Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana: or a fabrick of science natural, upon the hypothesis of atoms / Founded by Epicvrvs, repaired [by] Petrvs Gassendvs, augmented [by] Walter Charleton ... The first part.

  • Charleton, Walter, 1620-1707.
Date:
1654
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Credit: Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana: or a fabrick of science natural, upon the hypothesis of atoms / Founded by Epicvrvs, repaired [by] Petrvs Gassendvs, augmented [by] Walter Charleton ... The first part. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Jrt. 3. The Verity fif the Lord Alferf'h’n , thit 4 repnteJ injufi:n 0} R^>u hitb jcckiret ftfon^ j virtue CitbttlitidU •« a Ihiip'c tnfufi^n ojScatnon), in equal quanti¬ ty; and why. to be capablcof others alfo : efpccially while we cannot arrive at the ex- aft knowledge of the Figure of the Atomical Particles of the body to be infufed.notofthe Figures of thofe minute fpaces in the liquor, which re¬ main unpoflciTcd by the former diffolutions. Upon which teafon, wc ate bold to fufpeft the truth ofthe lerr/ hMs affettion; 1 Ct«iur.i.Nat.Hift.) thu tyfepuMg the mfrfu« «/Khu- barb feverd timet, letting etteh J,fe thereof remdn in mocerntm hut a Jmdl time (in rerord to the Finenefs ond voUtilitj of its Spirits, or Fmanottontj .medicAmentmonhemode Atfirongl, CAthArlUcolor FurgAtive, AtAftmple inMon e/Scamony in the Itke roeight. For (1) when theempty fpaces in the Menftruum. or Liquor, which refpond in Figure to the Figure of the Atomical particles of the R hubatb, arc replenilhed with its Tinfture; they can admit no greater fraught, but the Imbibition of Virtue ceafeth: and that two or three infufions, atmoft. fuffice to the repletion of thofe re- fpeftive fpaces, may be colleftcd from hence, that the Rhubarb of the fourth intufion lofeth nothing of its Purgative Faculty 'hereby, but being taken out and fingly infufed in a proportionate quanmy of the like liquor, itworkethascffeftuallyasifithadncver been infufed before. (2) Ex- . perience teftifieth the Contrary.wl-that a Drachm of Scamony frngly in. Lfcd in an ounce and half of White wine', doth opcraie IcAteru /’-rrtw ) bv r ? parts of 20, more fmartly then 5 drachms of Rhubarb fucceffively infufed in the like quantity of the fame or any other convenient Liquor. Hcrealfoisthc moft probable Caufe, why two Drachms of Antimonj crude, or Crocus Metallorum, give as powerful a Vomitory impregnation to a Pint of Sack, or W hite wine, as two ounces: vsT^ becaufe the menjtruum hath no more Vacuities of the fame Figure with the Momci] Ef/iuviuias of the Antimony, then what fuffice to the imbibition or admilfion of the two Drachms. For the Certitude of this, we appeal to the experience of a lAdi in Chejhire, who feduced by an irregular Charity, and an opinion of her own skill, doth pretend to the cure of the frek, and to that purpofe prepares her Catholique Vomitory, confifting of four Drachms and an half of crude Itihium infufed all night in 3 or 4 ounces of W hite wine, and ufuallv gives it f without refpeft to the individual temperament of the ,Allumeni for one dofe to the fick •• and yet, as out felves have mote then once obfetved, the infufion doth work with no greater violence , in fome pcrfons then as much of out common f»<er/4»e/»/«/iiw prefcribed m the Jeforme’d Difpenfatoty of our Venerable College. N ay more then this out felves have often reduced the Dofe of the fame Emetique InMon dovvn only to 4 ScrupUs, and yet found its operation come not much Ihort of the ufiial Dofe of an ounce. Art. 5. Hence alfo may be defumed a fatisfaaory rcafon for the imprargnaiion Why one and ^nd thc fame Menfruum with various Tinaurcs; for txamplc, rhciamc .Wevi- . Infiifion 0^RhubarhS^tcd with its tindurc^doch afterward extract h trtmaurcsof^^^nV^, Cremor Tartari &c. Vnous Iin. inicacd according to the praefenpt of the judicious Phyhcian, in order to ^ his coafeaion of a Compound Medicament requifite to the fatistaaion of z Complex Scope or Intention. Art • Why two Drachms of Antimony im- piignarc a pint of W'lnc, withfo ftreng a vomitory Facility,astv« o ounces.