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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$eee Nae MOF noted tn RE edna Pe ae A ya Ee ee ee ae i ke Wl uy Da eek) - 2 . r re 2 fp he RNS On NITED Concerning. Defluxions. a (iy, ay ~-17),How much lefle ought the defluxion.of any fGtici- ous bamor, or-imaginary excrement, whole nativity and tran{- _. miffion ave delivered to be.by:amauner.y,means . placesyand —-vayagery naturally.impoflible, co.beaccuunted.a Catarrhit.. 18. If the Brain, whiledicenjoyeth the-nfuence and ir- radiation of vital beat, be not aQually.c dd: \wichout doubt, the reafon of the Condenfation of vapours into rbeynte, mult be,ftaggered into an impollibilicy.., Bat ificbe, by Lome de- grees, leffe bot, then the other parts of. the body =, ;muit-we then be driven upon. this abiurdicy, hata vapour dorh,.as if endgwed wich ,fexfe and.an arbitrary.power of ‘Eleflion, enquire.out.and pitch upon the coldeit part, as moft accom- modate co. its future reduction into-a humor ?. becaufe,.by the dictates of naturall propentity, ic rather delires by caggu- lation to be returned into its primiszve, then by refolation to continue in the prefex. condition? bats ie ot ©). 19 Or is it driven on bythe crowd of other. vapours, and on all, fides recoyled from the hotter parts of the body, up to the brain, as co the coldeft ? if fo, there would be acon: tinuall tempeft in-the foundelt bodies, and:nought but Le- - panto Gujts, and Catarrhs in the beft cemperd heads: which tobelieve, isa madnefle beyond the power of Hellebor, and __ adotage too abfurd to be excufed by che largeft candor. @] 5, _..- 20., But laying ,alide thefe Pofttions (which can, upen,no neceflity of nature, be verified) as worthy onely a{herc.con- _ futation ;.-we, come now to prove, that fhould all the de- Ae. e : oe . __ mandsof thefchools, hitherto mentioned, be freely gran- tedthem:. yet could chey be of no advantage, as tothe ma- nifeftation of the Czrdizal point in controverfie, viz. the - manner; reafons, and wayes of the Defiuxion of Catarrbs. - ..2t, For firkt, thefe rivulets of rheume cannot make their progrefle to the outward parts of the head. becwixt the skal fq and skin: fince,indeed the Schools themfelves declare, that Vapours, the Antecedent matter of Catarrbs,, do mount up _~ fromthe Stomack to the Bais, or loweft; part of the brain, and there fix upon: a Plane (imaginary, norever yet difco: __vered by any Anatomilt,) in whofe lower fuperticies they ae | ape Rae ot . Af inftantly ba, Ce el ed$