Deliramenta catarrhi, or, the incongruities, impossibilities, and absurdities couched under the vulgar opinion of defluxions / The author ... Joh. Bapt. van Helmont, &c. The translator and paraphrast Dr. Charleton.

Jan Baptist van Helmont

Date:: 1650

Credit: Deliramenta catarrhi, or, the incongruities, impossibilities, and absurdities couched under the vulgar opinion of defluxions / The author ... Joh. Bapt. van Helmont, &c. The translator and paraphrast Dr. Charleton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$an eel ‘ ay Rr a ety ed ie ets welors a ght pis Sap 7A aie as eee han avs apes 4 ——- SEA eee, Pht eM SAMA S Ron IRI 2S TheErrorsof Phyficians — _ have Coughs, Confumtions, difficulties of refpiration,. — Pleurifies; Indammations of the Langs, Apoplextes, Pale — ies; faddain ‘Deaths, Impottunis , Spictings of blood, found their pedigrees deduced trom Duttillacions. Thus finally, is the ftomack infetted with Vomiting, Naufeou: néffe, dejeGion of Appetite , and debilicy of Concodétion: — asdlf> the Liver and Spleen become milaffected. For — crudéand indigeftible Phlegme being dreppeddowne from — the retort of the Head, Obitru@tions, Hardnelies, Dropiies, — Apottems,Schirrous tumors, Fevers,tormenits of the bowels, : 8c, dre lifted under'the condaG of C atarrhs. a ¥ 13. To which Epidemick tradition of Catarrhs, Paracelfus, 7 14. though othefwile above modefty triumphing in his invet= —*Princ pia tionof Lamars, andthe 3 firtt Hyp /taticall Principles, “doth — pees dada frequently fubfcribe , and alwayes openly acknowledgethe riviacefica. Dame of Defluxion (flzffea)) ttaggering into felf-contra+ — cia pre reiquis dition, under the ‘dranken guidance of that great Lady, — pollent 5 unde ~ Incertiinde. HT IG TDSIE 2. OF STR abt. a ra Schola Her- And this fabuious {cene of Defluxions, 'whichoindeedis _ ee ier ve very well worth our ferious tears, do the Schools fo polith — oe dicvnlar, and trimup, and deliver from hand to hand down to poftes Mercurius,c (acreddignity of truth - yea'common Idiots, by their own _ Sal. Sal oft pria- 5 .gemities made paffive Phyfickans , ‘tire my ears with atedi> — ~ eipinm bypofta- ti 11) cubicacwexy -achuly Ait Agena Melaeiad aie ticum, cumvi olls lecture oftheir Catarrhs. Whereupon; fince it is a taske © fermentands & extremly difficult, and fnch as my Genius abhorrs, to'root _ coaguland:. E- out a cuftomary dottrine from the minds of men unace — jv fignatura - quainted with more rational] wayes of learning, andiin the , ie hifi tie * placé thereof, implant the feeds of folid erath chiefly when I I se AER vulgar heads are of thattemper, that, like new veflels, they — TERN OE Cae hong Laken Mat det bets jy | : uate ex trinfecus autem ‘combuftibilia et incimerabilis. — Sulphur: principinm eft hypoftattcum, cum vi maturandistingendi, bomogenea attrabendt, beterogenea repellendi, tendendia centro nd — circumferentiam, Cr wicifitas Haus fgwatura of, wt intrafit frxnm, oleaginofum five pingues extra tnflammabile effe fugitivum., -Flamma.quippe ef Sulphur volatile. Mercutius — eft principinm hypeftaticum, cum vi vegetativa et infiawrativa. Hajus fienetwra interna ee _ favere ignem potentem : externa veroeft kauidutn, glutinofit, ineombuftibile x frigidumefes — ° Joh. Raicus tract. de-podagta. 1 © nOoos ode mOqu hoswkhs pemeits ae ts et : : ul$