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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$rather follow the old tra&, then wander intoa sew, and undergo the difficulties of forcing, and as it weremining _ outa frefh current? Why dothit, as if carried on by an a- dulterous unconftancy, defert its antiently accuftomed beds range in queft of ftrang and never yet frequented lodgings ? ‘Hath it fuch an Appetite or malitious propenfity inherent, that goadsit onto variety of objets, whereonto fateits hoftility? For. conclufion ; that this Error can expe& no tween the skull and the shia, and through the firme. fub-_ flance of the Mujfcles, each being invelted with atunicle | fufficiently compact and thick: may be amply collected from our precedent difquifitions. q agi oe 60. Allthis being fummd up ; by the impartial Arithme- tick of Reafon, andexamined by mature judgement; thetor — tal Prod muft amount to this: that there can be no say, medium, connexion, or dependence , by which a Catarrb may fablift, in verity. And {ince no rheume or material princi plecanbe found out to have defcended,. even in any of thofe this Chimera of Gaparrbs: Know all the friends of truth, that as often as any peregrine Aer or blaft, any offentfive: eder, any putrefa&tive Ferment, or exotick Seminality is imprefied upon, orconceived in the Infixent {pirit; fo ofs ‘ten is that contaminate and degenerate fpirit excommu- ~ ‘nicated from the participation of, Vitality by the fevere ju- ftice of the incenfed Archeus. And the Genius or | wis snot of this depraved Seminality conceived, is of no lefle power then this, thatie cancranfmitthe Influent firit, made an alien to its primitive purity by the aflamption of ‘an exotick Ferment, rather to parts feated-atdiftanceandin | the fuburbs, then fuch as ‘are neighbours to the Rialto or — palace of lifés; As we thal] at large declare in.our difcourfe 3 SRSA oh arE Pane. EES “S 6) ae ey GOs,$