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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"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 26, 2024.
Contents
- title page
- title page
- TO THE English READER.
- יהוה TO THE Unutterable WORD, THE AUTHOR Offers up a SACRIFICE in his Mother Tongue.
- THE Translators Premonition TO THE CANDID READER.
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TO THE FRIENDLY READER S. D.
FRANCIS MERCURIUS Van HELMONT, A Phi∣losopher, by that ONE in whom are all things; A Wandring HERMITE. - AN ACROSTICK Upon the Great PHILOSOPHER, John Baptista Van Helmont.
- AN INDEX OF THE TREATISES Set forth by John Baptista Van Helmont.
- A PROPHESY Concerning the AUTHOR, Expressed in a POEM.
- THE Authours Promises.
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- CHAP. I. The Authours Confession.
- CHAP. II. The Authours Studies.
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CHAP. III.
The hunting, or searching out of Sciences. - CHAP. IV. The Causes and beginnings of Natural things.
- CHAP. V. The Chief or Master-Workman.
- CHAP. VI. Logick is unprofitable.
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CHAP. VII. The ignorant Natural Philosophy of
Aristotle andGalen. - CHAP. VIII. The Elements.
- CHAP. IX. The Earth.
- CHAP. X. The Water.
- CHAP. XI. The Air.
- CHAP. XI. The Essay of a Meteor.
- CHAP. XIII. The Gas of the Water.
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CHAP. XIV. The Blas of
Meteours. - CHAP. XV. A Vacuum or emptiness of Nature.
- CHAP. XVI. An Irregular Meteor.
- CHAP. XVII. The trembling of the Earth, or Earth-quake.
- CHAP. XVIII. The fiction of Elementary Complexions and Mixtures.
- CHAP. XIX. The Image of the Ferment, begets the Masse or lump with childe of a Seed.
- CHAP. XV. The Stars do necessitate, not incline, nor signifie, of the life, the body, or fortunes of him that is born.
- CHAP. XXI. The Birth or Originall of Forms.
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CHAP. XXII.
Magnum Oportet, that is, it is a thing of great necessity, or concernment. - CHAP. XXIII. Nature is ignorant of contraries.
- CHAP. XXIV. The Blas of Man.
- CHAP. XXV. Endemicks, or things proper to the People of the Countrey where they live.
- CHAP. XXVI. The Spirit of Life.
- CHAP. XXVII. Heat doth not digest efficiently, but only excitatively or by way of stirring up.
- CHAP. XXVIII. The threefold Digestion of the Schools.
- CHAP. XXVIII. A six-fold digestion of humane nourishment.
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CHAP. XXIX.
Pylorus the Governour. -
CHAP. XXX. A History of
Tartar. - CHAP. XXX. A History of Tartar of Wine.
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CHAP. XXXI. The rash invention of
Tartar in Diseases. -
CHAP. XXXII. Nourishments are guiltless or innocent of
Tartar. -
CHAP. XXXIII.
Tartar is not in drink. - CHAP. XLIV. An erring watchman, or a wandering keeper.
- CHAP. XXXV. The Image of the Minde.
- CHAP. XXXVI. A mad or foolish Idea.
- CHAP. XXXVII. The Seat of the Soul.
- CHAP. XXXVIII. From the Seat of the Soul unto Diseases.
- CHAP. XXXIX. The Authority or Priviledge of the Duumvirate.
- CHAP. XL. The compleating or perfecting of the minde.
- CHAP. XLI. The Scab and Ulcers of the Schools.
- CHAP. XLII. An unknown action of Government.
- CHAP. XLIII. The Duumvirate or Sheriffdome.
- CHAP. XLIIII. A Treatise of the Soul:
- CHAP. XLV. The Distinction of the mind from the Sensitive Soul.
- CHAP. XLVI. Of the Immortality of our Soul.
- CHAP. XLVII. The knitting or conjoyning of the Sensitive Soul and Mind.
- CHAP. XLVIII. The Asthma or Stoppage of Breathing, and Cough.
- CHAP. XLIX. The Humour Latex, neglected.
- CHAP. L. A Cautery or Searing Remedy.
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CHAP. LI.
The Disease that was antiently reckoned that of delightful Livers. - CHAP. LII. A Raging or Mad Pleura.
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CHAP. LV. That the three first Principles of the
Chymists, nor the Essences of the same, are not of, or do not belong unto theArmy ofDiseases. - CHAP. LVI. Of Flatus's or Windie Blasts in the Body.
- CHAP. LVII. The Toyes or Dotages of a Catarrhe or Rheume.
- CHAP. LVIII. A Reason or Consideration of Food or Diet.
- CHAP. LIX. A Modern Pharmacapolion and Dispensatory.
- CHAP. LX. The Power of Medicines.
- CHAP. LXI. The Preface.
- CHAP. LXII. A Disease is an unknown Guest.
- CHAP. LXIII. The Dropsie is Unknown.
- CHAP. LXIV. A Childish Vindication of the Humorists.
- CHAP. LXV. The Author Answers.
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CHAP. LXVI.
A Treatise of Diseases. A Diagnostical or Discernable Introduction. - CHAP. LXVII. The Subject of inhearing, of Diseases, is in the point of Life.
- CHAP. LXVIII. I proceed unto the Knowledge of Diseases.
- CHAP. LXIX. Of the Idea's of Diseases.
- CHAP. LXX. Of Archeal Diseases.
- CHAP. LXXI. The birth or original of a Diseasie Image.
- CHAP. LXXII. The passage unto the Buttery of the Bowels, is stopped up.
- CHAP. LXXIII. The Seat of Diseases in the sensitive Soul, is Confirmed.
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CHAP. LXXIV.
The Squadron of Diseases according to their Occasional Causes. - CHAP. LXXV. A Division of Diseases.
- CHAP. LXXVI. Things Received which are Injected or Cast in.
- CHAP. LXXVII. These things which follow, the Author left more imperfect, undigest∣ed, and uncorrected than those aforegoing.
- CHAP. LXXVIII. In Words, Herbs, and Stones there is great Virtue.
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CHAP. LXXIX.
BUTLER. - CHAP. LXXX. Of material things Injected or Cast into the Body.
- CHAP. LXXXI. The manner of Enterance, of things Darted into the Body.
- CHAP. LXXXII. Of Things Conceived, or Conceptions.
- CHAP. LXXXIII. The Magnetick or Attractive Power or Faculty.
- CHAP. LXXXIIII. Of Sympathetical Medium's or Means.
- CHAP. LXXXV. Of Things Inspired or Breathed into the Body.
- CHAP. LXXXVI. Things Suscepted or Undergone.
- CHAP. LXXXVII. Things Retained [in the Body.]
- CHAP. LXXXVIII. A Preface.
- CHAP. LXXXIX. Of Time.
- CHAP. XC. Life is Long, Art is Short.
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CHAP. XCII.
The Enterance of Death into Humane Nature, is the Grace of Virgins. - CHAP. CXII. A Position.
- CHAP. XCIII. The Position is Demonstrated.
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CHAP. XCIV. A
Supply, concerning the Fountains of the Spaw. The first Paradox. - CHAP. XCV. Another Paradox.
- CHAP. XCVI. A Third Paradox.
- CHAP. XCVII. A fourth Paradox.
- CHAP. XCVIII. A Fifth Paradox.
- CHAP. XCIX. A Sixth Paradox.
- CHAP. C. A Paradox of Supplies, being of the number of Judiciary Paradoxes.
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CHAP. CI. The Understanding of
Adam. - CHAP. CII. The Image of God.
- CHAP. CIII. The Property of External Things.
- CHAP. CIV. The Radical Moisture.
- CHAP. CV. The Vital Air.
- CHAP. CVI. The manifold Life in Man.
- CHAP. CVII. The Flux, or flowing unto Generation.
- CHAP. CVIII. A Lunar Tribute.
- CHAP. CIX. Life.
- CHAP. CX. Short Life.
- CHAP. CXI. Life Eternal.
- CHAP. CXI. The Occasions of Death.
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CHAP. CXII. Of the Magnetick or Attractive Curing of Wounds. A Disputation concerning the Attractive, Natural, and Lawful Curing of Wounds; against
R. P. John Roberti, Doctor of Divinity, an Elder of the Society ofJesus; no less than also againstRodolph Goclenius, Professor of Medicine. - CHAP. CXIII. The Tabernacle in the Sun.
- CHAP. CXIV. The nourishing of an Infant for Long Life.
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CHAP. CXV. The Arcanums or Secrets of
Paracelsus. - CHAP. CXVI. The Mountain of the Lord.
- CHAP. CXVI. The Tree of Life.
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TO THE ILLUSTRIOUS MAN THE LORD CASPAR ULDARICK,
BARON of Hoensbroeck, COMMENDATOR of the Teu∣tonick Order, of the sacred Romane Empire in Gemert; A FAVOURER of good ARTS, and his singular FRIEND and PATRON. -
On the WORKS of the Noble and most Famous D. J. B. HELMONT. A Verse of the Noble and most Ho∣nourabl-Lord, Janus Walhorn.D. Coun∣sellour to his Majesty. -
TO THE Medicine-Loving Reader, John Baptista Van Helmont of Bruxels,Toparch or Governor in Merode; Royen∣borch, Oorschot, Pellines,&c. Being a Philo∣sopher by the Fire; wisheth Peace, Joy, and Knowledge. - AN EXPLICATION OF SOME Words of Art.
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A TREATISE Of the Disease of the STONE. PETRIFICATION, Or the Making of a STONE.
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CHAP. II.
The Causes of Duelech, or the stone in man, according to the Antients. - CHAP. III. The Con-tent of Urine.
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CHAP. IV. A processe of
Duelech. -
CHAP. V. The History of
Duelech is Continued. -
CHAP. VI. The Womb of
Duelech. -
CHAP. VII.
Duelech Dissolved. - CHAP. VIII. The Author offers a dainty Dish to young Beginners.
- CHAP. IX. Sensation or feeling, unsensiblenesse, pain, lack of pain, motion, and unmooveablenesse, through diseases of their own rank, the Leprosie, Falling-evil, Apoplexy, Palsey, Convulsion, Coma or Sleep∣ing-evil, &c.
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To the Reader, John Baptista van Helmont, Toparch in Royenborgh, Pellines,&c, P. L.wisheth Science, Health, and Joy. -
A Treatise OF FEVERS.
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CHAP. I. The definition of the
Fever of the Antients, is examined. - CHAP. II. The Schools Nodding or Doubting, have introduced Putrefaction.
- CHAP. III. The Doctrine of the Antients concerning Circuits, is examined.
- CHAP. IV. Phlebotomy or Bloud-letting in Fevers, is examined.
- CHAP. V. Purging is Examined.
- CHAP. VI. The Consideration of a Quartane Ague.
- CHAP. VII. The Succours of Physitians are weighed.
- CHAP. VIII. The usual Remedies are weighed.
- CHAP. IX. The true cause of Rigour or the shaking fit, in Fevers.
- CHAP. X. The Seat of Fevers.
- CHAP. XI. The Occasional Causes of Fevers.
- CHAP. XII. The Diet of Fevers.
- CHAP. XIII. The Essence of a Fever.
- CHAP. XIV. A perfect Curing of all Fevers.
- CHAP. XV. An Answer unto Reproaches.
- CHAP. XVI. The Essence of Fevers is discovered.
- CHAP. XVII. A narrow search into the Essential thinglinesse of a Fever.
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CHAP. I. The definition of the
- A PASSIVE DECEIVING AND IGNORANCE OF THE SCHOOLES THE HUMOURISTS. The which if they shall henceforth defend, shall cover with a stubborn malice, God also being wroth, will discover the same in the now imminent age, for the profit of the Christian World, and the Confusion of the obstinat.
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A PASSIVE DECEIVING AND IGNORANCE OF THE SCHOOLES THE HUMOURISTS.
- CHAP. I. That the four Humours of the Galenists, are feigned.
- CHAP. II. A second Supplementary Conception against the fallacy of Humours.
- CHAP. III. The dissembled or feigned vomiting of Choler.
- CHAP. IV. The signification of the urine according to the Antients.
- CHAP. V. That the Jaundise is not from yellow Choler.
- FOR AN ARGUMENT Of the book, a Poet hath thus sung against the Humourists, thirsting after Christian blood.
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JOHN BAPTIST A VAN HELMONT
Of BRUXELS A Phylosopher by the fire, Toparch in Royenborgh, Pellines,&c. Wisheth health and joy to CHRISTIANS. -
Tumulus PESTIS. OR THE PLAGUE-GRAVE.
- CHAP. I. Of what kind the Pest or Plague is.
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CHAP. 2.
The Pest or Plague, an Infant. -
CHAP. III.
The Heaven is free from, as also innocent of our Contagion or Infection: -
CHAP. IV.
A forreign new Plague or contagion. -
CHAP. 5.
The Opinions of the Ancients. -
CHAP. VI.
The Pest divided. -
CHAP. VII.
The conjoyned cause of the Antients. -
CHAP. VIII.
The Seat prepared. -
CHAP. IX.
Minerals and herbs do imagine after their ownirregular manner. -
CHAP. X.
A living creature imaginative. -
CHAP. XI.
Things requisite for the Idea of an imagined Plague. -
CHAP. XI.
The Ferment of the Pestilence. -
CHAP. XIII.
The form, and matter of the Pest. -
CHAP. XIV.
The property of the Pest. -
CHAP. XV.
The Signs. -
CHAP. XVI.
The Preservation. -
CHAP. XVII. Zenexton,
that is a preservative pomander against the Pest. -
CHAP. XVII. Hippocrates
Revived. -
CHAP. XVIII.
The image of terrour sifted.
- A TABLE Of many of the Chief things contained in this Book: The rest being referred to the Contents of the CHAPTERS.
- A Poetical Soliloquie of the Translatour, Harmonizing and Sympathizing with the Author's Genius.
- ERRATA.