Mikrokosmographa. A description of the little-world, or, body of man, exactly delineating all the parts according to the best anatomists. With the severall diseases thereof. Also their particular and most approved cures. / by R.T. doctor of physick.

To the Christian Reader.

Courteous Reader:

IT being the nature of all men to desire and seeke after knowledge; I have therefore given thee a breife charac∣ter, or epitome of the body of man, the little world; whereby thou mayst attaine to the most necessary externall knowledge of thy selfe; which being knowne, if any causuallty happen, thou maist the more properly apply a remedy, for which there are many excellent and approved medicines, heere in this ensuing Treatise set downe: and like∣wise the nature and cure of wounds, made by Gunpowder, and Gunshot; but if any one more curious, in sensuring what is done for a com∣mon good, rather then studious to promote

it, should grumble at me for this my paines, I might answer him in his owne kind by way of question, as, Menedemus answered Chre∣mes finding fault with him, Tantum ne abs re tua est otii tibi, aliena ut cures, eaque nihil quae ad te attinent? hast thou so much leasure as to meddle with that which so little con∣cerns thee? yet to satisfie thee [gentle Reader] who intendest [I know] to gather hony with the Bee out of this Garden, and not poyson with the Spider; I have implored the aid of Apollo and Hypocrates, to compose thee some Hypnoticon or Diacodion; not a medicine for one disease alone; but fitting some receipt or other for all Ages, and all capacities to apply them; and for all Complexions and Conditions, parts, and places, a medicine Preservative, Curative, and Restorative; heere are Antidotes or dictamum against the Plague and pestilentiall Ayres; many of the receipts I have not Englished, but leaving them in their proper names which cannot be very well taken from them, neither was I willing to deprive them of it, knowing that at any Apothecaries you may readily bee

furnished with them; others of more easiy com∣position and most obvious to the vulgar use, I have written in words at large, they be∣ing for the most part, compounded of com∣mon English hearbs, wherewith almost every one can speedily furnish themselves; Take therfore in good part [Reader] the fruits of this labour, and as Robera parentum liberi re∣ferunt, as the growth of the child argues the strength of the parent; so when I shall attaine to riper age, this first borne may have a second generation; books have an immortality above their Authors, for when they grew of full age, they can be againe retaken into the wombe that bred them and receive with a new life, a grea∣ter portion of youth and glory which is to them another being, and that alwayes may and of∣ten doth, bring with them an addition of strength, and loveliness, ushering them to a more vigorous perfection.

Thus have I layd before thee a little map of thy selfe or a description of the microcosmos or little world, Man, equally endeavoring thy con∣tent and profit, Quoniam variant animi va∣riabamus

artes, mille mali species, mille salutis erunt: A modest censure hereof I gladly would entertaine; as I am not ambitious of applause, so not affraid of censure; give me leave to flatter my paines in these words, Hic interim liber, aut laudatus erit, aut saltem excusatus;

All I desire is but encourragment to some o∣ther worke, if any thing herein shall redound to thy profit; let me petition thee to give God the Glory who hath enabled mee to performe it, which are the hearty wishes of

Thy assured freind, Ro: Turner.

London, 29. Octob. 1653.