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
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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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    / x ‘ : ¢ i - eoncerning Defluxions, _ And if this Vapozr hath only touched upon the lowelt Plane ~ of the brain (as them(elves affirme) and inftantly fall down fiom thence, fo foon; as it multiplies up to the quantity of ‘one fingle drop; and fince no third place canbe found, to * deteineeach fucceflive drop: therefore can this perverfity, or ~~ evill tin&ture , arife unto this rbewm, neither fromthe mo- mentany ftay inthe plane of thebrain, nor fromthe Conta- infufion-of depravity received from thence. Unlefle, per- chance, they fhall be able to give in evidence, that, befides the bare'condenfation of the vapour into rbeum, there interves ned fome Third canfality, from which the Acrémony, faltneffe, and virulency of the Defluxion was derived: which hitherto they havenegle&ed to prove.» tabs + | 35+ But fince the numerous ( omments,concerning Catarrhs _ Gouncels , and Difpenfatories : V conceive it my proper buli- _ ‘neffe to declare, that no theory of the Schools. was. ever | more full of negligence, abfurdity and danger, then this of _ Defluxions; on this account, that hitherto they have eftee- 2 * of incogicancy and circumf{peCtion ; provided chat the earth _ cover over their Crimes, and they become excufed of murs _ der upon the allegation of fome Axiomes of vulgar tradi- Ithoughe, that the Devil * AZolocb fits Door of the'Chair, . © -and hath down to our daies infatuated the world with the _ whimfey of Catarrhs. . Whofe materiall'Caufe , Nativity, Place of concepriofts Efficient, manner of Generation , re- ceptary, progrefle,and colle&tion,are equally unwarrantable * gated, but the old Serpent, the Father of lies ; with defigne to » <depopulate Humanity. For whatever diftils from the head isthe native Afuecus and pure Excrement of the brain, gene- __ rated within its proper confines ;and no forreigner brought _.infromtheftomack@] ee oto nen oe ne + Confule cia- /iffiinuin p.ardp- ov tllum, Dom. § elden,de dis Syvés [yntag. 2. Cap.14.