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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    Confider we, firft. the interminable, and almoft in- finite Extent of Divifibility : that is, with the razor of moft acute thought , redivide the fubdivifions of an Atome, and diftin&ly perpend, how large a round of [piritnal Aporrbeaes, or Evaporations may be made and maintained by a very {mall Body, actually fubtiliated, and emitting a continued fteam of moft fubtle cffluvi- ums. Let us rememberalfo, that bya general confent of all the Secretaries of Nature, and the undeniable teftimony of trivial Experience, every mixt Body, of an unctuous Compofition, doth unceffantly vent, or expire a circumferential fteam of invifible Atomes , homogeneous and confimilar, that is of the (ime iden. tical nature with it felf; and for that reafon, efficacioufly operative to the fame Finality : which minute fabtilta- tions, wafted on the wings of a convenient medium, interpofed betwixt the accommodate Object and the body exbalant, and fo arriving at an analogous Patient, do immediately difcharge their Adüvity thereupon, 28. . and by degrees of mutation fubdue the fame to a Con- * Now rad, formity or Qualification requifite to the Caufation of quafi fympathia that particular effect, originally enjoyned to the Seminal quadam occulta, à cp « imegre familie Entity of the Agent. Then let us ftretch our Intel- edem tempore ]ectuals, to fathome, how immenfly long the arm of slat: fympatby muft be conceded, by all that íball obferve, 202 nullas fami- how the Contagion of the Small Pox and Plague * is (us longifin€ & frequently darted from one Brother or Sifter to an- Se invicem dif- pofas, & indi. Other, at the diftance of many hundred leagues , by perf locks ba- invifible emiffions, or Pe/filential Atemess without all bitantes, codem fore tempore, exitialilsimis bujus t yrannt (piculis graviter af fliétas, e feve delctas fuiffe... Die- merbroeck de Fefte. cap.4. lta etiam Evagrius, Hiftor, Ecclef. lib.4. Cjp.28. vefort, in Pelle Antiochtna, certas. familias prorfus iterülje, (alvis. manentibus interim reliquis Urbis incolis. Canfa ver) dependet ab arcana quadam difpofitionss fimilitndine, quam iuter fe babent, quee apta efl ad pe[teya vecipiendans, |