A ternary of paradoxes. The magnetick cure of wounds, nativity of tartar in wine, image of God in man / Written originally by Joh. Bapt. van Helmont, and translated, illustrated, and ampliated by Walter Charleton.

  • Helmont, Jean Baptiste van, 1577-1644.
Date:
1650
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Credit: A ternary of paradoxes. The magnetick cure of wounds, nativity of tartar in wine, image of God in man / Written originally by Joh. Bapt. van Helmont, and translated, illustrated, and ampliated by Walter Charleton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mit. Wherefore I come dire&ly to tlie examination of the Hoti, or matter of Fac. | That Wounds have been frequently cured with more expedition, and lefs torment, then ufually follow upon the ufe and daily renovation of Topical vulneraries ; by the Confermentation of the Mumy, in the blood efflux- ed, and ftill retaining to Vitality, with the Balfamical Faculty of the Magnetical remedies : ] muft firmly be- leeve , until my Scepticity may be allowed to be fo ins folent, as to affront the evidence of my own fefe. and queftion tlie verity of fome Relations, whofe Authors are perfons of fuch confeffed integrity, that their fingle Atteftations oblige my faith, equal with the ftrongeft demonftration. Among many other E xperiments,made by my felf, I (hall (ele& and relate onely one: and that moft ample and pertinent. Os $ Upon an ardent difpute, with: a Doctor of 'Fheo- logy, reverend for his Piety and Learning, concernin the Legitimate ufe of the Sympathetick Powder; that I might at one ftab deftroy ‘his inveterate Prefumption, that the Capital Energy-of that Maenetical Remedy. adored for the fanation of wounds at diftance, did pro- ceed rather from the Sophiftical Activity of that Im- poftor, who gave the firftincurable wound unto‘ huma- nity, derived by the mediation‘of an implicit Compat£, en from any native -and genuine endowment of the Vitriols Tprevailed with him, to enterprizean Experi- ment of the efficacy thereof after this manner. Havin furnifhed- him , both with the Powder. and 4 cloth diftained with the blood.of a Gentleman, frethly wound: ed, and not yet dreffed- by ány:Chirurgeon:cIalfo di- rected him in.the Application.: At the performance whereof, he made folemri profeffion, that. he did utterly ... difavow Paces. Imus LX