Philosophy reformed & improved in four profound tractates.: The I. discovering the great and deep mysteries of nature: by that learned chymist & physitian Osw: Crollivs. The other III. discovering the wonderfull mysteries of the creation by Paracelsvs: being his philosophy to the Athenians. / Both made English by H. Pinnell, for the increase of learning and true knowledge.
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Philosophy reformed & improved in four profound tractates.: The I. discovering the great and deep mysteries of nature: by that learned chymist & physitian Osw: Crollivs. The other III. discovering the wonderfull mysteries of the creation by Paracelsvs: being his philosophy to the Athenians. / Both made English by H. Pinnell, for the increase of learning and true knowledge.
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Croll, Oswald, ca. 1560-1609.
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London :: Printed by M.S. for Lodowick Lloyd, at the Castle in Cornhill,
1657.
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TEXT 4.
Though we mortalls have compounds in us, as hot and moyst;
yet far otherwise then the Ancients imagined.* 1.1 For the Colick is of the Ele∣ment of fire, yet not
compounded of hornesse and drynesse, but is onely hot. And so the
other complexions. Therefore if we find any disease mixt with heat and
drought, we may suppose that two Elements are there, one in the liver,
another in the spleen, and so in the other mem∣bers. There are not two
Elements in one mem∣ber. For certaine it is, that every member hath a peculiar
element, which we leave to Physitians
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to define. But
this cannot well be affirmed, that two elements should consist both
together, or that one and the same element should be both hot and moyst.
Nor can there be any such com∣pound. There are no compounded Elements, for
the reason before given. Where there is heat, there is neither cold, nor
drought, nor moysture. So where there is coldnesse, there is none of all
the rest. The same may be said of moysture and drynesse. Every
Element is sim∣ple and solitary by it selfe,* 1.2 not mixt in composi∣tion. The possibility
which Philosophers talk of, concerning a conjuction of the Elements, is as
much as comes to nothing. For no Element of water hath any heat in it. Nor can
there be any heat in moysture. Every Element is alone by it self. So also
cold cannot of it self indure dri∣ness: It subsisteth pure by it
self. And thus much be spoken to be understood of the proper essence
of the Elements. All drynesse is a dissolution of cold. As moysture
and dryness cannot be mixt; so much lesse can coldnesse and
dryness or moy∣sture, or heat and drynesse close or consist
to∣gether. For as heat and cold are contrary things, so heat and cold have a
contrariety against moyst and dry.