruits of them, the Symptoms, Paro••is••es; and paines, are oftentimes preven∣ted, mitigated, and so supprest, that they cannot come to their exaltat••∣on, or the worst passe, as the com∣mon phrase is. By this Cure, the Physicall evacuation of Excre∣ments is instituted, and some con∣siderable succours are communi∣cated to opprest nature by the friendly, consentaneous spirits of those medicines that are admini∣stred; which spirits can onely rightly know, and penetrate into

the secret lodges and topicall resi∣dencies of the radicall mor••ifie impurity.

NOw, though this particular Cure performs no more, than we have told you in the definition of it, yet is it not therefore to be slighted, nor rejected; for it doth oftentimes in the most desperate di∣seases, doe the work of the universal, because the most mercifull God hath discovered unto us certain secret-natural universals, of which some containe in them the na∣ture of the whole Heaven, others of the whole Air, and some againe of the whole earth, by whose help most Diseases are easily known and cured. Moreover specifical, appropriate me∣dicines, when they are rightly refi∣ned and spiritualized, will emulate the virtue of the universal, by consu∣ming radical impurities & strength∣ning the virtue of the innate humane

Balsame. Seeing then that we want the universal, it will be happy for us, if we may attaine to the anie know∣ledge of (at least) the particular, subordinate, specifical and individu∣al kinds and means of cures.

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