The practice of chymicall, and hermeticall physicke, for the preservation of health / Written in Latin by Josephus Quersitanus ... and translated into English by Thomas Timme, Minister.
- Joseph Duchesne
- Date:
- 1605
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The practice of chymicall, and hermeticall physicke, for the preservation of health / Written in Latin by Josephus Quersitanus ... and translated into English by Thomas Timme, Minister. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I be Jore Aj)eecb to the cider* ted, and refined all Artesand Sciences* If Thcrfore Endymions diligence»which firfi found out the courfeoftheMoonc: If Amphiont Alufical brayne, which firll conceiued Harmonic : It AppolontustAHempbuer,whofe indimrie fir ft defcrfbedthe Anatomieofmans body:IfC^* ron, which firftdifcerncd the vertuc of Hearbes, and taught tALfcuiapius Phyfickc: If Hermes Tnfmegifus^ the firft that reached & attained the tsLthercaland jQuinteffentiatlPhyficky /f (/fwj |fiefc, and many others, in their rare jnuentjons, haue dcferued lingular commendation: then Hypocrates, ten> Dtfcorides, Valerius ('ordusi Paracelfus, learned gucrjit*. nut, <3c others moe, which haue added any thing to the enlar¬ ging and perfettin^ofthat noble Science of Phyfickc , are to be imbraced andhonoured, albeit they agree not together v t o ifi opinionfor that they all by their labours haue fought the Ease. 1%. good of m a n kinde. Honour therefore the Phyfitian (faith Jefus Syrach)/wr the Lord hath created him^andgiuen men knowledge, that he might he glorified in his wonder ous workes* But home Readers of their works,not carrying this mo¬ deration, like CJ^fidas prefer re Pan before Appolloy condem** ningChymicall Phyficke, Halchymie, and the Spagericke ‘Art, as too curious, dangerous , and defpcrate to bee dealt withall* Alleagingalfo (which is too truej that many Hal~ chymtfls are notable Sophyllicators and dec.eiuers* The meaningof fome, by thefe and fiich like preten¬ ces, is nothing elfe, but like bad and vnskilfull Herborifls, to fowe Rocket, and to vvecde Sndtue* Yet let fuch car¬ pers know, that the abu/e of Art doth rot abrogate the right vfe thereof. For as if the tree be biased that blofiomes, the fault is in the winde, & not in the roote: fo the fault is not to beaferibedto Arte, which is not in Arte, but the Artificer which is vn worthy the name. And in very deed, it were to be wifhed,for common vtillities fake,that all fuch cozeners and deceiucrs,might be banifhed out ofCittie and Countrey,and from all focietie ofhone.fl men,which without lawful] allow¬ ance, take vpon them fuch profefsing and prafli'e : or at the leaf!,that they might be refirayned,that through their leaud- nes,that art benotdifgraced, which the ancients did not let to call](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30328883_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
