Tabidorum narratio: a treatise of consumptions, scorbutic atrophies, tabes Anglica, hectick fevers, phthisicks, spermatick and venereous wasting. Radically demonstrating their nature and cures from vital and morbifick causes ... / [Everard Maynwaringe].

Everard Maynwaring

Date:: 1667

Credit: Tabidorum narratio: a treatise of consumptions, scorbutic atrophies, tabes Anglica, hectick fevers, phthisicks, spermatick and venereous wasting. Radically demonstrating their nature and cures from vital and morbifick causes ... / [Everard Maynwaringe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$1q- Fundamental Principles... are diftinguifhed one from the other, proe - ducing fuch and. fuch diftin& ‘operations | an{werable to the principles of their‘ vi-- } tality: fo chat their peculiar diftin® be-- | ings and operatiens,arife from the peculi-'- | arity of their vital and fundamental prin-_ | ciples : and if thefe vital principles be the - | bafis on which the feveral degrees & ore- | ders. of Creatures do ftand by which they — are ranked and placed in their proper {ta- tions, as their diftteguifhing characters; then we muft conclude that.a right noe | tion and conception -of thefe, unfolds | the Creature, difcovers its being: by this light of their vitality-, which unknown, our knowledge is very dark and. uncer- tain: .andas life:confifts.in and manifeits ic felf by operation ; then by how much =], thofe operations are more noble, vizo- |. rous, free, «nd operative, by fo- much is thedife more excellent-in that Creature, | tam in effentia {pecifica quam in effe india. widuo: andas the life of man isdiftribu-. | ted into feveral faculties by:fit organs ; ; } we may judge of the integrity: of that life; by the performance .and execution - § “ of .each fun&tion. » | ioe % a ee WAS ST a gre I icy wees: rr$