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
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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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    The fore speech to the Trader. {allM And for my part,I doubt not,but that one Vomm or other,wit recompcnce me with Balmc, and fay that 1 am o'it of my element,in that I being aprotetTed Diuine,(hould taWvpon me to meddle with Phyficke,& to publish that in the vulgar tongue,which was more fit to be in the Latine, as Ifoupdit. . . , . , To this I anfwer,chat a generahtie in humane learning,be- feemeth a Diuine: and of all Sciences none more futable to profefsion than Phyfick,as I could eafily prone by many rea* fons And therfore the wifedom of Thrift: appointed the my- racles,wrought by himfelf&his Apofiles, to confift chiefly in healing corporal infirmities. S.Luke was both a pro fell eel phy Titian, 8c an Euangelift, It cannot be but a commenda- iae hbour,8c a charitable woike in whomfoeuer,to feeke by eoodmeans to prefers life.be i. but of tl.y neighbors Oxe, or AfTc:Thismy labor /am fare is wel intended, howfoeuer coftrued.But a wand thruft ncuerfo light into the water,fee- sneth crooked or broken .*euen fo a bad heart mifconceiueth good actions. As concerning the publishing of this in Eng- hil) I haue thefe Inducements, Firld,the common good of all men. For euen the ignorant fhall learne hereby, to haue in hi*h reputation (as is fitting) that which before they vnder- {food not &fowil the more readily in time of need haue rc- courfe tothelearned Phyfitian. Morcouer,if the knowledge of holy writhe conuenicnt for al forts bfmen,as the Phy Tick proper for the foulc,why fhould not natural cVbylofspkyi and phyTickfpcculatiue, be common likewife to al for the health ‘ of the body? Therfore herein,! fay as Mofes laid: Entite,, twit ^ for meU would a/the Lords people were Prophets So / wifh, that alt which are capable, had the true fpeculatiue knowledge of phyfick# Then Ihould Phyficfmd Pbylofopby,not only haue a more great and genera! efieeme,but atfo euery meane A po- \[iccari*,the Phyfitians left hand,fiiould welvnderfhnd how to Elixcrate, which is greatly to be wifhed. As for the time which / haue fpent herein, it is my game? happily extra&ed from idle time, whereas otherwife for my recreation, 1 might vnhappily haue done nothing.’ and yet haue not neglcfted my paflorallfunaion.
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